![]() ![]() ![]() Henry: It isn't rape we are to be married. ![]() His personal interactions with Lizzie remind me of a frustrating high school crush – a total posturing asshole most of the time, but then, when you least expect it, surprisingly gentle. For all that he's a leader on the battlefield, he's alarmingly easy to lead at court. He's such a contrast in decisive force and bewildered naivete. Jacob Collins-Levy (and Emma Frost) give us just enough of a sense of Henry to want more. If I were her, I'd be more concerned about his weird relationship with his mother and that little stunt backdating his reign than the fact that he killed my uncle/loved. Henry's a complicated character, although we've only started to see that.Īs much as Lizzie rails against her fated husband, there's little evidence that he's quite as bad she complains he is. ![]() He has not won, this moment, he has not won. The way she dealt with Henry's assault highlighted both her strength and her fragility. She's having to decide how she's going to handle things, and her reactions feel authentic. But she's still the girl who lived a good chunk of her life hiding in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey and has just lost her first love. She is now facing marriage and becoming Queen, something that would empower her under normal circumstances. She, in the parlance of a patriarchal society, became a woman when she lost her virginity to her uncle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life, each with a powerful refrain: We are still here! A 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Book ![]() ![]() Susan Burling Ward is refined, educated, and strong-willed. Based on the correspondence of the little-known 19th century writer, Mary Hallock Foote, the novel's heroes represent opposing but equally strong strains of the American ideal. Wallace Stegner has said of his epic novel, "It's perfectly clear that if every writer is born to write one story, that's my story." It is a testament to the power of Stegner's prose and vision that Angle of Repose, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, can be appreciated as America's story as well. ![]() Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, Ward is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions-to rediscover his grandmother, now long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Angle of Repose tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. ![]() ![]() ![]() Barnes & Noble: It’s where I ride around in heavy armor and charge at windmills with my quill…Don Quixote style. Ok, so it's a seedy, faux physical address store front where I get my mail. LibraryThing: 36 reviews with an overall rating of 4.11. ![]() īookbub: where they begrudgingly email notifications of my new releases to my followers. Goodreads: 200+ ratings/reviews with an average rating of 4.xx and over 21,000 books shelved. Then again, you just might feel naughty and want to read them anyway. If you find such offensive, you might not want to read my work. ![]() ![]() My books contain adult themes, adult situations, sexual situations, cursing, intoxication and violence. My books are very character-driven with a focus on flawed, dynamic, culturally-diverse characters and strong, smart female protagonists.Īlso, please note: I do not write children's books. Grea (pronounced Gray) Alexander is a female writer of African American, Native American and Caucasian.American descent who does not write her profiles in the 3rd person.īorn and raised in Houston, TX, I have successfully wormed my way across many a border and have, in effect, managed to infect all that I survey with my particular brand of grea-ness. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this podcast, Michael joins Sounds True’s founder, Tami Simon, to speak about his latest book. Through the years, he has made major contributions in the areas of business, the arts, education, health care, and environmental protection. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a retreat center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. In 1971, while pursuing his doctoral work in economics, he experienced a deep inner awakening and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. Singer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, the New York Times bestseller The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection, and, most recently, Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Jubilee has come home, and she's brought with her an orphaned baby who might hold the key to the Earth's survival.or its destruction! With an imminent alien invasion and an eons-spanning war between brother and sister around the corner, Storm steps up and puts together a team to protect the child and stop a new threat that could destroy all life in the Marvel Universe. Ultimate Comics X-Men by Brian Wood - Volume 1 Paperback Jby Brian Wood (Contributor), Nathan Edmondson (Contributor), Filipe Andrade (Illustrator), 16 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle and comiXology 14.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 15.70 3 Used from 15. An old enemy shows up at the X-Men's door, seeking asylum from an ancient evil come back to Earth. DYNAMIC FORCES presents this limited edition DF Exclusive Alternate cover edition of this hit Marvel series featuring cover art by Mark Brooks. 1: Primer (X-Men (2013-2015)) Kindle & comiXology by Brian Wood (Author), Olivier Coipel (Illustrator, Cover Art, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition 80 ratings Book 1 of 5: X-Men (2013-2015) See all formats and editions Kindle & Comixology 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() Frequently these characters are mothers, or otherwise children reeling in the wake of their neglectful, “unfit,” or traumatized mothers’ choices. They are bartenders and cowboys and phone-sex operators, alcoholics and domestic abuse survivors and drug addicts, each with a distinctive voice tied to their story. ![]() The sun-baked raisin farms, tiny churches, and shimmering highways seem to glint under the influence of Bieker’s astute prose, but its the characters themselves-often men and women in crisis, their children tossed inadvertently into the fallout-who confound and allure. She deploys this curiosity to fascinating results in her new short story collection Heartbroke, which, similar to her excellent debut novel Godshot, plants its protagonists in California’s Central Valley, where Bieker herself spent a frequently chaotic childhood. Chelsea Bieker writes as if sorting through old photographs she knows the images well, but the scenes where they take place are stretched and warped by memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, the kids and mythological creatures/people face issues, old grudges, and waining power. Secondly, unlike many other series where the overall series is one large arc, Paternus is not really like that. I did do that, and sadly there they sat for months on end forlorn and staring me in tone. I would have bought the entire series in hardback before even reading or knowing anything about the series…oh, wait. A very good place to start” The cover art on this is top-notch. To quote the Sound of Music, “Let us start at the very beginning. I honestly, and knowing Dyrk a bit through his hilarious tweet feed, do not think he is capable of such a feat. Quite the contrary, Dyrk could have coasted a bit into book 2, Took a step back, and slowed the pace down. As many authors suffer a Sophmore slump or a slowing of tone as they fill in the exposition, that is not the case with Dyrk Ashton. ![]() Paternus: Wrath of Gods is a continuation of the epic urban fantasy tale from book 1, Paternus: Rise of the Gods. ![]() ![]() The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis – an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. ![]() ![]() Beggars belief’ Sunday Times’You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much’ The TimesThe Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions – Harvard the Metropolitan Museum of Art Oxford the Louvre. Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardOne of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, Ox圜ontin and the opioid crisis. ![]() ![]() 951, etc.) pairs a smart, unhappy, rich kid and a small-town teacher too quick to judge on appearances. Playing on his customary theme that children have more on the ball than adults give them credit for, Clements ( Big Al and Shrimpy, p. Though the deliciously ghastly climax suddenly comes to a halt so that the sorcerer can rehearse his motives and life story, the plot generally develops in a smooth and coherent fashion, driven along by a pair of active female characters. ![]() Zimmerman's powers-not, of course, without negotiating plenty of cryptic instructions, apparitions, lurking evils, spells, and narrow escapes, plus a slavering demon or two. 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