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constant-creative-chaos · 4 years

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Fandoms I’ll write for and how to request them

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Supernatural

Dean Winchester - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Sam Winchester - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Castiel - Platonic, Sibling

Jack Kline - Platonic, Sister, Romantic

Gabriel - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Charlie - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader )

Jo - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ellen - Platonic, Child

Bobby - Platonic, Child

Claire - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

The Walking Dead

Rick Grimes - Platonic, Child, Sibling, Romantic

Glenn Rhee - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

T-Dog - Platonic, Sibling

Shane Walsh - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Michonne - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Maggie Greene - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Beth Greene - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Tara Chamlber - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Rosita - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Abraham - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Noah - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Daryl Dixon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Carl Grimes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Carol - Platonic, Child

Andrea - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Negan - Plationic, Child

Enid - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Jesus - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

The 100

Bellamy Blake - Plationic, Sibling, Romantic

Clarke Griffin - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

John Murphy - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Raven Reyes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Wells Jaha - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Finn - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Octavia Blake - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Abby Griffin - Platonic, Sibling

Jasper Jorden - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Monty Green - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Marcus Kane - Platonic, Child

Lexa - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Indra - Platonic, Sibling

Anya - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Echo - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Lincoln - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Harry Potter

Harry Potter - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hermione Granger - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ron Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Cedric Diggory - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Draco Malfoy - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Fred Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

George Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Percy Weasley - Platonic, Sibling

Bill Weasley - Platonic, Sibling

Charlie Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ginny Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Sirius Black - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Remus Lupin - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!James Potter - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Lily Evens - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Sirius Black - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

James Potter - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Remus Lupin - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Lily Evens - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Minerva Mcgonagall - Platonic, Child

Marvel

Peter Parker - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Natasha Romanoff - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Tony Stark - Platonic, Child,

Steve Rogers - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Bucky Barnes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Wanda Maximoff - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Shuri - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

T’Challa - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Carol Danvers - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Loki Laufeyson - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Riverdale

Jughead Jones - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Betty Cooper - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Archie Andrews - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Veronica Lodge - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Cheryl Blossom - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Toni Topaz - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Sweet pea - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Fangs - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

Kevin Keller - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

FP Jones - Platonic, Child

Fred Andrews - Platonic, Child

Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

Sabrina Spellman - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ambrose Spellman - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Nicolas Scratch - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Prudence - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Dorcas - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Agatha - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Harvey Kinkle - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Roz - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Theo - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

Caliban - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Zelda Spellman - Platonic, Child

Hilda Spellman - Platonic, Child

A Series Of Unfortunate Events

Klaus Baudelaire - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Violet Baudelaire - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Duncan Quagmire - Platonic, Sibling

Isodora Quagmire - Platonic, Sibling

Montgomery Montgomery - Platonic, Child

Kit Snicket - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Peeta Mellark - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Gale Hawthorne - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Finnick Odair - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Primrose Everdeen - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Haymitch - Platonic, Child

Effie Trinket - Platonic

Pretty Little Liars

Toby Cavvanah - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Caleb - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ezra Fitz - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Maya - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Emily Fields - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Aria Montgomery - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Spencer Hastings - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hanna Marin - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Alison Dilaurentis - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Shadow Hunters

Alec Lightwood - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Male Reader)

Jace Herondale - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Isabelle Lightwood - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Clary Fray - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Magnus Bane - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Simon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

The Vampire Diaries

Damon Salvatore - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Stefan Salvatore - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Katherine Peirce - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Bonnie Bennett - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Caroline Forbes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Jeremy Gilbert - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Tyler Lockwood - Platonic, Sibling

Klaus Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Elijah Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Rebekah Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling

Kol Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling

Marcel - Platonic, Sibling

Kai Parker - Platonic, Sibling

Alaric Saltzman - Platonic, Child

Young!Bill Denbrough - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Richie Tozier - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Male Reader)

Young!Beverly Marsh - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Eddie Kaspbrack - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Stanley Uris - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Mike Hanlon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Ben Hanscom - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Bill Denbrough - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Richie Tozier - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Male Reader)

Beverly Marsh - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Eddie Kaspbrack - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Stanley Uris - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Mike Hanlon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ben Hanscom - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

The Haunting Of Hill House

Young!Steve Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Shirley Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Young!Theo Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Young!Luke Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Young!Nell Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Steve Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Shirley Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Theo Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Female Reader)

Luke Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Nell Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hugh Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Child

Olivia Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Child

The Good Place

Tahani - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Chidi - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Eleanor - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Jason - Platonic, Sibling

How to request

For a oneshot:

Leave an ask or message me with the character(s) you want, your pronouns (he/him, she/her, they/them, etc), the plot, the relationship between you and the characters, the ages, and any other character relationships! For oneshots and imagines I’ll only use Y/N.

Example - one shot, Cedric Diggory, They/Them, Cedric helps them study in the library and they end up getting detention for being out after curfew, Romantic (pre established), reader is a 5th year hufflepuff, Cedric is the same age, no extra character relationships!

For Imagines:

Again, leave an ask or message me with the character(s) and plot.

Example - imagine, Dean teasing you about your crush on Charlie!

For headcannons:

Leave an ask or message me with the character(s) and the scenario!!

