It was the essential fuel for homes, industry and war. Coal was the political-economic king at that time. It tells a story, not widely known despite its recounting in several histories (James Green’s The Devil Is Here in These Hills is the film’s primary reference), several novels and the great early film of director and novelist John Sayles.įor two decades at the beginning of the 20 th century, coal miners in southern West Virginia fought against the brutal conditions of work - long hours, low pay, significant danger and constant pressure to work faster - that mine owners insisted they needed to compete with mines in Pennsylvania and other coalfields closer to their main markets. The Mine Wars, produced and directed by Randall MacLoury for The American Experience, is one of the best television history documentaries in the history of this series, which itself is among the best programming offered by the Public Broadcasting System.
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7/6/2023 0 Comments The selection the betrothedYou can learn more about Kiera at, follow her on twitter via and see her silly videos at /user/kieracass. In her spare time, Kiera enjoys reading, dancing, making videos and eating unhealthy amounts of cake. She grew up in South Carolina and currently lives in Blacksburg, Virginia with her family. Kiera Cass graduated from Radford University with a degree in History. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series comes The Betrothed, a glittering royal romance. Dont miss The Betrothed, a glittering royal romance sure to captivate Kiera Casss legion of loyal readers. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never thought to imagine.įrom the No. thrilling third novel in the Selection series. 37,351 Ratings 5,822 Reviews published 2020 65 editions When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Holli Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The Betrayed by Kiera Cass 3. Capturing his heart is a dream come true.īut Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and becoming queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. After all, she's grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. A perfect matchor is it From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series comes The Betrothed, a glittering royal romance sure to captivate her legion of loyal readers and lovers of. When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is thrilled. The Betrothed May-2020 Book - 1 A would-be queen. Me/Julian: Am I picky? I’m a vegetarian, so I don’t eat meat, but I do eat a lot of different things. Iced tea in California is never sweet tea and that’s different here in Alabama. Me, answering as Julian: Yes, but I prefer coffee.Įvelyn: Do you have a favorite kind of tea? And if so, what is it? Me: Not at first… Look, let’s pretend that I’m Julian and you can ask me things like what’s my favorite whatever, anything like that. Me: Because I like writing books about different kinds of people falling in love!Įvelyn: Okay. So he left Los Angeles–that’s a very big city–and came to Huntsville and found that everything is very different here.Įvelyn: Why did you add people who are gay into it? He got the job he always wanted with NASA, but he had to move to Huntsville to take it. Julian is a gay boy who grew up in California. what do you want to ask?Įvelyn: Is the whole book about gay people? Me: All right, imagine you’re talking to my hero, Julian. It… didn’t go in the direction I’d expect. It’s August, which means my new book ROCKETS AND ROMANCE is out! Instead of giving you a boring, coherent plot summary, I’ve asked my seven-year-old daughter Evelyn to help me “interview” my hero Julian. Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words is happy to host Wendy Quall here today on tour for her new novel, Rockets and Romance. Rockets and Romance (States of Love) by Wendy Qualls Dreamspinner PressĬover Artist: Brooke Albrecht Sales Links: Amazon | Author’s Website A set of producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, got close in the mid-1960s, trying to capitalize on the re-issued pulp novels (featuring staggeringly beautiful painted covers by artist James Bama) and the growing James Bond craze. Hollywood didn’t attempt any live-action adaptations for decades. Dent was the man who wrote most of Doc’s adventures for various pulp magazines of the 1930s and ’40s, and built the world that Savage would inhabit.ĭespite the character’s popularity in the pulps, his owners Street & Smith couldn’t drum up much interest in the character when it came to other media, outside of a short-lived radio show. Possessor of a brilliant intellect, enhanced strength and a remote base of operations called the Fortress of Solitude, the man known as Clark(!) Savage Jr. Danĭoc Savage was Superman before Superman. You can also check out Rob’s episode of The Film and Water Podcast about it too. UPDATED 6/1/21: Ron Ely’s cult-fave Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze was released in June 1975 (the closest we could find to a release date) and with today the first of the month, it seemed like a good time to re-present this 2017 piece by Rob Kelly. REEL RETRO CINEMA: New looks at old flicks - and their comic-book connections… 7/6/2023 0 Comments The Hunger by Alma KatsuI earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order THE HUNGER by Alma Katsu from Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. As