![]() She is currently a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she teaches European history and the history of science. ![]() Having spent more than a quarter of a century as a student and scholar of history, Harkness holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Davis. The popular television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, starring Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode, was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now, and also broadcast on AMC. The All Souls series has been translated in thirty-eight languages. The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls. ![]() Deborah Harkness is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who draws on her expertise as an historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism, historical curiosity, and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are. ![]()
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![]() Koldo was the warrior with few words and no emotions, but he does have emotions. I'm a sucker for the tortured souls and we all know Koldo went through torture when we learned his wings were removed but in this book we learn the full extent of the hell and anguish he went through. I loved Koldo when he was introduced in WICKED NIGHTS but now he has my heart forever. Poor Koldo!Koldo is a warrior in Zacharel's Army of Disgrace, a group of warrior angels that are in danger of falling. I finally decided they were both just as equally horrible. ![]() We also find out who his father is and I just can't decide who was worse, his mother or father. We finally learn what happened to Koldo's wings and I sat here with a box of tissues balling me eyes out through this chapter. No matter what he did to please her, she hated him and punished him more. ![]() A little boy starved for his mother's attention and love and getting nothing but hatred and abuse in return. ![]() ![]() This was by far the most heartbreaking chapter I have ever read. Heartbreaking, Funny, Action-Packed and Sexy!BEAUTY AWAKENED, the 2nd installment of Gena Showalter's Angels of the Dark series is finally here and it was so worth the wait!The book starts off with a young Koldo at the age of 7 years old. ![]() ![]() Publications include Washington Square, World Literature Today, Poetry International, The Warwick Review, Irish Literary Times, and many more. She is Chief Executive Editor of Dublin Poetry Review and Levure Littéraire, and Managing Editor of Fulcrum. She holds a Master’s in American Literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College and LMU, and received the Poiesis Award of Honor and fellowships from the Goethe-Institut & Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. Beyond Elsewhere, her translation of Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac is forthcoming in 2016. Hélène Cardona is a poet, linguist, literary translator and actress, author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Pinnacle Book Award & Readers’ Favorite Award winner, The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006), Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016), and Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne, 2014), her translation of What We Carry by Dorianne Laux. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Stormborn richelle mead![]() ![]() ![]() She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy - one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. ![]() No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants.Įugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Pleasure activism brown![]() ![]() I wanted to talk about how joy has to be part of black health too, and how finding these moments of lightness can help us persevere. ![]() ![]() It’s well documented that black and brown people are at greater risk of death from COVID-19. It’s a secret ingredient to black resilience, in my opinion.Īt the time, my primary motivation for writing this was compensatory. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, these Verzuz battles were reminding me of how vital it is for black people to experience joy. I started drafting this story a week before Mother’s Day, buzzing from how the internet coalesced around Teddy Riley and Babyface and excited to watch Erykah Badu and Jill Scott battle it out. When I first started writing this, I was excited to wax poetic about black joy and Instagram battles. ![]() ![]() ![]() The convenience and ready availability of the First Folio as a repository for Shakespeare’s plays was a significant practical factor in getting him back into the theatres when they reopened at the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. This different canon would have prompted a different historical response. Without it, the canon of Shakespeare’s plays would have decisively shifted. ![]() In part this is due to the fact that they are not included in the First Folio. ![]() Conversely, title pages identify Shakespeare as the author of The London Prodigal (1605) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), which most modern scholars do not attribute to Shakespeare. Since some of these early editions did not name Shakespeare on their title pages, the authorship of plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus and Henry V would be uncertain. The title page of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays. ![]() ![]() ![]() Master CAPTAIN AMERICA writer Ed Brubaker wraps up his critically acclaimed run here - and nobody escapes unscathed! Collecting FEAR ITSELF #7.1: CAPTAIN AMERICA and WINTER SOLDIER (2012) #1-14. Now, Barnes must save the Widow from her own past! But even with help from Avengers teammates Wolverine, Captain America and Hawkeye, the Winter Soldier must decide whether he is willing to sacrifice everything to save his love. Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker: the Complete Collection Paperback S46.96 Online Price S42.26 Kinokuniya Privilege Card Member Price Availability Status. He's been Bucky and Captain America - now, James Barnes returns to the role of the Winter Soldier! When ex-Russian sleeper agents awaken, the trail leads to Latveria, and Winter Soldier and Black Widow come face-to-face with Doctor Doom! Can Marvel's superspies prevent war with Latveria? Can Barnes stop the sleepers he himself trained? Old enemies resurface with new identities, and Winter Soldier and Black Widow's hunt gets personal after a savage murder. ![]() Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker: The Complete Collection - (Paperback). Winter Soldier By Ed Brubaker Complete Collect Graphic Novel New Printing USD $ 29.99 But who is the Winter Soldier - a lethal killer with an all-too-familiar face. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The devil rides out author![]() ![]() They escape to the country home of de Richleau's niece Marie (Sarah Lawson) and her husband Richard Eaton (Paul Eddington). During the rescue, they disrupt a May Day ceremony on Salisbury Plain, in which the Devil appears under the guise of the "Goat of Mendes". De Richleau and his friend Rex Van Ryn (Leon Greene) manage to rescue Simon and another young initiate, Tanith (Niké Arrighi), from a devil-worshipping cult. He quickly deduces that Simon is involved with the occult. ![]() Set in London and the south of England in 1929, the story finds erudite Nicholas, Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee), investigating the strange actions of his protegé, the son of a late friend, Simon Aron (Patrick Mower), who has a house replete with strange markings and a pentagram. to become Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on July 15, 1967. It is the final film to be produced by Seven Arts Productions after the company was merged with Warner Bros. It is considered one of Terence Fisher's best films. The film stars Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Niké Arrighi and Leon Greene. It was written by Richard Matheson and directed by Terence Fisher. The Devil Rides Out, known as The Devil's Bride in the United States, is a 1968 British horror film, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dennis Wheatley. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Julie kagawa shadow of the fox![]() ![]() Readers who know these tales will recognize familiar elements and tropes. Kagawa ( Inferno, 2018, etc.) uses elements of Japanese mythology and folklore to spin an epic yarn. Yumeko, being half-human and half–fox spirit and secretly carrying another part of the scroll, is also wary of Tatsumi. But as he travels with Yumeko he finds himself feeling more than he should. Tatsumi is bound to the sword of Kamigoroshi, the godslayer, and must remain devoid of emotion in order to keep the demon Hakaimono imprisoned within it. Tatsumi, demon slayer of the Shadow Clan, journeys with Yumeko of the Silent Winds temple to head off Lady Satomi’s demonic attack on the Steel Feather temple, which houses one piece of the scroll. Now both the emperor’s concubine, Lady Satomi, and the Shadow Clan race to obtain the scroll. After one such wish brought destruction and chaos to the land of Iwagoto, the scroll was divided into three pieces and hidden away. As the time of prophecy draws near, rivals seek the relic that will allow them to call upon the dragon god.Īn ancient scroll holds the prayer that summons the dragon who will grant one wish every thousand years. ![]() ![]() ![]() After “The Little Mermaid” was released from Disney, I wished more than anything I could turn into a mermaid and always pretended to be one when we were at the pool or in the ocean. I was the sweet and quite girl because of that other kids assumed I was smart. I wasn’t really bullied in school and I had a good home, it wasn’t perfect, but my parents provided everything we needed. I never felt like I quite fit in anywhere. I had always felt out of place and sad as a child. We would snorkel and swim between fishing sessions ( in different spots of course). When I was little we lived in South Florida and my grandparents had a boat that we use to go out on. So I googled popular books and this one came up, not going to lie, the title grabbed my attention more than anything as I have always loved mermaids. ![]() ![]() I have been drawn to more sentimental type stories. Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s being a mom, maybe it’s being on locked down with the kids for 6 months and I’m going somewhat insane. I decided to venture out and try something different. Usually when I read fiction I read something in the Scify-fantasy realm. ![]() |