Home before dark a novel7/4/2023 I wish I could pinpoint what I mean by that but I can’t. Home Before Dark is the fourth Riley Sager novel I’ve read, the first thing I noticed was that the writing was unfamiliar. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself-a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity-and skepticism. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods.
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The survivalists novel7/4/2023 In the wake of her parents’ death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life-success-until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. “A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepare for the future, so much so she almost sold me on those Life Preserver soy bars!” -Trevor NoahĪ single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates in a novel that's packed with tension, curiosity, humor, and wit from a writer with serious comedy credentials In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the “contemporary wasteland” of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 19 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions and Where I Was From. Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. “It's a confession supposedly given by an African American while in police custody. The original confessions were distortions of Nat Turner's voice, but Turner is in there somewhere.”īut where he was, literally, at the time of the confession is the reason writer Jabari Asim considers Styron’s interpretation of Turner’s history to be so untrustworthy. “Those confessions were copied down by a white lawyer someone who, in fact, hated him. “He's different from almost every other person who rebelled against slavery, because unlike the others he left an interesting document, which was published as 'The Confessions of Nat Turner,'" Greenberg said. Kenneth Greenberg, a history professor and a scholar of American slavery at Suffolk University, said it is neccesary to understand the circumstances that led to the slave rebellion of 1831 and the man who led it, Nat Turner. Their criticisms were encapsulated in a book published in Boston titled “ William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond.” The year was 1968, but the literary battle over the legacy of Nat Turner continues. The 1967 novel focusing on a visionary who led the most effective and lethal slave rebellion in American history won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which a group of black intellectuals said it did not deserve. To call William Styron’s " The Confessions of Nat Turner" and the response to it a seminal event would be understating its impact. AMVAD by Axael GD7/3/2023 Vaccines against bacterial and viral pathogens affecting the respiratory system, such as tuberculosis, streptococcal pneumonia, and influenza.The NRC has developed a novel archaeal polar lipid mucosal vaccine adjuvant and delivery (AMVAD) platform capable of generating mucosal and systemic immune responses against a wide range of pathogens that infect mucosal surfaces or use them to gain entry to the body. There is thus a demand for safe, effective, non-replicating mucosal adjuvants and vaccines capable of preventing respiratory infections such as tuberculosis, streptococcal pneumonia, and influenza, as well as sexually transmitted infections such as HIV and genital Chlamydia. The majority of approved vaccines are administered systemically, and fail to elicit effective mucosal immunity. Many microbial pathogens invade their mammalian hosts through the mucosal surfaces of the respiratory, gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts. The House Girl by Tara Conklin7/3/2023 I needed a certain degree of distance and. These seemed like two conflicting narratives goals. I wanted to write a story that spanned the characters' lifetimes, but I also wanted to examine my generation-the choices that I've made and my friends have made about family. Why did you select this narrative format? The story is told from the future and narrated by the 102-year-old poet Fiona Skinner. But the core happening at the center of the book is true to the real event. By that point in time, I also wanted to investigate some of my own concerns about women, care-giving, marriage, children and career, and the three Skinner sisters were a perfect vehicle. It took about 10 years before I sat down to explore these issues with the fictional Skinner family. The juxtaposed stories of a slave girl in 1852 and a lawyer in 2004 combine to create a beautiful examination of freedom, identity, family, desire and obligation. These questions-about all the big things like family, loss, success and love-lodged themselves in the back of my brain. The House Girl is a rarity, a novel that succeeds in fulfilling the highest of aspirations. As details emerged over the weeks and months following the event, I found myself asking so many questions about why and how the tragedy had unfolded. The original inspiration for this book came from a family tragedy that happened many years ago. She is assigned to work on a case involving slave reparations. Lina's story unfolds in present time, where she is an up-and-coming attorney. She is close with the mistress of the house, who is very ill. What was the inspiration behind The Last Romantics? Josephine is the house girl of the title, which is a nice way of saying that she is a slave who works in the house. Interview Tara Conklin discusses the inspiration behind her novels, The House Girl and The Last Romantics She has published several books, including “Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture” (Oxford, 1996), “The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture” (Chapel Hill, NC, 2011) and “Roman Republics” (Princeton, 2011). Flower’s critical analysis of this cult raises the broader question of how society can understand the traditional, polytheistic Roman religion in its own original contexts.įlower’s research tends to focus broadly on the interrelated topics of spectacle and memory in Roman culture. She will discuss who these deities were and who worshipped them, as well as their relationship to the snakes so often depicted near them. Her lecture is sponsored by the Classics Hoyt Fund and the Department of Classics.įlower’s lecture will examine the surviving ancient evidence for the lares, mysterious but ubiquitous twin dancing gods venerated in a domestic cult and at crossroads shrines in Roman towns. in Northen Auditorium.įlower’s talk is titled “The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Roman Local and Household Religion.” The talk is free and open to the public. Harriet Flower, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton University, will give the 2017-2018 Hoyt Lecture in Classics at Washington and Lee University on March 21, at 6 p.m. Search Feature Stories Campus Events All Stories Stories by Discipline The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault7/2/2023 The Charioteer could not be published in the U.S. Instead she was free to focus on larger ethical and philosophical concerns, while examining the nature of love and leadership. By turning away from the 20th century and focusing on stories about male lovers in the warrior societies of ancient Greece, Renault no longer had to deal with homosexuality and anti-gay prejudice as social "problems". In a sense, The Charioteer (1953), the story of two young gay servicemen in the 1940s who try to model their relationship on the ideals expressed in Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium, is a warm-up for Renault's historical novels. They include a pair of novels about the mythological hero Theseus and a trilogy about the career of Alexander the Great. Her historical novels are all set in ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander. Mary Renault was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. Audible shantaram7/2/2023 This is the setting of Shantaram.Īpart from having this highly unusual personal background, Greg Roberts is a very gifted writer. He set up a free health clinic in the slums, acted in Bollywood movies, worked for the Bombay mafia as a forger, counterfeiter, and smuggler and, as a gun-runner, resupplied a unit of mujaheddin guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan. For most of this period he lived in Bombay. In July 1980 he escaped from Victoria's maximum-security prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia's most wanted men for what turned out to be the next 10 years. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. Brandon leake unraveling7/2/2023 Called to Move (CTM) is an artist group Brandon founded during his time at Simpson University to promote talent.Īfter graduating, Brandon released his debut album, In My Thoughts. Leake also worked as an academic advisor, a high school teacher, a keynote speaker, and a poetry workshop leader. Leake posts some of his work on his YouTube channel dubbed Brandon Leake – CTM. It gave a unique insight into his family’s role in shaping the person he is. The special contained eight spoken word poems written and performed by Brandon. In March 2022, he released a poetry book titled Unraveling: Poems, and three months later, his spoken word special, Brandon Leake: A Family Affair, aired on The CW. Shortly after his win, Brandon collaborated with Team Harmony Foundation to produce the online series, Hate: What Are You Going To Do? “We here are raising our voices to stand up against all forms of hate, but most importantly, to show the world exactly what love can look like,” Leake said.Īs the world gradually reopened, Leake resumed performing poetry. Leake also secured a representation deal with the United Talent Agency. The coronavirus pandemic delayed his Vegas tour until late 2021. Brandon Leake’s AGT win earned him $1 million, a new car, and an opportunity to perform in Luxor Las Vegas. |