![]() Nabil Matar, “The Barbary Corsairs, King Charles I and the Civil War,” Seventeenth Century 16:2 (October 2001), 239-258. ![]() Murray, “From Baltimore to Barbary: The 1631 Sack of Baltimore,” History Ireland 14:4 (July/August 2006). Sir Robert Lambert Playfair, The Scourge of Christendom: Annals of British Relations With Algiers Prior to the French Conquest, 1884. Hebb, Piracy and the English Government 1616–1642: Policy-Making Under the Early Stuarts, 2016. Nabil Matar, British Captives From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 2014.ĭavid D. Sources for our feature on the sack of Baltimore:ĭes Ekin, The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates, 2012. ![]() In 1955, test pilot Alvin Johnston put an airliner through a barrel roll. In 1999, inventor Allison Andrews proposed dividing all our pants in half. We’ll also save the Tower of London and puzzle over a controversial number. ![]() ![]() In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the sack of Baltimore and the new life that awaited the captives in North Africa. One night in 1631, pirates from the Barbary coast stole ashore at the little Irish village of Baltimore and abducted 107 people to a life of slavery in Algiers - a rare instance of African raiders seizing white slaves from the British Isles. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid's Tale has long been a global phenomenon. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. ![]() She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has lectured at universities like Stanford, Oxford, Jagiellonia, Beijing, and Georgetown (both Washington, DC and Doha), spoken at the White House and delivered a TED talk.Ī passionate writer, Amy resides in California and New York with her husband and their two dogs.įour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. Department of Education.Īmy has also worked as a freelance business writer for powerhouses such as IBM and AT&T. ![]() She has previously served as a language development specialist for county-wide programs focusing on developmentally disabled children, as well as a director for a demonstration project bankrolled by the U.S. with a double major in English and Linguistics, as well as an M.A. She attended Linfield College, San Jose City College, San Jose State University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and University of California, Berkeley, receiving her B.A. ![]() ![]() Amy Tan is a Chinese-American author of literary fiction novels.īorn in the U.S to immigrant parents, Amy, her mother and younger brother went for a traveling adventure in Europe when she was 15, after losing her older brother and father to brain tumors. ![]() ![]() So I ended up binge reading the entire comic in a night. ![]() ![]() I actually read this on 2019 when I saw a panel of He Tian and Mo in twitter jesnfje I LIKE BICKERING COUPLE, PERSISTENT SEME + THIN FACED UKE AND THAT SCREAMS HE TIAN AND MO SJFNEJ. I first saw this way back 2018 but then when I saw it’s about 200 chapters and it’s still on-going… I did not dare read it XD. Original Webcomic is published on the author's Weibo. Originally was a series of strips contained in the collection 19 Days Anthology. ![]() Summary: The cute and funny relationship between a 4 high school boys who will very slowly grow up, form a rock band called One Day, & fall in love with each other, while trying to keep a couple of them out of trouble with the Chinese mafia & street gangs. ![]() Genre: Shounen Ai, Comedy, Drama, School Life, Slice of LifeĬategories: 4-koma/Yonkoma, Ambiguous Feelings, Ambiguous Relationship, Appearance Different from Personality, Character Who Bullies the One They Love, Childhood Friend/s, Cross-dressing, Delinquent/s, Dumb Male Lead, Embarrassing Situation/s, Enemies Become Friends, Episodic with Underlying Continuous Plot, First Love, Fluff, Forced into a Relationship, High School Student/s, Misunderstanding/s, Multiple Protagonists, Multiple Romances, Slow Romance Stalker/s, Stolen Kiss, Student-Student Relationship, Student/s Tragic Past, Unexpressed Feeling/s, Unrequited Love, Yakuza/s ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one has ever touched him, loved him, and healed him from the inside out. No one has ever looked at Matty the way rural cowboy and single dad Rob Lovely looks at him. Until a lucrative house-sitting gig brings him to rural Montana. But those coaches are ridiculously expensive, and Matty is financially strapped. Matty wishes he could afford the kind of coach he needs, a top-notch one who specializes in keeping their skaters focused. His self-esteem is at an all-time low after figure skating coaches and skating judges have told him he’s not skinny enough, good enough, or masculine enough to win. ![]() Matty Marcus fears he doesn’t have what it takes to achieve his Olympic dream. Both of the fan favorite books in the Training Season series now available as a box set!Ĭan a cowboy’s firm hand discipline this feisty figure skater-on and off the ice? ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the status of refugees in their new home, Firuz has a good job at a free healing clinic in Qilwa, working with Kofi, a kindly new employer, and mentoring Afsoneh, a troubled orphan refugee with powerful magic.