![]() ![]() As compelling and unique a voice for the 21st century as Shirley Jackson was for the 20th. "A story where nothing is what it seems-a thrilling hall of mirrors full of deeply disturbing twists. 'Sundial serves up a deeply, deliciously disturbing family mystery.'-ShelfAwareness 'As if we needed further evidence, Sundial confirms Catriona Ward as one of the brightest stars in horror fiction. The mother and daughter embark on a dark, desert journey to the past in the hopes of redeeming their future. And Callie fears that only one of them will leave Sundial alive… Rob has begun to look at her strangely, and speaks of past secrets. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.Ĭallie is worried about her mother. She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. ![]() She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. ![]() Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street.Īll Rob wanted was a normal life. Authentically terrifying.” -Stephen KingĪnticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more! ![]()
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![]() She’s been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. And even if she does decide to risk her heart on Caleb, there is no guarantee her stubborn Scot will want to risk his heart on her. ![]() When his stay in Boston becomes permanent, Ava must decide whether to fight her feelings for him or give into them. Ava gives in because a) her heart is safe since she barely likes Caleb, b) his existence in her life is temporary and c) it’s by a mile high club the best sex of her life. ![]() Pure chance has landed Caleb in Boston, but he’s determined to enjoy himself – and Ava – while he’s there. And that’s all it is – jet-lag induced insanity – until Caleb, AKA Mr Arrogant Himself, shows up on her doorstep. ![]() Then over the course of their journey home, their antagonism somehow lands them in bed for the steamiest layover Ava’s ever had. Stranded, her last ditch attempt to salvage the trip is thwarted by an arrogant Scotsman, who steals a first class seat out from under her. She’s flying home to Boston for the saddest of reasons when her emotional cloud becomes a real one – of volcanic ash. The universe is conspiring against Ava Breevort. ![]() Genre: Fiction, Romance novel, Contemporary romanceĪmazon | Goodreads Publisher’s DescriptionĪ series of serendipitous encounters lead to sizzling romance in this new book from the New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street and Hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yelena discovered how to use them as communication devices and when her own series starts, Opal is at the Citadel, producing glass sculptures and infusing them with her magic so that certain people can use them to communicate long distance. She has a unique form of magic in that she can breathe her magic into her glass creations. Opal was the sister of someone Yelena tried desperately to help and she ended up suffering as well. We met Opal in the second novel of the Study series, when Yelena was at the Citadel trying to master her magic. ![]() I thought it would be easier to just review this series as a whole….firstly because it cuts down on the amount of posts I’m doing on books by the same author and also because I inhaled these in a couple of days and well, now the books are kind of just like 1 large book so it’s easier this way. And then she discovers that someone has stolen some of her blood and that fi nding it might let her regain her powers. ![]() Suddenly, the beautiful pieces she makes flash in the presence of magic. Until spying through the glass becomes her new power. Opal is an outsider looking in, spying through the glass on those with the powers she once had, powers that make a difference to the world and were her whole world… More than that, she is now immune to magic. ![]() Though she survives, she is forever changed… Opal Cowan had been willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her friends and rid the world of blood magic. ![]() ![]() “Among the patients who were illegally referred to Sterling and New Hope were patients who had no idea they were ever placed on hospice,” according to the complaint, which noted that some received care for more than two years.īonta said investigators had identified at least 30 patients who were considered to be victims of the fraud. The state’s allegations span 2015 to 2021. The two couples could not immediately be reached for comment. ![]() San Bernardino County jail records show that the Canaleses are being held in lieu of $4.2-million bail and court records show that arrest warrants have been issued for the Ibaleses. Nowhere has the hospice industry’s growth been more explosive, and its harmful side effects more evident, than in Los Angeles County. California End-of-life care has boomed in California. