![]() ![]() The Narrator explains that Brad and Janet are feeling "apprehensive and uneasy," but must accept any help that they are offered. During the trip, their car has a flat tire and they are forced to walk through the rain to seek a telephone in an old castle ("There's A Light"). The Narrator appears and explains that Brad and Janet are leaving Denton to visit Dr Everett Scott, their former science tutor, while driving into a rainstorm. The Usherette, sometimes referred to as "Trixie", who works in a derelict cinema, introduces tonight's "film" in a song ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"), with masked Phantoms providing the backing vocals.Īfter attending the wedding of his best friend since high school (Ralph Hapschatt, now married to Janet Weiss' friend Betty Munroe), Brad Majors confesses his love to Janet Weiss ("Dammit Janet") and the two become engaged. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Hair & Heart by Rhys Everly![]() ![]() ![]() Once there, Wendy comes to a reckoning with her mother, Elora, and even begins to understand her just a little bit. Wendy and crew are saved from the Vittra by Tove, the Trylle with the strongest powers, and others, and Wendy finds herself safely back at Förening with most of the people she loves. While trapped there, Wendy is introduced to Loki, who can match her in sarcasm and mettle more than Finn, her forbidden love, can. Wendy learns why she is so important to them-it turns out they’re family. Shortly after, Wendy, her brother Matt, and Rhys are kidnapped by rival troll faction, the Vittra, who crashed Wendy’s christening party in Switched. She takes him back to her original home and introduces him to her brother, who is Rhys’s real sibling. But after Switched, Wendy finds out that she’s the most wanted person in troll society, and that’s in a good way.Īt the end of Switched, Wendy abruptly fled the kingdom of Förening with Rhys, the boy she had been switched with at birth. Wendy Everly is, after all, a troll princess, and her general demeanor is a bit surly and sarcastic. Now, taking the story at face value, you wouldn’t think this. Maybe that’s why I’m seeing literature in flavors right now, and after finishing the second book in Amanda Hocking’s Trylle series, Torn, the overwhelming sensation that’s left over is sweet. I finished editing a book in the Book Girl series this week about a goblin who eats books and comments on how they taste. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Vori's Mate by S.J. Sanders![]() The royal families and elite castes of Agraak society would not allow their secrets to become known. Possessing full knowledge of the location of their breeding facility meant that she'd never be safe. Some secrets can topple nations.Already facing termination for her failure to carry Agraak young to term, when Jenn escapes from the breeding facility she knows that the Agraak would not rest until they found her. When stowing away on a Buto trading vessel lands her on an illegal clearing in Vora, she discovers that finding a. ![]() ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Bloomsday ulysses![]() ![]() The book's humor springs from the author’s observations about the life of the church. Through humor, Joyce makes his protagonist Bloom a sympathetic character the reader can root for. Ulysses is famous for its use of stream of consciousness to illuminate what the characters are thinking and feeling. In the book, we follow an ordinary day in the lives of Bloom, a Jewish Dubliner, and Dedalus, a young teacher, who often pass by one another in Dublin before meeting up near the book’s conclusion. James Joyce was raised and educated in the Catholic Church, attending Clongowes Wood, a Jesuit college (the equivalent of an American high school), and although he grew alienated from the church, Ulysses is overflowing with references to prayers, church services and saints. The novel’s protagonist, Leopold Bloom, mourns both his deceased son and his father, and finds another son in Stephen Dedalus. Paternity is an important theme throughout the book. And the strength of its humor springs from the author’s observations about the life of the church, an institution whose theology and rituals, though they continue to be adapted over the years, in some ways have not changed much over the last century.įor instance, Joyce set the action of the book on one day: June 16, 1904, the feast day of the French Jesuit John Francis Regis, the patron saint of illegitimate children. Despite its reputation for being intellectually demanding, James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses is also funny, even absurd at times. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The lost apothecary series![]() Register directly via Crowdcast HERE.