Akarnae series6/29/2023 Will Alex risk her entire world – and maybe even her life – to save Medora?Įmerging dream-weaver Lynette Noni offers a fresh approach to the popular YA fantasy genre. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings’ world changes – literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.ĭesperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing.
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Glamour Ghoul by Sandra Niemi6/29/2023 Unlike her immortal character, the spotlight and the media had cruel intentions. The book is written by Sandra Niemi, the niece of the actress and TV hostess Maila Nurmi, who created the iconic Vampira shrieking with sex and death. It’s like a history book of the horror culture embarked with the working miracles and the evil of an industry that thrives to destroy and starve someone, both as the struggling actress and the accomplished star. Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi holds the secrets and diary entries of the person behind the seductress. Hollywood especially is aware of the persona, but not of the person. Take on a different shape that shows the real you, the vulnerability and the creator rather than the finished product and you’re the shadow. Take on a character or role and society is grasped by that staple no matter how many times you try to yank it out. Fun home tragicomic6/29/2023 With trepidation tendered by child-like watchfulness they approached the crash site to within 200 yards to witness a craft stuck in rock and sand its charred 30 foot hull shrouded in dust and burned ash had skidded to rest at the end of a wide plough-like furrow the length of a football field. Illustration by James Neff - based on the description by Reme & Jose With their horses tethered as they hid behind a rock in the distant reaches of the New Mexico desert – Jose 9 and Reme 7 years of age at the time – were awe-struck by the sound of thunder and the grinding thud of something strange that came to earth on the Padilla Ranch in San Antonio, New Mexico. What they were sent to do and what they claimed to have experienced was nothing short of what actually occurred to them that frightening afternoon. In August of 1945 Jose Padilla and Reme Baca said they were sent out on horseback from the Padilla Ranch in San Antonio, New Mexico tasked to check on Jose’s father’s herd of new cows. Their personal account of the case displays many of the key ingredients of crashed UFO lore: On August 16, 1945, 20 mile southeast of San Antonio, New Mexico, Reme Baca and Jose Padilla literally stumbled across the remains of what they believe to have been an alien spacecraft. PIG-LIKE HUMANOID ON APPALACHIAN TRAIL / WEREWOLF ENCOUNTER / GARGOYLE - Lon Strickler (Host) Jia tolentino6/29/2023 However, Tolentino said she feels the most free not when she exercises the “cold power” of the individual, but when the boundaries dividing her from others dissolve. “The question that I got so much after my book came out was like, okay, what should we do? I don’t know … I’ve been trying to let uncertainty be galvanizing rather than comforting.”ĭiscussing celebrity culture, Tolentino said that the “most profitable new idea on Earth” is the delineation of human identity as a commodity. “How do you reconcile the fact that on so many of the things that are most important, individual action can often seem objectively, in a utilitarian sense, meaningless and that collective action is the only thing that matters?” Tolentino said. The conversation, sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, explored the sacredness of abortion, feminism’s place in modern culture and how much power the individual has to affect political issues. Tolentino, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection “Trick Mirror,” spoke at an Ezra Stiles College tea on Wednesday afternoon. It has opted instead for an anti-work, “Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime bear era.” Modern society has left the “girlboss era,” Jia Tolentino argues. The enchanted hour book6/29/2023 Grounded in the latest neuroscience and behavioural research, and drawing widely from literature, The Enchanted Hour explains the dazzling cognitive and social-emotional benefits that await children who are read to, whatever their class, nationality or family background. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. 'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora Sykes A conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and psychological benefits of reading aloud, especially for parents and children. Poison ivy thorns comic6/29/2023 They always want something from her that she’s not willing to give. Pamela Isley doesn’t trust other people, especially men. The girl who goes to extreme lengths to care for a few small plants. The girl who won’t let anyone inside to see what’s lurking behind the curtains. There is something unusual about Pamela Isley, the girl who hides behind her bright red hair. This graphic novel by bestselling author Kody Keplinger and illustrated by Sara Kipin certainly didn’t disappoint, Poison Ivy’s fans who want a queer romance with a touch of revenge should definitely pick this up. So when I saw a graphic novel is coming out on the first day of Pride month starring Poison