![]() ![]() But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn.įour months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. ![]() The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So the next time you are at your local DVD store and you feel like renting out the next Hollywood teen comedy, do yourself a favour - rent this instead! In conclusion, HAA was a very funny teen flick and should be given a chance. It was good to see him in a bigger role as I have only seen him previously as a recurring character in 'Neighbours.' The screen is very nearly stolen by the teachers who are absolutely hilarious. Alex Cappelli was also good as the resident bad boy. Delta was really underrated as the titular character giving an understated performance as the so-called 'perfect' Alison Ashley of Erica's mind. Very talented and lit up the screen with her witty acting of the over-dramatic, kooky teen. Saskia Burmeister was nothing short of charming in her role as Erica Yurken. Giving unknown actors a chance in a low-budget flick that steered away from most of the clichés of the Hollywood teen film. It was a refreshing change from the usual teen fare, and it was to nice to see actors who weren't the usual tanned bimbos playing the lead in a film. Not a classic teen film by any means, but a really enjoyable way to spend your time. Well I heard a lot about this film, "Delta was wooden" and "Saskia was annoying" but after watching the film, I was pleasantly surprised. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that antitrust law required Standard Oil to be broken into smaller, independent companies. Hallstrom’s directorial credits include “My Life as a Dog” and “Cider House Rules.” Today a barrel of oil is abbreviated “bbl,” with the first “b” standing for “blue.” So Rockefeller shipped his oil in distinctive blue barrels. Rockefeller’s influence on the oil industry is felt every day.įor example, he wanted to make sure Standard Oil customers knew they were getting 42 gallon in a barrel of oil. Relativity’s Tucker Tooley and production president Robbie Brenner are overseeing the project.īrenner and Rachel Winter produced “Dallas Buyers Club.” He later became America’s greatest philanthropist. Rockefeller is considered the richest person in history, with an estimated net worth when he was alive of $660 billion in 2007 USD equivalent. ![]() ![]() ![]() but this time the cost might be more than she can afford. Parker will do anything to keep her secret from surfacing. ![]() If being a perfect daughter, student, friend and girlfriend couldn't keep her from making an unforgivable mistake, Parker hopes becoming a perfect mess will at least keep her loved ones from discovering the truth-until the arrival of a curious new student and the unexpected return of an old enemy threaten her tenuous grip on control. A terrible thing has happened and only Parker knows it's her fault. Available now: I'M THE GIRL, the new "brutally captivating" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller from Courtney Summers, based loosely on The Epstein case and "not for the faint of heart" ( The New York Times) A reissue of New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers's award-winning debut! The high price of perfection is one 'Perfect' Parker Fadley always believed she was willing to pay until the devastating events at a party during junior year fractures the lives of her family and friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() however, im currently reading his book right now and wtf SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF THIS MESS. who would've thought huh? certainly not this bishh. ![]() poor Adamo.Īlso me actually liking Savio? for once? wooow. i mean, he did some things that kinda, high key annoyed me but still. but Kiara being a mother/older sister figure to both of them and baking them cookies and her banter with Savio?Īnd i ai don't care what i need to do but my bb needs protection asap. Ok gotta be honest, i liked Adamo and Kiara's relationship more in twisted emotions just cuz Adamo teaching Kiara how to play video games and being such a softie to her will forever stay in my heart but they were still very cute here tho!! i. In the first half, it's just pov of Nino and Kiara during twisted pride and then the last half is just them being a big family, Kiara and Nino trying to get pregnant, Adamo struggling from his torture, and drama with the Falcone bros' estranged, evil mother. ![]() Okay nothing really happened here but also a lot of things happened? it was just chaotic goodness and i was living for it. But can i please be adopted into the Falcone family?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can they overcome their fears and realise that sometimes opposites really do attract? Carlos is sure that Kiara thinks she's too good for him, which is just fine because he's not interested anyway, right? But when they finally open up to each other, the connection they feel shocks them both. And when Carlos bounds into her life she struggles to understand him. ![]() Kiara Westford doesn't talk much instead preferring to shut out the world. Carlos liked his freedom living life on the edge – just like Alex did. The second book in the gripping PERFECT CHEMISTRY series, this is the next addictive read for fans of Anna Todd's AFTER series, and Caroline Kepnes's YOU.Ĭarlos Fuentes isn't happy about leaving Mexico to start the 'new' life his older brother, Alex, has planned for him. From the New York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epic love story like no other. