People don’t speak English in Chinatown.Other countries are sending “migrant families” from mental institutions to the U.S.President Obama separated families at the border first.Jean Carroll case “ allowed us to put nothing in” during the defamation and sexual abuse trial. Jean Carroll: “ This woman, I don’t know her. President Obama took classified documents from the White House.Documents “ become automatically declassified when I took them.“The Presidential Records Act is not criminal.On the January 6 riot: “I offered them 10,000 soldiers.” There is no evidence Trump ever made a request to the National Guard for support, or that Democrats or Washington, D.C., rejected such assistance. Then-Vice President Mike Pence “should have put the votes back to the state legislatures, and I think we would have had a different outcome.” The vice president does not have such authority, and numerous Trump allies have admitted that such a process would have been illegal.On pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to find missing votes: “I didn’t ask him to find anything.”.
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Zweig’s best-known works of fiction include Beware of Pity (1938) and Chess: A Novella (1944), as well as many historical biographies of subjects as diverse as Marie Antoinette, Erasmus, Mary Queen of Scots, Magellan and Balzac. Disillusioned and isolated, Zweig committed suicide with his wife, in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro on 23 February 1942. In 1938 he became a British citizen, and in 1940, after a successful lecture tour in South America, he and his second wife Charlotte E. He also visited Sigmund Freud, whom he had met already in the 1920s. With the rise of Nazism, he moved from Salzburg to London to research a book on Mary, Queen of Scots. Zweig’s first works were poetry and a poetic drama, Jeremia (1917), which expressed his passionate antiwar feelings. PENGUIN BOOKS Chess Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881, and gained fame first as a poet and translator, and then as a biographer, short-story writer and novelist. There are a number of books on my TBR list that I’m looking forward to finally reading, such as Torrey Maldonado’s What Lane?, Mike Jung’s The Boys in the Back Row, and Zeno Alexander’s The Library of Ever and Rebel in the Library of Ever. I’ve read wonderful books from these authors before, and I’ve listened to them each speak about the backstories behind these titles. Tameka, what are some of the titles that you are looking forward to cuddling up with this winter season: She has something for every age on her great list. It’s a fun part of the job! I asked Tameka to share some reading suggestions with us. To learn more about Tameka Fryer Brown, visit .Īs you may suspect, authors do a lot of reading. Brown’s forthcoming picture books, Twelve Dinging Doorbells and Shirley Chisholm: Not Done Yet, are scheduled for release in 2022. Her work is also featured in the acclaimed anthology, We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices. Today we would like to welcome author Tameka Fryer Brown to the NCW Libraries’ blog! Tameka is an award-winning picture book author whose titles include Brown Baby Lullaby, My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood, and Around Our Way on Neighbor’s Day. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., The Seven Pillars Trust, and Doubleday & Co., Inc.: Excerpt from The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A triumph by T.E. Lawrence Trust: Excerpt from the Letters of T.E. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., and The Letters of T.E. The Bodley Head and McIntosh & Otis, Inc.: Excerpts from Flaubert in Egypt, translated and edited by Franscis Steegmuller.Reprinted by permission of Francis Steegmuller and The Bodley Head. Said, in Art, Politics, and Will: Essarys in Honor of Lionel Trilling, edited by Quentin Anderson et al. 1 (January 1976).Reprinted from Commentary by permission.Copyright © 1976 by the American Jewish Committee.īasic Books, Inc.: Excerpts from “Renan’s Philological Laboratory” by Edward W. Vatikiotis.Īmerican Jewish Committee: Excerpts from “The Return of Islam” by Bernard Lewis, in Commentary, vol. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: Excerpts from Revolution in the Middle East and Other Case Studies, proceedings of a seminar, edited by P. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: Excerpts from Subject of the Day: Being a Selection of Speeches and Writings by George Nathaniel Curzon. Grateful acknowledgements is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Innocent III (1198-1216), who became pope before becoming ordained a priest, brought Machiavellian political acumen and relentless zeal to ensuring the Church’s life-and-death power over king, count and commoner, whether orthodox Catholic or heretic Cathar. As O’Shea demonstrates, it was undoubtedly fortunate in its leader. As “Believers” they limited their needs and worldliness if deeply committed, they became even less worldly, renouncing sexual congress and finally achieving the status of “Perfect.” By their saintly simplicity of life, the Cathars discredited the fear-driven, revenue-greedy Catholic orthodoxy-and an apprehensive Church retaliated. Worse, they saw much of the Old and New Testaments as merely allegorical and rejected most Sacraments as invalid. Indiscriminate slaughter, with believers perishing with dissidents, was easily dismissed: “Kill them all: God will know his own.”