7/8/2023 0 Comments The Offering by E.R. Arroyo![]() ![]() Steam fills the room while I’m hit by a barrage of faces flashing in my mind like a volley of arrows, soaring high only to come down on me, piercing my heart. I thought fighting for honorable reasons would make my sorrow cease to exist, or at least make it bearable, but sorrow is all I know now. Before the flow evens out the water sputters and renders a loud thump that startles me. Waiting for the water to turn warm, I listen to it drawing from somewhere deep within the earth. The pipes squeal as I twist the shower knob. The adrenaline tricked me into thinking I had won. ![]() Until I walked away from battle with blood on my hands feeling more tormented than when I’d arrived. Right up until I dug my knife into human flesh. And I thought I could, right up until the night I pulled the trigger over and over. But I hoped somewhere in the process I would find peace. We fight for things like justice, equality, and freedom. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Switched amanda hocking series![]() ![]() ![]() The first book, Switched, in which a girl called Wendy discovers that she’s a changeling troll with a scary inheritance, has just been published, with the second book, Torn, due out on 1 March and the concluding tome, Ascend, on 26 April. They’ve already been written, so her publishers are wasting no time getting this quirky, pacy series onto the shelves. What this also means is that her book series out in paperback format, The Trylle trilogy, doesn’t require a massive gap between the publication of each instalment. Because Hocking wrote 17 books before she got her first publishing contract, published most of them online in the form of ebooks, and built up a massive fanbase in the process. A few years back, that phrase would have been nonsense, but now, thanks to the internet, it makes a crazy kind of sense. ![]() Young-adult supernatural romance author Amanda Hocking is one of the most experienced and successful first-time novelists around. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Baron spencer vicious![]() ![]() Even the floor was so dark that it looked like I was hovering over an abyss, a fraction of a second from falling into nothingness.Ī ten-bedroom house, three people living in it-two of them barely ever there-and the Spencers had decided to house my family in the servants’ apartment near the garage. The interior designer must’ve been a medieval vampire, judging from the cold, lifeless colors and the giant iron chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. The best amenities money could buy…and except for the tennis court and sixty-five-foot pool, they were all in black.īlack choked out every pleasant feeling you might possibly have as soon as you walked through the big iron-studded doors. I couldn’t for the life of me understand why people with so much money would spend it on such a depressing house. She failed to mention it belonged to the man with the toughest heart in the world. ![]() “You know this is the toughest floor in the world?” That first time, Mama had elbowed my ribs. That day, I stood rooted in place on the same ironwood flooring that never creaked. I’d only been inside the mansion once before, when my family first came to Todos Santos. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. Something is hunting.and it will not stop until it brings a blood-soaked nightmare to life once more.Ĭlay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. Savaged in a brutal attack that almost killed her, Honor is nowhere near ready to come face to face with the seductive vampire who is an archangel's right hand, and who wears his cruelty as boldly as his lethal sensuality.the same vampire who has been her secret obsession since the day she was old enough to understand the inexplicable, violent emotions he aroused in her.Īs desire turns into a dangerous compulsion that might destroy them both, it becomes clear the past will not stay buried. There is something twisted about this death, something that whispers of centuries long past.but Dmitri's need to discover the truth is nothing to the vicious strength of his response to the hunter assigned to decipher the tattoo. ![]() The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Undercover by Eliot Grayson![]() ![]() BUT … Alec thinks Gabe might be involved with the drug smugglers! They first see each other in the book part of Vino and Veritas and are very attracted to each other. ![]() He’s a 26 year old jobless rich kid with a black credit card and nothing to do. Super-cute and colorful Gabe is in town because he doesn’t really know what to do with his life after having been kicked out of grad school. Seriously looking forward to book five.įBI Agent Alec is in Burlington to investigate a drug case. The Vino & Veritas series is shaping up to be so cute!! Set in Sarina Bowen's True North world all these stories are filled with HEA's and two swoon worthy men. When holding hands was all you could get, it felt far more erotic than it had a right to." ![]() "Fuck, I was starting to get why Victorians got so damn excited over a glimpse of ankle. Eventually he won me over, so I am happy. For sure I get what he was trying to do and the purpose of avoiding Gabe, but he was a bit too grumpy a bit too much. He gave me some serious feelings, not all good. There is nothing I love more than a vulnerable man who just wants to be appreciated because he is finally starting to realize his worth. This was my first Eliot Grayson novel, and I was pleasantly surprised after reading some not so stellar reviews. An FBI Agent trying not to fall for a potential suspect.