![]() Despite Burge's efforts to hide her valuable possessions, which include sending her mules into the woods, dividing her stores of meat among the slaves, and burying the silver, the passing Union troops raid her house and plantation, taking her slaves with them. ![]() soldiers and the sleepless nights she has spent watching fires on the horizon. While she worries over the arrival of Sherman's troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path, she records stories of visits by local raiders posing as U.S. Burge managed the affairs of the plantation herself during the Civil War.īurge begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by voicing her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Northern army on January 1, 1864. Her husband passed away in 1858, and Mrs. While teaching school in the area, Lunt met and married Thomas Burge, and she settled into life on his plantation. Although she was related to the fierce abolitionist, Charles Sumner, she moved south to Covington, Georgia to join her recently married sister. ![]() ![]() Dolly Sumner Lunt was born in Bowdoinham, Maine in 1817. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She's a writer who inspires as she's brave, and inventive, and you never know where her novels are going to go next, all too rare a trait, in my opinion. This was the first book which really made me understand the importance of 'voice'. I would, frankly, read Kate Atkinson's shopping list. March 2014 Guest Editor Jojo Moyes on Behind the Scenes at the Museum. 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After surveying some contemporary psychological approaches to the issue of change and discussions of biblical anthropology, he explores the nature of gospel-shaped change, exposing the dangers of both promising too much and expecting too little. Gary Millar addresses this most basic question in this NSBT volume. When it comes to the Christian life, what exactly can we expect with regard to personal transformation? The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mentionīiblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and Finalist ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The virus in Station Eleven would have burned out before it could kill off the entire population,” Mandel points out when I pose the question legions of fans are sending her way: Is she worried? The author is preternaturally-composed - dressed in a checked toffee blazer and mahogany boots, she has an air of Betty Draper just returned from riding lessons. You can long for the world you live in right now. You can flirt with the experience of collapse. But there can be something reassuring about taking in a fictional disaster in the midst of a real one. Inhaling a novel about a contagion that brings civilization to an end while news about COVID-19 sends hand-sanitizer sales vaulting doesn’t sound logical. “I don’t know who in their right mind would want to read Station Eleven during a pandemic,” the perplexed author wrote on Twitter, to which her readers replied: We would. Spread via tiny aerosol particles, the Georgia flu is like our seasonal one and, yes, the coronavirus, on steroids - mercury-popping fevers, rattling coughs, respiratory distress, followed by death. In under a week, television stations have gone to static as entire production crews die out. Cell lines jam, and phones stop working within two days. 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Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, for which he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:ludwigwittgenste0000monk_p1p1:epub:779ec146-8cff-4094-bfc6-d137d08c3f6d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ludwigwittgenste0000monk_p1p1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2h80mr8x Invoice 1652 Isbn 0029216702 Lccn 90037619 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9746 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19566 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:03:54 Boxid IA40064303 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was during some of the worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes and bring the silver people together came to him. ![]() He gathered other outsiders to him, creating a new tribal identity. It was a rough introduction to his life, to a sudden adult world, but Temujin survived, learning to combat natural and human threats. His family were thrown out of the tribe and left alone, without food or shelter, to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains. Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush. I am the land and the bones of the hills. Unlike the last two letters where I reposted reviews of books that I have really loved, this time I am choosing to focus on the letter C in two different ways - the author is Conn Iggulden, and the series is known as the Conqueror series about Genghis Khan, and these are new reviews! It is time for the next post in Historical Tapestry's Alphabet in Historical Fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pitiable souls of the damned are seen to clog the soot-filled caverns of Lucifer even as the elect ascend to Paradise. Read more legendary Isles of the Blessed, walks the hallowed ground of the Elysian Fields and plumbs the murky depths of Tartarus, primordial dungeon of the Titans. He travels to the banks of the Styx, where Charon the grizzled boatman ferries a departing spirit across the river only if a gold obol is first placed for payment on the tongue of its corpse. Ranging across time and space, Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable journey to worlds both of torment and delight. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. Life after death explored properly for the first time. Description for Afterlife: A History of Life After Death Hardcover. ![]() ![]() Gregor looked straight into the girl's eyes and saw that her irises were a dazzling shade of light purple. 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Unfortunately, Azuma takes it a little too far one time and breaks both of the villain’s arms. ![]() Azuma is the son of a police officer, and has always had drilled in him the concept that “shirking justice is an act of cowardice.” Tokio and Azuma team up together to take down criminals they find, with Azuma using his martial arts skills to take down the criminals. He was bullied as a child but always had his friend Azuma Higashi to stand up for him. The main character of the series is a teen boy named Tokio Kurohara. While there are some respects where people’s lives feel about as normal as ours, there are others where it’s more dystopian. Over half a century earlier, monsters known as Choujin brought about chaos that caused nations to collapse and left locally governed prefectures in their wakes. Choujin X Volume One is a new manga series from Sui Ishida, the creator of Tokyo Ghoul.Ĭhoujin X is set in 1998, in what is obviously an alternate timeline to our reality. ![]() ![]() "When Killing Eve crashed on our screens last year, it felt like a breath of fresh air: a feisty and funny entry in the recent revival of the staid, stuffy and overwhelmingly masculine spy genre. Jennings provides plenty of spy craft and scenic and sensual atmosphere laced with betrayal in this adrenaline-fueled sequel to Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle, the book that spawned the BBC America series."- Booklist Nonstop action moves between London, Venice, Paris, Moscow, and the Swiss Alps, as the two women track each other, and amoral Villanelle continues her murderous ways. "The obsessive relationship between the two women deepens. ![]() This espionage romp keeps readers slightly off balance as it brilliantly walks the line between thriller and spoof-and readers will find the experience irresistible."- Shelf Awareness ![]() "But it's all good, nasty fun for lovers of James Bond and Modesty Blaise-although Jennings is much more sexually explicit than Ian Fleming or Peter O'Donnell. Reviews Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award ![]() |