![]() ![]() With this autobiography, it is indisputable that he achieves this goal. Grant and the American Military Tradition, ed. At the time he authored his memoirs in the mid-1880s, Grant was determined in spite of illness to add to the burgeoning historical narrative as a reliable source. For a moving account of this deterioration, see Bruce Catton, U. ![]() Grant's own recollections we find appendices in the form of original correspondences sent and received regarding the Union and Confederate forces. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War. Grant is keen to narrate the experience from his perspective as a junior officer, bringing perspective of both the strategic planning and the tactical maneuvers such conflicts entailed together with the morale of the rank and file ahead of each skirmish. Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Various battles such as Monterrey, and sieges such as Vera Cruz, are recounted in this volume, with Mexico's actions and abilities as an enemy much detailed. Civil War and the author's time as President of the United States. Free shipping on many items Browse your favorite. Grant's memoirs begins with the author's formative years and his military service, continuing through the U.S. Get the best deals on ulysses grant memoirs when you shop the largest online selection at. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Two months later, Lizzie realizes she's pregnant. ![]() Instead, notwithstanding repeated warnings that Anne's little sister, Lizzie, was off limits, Ben and Lizzie finally do the deed that they had been both dying to do, but Ben was too afraid to partake in. The night that Anne and Mal (from Play, Book 2 of the Stage Dive Series) got married, theirs' was not the only life that completely changed. If you have read the prior books, then you will be happy to know that each one of the prior couples continues to play a part in Deep further adding to the complexity of the story line. So don't fret if you haven't yet read some or all of the prior books. First off, it's worth noting that although this is the fourth novel in the Stage Dive Series, it works well as a standalone, as the primary couple's relationship is completely told in this book. ![]() When that hot passionate night of sinful pleasure also happens to be with Lizzie Rollins, Anne's 21 year-old younger sister and now Mal's sister-in-law, Ben Nicholson, the Stage Dive bass player, stirs up all sorts of new turmoil within the band. 4.5 "Off Limits = Bean" Stars! Another fantastic addition to the Stage Dive Series! Once again the Stage Dive Band proves that what happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas. ![]() ![]() ![]() I gave him seven names: Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Mahavira, Shankara, Gorakh and Kabir. He asked me further, “Next, could you give me seven names?” Now the question had become more difficult! This is why Hindus call Krishna a complete incarnation, but not Rama.” Rama has made no original contribution, Krishna has. So I have chosen those twelve people who have made some original contribution. I said: “If I am allowed to choose only twelve many names will have to be cut. Rama’s name was missing! He opened his eyes and said to me: “You have excluded Rama!” Some names, which should naturally be included, were not there. I began to read the expressions appearing and disappearing on his face: it was difficult for him too. ![]() Even in old age a freshness remained on his face - just as it should remain - he had become more and more beautiful. Making a list is not easy, because the Indian sky is filled with so many stars! Who to cut, who to include?… Sumitranandan was a lovely man - extremely soft, extremely sweet - feminine. Sumitranandan Pant closed his eyes and slipped into thought…. ![]() ![]() The great Hindi poet, Sumitranandan Pant, once asked me: who in the vast sky of Indian religion are the twelve people, who in my opinion are the brightest shining stars? I gave him this list: Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Mahavira, Nagarjuna, Shankara, Gorakh, Kabir, Nanak, Meera, Ramakrishna and Krishnamurti. ![]() ![]() Despite Skylar's insistence they are to remain strictly parenting partners, their old passions flare hot as a brush fire, spurring Kade to demand absolute sexual surrender from the headstrong woman. When Skylar refuses to marry him, Kade grits his teeth, moves in and plays house by her rules to prove he's a man in for the long haul. Cattle rancher Kade McKay returns home after a year on the range, and is knocked for a loop when he learns he's the father of a three-month-old baby girl. Since it appears the daddy has taken off for greener pastures, the only thing to do is pull up her bootstraps and carry on alone. So getting tangled up with a sexy Wyoming cowboy-and conceiving a baby in the parking lot of a honky-tonk-wasn't in her plan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rough Riders series Businesswoman Skylar Ellison is firmly in control of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, she did imprison him for all