the survivors turn against each other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches beyond the fury of the elements to something more primal, and far more deadly … The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand. Driven to the brink of madness, the ill-fated group struggles to survive and minor disagreements turn into violent confrontations. His decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him One is well-documented – the other untested, but rumoured to be short. They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. Overall, her childhood consisted of all of the resources required to raise a bright, successful, contributing member of society: loving support and structure from her intelligent and slightly eccentric parents, material resources, an excellent education, and plenty of socializing contact with others of her socioeconomic group- white, well-to-do people in Pittsburg. She admits in her memoir that she received an excellent education there, though as a teenager she chafed against the rules and restrictions of her school. Dillard’s prose, with its direct tributes to and echoes of Thoreau’s Walden and Emerson’s lyrical essays, participates in a modern usage of this unique American philosophy and imagination that flowered during the 1830s and 1840s.ĭillard attended public school through fifth grade, then attended a private school called the Ellis School. The major contribution of Transcendentalism remains the view that divinity permeates nature and humanity, joining them together. This intellectual awakening-together with Dillard’s description of the land, its history, its rocks and stones, and its creatures-ties Dillard to the American Romantic period of American letters, particularly to Transcendentalism. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Heliophobia by Saba Syed RazviSaba Syed Razvi is the author of the collections In the Crocodile Gardens and heliophobia, as well as the chapbooks Limerence & Lux, Of the Divining and the Dead, and Beside the Muezzin’s Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil. Her recent work can be found in Electric Literature, Grimoire, Bone Bouquet, Sugar House Review, Phoebe Journal, and more. She also performs with the Poetry Brothel. She is the editor-in-chief of Rag Queen Periodical and an associate editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Her manuscript Lizzie, Speak recently won White Stag Publishing’s full-length poetry contest and it will be published in 2019. Kailey Tedesco is the author of She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publishing) and These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press). Our curator for August is Saba Syed Razvi. This selection comes from She Used to Be on a Milk Carton, available from April Gloaming Publishing. Wolfe’s New Journalism account mixes fact and fiction, and is not meant as reporting or academic analysis, or the complete story. He’ll say ‘Ain’t that right’…’you know what I mean’ and he wants you to say yes or nod your head…see…It’s part of his psychological jiveass. “Then Chaser would say, ‘Now when we get there, I want you to come down front and stare at the man and don’t say nothing. “Chaser” formed a group in the Western addition, the Youth Coalition, and was one of the main actors in Wolfe’s telling. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Book the witches of eastwickNational Book Award for Rabbit Is Rich, 1982 Pulitzer PrizeĪnd National Book Critics Circle Award for Rabbit at Rest, Pulitzer Prizer, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Awards-National Book Award for The Centaur, 1964.Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England Education-A.B., Harvard University also studied at the.The 1987 film version starred Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson. Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questionsīefore they were the widows of Eastwick, our heroines were a trio of delightfully wicked witches. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Primal fear novelYou think I could've done this without you? You're just feeling a little angry here, because you started to care about old Aaron, I can understand that, but. We fucking did it! We're a great team, you and me. Roy: Oh come on, don't be like that, Marty. The way you put me on the stand like that? That was fucking brilliant, Marty! And that whole thing like "act-like-a-man"? Jesus, I knew exactly what you wanted from me. counselor! Come on, Marty! I thought you had it figured, there at the end. If that's what you think, I am disappointed in you, I don't mind telling you. cutting up that son of a bitch Rushman? That was just a fucking work of art. Hotshot attorney Martin Vail must defend a young man accused of brutally murdering Archbishop Rushman, known as. Roy: That cunt just got what she deserved. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Primal Fear. A sort of a client-attorney-privilege type of a secret, you know what I mean? It don't matter who you hear it from. Well, I'll let you in on a little secret. I just didn't know who you'd wanna hear it from, you know? Aaron or Roy. But to tell you the truth, I'm glad you figured it out, because I have been dying to tell you. What did you just say? What? You told me just a few minutes ago that you didn't remember. Roy: Will you t-tell Miss Venable I'm sorry? Tell her I hope her neck is okay. |