![]() ![]() (Lee grew up in North Carolina, according to the book jacket.) A hundred years later in Carolinia, the pandemic returns in waves. He builds a new country in the South, called Carolinia. A figure named Calix Lehrer takes advantage of the chaos and revolts against the state. The eerily prescient plot unfolds after a pandemic weakens the United States in 2018. ![]() But it also evokes another kind of awakening: that which comes with realizing one has experienced abuse. ![]() The name Feverwake is Lee’s invented term for waking up from the fictional pandemic-caused fever and discovering newfound powers. The young adult novels began with Lee’s debut “The Fever King,” released last year, and concluded with “The Electric Heir,” released in March just as the real-world coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. That’s the premise behind Victoria Lee’s two-volume Feverwake series. What if surviving a pandemic gave you superpowers? Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. ![]()
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![]() And when, at the ripe old age of thirty, she realized that she was not like other girls, the great world of lesbian literature opened its arms, and provided her with a safe haven in which to grow and learn about her new identity. For the past three decades, Ann has worked at a succession of premier institutions, designing marketing and advancement materials that promote, promulgate, and extol the benefits of indifferent liberal arts education.Īll this time, she continued to write. Soon, the allure of higher education coaxed Ann back to school. Her duties included making certain that the mobile library always contained at least six copies of "Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret", visiting the county detention unit (it was a great way to catch up with her brothers), and showing public service films about safe sex to pre-teens at 4-H Clubs all across her part of “The New South.” After graduation, she got a job driving a young adult bookmobile-and spent her days piloting the great rig across the dusty back roads of rural North Carolina. ![]() College at an indifferent liberal arts institution taught Ann McMan that understanding subject/verb agreement was not enough to secure her fame and fortune. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she didn’t intend to explain her reasons for coming West to any high and mighty soldier. After all, a Civil War was brewing! But LaReina, The Singing Duchess-as Maddie was called-didn’t scare easily. Ring’s plan was to scare the little lady enough so that she’d hightail it for home. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most peculiar assignment: to escort an opera singer into the Colorado gold fields. ![]() ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May.īestselling author Jude Deveraux spins a rollicking story of a mismatched couple who unearth a sparkling, irresistible passion across the rugged West!Ĭaptain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. ![]() ![]() With everyone he loves in danger and a trail of crimes pointing back at him, Bax must scramble to solve the puzzle that will banish Ifrit forever." -įrom Brick and Darkness by J.L. Feeding off the depths of his subconscious, the sinister demon fulfills what he thinks Bax wants by manipulating, threatening, and murdering. Desperate to make his fantasies a reality, Bax unleashes a creature called Ifrit, but soon learns this djinn isn't what the ring led him to believe. ![]() The ring speaks to Bax in a dream, tempting him with a vision of a powerful djinn. So when a decrepit man with glowing purple eyes offers him a ring intended for his estranged father, Bax accepts. "Bax always fantasized something remarkable would happen in his life. ![]() Feeding off the depths of his subconscious, the sinister demon fulfills what he thinks Bax wants by manipulating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He feels like he belongs somewhere for a purpose for this precious time. This is the time Darius cherishes the most. ![]() Every night, they carve out time to do this one thing that’s truly theirs. However, he and his dad watch Star Trek together. His dad is hard on him about his weight and about being bullied. Relishing Precious Time With Dadĭarius and his dad have a strained relationship. Finding the words happens with a lot of self-motivation. There’s so much fear of not being heard, saying the wrong thing, and saying something the wrong way. It’s all “Um.” For anyone with social anxiety, words are tricky. ![]() Yet, face-to-face or on the phone, it’s silence. Man! How many times have I not found the words? For heaven’s sake, I’m a poet. Wanting To Say Things and Not Being Able To Say Them (aka Social Anxiety)Įven when he’s in a safe space with his family, Darius’s go-to response is “um.” When he’s asked how he is, he answers, “Um.” When he’s asked if he wants a drink sweetened or unsweetened, he answers, “Um.” When his mom asks him to video chat with his grandparents, he says, “Um.” He admits, “I never knew how to talk to Mamou, even though I was happy to see her.” Even later on in person, he finds himself in the same room as his grandmother, wanting to say so much, but he doesn’t say anything. ![]() ![]() ![]() The future does not just happen rather, it must be made, and starting a business is the most effective way to accomplish that. ![]() Behind this, however, is the positive idea that we as individuals must create the future if there is to be one. ![]() As a whole, this work is an exercise in the type of thinking which, in Thiel’s view, leads to a successful start-up. I recently finished Peter Thiel’s book Zero To One. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are drawn into the world of a fictional French battalion with canteen mistress Marianne, her partner Fronsac and daughter Florisette (Poppy). This is a complete departure from my normal reads and proved an interesting journey. Includes a Battlefield Tour Guide for those wanting to follow the route taken by the story’s main characters or to visit the sites of the 1815 Waterloo Campaign. Field, author of Waterloo: The French Perspective and its companion volume, Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras)Ī novel of action and intrigue based on the real-life exploits of two women who fought, in their own right, within Napoleon’s army. His description of the fighting is particularly vivid and compelling.” (Andrew W. “Superb! David Ebsworth has really brought these dramatic events to life. 1815 – On the bloody fields of Waterloo, a battle-weary canteen mistress of Bonaparte’s Imperial Guard battalions must fight to free her daughter from all the perils that war will hurl against them – before this last campaign can kill them both. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. ![]() Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.ĭiana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. ![]() ![]() Hypnotized by covert action and pressured by presidents, the CIA, he claims, wasted its resources fomenting coups, assassinations and insurgencies, rigging foreign elections and bribing political leaders, while its rare successes inspired fiascoes like the Bay of Pigs and the Iran-Contra affair. ![]() Pulitzer Prize–winning New York TimesĬorrespondent Weiner musters extensive archival research and interviews with top-ranking insiders, including former CIA chiefs Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner, to present the agency's saga as an exercise in trying to change the world without bothering to understand it. ![]() Is the Central Intelligence Agency a bulwark of freedom against dangerous foes, or a malevolent conspiracy to spread American imperialism? A little of both, according to this absorbing study, but, the author concludes, it is mainly a reservoir of incompetence and delusions that serves no one's interests well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rick Hautala - Dead Legends: Al Silverstein's Sharp Sound Studios, California, is one of rock's best kept secrets. He still has a sell-out gig to play, so the clean up will have to wait until after the show. Johnny responds to the news by garotting her with a guitar string. An extreme case of never meet your heroes ensues.Įdo van Belkom - Scream String: Immediately prior to an appearance at the Coliseum, Johnny Violent ("Little Jimmy Tantrum" to the roadies), the Throbbing Purploids main man, is informed by wife Jill that she's filing for divorce, the private detective having come up with damning photographic evidence of Mr. Tia Travis - The Sad Story of Billy Psych-Out and the Psyched-Out Encyclopedia of Rock ’n’ Roll: The Psychobillies' lead singer has almost completed writing his massive history of R&R, which, incidentally, sounds excellent: "It's the details that make the music real." All that's required is an interview with his idol, Buck Nekkid, stand-up bass player with trashabilly chart-toppers Buck Nekkid and the Starkers. Unfortunately, his first would-be conquest is Karen, who likes things kinky. Michael Garrett - The Last Time: When the 'Stones play his home town, Jack Holland, Mick Jagger lookalike, masquerades as the real thing to get him some hot girlie action. ![]() |