![]() ![]() ![]() Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history. ![]() Brown was an event of major historical importance. The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun. Description for Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality) Paperback. ![]()
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![]() In fact, the Dot Com Bubble of the early 00s and Black Monday in 1987 seem to indicate a trend which, according to Galbraith, shows speculative bubbles are not a matter of if but when.įirst published in 1955, The Great Crash 1929 highlights several factors warning signs that today sound eerily familiar. We don’t need to look any further than the 2008 financial crisis to find the same toxic behaviors and “financial innovations” that brought the world economy to a screeching halt in 1929. ![]() Galbraith authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles, creating a body of work that had a huge impact on post-war economics and propelled him to political and academic stardom.īut 90 years later, The Great Crash 1929 remains surprisingly relevant.Īs a millennial and new participant in capital markets I had always viewed the Great Crash and ensuing Depression as the result of factors we’d outgrown – and from which we had undoubtedly learned important lessons. ![]() In The Great Crash 1929, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith takes us through the events that precipitated the stock market crash of October 1929, identifies the key players and examines the aftermath the speculative bubble’s inevitable end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isabelle's entire existence now revolves around finding him, but she knows she can’t go on this way forever. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her-literally.Įxcept for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn’t slept in a year. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. Listeners will enjoy a gripping and twisty story." ( AudioFile on Earphones Award winner A Flicker in the Dark )įollowing up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. ![]() " Vacker switches easily between the higher female voices and the lower male voices, creating recognizable and believable characters. ![]() "Reader Vacker does a remarkable job voicing the main characters and keeping the tension high.Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator."- Booklist ![]() ![]() Stygian: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #22) (Mass Market):ĭragonmark (Dark-Hunter #27) (Compact Disc):ĭragonsworn (Dark-Hunter #28) (Compact Disc): Son of No One (Dark-Hunter Novels #18) (Hardcover):ĭragonbane: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #19) (Hardcover):ĭragonmark: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #20) (Hardcover):ĭragonsworn: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #21) (Mass Market): Time Untime (Dark-Hunter Novels #16) (Mass Market): Retribution (Dark-Hunter Novels #15) (Mass Market): No Mercy (Dark-Hunter Novels #14) (Mass Market): One Silent Night (Dark-Hunter Novels #12) (Mass Market):īad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #13) (Mass Market): Unleash the Night (Dark-Hunter Novels #8) (Mass Market):ĭark Side of the Moon (Dark-Hunter Novels #9) (Mass Market):ĭevil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #10) (Mass Market):Īcheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #11) (Mass Market): Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #7) (Mass Market): Seize the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel (Dark-Hunter Novels #6) (Mass Market): Night Play (Dark-Hunter Novels #5) (Mass Market): ![]() Kiss of the Night (Dark-Hunter Novels #4) (Mass Market): Julian of Macedon (Dark-Hunters #1) (Hardcover): ![]() This is book number 17 in the Dark-Hunter Novels series. ![]() ![]() ![]() These memories span the whole period of growing up, from the early delights of the toyshop and bookshop to choosing first-date clothes as a teenager later, a beautiful Jaeger coat bought for me by my mother in 1980 for my second year at university, a coat which I unforgivably singed standing too close to a gas fire in a cold room in Cambridge the first time I wore it and my last memory of being at Bentalls, the small family gathering in the Tudor Room restaurant after my grandmother’s funeral in 1981. Its pictures, which are works of painstaking documentary realism, evoke very specific childhood and later memories from around the time the book was written. ![]() But even though it wasn’t part of my early reading experience, “In a Big Store” is my favourite Ladybird book, because it depicts a real-life department store, Bentalls of Kingston on Thames, a shop I visited nearly every Saturday in my childhood growing up nearby in New Malden. The Ladybird book that reminds me most of my own childhood, and for which some of the original drawings are exhibited as part of Ladybird By Design, is “In a Big Store”.īy the time it was published in 1973 I was too old for Ladybird books and was attempting to read “War and Peace”. A favourite Ladbyird book: “In A Big Store” ![]() ![]() From the challenges of getting a good education and making it through college to the media’s destructive emphasis on material wealth, Letters to a Young Brother delivers eye-opening answers. The result is a motivational but approachable book full of encouragement on a wide array of hot topics, particularly among young African-American and Hispanic men. Inspired by the countless letters and e-mails he has received from teens, Hill Harper set out to write a series of letters to young people that would catch the attention of even the most reluctant readers. Letters to a Young Brother is drawn from the humbling life lessons he learned on the road to his Ivy League education and beyond. