![]() Though not without their problems, skinwalker Mercy and alpha werewolf Adam are still a novelty in the genre. Using knowledge of real wolf-pack dynamics and the native culture of the Pacific Northwest, Briggs’ series takes urban fantasy out of the urban area, and introduces a novelty to urban fantasy: a stable and slow-building relationship. ✥ Werewolf and Native American skinwalker culture takes a realistic turn in 2006’s Moon Called, first in Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. She's surrounded by far more powerful supernatural beings, including werewolves, vampires and an assortment of fae." ~ from: Goodreads | Mercy Thompson series Her Native American heritage has gifted her with the ability to take the form of a coyote at will. ![]() ✥ "Mercedes is a Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. The supernatural lore is superb, combining tradition with innovation. Patricia Briggs creates a developed world, and the characters in it are believeable and likeable even when making hard decisions and existing within a world of mundane and magical rules and constraints. The romantic subplot is well-written, and avoids too much melodrama or love triangles. This series is fun, funny, and action packed. ![]() 3.1 Companion Series, Spinoffs, Sequels or Prequels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She resides with her husband and son in Hickory Hills, IL.īoth Meghan and Kelly strongly believe in furthering their real estate knowledge and being experts in their industry, and continue to take the initiative to become certified in different aspects of the business. Kelly’s background is in business management having run a family business for 10 years before becoming a full time realtor. ![]() ![]() Meghan currently resides with her husband and two children in Westchester, IL. Meghan has worked at a PR firm writing press releases for homebuilders and as a loan processor for Genworth Financial, processing mortgages and mortgage insurance loans for underwriters before becoming a full time real estate professional. She earned her Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Corporate Communications and Journalism and with an emphasis in public relations. She graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2002. ![]() Meghan’s background covers much of the real estate field. Having started out with an office in Willowbrook, Meghan and Kelly decided to team up with the Gobber office and in 2007 made the switch and have been successfully selling there since. Meghan O’Brien and Kelly Canniff have been realtors since 2005. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was definitely true for me the first time I read ‘The Bell Jar’. If you’re a fan of Plath’s cutting, confessional poetry, you might want to read The Bell Jar almost exclusively as an explanation of her struggles with depression. The novel is semi-autobiographical, taking inspiration from Plath’s own life while fictionalizing certain details. Sylvia Plath (under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas”) published her first and only novel “The Bell Jar” in 1963, a mere month before taking her own life. ![]() The name Sylvia Plath instantly calls to mind the author-poet’s untimely and disturbing suicide infamously killing herself by sticking her head in an oven, Plath has become something of an icon among existentialists and people who suffer from mental illnesses alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. ![]() But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. ![]() When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the dark side of technology. “This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga of murder and deception.” - Entertainment Weeklyįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” -Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On “A superb suspense writer…Brava, Ruth Ware. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is understandably upset about this considering her views on robotics, but things get worse as her ‘friends’ abandon her. Lena is very against this and is anti-tech for the most part, but her entire world ends up changing when she gets into an accident that causes her to have a robotic arm. Lena is a young woman whose parents are very into tech and run a tech company that specializes in robotics, and have also started working on making robotic limbs for people that will act and eventually look exactly like real body parts do. You’ll love this fast-paced young adult sci-fi because the twists and turns will keep you flipping the pages. ![]() When the evidence points to her, Lena decides to prove her innocence-or her guilt. And thanks to her sleepwalking, Lena doesn’t know what she was doing during the murders. To Lena, this is just another example of how CyberCorp-her parents’ company and the manufacturer of the arm-screws up everything.Īs the rollout of CyberCorp’s new android approaches, a murderer targets children of the company’s employees. It acts when she doesn’t tell it to, even when she’s asleep.Įver since she got the new limb, she’s been sleepwalking and waking in odd places. ![]() The arm’s artificial intelligence takes Lena’s thoughts to the extreme. Now, Lena’s stuck with this cybernetic arm, and her friends are terrified of her. It was supposed to help her, not turn her into a monster. ![]() ![]() In this illuminating book, Schmidt discusses the special fascination Gilgamesh holds for contemporary poets, arguing that part of its appeal is its captivating otherness. Its translation, interpretation, and integration are ongoing. The discovery of a pre-Noah flood story was front-page news on both sides of the Atlantic, and the poem's allure only continues to grow as additional cuneiform tablets come to light. The poem had to be reassembled, its languages deciphered. Incised on clay tablets, its fragments were scattered across a huge expanse of desert when it was recovered in the nineteenth century. Schmidt describes how the poem is a work in progress even now, an undertaking that has drawn on the talents and obsessions of an unlikely cast of characters, from archaeologists and museum curators to tomb raiders and jihadis. Acclaimed literary historian Michael Schmidt provides a unique meditation on the rediscovery of Gilgamesh and its profound influence on poets today. ![]() It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of intimate friendship and love. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. ![]() It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. ![]() Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is a memoir, but it is also an illuminating guidebook to stand-up from one of our two or three greatest comedians. And he writes about how he figured out what worked on stage. He writes about fear, anxiety and loneliness. ![]() He writes about mentors, girlfriends, his complex relationship with his parents and sister, and about some of his great peers in comedy-Dan Ackroyd, Lorne Michaels, Carl Reiner, Johnny Carson. He writes about making the very tough decision to sacrifice everything not original in his act, and about lucking into a job writing for The Smothers Brothers Show. Obsession is a substitute for talent, he has said, and Steve Martin's focus and daring-his sheer tenacity-are truly stunning. By age 20, studying poetry and philosophy on the side, he was performing a dozen times a week, most often at the Disney rival, Knott's Berry Farm. In the decade that followed, he worked in Disney's magic shop, print shop, and theater, and developed his own magic/comedy act. At age 10, Steve Martin got a job selling guidebooks at the newly opened Disneyland. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL16476698W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.69 Pages 264 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1416949690 ![]() Will Stanton is an ordinary boy, until his Midwinter eleventh. Independent of the first book 'Over Sea Under Stone,' this is also darker, more magical, more intense, and one of the most beautifully written fantasy novels in existance. Urn:lcp:darkisrising00coop:lcpdf:a360c7bf-dd76-461e-ab27-2210527d2a8e Susan Cooper has yet to equal 'The Dark is Rising,' the second book of her classic Dark is Rising Sequence. It is even more than that the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. They know immediately that it is special. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:37:33 Boxid IA117518 Boxid_2 CH110701 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. ![]() ![]() The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. About the Book The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalismīook Synopsis The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. ![]() ![]() Kid Koala’s The Storyville Mosquito (A Theatrical Cinema Experience) runs November 25 and 26. The Massey is the only theatre in the Lower Mainland to present the Dog Man on the Canadian leg of its tour. Adapted from “A Tale of Two Kitties”, the show brings the lovable hero to life as he fights crime and tries to save the city. The production is based on the international bestselling series by Dav Pilkey (of Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club fame), Dog Man having sold more than 50 million copies of its books in print in multiple languages to date. On October 28 and 29, New York City-based TheaterWorksUSA’s Dog Man: The Musical hits the Massey stage. The band is known for its high-energy performances laced with stories that veer from joyful to profound. Devoted to klezmer, the eight-piece incorporates classical and Québécois music as well as some jazz and Balkan stylings into its own unique sound. It all kicks off on October 21 with a performance by Oktopus. ![]() ![]() FROM KLEZMER MUSIC to Dog Man: The Musical to Kid Koala’s latest live production, Massey Theatre has announced its 2023-24 mainstage season. ![]() |