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A shade of vampire 26/10/2023 ☞ Harley Merlin 20: Persie Merlin and the Witch Hunters ☞ A Shade of Vampire: A Gate of Light (Book 91) She has sold over seven million books since her first novel was published in 2012. or is she destined to the same fate that all other girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?īella Forrest is a lover of fantasy, romance, action, and mystery infused stories with twists you don’t see coming. Sofia's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is the one selected out of hundreds of girls to join the harem of Derek Novak, the dark royal Prince.ĭespite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood, Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to survive even one more night. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains. She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine.Īn island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.Ī quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood. Alternate cover editions can be found here and here
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Fire and blood barnes and noble6/9/2023 Seventh child, a daughter, a useless mouth to feed. Mother taught her all her duties, but without joy. Before, when she lived in her parents’ house, it was much of the same, domesticity and a dreary alternation of pointless tasks. Simple meals accompanied by coarse bread, lessons and readings of saints and martyrs, a few phrases in Latin, these are all the things she knows. Sewing, baking, sweeping and scrubbing the floors. She spends her days in song and prayer, a humdrum existence driven by habit and monotony. The convent was built on top a pyramid, an attempt to vanquish the old traditions, but many Mayan ruins remain around the peninsula. She is a novice at a convent near a small town baked by the harsh sun, a town south of Mérida a town where all buildings are painted yellow and white. She stands near the edge of the waterhole, observing its beautiful depths, her hands clutching her long skirt.Īt her feet there is a burlap sack. Yellowed bones tangle with jade necklaces and gold bracelets in the depths of the cenote, where blind fish and crayfish swim.
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Hickman avengers omnibus vol 16/9/2023 The second volume of Jonathan Hickman's amazing, science-fiction-focused Avengers answers most of the questions of the original but is weaker primarily thanks to editorial requirements.Įarly off, things are great, because the first third of the comic mashes together Avengers and New Avengers as the one team learns about the other. Their desperate, world-shattering actions will leave the Avengers at each other’s throats - and give rise to the Cabal! And as the realities of the Multiverse collide, time runs out for everyone!Ĭollecting Avengers (2012) issues #24-44 and New Avengers (2013) #13-33, Written by Jonathan Hickman, pencilled by Salvador Larroca, Leinil Francis Yu, Stefano Caselli, Mike Deodato Jr., Mike Mayhew, Kev Walker, Simone Bianchi, Rags Morales, Valerio Schiti, Szymon Kudranski, Dalibor Talajic & more, with cover artwork by Esad Ribic. Meanwhile, as the Incursion crisis worsens, the members of the Illuminati struggle with the weight of the burden they’ve shouldered. And the collision of the Avengers and the Illuminati is imminent! But as teammate faces teammate, the Time Gem takes the Avengers on a peril-filled journey into days-to-come - ultimately sending Captain America 50,000 years into the future to witness a true Avengers world! AIM brings a corrupt version of the Avengers into the Marvel Universe. Jonathan Hickman’s epic Avengers run builds to the end of all things! A runaway planet is on a collision course with Earth.
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Bernie wrightson a look back6/9/2023 Bernie’s first published work was a letters page illustration for Warren Publishing’s Creepy #9, 1965, foreshadowing his future. From Davis, he learned more techniques as well as humor. That is where he first learned inking technique. “I’m more of a combination of Ingels and Davis than anyone else…sometimes deliberately draw in the style of Graham Ingels,” he said in 1975. Wrightson pored over the work of his favorite artists (and top inkers) like Graham Ingels and Jack Davis. (He went by “Berni” for years due to an olympic swimmer having the same name, then changed it back.) Bernie Wrightson has long been nicknamed “Master Of The Macabre.” But for the Inkwell Awards and ink artists, it should be “Master Of The Brush And Pen.” Few if any of his era exemplify that moniker more.īorn on October 27, 1948, Wrightson said, “I wish my mother could have waited until Halloween that would have been perfect.” He credits a few different things for his love of the macabre and unique vision: growing up next to a cemetery, three visits from a headless ghost at age four, Catholic school, EC horror comics and old monster movies.
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And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television and Charlie Bucket, our hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!įirst published in 1964, the dark humor and cheerful gruesomeness of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory immediately endeared the book to children, making it an instant bestseller. Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. One of the most beloved children’s stories of the 20th century, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is a masterpiece of pure imagination.
