![]() ![]() ![]() At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn't abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. ![]() A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). ![]()
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![]() Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm.įirst a little note: Unfortunately, book 1 isn't available on Audible. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Not Dead Enough and Dead Man's Footsteps. But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it’s not just revenge – it’s entertainment.Īlthough the Roy Grace novels can be listened to in any order, Looking Good Dead is the second gripping title in the bestselling series. Learning that Tom has made a statement to Grace’s team, the killers have to act. But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder. ![]() When a young woman’s body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate.Įlsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing – return it to its owner. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness in Looking Good Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James. ![]() ![]() ![]() from both of leigh’s heroines (old and new) being shoehorned into a maternal role that fits neither of them, to nina’s rushed romance with hanne and the way leigh handled zoya’s suli heritage. Or watch a nation fall.ĮDIT: after a couple of hours of sleep there’s honestly so much more i could talk about. Together they must find a way to forge a future in the darkness. But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart. Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. ![]() ![]() Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. ![]() She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king's gift for the impossible. As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm-and even the monster within-to win this fight. The wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant #1 New York Times-bestselling King of Scars Duology. The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series! ![]() ![]() ![]() It also runs Canadian kids channels, has a significant AVOD YouTube business and sells content and merchandize.Ī New Zealand comedy about a Jewish ‘spinster’ has sold to ITVX, Canada’s CBC and Israel’s Hot. WildBrain owns properties such as Teletubbies, Peanuts and Degrassi and produces shows titles as The Snoopy Show, Sonic Prime, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City and Carmen Sandiego from its studio in Vancouver. Jim Fielding, WildBrain’s Chief Marketing and Brands Officer, has been appointed Strategic Advisor to Scherba and the board of directors. Industry veteran Ellenbogen has been Vice Chair and CEO since August 2019. The long-serving Scherba was been President since 2018 but joined the company on its founding in 2006, then it was known as DHX Media. ![]() ![]() Josh Scherba has been named President CEO of Canadian kids firm WildBrain, as Eric Ellenbogen steps down. 'The Pot Au Feu' Review: Tràn Anh Hùng's Tasty Cordon Bleu Romance Is Not So Filling - Cannes Film Festival ![]() ![]() The series was produced throughout its run by Bill Sellars. ![]() Herriot's wife, Helen (based on Joan Wight), was initially played by Carol Drinkwater and in the latter series by Lynda Bellingham. Set in the Yorkshire Dales and beginning in the mid-1930s, it stars Christopher Timothy as Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon (based on Donald Sinclair), the proprietor of the Skeldale House surgery, and Peter Davison as Siegfried's "little brother", Tristan (based on Brian Sinclair). The title aired over seven series, totalling 90 episodes, from 1978 to 1990. All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series made by the BBC and based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course he has had a crush on Alyssa forever. He talks about guns and relates trying to get a girlfriend with deer hunting. The next door neighbor, Kelton, is the son of a prepper.She is constantly putting herself and others in horrible situations. Then she never makes a choice that makes sense. The main character, Alyssa, is so naive and stupid even though the beginning talked about her logical powers of deduction and how everyone thinks she should be a lawyer.So I thought I would share some of the many things I hated (spoilers aboard!): ![]() Add in implausibility central and a slow, pointless plot and it gets even more irksome. But the characters’ tone and voices were kinda annoying from the start. I love dad Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series so far and was expecting to love this too. But of course I have a challenge to win (and didn’t have anything else to listen to). ![]() I listened to the audio book and had some problems with it from the very beginning. Unfortunately I be in the minority with this one. So I have been meaning to read this one for a while. Water rights issues are very serious and complex and I find them weirdly fascinating. Dry is a book about water shortages in California and the consequences of long term drought. Challenge three was Angle of attack: a book about a problem facing society. Ahoy there me mateys! This here be the third book in my Scallywagathon 2019 Challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A healthy dollop of magic makes everything all the more interesting. ![]() An enthralling and wholly original novel, The Silver Blade is a must-read for a new generation.' - Amanda Craig THE TIMES 'An absorbing historical thriller, dark-edged and awash with atmosphere and intrigue. It is by far the best British book for children I have read this year.' - Amanda Craig THE TIMES 'This rich, suspenseful and moving tale combines lyricism with pace, and the ending of each section is a surprise, a cliffhanger, or a flourish that will inspire admiration' - Nicolette Jones THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Fast-moving, action packed page-turner' THE BOOKSELLER 'The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the French Revolution, which Sally Gardner portrayed so brilliantly in The Red Necklace are moved on a stage in this equally vivid and richly imagined sequel' LOVEREADING4KIDS 'Gardner occupies a unique place in children's literature, which The Silver Blade assures. No reader, old or young, could resist its passion, told in crystalline prose and peopled with characters as engaging as the dwarf Tetu, bear-like Didier and the venal Mr Tull. 'With its reversals, surprises, scholarship and dramatic details of an era so soaked in blood that the Seine ran red, The Silver Blade is historical fiction at its height. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'The most original and illuminating study of the subject' New Yorker 'A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves' Washington Post ![]() 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Second World War has officially ended, but the streets are still a battleground - for food, for shelter, for protection. After The Nazis took my parents I was scared After They killed my best friend I was angry After They ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all Haunting. THE I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda.Īfter is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. ![]() ONCE I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood. Sometimes facing the past is the bravest act of all. Now is the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I escaped from am orphanage to find Mum and Dad. ![]() Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There are emergency generators-just hang on.” “A hospital blackout? Is it even storming?” Patrick, Travis, and Carter’s voices all trampled over each other. ![]() There was a stunned silence for about half a second, then there were shouts of alarm, emergency beeping, and muted conversations echoing through the halls of the hospital. There was a great loud whine, and then the entire room went dark. Brilliant white energy bolts disappeared into the metal, magnetic plates. Literal lightning sparks flew off my palms and fingertips as my hands came away from the sides of the machine. Something that I knew I couldn’t have imagined. I slapped my hands against the sides of the tube. “No way…did Marley break the MRI machine?” I recognized this one as Trav’s, on the verge of laughter. Two new pairs of feet came into the room, and a collection of masculine voices talked over one another. It just stopped.” Carter sounded frazzled, which, being a doctor, was rare for him. Then came the muffled voices of my brother and his boyfriend. Even the initial whirring went totally silent. The loudest bang echoed throughout the tight chamber and even though I knew I wasn’t supposed to move, I couldn’t help but flinch. ![]() To celebrate its release, I had this beautiful character art done by Quinnasauras!Īnd enjoy this small excerpt of one of my favorite scenes. ![]() |