![]() ![]() ![]() Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the making-and unmaking-of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mining ship logs, records, and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Sowande Mustakeems groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Expanding the gaze even more widely, the book centers on how the oceanic transport of human cargoes-known as the infamous Middle Passage-comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But his career took off with “Raise the Titanic!,” which helped establish his adventurous nature with a blend of big, broad supervillains, beautiful women and advanced technology. He’d land on the New York Times best-seller list over 20 times on the backs of those stories with more than 100 million copies of his books sold.īorn in Aurora, Illinois and raised in Alhambra, California, Cussler began his literary career in 1965 with the books “The Mediterranean Caper” and “Iceberg,” the first two Dirk Pitt books. As in that story, many of his novels revolved around the adventures of Dirk Pitt through the desert, the Mayan jungle, through undersea kingdoms and more. Also Read: Ben Cooper, Western Star of 'Johnny Guitar' and 'Bonanza,' Dies at 86Ĭussler’s novel “Sahara” was adapted into a 2005 film starring Matthew McConaughey that grossed $119 million worldwide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One night, a swarm of escaped bees blanket the Village Blend's chimney, and Clare discovers Bea's unconscious body after she seemingly fell from her high-rise rooftop-hive setup. Produced by Madame's old friend Queen Bea Hastings, the rare, prize-winning nectar from Bea's rooftop hives commands a premium price, and top chefs compete for a chance to use it in their signature seasonal dishes. ![]() The culinary world is also abuzz about the amazing honey that Clare was lucky enough to source for her shop's new latte. Clare plans to serve her outstanding new Honey-Cinnamon Latte at her spring wedding to her longtime honey, NYPD Detective Mike Quinn. While struggling to find a romantic (and affordable) destination for her upcoming honeymoon, coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi whips up a honey of a drink made from honey-processed coffee. Clare Cosi is busy as a bee planning her honeymoon when murder buzzes into the Village Blend in this all-new mystery in the beloved New York Times bestselling Coffeehouse series by Cleo Coyle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will lay her bare as no portraitist has done before. Then there is Cad, the handsome second son whose reputation is impeccable in business, but scandalous in everything else.ĭrawn by friendship, ensnared by lust, Dita uncovers a sordid tangle of murder, desire and madness. There is Tynan, the kindly Earl, Lucia, his capable wife, handsome, volatile Eddie and sweet, sheltered sister Eleanor. ![]() Dita struggles to decipher the Jago family. The fresh-hewn stone, however, cannot absorb the blood of centuries or quiet the echoes of past crimes. On the grim Cornish coast, from the ashes of a ruined castle rises the Jagos’ sumptuous new manor house. As deceptions go, it is innocent compared with what is to come. The charade is a favor to Dita’s best friend, Eddie Jago, a dissolute painter, and the aforementioned heir. But now she’s not so much striking a pose as playing a role, as fiancée to the next Earl of Athal. In the artistic circles of 1860s Paris she is known as the Divine Dita, Montmartre’s most sought-after nude model. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Detroit News "City leaders began a last-ditch attempt Wednesday to stave off an emergency manager for the state's largest city a day after a review team unanimously found a financial crisis exists and urged Gov. ![]() It amounts to a stance, from which may be inferred your electoral leanings, your racial politics, your union sympathies and the general sunniness of your disposition. This opinion expresses no mere preference. The New York Times "Detroit is one of those taxing places that require you to have an opinion about them. Matthew Baptist Church in Detroit, president of the Detroit chapter of the Rainbow-Push Coalition. ![]() This hour, On Point: we’re reading the bones of Detroit.Ĭharlie LeDuff, Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, author of " Detroit: An American Autopsy." ( Alexander Bullock, Reverend at the Greater St. Detroiter, preacher, David Alexander Bullock says Motown is coming back. A gutted, ghostly skeleton of its once-proud self, where people talk about turning city neighborhoods into pastureland.ĭetroiter Charlie LeDuff says don’t laugh. ![]() It’s got three times the poverty rate of the country. America’s Motor City has had a long bust. Their big new list is out, and the 2013 title of “Most Miserable City in America” goes to … Detroit. 24, 2012, photo shows an empty field north of Detroit's downtown. Facebook Email This article is more than 10 years old.