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![]() ![]() To ensure their safety, the Arcadian Council sent their most gifted youngsters to Earth to act as protectors. A group of Arcadian explorers discovered a Prophecy that claimed their salvation lay in the hands of two children from Earth. Cut off from their resources, the Arcadians turned to Earth for help. 115 years ago, a small planet called Arcadia was invaded by a vicious alien race and nearly destroyed. Soars and her projects, visit her Facebook page or her blog.īeing a teenager is tough, especially when you have to pretend to be something you’re not, and you’re in love with someone you shouldn’t. When not devouring said novels, you may find her shopping online (she's an expert), blogging about fashion, or trying to teach her daughter to walk (even though she's too young for that). She loves to read novels in the YA, PNR, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, and Chick Lit genres. Soars currently resides in New Mexico with her husband and baby daughter. ![]() A couple of years and a baby later, the first installment of her Arcadian Wars series is finally done. ![]() But the characters in her head kept begging to be set free. With a background in fashion design she always thought she was going to follow that path. She has always been passionate about books and stories and at a certain point had a comic book series going. She was born in the United States but grew up in several different countries which gave her a broader perspective of life. Soars is what we like to call a United Nations child. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lena and her family soon travel to Greece when they learn that her Bapi has had a stroke when they arrive there, they learn that he has died. Then, suddenly, something comes up and Kostos has to leave, leaving her behind to wonder what was wrong. ![]() ![]() They reunite and profess their love for each other, and spend many happy hours kissing. She is shocked, then elated, when Kostos visits America during this summer. They sent letters back and forth until January, when Lena ended their correspondence because she couldn't stand missing him all year. Lena spent last summer with their paternal grandparents in Santorini, Greece, where Lena met and fell in love with Kostos. She has a sister, Effie, who is fourteen years old. Lena Kaligaris, sometimes called Lenny, is a beautiful, quiet, and shy artist of Greek heritage.The book was one of three adapted into a film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008).Ĭharacters The Sisterhood The book is the second installment in a series of five books: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001), Girls in Pants (2004), Forever in Blue (2007), and Sisterhood Everlasting (2011). During the summer, the girls share the pants. The story continues the adventures of four best friends who own a magical pair of jeans that fit all of them, even though they are different sizes. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (also known as The Second Summer) is a novel written in 2003 by author Ann Brashares. ![]()
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Gregory david roberts7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Here he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers and worked as a counterfeiter and smuggler for a branch of the South Bombay mafia. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19 years in prison for armed robbery (with a plastic weapon), he escaped and spent eight years in Bombay as a fugitive. Gregory David Roberts (GDR) is an Australian artist, composer, songwriter, and author of Shantaram, its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, and The Spiritual Path.įollowing the breakdown of his marriage and the loss of custody of his daughter, he turned to heroin to numb the pain, and crime to feed his habit. ![]() Recaptured and extradited to Australia, he served out his sentence, which included two years in solitary confinement as a punishment for his escape. ![]() Following the breakdown of his marriage and the loss of custody of his daughter, he turned to heroin to numb the pain, and crime to feed his habit. Gregory David Roberts (GDR) is an Australian artist, composer, songwriter, and author of Shantaram, its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, and The Spiritual Path. ![]()
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![]() Some of these pieces were surely composed late in Melville’s career, during his retirement, but others may date to as early as the 1850s. These unfinished writings include, besides Billy Budd, two projected volumes containing poems and prose pieces, Weeds and Wildings and Parthenope three prose pieces, “Rammon,” “Story of Daniel Orme,” and “Under the Rose” and some three dozen poems of varying lengths. As Hershel Parker has pointed out, “It is a wonderfully teachable story-as long as it is not taught as a finished, complete, coherent, and totally interpretable work of art.” Furthering Melville’s goal of getting his last literary projects into print, even in their imperfect forms, this last volume in the edition presents the poetry and prose that Melville was unable to finish, his sometimes ineffectual, sometimes heroic purposes betrayed by death. But that assessment is at least partly founded on the assumption that the story was complete and ready for publication when it was left among the manuscripts on Melville’s writing desk when he died in 1891. The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship’s master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a masterpiece, a canonical work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack and Schuyler don’t get much page space and this is disappointing. Deming is a Venator from Shanghai that is trying to help Mimi solve this case. After hearing about this for a while we switch to another perspective, this time from a new character named Deming Chen. The Conclave is threatening to take the vampires back underground. Mimi is now leading the Conclave and trying to solve a crime involving an internet video that shows a vampire being burned alive if she can’t figure out where the information is being leaked she is in trouble. We don’t spend much time with them before Cruz switches to telling the story from Mimi Force’s perspective. The book starts with Jack and Schuyler and we get a brief glimpse of them escaping captivity and taking off to try and find the last gate. Many of the major players from previous books are not even mentioned. The story doesn’t progress much and we are only given painfully short glimpses into what is happening to Schuyler and Jack. This was the weakest book in this series by far. There is a novella due out for this series in December 2010 called, Bloody Valentine the sixth book is going to be titled, Lost in Time, and is planned for an October 2011 release. This is the fifth book in the Blue Bloods series by Cruz. Stand Alone or Series: 5th book in the Blue Bloods series ![]()
