![]() ![]() My husband and I live on a farm in the western US, where I enjoy anything and everything outdoors. I want the reader to FEEL as they read-to laugh out loud, to hold their breath in anticipation, to cry-not be bogged down with irrelevant details.įor those of you who want to know about me-I must admit, that’s a lot harder to write than creating a character. My goal is to provide enough detail to create a vivid image in the reader’s mind without boring them. As a reader I want to get lost in a story, not be constantly slapped in the face with misspelled words, grammatical errors and plot contradictions. Anything less is still a draft copy and should not be offered as a finished product. I strongly believe that a book should be well-edited and proofread prior to being released. Love scenes should be tastefully erotic and occur where they fit-after a buildup of attraction and sexual tension, not gratuitous random sex thrown in. I believe that a series should be a series of related stories, not one story chopped into multiple pieces to sell more books. ![]()
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The Beast returns for a third adventure and it has a decidedly chilly feel to it. ![]() With autumnal stories including one about Freddie Teddy’s attempts at collecting blackberries, and another wherein Peter Bear makes the ‘most unfrightening’ pumpkin face ever’,Ĭhristmas tales, a seaside story, a rainy day one and a summery finale in which Old Bear, Little Bear, Bramwell and Jolly, not to mention Duck, Ruff, Rabbit and Zebra enact their very own version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.įor me these warm-hearted stories are the children’s picture book equivalent of comfort food – something to snuggle up with and share on a chilly day. ![]() I’ve long been a fan of Jane Hissey’s soft toy stories whose characters are based on toys belonging to her family and friends, so I was thrilled to see this new collection of some twenty short stories featuring Old Bear and his pals, Duck, Rabbit, Bramwell Brown,īarnaby, Jolly Tall and Ruff, to name just a few of the cast of characters herein, some of whom I’m meeting for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() But she was also widely admired: Dedicated to the welfare of her subjects and realm, she reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, and encouraged the licensing of women physicians. ![]() She was notorious: The taint of her husband’s death never quite left her. Returning to Naples, she ruled over one of Europe's most prestigious courts for more than thirty years-until she was herself murdered.Īs courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I of England, Joanna was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against enormous odds. Her cousin and husband, Prince Andrew of Hungary, had recently been murdered, and Joanna was the chief suspect. On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the pope and his court in Avignon. Nancy Goldstone portrays the riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial, and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. ![]() ![]() This book is printed in stunning full color, with art by Alex Puvilland and colors by Hilary Sycamore. This is a stunning graphic novel written by the author of the Uglies series, the Leviathan and Midnighters trilogies, as well as So Yesterday, Peeps, and The Last Days. ![]() And don''t miss the sequel, Spill Zone: The Broken Vow. Within the Spill Zone, Hell awaits-and it seems to be calling Addison''s name. When an eccentric collector makes a million-dollar offer, Addison breaks her own hard-learned rules of survival and ventures farther than she has ever dared. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death-or worse. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone''s twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. The Spill claimed Addison''s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn''t spoken since. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. ![]() Annotation: The first volume of an original graphic novel series for young adults, from New York Times-bestselling author Scott Westerfeld Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. ![]() Author: Westerfeld, Scott / Puvilland, Alex (ILT). ![]() ![]() Also they are so incredibly supportive of each other. On paper it shouldn’t work but as they grow closer and come to trust each other, their relationship is the cutest. ![]() ![]() He is ambitious, kind and always puts his family first. Harry on the other side is a literal angel on earth. In the beginning Louis is from the wrong side of the tracks, only out to save himself and some of his actions are cruel even. Most people exist that is all.” his life mission.Īs for the characters, they go through so much development that you could quite fittingly call it a character study. In Gods & monsters for example, Louis has made Wilde’s famous quote “To live is the rarest thing in the world. ![]() Yes, it really is that good! Quite similar to Oscar Wilde’s style as well, which isn’t all that surprising with how many references there are to his work. ![]() But as it is by Velvetoscar, who is fast becoming an all-time favourite author, I just couldn’t resist.įirst off, the writing!!! It is simply superb and I would officially read Velvetoscar’s grocery list. Therefore, I was more than a little worried after reading the premise of Gods & monsters (the only understandable reaction if you are familiar with the ending of Cruel intentions). Cruel intentions was one of my favourite movies growing up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trouble is, Liz’s wolf may think he's delicious, but her human side is still pissed that Benton ran out on her a year ago. They’ve been ordered to retrieve a couple of runaways by Valentine’s Day. In Devi Ansevi’s Fur and Fury, Liz is the Pack's Enforcer, and Benton is a professional bounty hunter. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book. ![]() Publisher's Note: Lust in Lace is a paranormal erotic anthology that includes adult language and situations and some darker content. In the fifth volume of the Lust series, Valentine’s Day is at its most sinfully delicious when leavened with a touch of darkness, dusted with a bittersweet dash of cocoa, and infused with rich decadence. Set your taste buds a-tingle with this trio of luscious supernatural tales featuring ghosts and goddesses, vampires and werewolves. ![]() ![]() ![]() These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. Genius." -Michele Filgate, The Washington Post What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. ![]() ![]() A National Indie Bestseller A Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A Finalist for The Story Prize "Dazzling." -Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Uncanny and haunting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Ĭlark, K., Flaherty, J.E., Shephard, M.S.: Appl. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. SALSA-MPI is intended to allow these computations to make efficient use of more distributed and dynamic computing resources. Fields as diverse as fluid dynamics, material science, biomechanics, and ecology make use of parallel adaptive computation, but target architectures have traditionally been supercomputers and tightly-coupled clusters. As driving technology for this effort of unifying parallel and distributed computing, we plan to use adaptive solvers of partial differential equations. The goal is to enable dynamic network reconfiguration and load balancing without sacrificing application performance or requiring extensive code modifications. In this paper, we introduce SALSA-MPI, an actor programming language approach to scientific computing that extends MPI with a checkpointing and migration API and a runtime system that manages both periodic checkpoints and process or application migration. Concurrently, programming languages have been created supporting dynamically reconfigurable distributed systems over the heterogeneous Internet. Over the last two decades, efficient message passing libraries have been developed for parallel scientific computation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period. As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. A winner or finalist of multiple awards in its print and audiobook editions, Four Hundred Souls has been widely praised by reviewers for its prose and historical content.įrom 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male. Conceived and created to commemorate the four hundred years that had passed since the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia, the book concerns African-American history and collects works written by ninety Black writers. ![]() Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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