![]() ![]() ![]() Cassie can feel her resolve slipping.but will she jeopardize her place in a career where she's worked so hard to be taken seriously? And because of the advice her old captain gave her: don't date firefighters. Except for the handsome rookie, who doesn't seem to mind having Cassie around. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crew, even one as competent and smart as Cassie. The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it's an emergency of a kind Cassie never anticipated. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. ![]()
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![]() Combining elements of gothic horror, period romance, and ageless human questions about mortality and love, the stunning and expressive THE SILENT LORD will keep you rooting for its heroes long after turning the last page. In this highly anticipated third installment of the erotically charged graphic novel series, the story takes a dark and foreboding turn as aristocratic vampire Lucardo turns his terminally ill human lover Ed Fiedler over to the god of all vampires in a last-ditch effort to help him escape death. (April 4, 2022) Crowdfunding pioneer Spike Trotman and Iron Circus Comics are helming their second-ever independent crowdfunding campaign for LETTERS FOR LUCARDO: THE SILENT LORD, the third installment in the groundbreaking and popular LGBTQ erotica horror series from Otava Heikkilä. ![]() The Third Installment in the Acclaimed Erotica Series is a Captivating Saga of Immortal Love Told With Stunning and Expressive Art ![]() ![]() Is Now Being Crowdfunded by Iron Circus Comics ![]() ![]() Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainsit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."Ī young girl describes her family's experiences-and her younger sister's antics - when a drought forces them to make their wayon Route 66 from Oklahoma to California.Ī Christmas Tale About the Rockefeller Center Tree The spun-candy-and-sea-spray world of the Atlantic City boardwalk of the 1930s comes alive once again in the powerful artistry of Ted Lewin and the nostalgic story of a young girl who dreams of being the rider of the high-diving horse. KEY: jP = Picture Books jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers JF = 5th Grade and UpĪ young girl sells her horse and raises enough money to buy back her father's tractor, which is up for auction, in this story of a Depression era farm. ![]() ![]() Tenar lives on her own at Flint's property – Oak Farm – and is lonely and uncertain of her identity. It is mentioned that Ged was a bit disappointed in – and did not understand – Tenar's choice of a life.Īt the book's outset her husband is now dead and her children grown up. Instead, she married a farmer called Flint with whom she had two children, called Apple and Spark, and became known to the locals as Goha. For some time she lived with Ged's old master, the mage Ogion – but though fond of him, rejected Ogion's offer to teach her magic. ![]() She had rejected the option of life in aristocratic Havnor, and instead arrived on Gont. Tehanu begins slightly before the conclusion of the previous book in the series, The Farthest Shore, and provides some information about the life of Tenar after the end of The Tombs of Atuan. ![]() Tehanu continues the stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea series The Tombs of Atuan, and Ged, the hero of the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea. It won the annual Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It is the fourth novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea, following almost twenty years after the first three Earthsea novels (1968–1972), and not the last, despite its subtitle. ![]() ![]() Tehanu / t ə ˈ h ɑː n uː/, initially subtitled The Last Book of Earthsea, is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. ![]() ![]() ![]() The larger of the thugs pulled him from the wall and slammed him back into the bricks. “You have the cash,” Adam said, keeping his voice low. Firefern Road sheltered scavengers, desperate and savage, eager to bite, but only when the odds were on their side. The real predators stalked their prey elsewhere, looking for bigger and meatier scores. This was Firefern Road, a place where the refuse of the city hid out among the ruins of the ravaged buildings, gnawed by magic to ugly nubs of brick and concrete. ![]() He should never have wandered into this side of Philadelphia, not in the evening, and especially not while the magic was up. ![]() The three thugs who pinned him to the brick wall looked half-starved, like mongrel dogs who’d been prowling the alley, feeding on garbage. “You think I am fucking with you? You think I am playing? I’ll rip your flesh off your body and make myself a skin suit.”Īdam opened his eyes. “Take off the watch! Now!” a male voice barked into his ear. Where cool waves lapped hot yellow sand, where strange flowers bloomed, and birdsong filled the air. Adam Talford closed his eyes and wished he were somewhere else. