![]() At the age of 33, Dumas was shot and killed by a New York City Transit policeman in a case of mistaken identity.Įugene Redmond, a fellow teacher at Southern Illinois University, helped to make Dumas’s work available posthumous collections of Dumas’s poetry include Play Ebony, Play Ivory (1974) and Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas (1989). Identified with the Black Power movement during his lifetime, Dumas was also active in the civil rights movement. He and his wife, Loretta Ponton, had two sons. Dumas attended Rutgers University and worked for a year at IBM, then left the company to teach and direct language workshops at Southern Illinois University. He attended City College in New York before joining the Air Force he was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, and on the Arabian Peninsula. ![]() Before that happened, however, he had written some of the most beautiful, moving and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read.”įiction writer and poet Henry Dumas was born in Arkansas, but moved to Harlem when he was 10. Circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear. ![]() ![]() A transit cop shot him in the chest and killed him. ![]() “In 1968, a young Black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station. ![]()
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![]() Lay the foundation now-whether you’ve met your future spouse or not-for a lifelong romance. But somewhere in the midst of the endless cycle of temporary romances, my dreams had shattered.” How can I find a love worth waiting for? ![]() “I had dreamed of a perfect love story for my entire life. This new edition includes an extra chapter from Leslie Ludy about the surprises of life after marriage! ![]() When God Writes Your Love Story shows that God's way to true love brings fulfillment and romance in its purest, richest, and most satisfying form. In their most popular book, bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge singles to take a fresh approach to relationships in a culture where love has been replaced by cheap sensual passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this way, she could study how the ant mound affected the soil, roots and wildlife both above and below the mound. Whenever she came across an ant mound, she took out her spade and dug a deep hole right next to the ant mound. This is a small ant that builds its nest from mineral soil on heathlands. And mounds belonging to the yellow meadow ant. However, instead of pine needles, narrow-headed ants use leaves from heather and grass. Those belonging to the narrow-headed ant, which look almost identical to the ant mounds you see in Danish forests. The heat and the nutrients create unique conditions that allow certain plant species that don't otherwise thrive on heathland to thrive on the ant mound," she says.Įquipped with a spade, Rikke Reisner Hansen went to the heath to study the role of ant mounds in heathland wildlife. The ant mound moreover warms up the surrounding ground, and in springtime, adders, lizards and beetles like to rest near ant mounds for warmth. "The ants drag dead animals back to the ant mound, and this adds carbon and other important nutrients to the surrounding soil. With colleagues from the Department of Ecoscience at Aarhus University, Rikke Reisner Hansen has studied ant mounds on Danish heathlands to discover their importance for other insects and for plants. But perhaps we should leave the ants be? Because they are hugely beneficial for biodiversity, a new study shows. Most garden owners will therefore do everything they can to get rid of ant colonies in their garden. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the people of Chicago assemble in various parts of the city to read and discuss To Kill a Mockingbird, there is no greater honor the novel could receive. Harper Lee wrote the following to CPL upon our selection of the book: ![]() ![]() More than 60 cities have read To Kill a Mockingbird, and it remains the most popular title chosen for “One Book, One City” programs across the country. The selection of Mockingbird by the Chicago Public Library was the impetus for many cities to create “One Book, One City” programs. Lectures, film screenings and a mock trial with local attorneys and news personalities drew enthusiastic crowds. Discussions were held in branch locations as well as many Starbucks stores. During One Book, One Chicago’s first program in fall 2001, Mockingbird was borrowed by over 6,500 library patrons, including the circulation of 350 foreign language copies. ![]() ![]() First I've read by this author but it definitely won't be the last one. The discussion about signing versus lip reading, and the actual school for these children evoked great emotions. I really grew attached to the characters. The exhibits are fascinating and descriptions of an actual fire from the Fair, is expertly portrayed. The relationship between the characters is wonderfully portrayed, but the descriptions of the Fair and specific events from real history, puts this book over for top for an excellent read. Author of The Measure of a Lady, A bride most begrudging, Deep in the heart of trouble, Tiffany girl, It happened at the fair, Courting Trouble, Fair play, A bride in the bargain. Though they both see this as only a business relationship, they find each other to be increasingly great company. When Cullen's increasing hearing loss gets in the way of speaking to customers, he hires Della to teach him to lip read. The whole school has been transported to the Fair for exhibiting the children learning to lip read. Della Wentworth is a teacher for deaf children. His father gambles his farm on Cullen's ability to sell his product at the fair. He's created an automatic sprinkler system for putting out fires. North Carolina farmer, Cullen McNamara, is highly allergic to his cotton fields but he's also a talented inventor. While much of the rest of the country is facing bank shutdowns and lost mortgages, everything new and extravagant is happening at the Fair. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's 1893, and the Chicago World's Fair is hugely popular. ![]() ![]() ![]() He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. ![]() ![]() Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. ![]() ![]() ![]() So we're seeing a woman's take on a man's take of a possible femme fatale. But it's worth pointing out that although the narrator is a man, the author of the book is a woman. This is either the most obvious black widow plot imaginable or something else is going on. She also makes a peculiar medicinal tea, and every time he drinks it he gets unaccountably weak. Cousin Rachel is vivacious, attentive and amusing. She comes to the estate he's about to inherit. Philip hasn't met Rachel, but he knows she's a monster. The book is narrated by a callow 24-year-old Englishman named Philip who comes to believe that his wealthy guardian and cousin Ambrose was murdered by Ambrose's new wife, who also happens to be a cousin, a very distant cousin named Rachel. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel "My Cousin Rachel" is very sly. ![]() Another novel of hers that became a film was "My Cousin Rachel," first in 1952 with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton, and now with Rachel Weisz as the title character, a widow who might have designs on a fortune. ![]() The English author Daphne Du Maurier is most famous for her 1938 novel "Rebecca," which was turned into an Oscar-winning film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ![]() ![]() You can see that decline on Google Earth or with Google Street View. ![]() He covers the other aspects of Detroit’s crash and burn, the racial divide, the departure of the white population and the city’s shift to an overwhelming black majority, the crazy politics, the lousy schools, the crime statistics and, of course, the tumbling population. Mark grew up in Detroit, so he’s not a quick-glance visitor grooving on the city’s ‘ruins porn.’ His book traces the rise and fall of the industry that created Detroit – this is where Henry Ford created the assembly line and mass production, Detroit was the Motor City well before it had its Motown music heyday and later on its period as a pioneer of punk and a birthplace of techno. There’s a great line about using Detroit as a movie set, because it was ‘after all, not merely a set designed to resemble a ruined American city but an actual ruined American city.’ Mark has written for Rolling Stone and indeed this reads like a Rolling Stone page turner, a tale of alternate shock and awe. I’ve just read Mark Binelli’s superb book about the decline and fall – and perhaps rebirth – of Detroit. ![]() Detroit – a place to be on its last days? Thursday, 4 July 2013 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Matthew 16:15–20: He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:27–30: All things have been delivered to me by my Father and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu-el. Isaiah 7:14: Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Genesis 3:15: I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 2:7: then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. ![]() Most Highlighted Verses in Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All orders ship via UPS Mail Innovations. ![]() This may include stickers on cover, wear to dustcover/missing dustcover, inside cover, spine, some highlighting or writing in book, slight curled corners, stains, and wear to the fore edge. Notes: Condition Good: Comment: Book is used and in good condition with some wear from use. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials.Ī Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History (Trade paperback) Pub. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Date: ĭescription: All pages and cover are intact. A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History (Paperback) Pub. ![]() |