You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more, and, Ya, and you will have to move from the Harlem apartment that you two have shared. You claim that you were sick, you claim that you were weak-It was the book! It was the pressure!-and every hour like clockwork you say that you’re so so sorry. You start taking salsa classes like you always swore you would so that the two of you could dance together. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. You claim you’re a sex addict and start attending meetings. You compose a mass e-mail disowning all your sucias. “You try every trick in the book to keep her.
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5/12/2023 0 Comments The Last Season by Eric BlehmThe author provides a minute-by-minute account of this dramatic campaign, and the page never flags. Within a month this small band had assembled a guerilla army that fought its way to Kandahar, the Taliban capital in the south, and forced its surrender-though the mission was marred by a gruesome friendly-fire incident that killed and crippled many team members. In November 2001, helicopters dropped the team inside Taliban-controlled southern Afghanistan where it joined Karzai and his few supporters. Blehm delivers biographies of team members and their leaders as well as the nuts-and-bolts preparation for the mission. With no alternative, American leaders decided to support Hamid Karzai (Afghanistan’s president today), at the time an obscure Pashtun who had returned from exile to gather support. Worse, the population was Pashtun, the majority tribe that refused to accept a government dominated by the non-Pashtun Northern Alliance. Blehm ( The Last Season, 2006) recounts Green Beret exploits in southern Afghanistan where no organized anti-Taliban opposition existed. In Horse Soldiers (2009), Doug Stanton chronicled the soldiers who assisted Northern Alliance forces in crushing the Taliban. Another stirring account of American Special Forces heroics.Īfter 9/11, America could not rush a conventional army into Afghanistan to wreak vengeance on al-Qaeda, so it sent elite Special Forces teams. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Diaz in the distanceHe survives by hunting and foraging during his dangerous trek across the desert, prairie, wilderness, and other terrains. As he participates in incredible adventures in America, he is continually reminded of the tall tales his brother told him. Trying to reunite with his brother is Håkan’s unrealistic vision throughout the story. He has no concept of geography and naively sets out to walk across America to meet up with his brother, whom he assumes made it to NY. Håkan ends up landing in San Francisco with no money. He was supposed to travel to New York with his brother Linus, but they were separated before leaving Europe. Håkan Söderström, born in Sweden, was sent to America as a child in the 1850s. It made him even thirstier but kept him strong.” (p. He clubbed or stoned a couple of birds every day and drank their blood. “Had it not been for the sage hens, he would have died in a matter of days. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Race the wind lauren st johnCecily Brown: Death and the Maid By Phyllis Tuchman.Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time By Rebecca Schiffman.Pierre Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing By David Rhodes.Michael Madrigali: Big City Nights By Barbarita Polster.Germain: Jesus Died for Us, We Will Die for Dudus! By Alicia Gladston THE ÖMEN: Albert Oehlen paintings and Paul McCarthy sculptures By Andrew Paul Woolbright.Elisabeth Kley: A Seat in the Boat of the Sun By Barbara A.Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman: Entanglements By Suzanne Hudson.Angela China: Girl on the Grass By Jessica Holmes.الفكرة ذكرى / A thought is a memory By Sahar Khraibani.Sung Tieu: Infra-Specter By Helena Haimes.Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice By Jason Drill.George Condo: Humanoids By Charles Moore.Aura Rosenberg: What is Psychedelic By Joanna Seifter.Melissa Brown: Windows and Bars By Riad Miah. Man Ray’s Paris Portraits: 1921–1939 By Mary Ann Caws.King Cobra: White Meat By Amber Jamilla Musser.Kyle Dunn: Night Pictures By Amber Jamilla Musser.The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps By Sandra Zalman.A message from Phong Bui Publisher and Artistic Director Art 5/11/2023 0 Comments The blind side book kandiWe put the safeguards in place.īut they say rules are meant to be broken. So, to sweeten the deal, I convince him to help me - not just to get my crush’s attention, but to knock his socks off once I have it.īut the more I come unraveled at the hands of Clay Johnson, the more trouble I have discerning what’s fake and what’s undoubtedly real - particularly, the way my heart flutters every time that breathtaking man touches me. What he doesn’t realize is that this bookworm is a virgin, and far from versed in seducing a musician. And he cooks up this absurd plan.Īll by pretending to be in a relationship. But when he witnesses how I fall to pieces in front of my guitar-toting crush, his wheels start turning. We meet to discuss his behavior and review media relations standards. He used to be the easiest of all the players for me to wrangle as the Public Relations Coordinator, but after a nasty breakup with his high school sweetheart, he’s a mess. There’s hardly a day he’s not headline material during football season, and never a day he isn’t a bullseye target for every girl on campus. The hottest college football safety in the nation just asked me to be his fake girlfriend.