Ma am darling book6/10/2023 ![]() It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.Ĭombining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma’am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. ![]() ![]() One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950’s heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. “If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies” he confided to a friend, “they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!” Peter Sellers was in love with her.įor Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.Īndy Warhol photographed her. ![]() She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. ‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich’ Observer The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix’s The Crown. ![]()
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Huey Long by T. Harry Williams6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1970, Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in the History and Autobiography category with Huey Long. Beauregard, the American Civil War and Huey Long. For his works, Williams published multiple books on Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford B. Additional academic institutes Williams taught at include extension schools, in Wisconsin and at the Municipal University of Omaha.Īs an author, Williams wrote biographical works between the 1940s to 1970s. ![]() Harry Williams Chair of American History. Near the end of his tenure at LSU, the university created the T. While at LSU, Williams was a Boyd Professor of History from 1953 to 1979. For the majority of his academic career between the 1930s to 1970s, Williams taught history at Louisiana State University. ![]() Thomas Harry Williams (July 8, 1979) was an American academic and author. ![]() Lauren markham the far away brothers6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() It was nine days since Ernesto, his identical twin, had left. He felt sure the sounds weren’t made by dogs at all but by prescient spirits, warning of things to come. The town dogs barked now and then, but this seemed different – a prolonged chorus of howls and saw-toothed yips. The same thing had happened the previous two nights. That summer night in 2013, before he left El Salvador for the United States, 17-year-old Raúl Flores lay restless, listening to a pack of dogs howling into the dark. News & Features (down arrow opens sub-menu)>Īn excerpt from The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham Like my brother before me It’s dangerous enough fleeing El Salvador for the United States without members of your own family hunting you down Our Programs (down arrow opens sub-menu)> Get Involved (down arrow opens sub-menu)> ![]() Search SubmitĪbout Rotary (down arrow opens sub-menu)> ![]() Book stop cafe6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Who was visiting his mother, Big Momma, a recent but reluctantĪrrival. I spend all my timeĬooking for the big lug, and still can't keep him filledīy the way, Idgie says that one of her hens laid an eggĮvelyn Couch had come to Rose Terrace with her husband, Ed, My other half, Wilbur, and I ate there the other night,Īnd it was so good he says he might not ever eat at homeĪgain. Peas candied yams butter beans or lima beans. Tomatoes fried okra collard or turnip greens black-eyed She said the vegetables are: creamed corn fried green Vegetables, biscuits or cornbread, and your drink and Or a barbecue plate and your choice of three ![]() Pork chops and gravy catfish chicken and dumplings ![]() ![]() Says that the breakfast hours are from 5:30-7:30, and youĬan get eggs, grits, biscuits, bacon, sausage, ham andįor lunch and supper you can have: fried chicken If there is anybody that has not been there yet, Idgie Women, Sipsey and Onzell, and the barbecue is beingĬooked by Big George, who is Onzell's husband. All the cooking is being done by two colored Her not to worry about getting poisoned, she is notĬooking. Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison said business has been The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right nextĭoor to me at the post office, and owners Idgie (WHISTLE STOP, ALABAMA'S WEEKLY BULLETIN) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() asks fundamental and challenging questions about what it means to be a man or woman in our society.” “ leading edge of contemporary debate about sexual identity and gender. Kate Bornstein is a historic figure in the queer and trans community.” Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work-one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. ![]() The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. ![]() ![]() ![]() It focuses on Greek writers from the heroic age of Homer, to the sixth-century CE ecclesiastical and pagan historians. In order to understand the innovative aspects of the new Christian heroic ideal as Procopius presented it, the thesis traces the origins and development of both Classical and Christian notions of valor. Procopius’ writing reveals that sixth-century Eastern Roman society was abandoning Classical constructions of heroism based on an individual’s worldly achievements and military prowess and adopting Christian notions of courage dependant on piety, humility, and divine intervention. It argues that, despite Procopius’ reputation as the last great Classical historian, he created heroes that were firmly rooted in the sixth-century CE Christian Byzantine world. ![]() This thesis examines the sixth-century CE Byzantine historian Procopius’ notion of men’s heroic conduct. ![]() Monsters barry smith6/8/2023 ![]() After leaving Valiant in 1993, Windsor-Smith did work through a number of publishers, including co-creating the vampiric character Rune with Chris Ulm, which was published as part of Malibu Comics' Ultraverse. ![]() He was also the chief designer of the " Unity" crossover storyline. His other noted Marvel work included a 1984 " Thing" story in Marvel Fanfare, the "Lifedeath" and "Lifedeath II" stories with writer Chris Claremont that focused on the de-powered Storm in The Uncanny X-Men, as well as the 1984 Machine Man limited series with Herb Trimpe and Tom DeFalco.Īfter leaving Marvel, Windsor-Smith became the creative director and lead artist at Valiant Comics, where he illustrated the company's revival of the 1960s Gold Key Comics character Solar, and created the original characters Archer and Armstrong. ![]() He attained note working on Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian from 1970 to 1973, and for his work on the character Wolverine, particularly the 1991 " Weapon X" story arc. ![]() Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith, ) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best-known work has been produced in the United States. ![]() ![]() He hides under the rug, then once he gets outside, he wants to go back for his stuffed bear. The girl is obviously well schooled inn fire safety, knows just what to do. This kind of play may some day save your children's lives.- The London Free PressĪ girl finds herself in the middle of a fire when her new friend (who happens to be a dragon) sneezes. ![]() your children will enjoy acting out every scene from the tea-party to the firefighters' actions. (This book) has just the right combination of fact, fun and fantasy to help your little one understand what to do in a fire emergency. Highly recommended.- Canadian Book Review Annual This excellent book should be in every home and school library. At the back of the book is an easy-to-learn safety rhyme and a fire safety checklist for parents and teachers to discuss with their children. Colorful illustrations clearly depict correct responses to an emergency situation. ![]() This clever rhyming story is effective in conveying the rules of fire safety to children. An attractive, useful volume.- Kirkus ReviewsĪ unique way to introduce a very important subject.- School Library Journal ![]() A low-key but effective approach to the serious topic of fire safety. ![]() Danny and the dinosaur go to camp6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The dinosaur is unbeatable at footraces and football games, but he's a lifesaver after you've gone on a long nature hike and feel too weary to walk anymore. The camp itinerary is designed for kids Danny's age, but the dinosaur finds ways to amuse himself, and helps the other campers have a better time than they could without him. ![]() We skip the formality of Danny's invitation to the dinosaur this time, cutting right to their jubilant exit from the museum. ![]() How can you not have a blast when your camp roommate is a friendly behemoth straight out of the Jurassic period? Danny's dinosaur was never his to keep, having to return to the museum's prehistoric animals exhibit between outings with Danny and his friends, but Danny invites him along whenever he's about to have an especially fun experience, and summer at sleep-away camp is no exception. It seems as though Danny and his dinosaur's joint birthday wish in Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur! that "we can all be together again next year" was granted: that book came out in 1995, and 1996 saw the release of Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp, the finale of Syd Hoff's easy reader trilogy about a boy who gains a dinosaur for a playmate. ![]() ![]() and due to the contents within, discovered many, many other things.īorn Xaviera deVries in Indonesia on June 15, 1943, Xaviera Hollander (Picture- 1- 2) spent the first tender years of her life in a Japanese prison camp alongside her parents. One look at the cover of Hooker, with its shocking pink cover featuring a snap of ice-blonde, statuesque Xaviera fixing the reader with a half-lidded come-on stare, and these folks are instantly transported back to the day they discovered the well-worn bio. And immediately the pimply pubescents are ushered into a magical new world filled with thoughts of flesh and boners.įor people of a certain age, that book was The Happy Hooker, a 1971 tell-all written by Dutch treat Xaviera Hollander, an unabashed and unashamed exploration of her rise to the top of the brothel biz in the Big Apple. ![]() And then one day, their children, casually browsing Mom and Dad’s bookshelf, come across the book, with its creased and worn spine, and pick it up for a quick thumb-through. One lascivious book makes its way into the mainstream and is picked up by even the most staid and uptight of people. ![]() |