However, Lucy is still betrothed and the two agree to part ways. He gets drunk and accidentally kisses Lucy, realizing that he actually has feelings for her. Gregory is miserable, thinking he has lost the love of his love. On the night of a ball, Hermione and Lucy's brother, Richard, are compromised and the two are made to marry. In the meantime, Lucy’s fiancée, Haselby, returns and states that it is time for them to finally marry. She advises him on Hermione’s attitudes towards men and the things that will get her to appreciate him as a suitor. In order to make Hermione fall in love with him instead, Gregory requests the help of her best friend, Lady Lucy Abernathy.įeeling sorry for Gregory, Lucy agrees to help him. However, Hermione in love with someone else. He believes he has fallen in love at first sight with the lovely Miss Hermione Watson. Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love, having witnessed all siblings and his mother experience it in his lifetime. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Song of the nile stephanie drayThey fall in love, despite Hamilton’s bastard birth and the uncertainties of war.īut the union they create-in their marriage and the new nation-is far from perfect. And when she meets Alexander Hamilton, Washington’s penniless but passionate aide-de-camp, she’s captivated by the young officer’s charisma and brilliance. In this haunting, moving, and beautifully written novel, Dray and Kamoie used thousands of letters and original sources to tell Eliza’s story as it’s never been told before-not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal-but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.Ĭoming of age on the perilous frontier of revolutionary New York, Elizabeth Schuyler champions the fight for independence. Wife, Widow, and Warrior in Alexander Hamilton’s quest for a more perfect unionįrom the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton-a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Perfect for fans of Ron Chernow's biography Alexander Hamilton and fans of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: the Musical. "The best book of the year!" -Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network "An edge-of my sear immersion into historical events.No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book." -Karen White, New York Times bestselling author Release is the third book in the Off Balance series and I highly recommend you read tge books in order. Holy Moly! Lucia Franco has once again managed ti control my whole day with her written words! Fighting for a dream becomes only half the battle when Adrianna’s fate is sealed, leaving them both with their biggest challenge yet. Though the dynamics shift between coach and gymnast, nothing can prepare them for the agonizing truth that is to come. With boundaries set and lines clearly defined, Kova will now have to be the one to relinquish control in order to regain Adrianna’s trust. In doing so, she ignores the warning signs as both the extreme training and unending heartbreak begin to take their toll. After Kova’s devastating betrayal, Adrianna must become her own champion and place her Olympic dream ahead of all else. His unique work announces Marx’s critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. Schelling’s Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos.į.W.J. The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. The full text of the manuscript has been digitized and can be viewed on the Library's website. The book's original handwritten manuscript is held by the State Library of NSW. In 1994 the novel was the only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for 100 years. On her 21st birthday, Ethel wrote in her diary, 'Seven L. The suburban bushland surroundings quickly became important in Turner's stories. Turner wrote the novel in 1893 whilst living at Inglewood in what was then rural Lindfield, (now Woodlands, Killara), having moved there from the city suburb of Paddington in 1891. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot, and flighty stepmother Esther. Seven Little Australians (1894) is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner. 5/9/2023 0 Comments L wizard of ozWhen the discontented people, led by Prince Kynd ( Bryant Washburn), demand the return of the princess, who disappeared while a baby many years before, so she can be crowned their rightful ruler, Kruel has the Wizard distract them with a parlor trick: making a female impersonator ( Frederick Ko Vert) appear out of a seemingly empty basket. In the story the Land of Oz is ruled by Prime Minister Kruel ( Josef Swickard), aided by Ambassador Wikked ( Otto Lederer), Lady Vishuss ( Virginia Pearson), and the Wizard ( Charles Murray), a "medicine-show hokum hustler". The farmhands are disguised as a scarecrow, a tin man and lion.Ī toy-maker (Semon) reads L. Suddenly a tornado blows into Kansas and whisks the farmhands and Dorothy to Oz, where Dorothy is discovered as Princess Dorothea by Kruel ( Josef Swickard). In the film, Dorothy Gale ( Dorothy Dwan), a Kansas farm girl is told a story about Uncle Henry ( Frank Alexander) not being her uncle after all. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, costars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman in a portion of the film, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a less "cowardly" Lion than in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum's work, The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). This production, which is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who also performs in the lead role as a Kansas farmhand and later in the story disguised as the Scarecrow. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Author of red sorghumIn fact, the novel contains some more episodes of treating woman as a body. The attitude towards woman as a property of parents and further a spouse is more typical for patriarchal societies which existed before the 20 th century. As one can assume from this episode, women in Republican China were not always allowed to make her own decisions regarding family life and often engaged with arranged marriages, notwithstanding the existence in the post-revolution China of the equal rights group known as “Five proposals Movement”, aimed at giving women an opportunity to choose mates by themselves. She was used by her parents as “a beautiful body”, a controllable and saleable instrument of receiving certain social benefits. The novel does not provide such details, but implies that “Grandmother” was compelled to go through the traditional marriage ceremony with her disabled groom. The preparations for marriage, as Silbergeld assumes, are well-visualized in the film version of “Red Sorghum”, and the director dedicates about ten minutes to showing the obedient bride, sitting in the red sedan, while its bearers are giving her “ a furious, traditional shaking” (Silbergeld, p.56). On the one hand, the literary work demonstrates the use of woman as a means of entering higher social class in particular, it is stated that the female protagonist was forced by her needy parents to marry an old terminally ill owner of wine distillery. First of all, it is important to note that women’s position in society as shown by Mo Yan has two paradoxical elements. 5/9/2023 0 Comments 2 weeks notice whitney gThat letter was rejected with his sexy, trademark smirk and an "I highly suggest you read the fine print of your contract."Īnd now I've realized that unless I fake my death, poison him, or find a way to renegotiate my impossible contract, I'm stuck working under one of the cockiest and most ruthless bosses in New York. That's the version of my two weeks' notice I should've sent to my boss, because the more professional version-the one where I said I was "grateful for all the opportunities," and "honored by all the rewarding experiences" over the years? I wish his next executive assistant all the luck in the world (she'll need it) and if my boss should need me to do anything over the next two weeks, kindly tell him that he can do it goddamn self. This was a VERY EASY decision to make, as the past two years have been utterly miserable. I am writing this letter to formally announce my resignation from Parker International (& the arrogant, condescending CEO) effective two weeks from today. Genres: Billionaire Romance, Contemporary Romance 5/9/2023 0 Comments Founding mothers book review#1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families–and their country–proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Sing unburied sing cliff notesLeonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high Mam is dying of cancer and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. "A searing and profound Southern odyssey by. Paul Smith Library of Southern York County Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library |