![]() ![]() You can absolutely read this series as a stand-alone and not be lost. More fighting and a less loving, but it works for this group of protagonists. ![]() This is series is set in the same world as their Beyond and Gideon’s Riders series’, but it has a completely different feel. What I got was a sexy, badass, competency, road trip adventure. I wasn’t sure what to expect, maybe less heat and more action and adventure. This book was one of my most anticipated of the year and I was willing to do almost anything for a copy. This is also their first book that I’ve read that wasn’t self-published and when I tell you I had to practically beg for a copy, I’m not exaggerating. They may have made you, but what you do with that will always be your choice.ĭeal with the Devil is the first book in Kit Rocha’s new Mercenary Librarians series. “They don’t own you– that was a lesson I had to learn. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the 13-year-old shot to death by teenagers who had just left a Klan rally. ![]() Lewis’s account in March Book Three, vividly dramatized by writer Aydin & artist Powell, contains many powerful moments. Eventually, after the historic “Bloody Sunday” March on March 7th, 1965 in Selma, Alabama (depicted as the most horrific experience ever, with nonviolent protestors mercilessly beaten by cops on Governor Wallace’s orders), President Johnson throws his total support behind the Voting Rights act. But brutal police treatment, attacks by racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, and internal politics, almost undermine the movement. This is the Big One! Congressman John Lewis’s graphic novel/memoir trilogy concludes with March Book Three, which focuses on the events leading up to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And quite a lot of blood got spilled along the way.Īfter the awful firebombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1963 which left four young girls dead, the young Lewis, Chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), steps up efforts to allow African Americans to vote in the South. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m particularly enthralled by the variety of creatures. The spectacular artwork continued to draw me into this world, despite the muddled plot. It all became rather confusing, especially when taken together with trying to follow all the lore of the Elder Gods. She delves further into her past and her heritage and I think she has grown more accepting of the demon inside of her.īrief episodes of back story are interspersed with the main plot, as well as glimpses of conversations and events in other lands with side characters. Pontus is attacked while Maika struggles to help protect the city. The fox-child Kippa discovers other fox refugees, and while she searches for her family Master Ren meets with his nekomancer bosses who have their own ideas about what he needs to do. At the same time, her companions explore the city. However, the Pontus shield is inoperable and Maika is enlisted to help repair it. ![]() ![]() Themes related to immigration and young women’s taking charge of their lives don’t quite lift this awkwardly written volume above other royal romances. ![]() While the violent climax may be upsetting, the book ends on a hopeful note. Romance readers will enjoy the usual descriptions of dresses, jewelry, young love, and discreet kisses, although many characters remain cardboard figures. When Hollis learns of political machinations that will affect her future in ways that she abhors, she faces a difficult decision. Hollis relies on the family to teach her about Isolten customs and secretly falls in love with Silas, the oldest son, even though a relationship with him would mean relinquishing Jameson and the throne. There has been bad blood between the two countries, not fully explained here, and when an exiled Isolten family also comes to court, Jameson generously allows them to stay. ![]() Hollis gets caught up in a whirl of social activity, especially following an Isolten royal visit. Her friend Delia Grace has more knowledge of history and languages but is shunned due to her illegitimate birth. The independent teenager makes Jameson laugh, but she lacks the education and demeanor people expect in a queen. ![]() In an imagined setting evoking medieval England, King Jameson of Coroa pursues Hollis Brite. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The real story of Bush and Cheney is a far more fascinating tale than the familiar suspicion that Cheney was the power behind the throne. He brings to life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era marked by devastating terror attacks, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and financial collapse. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency. ![]() ![]() Her illustrated Moomin books, which began to be published just after the second world war, brought her phenomenal acclaim and devotion. ![]() Klovharun encapsulates something of Jansson’s originality as an artist and writer – and her human presence. The island meant “privacy, remoteness, intimacy, a rounded whole without bridges or fences”. For 18 years she and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent long summers there, heading out from Helsinki as soon as the ice broke in April, leaving only in early October. It has scarcely any foliage, no running water and no electricity. ![]() Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000 sq metres – and isolated, “a rock in the middle of nowhere”, according to Jansson’s niece, Sophia. I n 1964, when she was in her 50s, the Moomin creator Tove Jansson settled on her dream island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only 2 reusable tote bags can eliminate the waste of materials and energy needed to produce those 200 grocery bags. If someone makes 2 trips to the grocery store each week, and takes home 2 grocery bags per trip, that results in using over 200 grocery bags per year. ![]() Much of this trash is recycled, yet even small changes in daily life can make a big difference in waste production. And only about 1.5 pounds of that waste is recycled.Ĭommon trash consisting of items such as product packaging, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, furniture, appliances, and all other discarded items results in over 250 million tons of trash per year. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that on average, each person creates about 4.5 pounds of waste per day. ![]() The most effective way to cut down on the waste and pollution that we produce is by actively performing the “3 Rs” of conservation: reduce, reuse, and recycle. ![]() ![]() ![]() It makes you want to love yourself and those around you just a little more, if not at least giving them a chance. ![]() ![]() "Everything, Everywhere, All at once" is so fresh, zany and bizarre yet holds an audience's heart so closely with its themes that its authenticity is unquestionable. I also want to talk about the hints of HK cinema in it, where a lot of scenes feel inspired by Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow sensibilities but feel driven so much further with complex character stories that not only make you weep but laugh with joy. While simultaneously blasting the audience with powerful themes of self-discovery and familial relationships. At its core is a heartfelt dramedy set on the premise of a high concept modern sci fi full of quirky visual style and well choreographed martial arts. This is the type of filmmaking that truly hits all the right notes for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dante draws on medieval Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy derived from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Allegorically, the poem represents the soul's journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin ( Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life ( Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul's ascent to God ( Paradiso). The poem discusses "the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward", and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. ![]() The Divine Comedy ( Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation: ) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. He has three children and lives in the Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. Ricardo follows the ways of his Kewa Pueblo heritage and teaches on the reservation. His wry and often poignant humor pokes fun at both the white man and the Indian. Ricardo Caté has been drawing the daily cartoon for the Santa Fe New Mexican since 2006. Without Reservations is always thought-provoking whether it makes you laugh, smirk, or just enjoy the diversity of thought to be found in Indian Country.” Actor Wes Studi says, “Caté’s cartoons serve to remind us there is always a different point of view, or laughing at every day scenes of home life where Indian kids act just like their brethren of different races. “Caté hits on the irony native people feel and express in humor.” ―Larry Cespooch, Ute Indian filmmakerĬartoonist Ricardo Caté describes Indian humor as the result of “us living in a dominant culture, and the funny part is that we so often fall short of fitting in.” His cartoon column, Without Reservations, is a popular daily dose in the Santa Fe New Mexican. ![]() |