Example - headcannon, growing up with Alec and Isabelle

For preferences:

Message me or leave an ask with the fandom and the scenario!! Even if the characters aren’t listed above I’ll add them to the preference!!

Example - Preferences, Marvel, your first date.

For mood boards:

Leave a message or an ask with the character(s)/fandom and the scenario!!

Example - Mood board, Being the Co-leader of The 100 with Bellamy and Clarke

For Playlists:

Leave a message or an ask with the character/characters/relationship/setting/scenario/etc and I’ll create a playlist for you! You can add a preference for genre of music but I can’t promise that the playlist will be entirely that genre.

Example - Playlist for fighting walkers with the prison group (Classic rock or alternative please!)

(you can also ask for a playlist for one of my fics!)

Rules for requests:

I will NOT write any r*pe or s*xual assault scenarios, I can do someone making someone else uncomfortable but nothing beyond that!!

I will NOT write and something that involves pedophilia either, age gap is fine though!

I MIGHT write smut

I am happy to write queer relationships, I can use they/them pronouns, and polyamory is welcome!! If you use neo pronouns, I can use those too!

I will always be able to deny requests

If it says male/female/enby reader, I will NOT write a requited romantic scenario with a gender besides the mentioned one

If it doesn’t have a specific gender at the end I will write romantic scenarios with any gender

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shedefiedgravity · 4 years

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Stealing this from @lucaroyale since I can't sleep. In my defense, it seemed cool.

your name and then what you would have named yourself: I never liked my name. I used to write other names when I was a child.

astrological sign (sun/moon/rising if you know): I'm a Sagittarius, that's all I know.

when did you join tumblr and why?: I don't even remember what I ate last week.

top 5 fandoms: Vampire Chronicles, Sanders Sides, Percy Jackson, Teen Wolf, Doctor Who.

top 5 favorite films: Inkheart, Interview With The Vampire, The Hobbit, A Star Is Born, Jumanji.

go to song when you want to Feel something: Call Me by Shinedown, Far Away by Nickelback, Misty Mountains Cold by Glenn Yarbrough

what’s your religion or faith if you have one?: raised catholic and now agnostic.

a song that makes you feel seen: anything by Fall Out Boy honestly

if you could have any career: please please let me be a teacher

do you have a type: people taller than me, I guess. I'm weak for those who got a strong aesthetic, too, no matter which.

what does your heart/soul yearn for: currently? A day without studying. A whole, whole, day without studying.

if you had to describe yourself in 5 words to someone who doesn’t know you: weird, resourceful, kind, open-minded, coffee addicted.

favorite subject in school: history and literature.

where does your soul feel most at home: drinking coffee or tea with a few close friends, preferably sitting on sofas.

top 5 fictional characters: Merlin (Cursed), The Doctor (Doctor Who), any character from the Vampire Chronicles, Clint Barton (Marvel Comics), Clint Janeway (The Bookman's Promise).

top 3 moments in a show that made you ugly cry: I can't write anything without doing spoilers, man.

the earth, the sun, the moon or the stars: ...can- can I choose them all

top 3 characters you kin with: Lestat de Lioncourt (and it scares me), Dylan Dog, Virgil Sanders.

favorite medium of art: oil paint.

introvert/extrovert/ambivert: introvert

a favorite literary quote: "There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.", The Bookman's Promise, John Dunning.

some of your favorite books: The Library of the Dead (Gleen Cooper), the whole Vampire Chronicles saga (Anne Rice), The True Story of Captain Hook (Pierdomenico Baccalario), Daughter of Smoke and Bones (Laini Taylor), Bartimaeus (Jonathan Stroud).

if you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?: Iceland or Scotland!

if you could live in any time in history when would it be?: Revolutionary America or Victorian England.

if you could play any instrument masterfully it would be: my guitar is spying me from the angle of the room.

if you have one, what mythological god or goddess do you feel a connection to?: maybe Hades.

oh my god this is so long but LASTLY, favorite recent selfie in your camera roll: I kinda miss that hair already.

#about me #random

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the-not-so-dark-age · 6 years

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Tag game (yeah I like them lol)

Tagged by @shingeki-no-shitty-glasses ❤

Name: Virginia

Star Sign: Aries

Height: 170 cm

Put your music on shuffle. What are the first 6 that popped up?:

1) Man Down - The Eden Project

2) Yayo - Lana Del Rey

3) Wildling - Peter Gundry

4) Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey (eheh I have 70? 80? songs by her so it was really likely)

5) Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey (what did I say?)

6) Bird in a Cage - from Snk season 1 wonderful soundtrack

Grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 23. What’s line 17? “…che avevano incontrato lungo il cammino, si accamparono sulla…” (One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Ever had a poem or a song written about you?: No from what I remember lol

Who is your celebrity crush?: LORDE, Lana Del Rey, kinda like Harry Styles too, Kate Blanchett, and I LOVE A. J. Locascio’s voice (Lotor in VLD)

Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed? I don’t drive yet, but I hope I’ll be good at it ahah

Last book you read “Library of the dead” by Glenn Cooper

Do you like the smell of petrol? Hell no

What was the last movie you saw? Dragon Trainer 1

What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had? Luckily I’ve never got hurt badly!

Do you have any obsessions right now? Well I just entered the amazing world of Voltron LD (LOTOR AND HIS GENERALS AARGH ALSO SHEITH) and I don’t think I’ll come out of it soon…same with Black Sails, too good for my own good

Do you tend to hold grudges against anyone who’s done you wrong? Yes, but only if it really hurt me, otherwise I forget soon

In a relationship? No, thanks lol

I tag @thecolofulgirl (stavolta non mi scappi), @shinigami-of-van-eltia , @nana-luna , @ailecstuff , @prettysassyunicorn , @kato-your-jelly and @summerarlert

#tag game #thank you!#shingeki no shitty glasses

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altairsbrotherhood · 7 years

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I was tagged by @earthvexing even though I’ve been gone forever so thank you so much for not forgetting me <3

Rules: answer the q’s and tag 20 (ish) awesome people you’d like to know more about maybe make a friend idk.

Name: Laura

Nickname: I don’t really have one?

Zodiac: Libra

Height: 165 cm

Orientation: Bisexual

Ethnicity: White (and even without a tan, psh)

Fav Fruit: Banana or blueberries I think?

Fav Season: summer!

Fav Book: Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper

Fav Flower: I’m not sure.. can trees count? Palm trees are great..

Fav Scent: freshly baked cookies

Fav Colour: Black

Fav Animal: Alpacas!

Coffee, or Cocoa: depends really. Right now cocoa.

Average sleep: 6 hours maybe?

Fav Fictional Characters: Moiraine Damodred right now heh

Dream Trip: Hawaii please

Blog creation time: a couple of years ago? I think it’s been over 4 years now? might be wrong..

I don’t know who to tag so if you feel like doing this just tell people I tagged you c;

#about me #text

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the-reading-closet · 5 years

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Hello and welcome to The Reading Closet today for my day of the Sign of the Cross by Glenn Cooper blog tour… yes this is my first ever Black Thorn Books tour, when Holly got in touch I just couldn’t say no, so here I am! Thanks Black Thorn Books for the copy! This isn’t Glenn Cooper’s first book but it is the first instalment in the Cal Donovan series, that was released in paperback on the 4th of July. You can order your copy in a multitude of versions here!

Glenn Cooper is an American author and physician best known for being an internationally best selling thriller writer. His books have been translated into 31 languages and, as of 2014, have sold over six million copies. He currently lives in Gilford, New Hampshire. The Library of the Dead trilogy is currently being adapted into a television series by Pioneer Pictures.

I would describe Sign of The Cross conspiring religious type thriller that has action, blood and unexpected twists. Check out the blurb for yourself:

‘Abruzzo, Italy: a young priest suffers the stigmata of the crucifixion. The Vatican, Rome: the Pope calls on Harvard professor Cal Donovan to investigate the truth of the priest’s claim. Berlin, Germany: a neo-Nazi organisation believes the priest is the key to an earth-shattering secret. A secret that can be used as a deadly weapon. When the priest is abducted, a perilous race against the clock begins. Only Cal can track down the ruthless organisation and stop it, before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed.’

I highly recommend The Sign of The Cross to fans who enjoy the works of Dan Brown, although this read isn’t exactly like Dan Brown’s work, the air of religious mystery and conspiracy is similar, as well as the action packed chapters. Just read it!

The main protagonist is the theologically equipped Cal Donovan (heart eyes) who has become one of my favourite leading men. He is approached to investigate into the case of a young recently ordained priest who has become to show signs of the Stigmata. If you aren’t aware what this is, it’s wounds of the cross thought to have been inflicted on Jesus. As you’d thing, questions begin to arise whether the wounds are self inflicted or true. Sign of the Cross fully emerges itself into the conspiracy of these acts, as well as flicking to finds of relics involved in the crucifixion and a deadly neo – Nazi brotherhood lurking and planning in the shadows.

The dark lingering atmosphere is darkly electrifying at times, unconsciously you’ll chew your nail down to the quick before you realise. Glenn has taken a huge subject and managed to successfully and sensitively inject it into a jaw dropingly good storyline. I felt that I was in a literary storm, and I didn’t know where the narrative was going to end up. The taut atmosphere lingers constantly throughout!

What stood out for me was the research that Glenn Cooper obviously undertook while writing this novel, including the basics like the stigmata, The Crucifixion, as well as perceived Vatican ‘miracles’ and how they investigate into them. The authenticity sky rocketed with the inclusion of Padre Pio (find out more about him here), I thought it was great to include real life events of those themes included in the dialogue. I also enjoyed the flicks between timelines and view points, which provided both the geographical locations involved and a more in-depth visualisation of the events. The whole book was drenched in twistiness, packed with plenty of action and adventure, as well as being pumper full of some tasty historical essence feel.

I look forward to the future instalments of the Cal Donovan series. especially if they’re as grippingly captivating and thrillingly plotted as this one. I’m quite frankly a newly realised Glenn Cooper fangirl…. God help my TBR pile!

#BlogTour: Sign Of The Cross by Glenn Cooper @GlennCooper @BlackThornBooks #SignOfTheCross Hello and welcome to The Reading Closet today for my day of the Sign of the Cross by Glenn Cooper blog tour...