Īnd I just asked him to take my virginity.Ĭlay Johnson has the abs of Adonis and the deadly smirk of the devil, himself. Gomez remarks on the value of the interactions with people at the university in his acknowledgements - it is in the storytelling and conversations that many subjects such as this one come to greater life and clarity. Gomez is a professor of history at NYU, a university that offers degree programmes in the study of the African Diaspora. The incredible beauty and creativity of the African Diaspora, combined with its unbelievable suffering and disadvantage, are contradictions awaiting resolution.' Gomez writes of the growth of reconnection between Africa proper and those scattered around the world, stating that, `Given the ongoing impoverishment of many in Africa and the Diaspora, such interrelationships require deeper and more practical meaning if they are to play a significant role in ending the despair. This book has a statement in its epilogue that is among the best I've ever seen as a match between the subject matter and the purpose of the book itself - Michael A. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The lovecraft anthology volume 1He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. He inspires Magic: The Gathering decks (Albary and Albary 103) and influences the depiction of Nightmare and Dream in Bloodborne (2015) (Murray 227) he becomes a fixation for Alan Moore (Lindsay 71) and influences Brazilian horror parody (Reis Filho and Schvarzman 50). Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. This anthology conveys the scope of Lovecrafts influence and reach. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. 1965 - Women of Reform Judaism officially supported decriminalization of homosexuality in the United States of America.1894-1943 - Jiří Langer, an early writer in Modern Hebrew, included homoerotic themes in his work. 1322 CE - The Provençal-Jewish poet Kalonymus ben Kalonymus writes "On Becoming a Woman", expressing lament at and cursing having been born male, referring to their penis as a "defect" Hebrew: מוּם, romanized: mûm), and wishes to have been created as a woman.486 BCE - Darius the Great adopted the Holiness code of the Book of Leviticus for Persian Jews of the Achaemenid Empire, enacting the first state sanctioned death penalty for male same-sex intercourse. This is a timeline of LGBT Jewish history, which consists of events at the intersection of Judaism and queer people. See also: Jewish views on homosexuality, LGBT clergy in Judaism, List of LGBT Jews, Same-sex marriage and Judaism, and Transgender people and religion 5/11/2023 0 Comments Hades and persephone amelia wildeIt was when the river Sion washed up the bells of Persephone that Demeter knew something dreadful had happened to her daughter. Furious that they were unable to protect her daughter, she cursed them with plumed bodies, scaly feet and wings they would now be called The Sirens. When she asked the Nymphs that she had left to watch over her daughter, they had no answer. When Demeter returned, her daughter was nowhere to be found. Upon seeing her friend descend deep into the underworld, she began to cry until she melted into a pool of her own tears form in the river Sion. The nymph Sion had seen the abduction, and she attempted to rescue Persephone, but she was no match for Hades. He grabbed Persephone before she was able to scream for help. From that chasm emerged Hades and his chariot of black horses. When she stooped down to pick the flower, the earth beneath her began to quake, and a gaping chasm soon appeared. Wandering into the garden alone, Persephone saw the narcissus flower and was immediately drawn to its beauty. Knowing that the nymphs would never let Persephone out of their sight, for fear of Demeter’s wrath, Zeus had Gaia plant a narcissus flower in a nearby garden. The next morning, Demeter and her daughter descended upon the earth, and Persephone was left with the nymphs of the sea as her guides and Watchers while her mother tended to the earth. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Billy by Laura RoybalJulie Kline, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, served as the committee chair for the first 3 years of the award and then went on to be the award coordinator for many years. The Américas Award was proposed in 1992 within the Teaching and Outreach Committee of the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. The award is presented annually at a ceremony at the Library of Congress during Hispanic Heritage Month, along with coordinating workshops for teachers. The Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature is literary award presented annually that recognizes high quality "children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use." It was first awarded in 1993 by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP). Children's and young adult book award Américas AwardĮncourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom useĬonsortium of Latin American Studies Programs, coordinated by Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies |