![]() ![]() Some time away from the big city is exactly what they need. D*cked by Daddy - It’s Daddy Nick’s birthday and Holly knows just how to celebrate. If everything goes according to plan, Nick and Holly could be bound for forever.Ĥ. He’s got the perfect girl, that special something is burning a hole in his pocket, and the stage is set for a certain question to be popped. Well, Nick hopes she wants to take the next step. She has a Silver Fox for a boyfriend, they’ve dropped the L word, and now he’s treating her to an all expenses paid trip to Cabo. Bound In Cabo - Holly feels like she’s won the lottery. This holiday, Nick is claiming her as his own.ģ. Holly is quickly falling for Nick, and she can’t wait to spend their first Valentine's Day together.Īnd, boy, does this Silver Fox have a surprise up his sleeve.īut this isn’t just about lust anymore, and Nick is tired of taking things slowly.Ĭupid’s arrow is pointed directly at Holly. Have a Big O during Valentine’s Day dinner? Check. Share your New Year’s kiss with said Fox? Check. Claimed By Cupid - Date a Silver Fox? Check. She is a lover of books, coffee, and rainy days.Ģ. She was born in the Midwest and has been all over but now resides (begrudgingly) in Alabama. Overview: Dana Isaly is a writer of dark romance, fantasy romance, and has also been known to dabble in poetry (it was a phase in college, leave her alone). ![]() Requirements: epub, mobi, azw3 reader, 1.4 mb 449 KB Nick and Holly Series by Dana Isaly (2-4) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the demands of his writing career, Martin remains committed to enjoying life's pleasures and pursuing his diverse interests. While writing is undoubtedly his favourite pursuit, he also enjoys exploring other creative outlets and indulging in his passions for music, comics, chess, and video games. Martin is a man of many interests and hobbies, ranging from reading and writing to sports and games. He also explained that the Weirwood trees in Game of Thrones are named after the band's guitarist Bob Weir, this has only shown how much love he has for the band. Martin went on to say that the band influenced his novel, The Armageddon Rag. In an interview with New York’s 92nd Street Y, Martin spoke about his love for the Grateful Dead and how their music has influenced his writing. Game of Thrones Books in Order A Game of Thrones A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords A Feast For Crows A Dance With Dragons Coachella 2023. In fact, he has even cited the Grateful Dead as an inspiration for some of his previous work. Martin is a big music lover, with a particular interest in classic rock and roll. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his book Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism (2009), Laycock examines teenagers, stay-at-home moms, grandmothers, and professionals, all unremarkable subjects save for one little thing: they claim to feed off of other people’s energy, and every so often drink human blood.īU Today: How did a religious studies scholar become interested in modern-day vampires? There’s HBO’s phenomenally successful True Blood, the CW series The Vampire Diaries, and Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight saga and the books’ subsequent smash films.īut according to religious studies scholar Joseph Laycock (GRS’13), vampires are more than pop culture icons. ![]() ![]() But these days they’ve become so embedded in popular culture, it’s fair to say they’re now a year-round phenomenon. It’s that time of year-when thoughts turn to vampires. Vampire expert Joseph Laycock (GRS’13) discusses those elusive creatures of the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() These six classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run." -Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary Supplement By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series stands as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary. Tearing through one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. ![]() there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the foreign-language editions are top left (Portuguese), top center and top right (Norwegian), and bottom right (Finnish). So many of these are the thing of nightmares. Among the foreign-language editions here are top left (Indonesian), top center (Spanish), top right (Ukranian), bottom left (Czech), bottom center (Indonesian), and bottom right (Portuguese). Some of these feature some of the most excellent and creative designs, I think. ![]() ![]() Some of the foreign ones include the top left (Turkish), center row right (Spanish), center row center (Persian), bottom row left and bottom row right (both Spanish).īut wait! We’ve got more eyes on more covers, too.Īmong these covers, we have foreign-language editions which include top center (Turkish), top right (from an Indian publisher, language unclear), center row left (Italian), center right (Portuguese), and bottom left (Spanish). And some covers are baffling enough not to fit into any of the tropes below.īoth English and foreign-language editions of 1984 have featured eyeballs on their covers. Many of the covers could easily fall within many of the tropes. So rather than trying to sort out the covers by those means, this round-up instead is taking a different approach: cover tropes. ![]() There’s a lot of incomplete information about publishers, language of publication, and date of publication. Pulling together the precise provenance of covers is challenging. ![]() ![]() Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. ![]() ![]() Support Black Authors and raise up their voices, especially this week.