![]() ![]() When she comes to Vilokan Asylum, she hopes Cain's experience with the guy "upstairs" can help her find her own path on the narrow road between the warring leagues of angels. ![]() ![]() But she's burned her bridges with the celestials, too. She just can't stomach the big guy "downstairs" and his propensity for torture, fire, and all that devilish crap. of course, when the Baron is involved, his help almost always comes at a cost.Ĭain and Angel: A fallen angel has a change of heart. Cain will need more than a "blood suckers" support group to get a handle on the issue. Razing Cain: After agreeing with the new Vampire Council to take on their newest batch of younglings, and help them tame their blood cravings, things quickly get out of hand at Vilokan Asylum. he'll have to confront the ghosts of his past, literally. The Curse of Cain: When a necromancer is admitted to Vilokan Asylum against her will, and she evokes the ghost of Cain's murdered brother, Abel, he'll have to do more than treat the patient. It won't interfere with your progress at Vilokan Asylum. Yes, I'm also the world's first werewolf.īut don't worry. What is it you just asked? You heard that I was cursed? I've come a long way since I became the world's first murderer. Welcome to the Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged. ![]()
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![]() There are aspects to it, which make you feel like you have stepped back into your childhood. ![]() The story is very subtle and has a lovely fairytale feel to it. It never occurred to me how many different types of lightening existed either. I had never considered the affects of lightening on people, but it seems to cause different reactions amongst it survivors. This was a really unusual story and had me searching for more information about lightening survivors. He is hot to touch and can boil water with his mouth, a suitable love match for an Ice Queen. The lightening changes her life forever and results in her beginning a relationship with Lazarus Jones, a fellow lightening survivor who had died and come back to life. The most noticeable is her inability to see the colour red, which makes everything have that white, snowy look about it. She is struck by lightening which affects so many parts of her body. Her life is non existent until a highly unlikely accident changes her life. She grows up with a heart touched by ice never letting anyone come close enough to love her or allowing herself to love them back. Once her wish came true, her life was never the same again. The story begins with a little girl, making a wish she couldn't take back. They bruise and bake and come back to haunt you. They burn you tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. ![]() Challenges - What's In A Name 3 Challengeīe careful what you wish for. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joseph Conrad boldly experimented with the novella and novel forms, filled his writing with the exotic places he himself had traveled, and concerned himself with honor, guilt, moral alienation, and sin. The Secret Sharer is the tale of a young sea captain’s first command as he sails into the Gulf of Siam-and into an encounter with his mysterious “double,” the shadow self of the unconscious mind. It is a journey into darkness and horror-both literally, as the narrator descends into a sinister jungle landscape, and metaphorically, as he encounters the morally depraved Mr. Based on Conrad’s own 1890 trip up the Congo River, the story is told by Marlow, the novelist’s alter ego. Heart of Darkness is a devastating commentary on the corruptibility of humanity. In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Washington chose his words carefully, but he later made it clear that his wish before retreating was to see New York City-the second-largest urban center in the Thirteen Colonies, with a population of around 25,000-“laid in ashes.” He knew this plan would be controversial, so he urged Congress to be discreet in its response, writing, “If Congress therefore should resolve upon the destruction of, the resolution should be a profound secret.” ![]() “They would derive great conveniences from it on the one hand-and much property would be destroyed on the other.” “If we should be obliged to abandon this town, ought it to stand as winter quarters for the enemy?” he asked John Hancock, the Congress’ president. The general knew his beleaguered Continental Army couldn’t hold the city against the world’s greatest navy, but as he prepared to retreat, he hoped to deny the British harbor through a strategy nearly as old as warfare itself: a scorched-earth policy. On September 2, 1776, George Washington wrote to the Continental Congress, seeking permission to burn New York City to the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What I know now that I didn’t know then is that are many, may reasons NOT to participate in Operation Christmas Child, and many alternative organizations you can support that will offer you the opportunity to both truly help someone in need and teach your children about generosity and global poverty, all at the same time.ġ. ![]() Many churches I attended throughout my formative years participated in Operation Christmas Child, and many years my family and I dutifully picked up a few shoeboxes and went to the Dollar General in search of what we thought would bring poor children around the world happiness and joy. If you are unfamiliar with Operation Christmas Child, the gist is this: churches distribute pre-printed shoebox-sized cardboard boxes, which are then filled by families with toys, trinkets, and basic necessity items like toothbrushes and shipped off to children in non-first world countries so they can have something to open at Christmas time. Each and every year around this time, thousands of churches around the country participate in an organization called Operation Christmas Child. ![]() ![]() ![]() While her earlier books The Lost Dog and The Hamilton Case were meditations on the nature of art and mystery, de Kretser's brilliantly observed new novel explores the meaning of travel. "It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book." - A.S. ![]() Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be - home or away. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. ![]() With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe - exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel - voluntary in her case, enforced in his. Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. ![]() ![]() (Penguin Books Limited, 21 April 2016, audiobook, 8 hours 27 minutes, various narrators, Audible) It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.īut what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete…. Solving the secret of where it came from – and how many more parts may be out there – could change life as we know it. It rewrites history.Īn object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. ![]() An enormous, ornate hand made of an exceptionally rare metal which predates all human civilisation on the continent.īut this thing…it’s different. Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. ![]() The people looking down see something far stranger…. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. ![]() Suddenly the ground disappears beneath her. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Celtic tradition, Ban Sidhs have been compared to ghosts. The souls of the dead were said to lodge near churchyards on fairy knolls, waiting to reunite with their bodies on the Day of Judgment.įaeries are small because the soul is a miniature replica of the person to whom it is tied. ![]() You should know that there are no gifts or presents among the Fae every transaction is an exchange, and it is never one-sided.įaeries are frequently linked with the dead. (Later parts of this article will help with this). Make no promises or offerings that you can’t keep, and don’t make any deals with the Fae unless you know exactly what you’re getting–and what they’re getting in return. The Fae are notoriously mischievous and cunning and should only be interacted with if you know exactly what you’re up against. In European mythology, they are mythological beings: spirits characterized as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural. The Fae are supernatural spiritual beings or creatures who live in the Otherworld. The Fae are magical entities that appear at critical junctures in one’s life and live in liminal spaces (an area where two worlds connect, like a forest). ![]() ![]() ![]() She moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and after graduation with a B.A in English in 1938, studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she earned a degree in librarianship in 1939. Thereafter, she was a frequent visitor to the library, though she rarely found the books she most wanted to read - those about children like herself. It wasn't until she was in third grade that she found enjoyment from books, when she started reading The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. She was slow in learning to read, due partly to her dissatisfaction with the books she was required to read and partly to an unpleasant first grade teacher. ![]() When she was 6, her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she went to grammar and high school. Mouse.īeverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. ![]() Beverly Cleary (ApMarch 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() But these ex-drones have come to their senses-or have they? Betrayed to the UNA, the rebels flee to another refuge in Antarctica, from which they soon depart. ![]() Alenna and Liam are wary of them, last seen engaging in an orgy of violence, and the feeling is mutual. Now safe in a secret Australian hideout where rebel scientists, including Alenna’s mother, plot the UNA’s overthrow, the two encounter “drones,” other wheel refugees. The second installment of the near-future dystopia series begun in The Forsaken (2012) revisits familiar narrative territory, exhibiting the opener’s strengths and weaknesses.Īlenna and Liam have escaped “the wheel,” an island prison camp for teens resistant to the mind-control drugs through which the totalitarian United Northern Alliance rules North America. ![]() |