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the early years of the twentieth century, inequality was at unprecedented levels, far higher than those of the ancien régime that the Revolution pushed aside. ![]() ![]() ![]() (139) By the end of the nineteenth century, half of the people who died in France had no property at all to pass on to relatives. (pp.127-131) What he and his colleagues had not expected to discover as they studied the accounts was that this concentration would get greater over the next hundred years. At the start of this period, he explains, the concentration of income and property was extremely high, with the richest 10 per cent of the population earning half the total national wage and owning 80 per cent of its wealth. Piketty began his academic career looking at income, wealth and taxation in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This time, however, in his 1,000-page follow up, Capital and Ideology, the political is more obviously personal. In spite of his heroic commitment to data, data, and more data, (in)equality is, it seems, an intimate concern for Piketty. Piketty had, after all, been economic adviser to French Socialist Presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, in 2006. Thomas Piketty’s original, groundbreaking, block-busting, macroeconomic tome, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, first published in 2013, was transparently motivated by a deep concern about growing levels of inequality. In this long–read Nick Spencer reflects on Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital and Ideology’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this conversation, we talk about a health technology called CGM (which stands for continuous glucose monitors) and touch on what Tim has learned from using them. Tim’s latest book Food For Life: The New Science Of Eating Well is his most thorough yet He’s Head of the Department of Twin Research at King’s College London, and, as Director of the British Gut Project, a world-leader when it comes to gut microbiome studies. Tim is an award-winning scientist, professor of genetics and author of four fantastic books, each of which challenge commonly accepted views about food, weight and health. And if this is your first time listening to me talking with Tim, I think you are in for a treat. And if you’ve heard the previous three conversations, there is plenty of new information in this conversation. ![]() Tim was my first-ever guest, five and a half years ago, and I’m pleased he’s returning for his fourth conversation. But, as Tim explains in this episode of my Feel Better Live More podcast, these are just a few examples of new thinking he has adopted on certain foods, since discovering his own, personal metabolic response to them. Controversial views? Perhaps, if heard out of context. And, despite having to watch his blood pressure, he no longer restricts the salt he adds to food. He treats a glass of fruit juice as he would a can of cola. Professor Tim Spector rarely eats bananas these days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Owners who savagely beat their servants and yet couldn't imagine why the slaves resented them, and who seemed genuinely certain their actions were appropriate. But she adds other little insights revealing the nature of people who were slaveholders as well as the slaves themselves. Levy's novel covers many of the known horrors of slavery: children stolen from their parents, slaves treated like animals, and incredibly horrific forms of torture for those who dared to look a white man in the eyes. ![]() When I decided to read The Long Song, about slavery in Jamaica in the early 1800's, I wasn't sure if the geographical difference would change any of the perspective. It was a painful topic, and revealed bottomless ugliness about the way humans treat each other, especially when in a position of power. A few years ago I spent an entire year focused on titles relating to slavery and civil rights in the om the Civil War to the Civil Rights marches in the 1960's. ![]() ![]() He and his family live in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.Ĭopyright 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. Young studied at the University of Illinois, the Art Center of Los Angeles, and Pratt Institute in New York City. He received the 1990 Caldecott Medal for his book Lon Po Po, and his much-lauded collaboration with anthologist Nancy Larrick, Cats Are Cats, was named one of the Ten Best Illustrated Books of 1988 by The New York Times. Young has been illustrating children's books for more than twenty years and has won many awards. There are things that words do that pictures never can, and likewise, there are images that words can never describe." "A Chinese painting is often accompanied by words," he explains "they are complementary. ![]() ![]() He cites the philosophy of Chinese painting as an inspiration for much of his work. Caldecott medalist Ed Young was born in Tientsin, China, and brought up in Shanghai. ![]() ![]() ![]() For too little power, and we become weak. Such is the quandary when it comes to magic, that it is not an issue of strength but of balance. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive. ![]() Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.Īfter an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. Kell was raised in Arnes-Red London-and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. Kell is one of the last Antari- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. ![]() |