![]() Despite their considerable age difference, theirs was a love written in the stars that was always meant to be. When Serafina declared her love to Darius at her come-out ball on her seventeenth birthday, he ran the other way, fearing not only his king, but also the depth of emotion she stirred within him. When she was twelve, he nearly died, taking a bullet meant for the king, and she sat by his bedside praying for his recovery and threw a tantrum when she was asked to leave. Our heroine, Serafina, has worshiped the ground Darius walks on since she was a little girl and he was her personal bodyguard. Unfortunately that woman is the princess he’s been guarding for most of her life, and he believes that to give in to his feelings for her would be to betray his king. His torment runs deep and the love of only one woman can satisfy and heal him. I’m always up for a tortured bad boy hero, and Darius is definitely one of those. ![]() ![]() It was an incredible read full of adventure, passion, and romance. Gaelen Foley is one of them, and Princess just became the latest book I’ve read by her that has earned keeper status from me. ![]() There are a few of my favorite authors who’ve not yet failed me once (meaning I’ve not yet rated any of their books below four stars and the majority of them were keepers). ![]()
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![]() Even so, a reviewer for The New York Times bared their fangs at THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, saying it’s, “a lot like spending an entire day in a museum featuring only works by Henry Fuseli – all hung in heavy, gilt frames decorated with curlicues and malicious cherubs. Published in 1985 to spend six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, THE VAMPIRE LESTAT came nearly a decade after the release of INTERVIEW, which received mixed reviews from critics (some praising Anne’s lush and hypnotic prose and others decrying the novel’s “ suckling eroticism”), but ultimately captured the still-beating hearts of mortal readers worldwide. ![]() ![]() After Louis de Point du Lac’s less-than-flattering portrayal of his maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, the Brat Prince himself takes center stage in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, the second installment in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Christina Thompson’s wonderfully researched and beautifully written narrative brings these two stories together, gloriously and excitingly. “To those of the western hemisphere, the Pacific represents a vast unknown, almost beyond our imagining for its Polynesian island peoples, this fluid, shifting place is home. Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MARGARET FULLER: A NEW AMERICAN LIFE In her capable hands this saga of Polynesia’s scattered islands becomes a comprehensive and dramatic history of our planet and the ways its peoples, creatures, vegetation, land forms, and waters interacted over the centuries and eons since the world began. “I have rarely read so exciting and companionable a narrative as Christina Thompson’s Sea People. It’s a compelling story, beautifully told, the best exploration narrative I’ve read in years.” - Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB “Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all-the exploration and settlement of the vast Pacific Ocean by stone-age Polynesians-and every word is true. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islams One Million White Slaves. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. ![]() Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Regardez le Salaire Mensuel de Quiero Escanear Con Mi Impresora Epson 元80 en temps réel. This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sky is Falling (1989) begins in August 1940, when ten-year old Norah Stokes is having the best summer of her life. I had been a bit scared to try them again as an adult – how could they possibly live up to my memories? – but am thrilled to report that I love them now just as much if not more than I did as I child. I cried over them, I sighed over them, and I came away from them with a fascination for wartime social history which, as you well know, has stuck with me through the years. I can’t remember if I got the books from the school library or the public library, or even if I purchased them for myself (my parents’ book-buying ban having already been in place by then), but I do know that over the next four years I read them over and over again, absorbing every detail about the lives of Norah and Gavin Stokes, two English children evacuated to Canada during the Second World War. ![]() I think I was eight when I first read The Guests of War Trilogy by Kit Pearson. British “war guests” arriving in Montreal, 7 July 1940 ![]() ![]() The persecution, suffering and anxiety which befalls it for the sake of the truth of the Lord, is to it a glorious joy and consolation. ![]() He spoke famously of “true evangelical faith.” Most