War for the oaks by emma bull5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() In dog form and in human form, he’ll live in your apartment, shadow your every step, and drive you near insane with his roundabout comments. Oh, and since the Unseelie Court will probably try to kill you, the Phouka will protect you. They don’t want much of you, really … just your body and presence as the Seelie Court goes to war against the Unseelie Court, all to decide which band of mythological creatures gets to influence Minneapolis. On the way home, you’re waylaid by the creatures of Faerie, in the form of a shapechanging, smooth-talking Phouka, and a water elemental called a Glaistaig. You tell the boyfriend where he can shove said band, and quit, taking your guitar and best friend, and splitting, thus causing the (merciful) dissolution of “InKline Plain, the most misspelled band in Minneapolis.”ģ. You messily break up with your boyfriend, a complete jerk whose idea of managing the band you and he both play in is to send you to flirt with club managers.Ģ. ![]() Three ways to tell that it just isn’t your day:ġ. “When Faerie and my world intersect, does anything good ever come of it?” ![]()
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When Pigs Fly by Bob Sanchez5/27/2023 ![]() I wanted to know if they had a school I could attend so I went to a game years later at the Long Beach Arena, where I went down stairs by the dressing room where Red Smart stood by the dressing rooms. The more I watched it the more I wanted to be a skater. I was always on the edge of my seat while the game was going on. From then on I never wanted to miss a game. That was my first experience of the game. But I remember being fascinated with the game. ![]() Shelia McKenna and not sure who number 8 was at this moment. The first team I remember had a line up with the following skaters I remember because I got the team picture and had them all autograph it. Not sure about the teams but I was young then and just was fascinated by the skaters. ![]() We found out that the Los Angeles Thunderbirds team was playing against the Brooklyn Devils, I believe. We moved to California and my dad was trying to find it on TV again but could not until a commercial came on with the advertisement of the game at the El Monte Legion Stadium. My Mom was in the hospital having one of my younger sisters, the night we watched the game on TV. He was very interested in it and watched it every week it was on. ![]() He decided to watch it that night when it came on. We Lived in Chicago in 1956 and my dad liked sports when one day he was watching a commercial on the TV and it was talking about Roller Derby. Derby Memoirs: A Tribute To Roller Derby History - Patti Stamp ![]() Olga knipper5/27/2023 ![]() There were indeed no limits, except perhaps those he set on himself in the later part of his career, which meant that there were fewer stage appearances than one might have wished. A local critic was impressed, declaring: "One would hesitate to put any limits to what this actor is going to be able to do as he grows older." ![]() Although not yet 20, his performances got him noticed. Here he began his training in earnest playing a succession of roles many of which would not have come his way so early but for the war. With the Croydon school closed, Scofield moved to the London mask theatre and when two of the teachers, Eileen Thorndike (sister of the famous actor Sybil) and Herbert Scott, decided to evacuate the school to Devon and run it as a repertory theatre, Scofield went with them. The war intervened, but Scofield was declared unfit for service due to a toe defect that prevented him from wearing military boots. ![]() There was never any doubt that he was bound for a career in the theatre and in 1939, aged 17, he left school to begin his training at Croydon repertory theatre. He donned a blonde wig for his first role as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and his natural talent and easy manner on stage won him further starring roles, including Rosalind in As You Like It. ![]() He was 13 when he discovered acting at the Vardean school for boys in Brighton, where he was considered an academic no-hoper. ![]() He was born in Sussex to the wife of the headmaster of the Hurstpierpoint village school. ![]() Truth in the dark by amy lane5/27/2023 ![]() Together, can they keep their village safe and sustain the love that will make them immortal? Teyth was born to sculpt his emotion into metal, and Diarmuid was born to lead. By the time Teyth resurfaces from his quest to create immortality, he’s nearly lost the love that makes being human worth the pain. As the tyrant inflicts loss upon loss on Teyth and Diarmuid, Teyth’s passion for his craft twists into obsession. As Teyth grows in the craft of metalwork, he also grows in love for Diarmuid, the gentle, clever young man who introduces him to smithing. Cairsten, the smith, and Diarmuid, his adopted son, are kind, and the smithy is the prosperous heart of a thriving village. Sold into apprenticeship to the local blacksmith, Teyth finds that what was meant as a punishment is actually his salvation. ![]() Greedy and capricious, the man will be the bane of Teyth’s existence as an adult, but as a boy, Teyth is too busy escaping his stepfather to worry about his ruler. ![]() ![]() At a Glance: Immortal is a gorgeous novel, eloquent in its joy and sorrow, hopeful in its promise of forever, meaningful in the way of fairy tales that teach us we are each the crucibles of love, and love is the conqueror of hate.