![]() WARNING: This book is a DARK/BULLY romance. I might be under their protection, but I'm also at their mercy.Īnd there's nothing a Lord loves more than taking control. Someone who makes the evil I know feel less dangerous than the evil I don't.īut being their Lady is more than just fancy clothes and reputation. There's someone far more dangerous out there who's been stalking me since I left town the first time. Killian, Rath, and Tristian aren't the only ones who want me. ![]() What could bring me back into their lives, their homes, and ultimately, their beds? But I'm still on the run and there's another monster chasing me down. They're more powerful than ever now, having risen to the rank of Lords at Forsyth University. Three years later I'm standing on their doorstep like a stray. While they laughed.īut what happened that night wasn't my biggest secret. ![]() The night everything fell apart, my stepbrother allowed his two best friends to take their rage out on me while he watched. In high school, they knew my secrets and I knew theirs. These three men are a part of my past-one that I'd rather never look in the eye again. ![]() I never claimed to be a good girl, but I definitely never asked for this. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() There’s folklore and storytelling traditions here that are a new experience, and take me places I haven’t been. What sets this collection apart, aside from the fact that Hopkinson is just a really excellent writer, is that she writes from her own Afro-Caribbean heritage, giving us stories that are new, and bringing an entirely different perspective to stories grounded in more familiar material. There’s a reworking of the story of Caliban, and a new Bordertown story. Along with the horror, there’s dark fantasy, lighter, happier fantasy, and even a couple of stories that can fairly be called science fiction. This is a wonderful collection of short stories, and Nalo Hopkinson kept me reading stories that were just straight up horror that I would ordinarily just skip right over. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of their kind is also orphaned, and is taken in by Snub. There are other creatures stalking through the woods - a new form of predator, walking on two legs. and lost in a reshaped world.Snub may feel orphaned, but she is not alone. When a natural disaster shakes up her family, Snub finds herself as the guardian of her young sibling. ![]() Now comes this astonishing story of a family of gorillas' first encounter with a human.īefore humans, and before human history, there were the apes.Snub is a young gorilla, living in the heart of what will eventually be known as Africa. In National Book Award finalist Endangered, Eliot Schrefer showed a human's first encounter with an ape. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mask, which was made from a cast of William Shatner's face, was originally used in the 1975 horror film The Devil's Rain. In the first two films, Michael wears a Captain Kirk mask that is painted white. ![]() Michael Myers is characterized as pure evil, both directly in the films, by the filmmakers who created and developed the character over nine films, and by random participants in a survey. Wilbur, Tyler Mane, and James Jude Courtney are the only actors to have portrayed Michael Myers more than once, with Mane and Courtney being the only actors to do so in consecutive films. Since Castle and Moran put on the mask in the original film, six people have stepped into the same role. The character is the primary antagonist in all films except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which is not connected in continuity to the rest of the films. The character was created by John Carpenter and has appeared in thirteen films, as well as novels, multiple video games, and several comic books. ![]() In the original Halloween, the adult Michael Myers, referred to as The Shape in the closing credits, was portrayed by Nick Castle for most of the film and substituted by Tony Moran in the final scene where Michael's face is revealed. Fifteen years later, he returns home to Haddonfield, Illinois, to murder more teenagers. He first appears in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) as a young boy who murders his elder sister, Judith Myers. ![]() Michael Myers is a fictional character from the Halloween series of slasher films. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something Like Beautiful is the counterpoint bearing witness to the dissolution of that union and its physical and emotional aftermath.Īt its core, though, Something Like Beautiful is, like Rebecca Walker’s One Big Happy Family, an anthology exploring how non-conventional families work. The Prisoner’s Wife tells her seemingly improbable love story (bandele, an up-and-coming literary star, falls for and marries Rashid, a man serving a prison sentence of 20 years-to-life for murder). It is the feeling brimming beneath the prose that drives bandele’s writing. In both, bandele tells what feels like a raw, jagged story by wrapping a vast river of emotion tightly around her words. ![]() Asha bandele’s latest work, the memoir Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, reads as a dénouement or coda to her first work of prose published ten years earlier, The Prisoner’s Wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a frantic two months of work to free herself up, she wanted to slow down, decompress, and maybe, just maybe figure out why she had agreed to a last summer on