![]() Her dreams become a nightmare as secrets are revealed about who she really is and the true identities of the people she loves most. Now fallen angels and demons are after her, and it is up to Michael and the other Nephilim to protect her. It marks her as special, and that may not be a good thing. Meeting him and being there changes her forever. There, she meets Michael, a Nephilim–half angel, half human. In sleep, Claudia travels to another world called Crossroads. Grief brings tumultuous dreams-but these are more than simple dreams. It seems like a tragic coincidence when her good friend, who shares the same first and last name, dies in a car accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() Loving her was all that mattered, even if it meant he would be exiled for all eternity.Ĭlaudia Emerson’s life is about to change. * * * READERS FAVORITE GOLD AWARD WINNER 2012–YOUNG ADULT * * *īased on dreams the author had in high school-chapter 1 & 2. I have loved every single book I’ve picked up by Mary Ting and I so need to read this completed series! You’ll definitely want to check out what this one is about and enter a fabulous giveaway below! Enjoy ♥ ![]()
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![]() ![]() The rightful owner of Yeller shows up looking for his dog and recognizing that the family has become attached to Yeller, trades the dog to Arliss for a horned toad and a home-cooked meal prepared by Travis’ mother, who is an exceptional cook. Travis grows to love Old Yeller, and they become great friends. Though Travis initially loathes the “rascal” and at first tries to get rid of it, the dog (a yellow cur), eventually proves his worth, saving the family on several occasions, rescuing Arliss from a bear, Travis from a bunch of wild hogs, and Mama and their friend Lisbeth from a loafer wolf. The name has a double meaning: The fur colour yellow pronounced as “yeller” and the fact that its bark sounds more like a human yell. When a “dingy yellow” dog comes for an unasked stay with the family, Travis reluctantly takes in the dog, which they name Old Yeller. The novel opens, in the late 1860s in the fictional town of Salt Licks, Texas, young Travis Coates has been working to take care of his family ranch with his mother and younger brother, Arliss, while his father goes off on a cattle drive. ![]() ![]() In 1957, Walt Disney released a film adaptation starring Tommy Kirk, Fess Parker, Dorothy McGuire, Kevin Corcoran, Jeff York, and Beverly Washburn. The title is taken from the name of the yellow dog who is the center of the book’s story. ![]() Old Yeller is a 1956 children’s novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger. ![]() ![]() ![]() After failing to secure the Wallachian throne, Lada is out to punish anyone who dares to cross her blood-strewn path. All she has is what she’s always had: herself. About And I Rise (Book Two of The Conquerors Saga) If you’ve read Kiersten White‘s And I Darken, you might be interested in reading the excerpt to the second book of The Conquerors Saga, Now I Rise! And we also have a list of the places Kiersten will be touring later this month with some other awesome authors!īut before you read the excerpt and check out the tour dates, you can see the awesome cover that was released earlier today, along with the book description ( warning: spoilers for And I Darken). We know author Kiersten White’s been busy writing, because we already have an excerpt for NOW I RISE, the sequel to And I Darken! ![]() ![]() ![]() While some, like Lilly’s brother, died in The Great War, many others came back with emotional scars that affect their personal choices and the town at large. ![]() Jess’ most recent novel, The Echoes, was published this past March and follows Lilly and the townspeople of Kinship, OH as they reckon with ghosts of World War 1 some 10 years later. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. ![]() Lilly Ross is inspired by a real Ohio woman named Maud Colins who also became one of the first female sheriffs in the United States after her husband, also the sherrif, was murdered. The Widows (Kinship 1) Published January 8th 2019 by Minotaur Books. ![]() The town council asks Lilly to take over the sheriff’s position for the rest of the term and the first crime she wants to investigate is the murder of her husband. The first book in her 4-book Kinship mystery series is The Widows which introduces us to Lilly Ross, a wife and mother in 1920s rural Ohio whose husband Daniel, the county sheriff, is killed in the line of duty. This week we talk to our first mystery series author: Jess Montgomery. ![]() ![]() ![]() The audience can see how the Iranian regime utilizes this ideology to subjugate the proletariat in Iran, and how the lower class turns to religion for reprieve. ![]() The main principle behind Marxism is that the acquisition of wealth and goods is what motivates all political and social activities. The audience can analyze Persepolis through a Marxist lens to see how particular ideas, specifically the ideology of consumerism, oppress Marjane, her family, and Iranian civilians overall. Evidence of this Marxist upbringing is displayed several times throughout the book, most especially when Marji exclaims that “it was funny to see how much Marx and God looked like each other” (Satrapi 13). In this story, Marjane (Marji) is brought up by communistic parents. The Complete Persepolis, an autobiographical novel by Marjane Satrapi, tells