Īn eccentric rich boy trying not to get his heart broken.Īnd someone trying to smuggle drugs out of yoga mats. ![]() ![]() Junior mourns the deaths of many people close to him, all of whom die due to severe alcohol abuse. It's a gritty look at the struggles of Junior, a teen living on a Native American reservation who decides to attend an all-White school. Before that, the book was often banned for its mature content. ![]() ![]() Alexie was accused of sexual harassment in 2018, 11 years after this book was first published he doesn't deny the charges. Parents need to know that The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a National Book Award winner by Sherman Alexie. Main character suffers when his father goes away on a drinking binge - once through the Christmas holidays.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() Alcoholism, drunk drivers, and drunk fighting are meant to reflect difficult lives of people on the reservation. Plenty of drinking and drunkenness, but none is glamorized or done by main teen characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was initially drawn to the book because it looked like one of those Dan Brown-esque action thrillers with some interesting, semi-factual context thrown in (eg on the cover it says “An Ancient Secret A Deadly Conspiracy) that and because I have always been deeply fascinated by Nostradamus and his prophecies. ![]() I also read his blog and it’s actually great, and he seems like a nice guy.īut I have to call it like it is and say that The Nostradamus Prophecies was ultimately a disappointment. ![]() I think he’s a good writer and very knowledgeable when it comes to Nostradamus. Now I will preface my review with the statement that I have nothing against Mario Reading. Enter The Nostradamus Prophecies by Mario Reading (not to be confused with The Nostradamus Prophecy by John S Powell or Theresa Breslin), one of the bargain books I picked up whilst travelling in Taiwan. Tags: Armageddon, Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, End of Days, end of the world, Mario Reading, Nostradamus, Nostradamus trilogy, Novel, prophecies, The Nostradamus PropheciesĪfter struggling through the life of Madame Bovary, I needed something light and easy for my next book. Book Review: ‘The Nostradamus Prophecies’ by Mario Reading Posted by pacejmiller in Book Reviews. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The beautiful myth![]() ![]() Those sources, however, often contradict each other. The love story between the goddess of the moon and a handsome human is pieced together from many sources. ![]() One of the issues historians face in putting together the story of Endymion is that no complete telling of the myth survives today. Whether in Greece or Asia Minor, asleep or dead, the stories of Endymion show just how complicated it can be to get to the heart of Greek mythology. Because of his love for the moon goddess he was put into an eternal sleep by Zeus so he would remain ageless and beautiful forever. ![]() What most stories center around, however, is the love shared between Endymion and the Titan goddess of the moon, Selene.ĭespite the many contradictory stories, Endymion is best remembered for being asleep. Some stories paint him as a Greek king, others as a shepherd in Asia Minor, and some as one of the first astronomers. The confusion is also due to the fact that the story was likely pieced together in the first place, taking characters and situations from two different traditions and cultures.Īncient sources do not agree on Endymion’s lineage, his status in the social hierarchy, or even what continent he lived on. The story as we know it today is reconstructed from fragmentary texts and brief mentions. This is, in large part, because no complete narrative of the myth exists. The legend of Endymion in Greek mythology is a complicated and sometimes confusing one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lussier and Sebastian Thrun, Automatic calibration of RGBD and thermal cameras, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, USA, September 14-18, 451-458, 2014 Held, David and Levinson, Jesse and Thrun, Sebastian and Savarese, Silvio, Combining 3d shape, color, and motion for robust anytime tracking, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Berkeley, USA, 2014.Held, David and Thrun, Sebastian and Savarese, Silvio, Deep Learning for Single-View Instance Recognition, arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08286, International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), In submission, 2015.Held, David and and Thrun, Sebastian and Savarese, Silvio, Real-time 3D Segmentation with Temporal and Semantic Cues, Robots: Science and Systems (RSS), In preparation, 2016.Held, David and and Thrun, Sebastian and Savarese, Silvio, Learning to Track with LSTMs, Conference on Visual Pattern Recognition (CVPR), In preparation, 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ghost has been running for the wrong reasons-it all started with running away from his father, who, when Ghost was a very little boy, chased him and his mother through their apartment, then down the street, with a loaded gun, aiming to kill. That’s all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature ![]() |