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The origins of totalitarianism7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() At the time it seized power the danger to the movement lay in the fact that, on one hand, it might become “ossified” by taking over the state machine and frozen into a form of absolute government, and that, on the other hand, its freedom of movement might be limited by the borders of the territory in which it came to power. This transformation never occurred in the totalitarian, the Bolshevik and the Nazi movements. ![]() In other words, when the time came for the socialist movements to seize power in their respective countries, they had already been transformed into national parties. ![]() ![]() The socialist movement was spared this crisis, first, because the national question-and that meant the strategical problem involved in the revolution-had been curiously neglected by Marx and Engels, and, secondly, because it faced governmental problems only after the first World War had divested the Second International of its authority over the national members, which everywhere had accepted the primacy of national sentiments over international solidarity as an unalterable fact. When a movement, international in organisation, all-comprehensive in its ideological scope, and global in its political aspiration, seizes power in one country, it obviously puts itself in a paradoxical situation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Which members of the expedition are still human, and which are alien impostors? As the ice that's keeping them isolated from the rest of the world begins to thaw, the remaining humans realize they'd better figure it out soon, because the fate of humanity is very much at stake.Īuthor Alec Nevalla-Lee rediscovered Campbell's original manuscript for Frozen Hell in 2018, and it was published the following year after a successful Kickstarter campaign. The alien has the ability to assume the form, memories, and mannerisms of any living being it consumes-while retaining most of its original mass-as well as read their minds and project their thoughts. The story follows a group of scientific researchers in Antarctica who stumble upon an alien life form, which revives after they thaw it from the ice it's been encased in for twenty million years. ![]() The X-Files adapted it twice, for instance, while The Terror is something of a Victorian-era homage. It directly inspired three feature films-1951's The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing, and the latter's 2011 prequel of the same name (and more loosely inspired 1972's Horror Express)-and indirectly influenced several decades of science fiction works by inspiring other authors to rip it off. Stuart in 1938 in the magazine Astounding Stories. Originally an unpublished full-length novel titled Frozen Hell, it was shortened and renamed and published under the pen name Don A. Who Goes There? is a Science Fiction novella written by John W. ![]()
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Bitter frost by kailin gow7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() I love books and this one effected me so much! The story makes you feel like your in the series. I think the author was very bold and for that, she made me a fan." - Sunny The only hint I can give is that it doesn't go down the way traditional love triangles go. I can't really explain it with out giving it away. The author makes it where it will just shock the sh*t out of you. "I have to give the author credit - Love Triangle - very different. She is an amazing author who can weave her magic so throughly that you feel as if you are there." - Jessica Bolton, Book Rock Goddess "I love Kailin Gows books and Frost Kisses is no exception. I love reading Kailin's books." - Jamie Johnson, Fantasy Book Chick blog "OMG.this series just keeps getting better! I absolutely love this series. "This is my first novel by Kailin Gow and I promise it won't be the last! She has a wonderful way of capturing the reader from the start and easily transports them to an interesting and fascinating world of Feyland where fairies, pixies and werewolves exist - a beautiful place where magic is normal and necessary, and a place where humans normally cannot survive." - Theresa, Just One More Paragraph ![]() Gow will be the next it author." - Amanda Drost, Broken Arrow ![]() "Loved this book and am so excited to see what happens in the next one. Bitter Frost Omnibus Books 1-4 (Bitter Frost Series) E-Kitap Açıklaması ![]()
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Long way round 20047/1/2023 ![]() ![]() You also get a good insight into the tensions between the two riders and their support crew, who generally followed a few days behind and got into their own difficulties along the way.Īs a stand alone read, I’m not sure whether Long Way Round would have been as enjoyable. It fills in a lot of the gaps not evident when watching the TV series - you get a more rounded view of what makes these men tick and how their relationship was tried and tested during the journey. The book, narrated in turn by McGregor and Boorman, is delightful. I recently watched the DVD and fell immediately in love with it, so much so I promptly tracked down a secondhand copy of the book to immerse myself in. This book, published in late 2004, accompanies the 10-part television documentary of the motorbiking adventure, now available here in the UK on DVD. I’m often not very quick off the mark at the best of times, but when it came to discovering the wonder that is the 20,000 mile road trip from London to New York (the long way round) undertaken by actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman I am positively turtle-like. Non-fiction – hardcover Time Warner Books 320 pages 2004. ![]()
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The myth of sisyphus book buy7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() La misma que Olga tenía por los perros callejeros. Había sido un hombre amable bajo la sádica necesidad de hacer daño a los demás, y había sentido debilidad por las niñas en peligro. Para ella era una obligación traerlos a su palacio y darles la oportunidad de otra vida. ![]() A seguir acogiendo niños y niñas que estaban en peligro en la calle, en zonas rojas y hogares horribles, con padres o cuidadores espantosos, tal vez incluso carentes de ellos. Implied/Referenced Underage Relationship(s)Ĭon él había muerto la bondad que sólo él podía enseñarle a sentir y, sin embargo, Olga sentía la obligación de continuar su legado en una especie de extraño mimetismo.Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism.Camus’s wartime activities had been carried out at great risk to himself, and when the anti-Nazi forces emerged victorious, his contributions were widely recognized and his stature grew. Olga Babić | Marquise de Gramont/ Simon “Ghost” Riley These works were a novel, The Stranger, and a philosophical essay, The Myth of Sisyphus both published in 1942as well as a play, Caligula. ![]() |