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school students over the years, Hill is ready to take his message to an even wider audience. ![]() But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. ![]() Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, I now know far more than I care to know about President Wilson’s mushy courting of Edith Galt (who became his second wife). Larson’s approach is exclusively chronological it’s not a bad thing, but I found myself almost thinking out loud-“let’s get on with it”-as I navigated through the certainly more than adequate number of anecdotal scenes involving the ill-fated passengers and their clothing/meals/flirtations/premonitions/self-assurances…įull disclosure: to the end, I was rooting for passenger Theodate Pope to get some love in her life. Torpedoed by Germany’s U-20, the Lusitania went down in about 18 minutes. I confess that it’s hard to avoid the somewhat deadening spoiler in this story: from, we know how it’s going to end. Dead Wake offers a similar reading experience in Larson’s “no frippery” prose, and with a consistent tension that makes it a page turner. ![]() I’m a fan of Erik Larson, starting with The Devil in the White City. Book review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Handbook for Mortals premiered in August 2017 as a USA TODAY bestseller and is already in the works to be made into a motion picture. Kelly Jensen (Book Riot editor, co-host of Book Riots Hey YA podcast, &. ![]() ![]() Zade travels to Las Vegas and unbeknownst to anyone, she uses her supernatural powers to get cast in a premiere magic show led by the infamous magician Charles Spellman.īehind the scenes of this multimillion dollar production, Zade finds herself caught in a love triangle with Mac, the show’s handsome but rough-around-the-edges technical director, and Jackson, the tall, dark, handsome, charming bandleader.ĭuring a hugely complicated illusion, Zade is critically injured and her only hope is a special kind of magick to save her.even that may be too late. Determined to forge her own path, Zade leaves her home in Tennessee to break free from Dela, her overprotective mother. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Handbook for Mortals: Book One of the Series - Lani Sarem HC/DJ Signed to Maria at the best. Following Zade through the trialsand romanceof finding her own place in the world, readers will identify with their own struggles to fit in, reflected in the fantastic, yet mundane world of Zade’s life. “Handbook For Mortals” is the first book in an urban fantasy/paranormal romance series that centers around Zade, a free-spirited twenty-something girl who comes from a long dynasty of tarot card readers who practice magick. Handbook for Mortals is the first book in the series of this urban fantasy, paranormal romance series by author Lani Sarem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for the Cavensham Heiresses series And even moreso, he can’t stop thinking that perhaps marriage to this bold, passionate woman may be the one thing he’s been missing all along? But after just one meeting with beautiful, spirited Thea, Will is determined to help her reclaim her title. ![]() ![]() Lord William Cavensham is entirely too devoted to his family’s estate-ever since he was jilted as a lad-to wed, but he agrees to meet the woman his aunt has taken under her wing-and introduce her to possible suitors. Except she has no intention of marrying the first man she meets. An elderly neighbor with a thoroughly modern sensibility and a dashing great-nephew just might be the answer to Thea’s prayers. But when an upstart duke challenges her claim to the title and the Ladykyrk estate, Thea is suddenly in need of a husband-in name, at least. Raised on a remote Scottish estate by her adoring grandfather, Lady Theodora Worth has inherited an earldom as well as the land itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though Mallery is an only child, many of her books feature sisters and siblings because she finds the opportunity to explore that dynamic so interesting.Ĭollectively, Mallery has sold more than 40 million copies of her books around the world in 28 languages. Her shift into women’s fiction features a much larger focus on female friendships and familial relationships. Mallery shifted from writing romances to writing women’s fiction, but romance still holds a fond place in her heart and her more recent novels still contain elements of romance as plotlines. ![]() However, most of these older category romances are now available in digital format as e-books following recent republications. Many of her earliest works were category romances, many of which have since gone out of print in physical format. Her debut was published in the 1990s and she has written a tremendous amount since then. Susan Mallery’s career as an author is vast. These common threads will become apparent throughout this list of all her works. She loves to write about a second chance at love or an unexpected pregnancy being the catalyst for happily-ever-after. There are many themes that reappear in Mallery’s writing. This guide features everything Mallery has written with the original publication date as well as the best way to read her books. With so many books in print, and so many having gone through republications, it may be confusing to know where to begin with reading the Susan Mallery books in order. ![]() |