![]() ![]() Step into a world filled with glamour and adventure with the second in a dazzling new series by Stephanie Laurens: the queen of historical romance www.stephanielaurens. But danger lurks and hurdles abound in their race to elude the mysterious laird, until a final confrontation on a rugged, windswept cliff reveals what their future life could hold - if both are daring enough to seize and submit to their passionate desires. Villains and rescues are a far cry from Jeremy's area of expertise, yet he cannot abandon a damsel in distress. ![]() Desperate and determined to escape, she seizes upon the first possible champion who happens along - gentleman scholar Jeremy Carling. Brazenly kidnapped from her sister Heather's engagement ball, Eliza Cynster is spirited north from London to Edinburgh. But her curiosity costs her dearly as she falls into an elaborate trap. 'Sinfully sexy and deliciously irresistible' BOOKLISt Eliza Cynster is on the hunt for a husband, and with no potential suitors to be found among the cream of the ton, she knows she must look elsewhere. ![]() The pleasure of your company is requested at thewedding of Miss Eliza. The second thrilling novel in Stephanie Laurens' passionate new series about the three youngest Cynster sisters. In Pursuit of Eliza Cynster - A Cynster Novel (Electronic book text). ![]()
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![]() ![]() While Cujo can be considered the villain, in truth, he is simply a poor, sick animal who was treated poorly and got rabies. Cujo is a rabid Saint Bernard that kills its owner and then terrorizes a trapped woman and her child. One of the most infamous dog villains is Cujo, the star of an early book by Stephen King. ![]() Obviously, there are tales where the dog is presented as the bad guy, but more often than not, they are tools used by evil men or sometimes just tragic victims. Horror novels have long included man’s best friend, and the furry buddies often become such an integral part of the story that the book would not be nearly as good without them. While there have been plenty of novels featuring dogs, many offering warm stories of the unique man-animal connection, there is one genre that has taken a different twist on canine characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() On a visit to her father’s family when she was 12, she went to pick up a toddler cousin. Melanie Mununggurr-Williams describes her father as “dark as night”, her mother “white as clay” and herself “caramel brown”. Others don’t always see you as you see yourself. Many contributors express pride in their European or other heritage as well, and claim other, “intersectional” identities, for example gay and lesbian, disabled, urban, feminist, vegan, Christian, atheist or even emo (“Aboriginemo”). They describe different paths to Aboriginal identity against the background of a nation that has yet to come fully to grips with a legacy of massacre, dispossession and persistent racism.Ĭontemporary Aboriginality is a richly complex proposition. Some had happy childhoods and others nightmarish ones, some grew up in their own families and others were stolen from them. ![]() Editor Anita Heiss has also included the stories of educators, journalists, military veterans, musicians, elders and students, many of whom are here published for the first time. ![]() Some contributors, such as footballer Adam Goodes and opera singer Deborah Cheetham, are well known, others less so. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a mosaic, its more than 50 tiles – short personal essays with unique patterns, shapes, colours and textures – coming together to form a powerful portrait of resilience. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a Frankenstein’s Monster of a movie universe that built its identity as it went along, to the whims of its creator Sam Raimi. And yet, they also change and evolve as the license grows.Īll of this to say, the franchise’s DNA can be quite tough to untangle in any traditional way. They are cruel and gleeful in their violence, and they settle for nothing less than swallowing souls. They are a nasty bunch and they might just be the most sadistic, brutal, and evil entities in horror cinema, easily living up to the Evil Dead name. This is where the universe’s signature demons, the Deadites, come in. Perhaps the only constant throughout the movies is the source of the demonic threat: the Book of the Dead. The version people know and love today is mostly the one from Army of Darkness, the one where he’s at his most quotable. ![]() ![]() We can’t speak of one Ash, but of several Ashes. He goes from typical college student in the first Evil Dead (1981) to punchline-spewing/chainsaw-wielding hero in Army of Darkness. This is perhaps best reflected in how its signature character, Bruce Campbell’s Ash, behaves in each one of the movies he’s in (specifically the first three, then followed by the Starz TV series Ash and the Evil Dead, and the various video games based on the universe). People’s History of the Marvel Universe. ![]() ![]() She slept at the top of the house, in a garret, on a thin, lumpy mattress, while her stepsisters had rooms with fitted carpets, soft beds and mirrors in which they could see themselves from head to foot. She gave her all the rough work about the house to do, washing the pots and pans, cleaning out Madame's bedroom and those of her stepsisters, too. Her new daughter was so lovable that she made her own children seem even more unpleasant, by