įorbes Magazine calls Detroit “America’s Most Miserable City.” What do you do with a city like that? We're asking Detroiter Charlie LeDuff. ![]() ![]() Dirk Struan vowed to someday destroy Brock. Under the command of Tyler Brock, third mate and future nemesis, Dirk Struan was whipped mercilessly. ![]() By the end of this year, he found service on the East India Company merchant ship Vagrant Star to China. In 1805, at the age of seven, Dirk Struan began his nautical adventures as a powder monkey on a King's ship at the Battle of Trafalgar and he remains bound to the sea for life. Clavell translates tai-pan as "Supreme Leader" although "Big Shot" might be more accurate. Struan is referred to throughout the novel as the Struan & Company, the greatest private trading company in nineteenth-century Asia. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, both men seek to destroy each other in matters of business and personal affairs. Their rocky and often abusive relationship as seamen initiated an intense amount of competitive tension. ![]() Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large natural harbour that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded in mainland China, a highly lucrative market.Īlthough the novel features many characters, it is Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock, former shipmates and the owners of two massive (fictional) trading companies who are the main focal points of the story. The novel begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. ![]() ![]() I laughed and felt sorry for more than one of the characters. There were some parts that I nodded along with the book remembering things from when I was highschool. ![]() It was a little slow to start, but once I got used to the format and got into the story I couldn’t put it down. It was kind of nice to get into a guy’s mind for a little while. The story is told from happyface’s point of view. It wouldn’t have been the same without it. Once I got into the book the format worked well and really added to the story. It’s written in journal style with hand drawn pictures, notes, and emails/IM conversations. When I first opened the book I didn’t think I would like it at all and I was only going to read it for my dh’s benefit. ![]() I bought this book because my husband begged me to. With a fresh and funny combination of text and fully integrated art, Happyface is an original storytelling experience. ![]() Join him as he makes new friends, tries to hide from his past, and ultimately learns to face the world with a genuine smile. See the world through his hilariously self-deprecating eyes as he learns to shed his comic-book-loving, computer-game playing ways. Enter Happyface’s journal and get a peek into the life of a shy, artistic boy who decides to reinvent himself as a happy-go-lucky guy after he moves to a new town. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Who seems to be the most dishonest, villainous character in the novel? Wick Cutter Who accompanied Jim on his first trip to Nebraska? What was their relationship? Jake Marpole, who was a farmhand on his father's farm. He was buried at a crossroads, and the roads curved around his grave due to Mr. ![]() ![]() What location did Jim and Antonia choose to have a last conversation before he went to Harvard? Mr. This way he outlived her and the money went to his family. What extreme measure did Wick Cutter take to prevent his wife from inheriting his money? He shot his wife in bed, fired a shot out a window to ensure that there would be a witness, then shot himself. Shimerda's mother was displeased and disowned him. What did Antonia tell Jim about the circumstances of her parents' marriage? Her father was a high member of society, an educated weaver and wealthy musician, but her mother, a poor servant girl, became pregnant with his child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite being in the same city, the two sisters don’t see each other very much, until they do their lives collide, two halves of a whole, brought together by illness and need and love. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives. ![]() ![]() One has cancer, the other has health insurance, so they swap identities based on the oldest gag in the racism. She’s also living in a neighborhood in Brooklyn of which few people have even heard (what’s up, Windsor Terrace), has a toxic fuck-buddy for a roommate, and an eating disorder. Choi is a writer for The New York Times, GQ, Wired, and The Atlantic. Yolk is about two twenty-something Korean sisters in New York Jayne and June. Jayne is still in college - design school, though she isn’t designing much, other than her own life. June, the older sister, ostensibly has it more together: Still in her early 20s, she has a high-paying job in finance and lives in a shiny, new construction high-rise in Manhattan she also has cancer. Both live in New York, both inhabit the tenuous realities of recent transplants to the city, and both have illnesses they are hiding but that’s where the similarities end - and even within those similarities are countless differences. At the time, Choi was working on her new novel, Yolk, a story of two sisters - Jayne and June - who are orbiting opposites of one another. ![]() |