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Stranger & Friend by Nance Donkin6/9/2023 She writes with a liveliness that is captivating, even addictive, not just for children but also for the lucky adults who also find themselves reading her books – again and again. It is this fascination that has kept her motivated throughout her career of thirty years as a writer. Writing became a way to satisfy her fascination with the gossipy details in history, not the boring facts of kings and queens and wars won or lost, but the ins and outs of the lives of the people of that time. Nance was determined to validate authors of books for children and to encourage and make known a good writer for children deserving more recognition, and the Nance Donkin Award, established in her memory, does just that.įormer maths teacher, Anna Ciddor, turned her hand to writing after the birth of her children. Ciddor is the seventh person to receive the biennial award which was established in 2009 following the death of writer and journalist Nance Donkin, OAM, a long-term member and supporter of the Society of Women Writers Victoria and past president of the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council (1967 – 1975). Melbourne-based children’s author Anna Ciddor has been awarded the Nance Donkin Award for Children’s Literature during an event celebrating Australian children’s literature. Anna Ciddor announced as the winner of the Nance Donkin Award for Children’s Literature
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Night job by karen hesse6/8/2023 Leonora Sutter and Esther Hirsch are both outsiders in the rural Vermont town where they live in 1924. This study guide references the 2001 Scholastic paperback edition of Witness. Witness is a winner of the Christopher Medal, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable Children’s Book, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.Ĭontent warning: This guide quotes and obscures the author’s use of the n-word, and the novel contains instances of murder, sexual predation, and racist abuse. The novel explores themes of the vulnerability of children, coming of age, and the importance of taking a stand against injustice. The story focuses on children under duress, and the two main characters, Leonora Sutter and Esther Hirsch, are the focal points of the bubbling hatred and racism that will edge the town into violence. The narrative poems present the plot in five acts, a structure that makes Witness uniquely appropriate for Reader’s Theater. This narrative method exposes the narrator’s hidden biases, and the reader can judge the nature of the character. Hesse writes predominantly from the first-person limited perspective for each narrator, but there are 11 narrators of varying ages and genders who share their unique versions of events in poetic form, often through interior monologue. The novel is written in free verse (poetry without rhyme or meter), with different narrators presenting different poems periodically.
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The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett6/8/2023 But the humans have weapons, of a sort, that can be brought to bare on the demons known as wards, these are magical symbols which are painted or carved onto walls, doors, even windows, and they form a barrier through which the demons cannot break – well, sometimes they do, and when this happens, the surviving people of the Free Cities and hamlets are left to pick up the pieces, mourn their dead, and rebuild for the next attack.īut even though the premise of this novel is simple, it is also elegant and unique. The story, once you boil it down to its constituent parts, is quite simple: humankind live in fear of demons, collectively called Corelings, that rise from the earth as soon as the sun sets and return to the earth just before the sun rises these demons come in many shapes and forms, and all are united in one purpose – the utter destruction of mankind. It is with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of Peter V Brett onto the fantasy scene! I have just finished his novel, The Painted Man, Book One in the Demon Trilogy, and have no doubt that Brett’s talent, abounding in this book, will only grow with time.
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Author of sci fi war with the newts6/8/2023 Čapeks Sprache ist über weite Strecken so neu und frisch, dass dieser Roman, wüsste man es nicht, auch ein zeitgenössischer sein könnte. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, the Newts, who are initially enslaved and. Ein Seitenhieb auf eine nordische Mutation der Molche, mit weißerer Haut und aufrechterem Gang, auf die Deutschland sehr Stolz ist, zeigt Čapeks Weitblick. science fiction story by Czech author Karel apek. Čapek wiederum ging es 1937 darum, die nationalen Konflikte am Vorabend des 2. Eine bisher unentdeckte Molchart, die von den Menschen im Tausch von Perlen gegen Waffen zum Selbstschutz gegen Haie ausgerüstet wird, schwingt sich durch hohe Fertilität zur neuen dominierenden Gattung auf, die Menschen verstehen es nicht und lassen sich die Welt von den Molchen abkaufen, indem sie anfangs Küstenstriche, später ganze Kontinentalteile von den Molchen abgraben und ins Meer versinken lassen.įür mich ein Gleichnis auf die Globalisierung - wir, der Westen lagern kleinweise alles, aber auch alles in Off-, oder Nearshore Länder aus, um die Gewinnspannen hochzuhalten und den Aktionären ihre Renditen zu sichern.
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Peter Hepworth (1948 – 2011) had a successful career as a television screenwriter, including writing episodes for such serials as The Sullivans, The Flying Doctors, The Henderson Kids and Blue Heelers. He had a longterm relationship with writer Oriel Gray, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Nicholas. He also worked for the ABC, earning the attention of ASIO as a Communist sympathiser. He wrote the regular "Outsight" column for Nation Review and was its editor for several years, then contributed to Toorak Times, the eccentric weekly newspaper published by Jack Pacholli (1929-2004). With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted and served in South-west Asia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and New Guinea. He was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and moved to Perth as a young boy. The product of Hepworths own experience, The Long Green Shore recounts. John Hepworth (4 September 1921 – 24 January 1995) was an Australian author and journalist, best known for his "Outsight" column in Nation Review magazine, which he edited for several years. Written in 1947 but not published until 1995, John Hepworths debut novel is a. |