![]() ![]() ![]() Finalist, Speculative Fiction, Huntress, 2018 ACFW Carol Awards.But no pressure, right?įans of The Mortal Instruments, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Supernatural won't want to miss out on all the twists and turns in this YA Fantasy journey. The lives of the living, the fate of my fellow hunters, and the balance between good and evil rests in my hands. Satan is gunning for me and I have no idea how to stop him. Just when I think my life-or rather, afterlife-is all punch, stab, rinse and repeat, I find myself the wielder of the most powerful sword in existence and the key to unleashing the apocalypse. This could be bad-physical activity and I aren't on speaking terms and my trainer, Logan, is as infuriating as he is attractive. for all of eternity, and I've been assigned to be a demon hunter. I've also just learned that everyone in the afterlife is given a job. ![]() ![]() That's over 1,250 pages of action-packed, high-stakes, swoon-worthy fantasy adventure! Novels in this series have won 11 industry awards and an exclusive bonus scene is included with every purchase! This set includes all four books in the Life After series by USA Today bestselling author, Julie Hall. ![]()
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![]() Their equipment is either nonsensical, or inadequate, or antiquated. On the first page we are told that the women's enterprise is doomed. An unfurling of promiscuous alien biology. In Annihilation, the first part of an imaginatively marketed and beautifully produced trilogy (the other parts are out in May and September), the novelist and publishing entrepreneur Jeff VanderMeer sets out to create a lasting monument to the uncanny by revisiting – without embellishment, and with a pitiless focus on physical and psychological detail – some very old ground. ![]() "Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X." Sensitive readers will already have begun to feel their fingers prised loose from the edge of the swimming pool, when it turns out these explorers are unable to divulge their names. ![]() Into this place come the biologist and her colleagues: a surveyor, a linguist, and a psychologist. ![]() Area X is an abandoned and apparently unspoilt stretch of US coastline, held under strict quarantine by a mysterious government agency called the Southern Reach. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL2669096W Page_number_confidence 83.54 Pages 166 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201019174327 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 350 Scandate 20201017180556 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4. ![]() Urn:lcp:6thgradecanreall0000decl_m9l4:lcpdf:dc0dac10-d03e-44b3-bde8-c7782b6852ce Foldoutcount 0 Identifier 6thgradecanreall0000decl_m9l4 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1kj03k73 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0590401807ĩ780590428835 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-1-gd3a4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9456 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19560 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:02:09 Boxid IA1980915 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Earlier this year, the film debuted alongside Sony Pictures hit Angry Birds 2. "And being a Black man myself and knowing little girls who don’t feel represented in a lot of these projects, it was important for me to have it be an African American daughter and father," Cherry told Because Of Them We Can.Ĭherry went on to launch a Kickstarter campaign that garnered almost $300,000 in donations. "One thing I will say is there is authenticity in specificity," says Cherry. Cherry said he was inspired by the surge of viral videos showing fathers doing their daughters hair which prompted him to translate that into an animation specifically celebrating Black fathers who do their daughters hair. ![]() We spoke with NFL player turned filmmaker Matthew Cherry back in 2017 about his Hair Love project and the inspiration behind it all. One of our fave animated shorts, Hair Love, by Matthew Cherry, is now online for every little Black girl to enjoy, Majic 102.1 reports. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The 105-carat diamond, which was a 190-carat piece before it reached the British, has a long history of conquest. But why? What makes the diamond such an important historical artifact? King Charles III and Queen Camilla Image: Andrew Milligan/PA/AP/picture alliance The story of the Koh-i-Noor ![]() It was first worn by Queen Victoria in the form of a brooch and circlet, then by the Queen Consorts Mary and Alexandra, and finally by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.Ĭamilla's gesture of not wearing the diamond for the coronation is a big one. The diamond, which is rumored to be unlucky for male wearers, has always been worn by women. In a step away from tradition, the queen consort will not wear the Koh-i-Noor diamond (also spelled Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur) on her crown so as to not offend "political sensitivities," a royal source told British media. Saturday, May 6, 2023, is the day when Charles III and his wife, Camilla, will be crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom. ![]() ![]() The bones must be a message from her grandfather, a connection from beyond the grave. ![]() But when she follows her little brother, Bo, and her dog, Old Jack, up the hill while chasing fireflies, she makes an incredible discovery-dinosaur bones peeking out from underneath the abandoned tractor. Twelve-year-old Esme's life changes when she discovers dinosaur bones on her family's peach farm in Texas.įans of Wendy Maas and Lynda Mullaly Hunt will love this perfectly pitched story about friendship, family, and loss from Suzanne Crowley, the acclaimed author of The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous.Īfter her grandfather died from a heart attack while driving his tractor on Solace Hill, twelve-year-old Esme's been inextricably drawn to that spot, although her grandmother warns her to stay away. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (For reference, Katniss volunteered as tribute for the 74th.) Teenage Snow, not yet the dictatorial ruler he'd turn out to be, senses some opportunity in Baird, the tribute he's given to mentor. According to Lionsgate, the movie will focus in part on the lead up to the 10th Hunger Games. What is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes about?Ĭollins' novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set 64 years before the events of the initial trilogy. ![]() Here's more on the cast, the plot and when we'll be making our official return to Panem. The original films brought in more than $3 billion globally, according to Lionsgate. A refresh: We know Snow from past movies as the ruthless president portrayed by Donald Sutherland. The film adaptation is scheduled to hit theaters in November 2023, roughly eight years after Mockingjay Part 2, and follows a younger Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) who mentors District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler). ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not a disaster waiting to happen, at all. We shouldn’t have become roommates.Īnd we really shouldn’t have started sleeping together … (Except we did.) ![]() Reese and I shouldn’t have become friends. He’s also attending preseason basketball training camp where I used to work.Ĭorrection: where I work again, because I was fired from my last job.Īnd I might have a tiny bit of baggage, but that’s normal. ![]() Reese Forster was the starting point guard for the Seattle Thunder. And just like that, our friendship was off to a great start. He swore at me and said he didn’t do groupies. I asked for his criteria for bed buddies-that’s the PG version. TEARDROP SHOT by Tijan-Review, Excerpt & Giveaway TourĪ / Amazon.ca / B&N / KOBO / Chapters Indigo /Ībout the book: Release Date June 24, 2019 ![]() ![]() government after fleeing it on July 16, 1927. The narrator explains how he instigated a secret investigation of the decrepit town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts-a former seaport isolated from other nearby towns by vast salt marshes-by the U.S. There he interacts with strange people and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying and personal revelations. He travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey. The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story that was published in book form during his lifetime. Its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using ![]() Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. ![]() The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Queering the Tarot explores themes of sexuality, coming out, gender and gender-queering, sources of oppression and empowerment, and many other topics especially familiar to not-straight folks. ![]() In Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow deconstructs the meanings of the 78 cards explaining the ways in which each card might be interpreted against the norm. Tarot has the power to serve a greater population, with the right keys to unlock the tarot's deeper meanings. Humanity is diverse-culturally, spiritually, sexually. But at what point do archetypes become stereotypes? At the root of card meanings are archetypes that we accept without questioning. But what if that window only opened up on a world that was white, European, and heterosexual? The interpretations of the tarot that have been passed down through tradition presuppose a commonality and normalcy among humanity. ![]() Tarot archetypes provide the reader with a window into present circumstances and future potential. Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. |