Ĭopies of The Lost Apothecary can be purchased via Joseph-Beth HERE. This virtual program is free and open to the public. Sarah spent thirteen years in corporate finance and now writes full-time. A Cincinnati native, she resides in Amelia, Ohio with her familiars, Tabby cats, Honey and Oliver. Sarah Penner is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary which will be translated into forty languages worldwide and is set to be turned into a drama series by Fox. Jasmine is presently at work on her first novel. Currently Jasmine serves as both the Membership Coordinator at the Mercantile Library and the Features Editor for Carve Magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jasmine Griffin is a black queer writer and an avid reader. She lives in Florida with her husband Marc, and miniature dachshund, Zoe. Kansas native Sarah Penner began writing after attending a 2015 talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, who was touring for her book, Big Magic. Penner will be in conversation with Jasmine Griffin. In this addictive and spectacularly imagined debut, a female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them-setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. ![]() Join us for an evening with the author of The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Rush too far series![]() ![]() ![]() This acclaimed book by Abbi Glines is available at in several formats for your eReader. Rush has earned, ISBN 9781476775944 Buy the Rush Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel ebook. After the worldwide success of Fallen Too Far and its two sequels, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far, Abbi Glines takes her readers back to the beginning with Rush Too Far. But Rush is back to tell his side of the story… Rush has earned every bit of …ģ.2857142857142856 7 5 Author: Abbi Glines As e-book. Everyone in Rosemary Beach thinks they know how Rush Finlay and Blaire Wynn fell in love. Now it’s time for Rush to share his side. ![]() Read or download Rush Too Far (Rosemary Beach, #4 Too Far, #4) Author: Abbi Glines.A série Too Far ou série Sem Limites (no Brasil) escrito pela excelentíssima Abbi Glines conta a história de Blaire Wynn uma moça simples e com grande bagagem do Alabama e Rush Finlay o filho de um astro do rock. ![]() ![]() ![]() Would break, what crutch ’gin write my epitaph What, save to waylay with his lies, ensnareĪll travellers who might find him posted there,Īnd ask the road? I guess’d what skull-like laugh What else should he be set for, with his staff? Here are two of the 34 verses (italics are mine): It’s from the poem “ Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” by Robert Browning. From the top, they provide a view that makes you feel commanding and godlike.īy now, you’re wondering where that title, Hides the Dark Tower, comes from. Viewed from the ground, they’re mysterious and imposing. They represent man’s attempt to reach the heavens. The anthology features stories involving towers. They’ve selected a stunning piece of artwork for the cover, don’t you think? ![]() Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist, have been great to work with. It’s a new publisher, Pole-to-Pole Publishing, and I think this is their first anthology. My short story, “Ancient Spin,” will appear in the anthology Hides the Dark Tower, scheduled to appear in October. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Pronoun Envy by Anna Livia![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coupled with increasing numbers of institutions of higher education incorporating gender-neutral pronouns amidst controversy about their usage, this question is particularly relevant in American society. Does Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenological analysis of recognition applied to the experience of transgender and genderqueer persons who challenge the limits of binary language offer sufficient rationale to implement a gender-neutral pronoun in English? With as many as 41 percent of all transgender persons attempting suicide at least once in their lives - far exceeding average of suicide rate of 4.6 percent across the United States - there is a salient need to address transgender issues and help ci sgender persons understand the complexity of life beyond binarity. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Nausicaa watercolor impressions![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yeah, it is very fortuned for you personally. It means that it can to get your friend when you feel alone and beside associated with course make you smarter than in the past. Try to make book Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Watercolor Impressions as your pal. 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Original watercolor illustrations used as concept sketches for both the manga and film versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, with luck he is able to break that barrier, but when Jonathan returns to his own flock he is greeted with anything but applause. The soundtrack album, written and recorded by Neil Diamond, was a critical and commercial success, earning Diamond a Grammy Award and a Golden Globe Award.Īs the film begins, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is soaring through the sky hoping to travel at a speed more than 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). Whereas the original novella was a commercial success, the film version was poorly received by critics and barely broke even at the box office, though it was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. The film's voice actors included James Franciscus in the title role, and Philip Ahn as his mentor, Chang. The film was produced by filming actual seagulls, then superimposing human dialogue over it. The film tells the story of a young seabird who, after being cast out by his stern flock, goes on an odyssey to discover how to break the limits of his own flying speed. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a 1973 American drama film directed by Hall Bartlett, adapted from the 1970 novella of the same name by Richard Bach. ![]() |