![]() The USS Enterprise's crew is the last remaining humans in history! So, since the dinosaurs never got extinguished, the homosapiens never got a chance to evolve. no Starfleet headquarters, no Federation Council building, no cities at all.Īnd nope, they aren't advanced talking dinosaurs or something like it, it's 23rd Century and the good ol' dinos are still animals (the coolest animals ever!) but still animals. a recovered Klingon warrior claims that he never heard about Starfleet, the Federation, or even the Human race or the planet Earth!!!Ĭaptain Kirk does the logic thing, he goes back to Earth to investigate and once there. ![]() ![]() The USS Enterprise is testing a new technology and soon enough they are caught in the middle of a battle between Romulans and Klingons, nothing unusual there, BUT. what better than a real paleontologist writing about dinosaurs?! Kirk) who is a real life paleontologist and since in this story, dinosaurs play a central role. ![]() Kirkland (nope, the special thing isn't that his name is astoundly similar to James T. This particular novel of Star Trek: The Original Series is quite unusual (in a very good way) since it's written not only by Diana Carey, an experienced author in the Star Trek franchise, BUT ALSO is co-written too by Dr. Time Travel & Dinosaurs! Whatl else can you ask?!ĮNTERPRISE V. ![]()
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![]() “I was wondering if there was a place like this but with two watering holes? Maybe closer to one of the other clans? I would love to be able to visit with one of my human friends.” “Zigur,” I greeted him as I approached him. When I had assured them both I was fine on my own, I didn’t need them to hover over me they got the hint and moved around without me. It was fun to watch as my guys walked around like I just gave them the sun, moon, and stars. All the males kept congratulating them both on the mate bond. After having sex with the two of them, which was amazing. I will go on patrols to make sure she is safe.” I walked back to the hut to retrieve the cup as he called out, “I will later, Vallyn. I shall give you the cup we used to bathe ourselves.” She would have thought him brave to have Axoh reset the bone for him, as Nvaa didn’t make a sound as to not wake her. ![]() She had treated him only with kindness when she knew of his injury. But knowing my Luna now, I knew she would not have seen that as weakness. So he waited until she was asleep before agreeing to having Axoh fix the break. ![]() ![]() Nvaa had asked to please wait until Luna was not near, as he feared to show her any weakness. His arm was almost healed after Axoh had reset the bone for him when we were locked up in Clan Zaali. He nodded and patted my back in understanding. ![]() ![]() Within three decades, a host of theaters like this one would arise in London: the Theater, the Curtain, the Rose, the Swan, and Shakespeare’s own, the Globe. This is the invention of modern theater as we know it: a public space where people pay money to watch a play performed. ![]() In 1567, a man named James Burbage opened a theater in central London called The Red Lion. We ask where did his plays come from and what were the sources of his inspiration? If we can understand something of where Shakespeare came from, then we can better understand the works he created. (Image Jack1956/Public domain) Where Did Shakespeare’s Plays Come From?Īll artistic creation springs from sources, influences, and traditions. ![]() By Marc Connor, Ph.D., Washington and Lee University You’ve likely seen a performance of Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet, but how were Shakespeare’s plays performed back in his own time? Gain an intimate look at the eclectic audiences as well as what the stages physically looked like, getting a sense of what it was like to actually watch one of Shakespeare’s plays as it was performed hundreds of years ago. ![]() ![]() As early as 1903, labor reformer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones organized children working in factories to parade in front of city hall in Kensington, Pennsylvania, with their maimed fingers and hands held high in the air.Īlthough the movement for women’s right to vote began in the latter half of the 19th century, evolving out of women’s activism in and frustration with the abolition (anti-slavery) movement, the first mass demonstrations for suffrage weren’t held until 1911. ![]() women dates back to the turn of the century. The history of mass political actions organized by U.S. “Many women I talk with say they got hooked on being an activist the moment they stepped off a bus and into a crowd of hundreds of thousands of other feminists,” said former NOW President Patricia Ireland. No matter what they are called, perhaps the single most powerful, peaceful way to bring about social change is for people to stand together publicly on behalf of an important cause.įor many women, a mass action like NOW’s 2004 March for Women’s Lives is an unprecedented opportunity to speak out and do grassroots organizing, a celebration of strength and unity, and a defining moment in their lives. Parades, pickets, demonstrations, marches, rallies, protests. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. ![]() At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. ![]() Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Good thing he's also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he'd probably be homeless. Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry. ![]() ![]() Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”įew figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. ![]() An alternate cover edition can be found here. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A funny, knowing novel about how love really does conquer all.Thanks to Lipman's deft touch, the novel rivals her own best work for its understanding of the way smart, opinionated people stumble toward happiness." Glamour She manages to wangle an invitation to join a friend on holiday there-and, as her obsession begins with the family that has excluded her, she sets in motion events that will change her life, and which will tie her forever to the once-restricted inn. We were Jews." For twelve-year-old Natalie, the words are an infuriating, irresistible challenge. It was not complicated, as her mother pointed out. It's 1962 and Natalie Marx is shocked when her mother receives this reply to her inquiry about summer accommodation in Vermont: "Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles." ![]() Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, iBook, Audio.Home / Library / The Inn at Lake Devine The Inn at Lake Devine ![]() ![]() ![]() The focus on empire is not the same, but the willingness to follow a sometimes cruel protagonist is.Īs Traitor dealt with Baru trying to do the right thing from inside the empire, the second novel asks whether that is even possible. Locke lives in a world of corrupt Mafia-esque officials, and is, primarily, fighting against people who would or have done harm to him. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch also asks us to follow a morally dubious protagonist, a Robin Hood-esque rogue who tortures his enemies. (Seth Dickinson refers to Lee in his acknowledgements in Monster.) The series gradually explores his motivation, and the process of him essentially creating a moral philosophy from scratch occupies much of the trilogy. ![]() Shuos Jedao is known for being a renowned general who destroyed his own fleet. ![]() (Her status as a lesbian woman rather narrows the list of comparable candidates.) In a recent example, Yoon Ha Lee’s series Machineries of Empire also features a protagonist who commits atrocity in the name of a greater cause. ![]() Convincingly playing the part, though, requires enabling those techniques the empire uses to spread across the known world.Īs a morally dubious protagonist, Baru is not alone in fantasy fiction. She joins the empire of Masks in an effort to take revenge after the empire colonizes her home country, killing and brainwashing the people she loves. Baru herself is a math prodigy, skilled in manipulated finances and systems. 30, follows 2015’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant. ![]() ![]() From what transpires on stage in her “Piano Lesson,” Wilson wrote a play about a young widow and mother, Berniece, who is not only surrounded by testosterone but swept away by it - until the very last moment.īerniece treasures the prized family heirloom of an exquisitely carved piano and wants to keep it where it belongs: in the family’s possession in her living room. If Richardson Jackson saw the dearth of female characters as a problem, her direction turns it into a major flaw. ![]() On the topic of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play’s only lead female character, Richardson Jackson says, “Berniece is surrounded by all of this testosterone.” The director goes on to reveal that after seeing the first production of the play, at Yale in 1987, she asked the playwright, “Where are all the women? Where are all the parts for women?” Take LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s interview last week in the New York Times regarding her direction of the first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. ![]() Sometimes it’s not a great idea for artists to speak to the press on the eve of an opening. ![]() ![]() I had cleaned the fish, three small snapper, and I was making the avgolemono, the lemon and egg sauce. The kitchen faced the beach with an unobstructed view of the endless sea, which at that moment was just a grey blur behind the film of condensation. I was boiling the vegetables, and steam covered the window above the sink. Olsson expertly interweaves scenes from Marion's past with her quest to save Ika from his own tragic childhood, and renders with reflective tenderness the fragility of memory and the healing power of the heart. Perhaps she'll be able to find forgiveness for the little girl that was her. Perhaps if she can create order from the chaos, her memories will be easier to carry. Seized by a sudden urgency to make sense of her past, she examines each image one-by-one: her grandfather, her mother, her brother, her lover. ![]() But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force Marion to open the Pandora's box of her memory. Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. ![]() Here is Olsson doing what she does best: illuminating the terrain of friendship and examining the many forms that love can take. ![]() Fans of Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave's Little Bee will be thrilled to read Linda Olsson's third novel. From the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemption. ![]() |