![]() ![]() ![]() But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives. ![]() Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly - as soldiers in their army. The voyant prison is a separate city - Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing.īut when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others minds. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's.Originally published in 1972, this striking new hardcover edition features dramatic illustrations throughout by Gris Grimly, giving a new generation of readers a chance to discover the magic. Ray Bradbury Commentary from 'The Halloween Tree' Laserdisc (Audio Only) Jared Hamline 61 subscribers Subscribe 403 29K views 4 years ago 'Halloween Tree' was my first taste of Ray Bradbury. ![]() As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. Read Or Download The Halloween Tree By Ray Bradbury Full Pages.Įight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for televisions The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives with her husband and three children in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kimmery completed her medical training at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. A lifelong literary nerd, she promotes reading, interviews authors, and teaches writing seminars, speaking frequently at libraries, conferences, and bookstores around the United States. Kimmery Martin is an emergency medicine doctor-turned novelist whose works of medical fiction have been praised by The Harvard Crimson, Southern Living, The Charlotte Observer and The New York Times, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() The facts you have garnered with such infinite trouble invariably fail you at a pinch. Its old-fashioned garden was the paradise of my childhood. It was called 'Ivy Green' because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy. ![]() It is most perplexing and exasperating that just at the moment when you need your memory and a nice sense of discrimination, these faculties take to themselves wings and fly away. The Keller homestead, where the family lived, was a few steps from our little rose-bower. It happens too often that your trumpet call is unheeded. The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formula and indigestible dates-unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea.Īt last the dreaded hour arrives, and you are a favoured being indeed if you feel prepared, and are able at the right time to call to your standard thoughts that will aid you in that supreme effort. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob Acres I feel my courage oozing out at my finger ends. “But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, Orual continues to complain about the gods and that the palace was not filled with the “reek of holiness” (62). Does it make Psyche a “Christ figure”? We need to avoid making Faces into an allegory, but, as a symbol or type of Christ, I think that it is true. This continues the theme of expiation in the last chapter. Eerily reminiscent of Caiaphas’s comment about Jesus in John 11:50, King Trom states, “It’s only sense that one should die for many” (61). ![]() When criticized by the Fox for not saving Psyche, he claims to be putting the kingdom’s good before his own family. Probably the most interesting statement is made by King Trom. Its function is to carry forth the narrative and doesn’t offer much in the way of new insights. ![]() Chapter 6 is a short chapter that chiefly relates events in the palace the day before Psyche is to be offered to the god of the Mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I understood the impact of the choice and the subsequent redemption available to overcome the curse.Remarkably, the author sees to it that the protagonists are interchangeable as the story progresses eg: werewolf Vs other characters (never the Nazi’s though)! What was one of the most memorable moments of Lycanthropos? Ultimately, the reader and the werewolf discover the trigger of the curse that occurs when a human being betrays its moral values and beliefs when confronted with the choice of doing the right thing in lieu of succumbing to a worldly death.In certain scenarios, the choice one makes could lead the unwitting human toward a path of evil and carnage, or to ultimate salvation. Throughout this endeavor, the Nazi’s recruit a reluctant doctor/priest to practice hypnosis on the captured werewolf in order to glean an understanding of the curse and it’s causes. This book acknowledges the horrors of the holocaust and the craziness of the Nazi’s insane desire to achieve their notion of a supreme race so there is real history in the essence of the Nazi portrayal. Toward the end of WW2, the Nazi’s capture a werewolf with the objective to clone it into an invincible werewolf army. ![]() What did you love best about Lycanthropos? An Unexpectedly Sophisticated Werewolf Story! ![]() ![]() ![]() Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get awayâ?or even if they want to. Still, each holds something back from the otherâ?dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Yet she stays and he staysâ?drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayalsâ?and cold-blooded murder. New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also helped having the services of a Hollywood actress (Kay Aston) as a beta reader. I had an absolute blast writing this novel. But it turns out they have far more in common than they both realize…and not just the fact they’re both closeted lesbians. The two actresses don’t seem to have too much in common, so Elizabeth thinks it’s all utterly ludicrous. Things gets crazy when Elizabeth discovers that in order to secure her dream film role, she has to convince Summer to pretend to be her girlfriend. Due to a series of unfortunate events, her co-star, breezy LA girl Summer Hayes, gets romantically linked to her, earning Elizabeth’s wrath. Įlizabeth Thornton, a British actress and infamous villain in a US medical show, can’t stand her vapid job and is dying to do a powerful, serious arthouse film that’s on offer. Please tell us a little bit about your newest release, Breaking Character. Lee is also giving away an ebook copy of her latest lesbian romance, Breaking Character, so don’t miss the giveaway at the end of this post! This week’s guest in my series of lesbian fiction author interviews is fellow Ylva Publishing author and evil mastermind Lee Winter, who penned the unique Requiem for Immortals and the popular On the Record series, featuring one of my favorite fictional ice queens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps, together, they can learn how to live.īB Easton is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN, the hilarious, steamy, tell-all memoir that inspired the Netflix Original Series, SEX/LIFE. Why should the end of the world be any different? All he needs are some basic supplies, shelter, and a sucker willing to help him out, which is exactly what he finds when he returns to his hometown of Franklin Springs.Īs society crumbles, dangers mount, and secrets refuse to stay buried, two lost souls are thrust together in a twist of fate-one who will do anything to survive and one who can’t wait to die. Wes Parker has survived every horrible thing this life has thrown at him with nothing more than his resourcefulness and disarming good looks. If she can just outrun her pain until April 23, she’ll never have to feel it at all. ![]() With only three days left until the predicted apocalypse, the small town of Franklin Springs, Georgia, has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, abandoned homes, abandoned businesses, and abandoned people. ![]() “None of this matters, and we’re all going to die.” Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07Q58FWZZįrom the author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the Netflix Original series, Sex/Life) comes an immersive dystopian romance unlike anything you’ve ever read. ![]() |