5/12/2023 0 Comments Alexandra ivy hunt the darkness![]() ![]() The search won't be easy with Roke shadowing Sally's every move. She's on the hunt for her demon father, whose identity holds the key to releasing the spell. The trouble is, she has no idea how.Mating with Roke was an accident at least that's what Sally keeps telling herself. ![]() The pair will remain bound for eternity unless Sally breaks the spell. Yet somehow he's allowed the unthinkable to happen: a nymph-like witch named Sally has used her magic to trick Roke into mating with her. "The vampire Roke is raw, sensual, always in control. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Diana's Eastern cousin Lillian brings Corson, a lawyer, to try to seize the ranch and gold mine. The Wainwrights pretend that Henders had agreed to a sale, but Diana knows better. Henders will bequeaths his property to his brother John back East so that he can take care of Diana, but John dies too. Henders is mortally wounded in the battle. However, when they are attacked by Indians during the roundup, he runs rather than defend her. She is intrigued by Wainwright's Eastern-educated son Jefferson, who proposes marriage. Rich Easterner Wainwright tries to buy the mine and ranch for a low price, but Henders refuses the offer and discusses the property's true value with Diana. The cowardly sheriff does not take action on the robberies. ![]() The local stage is repeatedly robbed of gold bullion from the owner's mine, and Bull is suspected. Competing for his daughter Diana, ranch hand Colby sabotages recovering alcoholic foreman Bull, and takes his job. Elias Henders is the prosperous owner of a ranch and a gold mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends - and the Empire? especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished - and so has Mary’s friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!Īs they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock’s kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club. Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Book 3), Saga Press, 2019. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Book while justice sleeps![]() ![]() ![]() It is as if the disparate parts of her life - the public-policy part, the nerdy, abstruse-topic part and the popular-culture-consuming part - are finally coalescing. It is hard to imagine that anyone who followed the 2020 election does not know who Stacey Abrams is.Īnd so for her latest book, “ While Justice Sleeps,” a legal thriller about a Supreme Court justice whose descent into a coma plunges the court, and the country, into turmoil, Abrams, 47, has used her own name on a novel for the first time. ![]() Eager to keep her worlds separate, she used the nom de plume Selena Montgomery, a homage to the “Bewitched” actress Elizabeth Montgomery.Ībrams went on to write seven more Selena Montgomery books (one of which, “Never Tell,” is in development with CBS), as well as two nonfiction works under her own name, while pursuing her day jobs as a tax lawyer, business owner, state lawmaker, candidate for governor and voting-rights advocate, to name a few. ![]() Stacey Abrams published her first book - “ Rules of Engagement,” a romance novel about a brilliant undercover agent and her smoking-hot colleague - while a student at Yale Law School. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Awakenings dr oliver sacks![]() He even lived through San Francisco in the 1960s.īut to me, the most fearless and adventuresome aspect of his long life (he’s nearing 80) has been his courageous expeditions into the darkest interiors of the human skull-his willingness to risk losing his mind to find out more about what goes on inside ours. He’s sailed fragile craft to the remotest Pacific isles and trekked through the jungles of Oaxaca. He has gone to the limits of the physical globe, almost losing his life as darkness fell on a frozen Arctic mountainside. And indeed that’s how he looked when I spoke with him recently, in his comfy-couched consultation room.īut Oliver Sacks is one of the great modern adventurers, a daring explorer of a different sort of unmapped territory than braved by Columbus or Lewis and Clark. Cumulatively, they give the impression of a warm, fuzzy, virtually cherubic fellow at home in comfy-couched consultation rooms. ![]() ![]() It certainly is if all you do is look at the author photos on the succession of brainy best-selling neurology books he’s written since Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat made him famous. ![]() It’s easy to get the wrong impression about Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sorting Hat, which reads the minds of Hogwarts' new pupils and assigns them to a house, is easier to explain. ![]() ![]() This has not been noted in any of JK Rowling's commentaries, so presumably the wizards have found a solution to this uncomfortable problem. Quidditch players would have the perverse experience of having their bones held up by flesh. ![]() The force resulting from diamagnetism depends on the material in the field, so flesh would be lifted more than bone. Usually we think of magnets only influencing metals, but a sufficiently intense magnetic field can induce a so-called diamagnetism in anything and thereby lift it.