Įven better, purchase the books (and any others you might want) from Black-Owned bookstores such as my local Philadelphia stores Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books or Harriett's Bookshop, or one of these 124 Black-Owned bookstores! If an indie bookstore you wish to support is closed (As both the Philly stores are we're still on lockdown during the pandemic), using will give the stores a portion of the proceeds and help fund them while they can't operate normally! Let's help boost their voices and consume their stories, not just our own. Not just today, but yesterday and all of our tomorrows. ![]() A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN will take you away from our reality and into a brand-new realm inspired by West African Folklore!Ĭheck out the full summaries below and help promote these new releases.īlack Lives Matter, Black Authors Matter. A SONG BELOW WATER features mermaids, is full of magic realism, and also brimming with social justice. YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN is a perfect way to start off Pride Month, taking place at high school and revolving around important teen moments such as prom and applying for college scholarships. ![]() ![]() ![]() They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts - to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. This was prompted by an article he wrote explicating and parsing the word "rendition". Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. In the middle of a desert "somewhere south of nowhere," to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. Plot Īccording to the Scribner 2010 catalog made available on October 12, 2009, Point Omega concerns the following: It is DeLillo's fifteenth novel published under his own name and his first published work of fiction since his 2007 novel Falling Man. Point Omega is a short novel by the American author Don DeLillo that was published in hardcover by Scribner's on February 2, 2010. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He would like to put tracking devices, radio-controlled collars, on two separate pairs of alpha males and females so that we can record their movements. He observed and documented wolves traveling more than two thousand miles. He’s a biologist and a chemist, and I think his background in immunology will compliment the other studies.īrandon, our director, has been in North Dakota for eleven years. He calls himself a lab rat, as he has been isolated in the lab doing extensive research on two projects funded by the Kenton Pharmaceutical Company. He is the youngest but has the most degrees. His expertise with the wolf pack’s family dynamic will be invaluable to us.Įric comes from the prestigious TNI research facility in Chicago. Cloud, Minnesota, where he did extensive work with gray wolves in Camp Ripley. Later, we’ll probably get as drunk as dropouts. There are four of us, all with doctorates, but we’re acting like irresponsible teenagers laughing and carrying on. The foundation has finally approved the grant money to fund our study. For Sharon Felice Murphy, the bravest person I know,įor Elena O’Shea Nordstrom, my friend forever ![]() ![]() ![]() There are people who want her back, and they won’t stop until they have her. The 401 train is the safest way to get to the Dragonfly Territories, but Piper will have to sneak aboard, and convincing the girl to join her seems unlikely-until there’s a knock on Piper’s door and she learns that the girl is more valuable than she could ever have imagined. If Piper can get her back there, she might get a reward and be able to start a new life. ![]() ![]() The mark of the dragonfly means the girl is from the Dragonfly Territories. and has a dragonfly tattooed on her wrist. Unconscious, lying in the fields amid the rubble, is a girl. Storms rain down objects from other lands, and ever since Piper’s father died, scavenging is the only way for her to survive. In the scrap towns, a day’s pay depends on what you find in the Meteor Fields. Jaleigh Johnson’s first book for middle-grade readers is the story of a mysterious girl, a magical world, a dangerous journey, and the true meaning of friendship and family.įantasy continues to reign supreme in the children’s literary world, and debut author Jaleigh Johnson brings the genre to life for tween readers with THE MARK OF THE DRAGONFLY (Delacorte Books for Young Readers / On Sale Ma/ Ages 10 up), a thrilling adventure story with the feel of a timeless classic. A copy of The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson.The Children’s Book Review | March 29, 2014Įnter to win a copy of The Mark of the Dragonfly, written by Jaleigh Johnson. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Adornetto, "The shadow represents individuality and colour and a person's spirit, really." The story was inspired by Peter Pan, while the two main characters were based on herself and her cousin and their own adventures together as children. The main characters of Shadow Thief are Millipop Klompet and Ernest Perriclof, who live in Drabville – a town whose residents suffer from having their shadows stolen by Lord Aldor, who wants to use the shadows to become immortal, all-powerful and rule the world. ![]() Adornetto commented, "Childhood is just this amazing place and in my books I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded." The Shadow Thief This fantasy adventures series has a theme of threat to childhood and innocence. Her works include The Strangest Adventures series, the Halo trilogy and The Ghost House Saga.Īdornetto's completed books are The Shadow Thief (2007) and The Lampo Circus (2008), Von Gobstopper's Arcade (2009), Halo (2010), Hades (2011), Heaven (2012) and Ghost House (2014). Children's novels, Young adult novels, FantasyĪlexandra Adornetto is an Australian actress and author who writes for children and young adults. ![]() |