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Fierce heart tara grayce5/30/2023 ![]() Farrendel, however, liked to sleep with that magic barrier left open on his window, letting in the cool breezes all night long. ![]() Elves had a magic barrier around their treehouses keeping them warm and bug free even though their windows were just openings without glass. ![]() It had given them the chance to learn more of each other’s quirks. At least this was a whole lot better than tromping up and down two flights of stairs between his room on one branch and her room on another branch of their section of the elven treetop palace to wake each other from nightmares. Only reason she was even staying in her husband’s rooms was to more conveniently wake him from his nightmares. Between her nightmares and Farrendel’s, neither of them had managed to sleep much in the nights since. ![]() “And you?” It had been only two days since Farrendel had killed a hundred trolls with his destructive magic after the trolls ambushed her, Farrendel, and the rest of the royal elf family. If she hadn’t woken him, then he’d already been awake dealing with the aftermath of his own nightmares. ![]()
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Hitman's Heart by Mink5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 1979: Hardcore ( Columbia) "Easy Slider", "Guardian Angel".2009: Live at Montreux 1994 (Eagle Vision).2008: Live at Montreux 1982 (Eagle Vision).2006: Live in the Lowlands (Eagle Rock).1993: From the Bottom Line to the Olympia. ![]() "Storybook Love (Theme from The Princess Bride)" ^ Although released as a Willy DeVille compilation, all material is drawn from the albums released under the Mink DeVille band name.It consists of fourteen studio albums, three live albums, fifteen compilation albums, twenty-two singles, and one extended play (EP).Īlbums Studio albums YearĬabretta (Europe) Mink DeVille (U.S./Australia)Ĭome a Little Bit Closer: The Best of Willy DeVille LiveĬadillac Walk: The Mink DeVille Collection The discography of American singer and songwriter Willy DeVille includes, as well as his solo recordings, recordings released by his band Mink DeVille in the period from 1977 to 1985. Willy DeVille (right) performing with his band Mink DeVille at the El Mocambo in 1977. ![]()
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The maze cutter james dashner5/30/2023 ![]() The islanders will have to survive long enough to figure out why they are being targeted, who is friend or foe, and what the Godhead has planned for the future of humanity. When they cross paths with an orphan named Minho from the Remnant Nation, the dangers become real and they don’t know who they can trust. They are hunted by the Godhead, the Remnant Nation, and scientists with secret agendas. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of themselves. ![]() Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland-everything changes. Seventy-three years after the events of THE DEATH CURE, when Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. This event will take place on the bookshop patio. ![]() only) please select Book + Shipping ticket option. If you want to buy an autographed book and have it shipped (U.S. ![]() Your $32 ticket includes one hardcover copy of The Maze Cutter: A Maze Runner Novel and admittance to the signing line. This in-person event is ticketed and you must purchase a ticket on Eventbrite. TKE is proud to host NYT bestselling author James Dashner for a discussion and signing of his new book, The Maze Cutter: A Maze Runner Novel. ![]()
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The day she disappeared lisa jewell5/30/2023 ![]() 'I swear her books are masterclasses for authors. A head-scratching, heart-racing, page-turning triumph - I think this might be my favourite Lisa Jewell yet.' LOUISE CANDLISH This is Lisa's best book yet, and she always sets that bar high! Stayed up so late because I couldn't put it down.' ADELE PARKS Gripping from start to finish.' JOANNE HARRIS Most thrillers are in black and white to me in terms of character and Lisa is blazing saturated technicolour.' GILLIAN MCALLISTER ![]() 'Absolutely loved this one by Lisa Jewell - compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern. 'No one thickens a plot like Lisa Jewell. Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.įriends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.Ģ018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence. Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.Īt 11 p.m. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet. I was utterly utterly agog.' MARIAN KEYESĪ cold case. The Night She Disappeared is UNBELIEVABLY good. We both loved it.' RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB ![]() 'A gothic, multi-layered tale, deeply satisfying. ' The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN ![]()
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The lucky one by nicholas5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He discovers her name is Beth Green and she lives in Louisiana with her son, running a dog kennel with her mother, and with an alcoholic ex-husband close by. He decides to go find the girl in the photo and thank her for saving his life. When Logan returns home to his life, he is suffering PTSD and unable to focus. The good luck charm is a photograph he found on the battlefield of a woman he does not know. The plot of The Lucky One features U.S Marine, Logan Thibault returning home from his third tour of duty in Iraq with a good luck charm in his hand that he credits to be what kept him alive. To put it into perspective I have seen every Nicholas Spark’s movie at least three times, but I only saw this one once. Obviously we are still going to discuss this and the takeaways, but as usual I like to throw my two cents in, just so those of you reading this are aware. ![]() Additionally the plot for The Lucky One is very unique, but if portrayed wrong on film it can make Efron’s character Logan Thibault come off as a stalker. Starring the beautiful Zac Efron, and way too old for him Taylor Schilling, my issue with this movie is that the leads lack major chemistry and are not great to watch on screen. Actually what’s funny is I absolutely loved the book, but extremely disliked the movie. ![]() If you couldn’t already tell from the title I am going to be perfectly straight with you guys and admit that I really don’t care for Nicholas Spark’s The Lucky One. ![]()
