![]() ![]() Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. ![]() Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and-after his murder-three more with his protégé. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well incest and assassination were family specialties. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She was married twice, each time to a brother. ![]() Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. ![]() They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. When it fails, they’re gone.” In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. “They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate,” Carlson writes, “as something outdated they can profit from. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. The people who run America now barely interact with it. ![]() You’re trapped on a ship of fools.” -From the Introduction In Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, Tucker Carlson tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The popular FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers his signature fearless and funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans.“You look on in horror, helpless and desperate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and maybe Hud-because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva. ![]() Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer and their adored baby sister, Kit. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers met Xander’sįather in “The Final Gambit”, but only discovered the names of the other three. The story will follow the brothers and Avery on new adventures, where we will find out moreĪbout the brother’s fathers that were scarcely mentioned in the series. However, Barnes recently announced a new book that continues the hit series! The book is titled “The Brothers Hawthorne” and will be available on August 29, 2023. The fabulous new cover for “The Brothers Hawthorne” has been revealed.įollowing the weeks of the release of “The Final Gambit” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, we were allĭeeply saddened to say goodbye to Avery, the Hawthorne Brothers, and their crazy adventures. ![]() ![]() Barnes’ hit series comes with a new announcement, while more beloved titles sharing the spotlight with “The Inheritance Games” receive on-screen adaptations. ![]() ![]() ![]() With everything Evie believes suddenly called into question, the IPCA is attacked and she must choose who she can really trust.And when Evie discovers she's part of a faerie prophecy of death and destruction. ![]() But someone - or something - starts killing vampires, werewolves and other paranormals, and Evie must figure out what's happening before they all disappear.Then a shapeshifter named Lend breaks into the Agency, and Evie is irresistibly drawn to him, even though he makes her aware that the IPCA is not as noble as she once thought. She also co-wrote In the Shadows with Jim Di Bartolo. In a world where paranormals are monitored and controlled, Evie works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency because of her unique ability to see through glamours. Kiersten White is an author of fantasy books including And I Darken, Now I Rise, the Paranormalcy trilogy, Mind Games, Perfect Lies, The Chaos of Stars, and Illusions of Fate. ![]() This exciting author brings a fresh sassy take on paranormal romance, loved by Becca Fitzpatrick, author of HUSH, HUSH.Sixteen-year-old Evie has always taken comfort in the fact that she is a normal human, even though her best friend is a mermaid and her ex-boyfriend is a lunatic - and a faery. When your world is paranormal, be glad that you're human. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation." These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. ![]() "It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. ![]() ![]() In this “eloquent understanding of how death is viewed through many spiritual traditions” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review), Bart Ehrman recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. But eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. What happens when we die? A recent Pew Research poll showed that 72% of Americans believe in a literal heaven and 58% believe in a literal hell. ![]() A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from and why do they endure? ![]() ![]() ![]() Other common forms of an include shiroan ( 白餡, "white bean paste"), made from navy or other white beans, green beans and kurian ( 栗餡), made from chestnuts. Strictly speaking, the term an can refer to almost any sweet, edible, mashed paste, although without qualifiers red beans are assumed, while azukian ( 小豆餡) refers specifically to the paste made with red beans. In Japanese, a number of names are used to refer to red bean paste these include an ( 餡), anko ( 餡子) and ogura ( 小倉). It is also possible to remove the husk by sieving after cooking, but before sweetening, resulting in a red paste that is smoother and more homogeneous. ![]() In Korean cuisine, the adzuki beans (often the black variety) can also be husked prior to cooking, resulting in a white paste. The color of the paste is usually dark red, which comes from the husk of the beans. At this stage, the paste can be sweetened or left as it is. The paste is prepared by boiling the beans, then mashing or grinding them. Red bean paste ( traditional Chinese: 豆沙/紅豆沙 simplified Chinese: 豆沙/红豆沙 Japanese: 餡こ or 小豆餡 Korean: 팥소) or red bean jam, also called adzuki bean paste or anko (a Japanese word), is a paste made of red beans (also called "adzuki beans"), used in East Asian cuisine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mohanty isĪ member of the Executive Board of Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina,Īnd of Awareness, Orissa, India. Women in Culture and Societv, and of the British journal Gender. She is a member of the editorial collective of CulturalĬritique, of the national advisory board of Signs. Democraticįutures (Routledge, 1997), and is currently working on a book entitledįeminism Without Borders: Multiculturalism. Press, 1991), and Feminist Genealogies Colonial Legacies. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University ![]() Into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Theory, cultural studies, and antiracist education, and has been translated Her work focuses on transnational feminist Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and Core Faculty at the Union Institute Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Associate Professor of Women's ![]() ![]() The children and parents are colourful and complex characters and Anne Patchett is especially good at describing the bonds between the kids, and how these change as they get older. ‘Commonwealth’ is a story about the coming together of two families, living between LA and Virginia. ![]() ![]() He knew all of this but as the drinks stacked up he told himself there were larger forces at work.’ ‘He knew that making a move on a married woman was a bad idea, especially when you were in the woman's house and her husband was also in the house and the husband was a cop and the party was a celebration of the birth of the cop's second child. He is taken aback by the beautiful Beverly Keating and enjoys a secret kiss with her - which sets off the chain of events detailed by this book over the next five decades. He's only there to escape his home, where there are three small kids and a pregnant wife. ![]() An uninvited lawyer called Bert Cousins turns up and is welcomed because he has a large bottle of gin. ‘Commonwealth’ by Ann Patchett starts during a christening party in LA, at the home of Fix and Beverley Keating. ![]() |