#SignOftheCross GlennCooper ReligiousConsipracy BlackTthornBooks BookReview BookBlogger

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isslibrary · 4 years

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New Library Material August - November 2019

Sorted by Call Number / Author.

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Bill O'Neill. Trivia Madness : 1000 fun trivia questions. Wiq Media, 2016.

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Bill O'Neill. Trivia Madness : 1000 fun trivia questions. Wiq Media, 2016.

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Bill O'Neill. Trivia Madness : 1000 fun trivia questions about anything. LAK Publishing, 2017. The complete manual providing trivia, trivia facts, interesting facts, trivia questions, random facts, brain teaser quizzes, and brain games to strengthen your knowledge base!.

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Evan Salveson. Game night trivia : 2,000 trivia questions to stump your friends. Lexington, KY, : 2019.

323.1

Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham : the local and national movements in the civil rights struggle. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1997. Provides an analysis of the struggle for desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s, during which the Southern Christian Leadership Conference urged the African-American community into a mass protest that ultimately resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Wilson, Edward O. The diversity of life. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

338.2 M

Maddow, Rachel, author. Blowout. First edition. "Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.""--.

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Stengel, Richard, author. Information wars : how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do about it. First edition. Welcome to State -- Getting There -- The Job -- Information War -- The Battle Is Engaged -- Disruption -- What to Do About Disinformation. "In February of 2013, Richard Stengel, the former editor-in-chief of Time, joined the Obama administration as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Within days, two shocking events made world-wide headlines: ISIS executed American journalist James Foley on a graphic video seen by tens of millions, and Vladimir Putin's "little green men"-Russian special forces-invaded Crimea, amid a blizzard of Russian denials and false flags. What these events had in common besides their violent law-lessness is that they were the opening salvos in a new era of global information war, where countries and non-state actors use social media and disinformation to create their own narratives and undermine anyone who opposes them. Stengel was thrust onto the front lines of this battle as he was tasked with responding to the relentless weaponizing of information and grievance by ISIS, Russia, China, and others. He saw the scale of what he was up against and found himself hopelessly outgunned. Then, in 2016, the wars Stengel was fighting abroad came home during the presidential election, as "fake news" became a rallying cry and the Russians used the techniques they learned in Ukraine to influence the election here. Rarely has an accomplished journalist been not only a close observer but also a principal participant in the debates and decisions of American foreign policy. Stengel takes you behind the scenes in the ritualized world of diplomacy, from the daily 8:30 morning huddle with a restless John Kerry to a midnight sit-down in Saudi Arabia with the prince of darkness Mohammed bin Salman. The result is a rich account of a losing battle against trolls and bots-who are every bit as insidious as their names imply."--.

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Kean, Sam, author. The bastard brigade : the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb. First edition. Prologue: Summer of '44 -- Prewar, to 1939 -- 1940-1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- 1945. The leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler would soon have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. Kean tells the story of a rough and motley crew of geniuses-- dubbed the Alsos Mission-- sent into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The Mission included Moe Berg, a major league catcher and multilingual international spy; Joe Kennedy Jr, whose need for adventure lead him to volunteer for the dangerous mission; and Irène and Frederic Joliot-Curie, a physics Nobel-Prize winning power couple who became active members of the resistance. -- adapted from jacket.

364.152 C

Cep, Casey N., author. Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee. First edition. "The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted -- thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cep brings this nearly inconceivable story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity."--.

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Butterworth, Rod R. Signing made easy; : a complete program for learning sign language... Putnam, 1989. ...includes sentence drills and exercises for increase comprehension and signing skill.

419.7 D

Duke, Irene. The everything sign language book : American Sign Language made easy. 2nd ed. Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, c2009. Explains basic communication using American Sign Language, including proper handshapes, body language, signing etiquette, and communicating with the hearing impaired.

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Guido, James W., author. Learn American sign language : everything you need to start signing now. Alphabet -- Numbers -- Basics -- Days & times -- Family & friends -- Body & health -- At home -- Out & about -- School & work -- Food & drink -- Activities -- Social -- Nature -- Misc. verbs -- Descriptors. American Sign Language (ASL) is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. Current with the latest additions to ASL and filled with thousands of brand new photographs by Deaf actors, Learn American Sign Language is the most comprehensive guide of its kind.- Learn more than 800 signs, including signs for school, the workplace, around the house, out and about, food and drink, nature, emotions, small talk, and more.- Unlock the storytelling possibilities of ASL with classifiers, easy ways to modify signs that can turn "fishing" into "catching a big fish" and "walking" into "walking with a group."--Find out how to make sentences with signs, use the proper facial expressions with your signs, and other vital tips.

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Davis, Kathy Diamond. Therapy dogs : training your dog to help others. 2nd ed. Wenatchee, Wash. : Dogwise Pub., c2002. Benefits therapy dogs provide -- Orientation to reality -- Focal point for attention-deficit problems -- Morale -- Antidote to depression -- Cooperation -- Social stimulation.

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Ginott, Haim G. Between parent and child : the bestselling classic that revolutionized parent-child communication. Rev. and updated /Orig. pub.: Macmillan, 1965. New York : Three Rivers Press, c2003. The code of communication : parent-child conversations -- The power of words : better ways to encourage and guide -- Self-defeating patterns : there's no right way to do a wrong thing -- Responsibility : transmitting values rather than demanding compliance -- Discipline : finding effective alternatives to punishment --A day in a child's life -- Jealousy : the tragic tradition -- Some sources of anxiety in children : providing emotional safety -- Sex and human values : sensitive handling of an important subject -- Summing up : lessons to guide your parenting -- Epilogue.