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Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() While it may clear him of involvement in January’s disappearance, admitting it undoubtedly changes his life.īut Flynn’s not the only one who has secrets. In LAST SEEN LEAVING, part of Flynn’s journey is recognizing something he’s not ready to admit to himself. In both books the main character totally drew me in so I felt connected to his emotional journey. ![]() I thought WHITE RABBIT was a more polished book, which makes sense since it’s Roehrig’s second novel. I love the unusual choice of character names he uses in both books. I actually really enjoyed all three books, though.Įarlier this year I read WHITE RABBIT by Caleb Roehrig, and loved it. Most years I maybe read one or two, tops. ![]() LAST SEEN LEAVING is the first of three murder mystery/suspense type books that I’ve read lately, which is a little odd for me only in that I read them almost in a row. ![]()
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Umberto eco numero zero5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, what could have been an entertaining satire of the historian-journalist’s construction of reality becomes a cluttered catalogue of improbable hypotheses and more or less amusing what-ifs, mixed up with the story of a vaguely romantic entanglement between two fumbling reporters. To illustrate his point, Eco builds his plot around the creation of a paper in which news is made up from factual titbits, then fed to an audience of common readers willing to believe all sorts of outlandish scenarios and wild conspiracy theories. ![]() “Historical truth, for Menard, is not what has happened it is what we deem to have happened.” What we deem to have happened, Eco answers, in the same ironic tone, is what the newspapers tell us has happened. “History, mother of truth: the idea is astounding,” writes Borges, tongue-in-cheek. Eco has found inspiration, once again, in Borges’s literary inventions, but this time the result is disappointing.Įco’s unacknowledged starting point is the underlying idea in the short story “ Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote”, Borges’s celebrated spoof of poetic truth. Literary ghosts have a habit of coming back to haunt the writers who have conjured them on to the page, and the spirit of Borges hovers over Eco’s latest novel – the spirit, but not the letter. ![]() I n The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco – in what some might consider an act of lèse majesté towards his literary hero, Jorge Luis Borges – gave his murderous blind librarian the name of Jorge de Burgos. ![]()
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Brigid of Ireland by Cindy Thomson5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Three silences that are better than speech: silence during instruction, silence during music, silence during preaching. Three candles that illumine every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge. The Celtic Difference (faith had a monastic base)Įxamples of triads that both reflect and invite the concept of God as Trinity, some from the Yellow Book of Lecan, 14 th century:.The Spiritual Blessing of Celtic Learning.The Irish Spiritual Pilgrimage ( perigrinatio). ![]() How the Ancient Irish Found the Christian Path.Not just because she’s Irish, not just because the history is so interesting, but because she finds God in what she does, she invites us along on the ancient path. And in her last chapter, she addresses several aspects of prayer, inviting her readers to become more than a little Irish (those are my words) in their prayer life. Both the more verifiable history and numerous descriptions of wondrous, outlandish miracles by the historical figures were fascinating.Ĭindy Thomson fills the book with quotations from ancient writing, many of which are included below. But when I started reading, I kept on reading. Kind of a small coffee table book, it looked like, interspersed with beautiful photographs and illustrations. I found this at the Champaign Public Library (Dewey Decimal 274.15) right in the middle of the religion section. ![]() Celtic Wisdom: Treasures from Ireland, by Cindy Thomson, 2008 ![]()
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Judson the habsburg empire5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet, as he points out, they succeeded in creating a model of imperial citizenship that promised equal opportunities to, and imposed common standards on, peoples who are today citizens of twelve different countries. He stresses that although these forces appeared to be engaged in the same project, they were on the whole driven by healthy self-interest. His view is not blurred by the unhelpful nostalgia with which so many accounts are suffused. ![]() With invigorating precision, he analyses how the state was built up by various forces working simultaneously from above and below. Not so Pieter Judson, whose crisply written and nuanced study focuses on the tangible elements that created and held the monarchy together for a century and a half before tearing it apart in 1918. Historians, too, have often tended to take a rest from reason and look for sentimental explanations as they grapple with the problem of how a monarchy ruling over an inchoate geographical area with a dizzying variety of ethnic groups speaking scores of languages and practising half a dozen religions could have worked at all. His antithesis, the Prussian Jewish financier Arnheim, cherishes his visits to what he calls ‘the fairyland’ of Vienna, in which he can relax and take ‘a rest from reason’. ![]() In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, a book that encapsulates like no other the ineffable muddle of the Habsburg Empire, the eminent statesman Count Leinsdorf struggles to define the essence or even the raison d’être of the empire. ![]()
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Your Flying Car Awaits by Paul Milo5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Speculative Fiction always seems to think that the future is going to be a lot more flashy and interesting than it actually turns out to be. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. ![]()
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