![]() ![]() While there is deep pain associated with these topics, I marvel at the incredible triumph of survival and the beautiful history of resistance. My writing, teaching, and lecturing focus on the uncomfortable concepts of slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality. ![]() I followed my interests and my heart- I became a historian of the African American experience and I committed myself to telling the stories of black women who lived, loved, struggled, worked, prayed, and fought to survive in a nation that still recognized many of them as property. By the age of twenty-one, I began my formal journey to the historical profession, eventually receiving my MA and PhD from Columbia University. I attended the University of Pennsylvania where I received my BA in the departments of History and what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies. I sat in small classrooms at my Philadelphia Quaker school and found myself more and more attracted to what I called “true stories” or what I would later recognize as the field of history. When I was a young girl I would read for hours at a time, completely captivated and lost between the covers of a book. ![]()
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![]() Regardless, she cannot wait to finally share her dream with you. ![]() But don't mind her, that's just a little of––hopefully healthy––stage fright. Heck, she's probably full on freaking out. She's probably biting her nails as you read this. ![]() While she'd never describe herself as adventurous, having a degree in chemical engineering and being the Monica of her group of friends, this definitely qualifies as the most exciting yet terrifying project she has ever taken on. Her books are being translated to over 30 languages––which is bananas, if you ask her.Īfter years of devouring stories and posting––sometimes yelling––about them on her (books)tagram she finally took the leap and started creating some of her own. Now, she's also the author of International bestseller and soon to be adapted to film The Spanish Love Deception and instant New York Times bestseller The American Roommate Experiment. Elena is a Spanish writer, a self confessed hopeless romantic and a proud book hoarder. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I do wonder whether we’ve been reluctant to join the dots because we’re so used to thinking about Shakespeare in relation to success.” We don’t tend to think of Shakespeare in terms of failure or things going wrong. ![]() ![]() Philo said: “Despite the fact that the cast lists have been known and that we know Sejanus was a flop, we’ve yet to acknowledge the fact that that means Shakespeare himself was heckled and hissed, and that Shakespeare himself was a victim of the early modern audience. One contemporary wrote of being among those who “hissed Sejanus off the stage”. Portrait of William Shakespeare, dated 1609, which was engraved by Droeshout for the 1623 First Folio edition. ![]() ![]() Praise for Five Proofs of the Existence of God It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism. Its aim is to vindicate the view of the greatest philosophers of the past- thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and many others- that the existence of God can be established with certainty by way of purely rational arguments. This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs. ![]() ![]() It also offers a thorough treatment of each of the key divine attributes-unity, simplicity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, and so forth-showing that they must be possessed by the God whose existence is demonstrated by the proofs. This book provides a detailed, updated exposition and defense of five of the historically most important (but in recent years largely neglected) philosophical proofs of God’s existence: the Aristotelian, the Neo-Platonic, the Augustinian, the Thomistic, and the Rationalist. ![]() ![]() If you’d like to listen and review the amazing audiobook Cuban Son Rising, by Charles Gomez, please reach out to. And tell your friends! Links can be found in the show notes. The Arsène Lupin Podcast is plugging along! Be sure to subscribe to our gentleman burglar’s own show. ![]() We are proudly supported by our listeners. Go to and become a financial supporter today. 838, Riders of the Purple Sage, Part 6 of 12, by Zane Grey Can Jane Withersteen handle another devastating blow to her livelihood How many hits can her trembling loyalty take Zane Grey, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Your monthly donation helps in so many ways, and it also gives you access to more classic titles. ![]() Can Jane Withersteen handle another devastating blow to her livelihood? How many hits can her trembling loyalty take? Zane Grey, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plot: Graces uses her God given gift to overcome a gender and ethnic stereotype that her classmates placed on the role of Peter Pan.Characterization: Grace, an African American girl is portrayed as loving stories and who has the gift of bringing these stories to life through a creative imagination.Setting: African American girl in an integrated elementary school setting.Grace auditions and is awarded the role of Peter Pan. With the support of her grandmother and her mother Grace realizes that she can be anything she wanted to be. She is told by her classmates that she could not play Peter Pan because she is black and a girl. Grace decided she wanted to be the main character-Peter Pan. Grace’s teacher decided that they would do the play Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() Summary: Grace has a vibrant creative imagination and she likes to enter into her story world and pretend to be the main character of the stories she encounters. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was obvious that things weren’t quite as simple as I thought, I didn’t know Forge’s endgame, I also questioned myself as to the credibility of other characters in the story and I’m left not knowing who to trust, which is exactly the predicament our heroine finds herself in. Turning to Forges’s arch enemy she finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place. Sadly India finds herself having to ask for help when her sister finds herself in a rather unfortunate situation. The two main characters, Jericho Forge, sexy, alpha billionaire, sworn to never be a slave to a woman, and, India Baptiste, a strong, sexy and independent woman who doesn’t want a man in her life. Lots of twists and turns and chemistry between the main characters that is off the charts. It is however worth waiting for, because as with everything Meghan March, the story is brilliant. ![]() ![]() That right there is why I wait until the whole trilogy is released. I need to get this review done so I can start listening to book 2. That should be my final sentence, but I’m still reeling from that ending. ![]() ![]() Traveling with them is their guardian, their Aunt Beatrice. ![]() Grace's grandchildren, Amy and Dan Cahill, are on their way to their grandmother's mansion, where her funeral is being held. No sooner does she die, then from out of the nearby shadows steps a man dressed in black, who consults quietly with her lawyer, William McIntyre. Just before Grace Cahill, the matriarch of the Cahill family dies, she beckons her lawyer to her bedside and dictates a change to her will. It also includes many of the most dangerous: the myriad members of the Cahill family are locked in a deadly internal feud to discover the ingredients to a powerful serum that only they know about. They are members of the Cahill family, which includes many of the most famous and accomplished humans in history. The first book in the series The 39 Clues, Rick Riordan’s novel The Maze of Bones (2008) begins the adventures of Amy and Dan Cahill, a pair of orphans who discover, after their grandmother's death, that they belong to a long, secretive, and powerful lineage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. ![]() As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Joe and Cate's paths cross, their connection is instant. Before too long, her face is everywhere, though she is always aware that she’d be a pariah in her social circles if anyone knew her true story. Modeling may be her only ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. As a teenager, though, Cate is discovered for her looks. ![]() She, too, grew up in a single-parent household-just her and her mom scraping by in their small apartment. No one ever expected anything of Cate, on the other hand. But he is also a little bit reckless, and can’t seem to figure out how to channel the expectations of an entire country. Growing up with all the Kingsley looks and charisma, Joe should have no problem taking up the mantle after his father’s untimely death. Kingsley III is born in 1960, he inherits the weight of that legacy. The Kingsley family is practically American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. ![]() |