5/11/2023 0 Comments Wild magic trilogyWitches Borough is dying, and though Mup is the pathfinder, the stitcher of worlds, is she strong enough to mend a scorched landscape and bring the water home? Enter a raggedy witch trailing a storm of ashes: Magda, Crow's mother. Months later, the clouds have vanished, but an equally cursed drought has settled over the castle and its river, now bone-dry. The deposed old tyrant of a queen sent a cursed winter to bury Witches Borough in snow. Third in a darkly enchanting trilogy after Begone the Raggedy Witches and The Little Grey Girl, The Promise Witch opens in a time of heat and thirst. The Wild Magic trilogy culminates in a middle-grade fantasy adventure about witches, courage, community, and the terrors of sudden climate change.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Beast from the east goosebumpsOnly Sane Man: Given that she has to deal with Nat and Pat, how can she not be this?.Kid Hero: She saves Nat at one point from an angry living tree by tickling it so much that it releases him. I Warned You: When the Beasts realize that they aren't normal players after they get tricked by Nat and Pat being twins, Ginger says that she told them that she didn't want to play their game.She has to ask for help from other Beast players, who reluctantly do so. Fish out of Water: She may be very adaptive of being one with nature, but she is understandably not used to dealing with the unfamiliar terrain that the Beasts live in.However, because she got poison ivy on the first day and therefore failed to pay much attention for the rest of nature camp, she is unable to help her brothers get back to their parents' camping site, much to their frustration. Disappointing Older Sibling: When they first get lost, Nat and Pat expect Ginger to help them get back to their campsite because she attended nature camp.Determinator: No matter what stands in her way, whether it be snakes, bugs, moving trees, or even giant beasts, she doesn't let them make her sweat when it comes to saving Nat and Pat and win the game.Big Sister Instinct: She is willing to protect her younger brothers in the forest, especially against the Beasts.When she and her younger twin brothers get lost while hiking, she has to deal with them as well as protecting them from the Beasts. Still, troublemaker that he is, he knows that damaging a lady's good name isn't sporting. He nearly killed one of his two best friends. He's lost a perfectly good bride through his own carelessness. The Duke of Ashmont's looks make women swoon. Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the last shreds of Cassandra's reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister's future and her family's good name along with them. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister can't marry until Cassandra does. This time, who's taming whom.Ĭassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn't shy about voicing. USA Today bestselling author Loretta Chase continues her Difficult Dukes series with this delightful spin on Shakespeare's classic, The Taming of the Shrew. Frank BaumĪ little farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, get swept away into the Land of Oz by a Kansas cyclone. Frank Baum Oz books The original Oz books by L. In his Oz books, Baum created the illusion that characters such as Dorothy and Princess Ozma relayed their adventures in Oz to Baum themselves, by means of a wireless telegraph.īooks by L. Even while he was alive, Baum was styled as "the Royal Historian of Oz" in order to emphasize the concept that Oz is an actual place on Earth, full of magic. All of Baum's books are in the public domain in the United States. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz. For a list of adaptations of The Wizard of Oz through other media, see Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Thirty day boyfriend by whitney gUntil I realize that he’ll be working at the same exact firm, in the office right across from me. Until I find out that Jace Kennedy graduated from law school, too. I’m happier than I’ve ever been, surrounded by new loyal friends, and ready to compete for the lead lawyer position. Now that it’s ten years later, I’ve graduated from Harvard Law at the top of my class, and I’m working at the firm of my dreams. I was a “band geek with fugly-ass braces.” (Not true at all.) Needless to say, I couldn’t wait to leave him and our small hometown of Blue Harbor behind. And in the moments that we couldn’t? Our heated arguments were strong enough to light the world on fire. Enemies from the moment we met, we went out of our way to avoid each other whenever we could. Those were the last lines I wrote in Jace Kennedy’s yearbook before graduating high school. “You are a cocky, arrogant asshole and I sincerely wish you misery for the rest of your life…PS–You weren’t *that* damn sexy… ” Genre: Contemporary Romance (Enemies to Lovers) My Enemy Next Door by Nicole London and Whitney G. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Made in LOS ANGELES by MœbiusThe inscrutable workings of Mœbius’ peculiar imagination drove him far into this territory, and many creators (in comics and elsewhere) still struggle to follow him.Īside from Mœbius himself, the program interviews the coterie from his early years in France at Métal Hurlant, the magazine that would open the space for his distinctively subconscious-fueled, near-psychedelic yet richly textural science-fiction sensibility. You’ll also catch a glimpse of the vast possibilities offered by comic art as a form. If you haven’t read a comic since your childhood Sunday funnies, you need only watch this program to understand why the artist’s passing on Saturday brought forth so many breathless tributes. I don’t know what would constitute a non-banal manner of death - or, for that matter, a banal one - but nobody familiar with modern comic art could believe that Jean Giraud, also known as Mœbius, could possibly have lived a banal life. “I’ll die in some truly banal manner, the way I live,” says the subject of BBC Four’s In Search of Mœbius. The Four Clans are called the ShadowClan, ThunderClan, WindClan, and RiverClan. It tells the story of wild cats whose ancestors passed down the tradition of sharing the forest among the four clans. Into The Wild is the first novel in the Warriors series. All four use the collective pen name of Erin Hunter. Harper Collins decided to green light for a six book series. Holmes used classical themes of love, politics, war, and religion and soon had enough material for a first novel. Harper Collins asked Victoria Holmes to develop a story about a group of feral cats. Sutherland as well as editor Victoria Holmes, who develops the story for the books. The series is published by Harper Collins and is written by the three authors, Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, and Tui T. There are over 80 books featuring the tales and adventures of a group of Warrior Cats. There are six books total in the primary series. Erin Hunter is the author of the acclaimed best selling junior fantasy books for young adults called the Warriors series. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Chasing me to the graveRembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather-tooling skills he learned in prison.Ĭhasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Maureen mahon black diamond queensHowever, like other Black women background singers, Clayton initially didn’t get the credit she deserved her first name was misspelled as “Mary” in the album’s liner notes. She’s most famous, of course, for the ethereal vocals on the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter.” Her soaring vocals open the song, but it’s in the second and the fourth line of each verse following the first and then in the refrains - especially the second refrain, “rape! / murder! / it’s just a kiss away,” which may be the most visceral performance in rock history - that the song belongs to Clayton. While Clayton’s album displays her soaring vocals and her enduring ability to capture the essence of a song and drive it to its emotional heights, she still deserves to be better known, and she deserves a place in rock history for the ways she made songs her own, even when she sang background vocals. It’s her first studio album since 1994’s Miracles, but more importantly the new album allows her to testify about her gratitude for her miraculous recovery from a car crash in which she lost both her legs. On April 9, Merry Clayton will release a new album titled Beautiful Scars. Related: Joan Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted Is Coming to Netflix She, herself, becomes so wholly immersed in the counterculture that it seems as though she might become a part of it. Didion is never concerned with objectivity, but only with telling the story of the hippie movement as she sees it. What makes “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” even more fascinating is Didion’s technique-a kind of “new journalism” that creates a sense of menace and immediacy. While shocking, Didion observed these incidents with her signature coolness. In another, she talks about a neglected young boy who nearly sets his house on fire. But their behavior and the “hemorrhaging” Didion describes in her piece can be unsettling: In one passage, she recounts meeting Susan, a tripping 5-year-old girl whose mother frequently dosed her with LSD. These were primarily runaways and drug-users (and often both), who had fled overbearing parents or simply wanted to "stick it to the Man" by marching to the beat of their own drum. On assignment for The Saturday Evening Post, a 32-year-old Didion got up close and personal with the Haight's psychedelic hippies. |