contrast so she found the girl insufferable. The second wedding was hardly over before the stepmother showed her true colours. Her new husband's first wife had given him a daughter of his own before she died, but she was a lovely and sweet-natured girl, very like her own natural mother, who had been a kind and gentle woman. She already had two daughters of her own and her children took after her in every way. There once lived a man who married twice, and his second wife was the haughtiest and most stuck-up woman in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like all those girls I’ve seen on the covers of books and magazines, the ones on the faded billboards on the side of the road. She makes me laugh, even when she’s not trying to. And she’ll consider some things I say, and other times she’ll tell me I have no clue what I’m talking about. She often sees things in black and white. ![]() She has all these ideas about things-some that carry over from School-and she can be really stubborn. Eve’s the funniest, strangest person I’ve ever met. ![]() Would you be the same for any girl, or is it her specifically? Though being with Eve poses a threat to yourself, you don't seem to mind. So check out this interview, then go pick up the book, out today! Or if you really can stand to wait, then stick around because Caleb is bringing you a chance to win a copy of the book. I fell hard for this boy, and I bet you guys will too. It is hot boy interview time again! Today's hottie is the charming Caleb from Anna Carey's fantastic debut Eve. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is torn between what society has taught her is right, and the love she had for her family. Were her parents traitors? Should she turn them in? Should she tell someone? She found that people she thought were good, proud Germans were being arrested and sent to concentration camps. She went to move her dresser and found something she could not believe. To her dismay, one evening she heard the sounds again, of what she thought was mice. Her father reassured her that he would put out traps and even bought her a cat. Korrina had recently told her Father that she thought she heard mice behind her bedroom wall. She and her friends had been taught to make sweet buns, go on nature hikes, and spy on people that seemed un-German in any way. Korrina is a proud German who is a member of the Fungmadel, which is a youth group for Nazi youth. The setting of this story is in Nazi Germany at the beginning of the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the three of them have very different goals, even as Calla and Anton’s partnership spirals into something all-consuming. His last chance at saving her is entering the games and winning.Ĭalla finds both an unexpected alliance with Anton and help from King Kasa’s adopted son, August, who wants to mend Talin’s ills. Thankfully, he’s one of the best jumpers in the kingdom, flitting from body to body at will. His childhood love has lain in a coma since they were both ousted from the palace, and he’s deep in debt trying to keep her alive. Her reclusive uncle always greets the victor of the games, so if she wins, she gets her opportunity at last to kill him.Įnter Anton Makusa, an exiled aristocrat. Before King Kasa’s forces in San can catch her, she plans to finish the job and bring down the monarchy. Five years ago, a massacre killed her parents and left the palace of Er empty…and she was the one who did it. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches. Synopsis: Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is also a metaphysical conceit, though not the least vague or fantastic. The analogy of the ‘box’ of assorted sweets serves to enhance the effect of the beauty of this imagery. ![]() ![]() Not a single expression exists to confound the sense of the poem, although the last stanza is liable to have a twist in the sense of the words ‘season’d timber’ and ‘coal’.īut, perhaps, more elegantly conceived is the image of spring, comprising pleasant days and lovely roses. The words, included in the poem, all belong to common life. There is the absolute simplicity of Herbert’s poetic diction. There is neither complication in expression nor elaboration in theme. Herbert speaks out his message in a straight and simple way, with the characteristic metaphysical precision. As already indicated, there is nothing abstruse or ambiguous in the poem. This inspired Christian theme, no doubt metaphysical in essence, is expressed in a technique that is plain and elegant. This is the unequivocal lesson of Christian morality that Herbert gives out powerfully, though plainly. The entire world may be burnt down and reduced to ashes, but the quality of virtue, that a virtuous soul possesses, surrenders to no destructive or corrosive force, and survives. ![]() The poet affirms cleanly the perpetuity of the quality of virtue as a moral force to persist permanently in this mortal world. George Herbert’s The Pulley: Word Notes & Glossaryīut Herbert’s Christian didacticism comes at the concluding stanza of the poem. ![]() ![]() Between her father's dangerous obsession with "curing" her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she's in over her head. It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny's first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. ![]() Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. Young Adult Fiction | Trans & Gender Diverse Fictionĭanny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. ![]() |