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Adams, Sean, 1977-. Mia Hamm. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.

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Classic writings on poetry. New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.

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The outlaw bible of American literature. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ;, c2004.

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Davis, Geffrey M., 1983- author. Night angler : poems. First edition. The fidelity of water -- Hymn or hum -- The radiance -- The night angler -- Bop: no more your mirror/Side a: my son's prelude -- Survivor -- First blood -- Human note -- The epistemology of cheerios -- Prayer with miscarriage/Grant us the ruined grounds -- A proposal from the previously divorced -- Pillow kombat with the ultimate sleep fighter -- Son's face -- What I mean when I say harmony -- Self-portrait with headwaters -- Self-portrait as a dead black boy -- I have my father's hands -- Smolder -- The book of family -- What make a man -- From the country notebooks -- The fidelity of music -- The night angler -- Poem in which my son wakes crying -- Arkansas aubade -- What I mean when I say harmony -- 3:16: whosoever -- 3:16: so loved -- 3:16: for 56 -- 3:16: world -- 3:16: blackout -- Like a river -- From the suicide notebooks -- The fidelity of angles -- What i mean when I say harmony -- Bop: no more your mirror/Side b: my wife's fugue -- Pleasures of place -- The epistemology of growing pains -- West Virginia nocturne -- Hear the light -- For the child's mole -- The night angler.

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Williams, Jaston. Greater Tuna. New York : S. French, c1983. Play.

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Wilson, August. The piano lesson. New York : Plume, c1990. Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.

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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author. Later novels.

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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. The major works. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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John Donne : Selected poems. Phoenix Edition, 2003. London (UK) : Orion Publishing Group, 2003.

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Roy J. Cook. One Hundred and One Famous Poems. 122 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 : Barnes & Noble, Inc, 2009.

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Hay, Daisy, 1981-. Young romantics : the Shelleys, Byron, and other tangled lives. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, c2010. A group biography that tells the story of the interlinked lives of England's young Romantic poets. Focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt. They included Lord Byron, John Keats, and Mary Shelley, as well as a host of lesser-known figures: Mary Shelley's stepsister and Byron's mistress, Claire Clairmont; Hunt's botanist sister-in-law, Elizabeth Kent; the musician Vincent Novello; the painters Benjamin Haydon and Joseph Severn; and writers such as Charles and Mary Lamb, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt. They were characterized by talent, idealism, and youthful ardor, and these qualities shaped and informed their politically oppositional stances--as did their chaotic family arrangements, which often left the young women, despite their talents, facing the consequences of the men's philosophies.

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Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Till we have faces : a myth retold. 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, c1956.

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Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. First U.S. edition. "Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became famous writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible authors; both were single mothers and had children out of wedlock (a shocking and self-destructive act in their day); both broke out of the rigid conventions of their era and lived in exile; and both played important roles in the Romantic era during which they lived. The lives of both Marys were nothing less than extraordinary, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, a gifted story teller. She seamlessly weaves their lives together in back and forth narratives, taking readers on a vivid journey across Revolutionary France and Victorian England, from the Italian seaports to the highlands of Scotland, in a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel"--.

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The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison'sTen-Year Road Trip. First Simon & Schuster Hardback Edition, 2019. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019. Prologue: Paris, Michigan : mid-August 1923 -- 1914 -- 1915 -- 1916 -- 1918 -- 1919 -- 1920 -- 1921 -- Interim: November 1921-June 1923 -- 1923 -- 1924 -- Jep Bisbee is famous. "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"-- Provided by publisher.

