![]() ![]() But if Alisha could have read Gray Eagle's thoughts she would have been even more disturbed.Because from the moment he saw her, the Indian knew he had to possess the fair-skinned one - and his life would not be complete until he had made her his slave! ![]() As the proud Oglala warrior was being tortured by his white captors, only Alsiha seemed to notice he was a human being - handsome and strong, and one who took her breath away. It was like lightning, the first time they looked into each other's eyes: Gray Eagle, the captured Indian brave, and Alisha, the beautiful young settler. ![]() Will he return in time to receive a very special Christmas gift? Kiss of the Christmas Wind (1991) (in Christmas Rendezvous)Īs newlyweds Carrie Sue and Thad Jamison plan their first Christmas together, Thad must leave to track a gang of vicious bank robbers through the Montana wilderness. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Also, the last few minutes of our conversation featured some profanity because the book does. ![]() Please forgive my hoarse voice, as I was getting over a respiratory infection of my own. He was in New York City recently and we met early in the morning at his hotel near the World Trade Center site, so you might hear some construction sounds in the background. His latest book is titled Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. ![]() He also wrote Monster of God about the few animals left that are predators of us. He went on to write the epic Song of Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. " I and many other Quammen fans first met him through his Natural Acts columns in Outside magazine, which are available in a couple of anthologies. The New York Times correctly called Quammen "not just among our best science writers but among our best writers. Quammen: A single spillover that led to the pandemic, led to the pandemic strain of HIV, was from one chimp into one human in the southeastern corner of Cameroon back as far as 1908. Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on November 18th, 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. ![]() The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. ![]() Rights assessment is your responsibility. While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2019, Toll received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum. Toll has also been interviewed on many national and local television and radio programs, including NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, WAMC’s Roundtable, CSPAN’s Book TV, and innumerable commercial radio programs throughout the U.S.A. State Department, and a lecturer at the Naval War College. ![]() ![]() He has served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Treasury Department, the National World War II Museum, and the U.S. Toll is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Conquering Tide, Pacific Crucible, and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. ![]() He has been a regular reviewer for the New York Times Review of Books. Toll has spoken at venues and institutions throughout the United States, including the Pentagon, the U.S. Toll has been widely published in newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. He is the author of several highly-regarded works of military history: Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy, and The Pacific War Trilogy, a three-volume history of the war in the Pacific. He lives with his wife and two-year-old son in San Francisco. Toll is a writer and independent scholar. 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Ian’s mother is deceased leaving Alex to raise his son on his own, which causes a lot of emotional issues for Ian. ![]() The story starts out introducing us to Ian who is a typical teenage boy is living with his father Alex. It is geared toward young adults, mostly male, but I think fantasy fans at any age would enjoy this. Deception Peak wasn’t your typical fantasy being that it had elements of science fiction involved. This novel was part of a monthly read in my group on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator does a nice job of giving voice to people who we can only try to imagine from the words on the page as they share their story of respect, loneliness and community. Steinbeck takes us through the slow motion disaster of a party and builds tension as we wait for Doc to return home to the destruction Mack and the Boys created. They want to express gratitude for Doc and make a mess of things. Mack and the Boys are everywhere and add spice to the community on Cannery Row. Yet he is empty in places that Steinbeck is able to reveal and describe. Doc is the main character, a man with a solid education, job and place in the world of marine biology. They are not people like me, yet they are every part of my life experience. ![]() The story is about respect and how people on Cannery Row have lives devoid of meaning apart from place and time. ![]() Steinbeck builds characters that you fall in love with and then struggle to support as they drift into trouble usually of their own making. ![]() ![]() In 2017, she left Mexico to move to L.A., where Barrera landed breakout roles in the Starz series, Vida, and the movie musical adaptation of In the Heights. ![]() I was like, 'Oh my God, that's incredible! That's what I want to do!' 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Growing up in Monterrey, Mexico, "the TV in the kitchen was always on, and it was always on the telenovela channel," the actress reminisces. ![]() Melissa Barrera was raised on telenovelas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I never understood the Pacific War or its importance in the civil ized world we have today. ![]() Marvelously informative, evenhanded and fair-minded in presentation, logical and thorough with sequence of events, with the major players, of the critical brilliance of some highly responsible men, to the mediocre and sheer stupidity of others: it all comes together in remarkable clarity. From one grossly underinformed and biased I gained a keen sense of the years leading up to the Pacific War (I am too well informed on the European War)and the conflagration the engulfed my father's generation. I rate it as among the 5 best books I have ever read. In terms of a major RETHINK of the past century and my 60 odd years as a member, this book deeply shook up my grasp of the century, and really, part of the 19th century as well. ![]() |