5/24/2023 0 Comments Robyn carr new booksVanni is a young war widow and new mother, and Paul was the best friend of Vanni’s late husband and has secretly loved Vanni for years. Second Chance Pass is primarily Paul and Vanni’s story. I love that this series provides new characters with their struggles while keeping us informed on the previous characters we’ve met who live in Virgin River. To date there are 19 books in this series and so far I’ve read 6 of them. My thoughts: This is the 5th book in Robyn Carr’s Virgin River series that I am slowly making my way through. With courage, humility and not a little meddling from the good folks of Virgin River, Vanni and Paul might just get a second chance to have the love they both desire and deserve. Now, just as he’s about to make his move, another woman has staked her claim on him-a claim that will be tough to escape. Ever faithful to his best friend, he’s done right by Matt’s widow as best he can…considering he’s been secretly in love with her for years. Paul Haggerty lives by the marine motto: Semper Fi. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn’t exist. Synopsis from B&N: In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son-breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. First line: Paul Haggerty was finally back in Grants Pass after almost six months in Virgin River and there was an ache in his chest he just couldn’t ease.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments We are the antsThen there are the constant taunts at school with the students referring to him as Space Boy because Charlie, his jerk of a brother, told everyone at school about the abductions. He is continuously tortured and bullied at school, with one of the bullies - a popular jock named Marcus - using Henry for sex (though he tries to assure Henry that he genuinely does care for him - but it’s up to the reader to decide whether to believe him or not). A year ago, Henry’s boyfriend and first love Jesse committed suicide, for which Henry seems to be blaming himself. You see, Henry’s not all that pleased with his life at the moment. The kicker is that Henry isn’t sure he wants to. All Henry has to do is push a big red button to stop it and Wham! Earth saved. So after these abductions have been going on for quite some time, the aliens finally communicate to Henry that the world is going to be destroyed in 144 days. There’s been no probing though - or at least that’s when Henry tells us (see quote above). We Are The Ants follows Henry Denton, a teen who for years now has been periodically abducted by aliens, whom Henry refers to as sluggers, because they resemble slugs to him. I’m fairly certain they reserve that special treat for people who talk on their phones during movies, or text while driving. ~ Henry Denton THE STORY Before you ask: no, the sluggers have never probed my anus. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Code Red by N.R. WalkerLast year had been all about football and parties, not schoolwork. There I was, moving into the dorms at Franklin U, and not into the shared party house I’d lived in my freshman year. I’m also very excited to tell you I’m taking part of a shared world! My book is LEARNING CURVE, the story of Cobey and Vincent. But as Maddox knows already, and as Roscoe is about to learn, the brighter the spotlight, the darker the shadow. When the tour and stress become too much, when the world begins to close in, Roscoe becomes Maddox’s lifeline. He sees the real Maddox no one else gets to see. Maddox has consumed his entire life for the past four years. His job is high-flying, high-demand, high-profile, and he loves it. Roscoe Hall is Maddox’s personal manager. Not in a good headspace at the start of a tour. He’s also burned out and exhausted, isolated and lonely. He’s the bad boy, the enigma, the man everyone on the planet wants a piece of. He’s at the top of every music chart, every award show, every social media platform, and every sexiest-man-alive list. Maddox Kershaw is the main vocalist of the world’s biggest boy band. You can also grab the audio at a reduced price as well! But it’s only for this week so be quick □ 5/24/2023 0 Comments Solitary practitionerWork with Danu's tips for wildcrafting and her unique recipes for making magical oils, salves, bundles, and ointments with common herbs. You will learn to call on your spirit cousins for protection, and practice magical techniques based on the elements, such as fire scrying and spells to raise the wind.ĭiscover the secrets of ley lines, dragon lines, faery roads, and spirit paths that will transform your life in the here and now. Author Danu Forest explores the timeless animistic practices of the Celtic faerie faith, creating relationships with the faerie folk, green kin, the ancestors, and the spirits of the land. Filled with hands-on exercises and deep meditations, Wild Magic will show you how to access the Otherworld and come into a profound connection with the divine in nature. This book is a storehouse of magical and spiritual lore as well as practical knowledge based on age-old Celtic traditions. An Immersive Guide to Celtic Magic and the Wild Wisdom of Your Heart 5/24/2023 0 Comments Chekhov three sistersMeanwhile the Emancipation of the Serfs meant the land-owning class went into rapid decline as new industrialists rose to power, and both peasants and former serfs flocked to the cities for work in the factories. Alexander II’s assassination in 1881 spawned a period of reaction under Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last Russian Czar, during which they both tried to root out terrorism in their midst. This led in the 1870s to a movement of young intellectuals who went out into the countryside to “infiltrate among the people”, share their lives, educate them, and attempt to activate discontent along revolutionary lines. In 1866 there was an attempt on Czar Alexander II’s life, and he became increasingly conservative with the state becoming more oppressive. In 1861 Czar Alexander II freed the serfs, an act comparable to our own Emancipation Proclamation in 1865, ushering in a brief period of freedom of expression, even as the Russian Empire continued its expansion into the Caucasus, Turkistan, and East Asia. The final fertile two decades of Chekhov’s life and art during which he wrote his principal works were ones of extreme governmental oppression in Russia. The three other mature plays on which his fame as a playwright rests: Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1896), and The Cherry Orchard (1903) were all written within a twenty year period. Anton Chekhov wrote Three Sisters in 1901. