![]() It's the first book in the Monsters & Muses series, and while it is a standalone, it contains side plots and themes that are not immediately resolved. *Promises and Pomegranates is a full-length, standalone, dark contemporary romance based loosely on the framework/characters from the Hades and Persephone myth. Shattered her virtue and devoured her soul like a succulent pomegranate.Įmbedded my evil as deep as I could possibly get and tried to set her free. ![]() ![]() Goddess of springtime, lover of poetry, angel of my nightmares. Full Book Name:Promises and Pomegranates (Monsters and Muses, 1) Author Name:Sav R. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises. ![]() Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares. ![]()
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![]() It was described by Michael Moorcock as “the outstanding fantasy book of the 80s”. However, it is with fantasy that he is most closely associated.ġ984 saw the publication of Mythago Wood, winner of the BSFA and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel, and widely regarded as one of the key texts of modern fantasy. His first published story appeared in New Worlds magazine in 1968 and for the early part of his career he wrote science fiction, such as Eye Among the Blind and Where Times Winds Blow. Holdstock received an MSc in Medical Zoology and spent several years in the early 1970s in medical research, before becoming a full-time writer in 1976. In later years, he lived in London but escaped to the forest whenever possible. Robert Holdstock was born in a remote corner of Kent in 1948, sharing his childhood years between the bleak Romney Marsh and the dense woodlands of the Kentish heartlands. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Late Medieval Religion: Conventional Cults, Purgatory and Devotional Reading, Popular Religious Knowledge, Mysticism and the New Devotion, Mysticism and ReformationĢ. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: ![]() Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed " An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. ![]() ![]() ![]() To give you an idea of the process, I usually write my online blog pretty much exactly as I would say it. If you want to dig through all the old posts, though (41 in total), you will get all the information. So with the book, the information is easier to find, easier to follow and laid out in more logical manner. An editor and I spent a lot of time editing and refining the material closely to make sure it is easy to understand and logical to follow. The added cost comes with a publisher, which have publishing, distribution and other costs. As with all my books, all the information in the book has already been covered in my regular blog posts – on my site or on Since the information is free for everybody, why buy the book? ![]() ![]() I’m happy to announce that my latest book, The Diabetes Code was released on April 3rd, which is a follow on to The Obesity Code but with information specific for reversing and preventing type 2 diabetes. ![]() ![]() Isn’t it?Ī tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space. Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. They have nothing in common-save that they’re the best, and they’re alone. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. That’s how war works, right Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. ![]() Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. ![]() So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters-and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author uses rich archival detail to support both claims. The second concerns the suggestion that there was deliberate negligence on the part of British intelligence and leadership who recognized strategic advantage in the ship being attacked in terms of its potential to draw Americans into the war as allies. The first is that the author is sympathetic to the captain of the Lusitania who was somewhat maligned after the event by those who sought to blame the sinking of the ship on his incompetence. Two central thesis are developed throughout the book. ![]() The general story line is chronological and the various perspectives alternate throughout the telling. Larson weaves this story by offering alternating views of the captain of the Lusitania, the commander of the sub that sank it, the passengers aboard the ship, British naval intelligence officers, and President Wilson. ![]() The summary is followed by an analysis of the book’s strengths and weaknesses. ![]() This review follows along the chronological storyline of the book, and includes special attention to the extensive detail offered by the author. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by bestselling author Erik Larson offers a detailed look into the sinking of the British passenger ship the Lusitania by a German U-boat near the start of WWI. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess I should have had more dental work. Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse “I’ve been writing about teen girls for 25 years and have never come close to what Raina has so magically captured in her funny, sad, inspiring and touching story. ![]() I so enjoyed reading it, I couldn’t put it down.” You don’t need to have had braces to appreciate the message in this graphic novel. This book belongs in every school and on every family bookshelf. School Library Journal “Raina…shares her ordeal with orthodontics, appearance, ridicule and pain with warmth, dignity and insightful humor. Booklist “Telgemeier’s book is an excellent addition to middle school literature.” Publishers Weekly “Telgemeier’s storytelling and full-color cartoony images form a story that will cheer and inspire any middle-schooler dealing with orthodontia.” KIRKUS Reviews “A charming addition to the body of young adult literature that focuses on the trials and tribulations of the slightly nerdy girl…This book should appeal to tweens looking for a story that reflects their fears and experiences and gives them hope that things get easier.” New York Times Book Review “An utterly charming graphic memoir of tooth trauma, first crushes and fickle friends, sweetly reminiscent of Judy Blume’s work…Irresistible, funny and touching – a must read for all teenage girls, whether en-braced or not.” Raina Telgemeier is the author of Smile (4.24 avg rating, 256553 ratings, 12228 reviews, published 2009), Drama (4.20 avg rating, 134843 ratings, 7177 re. “It hits home partly because there is nothing else out there like it.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL2000406W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.35 Pages 230 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0399237518 Urn:lcp:thwonkbaue00baue:epub:a09bb7c7-2395-46d4-8201-d26b9af2f67e Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier thwonkbaue00baue Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t22b9zv70 Isbn 0440219809ĩ780385320924 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition photographer in Thwonk (Delacorte, 1995), my second YA novel. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:56:15 Boxid IA121119 Boxid_2 CH104201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor I work in humor because I believe that humorous books teach young people to use laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Laufer's first major exposure to immigration issues dates to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980, when he reported from Afghan refugee camps for NBC Radio. Nightmare Abroad was a pioneering study of Americans incarcerated overseas. Cocaine Hunger was the first network broadcast to literally trace the drug from the jungles of Bolivia to the streets of America, and alerted the nation to the avalanching crises caused by the consumption of crack cocaine. ![]() A Loss for Words exposed the magnitude and impact of illiteracy in America. ![]() Hunger in America documented malnutrition in our contemporary society. Healing the Wounds was an analysis of ongoing problems afflicting Vietnam War veterans. While a globe-trotting correspondent for NBC News, Laufer also reported, wrote, and produced several documentaries and special event broadcasts for the network that dealt with social issues, including the first nationwide live radio discussion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. ![]() He is the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Peter David Laufer is an independent American journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker working in traditional and new media. ![]() ![]() ![]() And a case seventeen years dead came murderously to life again. "Like mother, like daughter," some said-though never within hearing of Shana Timberlake who, whatever her faults, still mourned her murdered child.Īnd then, by sheer fluke, the cops stumbled on Bailey Fowler. ![]() ![]() After all, everyone knew Jean was a wild kid. They weren't even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men's prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. The people of the town don't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been convicted. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake was found. Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature being a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. ![]() |