She also proved to be just as cruel, though we don't know the motive for her cruelty. It is extremely well researched from court transcripts, church and government documents almost 300 years old.Ĭooper spent 15 years researching the narrative about an African slave woman name Marie-Joseph Angélique who came to be a household slave in Ville Marie (The City of Mary) or Montréal.īorn in Portugal to a slave destiny, Angélique made her way to New France, bought by a bourgeois gentleman named François Poulin de Francheville who made his money in the fur trade, iron ore mining and other ventures.Ī household slave also meant she was to be a 'breeder' of more slaves and to service her master.Īfter her master's death his wife Thérèse de Couagne de Francheville proved to be just as wise at business and was able to take over her dead husband's affairs including his chattel slaves that included African and aboriginal slaves called "panis". The Hanging of Angélique is the oldest slave narrative in North America. The Hanging of Angélique: The untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of Old Montréal by Afua Cooper, HarperCollins, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-00-200553-1 Afua Cooper's thorough research is matched by her amazing writing, which puts the story together in a perfect timeline that keeps the reader wanting to know what happened next.
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more seem to get Maya or her scent out of his mind. The problem is that humans are not normally invited unless they are attached to a specific shifter. Maya just happened to show up on the celebration day towards fertility that usually ends in an all out orgy for all those attending. After walking in the door and being started at as if she is the best thing invented since catnip she feels even better about her decision.Alex is the Prime of his pack and owns the club that Maya is visiting. After being told that her body was not desirable by an ex boyfriend Maya is all for the idea of a club full of shifters that may be participating in some sexual activities. Review 1: Feeling down on herself and need affirmation Maya takes her friend Gina up on an invitation to a club frequented by lion shifters. First, he must be allowed to keep his state jobs, the chairmanship of the State Council of Parks and the presidency of the Long Island State Park Commission. Moses told the Mayor-elect that he would be interested in taking over the city parks-but only under certain conditions. When, shortly after the election, LaGuardia invited Moses to join his administration, their discussions centered on parks, not public authorities. No one else saw what he saw-including, most significantly, Fiorello LaGuardia, who was elected to his first term as mayor in 1933. And he was beginning to focus on another humble institution-the public authority. Now, in the early nineteen-thirties, Robert Moses wanted to extend his influence into New York City, where he would need power of new, even greater dimensions. Robert Moses first obtained power, during the nineteen-twenties, by seeing the potential for power where other men had not-in the humble agencies of state government that administered state parks-and by creating out of them a single, unified body with immense power, power insulated from and thus, in its field, independent of the government to which it was ostensibly subordinate. She is the author of many novels of suspense for middle grade and young adult readers, among them: Time Windows (1991), The Glass House People (1992), Dreadful Sorry (1993), Pale Phoenix (1994), PaperQuake (1998), Riddle of the Prairie Bride (2001), The Strange Case of Baby H (2002), Paint By Magic (2002), Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story (April 2004), Blackthorn Winter: A Murder Mystery (2006), The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery ( American Girl, 2009), and Puzzle of the Paper Daughter: A Julie Mystery (American Girl, 2010). After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. Kathryn Reiss (born December 4,1957-) is an American author of award-winning children's and young adult fiction. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. I love this, the wolf hound, and the 2 main characters that were human. It was a nice change of pace to have Koontz write about another kind of dog, besides his beloved goldens. It felt like he was just trying too hard. I've been a Dean Koontz fan for a long time, but this just wasn't a very good book. give up? And no consequences or follow up on what Cammy, Grady and Lamar did? The "big standoff" was so anticlimactic it was silly.įeds come in with guns blazing only to stop when they realize the story has broken on TV? Really? With no word from anyone? Just. The idea had promise but the execution was lacking. It seemed like the action didn't start till way after the halfway point. New characters are introduced far too late in the book. Two very different characters had names starting with the same letters, causing me to be confused during a few scene changes. One or two of the other characters were promising but left me wanting more information. Cammy is the only character who had any depth at all, and even she wasn't well developed. Nearly every character of focus ended up being the ridiculous complication in someone else's storyline, sometimes with only a momentary interaction that made me wonder why half of these people were even in the book. First of all, trying to pull off multiple converging character storylines in a book this size rarely works, and in this book it did not work. He reveals the new ABCs of moving others (it's no longer "Always Be Closing"), explains why extraverts don't make the best salespeople, and shows how giving people an "off-ramp" for their actions can matter more than actually changing their minds. Pink draws on a rich trove of social science for his counterintuitive insights. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. Whether we're employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Look out for Daniel Pink's new book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing #1 New York Times Business Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller #1 Washington Post bestseller From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes a surprising-and surprisingly useful-new book that explores the power of selling in our lives. The process of invention and inspiration are explained in a succinct and inspiring way, as is Lamarr’s working partnership with composer and inventor George Antheil their invention is relevant and used frequently in technology today. In this clear, appealing tale of an unsung heroine, Wallmark does not explicitly discuss the second-class status of female scientists but instead focuses on her subject’s personality and achievements. Interspersing descriptions of her various inventions and Lamarr’s own words, the straightforward text and appealing, appropriately retro-feeling illustrations present a wide-eyed Lamarr as a multifaceted talent and portray both her life as a Hollywood star and her inquisitiveness and intellectual creativity, from her childhood in Austria through her acting heyday to her recognition as an inventor in her 80s. Bombshell actress Hedy Lamarr was worshipped for her beauty and elegance, but what the public didn’t know was that she was an inventor. |