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Clinton, Hillary Rodham, author. The book of gutsy women. First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. EARLY INSPIRATIONS. Harriet Tubman -- Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Maria Tallchief, and Virginia Johnson -- Helen Keller -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Maria von Trapp -- Anne Frank -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner -- EDUCATION PIONEERS. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Margaret Bancroft -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Maria Montessori and Joan Ganz Cooney -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Esther Martinez -- Daisy Bates -- Patsy Mink, Bernice Sandler, and Edith Green -- Ruby Bridges Hall -- Malala Yousafzai -- EARTH DEFENDERS. Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- Rachel Carson -- Jane Jacobs and Peggy Shepard -- Jane Goodall and "The Trimates" -- Wangari Maathai -- Alice Min Soo Chun -- Greta Thunberg -- EXPLORERS AND INVENTORS. Caroline Herschel and Vera Rubin -- Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper -- Margaret Knight and Madam C.J. Walker -- Marie Curie and Irène Jolior-Curie -- Hedy Lamarr -- Sylvia Earle -- Sally Ride -- Mae Jemison -- HEALERS. Florence Nightingale -- Clara Barton -- Elizabeth Blackwell, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Mary Edwards Walker -- Betty Ford -- Mathilde Krim -- Dr. Gao Yaojie -- Dr. Hawa Abdi -- Flossie Wong-Staal -- Molly Melching -- Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha -- Vaccinators -- ATHLETES. Alice Coachman and Wilma Rudolph -- Junko Tabei -- Billie Jean King -- Diana Nyad -- Abby Wambach -- Michelle Kwan -- Venus and Serena Williams -- Ibtihaj Muhammad -- Tatyana McFadden -- Caster Semenya -- Aly Raisman -- ADVOCATES AND ACTIVISTS. Dorothy Height and Sojourner Truth -- Ida B. Wells -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Elizabeth Peratrovich -- Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin -- Coretta Scott King -- Dolores Huerta -- The Peacemakers -- Victoria Mxenge -- Ai-jen Poo -- Sarah Brady, Gabby Giffords, Nelba Màrquez-Greene, Shannon Watts, and Lucy McBath -- Nza-Ari Khepra, Emma Gonzàlez, Naomi Wadler, Edna Chavez, Jazmine Wildcat, and Julia Spoor -- Becca Heller -- STORYTELLERS. Maya Angelou -- Mary Beard -- Jineth Bedoya Lima -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- America Ferrera -- Ali Stoker -- Amani Al-Khatahtbeh -- ELECTED LEADERS. Bella Abzug -- Shirley Chisholm -- Ann Richards -- Geraldine Ferraro -- Barbara Jordan -- Barbara Mikulski -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Wilma Mankiller -- Michelle Bachelet -- Danica Roem -- GROUNDBREAKERS. Frances Perkins -- Katharine Graham -- Constance Baker Motley -- Edie Windsor -- Ela Bhatt -- Temple Grandin -- Ellen DeGeneres -- Maya Lin -- Sally Yates -- Kimberly Bryant and Reshma Saujani -- WOMEN'S RIGHTS CHAMPIONS. Rosa May Billinghurst -- The Suffragists -- Sophia Duleep Singh -- Fraidy Reiss -- Manal al Sharif -- Nadia Murad. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them -- women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. So how did they do it? The answers are as unique as the women themselves. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, LGBTQ trailblazer Edie Windsor, and swimmer Diana Nyad kept pushing forward, no matter what. Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before. Historian Mary Beard used wit to open doors that were once closed, and Wangari Maathai, who sparked a movement to plant trees, understood the power of role modeling. Harriet Tubman and Malala Yousafzai looked fear in the face and persevered. Nearly every single one of these women was fiercely optimistic -- they had faith that their actions could make a difference. And they were right. To us, they are all gutsy women -- leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do. Because if history shows one thing, it's that the world needs gutsy women.

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Smith, Jean Edward, author. The liberation of Paris : how Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz saved the City of Light. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Paris occupied -- De Gaulle and the resistance -- The Allies advance -- The German defense -- The resistance rises -- Eisenhower changes plans -- Leclerc moves out -- A field of ruins -- Day of liberation -- De Gaulle triumphant. "The liberation of Paris tells the dramatic story of the Allied decision in World War II to divert from the strategic plan in order to save the City of Light from chaos and assist de Gaulle's efforts to become France's new leader even as the German general in charge of the occupation defied his orders to destroy the city as the Allies closed in"--.

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Alexander, Michael, 1941-. Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. Introduction -- The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s -- Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer into Scott : The lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe -- Dim religious lights -- The lay, Christabel and 'The eve of St Agnes' -- 'Residences for the poor' : the Pugin of Contrasts -- Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman -- 'The death of Arthur was the favourite volume' : Malory into Tennyson -- History, the revival and the PRB -- Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions -- History and legend : the subjects of poetry and painting -- The working men and the common good : Madox Brown, Maurice, Morris, Hopkins -- Among the lilies and the weeds : Hopkins, Whistler, Burne-Jones, Beardsley -- 'I have seen-- a white horse' : Chesterton, Yeats, Ford, Pound -- Modernist medievalism : Eliot, Pound, Jones -- Twentieth-century Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill -- Epilogue : 'riding through the glen.

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Napoleon : the art of war & power. 2018. London (UK) : Sirius Publishing; a division of Arcturus Publishing, Ltd, 2018.

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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author. Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Antislavery/antislave backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction -- The old Negro : race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow -- Chains of being : the black body and the white mind -- Framing blackness : Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy -- The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear -- The new Negro : redeeming the race from the redeemers -- Reframing race : enter the new Negro -- Epilogue. "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation came in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The book will be accompanied by a new PBS documentary series on the same topic, with full promotional support from PBS"--.

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns, author. Leadership in turbulent times. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Part 1. Ambition and the recognition of leadership -- Abraham: "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition" -- Theodore: "I rose like a rocket" -- Franklin: "No, call me Franklin" -- Lyndon: "A steam engine in pants" -- Part 2. Adversity and growth -- Abraham Lincoln: "I must die or be better" -- Theodore Roosevelt: "The light has gone out of my life" -- Franklin Roosevelt: "Above all, try something" -- Lyndon Johnson: "The most miserable period of my life" -- Part 3. How they led: man and the times -- Transformational leadership: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation -- Crisis management: Theodore Roosevelt and the Coal Strike -- Turnaround leadership: Franklin Roosevelt and the Hundred Days -- Visionary leadership: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights -- Epilogue: Of death and legacy. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely -- Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) -- to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope. They all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities, and temperament, these men shared a fierce ambition and a deep-seated resilience that enabled them to surmount uncommon hardships. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others.