īut Firuz and Kofi have discovered a terrible new disease which leaves mysterious bruises on its victims. Powerful and fascinating, The Bruising of Qilwa is the newest arrival in the era of fantasy classics such as the Broken Earth Trilogy, The Four Profound Weaves, and Who Fears Death.įiruz-e Jafari is fortunate enough to have immigrated to the Free Democratic City-State of Qilwa, fleeing the slaughter of other traditional Sassanian blood magic practitioners in their homeland. ![]() Persian-American author Naseem Jamnia has crafted a gripping narrative with a moving, nuanced exploration of immigration, gender, healing, and family. In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic discovers a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can also watch Tome Talk on YouTube, links below. The series follows two soldiers - Macro and Cato - fighting. His books - which have sold over 5 million copies - include his Eagles of the Empire novels featuring Roman soldiers Macro and Cato, most recently DEATH TO THE EMPEROR, THE HONOUR OF ROME, THE EMPEROR'S EXILE and TRAITORS OF ROME, as well as BLACKOUT, the bestselling first novel in the Berlin Wartime Thriller series, and many more. Matt talks about the Roman historical fiction novel Under The Eagle, the first book of the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow, starring Macro and Cato. Simon Scarrows Under the Eagle is the first in a terrific series of novels on the Roman Military. ![]() Praise for Simon Scarrows compelling historical novels: Gripping and moving The Times Britannia, AD 43. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. and on Facebook /officialsimonscarrow and Twitter Scarrow is a Sunday Times No. THE EAGLES CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in Simon Scarrows bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. His books - which have sold over 5 million copies - include his Eagles of the Empire novels featuring Roman soldiers Macro and Cato, most recently DEATH TO THE EMPEROR, THE HONOUR OF ROME, THE EMPEROR'S EXILE and TRAITORS OF ROME, as well as BLACKOUT, the bestselling first novel in the Berlin Wartime Thriller series, and many more. ![]() ![]() “The social network everyone hated” was changing what it meant to be social. ![]() An unnamed “online superstore” known for its ruthless efficiency had elbowed its way into publishing and well beyond. She’s not exactly poor, only “privileged and downwardly mobile.”Ī new, more dynamic economy was taking shape on the other side of the country-“not that I was paying any attention,” Wiener writes. “There was no room to grow, and after three years the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin,” she remembers in typically sardonic fashion. It’s 2013, and she’s a 20-something college graduate who has been working in the sclerotic New York publishing industry, stringing together a meager income as a freelance editor and an assistant at a boutique literary agency. P erhaps the most repeated phrase in Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener’s memoir of life as a tech-industry worker, is “I did not know.” When the book opens, Wiener’s world feels like one with limited horizons. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other main characters are imagined composites of women who suffered more directly from the perils of war. The Ferriday women, Americans drawn from real life, remain relatively untouched but contribute mightily from afar. How do women, especially well-to-do women, cope when war utterly transforms their families and their fortunes? Kelly chooses three particular women as central to her thematic constant. Thematically, both of Kelly’s novels center on a difficult subject. ![]() Eliza Ferriday set the standard for her daughter, working nonstop to help White Russian women marooned after World War I, setting up committees and organizations to find places for the women to live and situations where they might earn their livelihoods. ![]() Just as Kelly fictionalized Caroline’s not-insignificant accomplishments, now she has re-imagined the equally impressive achievements of Caroline’s mother. Lost Roses is Martha Hall Kelly’s prequel to Lilac Girls, a novel I previously (and enthusiastically) reviewed for “Bookin’ with Sunny.” Caroline Ferriday, featured prominently in Lilac Girls, was a real-life debutante and socialite who worked tirelessly to help European children orphaned during World War II and who advocated for the punishment of Nazi war criminals following the war. Lost Roses – The American Ferriday women (of the Lilac Girls) are again involved in helping women and families displaced by the devastation of war. ![]() ![]() The production … stars a vacant Bruce Willis (in his Broadway debut) and a hardworking Laurie Metcalf sustains a steady, drowsy room temperature throughout. Though it is based on one of Stephen King’s most terrifying novels, the stage version of Misery will not, I promise, leave you cold with terror. His Sheldon is a little weary, a little resigned, but not especially like a man in mortal jeopardy. We will only believe in Paul’s peril if Paul believes in it, and Willis, though well-cast (taciturn suffering has more or less become his thing), just doesn’t seem particularly endangered. ![]() But here the suspense is almost nil – and not only because most attendees have read the book or more likely seen the 1990 film. Misery seems meant to inhabit the same territory as successful theatrical thrillers like Wait Until Dark or Deathtrap. ![]() |