![]() A mysterious phone call sets her on a collision course with danger as she races to save a young female elf. A social misfit, she drives a hundred year old Dodge, has a pet porcupine, and saves damsels in distress in her spare time. Law forages for wild plants and fish to sell to elf enclaves. ![]() Some of the characters are familiar: Stormsong, Pony, Blue Sky, and Lain. Project Elfhome tells the stories of those impacted by Tinker and Windwolf as they struggle to make Pittsburgh a safe haven. They come together like a mosaic, little pieces creating a greater picture. People change one another, often without realizing the impact they've made on others. ![]() Sixty thousand humans, twenty thousand black-winged tengu, ten thousand elves, an unknown number of invading oni, four unborn siblings of an elf princess, three dragons, and a pair of nine-year olds geniuses.įor every story written, there's a thousand others not told. Pittsburgh: a sprawling modern Earth city stranded in the heart of a virgin forest on Elfhome. ![]() ![]() Contains some of Wen Spencer's best shorter works including gems "Bare Snow Falling on Fairywood," "Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden," "Peace Offering,” and more tales set in the world of best-selling Elfhome series entries Tinker, Wolf Who Rules, Elfhome, and Wood Sprites! A special entry in the the best-selling Romantic Times Sapphire award winning Elfhome series. Stories exploring the fascinating realm of Elfhome, a world where modern day Pittsburgh has collided with the kingdom of the Elves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Steinem uses her persuasive skills to encourage notable public figures to attend, and in her success, the reporters follow. ![]() She finds herself within a historic moment which is gaining no press coverage due to the desert heat and lack of places to stay. In late 1960, Steinem reports swooping to the rescue when attending a consumer boycott protest to raise wages for migrant farm workers held between California and Mexico. She believes these to be an essential part of social action and change. These are explained as circles where any people, anywhere can ‘gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change’. ![]() India also taught her the art of listening and from this she coined the term ‘Talking Circles’. It is in India that she birthed her love for political campaigns after she’d witnessed citizens queue up for days to cast their ballots. She studies Gandhian activism here and partakes in non-violent protests. Steinem continues this travelling and after graduating from Smith College, takes to India with but a comb and a cup. Steinem holds a passion for writing, recounting that ‘writers are like spiders, spinning creations out of thin air’, like her father had for her life, creating it from what was inside, from his soul. Her father is her magician, managing to create an educational, exciting life for her regardless of their financial circumstances. Steinem begins by bringing her childhood travels to life. ![]() ![]() “Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?” There are time in a girl’s life when things like that are incredibly important.” “I’m not sure that has anything to do with love,” I said with some amazement. And I say I don’t want it anymore and throw it out the window. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. “I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. She watched the rising smoke for a while, thinking. “I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in elementary school at the time - fifth or sixth grade - but I made up my mind once and for all.” ![]() ![]() Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation with‑ out intent to infringe. © 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid‑free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number‑10: 0‑415‑97460‑7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number‑13: 978‑0‑415‑97460‑8 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business ![]() ![]() Science Fact and Science Fiction An Encyclopedia ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an eclectic mix but it all comes together.įrom the very first paragraph of this over 500-page suspense tale of a contract killing and its consequences, you know you’re in the hands of an award-winning pro and increasingly under the spell of the protagonist, 44-year-old former marine - Bronze Star, Silver Star, Purple Heart sniper Billy Summers.īilly’s in a hotel lobby reading “a digest-sized comic book, Archie’s Pals and Gals,” but “he’s thinking about Emile Zola and Zola’s third novel, his breakthrough, Therese Raquin.” Not your usual hired gun. It may also be his most moving, getting us to care deeply about a professional killer.