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Figures such as King Manuel "the Fortunate," João II "the Perfect Prince," marauding governor Afonso de Albuquerque, and explorer Vasco da Gama juggled their private ambitions and the public aims of the empire, often suffering astonishing losses in pursuit of a global fortune. Conquerors reveals the Império Português in all of its splendor and ferocity, bringing to life the personalities of the enterprising and fanatical house of Aviz. Portugal's discovery of a sea route to India, campaign of imperial conquest over Muslim rulers, and domination of the spice trade would forever disrupt the Mediterranean and build the first global economy.Ĭrowley relies on letters and eyewitness testimony to tell the story of tiny Portugal's rapid and breathtaking rise to power. Description In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers-a tactical advantage no other country could match. Hitchens was an anti-theist, and he described himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism, and reason. The Septemattacks strengthened his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." He is known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson, and for his excoriating critiques of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton. Formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of both the United Kingdom and United States, Hitchens departed from the grassroots of the political left in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the European left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, but he stated on the Charlie Rose show aired August 2007 that he remained a "Democratic Socialist." While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, near the end of his life he embraced some arguably right-wing causes, most notably the Iraq War. Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual. He was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most famous being God Is Not Great - made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist, and literary critic. This worldly yet striving music-while extremely heartfelt-was utterly black and unsalable until the Elvis of Gospel, Sam Cooke, crossed over to ""the devil's music,"" sending ""shock waves through the worlds of both gospel and pop. But woven into that are the facts that Southern freedom music and the stirrings of civil rights were gospel-based, and so soul was laced with that as well. It's enough to say that it begins in the sincere exhortations of gospel (singing to You God) that somehow married the devil (rhythm and blues and commerce) and came up with ""you found me cryin' in the chapel"" (which has ""you"" both ways, as quasi-religious, sanctified sex, or this world and the next at once). (It's exhaustingly minute here and there, with paragraphs that just go on and on as if his word processor had picked up the story on its own.) As for what is soul music-Guralnick's definition varied with his work on the book and he never does reach a reader-satisfying formulation. Guralnick spent over four years writing and interviewing for this book and the work shows, though Sweet Soul Music is not meant to be exhaustive. Serious, definitive grappling with the nature of soul music, a form of black pop derived from gospel married to rhythm and blues, and which existed in its pure state for about 10 years-from the middle 50's to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow's fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own. Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul, Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby builds a precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. It aired on the Lifetime channel in on April 5, 2015. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone.īut the thick, expensive walls of Cypress Woods cannot shut out the terrible memories that have woven their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul's mother, Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. If There Be Thorns is a 2015 Lifetime movie that is based on the novel by V.C. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. If There Be Thorns During the summer before his 9th birthday, an old woman dressed in black with a veil and her butler move into the mansion next to their house. Paul Tate - her first love, whom she was forced to abandon - is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. He is angered by his mothers adoption of Cindy, the daughter of a student of Cathys who died in an accident, and feels resentment towards her. Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew. I’m also polishing up poems in my first collection, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, coming out in March with Switchback Books. Right now I’m working on my second manuscript, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. I literally dropped a mic after reading this poem once. The last two lines, of course, are straight-up lifted from Biggie, and it was really fun to repurpose that phrase for my own drop-the-mic purposes. So there’s play and interchange between the “vulnerable” feminine and the “all-mighty” masculine. In this case (and in most cases, actually) I’m exploring anxiety, femininity, desire, sex, power and discomfort, but through HOV-colored glasses. I’m really interested in channelling strong celebrity voices to write about my feelings. –Originally published in Forklift, Ohio, Winter 2013. She works as a poetry editor for Coconut Magazine and Education Director at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts ( MoCADA).ĭo not bark up that tree. A graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing MFA program and a Cave Canem fellow, Morgan lives in Brooklyn with her dog Braeburn. Recent poems are forthcoming from Tin House, jubilat and Forklift, Ohio. Morgan Parker’s first collection of poems, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize and is forthcoming from Switchback Books in 2015. Yet uncovering Viktor's secret was only the first step.I didn't expect to fall in love with him.I didn't expect to have my whole life turned upside down. He is Viktor of House Nordin, His Royal Highness, The Crown Prince of Sweden. Beneath his quiet, enigmatic gaze and cocky charm, is a man who is running away from who he really is. But soon I discovered the truth behind Viktor's façade. At first I thought Viktor was just your average businessman passing through, albeit obscenely handsome, six-foot-five, blue-eyed, and mysteriously rich. Then a fateful encounter literally brought Prince Charming to my doorstep. That was even more apparent when a senseless tragedy took the lives of my parents, forcing me to become the sole guardian of our dysfunctional household at the mere age of twenty-three. Is this book Money, Money, Money or is it calling out for an SOS (These are ABBA songs). Growing up poor in small-town California as the oldest of six siblings, I knew I would never ride off into the sunset with anyone. Ellen and Mom discuss The Swedish Prince by Karina Halle. A standalone royal romance inspired by the classic film, Roman Holiday, from the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Royals Next Door. She auditioned for the lead role in the film Annie. She graduated in 1992 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, MI.įrom a young age, she danced and practiced in a room her parents set up for her in the basement. She was born with partial heterochromia, a condition of differently colored irises her right eye is half green and half brown and her left eye is all green. She was raised in a Conservative Jewish household and had a bat mitzvah. She is the daughter of Jere, a gift-basket business owner and Fred Berkley, a lawyer. Early life īerkley was born and raised in Farmington Hills located in a Detroit northern suburb community in affluent Oakland County, Michigan. In theater, she received critical acclaim for her performance in Hurlyburly. She voiced the title role of the anime film Armitage III: Poly-Matrix and had supporting roles in the films The First Wives Club and Roger Dodger. She played Jessie Spano in the television series Saved by the Bell and Nomi Malone/Polly Ann Costello in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls. Elizabeth Berkley (born July 28, 1974) is an American actress. Each has been taught that the works of the other's Guild are frauds. Alain is the youngest Mage ever to learn how to change the world he sees with the power of his mind. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls, where she has spent most of her life learning how to run the steam locomotives and other devices of her Guild. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. The first book in a thrilling new epic fantasy saga by Jack Campbell, the New York Times best-selling author of The Lost Fleet series!įor centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The proper age to be spilling grain and breaking things.” “Four,” Death said in her soft, dark voice, for Death always knew.įortune wrinkled her nose. “Three? Ten? Forgive me, I never know with you humans.” ” Fortune tilted her head, and the wreath of coins about her brow shimmered and flipped, changing from copper to coal to silver to gold. Wherever she goes, the milk spoils, the wool tangles, the grain spills. “We’re stretched thin to feed the twelve other mouths already, and this one-she’s ill luck. “Please,” the woman said, shivering in snow up to her shins. Her other hand was locked around the ragged mitt of a little girl beside her. One hand clutched a dimming iron lantern, which smoldered just bright enough to catch the snowflakes flitting by like fireflies before they melted back into the shadows. Her dull carrot-colored curls twisted from under a woolen cap, her wind-burnt red face as worn as the threadbare cloak over her shoulders. On this night, a woman had come to do just that: meet them. More than that cannot be said, for no two souls see Death and Fortune the same way yet we all know when we meet them. They stood tall and unfathomable in the glass-smooth snow, Death in her shroud of pyre-smoke and shadows, and Fortune in her gown of gold and bones. Once upon a time, on the coldest night of midwinter, in the darkest heart of the forest, Death and Fortune came to a crossroads. |