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This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am a sucker for a magical manor filled with enchanted objects, and pesky dead grandfathers. I had such a fun time with this story, from laugh out loud moments to suspenseful twists and discovers. ![]() Then there is what happens in the village, demands for help and Roane, the wolf. The third book, Beguiled releases in February 2021.Īfter the events of the previous book, Defiance isn’t sure she wants to stick around, but vines, secret passages, and discovers about her repressed magic soon have her caught up in things. Both are available in Kindle Unlimited, ebook and print. ![]() This story picks up 6 months after Betwixt ended and if you haven’t read it, I suggest you begin there. This isn’t a romance, but the attraction and shenanigans between our heroine 45-year-old Defiance Dayne and a kilt-wearing shifter was positively delightful. Oh, lord Jones can make me laugh and her heros are always mysterious and swoon-worthy. Humor, a haunted manor, a sexy shifter and danger await you in this delightful paranormal women’s fiction. Bewitched is the second novel in Darynda Jones’ Betwixt & Between about a changeling who discovers her powers during a midlife crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Riveting, engrossing.packed with suspense" ( People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder. He's very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind.įixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Meeting Bill is one, and getting an apartment is another. She'll worry about all the rest later.Īlone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won't find her. Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after 14 years in an abusive marriage. ![]() Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated.fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming" ( Publishers Weekly). The number-one national best seller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is "one of Stephen King's most engrossing horror novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering) so you see that it COULDN’T have had any hand in the mischief. One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:–it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll ![]() ![]() ![]() Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie spent horrific months in the infamous Ravensbrück concentration camp. ![]() Four members of the family lost their lives for providing this refuge. This was their way of living out their Christian faith. In Holland during World War II, the Casper ten Boom family used their home as a hiding place for those hunted by the Nazis. They can “stir up in remembrance,” 3 “awaken to a sense of duty to God,” 4 and keep us “in the path of duty.” 5 Though disasters completely disrupt “the even tenor of ,” 2 they do not have to leave our lives forever shattered. It sometimes feels as though mankind itself may be hanging in the balance.įoreshadowing our day, the Lord said, “The heavens shall shake, and also the earth and great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve.” 1 We should take great comfort in this promise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Alexander Macklin, one of the ship's surgeons, who provided Lansing with many diaries, a detailed account of the perilous journey the crew made to Elephant Island, and months of advice. The most significant contribution came from Dr. Virtually every diary kept during the expedition was made available to the author, and almost all the surviving members at the time of writing submitted to lengthy interviews. Three months later, he was finally able to rescue the remaining crew members they had left behind on Elephant Island. ![]() He then took two of those men on the first successful overland crossing of the island. Shackleton then led a crew of five aboard the James Caird through the Drake Passage, and miraculously reached South Georgia Island 650 nautical miles away. They were able to launch their boats and somehow managed to land them safely on Elephant Island. All in all, the crew drifted on the ice for just over a year. ![]() The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. The book details the almost two-year struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew of the ship Endurance. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why is this stuff not everywhere? I mean, that’s good news for Chris!Įven if you’re one of the privileged class of Power Up-owning literati, this new edition is worth revisiting. Same goes for discussions with iNiS’s Keiichi Yano about the origins of Gitaroo-Man’s style and music, and how it ended up at Koei of all places Yasunori Mitsuda on working with Nobuo Uematsu, scoring Chrono Trigger, and forging his own path, etc. That’s the only way I can explain picking up a book written twelve years ago and reading an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto that I haven’t seen quoted endlessly. I have only one explanation for how Chris Kohler’s book Power-Up, originally released in 2004, remains so insightful, so interesting, and so packed with stories I haven’t heard anywhere else.Ĭhris Kohler is a time traveler sworn to only use his secret technology to conduct interviews with game developers. ![]() Chris Kohler’s Power-Up still has life in 2016 ⊟ ![]() ![]() Seuss.” While not one of his classic books, The Foot Book is certainly a solid addition to Dr. ![]() Common Sense Media, for example, loved the book and wrote that Seuss, who is "Teaching through disarmament is a Seuss specialty, and it's on full display in this fun book." Former President Barack Obama also loves the book and said that “Pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in Dr. When it was released, The Foot Book received positive review. As well as that, he wanted to encourage younger people to be more accepting of the differences with people - no matter how big or small. He also wanted to encourage younger readers to pick up a book and read. Low foot, high foot."), Seuss wanted to show young readers that there are opposite things in the world. Through rhyme, repetition, and the depiction of a number of different kinds of feet ("Wet foot, dry foot. Seuss' most unique and interesting books in the sense that it lacks a more traditional narrative. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() I stir a few psychic abilities into my storytelling, to offer book lovers unique adventures in award-winning historical fiction. I am the daughter of a history teacher and granddaughter to an Irish yarn-spinner. “Reap” (unpublished creative short), co-authored by daughter Laura Kulju, is Quarter -Finalist in the 2017 Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Contest! “Grog War Hi, I'm Anne Sweazy-Kulju. AWARD UPDATE: "Grog Wars, Dos" is a Finalist for the Chanticleer's International Book Awards, Dante Rosetti Award for YA (November 2018) "Grog Wars, Dos", won the Silver Medal in Literary Classics International Book Awards for YA (November 2018) - my second silver! "Grog Wars, Dos" is a Finalist in the 2018 Publishers Weekly Book Life Prize for Fiction. ![]() ![]() |