![]() ![]() ![]() Then, too, there is Johannes Seidenfaden, an LMS missionary whose 'enormities' so shocked Dr John Philip, the LMS superintendent, that he branded him 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' (Seidenfaden, a married man, had not only attempted to seduce his Khoikhoi housekeeper on five occasions but also turned his mission station of Suurbraak, just outside Swellendam, into his own personal fiefdom and impoverished all the Khoikhoi inhabitants.) Other chapters tell stories of desertion by ill-treated soldiers in Cape Town, who intended to escape to Mozambique but got no further than the Hottentots Holland Mountains, where they were apprehended before being hanged the escapades of the Swiss Meuron Regiment at the Cape and the 'ear atrocity' in the Onder Bokkeveld near Ceres. There is Maria Mouton, the first white woman at the Cape to be executed, for her adulterous affair with a slave and the murder of her husband. In this new volume Penn, a consummate raconteur and storyteller, brings to life an assortment of extraordinary personalities from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Summary: This work is the long-awaited sequel to the historian Nigel Penn's award-winning book Rogues, Rebels and Runaways, in which he entertained and informed readers with stories of the lives of some remarkable characters from early Cape history. Dr Nigel Penn Jin South African History Specialists, Specialists Highly recognised authority on Cape history, who has published The Forgotten Frontier Colonists and Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern Frontier in the 18th Century Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: 18th Century Cape Characters The Khoisan and the Colonists at the. ![]()
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Lucas Jordan, a key agent and profiler in Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, has an extraordinary skill: he locates missing people. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now Jordan has come to Clayton County, North Carolina, to do what he does best: hunt fear.About the author: Kay Hooper is the award-winning author of 'Sense of Evil, Touching Evil, Whisper of Evil, Once a Thief, Always a Thief, the Shadows trilogy,' and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are echoes of Charles Dickens about this novel and like him Waters brings Victorian London to life, as both a boy and a woman. Nancy is a very sexual woman and her time with Diana, a woman who has hired her as a sort of in-house prostitute, is particularly explicit but Waters succeeds in never making it feel too gratuitous. It’s a journey that ultimately brings Nancy out of other people’s shadows and into her own spotlight. For a while, the two live an idyllic life but when Kitty betrays her, Nancy descends into the seedy underworld of London lesbians and the budding Socialist movement. So when Kitty invites Nancy to join her in London as her personal dresser, Nancy quickly accepts. When one night Nancy sees Kitty Butler, a male impersonator, perform, she falls hard for her. 'Tipping the Velvet' is a coming of age novel that follows the life of Nancy Astley, a young oyster girl living in Whitstable with her family who enjoys trips to the local music hall. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her." "Being in love, you 's not like having a canary, in a cage. ![]() ![]() He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. ![]() ![]() The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading the same incident over and over again can be tiring at times but that’s not the case in this book. ![]() Not knowing from whose perspective we will be getting next has added more excitement as well. I loved that the story is told in multiple perspectives and I thought it was very clever. The beginning immediately drew me into the story and I could tell that I was in for a treat after reading the first chapter. This is going to be short because I am not really sure how to review this one. ![]() The death is ruled out as accident but during her last lecture, she reveals to her students that her daughter is murdered and the perpetrators are sitting inside the room. She decides to resign after her four-year-old daughter dies on the school grounds. It’s Yuko Moriguchi’s last day as a middle school teacher. This readathons are just a reminder that there are so many incredible books written by Asian and BIPOC authors out there waiting for us to be read! So let’s read diverse books and make it a habit! I gave 5-star rating to three of the books I read and it says a lot. Happy Friday! Last three books I read for the #StanAsianReadathon, #AsianReadathon, and #ARMYdathon! I had so much fun joining these readathons and I’m definitely joining again next year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Compsons are, to put it politely, in decline. He seems to know that the American story is rotting on the vine. And even if it is difficult to read the caricatured language of his black characters and the frequent use of ‘the n-word’ today, he does have significant black characters and they do disturb the dominant white myths that cause so much damage. Maybe it’s that we’re having another round of our awful battles about history and race, two areas that Faulkner struggled with mightily. I don’t know what made the strange summer of 2020 the right time to go back to Faulkner. Finally, on my third attempt and with the help of Spark Notes, I got enough of a hang of things to get to the second section and beyond, when the work starts opening up into a panoramic view of a family and a system that was doomed. The first section, written from the perspective