![]() As of 2006 more than fifty-eight million copies of her books had been sold worldwide, and her work has been translated into twelve languages. The book was a success, as have been the forty-nine novels that followed. Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride, in 1977 "on a whim". After her husband's death, Lindsey moved to Maine and did not remarry. The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Bruce Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. ![]() ![]() All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1. Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, Ma– October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments The power book naomi![]() ![]() "If I could go and give to women being sex trafficked right now today in some dirty basement, waiting to be raped - if I could go and give them the power to electrocute people at will, even knowing that this might end badly, I would give it to them." The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2017's Great ReadsĪlderman says it was gratifying to imagine these scenarios. A character named Roxy uses it for the first time as she is fighting for her life: Young women develop this power as they enter puberty, and it comes as a surprise. "So it's the power to cause pain by violence." "It's some sort of electrical thing which will both hurt you, like an electric shock, and will also somehow trigger the pain centers in your brain," Alderman says. It imagines a world in which women discover they have a weapon that makes them physically threatening to men - and that weapon changes everything. As 2017 draws to a close, another dystopian novel has made it onto some prominent top ten lists: Naomi Alderman's The Power. When the year began, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which depicts a future where women are stripped of all power, began making its way to the top of best-seller lists. ![]() ![]() It seems fitting that 2017 has been bookended by two novels about women and power. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Power Author Naomi Alderman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Book.īellhaven, South Carolina is an unusually tolerant town in a time when racial and religious tensions are high in America. I have still not yet watched the movie, but whether you’ve seen it or not, I have to say, to everyone, everywhere Read. The writing is like water - fluid and lovely and heavy - and these characters are some of the most fleshed-out and realistic characters I have ever encountered. As someone who has never before enjoyed the romance genre, this book ripped into my chest and pulled out my heart. What I will do is tell you, fellow reader, that you should just do yourself a favor and pick up this book. I could also go on an hour-long tangent about every little splendid thing about this book, complete with crying my eyes out and blubbering everywhere in public like I did while reading it, but I can’t do that here, either. I could write up a quick summary of “The Shape of Water,” but the cover already has that for you. For reasons that I still don’t quite entirely understand, this book was instantly one of them. There are fewer books that have become a part of me and even fewer that I feel have changed me in one way or another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet are threatened by the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood. He uses the machine to return to the year 1805. Inside, he finds a time machine and a desperate plea for help from the captain. One day Nick discovers an old sea chest, left for him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion. Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boat wolf packs that are circling the islands. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick of Time is the first young reader's book written by bestselling author Ted Bell.In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become "the hero of his own life."The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Julie wang beautiful country![]() ![]() Wang returned to the United States to attend Swarthmore College. After several years in the US, Wang and her mother emigrated to Canada, in anticipation of better prospects, and her father followed sometime thereafter. Wang's early talent for writing was mistaken as plagiarism by an elementary school teacher, prompting her to deliberately hide her abilities throughout much of her primary education. After school, Wang worked alongside her mother in clothing sweatshops and a sushi processing plant. Unable to speak English or Cantonese, Wang was initially placed in a special-needs classroom, but was returned to mainstream instruction after she was observed teaching herself to read English through picture books. 124 in Chinatown, but few of her classmates and teachers spoke Mandarin Chinese, thus isolating her even within a seemingly familiar community. After their temporary visas expired, the Wang family remained in the United States as undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn. Wang's father fled China to the United States when she was five Wang and her mother followed two years later in 1994. Wang's mother was a professor of mathematics, while Wang's father was a professor of English and critic of the government, which led to the family being persecuted. Qian Wang was born in Shijiazhuang, China to academic parents. Qian Julie Wang ( Chinese: 王乾) is a Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark![]() Reminiscent of Thomas Nipperdey's sovereign impartiality, the author strides over apologia and condemnation, the usual pitfalls of Prussian historiography. Standing on the shoulders of recent scholarship as well as upon his earlier research on religion and the Hohenzollern monarchy, Clark has written a thematically rich narrative that is judicious, open-minded, and balanced. Indeed, one is hard put to cite a German-language work that has achieved similar results. xviii plus 776 pp.).Ĭhristopher Clark's study constitutes one of the most significant works on Prussia in the last thirty years. By Christopher Clark (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. ![]() The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. ![]() The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947." Retrieved from The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947." The Free Library. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Renee ahdieh the damned![]() I am a big history buff, so I spent a lot of time reading about not only New Orleans in 1872, but the world around it, which has such a strong influence on the way people thought and dressed and acted. What kind of research went into recreating the New Orleans of 1872 for this novel? In The Beautiful and its sequel The Damned, I’ve had such a wonderful time exploring the myths and legends of the occult: witches, vampires, werewolves, and fae. I have a few series out-The Wrath and the Dawn series and the Flame in the Mist series-but my newest books take place in 1872 New Orleans. Thank you so much for reaching out! I’m a writer of young adult books centered on historical fantasy. We recently got the chance to ask Renée about her writing processes, what supernatural creatures she loves, and how she’d spend an evening at Jacques’! Thank you so much for taking the time for these questions! First, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your newest book, The Damned? ![]() Renée Ahdieh is back with The Damned, the latest installment in her seductive and supernatural series. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Cruel Prince by Ashley Jade![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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The series lurches from mediocrity to being outright terrible to having a couple of pretty decent episodes and then back again. The White Queen may be the very definition of 'inconsistent'. ![]() Or rather, it would if the series worked. This presents an interesting female perspective on a period of history traditionally dominated by accounts of battles and manly men strapping on armour. Other women also play important secondary roles, such as Margaret of York (Henry VII's bride-to-be), Isabel Neville (Anne's older sister) and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers (Elizabeth Woodville's mother). ![]() ![]() These are Elizabeth Woodville, the minor noble who becomes Queen Consort (unusual in a time when the king usually marries European royalty or nobility) the pious Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII) and Anne Neville, the younger daughter of Richard Neville and the future wife of the notorious Richard III. Unusually for this sort of series, the focus is less on the men and battles and more on the viewpoints and experiences of three women who played important roles in the period. The White Queen is a ten-part mini-series based on three novels from Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series: The White Queen, The Red Queen and The Kingmaker's Daughter. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Flashlight driver schematic![]() One reason they are so hard to dim is that the impedance of plasma arcs is non linear and varies considerably depending on current and temperature. Instead, they use specialized dimming controllers, often demanding additional analog or digital dimming control cables.Fluorescent and HID lamps are both types of arc discharge lamp. Dropping past that point risks experiencing noticeable color change and instability in their plasma arc.To further complicate matters, most dimmable fluorescent and all HID systems are incompatible with standard triac-based phase dimmers. But even with electronic ballasts, HID (high-intensity discharge) lamps cannot be dimmed to much more than half of their maximum light output. ![]() With relatively expensive dimmable electronic ballasts, fluorescent lamps can be dimmed to below 5% of maximum light output. Consider, for example, fluorescent lamps. ResourcesInternational Rectifier,The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. |