![]() ![]() as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the C.S.A. Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested government enlistment and tax and welfare policies and struggled for their freedom. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people-white women and slaves-and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. In this book, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments A promise of fire![]() He expressed his gratitude to the NPP for honoring the promise made to them. Receiving the money on behalf of the traders, a leading member of the Combined Kumasi Kejetia Traders, Nana Prempeh thanked the leadership of the ruling party for the gesture. ![]() ![]() Nana Ama Ampomaa assured the affected traders, the party's commitment to alleviating the effect of the inferno on them. 'A Promise of Fire made me laugh out loud more than once.' Thea Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of the Elder Races series 'Soooo good The characters are wonderfully likeable, the world is unique and full of intrigue, and there's just this deep sense of warmth to the book that I loved and that kept me inhaling the story. "One behalf of the National Chairman and the General Secretary of the party, we are presenting this Ghc100, 000 in fulfillment of a promised made by the party after the fire outbreak," she said. Some media houses in the Ashanti Region began questioning the party's leadership one month after the party failed to honor the pledge.įollowing the resentment in the media space, the NPP on Friday April 28,2023 presented a physical cash of GHS100,000 to the traders.Ī delegation of some Region executives of the NPP led by the Ashanti Regional Women's Organizer for the party, Nana Ama Ampomaa presented the money to the leadership of the traders at the market. ![]() The chief scribe of the elephant party during the donation was a consolation package for victims of the fire incident which affected some 33 shops. The General Secretary for NPP, on March 20,2023, lead a delegation of some national executives of the party to the Kejetia Market and pledged Ghc100,000 to support the traders following a devastating fire outbreak of the facility. The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has fulfilled it's Ghc100, 000 promise made to the victims of the Kejetia New Market fire disaster after several backclash. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Goodreads iron widow![]() ![]() To tame her frightening yet valuable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest male pilot in Huaxia, yet feared and ostracized for killing his father and brothers. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare kind of female pilot who can sacrifice males to power up Chrysalises instead. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. ![]() The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller, now available in a stunning new paperback look with bonus content. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The road to unfreedom book![]() ![]() Using targeted Twitter campaigns, trolls, and bots, Russia manipulated a “leave” vote in the Brexit referendum and later directed its attention to working against Emmanuel Macron in France and Angela Merkel in Germany. For Russia, the EU, which requires that its member countries are democratic and promote human rights, exists as an affront to its “native kleptocracy.” Because “Russian state power could not increase, nor Russian technology close the gap with Europe and America,” writes the author, it sought to gain “relative power” by weakening other nations. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 2017, etc.) argues persuasively that Russia under Putin is aggressively working to destabilize Western nations and export “massive inequality” and “the displacement of policy by propaganda.” Beginning with the strenuous revival of totalitarian thought in 2011, Russia has widened its efforts to attack the EU and to infiltrate American politics by masterminding the election of Donald Trump. ![]() In a hard-hitting analysis of current events, Snyder (History/Yale Univ. ![]() How Russia’s campaign to undermine democracies threatens the European Union and the United States. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Iron and velvet alexis hall![]() Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. ![]() Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. May include "From the library of" labels. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. ![]()
![]() ![]() and a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his backyard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game.įrom Bram Stoker Award finalist Eric LaRocca, this is devastating, beautifully written horror from one of the genre's most cutting-edge voices. ![]() A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones.Ī whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s - a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. If you liked Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, what should you read next Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Incandescent by River Savage![]() Kadence is not a people’s person and she is shy (although sassy and witty too) and would rather stay in and read a book than go out to bars. Kadence Turner had a rough relationship three years ago that left her scarred (literally, she was involved in a fire) and hurt and unable to open up to people, but now she is finally taking control of her life again and facing her future as a new single woman. Five months ago or so I first tried to read a MC book and let me tell you, I’m all in for a bit of alpha male but what I got there was down right caveman behavior and none of the female characters seemed to stand up for themselves! One of the things I liked most about this book was the feisty, witty female character that only let our fabulous male character “manhandle” her when she wanted it. Praise the Lord because I’ve finally found a MC book that I don’t despise, actually, I very much like it. ![]() ![]() A man that wants what he wants and a woman that will fight him every step of the way. The tension is undeniable, the attraction fierce. The bossy biker breaks down her defenses, but unlike the old Kadence, the woman she is today won’t give in without a fight. ![]() Nix is crass, obnoxious and dangerously sexy and for some reason, Kadence can’t seem to hate him for it. ![]() Kadence Turner has no business lusting over a student’s father, especially the president of the Knights Rebels MC. Phoenix ‘Nix’ Knight thought pulling his club out of the illegal shit his Pops got them into was difficult. ![]() ![]() This book contains mature content and may not be suitable for younger readers. Tea and food soon leads to them exploring the city together, and their past, with Fab slowly revealing why she let Likotsi go, and both of them wondering if they can turn this second chance into a happily ever after. Likotsi, hoping to know why she was unceremoniously dumped, agrees. When Likotsi and Fabiola meet again on a stalled subway train months later, Fab asks for just one cup of tea. But her romance had ended in heartbreak, and now, back in NYC again, she's determined to rediscover her joy-so of course she runs into the woman who broke her heart. While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. ![]() Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Bookshop | Barnes & NobleĪlyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series! ![]() Published by Avon Impulse Genres: Contemporary Romance ★★★★½ Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole ![]() ![]() “Time Travel’’ next limns the 20th century scientific revolutions that allowed researchers to ask seriously whether expeditions to the past or future might be possible, beginning in 1905, with Albert Einstein and his discovery that every observer measures his own time, that no two of us share the same moment. That grasp of the future as an undiscovered country gained power, he writes, during the Industrial Revolution, to be expressed by “the first true futurist” - Jules Verne - and then, more powerfully by Wells, until, Gleick argues, “e are all futurists now.” That, in his hands, is a history that begins with Gutenberg’s press, an invention that allowed us to preserve “our cultural memory in something visible, tangible, and shareable.” The creation of a record of experience, Gleick argues, enabled people to see the past as different from the present - and imagine that the future might be more than just a repeat of current experience. ![]() Wells published “The Time Machine’’ in which a traveler, equipped with a device that could carry him through what was just beginning to be called the fourth dimension, explored vast reaches of time.įrom there Gleick examines what he terms the discovery of the future. The book follows a loosely chronological approach, beginning at the moment when, Gleick argues, the concept of time travel first entered the popular imagination. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Pro by Katha Pollitt![]() Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. ![]() Wade ruling, "Abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. Produktbeschreibung A New York Times Book Review Notable Book From noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. ![]() |