![]() ![]() ![]() Here, teen Dru returns, a little wiser but still beset by supernatural terrors that would have most girls. Urn:lcp:betrayalsstrange00stcr:lcpdf:d86d4278-5537-4f91-b8a1-516cc536a64d Crow staked her place among writers of dark fantasy with the release of Strange Angels, the first book featuring night hunter Dru Anderson. Lili lives in Vancouver, WA with her children, a houseful of cats, and assorted other strays. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:27:59 Boxid IA162805 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition ed. Lili Saintcrow was born in New Mexico, bounced around the world as an Air Force brat, and fell in love with writing when she was ten years old. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Beezus is also commonly exasperated by actions on her disrespectful sister's part such as writing in a library book, inviting her classmates to a house party without the permission of her parents, and wreaking havoc during Beezus's painting class. Plot īeatrice "Beezus" Quimby, a close friend of Henry Huggins, is perpetually infuriated by the imaginative antics of her younger sister Ramona, who frequently insists upon exhibiting imaginative habits and eccentricities such as wearing her beloved homemade paper rabbit ears while pretending to be the Easter Bunny, dragging a string along behind her pretending to lead an imaginary lizard named Ralph, and being read an irritating children's book about an anthropomorphic, disgruntled steam shovel called Scoopy. ![]() Eventually becoming the first book of the Ramona series, it was originally illustrated by Louis Darling later editions were illustrated by Alan Tiegreen and then by Tracy Dockray. Beezus and Ramona is realistic fiction, written from nine-year-old Beezus's point of view, as she struggles to get along with her four-year-old sister. It is the first of Cleary's books to focus on Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice, known as Beezus. ![]() ![]() Beezus and Ramona is a 1955 children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for A Hologram for the King: 'Absorbing. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here. ![]() In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance. Becky's hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our times–and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. just a little something.įinally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life–and the lives of those around her–forever. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from the bank –letters with large red sums she can't bear to read–and they're getting ever harder to ignore. ![]() Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it–not any of it. Meet Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic – a young woman with a big heart, big dreams.and just one little weakness.īecky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. ![]() Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella’s irrepressible heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() This research project aims to understand the construction of the Chinese heroine within historical romance novels. This romance subgenre also includes romances set in the histories of other countries and regions, with growing representation of characters that hold diverse racial and ethnic identities. However, historical romance encompasses more than just this Eurocentric facet of history. One might think of the recent 2021 Netflix adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Regency romance series Bridgerton as an example of the “typical” historical romance. The term ‘historical romance’ often evokes an image of Regency era Europe, filled with dukes and duchesses, and balls and tea parties. Historical romances are defined as romances whose narratives are set within historical time periods. From Othered to Subverted: The Evolution of the Chinese Heroine in Modern Historical Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() "There are three places called 'Les Moutiers,' 'Monasteria,' in the department of Calvados in Normandy but if he were a Breton, as seems probable, Moutiers near La Guerche may be the more likely place for him to have come from. This was also an occupational name for a person who was the master of his craft deriving from the Old French word maistre, and the Old English word maister. It comes from an early member of the family who was a person who behaved in a masterful manner. ![]() The Masters family name dates back to 1066 when the Norman Conquest of England introduced a plethora of new names and words into Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have great chemistry and feed off each others’ performances. I go back and forth between ranking Michael Biehn or Linda Hamilton as my favorite actor in this film. The transitional scenes between Arnold Schwarzenegger and the endoskeleton feature a droopy, fake-looking mold of the actor’s face (most notable when he’s performing repairs on his eye), but that also has an eerie charm. Lacking motion blur, the metal endoskeleton moves in a herky-jerky fashion like the skeletons in “Jason and the Argonauts.” But that actually adds to the creepiness, especially when the Terminator limps down the hall as Sarah and a badly injured Reese frantically shut the door. While its first sequel was at the leading edge of computer effects, the original marks a delicious one-last-taste of stop-motion effects after the Terminator gets his human skin burned off in the final act. ![]() Thirty-one years later, it has spanned four movies (with a fifth, “Terminator Genysis,” coming in July and giving me an excuse to embark on this flashback series), a TV show and myriad books and comics. Wanting to make his own “Star Wars”-level blockbuster, director James Cameron drew upon the tropes of time travel and robots – and more specifically and controversially, a couple of “Outer Limits” episodes (which is why Harlan Ellison is credited in the closing scrawl) - to launch a hugely popular franchise. “The Terminator” (1984) is a pivotal movie in sci-fi history. ![]() ![]() ![]() " n engrossing narrative about race in America, while honestly dealing with a host of other real-world issues, including familial relationships, friendship, dependency, "other"-ness, and perhaps most importantly, the search for common ground." - Publishers Weekly ![]() With art from the brilliant Nate Powell ( Swallow Me Whole) bringing the tale to heart-wrenching life, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature. Semi-fictionalized, this story has its roots solidly in very real events. The Silence of Our Friends follows events through the point of view of young Mark Long, whose father is a reporter covering the story. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. ![]() This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of two families-one white and one black-who find common ground as the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas. ![]() ![]() Vampires (of course), Witches (naturally), Shapeshifters, Ghouls, Fae. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A vibrant and exciting world of all things paranormal. Jéhenne is about to find the answers she searched for but in doing so she risks discovering that the truth really can kill. Yet despite her Gran’s dire warnings, she is captivated by the dark magic of Corvus, an ancient vampire and powerful Master of the Albinus family. Along the way she uncovers secrets more shocking than anything she could ever have imagined and finds that she is by no means powerless to protect the ones she loves. ![]() ![]() Thrown headlong into this frightening world, she seeks to learn the truth about herself and is forced to trust her own instincts rather than take anything at face value. Her strange and powerful grandmother? Handsome shifter Felix? Or perhaps a powerful vampire whose first instinct is to kill her? Protected, sheltered, and lied to her whole life, Jéhenne doesn't know who to trust. ![]() Taken away as a small child, from a life where vampires, the Fae, and other mythical creatures are real and treacherous, the beautiful young witch, Jéhenne Corbeaux, is totally unprepared when she returns to rural France to live with her eccentric Grandmother. ![]() Inexorably drawn to the dark, Jéhenne Corbeaux soon discovers, Corvus holds much more than the key to her heart. She’s only just discovering her true powers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Using a massive version of their combined weapons they slice through a horde of demons to kill Agak and then Gagak. The author uses the downbeat tone to portray the ending of an era the most beautiful city in the universe will become end up in ruins, the last dragons will fall asleep, Elric will be prone to despair and depression and young lovers will be tortured and separated. Eventually, the groups come to the understanding that these are not towers but living beings! It's then that the incarnations of the Eternal Champions fuse to form a single massive entity resembling a Hindu god with four faces, four arms, and four legs. Each incarnation is given several companions to take along before entering a massive double-tower structure in which they find their respective opponents. Several other incarnations of the Eternal Champions are there, but why? What could allow the laws of time and space to be broken for these incarnations to interact with each other? Could Elric learn anything from that which he used to be or that which he shall become?Įlric is faced with Agak and Gagak, monstrous sorcerers from a dimension too far removed from our reality for most beings to comprehend. ![]() Forced to flee his city of Melnibone, Elric and his sorcerous blade. Elric is faced with his biggest challenge ever! As he lies dying on the shores of an unknown region a strange ship comes for him with passengers from all across time and space. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate: Elric Saga - Book 2 (Paperback). ![]() |