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The bully pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of journalism. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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Grant, James, 1946- author. Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian. First edition. Prologue: "With devouring fury" -- "Large, wild, fiery, black" -- "In mirth and refutation; in ridicule and laughter" -- "Vive la guillotine" -- The literary banker -- "The ruin inflicted on innocent creditors" -- "The young gentleman out of Miss Austen's novels" -- A death in India -- The "problem" of W.E. Gladstone -- "Therefore, we entirely approve" -- "The muddy slime of Bagehot's crotchets and heresies" -- The great scrum of reform -- A loser by seven bought votes -- By "influence and corruption" -- "In the first rank" -- Never a bullish word -- Government bears the cost -- "I wonder what my eminence is?". "The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises. In James Grant's colorful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone--and enemies: Lord Overstone, Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day, and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column"--.

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Napoleon : a life. 2015. New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2015. Introduction -- Rise. Corsica ; Revolution ; Desire ; Italy ; Victory ; Peace ; Egypt ; Acre ; Brumaire -- Mastery. Consul ; Marengo ; Lawgiver ; Plots ; Amiens ; Coronation ; Austerlitz ; Jena ; Blockades ; Tilsit ; Iberia ; Wagram ; Zenith -- Denouement. Russia ; Trapped ; Retreat ; Resilience ; Leipzig ; Defiance ; Elba ; Waterloo ; St Helena. " ... the first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon's thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation"--Jacket.

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Brown, Adam. Napoleon Bonaparte : the biography of a leader who changed the history of France (including the French Revolution). 2018.

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Ryan Swanson. The Strenuous life : Theodore Roosevelt and the making of the American athlete. New York, NY : Diversion Publishing Corp, 2019.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The Hobbit. Complete and unabridged ed. London : HarperCollins, 2002. Read by Rob Inglis. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo's life is never to be the same again.

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Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. A raisin in the sun. 2008 by Recorded Books, LCC. Recorded by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers. Starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Leonard Jackson, Sakes Mokae, Sam Schacht, and Harold Scott; Lloyd Richards, director.

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The birth of a nation. [Blu-ray/DVD combo]. Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr., Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union, with Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley. In 1831, when Virginia slave Nat Turner learns of slavery conditions in other parts of the state, he leads an uprising against slave owners in the area.

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Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby [2013]. DVD. Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Elizabeth Debicki, Leonardo Dicaprio, Isla Fisher. A would-be writer, Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and skyrocketing stocks. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves, and deceits. "The cast is first-rate, the ambiance and story provide a measure of intoxication and, most importantly, the core thematic concerns pertaining to the American dream, self-reinvention and love lost, regained and lost again are tenaciously addressed."--Hollywood Reporter. "The best attempt yet to capture the essence of the novel."--Richard Roeper. "...Stands out like a beacon in a sea of silly blockbusters."--New York Post.

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Jerry Tarkanian's amoeba zone defense. Ames, IA 50010 : Championship Productions, 1996. Coach Tarkanian explains, in several teaching progressions, why your zone defense must be similar to your man-to-man defense. Tark shows how the Amoeba prevents the offensive players from getting into the gaps, beating you with the dribble and getting cross-court passes. On-court, the Runnin' Rebels demonstrate run glide run, zig zags, close outs and denials. Drills include the Amoeba drill for guards, back line, 5-on-7, 5-on-5 and how to double team the first pass.

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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-. The testaments : a novel. 1st edition.

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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. If Beale Street could talk. New York : Dial Press, 1974.

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author. The water dancer : a novel. First edition. "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"--.

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Edugyan, Esi., author. Washington Black. First United States edition.

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Goldring, Suzanne. My name is Eva. London, EC4Y 0DZ : Bookouture: In Imprint of StoryFire Ltd, 2019.

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Green, John. Looking for Alaska. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Bks, c2005. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

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King, Stephen, 1947-. Doctor Sleep : a novel. First Scribner hardcover edition. The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

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Claire legrand. Kingsbane : the Empirium Trilogy. Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks, Inc, 2019. Sun Queen Rielle faces new trials as she tries to maintain the Gate and is tempted by the angel Corien, while centuries later, Eliana must choose whether to embrace the crown or reject it forever.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author. Five novels. San Diego, Calif. : Canterbury Classics, c2011. The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- The prince and the pauper -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court -- The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.

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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews

I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger. The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others may be new to you. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I do.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

According to Bill Shute at Kendra Steiner Editions:

“Los Angeles poet Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal, widely published in the alternative poetry world, is one of the most respected American poets among his peers, the quiet shaman of contemporary poetry, a man who speaks clearly and precisely and beautifully on the page, whose work radiates beauty and wisdom, but who has no need to raise his voice or to indulge in cheap shock effects and theatrics.

Between 2007 and 2016, Luis published six chapbooks with KSE—-MAKE THE LIGHT MINE (KSE #364), DIGGING A GRAVE (KSE #174), OVERCOME (KSE #141), WITHOUT PEACE (KSE #59), KEEPERS OF SILENCE (KSE #82), GARDEN OF ROCKS (KSE #103)—-as well as doing a duo chapbook with Ronald Baatz, NEXT EXIT: SEVEN (KSE #100), and appearing in two KSE multiple poet collections….LAST POEMS (KSE #115) and POLYMORPHOUS URBAN: POEMS FOR LOU REED (KSE #272).”

