![]() ![]() This is what you hold in your hand today. And then one day I decided to move all of my books under one name-and while doing so, revisit and rewrite the old ones to give them a more polished story and brand new covers. Always in Shadow was the second book that I ever published, when I was twenty-years-young.Įventually I switched to writing under Mandi Grace, but left my old books behind me for several years. The series I lovingly refer to as the OG Robin Hood series, five books in total, were all under that name. When I started self-publishing I did so under the name Amanda Grace. ![]() ![]() To those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain. I am forever astounded anyone takes interest in the stories I have to tell and immensely grateful for all of you. To those of you who might have read the original series, THANK YOU. Seventeen when I dove into the realm of self-publishing with no idea what I was doing. Iwas seventeen when I first became entangled in this Robin Hood world of my own creation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.Īs provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. ![]() What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. ![]() ![]() The prince is characterized as large and quick to anger. Prince Fabrizio di Salina is bitterly aware of his royal family’s impending ruin. The House of Salina, like the royal houses of all of the small Italian countries about to be subsumed into a single Kingdom of Italy, is about to be dismantled. The Leopard begins amidst the dissolution of Salina, an island country on the Italian peninsula. The Leopard is widely considered one of the foremost works of modern Italian literature and is often ranked as one of the best historical novels ever written. Di Lampedusa tells this story through the struggles of the fictional royal House of Salina in particular, Prince Fabrizio di Salina, who clings desperately to his family’s dying power. Set during the period of Italian unification called the Risorgimento, the story concerns some of the political and social transformations that took place between the 1815 Congress of Vienna and the naming of Rome as Italy’s capital in 1871. ![]() The Leopard is a 1958 historical novel by Italian writer and Sicilian Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The thermodynamic miracle."ĭoctor Jonathan "Jon" Osterman was a nuclear physicist who was caught in a radioactive particle test, which transformed him into a god-like being Doctor Manhattan. To distill such a specific form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold. ![]() ![]() Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive meeting siring this precise son that exact daughter. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. For the other versions and connections of Jon Osterman, see Doctor Manhattan (disambiguation). ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one with magic but this magic is feared and thus destroyed or hidden to prevent such fate. I felt like I was in this beautiful medieval world filled with castles and warriors and maidens. Harmon is such a talented writer and she pens an unforgettable world and beautiful prose in this fantasy romance that is a perfect slow burn love story within a medieval world.įrom the start you are pulled into a world of magic with dancing puppets and child innocence but you soon learn that this same world is not without its dangers. ![]() This book will make you fall in love with fantasy romance! But there is one who hears my words and demands my devotion, my duty and perhaps my love. The Gifted are hunted in our lands and so I keep my words close. I’m no longer just a prisoner to my mother’s curse but I’m still invisible to those around me. ![]() The day my mother was killed, she told me to swallow my words, to push them down deep, and I haven’t spoken a word since. * Disclosure : I participate in affiliate programs including Amazon Affiliates ,so if you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, I make a small commission at no extra cost to you. ![]() Series: The Bird and the Sword Chroniclesīoyfriend Rating: □□□□ Amazon | Goodreads ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s about what we do not just what we feel. But love is really more of an interactive process. The Utne Reader declared Bell Hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can. The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.-bell hooks. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. In thirteen concise chapters, Hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on. ![]() As Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explode the question "What is love'" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with loveless. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personnel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. "The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet.we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes Bell Hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Barnum finds an unexpected protector in Preacher Jack Collins, a quixotic mass murderer, whom Hackberry calls "he most dangerous man I've ever met." The richness of Burke's characters, always one of his strengths, reaches new heights, as shown particularly in Krill, a mentally scarred veteran of Central American violence driven by grief over his slaughtered children, and Cody Daniels, would-be minister and xenophobe, who undergoes a spiritual sea change during his own via crucis. Starred review from AugIn Edgar-winner Burke's outstanding third novel featuring smalltown Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland (after Rain Gods), Hackberry joins a motley crew of killers, idealists, psychos, mobsters, and Feds in the search for Noie Barnum, a disgruntled former intelligence asset who escaped the human smugglers that were trying to sell him to al-Qaeda. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Subsequent episodes were derived both from works featuring Miss Marple but also Christie novels that did not feature the character.Įpisodes Series 1 (2004-05) #Ī young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. The first six episodes were all adaptations of Miss Marple novels by Christie. ![]() She was replaced by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hazzard very gradually layers in revealing details of Aldred’s family background (as the basically unloved son of a successful romance novelist), complicated sexual and marital history, and increasingly disillusioning military experiences. Housed with the family of an intemperate Brigadier, Aldred finds himself drawn to the latter’s adolescent children: beautiful, reserved Helen, and her almost ethereal brother Benedict, who is wasting away from a pernicious paralytic disease. The story opens in 1947 when Major Aldred Leith, a 32-year-old combat veteran and prison camp survivor, travels to a military compound on an island in Japan’s Inland Sea, preparatory to a “tour” of Hiroshima, one of several sites he’s compelled to write about, and understand. ![]() Hazzard painstakingly constructs a compact panorama of a world ravaged by war, in her expert fourth novel-and first since the NBCC Award winner, The Transit of Venus (1980). ![]() ![]() ![]() Jerdine Nolen recounts her original tale with a light touch and lyrical voice that add depth and resonance to its telling imagery and serious overtones. Instead, the author and artist empower the audience to confront an unbearable history and come away with hope." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Part magical savior, part tall-tale hero, Big Jabe personifies the triumph of African Americans who (miraculously it must sometimes have seemed) escaped from slavery. This eloquent tale neither demeans the characters nor forces readers to identify directly with the character's suffering. ![]() Instead, the author and artist empower the audience to confront an unbearable history and come away with hope., "Freshly inspiring. ![]() ![]() |