In addition to Iain, we have Conner and Morgan MacKinnon, Iain’s brothers by blood, and Joseph, Iain’s Native American brother by choice. Circumstances arise that cause Annie’s and Iain’s paths to cross, literally. When Annie witnesses her mother’s death at the hands of her uncle, Annie runs away, only to be found, imprisoned and shipped to the colonies where she becomes an indentured servant. He is an intense man who demands obedience in all things – especially the bedroom – where his sexual appetites run to the darker extremes. The last few years have been difficult for her when, after her father and brothers’ deaths in battle, she and her mother, out of necessity, have to go live with her uncle. Iain is an alpha male in every sense of the word and when he wants something, he always finds a way to get it, as Annie found out when he set his sights on her.Īnnie is your typical spunky female who demands propriety in all things – when it suits her. He’s honorable, strong, independent, and rebellious and not someone you can easily manipulate. They belong to an elite military group called The Rangers, with Iain MacKinnon as their leader. These “Highlanders” are living in the colonies, fighting for Britain against the French and the Native Americans. The plot isn’t terribly unique, although the setting is. Surrender is my first Pamela Clare book, and I liked it well enough to order the next in the series, Untamed.
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The transformation for Michael caused unending pain that he barely survived. At the time, TOM needed to make some adjustments but Michael left before TOM could figure out what needed to be done. Michael was the first human that TOM altered his DNA on, when Michael stumbled through the caves and investigated TOM's crashed space ship. Michael had only turned six in his life to date, and none since he had come to America. The vampires he created are called his sons or daughters. He set the strictures in place for the whole UnknownWorld. He is over a thousand years old and he and his family are helping the US-government to deal with the UnkownWorld. Michael is the Patriarch of the Family and the first Vampire and therefore Founder of all the Vampires except Bethany Anne. Called the ArchAngel by those in the UnknownWorld.Sub-series - primary protagonist - The Second Dark Ages.1.4 Michael's rules (pre-Bethany Anne taking over leadership). While on tour, Douglass also raised funds to purchase his freedom because, as a runaway slave, he was considered by law the property of his owner. After publishing his work, Douglass left on a two-year speaking tour to avoid capture by his former owner, whom he had named in his narrative. His work served the cause of abolition by humanizing the experience of slavery in a way that could easily be understood by those far removed by the experience of plantation life. In his autobiography, published in 1845, Douglass presented a graphic and personal description of life in slavery. His fame grew thanks to his skill not only as a speaker but as a writer. Douglass’s skill as an orator and the poignancy of his description propelled him into a new career as an agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In 1841, Douglass was invited to describe his experiences under slavery at an antislavery convention in Nantucket. Douglass eluded slave catchers by changing his last name and working as a laborer for several years. He secretly taught himself to read and later escaped to New York and then Massachusetts. Use this Primary Source with the Negro Spirituals Primary Source to help students humanize the brutality of slavery.īorn enslaved on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass experienced the evils of slavery firsthand. In 2004, a stage musical adaptation of the books and the film opened in the West End it premiered on Broadway in 2006. After years of contact, which included visits to Travers at her home in London, Walt Disney obtained the rights and the film Mary Poppins premiered in 1964. At that time, Walt Disney contacted her about selling to Walt Disney Productions the rights for a film adaptation of Mary Poppins. Travers travelled to New York City during World War II while working for the British Ministry of Information. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books. Upon immigrating to England at the age of 25, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny. Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE ( / ˈ t r æ v ər s/ born Helen Lyndon Goff 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Ĭhin, Frank, and Jeffery Paul Chan. The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief. Chinese American Masculinities: From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, translated by Chris Turner. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.īalibar, Étienne. Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875–1980. She then foregrounds the myriad reasons why the inclusion of Interior Chinatown on American literature syllabi provides a powerful rhetorical tool for European students to reassess race relations in the contemporary United States by encouraging them to question, for example, Asian American racial, ethnic, and nationalist discourses and identities both in the dominant media and in relation to the academic knowledge that has been fabricated around who gets to be an American. Stilley considers Yu’s novel in terms of its direct challenges to the limits of Western ethnocentricity, in particular its effectiveness as fiction in decolonising epistemic modalities of racialised knowledge production by recuperating Asian American subjectivity and redefining Chinatown as a counter-pedagogical space. This chapter examines Charles Yu’s award-winning Interior Chinatown (2020) as an evaluative tool of race relations in the contemporary United States. This one was plenty dark in terms of content and our girl definitely gets put through both the emotional and physical ringer. Not to mention how time-sensitive this is with a psychotic seeker possibly going postal and sending out a search party in search of his chosen soulmate. Outnumbered they awaken to find themselves in an underground bunker and guests of the rumoured paradise.