The Interview

What inspired you to write poetry?

In High School I had an English class where I was introduced to American Poetry. I read Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, e e cummings, and other writers. Edgar Allan Poe was perhaps my favorite, because I also liked his short stories. As the years have gone on, I find myself drawn to international poets, Spanish language poets, and song writing poets, such as Dylan. I started off writing songs to and for someone I loved in my late teens. Since there was no music to these words, I was told they seemed more like poems.

Life, mundane things, social issues, almost anything I find worth writing about inspires me to write poems.

Who introduced you to poetry?

Indirectly, it was probably my father who introduced me to poetry. Our house was a house of books; too many books for someone who might hate books. My father had books from some of the best Mexican poets and Spanish language poets. He had books by Octavio Paz, Sor Juana de La Cruz, and Nahuatl poetry. I would go to the bookshelves and read whatever I wanted. He also introduced me to Mexican singer, Agustin Lara, whose words were poetry. There were books by Shakespeare and ancient poets, such as Horace, on the shelves as well. I did not get into Shakespeare until the end of High School and College.

How aware were you of the dominating presence of older poets?

I have been aware of the older poets since the beginning. It seems like the poets I like best are no longer with us. This is nothing against living poets. Throughout my life I have read so many poets and I have so many favorite poets in no definitive order. The list is endless: Federico Garcia Lorca, Cesar Vallejo, Miguel Hernandez, Pablo Neruda, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Fernando Pessoa, Julio Cortazar, Rainer Maria Rilke, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Robinson Jeffers, Charles Bukowski, Alfonsina Storni, Henri Michaux, Jorge Luis Borges, Du Fu, Li Po, Basho, Czeslaw Milosz, Nicanor Parra, Nazim Hikmet, Luis Omar Salinas, Leonard Cirino, and Alejandra Pizarnik. There are so many others. We can learn so much from the past and words of those who have come before us.

What is your daily writing routine?

I write every day. There is no real routine. I write whenever I find the time. I usually write when there is complete quiet in the house and everyone is asleep. Sometimes I write with music playing. It could be classic rock, alternative rock jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, however I am feeling. I try to read a lot more than I write.

What motivates you to write?

I write to get things off my chest. Reading the poetry of poets I admire, motivates me to write. Social issues, what is going on in the wold, motivates me to write.

What is your work ethic?

I probably write too much. I do not edit my work as much as I should. If I write something I do not like, I write something new and try to improve what I wrote before.

How do the writers you read when you were young influence you today?

I found that the language of poetry has been a great influence. I quiet enjoy the surrealism and nature in poetry, the way Edgar Allan Poe writes of the sea, the way Walt Whitman wrote of nature, the way Cesar Vallejo wrote of the human condition, the way Garcia Lorca wrote of the moon and rivers; the colors in the landscape. I am learning more now than when I was young. Poetry is ever evolving and reading something written long ago now is like discovering something new. I wish there were more translators in the world to make the work of poets from all over the world more accessible. When I was in college I read the poetry of the Beat Generation, the prose and poetry Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg, the work of William Burroughs. I was influenced by the stream of consciousness method of writing. If I was more disciplined and more patient, perhaps I would try and write novels. However, I prefer to write poetry.

Who of today’s writers do you admire the most and why?

One of today’s writers I greatly admire is Robert Edwards from the state of Washington. His poems on social issues are excellent. He uses surreal language, striking images, and speaks through the voice of working people in the struggle of the working class. Glenn Cooper from Australia is another poet I admire. His poetry could be funny, sad, and clever. His prose poetry books, Emancipator and Hum the Song of the Dead Grass are quite original. He observes what he sees and puts observations down on the page in surprising juxtapositions and word-play.

Why do you write?

I write because I enjoy it. Through writing I can unleash any tension I have inside. I let my fear, my pain, my anger, my joy, everything I feel inside— out.

What would you say to someone who asked you “How do you become a writer?”

I would tell them anyone can become a writer. I would tell them to get themselves a library card and start checking out some books. I would tell them to read voraciously.

Tell me about the writing projects you have on at the moment.

I have no current projects at this moment. I am writing all the time. I probably have enough material for a chapbook or two, but I have no offers and I have not solicited my work to any press. My last chapbook was over 2 years ago. If it was not for the kindness of Bill Shute at Kendra Steiner Editions, I probably would have less work available. He has published at least 7 of my chapbooks, including one that was co-written with Ronald Baatz. I had stopped submitting work for the past few years. I had been submitting to only about 6 to 8 journals for the past several years. This summer I was diagnosed with cancer and had to have surgery. The surgery was successful. I am currently cancer free. The surgery and scare kicked my butt. I have been writing more often and submitting more frequently to different journals. I figure if I might kick the bucket sooner than I planned, I might as well do the thing I love, and that is to write, and to share my words with readers and other writers. In the past three months I have submitted poetry to over 50 journals I have never sent work to before. I have lucked out with getting acceptances in about 10 new places. I have also sent out work to journals that have been kind enough to publish my poetry over the years.

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal Wombwell Rainbow Interviews I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me.

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