the tale of Marjane’s childhood in Iran. ![]() ![]() When I sleep with Tom … what he wants, what my husband has always wanted, and the thing I will not give him, is my annihilation. ![]() Every time he does this, a tiny bit sticks to him. Hegarty is one of a large clan, and is obsessed with sex and penises in particular, her self-loathing in the sexual act matched only by her loathing for her wealthy husband Tom (“Tom moves money around, electronically. “I saw a man with tertiary syphilis at Mass, once,” is how the narrator, Veronica Hegarty, opens one chapter, and it sums up the sexuality and Irishness of The Gathering neatly. ![]() But it is a family story, and as we go through the pages and remember that happiness writes white, and that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (“I find that being part of a family is the most excruciating possible way to be alive”), we realise that we might well add Storm to the end of the title. Enright has an ear for a memorable title – The Portable Virgin, The Wig My Father Wore – so at first sight The Gathering seems a little banal. I finally picked it up permanently when it was longlisted last week for the Booker Prize. ![]() 16 October 2007: The Gathering has won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007Īnne Enright’s The Gathering had enthusiastic reviews when it was published earlier this year, and I picked it up in the shops and put it down again more than once. ![]() ![]() ![]() They begin a relationship, so to speak, and Todd is happier than he's ever been. Luckily for Todd, he meets an incredible, sexy, gorgeous Dominant by the name of Malik, who is equally entranced with Todd. It's a frightening thing to admit to your desires, and even more terrifying to act upon them. Oh how I could empathize with Todd as he finally took the beginning steps to learn about BDSM. I am honored to be a part of this year's edition, and I greatly enjoyed Katya Harris's contribution of 'A Life Without'. Whether you're trying to make amends, or getting up the courage to be who you are, it really never is too late to make what you want of your life. This year's Dreamspinner Press Daily Dose anthology is titled 'Never Too Late', and there's something about that concept which appeals to me. ![]() ![]() We have told them that unless they confessed to a priest, or had the sacrifice of the mass applied specifically to their case, or accepted Jesus in the correct denominational terms - or hit the sawdust trail, did penance, cried their eyes out, or straightened up and flew right - the seed, who is the Word present everywhere in all his forgiving power, might just as well not really have been sown. Think of some of the things we have said to people. ![]() Something special to activate it, his forgiveness would remain only virtually, not actually, theirs. "Sure," we have said, "the Lamb of God has taken away all the sins of the world." But then we have proceeded to give the impression that unless people did The history of Christian thought is riddled with virtualism. Perversely, though, we seem to prefer that interpretation. ![]() ![]() “But what needs to be emphasized here is that the differences can never be interpreted as meaning that the operative power of the seed - or the operative power of the Word - is in any way dependent on circumstantial cooperation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In one novel, Tracks, one of these heroines survives a blizzard by strapping recently killed deer-meat to her body and hiking miles to safety. They vanish in snowdrifts, and emerge miraculously alive years later. They are shapeshifters, beguilers, occasionally warriors. As a sensualist and a romantic Erdrich gives history a grace note in her alternate universe. Men turn to women who turn to men who smash into each other with the force of battle and on it goes, endlessly. In her books, many set on the lip of an Ojibwe reservation on the North Dakota plains, men and women map the violence of this history onto one another’s bodies over and again, on down the line and across the races who settled the region: Germans, French, Norwegians, Swedes, Ojibwe. It resides in the mythic part of our bodies, too, if you believe such a place exists, which Louise Erdrich’s book The Round House clearly illustrates she does. Whites took the land from Indians by force, after all, and the memory of that theft lives on in more than stories. Love and violence have always been yoked together in Louise Erdrich’s novels, just as they are in North America. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an elegantly crafted production, half-crazed and borderline kitschy but with a serious core that traces-or retraces, since no psychological trails are blazed here-the links between violence, sexuality, human fragility and the godawful things people can do in the name of religious faith. ![]() Campos and his superb cast confer such authority on the whole thing that there’s no choice but to follow the film’s three time-hopping, befuddlingly intertwined stories-for 138 minutes, no less. ![]() This panoply of evil deeds and deranged retribution, streaming on Netflix, goes beyond gothic to genuinely ghastly, reaches deeper than noir into the Stygian. Southern gothic or film noir barely begins to describe “The Devil All the Time,” Antonio Campos’s superheated screen version of the novel by Donald Ray Pollock. Watch a clip from the movie ‘The Devil All the Time.’ Photo: Netflix ![]() |