![]() ![]() Tom's books have been translated into thirty-nine languages, and to date he has sold over 5 million copies of his books in the UK alone. Tom also writes the incredibly successful Who's in Your Book? picture-book series and is one half of the author duo behind the Dinosaur that Pooped picture-book series too, which has sold over 1.5 million copies.įor older readers, Tom co-authors the Eve of Man series with his wife Giovanna Fletcher. Since then, Tom has published several more chart-topping children's novels including The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch, The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List, The Creakers and the instant number-one bestseller The Danger Gang. The Christmasaurus was the biggest debut middle-grade novel of 2016 and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. Tom Fletcher is a number-one bestseller and one of the UK's most popular children's authors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. A STORM OF SWORDS Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. ![]() Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. ![]() As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. THE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. ![]() ![]() ![]() … How much this small part of your body, which you have lost by the judgment and favor of omnipotent God, had injured you and did not cease injuring you as long as it remained, the diminution of your wealth teaches better than my words can show. With regard to what was, as they say, your downfall, namely the love of single women, and the traps of their lust, with which they capture their whore-hounds, it seems better for me to remain silent rather than to say something not in keeping with our order or the rule of our religious life. Fulk, a monk heading a monastic community at Deuil, near Paris, stated that Abelard allowed single women and whores to exploit him: In fact, Peter Abelard in twelfth-century France was disparaged and demeaned even as a castrated man.īefore he was castrated, Peter Abelard reportedly had strong, independent sexuality that challenged the historical repression of men’s sexuality. Castration culture was less finely honed and wielded in medieval Europe. What man wouldn’t sit with his legs tightly crossed and his testicles brutally squeezed to avoid the crime of manspreading? The testicular harm is better than a man adding himself to the massive number of men incarcerated. ![]() ![]() Even if those men don’t have all the legal privileges that women have, they don’t bear the stigma of acting masculine. Today, castration culture tends to treat men made into eunuchs as honorary women. ![]() ![]() ![]() Actually, the term riddle is slightly misleading – it’s the knowledge about a historical fact, its context plus an interpretation called “stricture” why the knowledge is important. ![]() First of all, he’s got a good education at the riddle-masters’ university in Caithnard. Turns out, that more mysterious things go around Morgon. But his siblings didn’t know about that until recently, because Morgon didn’t wave around the winner’s crown. ![]() Turns out that he’s not without ambitions, as he went to the main country to win a riddle contest with a malicious ghost, unlike the many men who tried before him and lost their lifes. In this contemplative country lives Morgon, Lord of Hed, happily as a farmer. Synopsis: Hed is a backwater island featuring only farmers and swineheards, but no heroes at all. This is a commemorative read, Patricia McKillip passed away just recently. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her unwilling groom insists they need to seek an annulment, and she's not cruel enough to ruin a man's life just because she yearns for one person to care about her.Īs Camilla and Adrian work to prove their marriage wasn't consensual, they become first allies, then friends. But his mission spirals out of control when he's accused of dastardly intentions and is forced to marry a woman he's barely had time to flirt with.Ĭamilla Worth has always dreamed of getting married, but a marriage where a pistol substitutes for "I do" is not the relationship she hoped for. The only thing more inconvenient than Camilla's marriage at gunpoint is falling in love with her unwilling groom.Īdrian Hunter, the son of a duke's daughter and a black abolitionist, is determined to do whatever his family needs-even posing as a valet to gather information. ![]() ![]() Shifting back and forth from Lila's world in the present to Daphne's world in the past, the true story of what really happened that fateful night finally comes to light. Daphne's spirit senses that Lila is the very person she's been waiting for, the one who can prove her innocence so her spirit can rest at long last. ![]() ![]() One spirit eager to tell her story is Daphne, a slave girl at Laurel Oaks in the 1840s, who was blamed for the poisoning deaths of two girls and their mother. But secretly, Lila suspects there are ghostly presences willing to communicate with her, and her alone. When Lila and her family visit Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, her parents and brother scoff at the claim that the house is haunted. ![]() ![]() Awards, HonorsĬhild Study Children's Book Award, Bank Street College, Children's Choices award, Children's Trade Books, Children's Book of the Year award, Library of Congress, all 1986, and Ezra Jack Keats New Writer award, 1987, all for Jamaica's Find Child Study Children's Book award, Bank Street College, 1989, and Mrs. MemberĪuthors Guild, Authors League, Society of Children's Bookwriters and Illustrators, Children's Reading Roundtable. Worked in personnel department, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France. Translator for companies in France and United States instructor at École Bi-Lingue de Fontainebleau, Wabash Valley College, The Loft, Writer's Voice Project, Phoenix College, and Ottawa University, Phoenix lecturer. ![]() Home and office - 28232 North 58th St., Cave Creek, AZ 85331. Hobbies and other interests: Theater, cinema, listening to piano music, reading philosophy and biography, walking, and swimming. Education: Attended Universit é de Rouen, 1969-70 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1971, M.A., 1973. ![]() ![]() Born May 11, 1949, in Evansville, IN daughter of Frank Walden (an oil producer) and Ruth Denise (a homemaker maiden name, Roberts) Havill married Pierre Masure (a technical writer), 1976 children: Laurence Aimee, Pierre Gustav. ![]() ![]() : 15 Starting at an early age, her mother, Pearl, had big plans for Darnell in the entertainment industry. Her parents were not happily married, and she grew up as a shy and reserved girl in a house of domestic turmoil. She was the younger sister of Undeen and the older sister of Monte Maloya and Calvin Roy, Jr. ![]() One of her maternal great-grandparents was Cherokee. She won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours (1948) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949).ĭarnell was born in Dallas, Texas, as one of four children (excluding her mother's two children from an earlier marriage) to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Margaret "Pearl" Brown. She co-starred with Tyrone Power in adventure films, and established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber (1947). ![]() At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s. ![]() Darnell progressed from modeling as a child to acting in theater and film. Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell Octo– April 10, 1965) was an American actress. ![]() ![]() Subtwo has fallen unexpectedly in love with a slave. Subone is attracted by the decadent living on offer and begins to unlink from his sibling’s conditioning. ![]() The alien pseudosibs Subone and Subtwo have come to Earth to take over Center’s resources. In post-apocalyptic world in which Center, an enclosed domed city, is run by slave-owning families who control the planet’s resources and are strangling the city’s economy by their decadence, Mischa, a thirteen-year old sneak thief, is struggling to support her drug-addict elder brother Chris, and their predatory uncle who uses their telepathic link with their captive younger sister Gemmi to control them. ![]() The first novel by the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novelist Vonda N McIntyre, The Exile Waiting introduces the world that McIntyre later made famous with her multi-award-winning Dreamsnake. ![]() ![]() ![]() ROBIN & BATMAN #3 concludes this week as Jeff Lemire puts a wrap on his thematic tale which eventually helps propel Dick Grayson into the light. If you’re interested in this comic, series, related trades, or any others that were mentioned then simply click on the title/link to snag a copy through Amazon. Let’s dive into ROBIN & BATMAN #3 by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen as we discover who this person from Dick’s past is and why he’s out for blood! Can Dick discover how to exist and endure in this harsh reality? Well, let’s jump in and find out! To overcome his damaged past and stride towards a more hopeful future, Dick Grayson must meet face to face with someone from his past. ![]() Writer: Jeff Lemire Art: Dustin Nguyen and Steve Wands Publisher: DC Comics Price: $4.99 Release Date: January 11th, 2022 ![]() |