![]() Shipman teases out the details with a novelists skill. casting Mata Haris rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. Los Angeles Times The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding. Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit. by Erik Trinkaus and Pat Shipman Jan 19, 1993. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Both suspenseful and shocking. Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari. ![]() ![]() ![]() Review Quotes An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman. But was she actually a spy? In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. It is precisely these questions that award-winning author andanthropologist Pat Shipman sets out to answer in this incredible biography of the duplicitous Mata. ![]() Book Synopsis In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. About the Book In this persuasive new biography, Shipman takes a fresh look at the alluring, scandalous, and most notorious female spy in history. ![]()
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![]() He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) was born in New Orleans. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from' - Anthony BurgessĪ monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'This is probably my favourite book of all time' - Billy Connolly ![]() ![]() ![]() The gods are all the same, Egyptian, Greek (the two main ones used in the first book) they just go by different names in different cultures. ![]() ![]() Michael Scott’s take on it though is that everything exists but came into existence in different waves. The Alchemyst is a part of a series by Michael Scott where real historical events and real people are interwoven with mythology and this idea that comes up in some of my other favorite stories like “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman and practically every book by Rick Riordan that the gods of mythology are in fact real and still around. I was curious whether I’d regret letting it go or not so when I found it at an Aladdin I figured I’d give it another try. I got this book because I vaguely remembered putting it in the donate pile last time I went home although I hadn’t gotten around to reading it at that point. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercy’s loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Now it’s up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. A series of murders has rocked a fae reservation, and Zee needs her unique gifts, namely her coyote sense of smell, to sniff out the killer.īut when Zee is accused of murdering the suspect Mercy outed, he’s left to rot behind bars by his own kind. So when her former boss and mentor, Zee, asks for her help, she’s there for him. Though Mercy can shift her shape into that of a coyote, her loyalty never wavers. But Mercy’s bark-and bite-are not so harmless any more… ![]() ![]() Being a lowly “walker” in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. “Expect to be spellbound”* by Patricia Briggs’s #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson. ![]() ![]() The book series of Angélique L'Intégrale becomes for the readers a major event because there have been made the countless unauthorized modifications in old editions of Angélique series (the most significant changes have been made in the last volumes). In the second column on this page, there is a shedule of the gradual publishing of complete and substantially extended series of Angélique: L'Intégrale (about 25 books), examples of the book covers of renewed edition Angélique: Version d’Origine and other literary works by Anne and Serge Golon. The first 10 books have been adapted into English while numbers 11-13 are still awaiting translation. ![]() Therefore we decided for our purposes to state the year and the original title of the first edition in France, and then the editions of English versions derived of that. ![]() ![]() An overview of the previous editions and the new series Angélique: L'Intégrale and Version d'Origineīecause of the fact that the Angélique series of Anne Golon has been published by more than 320 publishers, in 63 countries and has been translated into almost equally large number of languages, it is almost impossible to compile a complete bibliography. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the many new branches of the expanding American military and intelligence network, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) was formed in 1945 with the express goal of recruiting Nazi scientists to engage in weapons projects, scientific intelligence programs, and chemical/biological warfare. “Operation Paperclip” was the code name given to the top-secret program to recruit Nazi scientists and doctors in the chaotic period at the close of World War II. It is also a work that deals with facts, as opposed to “theories.” As a model of inquiry into a controversial historical topic, Jacobsen’s study reveals how it is possible to untangle a complex event in order to shed light on how our nation was transformed from within in the second half of the twentieth century. Here is an example of a mainstream book publication that examines the burgeoning secret government America in the aftermath of World War II. Operation Paperclip: A Monstrous Distortion of History A Book Review by James NorwoodĪnnie Jacobsen’s 575-page Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Little, Brown and Company, 2014) combines documentary evidence with extensive interviews in a compelling work of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I made a Bookstagram to promote my blog, but quickly fell in love with that community. To me, there seemed to be enough of a gap that I could start my own blog of spoilers to help people like me! I found a couple of sites that spoil the endings (shouting out my new friend Jen Ryland here!), but couldn’t find everything I was looking for. When I didn’t write down the ending right away, I would try googling it to add it to my list. Often the synopsis alone isn’t enough to jog my memory! I especially needed these spoilers for books in a series, when it had been a while since I read the previous novel. I started jotting down endings because I found myself re-reading books I had already read, knowing I’d read it before but unable to recall the ending. Before I started blogging and Bookstagram, I was writing down the endings to books in my bullet journal as I finished them. ![]() ![]() Her decision puts everything at risk: her friendship with Juan, her parents’ expectations, and her own happiness.Īfter Claire accompanies a friend on a school newspaper assignment, she meets a centenarian with a unique musical past and only one regret in life. She can’t reconcile the joy that music would bring to her life while her brothers succumb to an early and ugly death. ![]() Claire decides her musical goals no longer seem relevant. When Claire and her family receive a devastating blow from Batten disease, her world enters a tailspin. It doesn’t help that her thoughts about him are turning romantic. ![]() So when she has the opportunity to enter a prestigious contest, she goes all in-until she realizes she’s also competing against Juan, a close childhood friend and one of the most talented musicians she knows. Claire Fairchild, 14, has always known music would be her life. ![]() ![]() It’s oppressive because it redirects their tax dollars to something they don’t endorse nor believe in.” It’s oppressive because there will be judges who will determine sentences over people’s lives. “It’s oppressive because it puts a military force over people that has no accountability to them. “It’s oppressive because it strips the right of Black folks to vote,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said, after the bill cleared the House. ![]() Because all the district’s officials would be appointed instead of elected, Jackson’s majority-Black citizenry would have no voting rights on the matter-making it Mississippi’s only jurisdiction where, according to the ACLU, “unelected judges and prosecutors have jurisdiction over criminal and civil law matters”-although 12 percent of their sales taxes would be redirected to help pay for it all. ![]() The zone would be policed by an expanded Capitol Police force, led by the current white police chief, and supervised by the state’s white Public Safety commissioner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie and Fanny (edited to Joe, Beth and Frannie in revised editions) move to live near a large forest, which the locals call "The Enchanted Wood". Wheeler (first editions), Rene Cloke, Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, and Georgina Hargreaves. Over the years, the Faraway Tree stories have been illustrated by various artists including Dorothy M. A picture-strip book, Up the Faraway Tree, was published in 1951. The first title of the main trilogy, The Enchanted Wood, was published in 1939, although the Faraway Tree and Moon-Face had already made a brief appearance in 1936 in The Yellow Fairy Book. They befriend many of the residents and have adventures in magical lands that visit the top of the tree. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous 'Faraway Tree'. ![]() The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951). The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. Series of children's novels by Enid Blyton ![]() |