Īlso, a shockingly familiar face flings Taz right back into her past.īut with a war looming Taz is desperate to return to The Ring before it’s too late. Returning from meeting with the leader of the Worshipers and on the road back to the summit Taz and her men are waylaid by Berserkers. This is set against a brutal backdrop in a world only the strong survive and this second book in this fast-past and gritty post-apocalyptic adventure starts off right where we left things previously. One of the two guests was a 49-year-old spinster, Frances Garnett-Orme. Anyone consuming the crystallised grains of strychnine without shaking the contents ran the risk of instant cyanosis and asphyxiation. The convulsions were of a violence terrible to behold … A final lifted her from the bed, until she appeared to rest upon her head and her heels, with her body arched in an extraordinary manner.ĭuring her nursing-tenure at the Torquay War Hospital, at the time of the Great War, Christie had learned a great deal about chemicals, and conceived fabled prescription that led to Inglethorp’s death.Īccordingly, a mixture of potassium bromide added to strychnine sulfate left a precipitate of the free alkali to crystallise at the bottom of the container. Inglethorp’s death was not so different from any of Cream’s victims. Allegedly, his last words were, “I am Jack the…” Cream was executed in 1892 for the serial-strychnine-murders of women in Canada and Britain. Strychnine acquired early celebrity in the hands of Dr Thomas Neill Cream. Jack the Ripper suspect Dr Thomas Neill Cream. These events may have taken place in the winter of the year 774, after Charlemagne had been in Italy.Ĭlement was regent of the palace school at Paris until his death. Clement was requested to remain in France as the master of a school of learning for boys both noble and common, that was established and supported by Charlemagne. Ailbe, Clement's companion, was then given the direction of the "monastery of Saint Augustine" near Pavia, identifiable as the Abbey of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, "sometimes named after Saint Augustine, because it contained many of his relics". Word of them reached the ear of Charlemagne, who sent for them to come to his court. ca 771) they set themselves up in the market as venders of learning. 888), says that Clement with his unnamed companion, both "Scots of Ireland" travelling in the company of traders, arrived on the coast of Gaul "in the moment when Charlemagne had begun to reign as sole king" (i.e. Gall, usually identified as Notker the Stammerer, who wrote a Life of Charlemagne dedicated to Charles the Fat (d. 750 – 818) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.īorn in Ireland, he founded a school for boys under the patronage of Charlemagne and figures in the Carolingian Renaissance of learning.Ī monk of St. Saint Clement of Ireland (Clemens Scotus) ( c. At nearly 38, with no romantic prospects in sight, Josie decides that she will have to take charge of her desire to be a mother, setting off Meredith, who considers this to be just another one of Josie’s whims. Josie, meanwhile, is attempting to cope with the heavy emotional burden of having her ex-boyfriend’s-the one she still isn’t completely over-young daughter assigned to her class. She is uninterested in trying for a second child, feels listless in her career, and questions the foundation of her marriage. Though Meredith desperately tries to create a “perfect Facebook façade,” there are definite cracks at the edges. While Josie is an occasionally capricious, still-single elementary school teacher longing for a child of her own, Meredith is a diligent and obsessive lawyer, mother, and wife. Sisters Josie and Meredith couldn’t be more different. A family struggles to define their new normal 15 years after a tragic loss. I’d say the introduction is useful, particularly for individuals without a great deal of background in Taoism. He offers a few pages of introduction as context for the reader, and then moves straight into 62 lessons of Chuang Tzu. Ironically, some don’t seem to see the irony of rambling on in explication of Taoism-a philosophy that advocates simplicity and rebukes the wordy for their arrogance. Because the lessons are short and-admittedly, in some cases-arcane, there’s a temptation to write in a bunch of explanation and analysis-both to hit a page quota and to prove how smart the translator is. What I like most about this version of Chuang Tzu’s teachings is that Merton doesn’t foul it up with a bunch of analysis. Some may find a fresh fusion in Merton’s approach to Chuang Tzu. Maybe you should and maybe you shouldn’t, but I think Merton did a remarkable job in putting this book together and that there’s a lot to be learned from it. One might ask why a person should learn about Taoism from a Trappist monk any more than one would learn the teachings of St. The Way of Chuang Tzu is Thomas Merton’s take on Chuang Tzu’s lessons of Taoism. |