often quoted is this lovely yet challenging section explaining new life in Christ:įor true evangelical faith is of such a nature that it cannot lay dormant but manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love it dies unto flesh and blood destroys all forbidden lusts and desires cordially seeks, serves and fears God clothes the naked feeds the hungry consoles the afflicted shelters the miserable aids and consoles all the oppressed returns good for evil serves those that injure it prays for those that persecute it teaches, admonishes and reproves with the Word of the Lord seeks that which is lost binds up that which is wounded heals that which is diseased and saves that which is sound. ![]() ![]() We have too often forgotten the words of Menno Simons, the Catholic priest turned persecuted reformer from whom the tradition takes its name. Christians who narrate their relationship to the nation-state quite differently than we do.īut most recently my tiny adopted tradition has become cool nonviolence has become fashionable (and God help us if we so depreciate the cost of waging peace). Indeed, many Mennonites shirk the label “evangelical,” especially as it often associates us with U.S. ![]() ![]() I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either.Īlthough I’m giving serious consideration to just one. ![]() ![]() The school certainly does.īut the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.Īt least, that’s what the world expects. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.Įveryone loves Orion Lake. “The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for.”-Katherine Arden, author of Winternight Trilogy. ![]() ![]() In both the book Expedition and the documentary Alien Planet, Darwin IV is the first planet with complex life explored by humanity and where most of the events in both media happen.Ĭompared to Earth, the planet has far less surface water being only 5% covering the surface, which is mostly locked by the Amoebic matrix, and the rest of the water is found in the atmosphere, as well as in the polar caps and subterranean aquifers that protrude across the planet as small puddles. ![]() With a very dense atmosphere and little gravity, it is home to a large number of complex organisms characterized by lack of eyes and rely mainly on echolocation and infrared vision, with different and aberrant forms and sizes. ![]() Small water bodies, the largest body of water is covered by a major superorganismĭarwin IV is a small desertic rocky planet, the fourth planet in the Darwin Binary System formed by 6 planets, is 6.5 light years away from Earth's Solar System. Oxygen-rich (too much for human breathing)ĭeserts and mountains, with a few areas of vegetation ![]() Darwin IV from the Documentary Alien Planet ![]() ![]() ![]() Some (imaginary) authors, the text says, disagree about whether his name was Quijada ("jaw") or Quesada, although by reasoning ("conjeturas verosímiles") one could arrive at the name Quijana. Alonso Quijano/Don Quijote is the leading character of the 1605/1615 novel Don Quijote de la Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes.Īt the outset of the work (Chapter 1 of Part I) we are informed that there is confusion about what his name is. Illustration by Wilhelm Marstrand (1810–1873).Īlonso Quijano ( Spanish: spelled Quixano in English and in the Spanish of Cervantes' day, pronounced ) is the personal name of the famous fictional hidalgo (lowest nobility caste) who is better known as Don Quijote, a name he invents after either falling into or feigning insanity. ![]() Alonso Quijano (seated) beside his squire Sancho. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The latest (and last Sobol-written) installment, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer Scheme, will be released in October. ![]() Sobol also wrote a series called Two-Minute Mysteries. It was adapted as a newspaper comic strip and a TV series. The Encyclopedia Brown series was translated into 12 languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide, according to Penguin. One that came to mind is the wonderful Great Brain series, about a mischievous older brother named "The Great Brain," who exploits in small Utah town at the turn of the century are told by his younger brother. Hearing about Sobol's death, I was reminded of other books about boy or girl protagonists solving mysteries and scheming to do cool things. ![]() That was a novel premise, to give that role of "the muscle" to a girl. She also could stand up to Bugs, and was Encyclopedia's bodyguard. Credit his best pal (and girl Friday) Sally Kimball: older, stronger and sometimes smarter. And I came up with a hundred schemes a summer to make money, trick the bully, or otherwise engineer a scenario to be the smart one who would sweep in to save the day.īut Encyclopedia's success wasn't only due to his problem-solving prowess. I lived vicariously through Encyclopedia Brown. I wasn't actually all that great at solving the mysteries. ![]() |