eternity, but come on. Charley Davidson is back! And she’s drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the part-human, part-supermodel son of Satan leading her into some sensual adventure. ![]() When a man hires her to find his wife, Charley accepts the job with one goal in mind: to put the culprit behind the bars. However, he discovers that the woman is alive, but time is running out. With the help of Cookie, Charley prepares to deliver the bad guys to the police. She just hopes that Reyes is not one of them. Third in the award-winning paranormal series that’s hilarious and heartfelt, sexy and surprising. ![]() ![]() Begin stitch pattern, remembering to always slip the first stitch of the row as if you were going to purl it, and knit the last stitch of each row. Row 1: Slip 1 purlwise, K1, *K1P1* to last two stitches, K2 Row 2: Slip 1 purlwise, K1, *P1, K1* to last two stitches, K2 Repeat Rows 1 and 2 twice more for Rows 3-6. Cast on 52 stitches using whatever method you prefer. This will give you a nice, clean edge that will come in handy later. ![]() Pattern Note: The first stitch of each row will be slipped purlwise throughout the pattern, and the last stitch of each row w ill be knit. You will need: US size 8 needles and Caron Simply soft or any similar weight yarn. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bertha is a sweetheart and readers were delighted when she fell in love and got married in the first novel. She’s a fifty-something, plus-size committed Christian woman who became something of a mentor to Ronnie. Second only to Ronnie, readers have loved Bertha. Bertha Dagney is a beloved secondary character from the first novel in this series, Harmful Intent. Of course, they are also her bridal attendants. ![]() Ronnie brings her two BFFs along with her on this trip. I know tulle from organza and particularly enjoyed writing the fitting scenes for the bridal gown and maids’ dresses. I traveled to bridal fairs in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Las Vegas, and of course represented my bridal firm in my home town, New York City. This is right up my alley, as my career before my retirement was in the bridal industry. ![]() Now its patrician director has given her a one-week bridal shopping vacation. In previous novels, Ronnie did some work for the director of a clandestine government organization. It begins with private detective Veronica “Ronnie” Ingels driving to the Heritage Cove Inn in quaint Heritage Cove, nestled in the snowy mountains of Maryland. Of all the novels I’ve written, Blood Speaks is one of my favorites. ![]() ![]() The characters are complicated in interesting ways. ![]() I was expecting something polemical and discovered something far more subtle. As Ozeki writes in her foreword, Ichiro's "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world." This novel was just reprinted last year by U Washington Press, with a foreword by Ruth Ozeki-it's worth getting a copy of the new edition just to read her essay about Okada and about the immediate post-WWII realities of Japanese American life. It was a time when white readers weren't ready to read the truth, and when Japanese-Americans were trying to move on. ![]() No-No Boy was searingly wrong for its time: in 1956 John Okada wrote a novel about a Japanese American man who went to prison instead of fighting for a country that had sent his family to an internment camp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch's day. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Bosch's paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. ![]() ![]() ![]() They want sump’n different!” Crumb gets his own back by portraying Pekar as a kvetch in a vest, scratching himself. ![]() It’s all here in ‘Young Crumb’ and ‘A Fantasy’, the only story reprinted from his first issue: “This’d be a new lease on life f’r you… You’re still pretty popular, but people are gettin’ tired o’ yer stuff. The one artist he couldn’t pull this with was Robert Crumb, already a celebrity, but one who was regularly cajoled into an increasing number of pages every issue based on their 1960s friendship. Although Pekar said otherwise, some artists who worked with him felt obliged to draw exactly what he laid down, irrespective of how a more experienced artist might interpret the material. ![]() This collection samples stories from the first nine issues of American Splendor his annually self-published black and white magazine, originating from between 19.įinancing the work himself, Pekar couldn’t afford to be choosy about who illustrated his stories, although was reportedly very pleased with some who’d make lovers of fine comics art cringe. This was all presented as realistically as possible, but while eventually incalculably influential, for a decade or so Pekar ploughed a unique furrow. Most autobiography inflates, but he took the opposite approach, relentlessly focussing on the mundane, the day to day conversation or overheard quip, and his own frustrated existence. The few autobiographical comics before 1976 were certainly nothing like the material written by Harvey Pekar. ![]() |