īlurb: When Teyth was but a child, a cruel prince took over his village, building a great granite tower to rule over the folk. ![]() ![]() ![]() If water is not piled up deep enough, it won’t have the strength to bear up a big boat. Is that its real color, or is it because it is so far away and has no end? When the bird looks down, all he sees is blue too. He beats the whirlwind and rises ninety thousand li, setting off on the sixth month gale.” Wavering heat, bits of dust, living things blowing each other about-the sky looks very blue. The Universal Harmony records various wonders, and it says: “When the P’eng journeys to the southern darkness, the waters are roiled for three thousand li. When the sea begins to move, this bird sets off for the southern darkness, which is the Lake of Heaven. The back of the P’eng measures I don’t know how many thousand li across and, when he rises up and flies off, his wings are like clouds all over the sky. ![]() He changes and becomes a bird whose name is P’eng. The K’un is so huge I don’t know how many thousand li he measures. IN THE NORTHERN DARKNESS there is a fish and his name is K’un. ![]() Until Nox by Layla Frost5/27/2023 ![]() However, it can be enjoyed as a standalone. It features glimpses of familiar faces from Hyde and Seek, Best Kase Scenario, and Until November. This Happily Ever Alpha World novella is a crossover of The Hyde Series and Aurora Rose Reynolds' Until Series. Warning: Recommended for readers 18+ due to awesome things like adult content and language. Gus had no clue how comforting a monster in the dark could be. When her knight in shining armor turned out to be a douche in tinfoil, Gus never expected her real hero to be a sexy-accented, tattooed beast of a man. ![]() Unfortunately, her taste in men wasn’t as well-developed. With southern-bred manners and a snark all her own, Augusta ‘Gus’ Allan was a connoisseur of cheap wine, delicious Mexican food, and good TV. ![]() And when it came to the gorgeous lass with a fiery attitude, he didn’t just want her. Ruthlessly single-minded, if he wanted something, it was his. With a body count on his soul and blood on his hands, Killian Nox lived in the gray. ![]() Genres: Contemporary Romance, Mafia Romance ![]() The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. ![]()
Lies in a small town5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues to her fate hidden in the decrepit mural Morgan is charged with restoring? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?īestselling author Diane Chamberlain earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in social work at San Diego State University. ![]() She doesn't expect to find herself immersed in a small and small-minded town where prejudices run deep, people are hiding secrets, and the price of being different might end in murder. Anna is alone in the world and desperate for work, so she readily accepts the prized assignment. She is selected to paint a mural that will grace the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells a story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but is desperate to get out of prison, so she accepts. She will be released immediately if she accepts the assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Her dream of a career in art is on hold until two mysterious visitors makes her an offer that is too good to turn down. After taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she's serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. ![]() North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life derailed. ![]() The prophets book robert jones jr5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() I knew, then, that this book would probably leave me speechless. Alongside the proof, I also got to hear Robert Jones Jr himself, talk about his research prior to writing The Prophets and how it took him thirteen years to write. I was lucky enough to receive a copy after attending Quercus’ Word of Mouth Bestsellers Virtual Event. The first time I saw the proof last year June, I knew that it was going to my most anticipated read for 2021. And preaching the words of Massa Paul’s gospel, he betrays them. ![]() Their flickering glances, unspoken words and willful intention, revealing a truth that threatens to rock the stability of the plantation. But the barn is their haven, a space of radiance and love – away from the blistering sun and the cruelty of the toubabs – where they can be alone together.īut, Amos – a fellow slave – has begun to direct suspicion towards the two men and their refusal to bend. Two young enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the barn, helping out in the fields when their day is done. The Halifax Plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of them, a Frenchman named Lasserre, said he wanted to be a saint. Somewhere along the way, as they camped in pup tents and sat around a fire, they asked each other what they wanted to do with their lives. But he did find dear friends, and he found adventure on a road trip from New York to Mexico City. “No theology here,” he reported back to Germany. ![]() He was to spend the year at the patently theological liberal Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was in the United States to learn of theological developments. Bonhoeffer was one of them.īut on July 21, 1944, Bonhoeffer wrote about a conversation he had in America in 1930. Many were put on expedited paths to their execution. Hundreds were immediately arrested many in the movement already held in prison were moved to higher security prisons. In the wake of the failure of the Valkyrie plot, Hitler led a crackdown on the resistance movement. Bonhoeffer had been in prison since April 5, 1943. The very next day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter to Eberhard Bethge, his former student and future biographer. On July 20, 1944, the Valkyrie plot to assassinate Hitler failed. ![]() |