6/30/2023 0 Comments Boccaccio decameron![]() ![]() Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain, beyond which is situate a most fair and delightful plain, which latter cometh so much the pleasanter to them as the greater was the hardship of the ascent and the descent for, like as dolour occupieth the extreme of gladness, even so are miseries determined by imminent joyance. But I would not therefore have this affright you from reading further, as if in the reading you were still to fare among sighs and tears. ![]() Here Beginneth the First Day of the DecameronĪs often, most gracious ladies, as, taking thought in myself, I mind me how very pitiful you are all by nature, so often do I recognize that this present work will, to your thinking, have a grievous and a weariful beginning, inasmuch as the dolorous remembrance of the late pestiferous mortality, which it beareth on its forefront, is universally irksome to all who saw or otherwise knew it. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Storming heaven giardina![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, like countless other families, C.J.'s family is forced off their land.Īcross the border in eastern Kentucky, the Bishop family resides on their farm they call the Homeplace. knows that is not true because his grandfather was literate and could sign his name. J.'s grandfather made his mark on a document signing over the land, but C.J. ![]() When diplomacy fails, C.J.'s grandfather is murdered. Marcum's grandfather, are adamantly opposed to giving away any portion of their land. Rumors circulate that the railroad companies want the mineral rights to the land, and then agents of the railroad appear and begin asking for signatures on documents giving away mineral rights. The agrarian society farms the land and lives season to season. Life in rural southwestern West Virginia is much like it has been for generations. ![]() The novel begins before the arrival of the coal companies. It is a story rarely covered in history books. The novel begins as coal companies move into the region and culminates in the story of a real-life deadly battle between mineworkers and mine owners backed by government. The novel Storming Heaven tells four different narrators' perceptions of events surrounding life in the coal camps of West Virginia in the first two decades of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() To her surprise, she does not immediately die the hero’s death she expected. If the war can never truly end until the Eaters are ended, she will go to Haven, to Azrael himself, and demand he end them. But even as extinction looms, humanity will never surrender to their monstrous conqueror.For Lan, this brutal life has been the only one she’s ever known, but she still believes it can change. Now he rules in the walled city of Haven with his favored Children and his dead court, while all that is left of the living struggles to survive in the ruins of a world that used to be their own. SHE WOULD DARE ANYTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HIS RULE.EVEN HIS BED.He ascended from the darkness years ago-Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death-bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Bomb by Steve Sheinkin![]() ![]() But it’s also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history’s most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. ![]() Sheinkin weaves together the stories of some of the 20th century’s most famous and notorious figures-the ingenious, courageous, and patriotic, as well as the deceitful, ruthless, and calculating-in this gripping novel on the weapons that ended the most destructive war in the history of the world. ![]() Extensively researched, Bomb employs primary sources from declassified FBI files to simultaneously tell of Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, Soviet espionage, and Allied efforts to sabotage Nazi Germany’s ability to develop the bomb first. In Bomb: The Race to Build -And Steal-The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Steve Sheinkin introduces young readers to the many plots and subplots involved in the creation of the world’s first nuclear bomb. ![]() |