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sentences in these scenes are choppy, rushed, and confusing. Something I noticed when I was thirteen, and even now, is that Gail Carson Levine does not write action and travel scenes well. But now that I’m older, I can see the flaws in her writing that I glossed over in middle school. I hadn’t read a Gail Carson Levine novel in five years, so my fond memories of Ella Enchanted gave me high expectations for Fairest, expectations that for the most part were met. In this masterful novel filled with humour, adventure, romance, and song, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine invites you to join Aza as she discovers how exquisite she truly is. ![]() ![]() Her vocal talents captivate all who hear them, and in Ontio Castle they attract the attention of a handsome prince – and a dangerous new queen. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else has-a magical voice. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. December 21st, 2017 – December 30th, 2017 Rating: Format: ![]() ![]() In a world where hunters - human warriors who possess supernatural abilities - must battle deadly monsters to protect mankind from certain annihilation, a notoriously weak hunter named Sung Jinwoo finds himself in a seemingly endless struggle for survival. ![]() An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures is set to premiere in Q1 2024. Ī role-playing video game is in development at Netmarble. The webtoon has been licensed in English by Yen Press. Its individual chapters have been collected and published by D&C Media into seven volumes as of February 2023. The webtoon's first season concluded on March 19, 2020, and its second season began on August 1, 2020, concluding in December 2021 with its 179th chapter. Ī webtoon adaptation of Solo Leveling was first serialized in KakaoPage on Mait was illustrated by Jang Sung-rak (aka Dubu), the CEO of Redice Studio, who died on July 23, 2022, after suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage. The novel has been licensed in English by Yen Press. It was serialized in Kakao's digital comic and fiction platform KakaoPage beginning on July 25, 2016, and was later published in full by D&C Media under their Papyrus label on November 4, 2016. Solo Leveling, also alternatively translated as Only I Level Up ( Korean: 나 혼자만 레벨업 RR: Na Honjaman Rebeleop), is a South Korean web novel written by Chugong. ![]() ![]() ![]() His other children's novels include a scifi thriller, The Supernaturalist (2004), and Half Moon Investigations (2006), the story of 12-year-old Fletcher Moon, the youngest qualified private detective in the world. The fourth and fifth books in the Artemis series are Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (2005), and Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (2006).Ī film about Artemis is currently being developed.Įoin Colfer has also written a series of books for younger children, about brothers Will and Marty: The Legend of Spud Murphy (2004) The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth (2006) and The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World (2007). This book was followed by two others in the series: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (2002) and Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (2003). He used his love of Irish history and legend in the writing of Artemis Fowl (2001), its eponymous hero being a 12 year old criminal mastermind from North Dublin who holds a leprechaun to ransom. ![]() He then wrote a further children's novel, The Wish List, and a series of books for children aged 6-8 years: Going Potty (1999) Ed's Funny Feet (2000) and Ed's Bed (2001). Its sequel, Benny and Babe, was published in 1999 and shortlisted for the 2000 Bisto Book of the Year Award. ![]() He spent four years in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy, and wrote a children's book, Benny and Omar (1998), drawing on these experiences. He studied in Dublin, returning to Wexford to teach primary school children. Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford, on the south east coast of Ireland, in 1965. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reid confidently addresses the gross and painful racism that manifests in our ostensibly pure personal relationships. Such a Fun Age contributes not to the field of blatant micro aggressions-though these feature prominently in Reid’s narrative and indeed catalyze the sequence of unfolding events-but in the most private of hemispheres, a place where discussions of racism are awkwardly eschewed. ![]() race relations and the (not-so) subtle racial profiling that Black Americans suffer on almost every stratum-from the grocery store to the workplace. Putnam’s Sons, 2019) excels in her believable and heart-wrenching deep-dive into U.S. The result was, as he himself would put it, “hideous.”įor all the reasons Zadok Allen never amounts to anything more than a paper-thin cypher, Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (G. Set aside the fact that the spoiled New Englander was an only child, set aside the racist dogma suffusing his plots, set aside his flagrant classism-“I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them”-the poor guy never quite figured out how to sound like normal people. Every aspiring novelist and storytelling cadet knows that the dialogue exchanges of the magniloquent vocabularian are a classroom example of what not to do. And yet literary history is riddled with examples-the ones who got away with it, the ones who didn’t, and the ones who, either way, remain in the literary canon. ![]() |