Īlthough the biggest object lifted by Muggles is a frog at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory, there is no reason why the grounds of Hogwarts should not be riddled with super-strong magnets. My favourite explanation is based on magnetic levitation. He has inter viewed the world's best Muggle scientists to identify the explanations behind everything from the Mirror of Erised to the Invisibility Cloak.įor example, how do broomsticks such as the Nimbus 2002 fly? Highfield discusses aerodynamics and the concept of anti-gravity with eminent boffins such as Ron Koczor of Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Centre. Having explored the science of Christmas, science journalist Highfield has moved on to unravel the theories that underpin the phenomena in the world of Harry Potter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anime season 2 covers volumes 5-7 plus another short story from volume 8.Extra Edition is a "movie" whose first half recaps anime season 1 and whose second half is an entirely-optional but fun filler story.The shortest of the stories from volume 8, taking place just before Progressive volume 1, was never adapted. This is the Aincrad arc (volumes 1-2 and part of 8) and Fairy Dance arc (volumes 3-4). Anime season 1 covers volumes 1-4 plus one of three short stories from volume 8.Your four bullet points are mostly correct, though the Alicization anime added a handful of tie-ins to Ordinal Scale in its first few episodes.īasically, if you want the full main story, read the light novels in numerical order. Alicization: War of Underworld will presumably be LNs 15-18. Read Progressive after watching seasons 1 and 2. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Rabbit In Red by Joe Chianakas![]() “They say write the book that you’d want to read or write the story you would want to be a part of.”īill and Jamie end up being in a fright fest contest at a studio called Rabbit in Red, with the grand prize of making their own movie. “It has a little bit of what I call the heavy reality, but at the same time, the story itself started on this idea of pure fun for horror fans, for fans of the movies and the books,” he said. something bad has happened in their past.”īill’s dad is murdered by a home intruder and Jamie’s uncle commits suicide. I really wanted to take these young adults on the bridge of adolescence to adulthood,” Chianakas said. ![]() In the first book, the two characters are Bill Wise and Jamie Stein. “Rabbit in Red” is part of a series, of which Chianakas has completed two installments. The publishers like Random House, they want someone with experience who they are going to be able to sell,” he said.Ĭhianakas is gathering experience with the publishing company, which he said is helping him become a better writer by learning from other authors in the group. ![]() “The challenge, of course, it’s like any job. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While reading the book, I felt like all the five people in heaven are a metaphor of my experiences in life. Like the book’s main character, I’ve met a few people who have changed my perception of life. For some people, this Mitch Albom book can help them see the world a bit differently.īut, the thing I really like about this book is that it mirrors some of my philosophies and beliefs. But, oftentimes, the best and most impactful words of wisdom come from a page-turning fiction novel.Īnd, the Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom is, no doubt, one of those books. Sure, there are plenty of things you can learn from the self-help section. And, the most powerful stories, just like The Five People You Meet In Heaven, even change our lives forever. What’s more, these books help shape our future, give us new perspectives and influence the way we think. With their spellbinding plots and fascinating characters, they transport us into alternative universes and take us on epic adventures. Novels can be eye-opening and incredibly inspiring. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Happy grant morrison comic![]() ![]() ![]() The second season, honestly, what’s amazing is that all the characters that people loved in the first one, they get so much more to do, they grow in the most bizarre directions. I think HAPPY!’s got something, a certain soul that comes from that little horse. He developed HAPPY! for television with director Brian Taylor.ĪSSIGNMENT X: Congratulations on the second season pickup for HAPPY! Were you at all surprised by the pickup? Morrison, who hails from Glasgow, Scotland, is a prolific writer on multiple comics series and creator of the BATMAN villain Professor Pyg. ![]() HAPPY! began as a graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Darick Robertson. So Happy has moved on to a new person who needs a best friend – the appalled Nick. In HAPPY! Season 1, Christopher Meloni’s ex-cop-turned-alcoholic-hitman Nick Sax is enlisted by Happy (an animated being in an otherwise live-action show, voiced by Patton Oswald), the flying blue unicorn imaginary best friend of Nick’s little daughter Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo), to rescue the child.īy the end of Season 1, Hailey was not only rescued from the most perverse bad guys imaginable, but she was maturing enough that she no longer needed Happy. Syfy’s HAPPY!, a unique combination of whimsy and mayhem, begins its second season Wednesday, March 27. ![]() |