Īs O’Shea concisely describes, Cathars rejected the carnal and material worlds and believed in a duality of good and evil. It began with the Cathars’ peaceful rejection of the grasping Roman Catholic Church and its plutocratic bishops it was ended by the Vatican’s near-genocidal political-military response. In broad terms, the Cathar drama was played out between 1150-1250 in the Foix-Toulouse-Albi-Carcassonne-Béziers area of Languedoc. The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars Granny was always careful to keep it in the same place, but the grantor changed depending upon what monarchicalname happened to pop into her head while she was launched on her pipe dreams. We let her go on until she was saying, "It was Samuel Esmond who married my great-great-grandfather's half-sister." Preening herself, she added, "Our royal grant was next to theirs."I had heard about our royal grant many times. I met his dancing eyes and read the message in them: Don't tell her it's a novel. do I know any Esmonds?"Being an Englishman, my father was singularly unimpressed by Granny's ancestors, so I knew he was getting ready to enjoy himself. Though she hated "bluestockings"-her name for female intellectuals, who could never be ladies-she actually read a few pages of it herself, muttering, "Esmond. ››one‹‹ MY ladylike adventures have taken me from Seattle to Paris, but last year I was carried back to Tidewater Virginia, which my ancestors helped to unsettle.A romantic version of my address can be found on the first page of Thackeray's Henry Esmond, which kicks off with a description of the Esmond family's royal grant "in Westmoreland County between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers." It was the only book I ever read that Granny did not tell me to get my nose out of. But this second founding has also left a complicated legacy littered with devastating reversals of justice that demand our continued attention today. marked by the greatest expansion of constitutional rights since the document’s ratification. For historian Eric Foner, the Reconstruction Era was nothing less than a second founding of the U.S. Yet for all the attention paid to the war itself, the Reconstruction Era is almost treated as an afterthought. Wars are dramatic events-deadly ruptures that invariably bring changes to political and social orders-and therefore attract a lot of scholarly and amateur interest. The Civil War is ubiquitous in media depictions of that century and generations of students have learned to recognize the significance of Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and Appomattox. If you were asked to name the defining moment of American history in the 19th century, more likely than not, your answer would be “The American Civil War.” This is an understandable response. Thomas holds a master's degree in History from Georgetown University and is a core member of Facing History's Marketing and Communications team. Guest writer Thomas Simpson offers a review of historian Eric Foner's towering new book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. “Bright, electric and imaginative with crackling tension and thrilling twists that left me ravenous for more. Roar is a force of magic and romance to be reckoned with!”-Wendy Higgins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sweet Evil trilogy “Carmack shines with this unique fantasy and alluring romance.”-# 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. “A rich and unforgettable fantasy forged from the power of storms, the danger of secrets, and the magic of Cora Carmack's imagination.”-Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures & author of The Lovely Reckless, on Roar “ Rage delivers an incredible second chapter in Cora Carmack's Stormheart series, and will have you positively aching for the next one. ” -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval “A blazing maelstrom of powerful magic, fierce romance, and adventurous storytelling. With a world on the brink of war and a power of ultimate destruction, can Wil find a way to help the kingdom that's turned its back on her, or will she betray her past and her family forever? Review When it leads to tragedy, though, Wil is forced to face the destructive power within her and finally leave her home to seek the truth and a cure.īut finding the key to her redemption puts her in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas for what to do with Wil's power. At first Wil is horrified-but as she tests its limits, she's drawn more and more to the strange and volatile ability. Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father-whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war-Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance. Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter of the king of the world's wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renee Ahdieh. The first in a new fantasy duology, The Glass Spare is a gorgeously told tale of love, loss, and deadly power from Lauren DeStefano, the bestselling author of the Chemical Garden series. That was before Perry fell in love with Aria and before Vale's dealings with the Dwellers altered the course of the Tides forever. But Brooke's memories of the cave go back much further, to when she and Perry used to come here together. Following the stunning climax in Through the Ever Night, the Tides have been forced to seek shelter from the Aether storms in a dismal, secluded cave. The only fight she can't win is the one for Perry's heart. Pulsing with romance and danger, Brooke will leave readers desperate for the conclusion to this epic and unforgettable saga. Set just before the events of Into the Still Blue, the conclusion to Veronica Rossi's "masterpiece" Under the Never Sky trilogy (), this breathtaking novella is a satisfying stand-alone for new readers as well as an exciting glimpse at favorite characters from the trilogy. |