of Benjy Compson, the intellectually-challenged son of a white Mississippi first family, is nearly incomprehensible on first read. When he published The Sound and the Fury, now recognized as an American classic, it confused folks more than wowed them. In 1929, William Faulkner had a keen sense that it was all falling in of its own weight. ![]() ![]() LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald It’s a powerful, transporting read, perfect for a slow, rainy summer day. Singaporean poet Jing-Jing Lee shuttles between two timelines in this forgotten story from the Pacific theater of World War II. Best enjoyed by the pool with a cold glass of rosé. This polyphonic novel about a family’s summer trip to a Greek Island had me legitimately laughing out loud one moment, and tearing up the next. ![]() No one writes comedic family drama like Grant Ginder. All are perfect for the hot summer months. Each book below embodies those hallmarks in different ways. Over the course of that summer, I fell in love with a guy for the first time, met a group of friends who became my family, and began the slow process of becoming the person I was meant to be.įor my housemates and I that summer-and there were a whopping 31 of us sharing deflated air mattresses and slices of cold pizza-Montauk came to symbolize family, freedom, and escape. I was 27 at the time and searching for connection. In my memoir Out East I chronicle a summer I spent in a Montauk, a beach hamlet at the eastern tip of Long Island. ![]() Summer is a time for books that lead us toward self-discovery. ![]() ![]() Rosie denies her feelings for Don because he lacks social skills, adheres to a rigid and obsessively structured schedule in all areas of his life, and dresses like a bum. ![]() She smokes, has weird food issues, and is chronically late. ![]() Don fails to recognize how he feels about Rosie because she does not fit the guidelines for his perfect partner. Through their madcap adventures collecting DNA samples from more than 40 possible fathers, Don and Rosie fall in love, though they both refuse to acknowledge the fact. She agrees to a date with Don, during which Don agrees to help her find her biological father in order to keep the relationship going. A graduate student in psychology, Rosie intrigues Don from the moment they meet, despite her clear lack of suitability. Rosie enters the picture when Don mistakes her for a Wife Project applicant. He hopes this process will identify a select pool of perfect candidates from which he can choose a partner. ![]() He develops a stringent and detailed 16-page questionnaire to weed out all of the inappropriate and unqualified women. Because of his difficulties with social interactions, when the novel begins Don has not had a significant relationship, or even a second date.ĭon decides that it is time for him to get married, so he organizes the Wife Project. During the course of the novel, Don grows up and has his first experience with romantic love. The Rosie Project sits within the tradition of the initiation novel, though the protagonist is 39 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His book was used as a reference for Ken Burns' PBS documentary, "The War" and Tom Hanks and Stephen Speilbergs' HBO miniseries "The Pacific" starring Joseph Mazzello as Sledge. In 1981, Sledge published his memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, which centered on his combat experiences during the Pacific Campaign. Sledge would go on to earn a doctorate in biology and was a beloved professor at the University of Montevallo. Sledgehammer also served as a rifleman and stretcher bearer when fighting was too close for effective mortar use. Sledgehammer was a 60mm mortarman at Peleliu and Okinawa where he served with Corporal R. He was assigned to K company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Division (K/3/5) where he reached the rank of Corporal in the Pacific Theater. ![]() "Sledgehammer" Sledge chose to volunteer for the U. The mission statement of the "Sledgehammer Race Series" is: To Honor the memory of Sledgehammer and All Combat Veterans." Sledge was a lifelong Marine who spent the remainder of his post war years coming to terms with what he and his fellow combatants experienced during World War II.Į. Jacksonville-Onslow Sports Commission is proud to present the "Sledgehammer Race Series" in memory of Dr. Take in the views and explore North Topsail Beach while running on the beach in either our Half Marathon, 10k or 5k. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The way Willow is often discounted by those close to her-sisters, her ailing father, past lovers-further exacerbates her insecurities. Having autism spectrum disorder, Willow is wary of letting anyone get close out of fear that she’ll say or do the wrong thing or that, once people find out the nature of her disorder, she’ll be viewed with pity. Willow keeps to herself at Gray Box headquarters, and Gideon’s sudden attention throws her. There are startling connections indicating that Willow had something to do with the organization’s betrayal, but Gideon firmly believes the smart woman he’s admired from afar has been framed. Gideon volunteers to get close to analyst Willow Harper. When the leaders of Gray Box discover a mole in their midst after an important suspect dies in their custody, a team of highly skilled spies must investigate their colleagues. Gideon Stone is an agent of Gray Box, a secret agency that operates outside the purview of the government. A deadly operative must get close to a shy cryptologist to help stop a deadly global conspiracy in this tense romantic suspense novel by Rushdan ( Every Last Breath, 2019) ![]() |