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Trombone shorty by troy andrewsGrandparents, and cousins who made their bones within the local Jazz community. With brass instruments? The Andrews family was replete with brothers, Was there any wonder that Trombone Shorty found his calling Its heartbeat, funeral music and the trombone made sense to him. Shorty played in brass band parades by age five and ledĮver-present street music, with its energetic vibe booming from funeral paradesĪnd neighborhood clubs, profoundly affected Shorty. Bo Diddley heardįour-year-old Shorty playing trombone in the crowd and then brought him onto His brother James gave him his first ‘bone at age 4,īecause, they say, the family already had a trumpet player. New Orleans soon recognized him as a sensational He was raised in the city’s Treme neighborhood, which Shorty was the second youngest of six children of a family with a great His unique hybrid sound he calls “supafunkrock?” Didn’t Louis ArmstrongĪnd other Jazz greats do the same thing as Trombone Shorty? Let’s take a look.īorn in New Orleans on January 2, 1986, as Troy Andrews, Trombone That same man tinkered with traditional and modern Jazz music to create School as Wynton Marsalis, and who collected his first Jazz award as a His own street brass band as a New Orleans music prodigy be on that list? Could a teenager who attended the same music Performers, and Trombone Shorty is often on the list. Traditionalists might have something to say about that.Īsk any music critic or millennial to name their favorite Jazz Is he, or is he ain’t a Jazz man? Many Jazz 5/24/2023 0 Comments Twisted tales of bruce jonesTo hear Rose tell it, though, he and Leech are two different people, with separate thoughts and opinions. “I would say, ‘Fuck you, you old hag!’”Īlthough Leech’s personality is jarring, it’s impressive performance art.the work of Clay Rose, who also fronts punk-infused folk band Gasoline Lollipops. “My wife used to tell me I sang like a cat who had its head stuck in a screen door,” says Leech. He woke up in the underworld on the Devil’s ship, the SS Widow’s Bane, and was forced to front the Widow's Bane band alongside fellow undead musicians Rutherford Belleview, Abraham Lynch, Bastien O'Leary, James Cricket and Norman Hardgrove. If you ask him about the legend of Mortimer Leech, he'll say he was born in 1774 after he was murdered by his wife. For Leech, this type of exchange is common the undead frontman isn’t known for mincing words. “I was just telling him about how much of an asshole you are.”Īmmon smiles as though he's privy to the joke, if not exactly comfortable with it. Garrett, come over here,” Leech commands. “I come up with these brilliant ideas all the time, and he scraps all of them.” “Garrett Ammon is a stubborn fucking mule,” Mortimer Leech barks, his yellow eyes flashing, after a preview of Wicked Bayou, a collaboration between Ammon’s dance troupe, Wonderbound, and Leech’s band, The Widow’s Bane. When everyone is pushing her to become the villain they claim her to be, will she be able to become the monster the realms need? They created Aria to rule the Nine Realms, but now they fear she’s too dangerous and ruthlessly savage to live. Everything that can be taken from her has been wrenched from her grasp. Those she thought she could trust have deceived her. The land has chosen its hero, but war demands a heavy price-one Aria may not be prepared to pay. War lingers on the horizon, as armies gather deeply within the shadows. What’s a girl to do? Within the Nine Realms, deception runs deep. And a fate she never asked for, but can’t escape from. A council who has deemed her too dangerous to live. A king who craves to possess her mind, body, and soul. Now a top 20 Amazon Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling book! From USA Today and WSJ Bestselling Author Amelia Hutchins comes a tale of love, war, and betrayal. It first appeared in the Clarion-Ledger on September 27, 2020. This review was written by Susan O’Brien and is used by permission. Review of The Deepest South of All puts focus on Natchez Grant writes for Smithsonian Magazine , The New York Times, Al Jazeera America, The Telegraph UK, Aeon and several other publications. The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi, was published in September, 2020. In addition, he had a consulting role in the multiple-award-winning documentary Omo Child: The River and The Bush, about ending infanticide in Southern Ethiopia. He has also been involved in the BBC documentary film American Nomads, which is hosted, narrated and written by Richard. His third book Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa tells the story of his first descent of the Malagarasi River in Tanzania and other events in Burundi and Rwanda. The book was written after Grant traveled in northern Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental, an area nine hundred miles long that contained cave-dwelling Indian tribes and is one of the world’s largest area for production of marijuana and heroin. Grant’s second book God’s Middle Finger, Into The Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre (Free Press, 2008), was published in England as Bandit Roads, Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madr e (Little Brown, 2008). Richard Grant signing books at Starkville Public Library, Photo by Paul Jacobs, 2016 DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 2011 By Corina Larkin.
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