Quinnipeague. Giddy with excitement, she stashed the soft top in back, and, as the warm June air flowed freely through windows and roof, drove up from New York herself. The car was an old Jeep Wrangler, bought from a friend of a friend for a fraction of its original cost. ![]() Nicole had offered airfare to speed up the trip, but Charlotte flew everywhere else in life. ![]() Since Charlotte had one of those for the first time in her life, she proudly booked the ferry, boarding in Rockland on a Tuesday, which was one of only three days each week when its captain cruised past Vinalhaven to islands like Quinnipeague. With a year-round population of nearly three hundred, it was serviced by a daily mail boat that carried groceries and a handful of passengers, but no cars. QUINNIPEAGUE LAY ELEVEN MILES FROM the mainland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Army Rangers dwarfs any danger they anticipated…an ancient, unspoken terror – a power beyond human imagining-that can forever alter the world beyond the dark, lethal confines of the Amazon rainforest for better… and for worse. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the worlds most inhospitable rainforest - a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified. ![]() But the nightmare that is awaiting Nate and his team of scientists and seasoned U.S. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed – of perils to follow the trail of his vanished father…toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world’s most inhospitable rainforest: a former Special Forces soldier – scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death – who went in with one arm missing…and came out with both intact. The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. You can read this before Amazonia PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. AMAZONIA by James Rollins RELEASE DATE: MaWorkmanlike debut hardcover, a variation on King Solomon’s Mines, this time set in the Amazon, where a search party seeks a bizarre protein that can kill and cure. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Amazonia written by James Rollins which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Amazonia by James Rollins ![]() ![]() ![]() Both men realize their love for but they are separated from them by distance (in the case of Sarah) and in the case of Mary, when a man purchases her indenture.Īfter a grueling ship journey (very well done by the author), Henry and his father travel deep into the frontier. On the ship, Henry reconnects with a childhood friend, Mary Patterson. ![]() The night before the ship sails, Henry finds love in the arms of a widow named Sarah. Before they leave, Henry’s father gives him their most treasured possession, passed from one son to another: a gold torc from their ancestor, Somerled. Set in 1755, beginning in Donegal, Ireland, this is the story of Henry McConnell and his father, Edward, farmers who assume false names and escape debts and drought in Ireland to sail to the New World. ![]() Worthy Scots-Irish Heroes Find Love in the New World! ![]() ![]() There is very slight wear and denting to the outer boards and a little bit of paper loss to corners. It had about it a beauty more permanent than the soft lip or flashing eye, a beauty that is for ever and mocks Time."Our copy of the book is a large hardback with glazed pictorial boards, published by Jonathan Cape in 1979. ![]() Next, with a little gold taken from the dawn sky, she cunningly wrought a splendrous jewel that was the perfect mirror of her love. To this end she asked the man that plays the music to stop playing for a while then she plucked from the sea of clouds a most brilliant rose-coloured moonstone. Although all happiness was in her dance, there was also a little sadness, for whenever the dance led her into the same part of the sky as the Sun, she seemed to simply fade away, and feared the Sun might never notice her.On this night the lady of the pale complexion resolved to make herself known to the Sun by sending him a token of her affection. This lady, whom all mortals call the Moon, danced a merry dance in the pathless sky, for she had fallen in love, and the object of her devotion was the Sun. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. "Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. ![]() ![]() By contrast, the supporting characters-notably an ex-NASA administrator who gets religion-are sketchy and barely integrated with the plot. Baxter, whose recent works include a wildly imagined sequel to The Time Machine (The Time Ships), peoples his story with main characters who are as authentic as his science. Seen primarily through the eyes of Natalie York, the geologist on the mission as well as the first women in space, the road from Apollo to Ares is potholed with bureaucratic battles, technical challenges, an Apollo XIII-like disaster and constant fretting about the inevitability (and necessity) of sacrificing lives to advance the cause of science. In real life, Nixon's directive in effect ended manned space exploration in favor of the Shuttle program in Baxter's novel, thanks to one major change in history, the green light is given for a manned Mars mission, the Ares program. ![]() ![]() ![]() The premise is brilliant: at the time of the Apollo moon landing, President Nixon authorized a Space Task Group to define the post-Apollo role of NASA. With just a little bit of alternate history, Baxter's excellent what-if novel about a 1986 Mars landing accomplishes its mission. ![]() |