Īnd maybe his most surprising novel as well, with a narrative arc that includes a lot of seemingly unrelated subplots - the mob’s way of doing business, marines in Fallujah fighting house to house in late 2004, friendship between old comrades in crime, a platonic love story between the protagonist and a young woman who’s been gang raped, a nail-biting climax in Montauk - and discovery of the challenges and joys of writing. ![]() The king of horror and supernatural haunting, Stephen King, hasn’t forgotten his fan base - there’s a nod in his new book to The Shining’s creepy Overlook Hotel - but in Billy Summers, King’s latest, he takes readers on a different kind of thriller ride in what some are saying is his best book yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Johnes began building his estate in Cardiganshire in the early 1780’s. Johnes’s projects, both aesthetic and social. It is clear, then, that Blake must have been aware of Outline, for which Blake engraved eight plates). Published An Attempt to Describe Hafod (the end paper advertizes Thoughts on A third connection is provided by Blake’s lifelong friend George Cumberland, who in 1796 Johnes and Blake: copy P of Songs of Innocence belonged to Johnes, having been given to himīy Malkin. I soon found, in the Keynes and Wolf Census, another link between 1 ↤ 1 See Elizabeth Inglis-Jones, Peacocks in Paradise (London, 1950), The subject, which I did with great curiosity. Todd did not have library facilities available to him, he asked me to pursue Malkin’s Memoirs is dedicated to him, he was Lord Lieutenant ofĬardiganshire, &c.” As Mr. Todd wrote, “It is quite clearly Thomas Johnes, who built himself an EdenĪt Hafod. ![]() Hereford, Ancient Guardian of Wales, whose handsīuilded the mountain palaces of Eden, stupendous works! In July of 1968, Ruthven Todd sent me an extremely interesting suggestion about the THOMAS JOHNES, “ANCIENT GUARDIAN OF WALES” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There has also been a greater acceptance of the role inter-tribal politics played in the affairs of the Sioux and its wars over time. Subsequent reviews and interpretations of the source material has been much more sympathetic to the viewpoint of the Native Americans regarding the events that took place in the Sioux Wars. The use of this type of material would have been unusual and probably suspect back in 1942, hence the poor reception of this work at that time. It is clear that the author's sympathies are with Crazy Horse and the Native Americans, as a reading of the source material indicates a majority of the sources for the narrative are from Native American sources. I think that if this book were published today it would find a wide audience, due to its depiction of the Indian side the story of the Sioux Wars. It was panned by critics when it was published, my guess is, because it was not done in the accepted writing style of the time. It was published in 1942 from source material collected in the 1920's and 30's by the Nebraska Sand Hills native author Mari Sandoz and a friend of hers. This biography of the Oglala Sioux known as Crazy Horse is a biography ahead of its time. ![]() ![]() ![]() In love with Raid since she was 6 years old, she has lived a confined, small-town life and admired him from afar, never having the courage to approach him. Our heroine is Hanna, a dorky, goofy, girlie girl with a huge heart, and she is absolutely fabulous. He had a sexy smile playing about his mouth and he looked settled in, like he was enjoying a show.”Īll this, in addition to having a dark and dangerous side *shiver*. He was leaning back against his Jeep, arms crossed on his massive chest, shades, it appeared, still on me. He also had on tan cargo pants, boots, and unbelievably cool gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses. ![]() “Wearing a skin tight army green tee that was straining so much at his biceps it looked in danger of ripping. KA brings us yet another gorgeous, swoony, sexy and tortured Alpha to obsess over in former Marine and all-round badass, Raiden Ulysees Miller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reality is turned on its head, and Dee has only her fellow "heartless," the charming but secretive James Lancer, to keep her grounded. ![]() And what comes after Dee makes her deal is a nightmare far bigger, far more monstrous than anything she ever could have imagined. The demon who Dee approaches doesn't trade in the usual arms and legs, however. But this is a world where demons exist, and the demons are there to make deals: one human body part in exchange for one wish come true. Her home life sucks (to put it mildly), and she's about to get booted from her boarding school-the only place she's ever felt free-for lack of funds. An intoxicating blend of fantasy, horror, and romance-a Faustian fable perfect for fans of Holly Black, and Stranger Things. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was surprised by how quickly I was pulled into the story. The Serpent House predominantly narrated by Annie, it’s her time-travelling adventures you experience as she goes from Hexer Hall to the hospital that stood in the same place years before. Originally from Tyneside, she lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed with her partner and children. ![]() Bea has also won several prizes for short stories. Her novel for readers aged 13-plus, The Misper, was published in 2018 by The Conrad Press. Her second children's book, My Cousin Faustina, was originally written as an interactive e-book in conjunction with schools across the world. The children's novel produced as part of the PhD, The Serpent House, was shortlisted for a Times/Chicken House Award and published in 2014 by Curious Fox. She has a Creative Writing PhD from Newcastle University where she studied under the supervision of award-winning writer Jackie Kay and renowned literature expert Professor Kim Reynolds. This Little Piggy, was also published by Legend Press in 2014.īea spent many years as a newspaper reporter and latterly seventeen years as a senior broadcast journalist with the BBC in the north-east of England. Bea Davenport is the writing name of former print and broadcast journalist Barbara Henderson.Her first crime/suspense novel, In Too Deep, was a runner-up in the Luke Bitmead Bursary and published by Legend Press in 2013. ![]() |