Ivy and a queer one too, I had to purchase it. When she first introduced in the Batman Animated Series, I was in awe and amazed at her. Pamela Isley is unique and deadly, she is not only gorgeous, but also a brilliant botanist. DC Comics has many memorable villains and one of the best villains in my opinion is Doctor Pamela Isley, Poison Ivy. Hide away nora roberts6/29/2023 He’d known from an early age the backbreaking work of plowing a field behind a horse named Moon. He’d lost an uncle and his oldest brother in the first Great War, had grieved for a sister who’d died before her eighteenth birthday delivering her second child. He’d known hunger in the lean times, had never forgotten the taste of his mother’s bread and butter pudding-or the whip-swat of her hand when he’d earned it. When Liam Sullivan died, at the age of ninety-two, in his sleep, in his own bed with his wife of sixty-five years beside him, the world mourned.īorn in a little cottage tucked in the green hills and fields near the village of Glendree in County Clare, he’d been the seventh and last child of Seamus and Ailish Sullivan. And its nature is sweetness-until something happens. Plus, the "parents" and the "children" were actually the same age, so that made it awkward. You know, like tarring, feathering, and publicly humiliating tax collectors. Their response to this irritation started out fairly tame with a few boycotts, but grew into actions that were much more sinister. So, why did Britain's "child" talk back? Well, once Parliament started taxing any and every import in the colonies, the colonists started to get a wee bit irritated. The British, on the other hand, were so warlike that their corporations employed over 50,000 troops, so you can imagine what their government could do.Īwesome to watch, but it didn't bode well for the colonists. The colonies had no navy, no standing army, no means of buying guns, and you could count the number of cannons they owned on one hand. The Thirteen Colonies starting a war with the British was like Jesse Eisenberg entering the UFC ring-kind of a bad idea, but awesome (go scrappy guy!). Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Introduction Criminal Pleasures by Darien Cox6/28/2023 But despite all this, he’s been trying to date again, a challenge after years of marriage, and the women he meets seem to sense his hopelessness.īut things flip upside down when during an afternoon date, a mouthy staffer at an amusement park blurts out details of Kurt’s private life, things no stranger should know. And to top it off, Kurt’s house is haunted. His widowed father’s behavior has started becoming reckless. Newly divorced dad Kurt Varley is having a rough year. And that Lee might not be his nemesis after all. When their holiday plans are abruptly canceled due to the brothers leaving on a work emergency, Jonas snatches the opportunity to at last confront the man who has been making his life hell, determined one way or another to get to the bottom of it.īut the truth reveals a far greater mystery than why Lee doesn’t like him. But Lee never misses an opportunity to taunt and humiliate Jonas with a passionate hatred that seems to have no cause. Since their boyfriends are brothers, Jonas and Lee spend a lot of time together. When the one who’s been tormenting you for months is suddenly the only one you can trust…Ī year ago, Jonas was swept off his feet by his handsome older boyfriend, business owner Richard Taft-a virtual prince charming with a big house on the lake, multiple restaurant franchises, and who only has eyes for Jonas. Off Campus by Amy Jo Cousins6/28/2023 Warning: This book contains cranky roommates who vacillate between lashing out and licking, some male/male voyeurism, emotional baggage that neither guy wants to unpack, and the definitive proof that sound carries in college housing. And if Tom and Reese cross too many lines, they may need to find out just how far they can bend.before they break. Boundaries have a way of blurring when you start sharing truths, though. He'll keep his hands, if not his eyes, to himself. Tom isn't going to let some late-night sex noise scare him off, especially when it's turning him on. But soon it becomes clear Tom isn't budging. He plans to drag every twink on campus into his bed until Tom moves out. You've seen one homophobic jock, you've seen 'em all. I opened Off Campus immediately after finishing, hoping to find more of that, albeit with different characters. Dear Amy Jo Cousins, I recently read your free m/m short Five Dates and I was completely charmed by it. Reese isn't about to share his brutal story with his gruff new roommate. OFF CAMPUS is FREE M/m college romance Disaster bisexual 'I wasn't supposed to have a roommate' Wow, sound travels in dorms World's Best Dad Mama bear BFFs Amz. Kaetrin B- Reviews college / Contemporary / m/m / New Adult / queer / sexual-assault 23 Comments. Tom doesn't ask why Reese Anders has been separated from the rest of the student population. After months sleeping in his car and gypsy-cabbing for cash, he's ready to do just that.īut his new, older-student housing comes with an unapologetically gay roommate. With his father's ponzi scheme assets frozen, Tom Worthington believes finishing college is impossible unless he can pay his own way. |