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s going to learn that I didn’t become a professional hockey player without having to fight for what I want. I find her and when I get to know her better, I end up spending more time thinking about her than my game, but she’s made it clear she wants no part of me. Get your mind out of the gutter, I’m not talking about it. Now, I have to track her down and bribe her to do it again before every game. ![]() ![]() Imagine my surprise when after spending New Year’s Eve with a woman, I score a hat trick in the next game-that’s three goals in one game for you non-hockey lovers. I’d wear the same socks for an entire year just to be the high-scoring center I used to be. But now the best way to refer to me is desperate. I haven’t scored in eight games and my team owner is talking about trading me. Piper Rayne My Lucky 13 Paperback Jby Piper Rayne (Author) 1,765 ratings Book 1 of 6: Hockey Hotties See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 19.30 1 New from 19.30 Lucky. I prefer to call it hard work, at least I did until my game went to complete crap. The one adjective used to describe my entire hockey career. ![]() ![]() And then I discovered American Sign Language. ![]() Most of my research was on Italian, not on English, in fact I did very little research on English. You need to present a coherent description of the entire way all the sentences of a language work together, so you need to stick to one language, but I would bounce off talking about other languages, and I used English because here that’s our lingua franca. ![]() Last week, I had the pleasure to sit down for an interview with Professor Napoli in her Swarthmore office, to discuss her linguistic research, mythology, violence in storytelling and imaginatively inhabiting other cultural worlds.Įmma: So first, just for the people that read our blog, can you tell us a little bit about your research in linguistics and maybe give a little bit of background?ĭonna: For many years I did what’s called syntax, which is the analysis of sentence structure and phrase structure and I looked at it very theoretically. ![]() I grew up on her stories, including Sirena (1998), Spinners (2001), Breath (2003) and Beast (2004), enraptured by her fantastical and historical settings, many of which are set in foreign countries or have folkloric elements. ![]() Donna Jo Napoli is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and the acclaimed author of numerous young adult and children’s books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ashe decided to examine a part of the legend that has seldom been regarded as central: the story that Arthur took an army to Burgundy in a campaign involving a Roman emperor. That identification, however, rests on some highly worthwhile thinking. ![]() The first two are fairly well-trodden ground, and Ashe tends to rather grand generalizations and summaries when not grappling with the specific details he needs to corroborate his identification. Ashe, author of several British-published books about the light shed on Arthurian legend by recent developments in pre-Saxon archaeology, provides a) a general popular survey of the major texts bearing or possibly bearing on Arthur (from Gildas, Nennius, and Geoffrey of Monmouth to chroniclers of the Frankish, Gothic, and Saxon migrations) b) a brief account of the survival of quasi-Roman values in the post-Roman West and c) a claim to have identified a historical original of the legendary Arthur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He decides not to press charges if she will follow certain conditions he will set, none of which Pandora likes, and all of them which imply them being in close contact once again. Especially when he realizes Pandora-a shit load of fucking trouble-is to blame. When they are caught by security, Melanie spills the beans that Pandora knows the band and to ask the lead singer (Melanie is merely attempting to get security to release them.) So, our sexy bad boy rocker is summoned after the concert, and he's sticky and smelly and pissed as hell. Pandora hates him so much that she asks Melanie to come with her to throw eggs and soiled diapers at him. He is "ripped." And he's back in town with the biggest concert of the year. Pandora, Brooke and Melanie's gothic friend, had her heart broken by a bad boy rocker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. ![]() Through the arc of Seidule’s own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies-and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. ![]() In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy-that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans-and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, American history demands a reckoning. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. ![]() Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whisper seems to be a hopeless addict of the same drug she has come to Gotham to spread to the streets. The gorgeous woman that everyone in Gotham is talking about (including the mayor himself) is actually close to ninety years old and shares DNA with a King Cobra snake. What he finds is shocking to say the least. By turning the rival gangs of Gotham against each other, Ra's planned on using the remaining mobs to mass-produce and distribute his serum.Īfter the beautiful Whisper A'Daire catches the eye of Bruce Wayne at a re-opening gala for Gotham, Bruce decides to investigate the beautiful seductress. Ra's al Ghul has sent two of his disciples, Kyle Abbot and Whisper A'Daire to Gotham city to circulate a new highly addictive drug which promises eternal life, but mutates the user into horrible beast like creatures. Unbeknownst to Gordon and Batman, the Russian has been framed. ![]() Gordon's suicidal rage nearly gets him killed when he storms the Russian stronghold by himself and brings the mobster in. When a mob-hit takes out two GCPD officers, Gordon becomes enraged and confronts the Russian mobster supposedly behind the hit. It's been ten weeks since Gotham was re-opened following No Man's Land and Commissioner James Gordon is returning to work after suffering the loss of his wife. Batman: Evolution is a Batman storyline written by Greg Rucka, with art by Shawn Martinbrough and John Watkiss. ![]() |