![]() ![]() There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. Forgive My Fins Series: 1 of Forgive My Fins Written by: Tera lynn Childs Narrated by: Emily Bauer Unabridged Audiobook Play Free with a 30 day free trial Add to Cart - 24. The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up-Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. ![]() What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody? Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough. Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human thing once and for all. On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl-still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hamilton (Merry Gentry #5)Ī Lick of Frost – Laurell K. Hamilton (Merry Gentry #3)Ī Stroke of Midnight – Laurell K. Hamilton (Merry Gentry #1)Ī Caress of Twilight- Laurell K. (Her Anita Blake series turns into a menagerie style series as well after the first six or seven books.) As of Jan 2020 there is 9 books in this series.Ī Kiss of Shadows – Laurell K. Some books barely follow a full day in her life which means there is a lot of action, but little resolution in some places. The only downside is the timeline is so slow. This is more on the side of erotica than would be acceptable for someone under 18+ that is not used to this sort of thing to read. Well known author who was diving deep into Polyships and the RH genre before it was really a thing. Sinister Wizardry – Eva Chase (Royals of Villain Academy #3) Vile Sorcery – Eva Chase (Royals of Villain Academy #2) As of Jan 2020 there is 8 books in this series.Ĭruel Magic – Eva Chase (Royals of Villain Academy #1) Please note this list has been updated as of January 2020.Ī new series fresh on my radar about a magical university and fear powered magic. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Seanachai tales cover the highlights from the construction of Newgrange (“a long, long time ago”) to the Easter Rebellion of 1916, the formative moment of present-day Ireland. The boy spends years tracking the elusive visitor down.īut the plot line is chiefly a vehicle for lessons in Irish history, Storyteller-style. The plot, such as it is, focuses on a young Irish boy entranced by a Storyteller who drops in one night, spins stories in return for a meal and a bed, and moves on. I thought of Eddie almost as soon as I started reading Ireland: A Novel, by Frank Delaney (Time Warner Books, 2004). Thickly bearded with minimal hairline and horn rim glasses, Eddie entered into his story with enough body language and facial contortion to bring listeners into the tale with him. ![]() His name is Eddie Lenihan, and he told us a story about Biddy Early, a folk healer who arranged a comeuppance for a disapproving curate. (There were just seven left in Ireland, he claimed at the time.) He was one of a vanishing breed of Celtic Storytellers, alias Seanachai, who trace their craft back to an era before writing came along. One pleasant evening in June 2001, I spent an hour in Ennis, Ireland, listening to a Seanachai spin folk stories. ![]() ![]() The first large exhibition to attempt an overview of Pre-Raphaelite art production was held by Tate Britain in 1984. This approach makes Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exceptional as it addresses female agency within their historical circumstances, not according to Procrustean male archetypes. Although there have been previous exhibitions on the female artists associated with the movement, such as in Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists (Manchester City Art Galleries, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, 1997–98), the broader scope of this exhibition counts models and relatives among the significant players within art production and distribution. It sheds light on the role of twelve female models, muses, wives, poets, and artists active within the Pre-Raphaelite circle, which is revealed as much less of an exclusive “boys’ club.” The aim of the exhibition was to “redress the balance in showing just how engaged and central women were to the endeavor, as the subjects of the images themselves, but also in their production,” as stated on the back cover of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first exhibition devoted exclusively to the contribution of women to the Pre-Raphaelite movement opened in the National Portrait Gallery in London in October. London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2019.Ģ07 pp. ![]() ![]() Mercy on her right - hair in a shiny black bob, big vintage earrings in the shape of daisies, caution in her eyes. Lauren on her left - thick honey-blond hair and teeth so white they looked like a flashlight beam. They paused by the swing to take pictures and Alex chose one to send to her mom, the one where she looked happiest, the one where she looked all right. Mercy and Lauren wore strappy sandals, but Alex didn't have any and she stuck to her battered black boots. Alex felt like they were a tiny army, three sleepwalkers in dainty nightgowns. Alex even put on a dress, short and black, held up by cobweb straps, identical in all but color to Mercy's and Lauren's. ![]() ![]() ![]() She'd created a kind of makeshift canopy over her bed in blue tulle that made the whole place feel glamorous.īut Mercy and Lauren wanted to go out, so they went out. Mercy's side was already elaborately turned out in art prints and strips of poetry in Chinese characters collaged with fashion illustrations. She wanted to stay in that night, catch up on rest, finish hanging posters in her room. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I know it will go a long way to encourage and inspire my colleagues at the EHRC, as well as human rights defenders in my country Ethiopia and Africa, who work for the promotion and protection of human rights in increasingly challenging environments," he said. ![]() I sincerely hope that the award will encourage and his colleagues at the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to be fearless and impartial advocates for human rights in Ethiopia," she added.ĭaniel told DW he was "truly excited and humbled to be the first Ethiopian to receive this prestigious German award." " deserves this prize for his lifelong advocacy of human rights. "I am delighted that the independent jury has selected an outstanding human rights defender," said Uschi Eid, President of the German Africa Foundation, which presents the prize. ![]() It honors outstanding personalities from the African continent who are committed to peace, reconciliation, and social progress. The prize is the highest award of its kind in Germany. Daniel Bekele, currently Chief Commissioner of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), will receive the German Africa Award for his fight for democracy and human rights. ![]() ![]() At the auction however, things get a little dicey as the messenger has turned up presumably to buy back the comm case and deliver his message. ![]() We know he was involved in an accident before Kera joined Mackiel and that Kera is to blame for it in some way, but we don’t get much more than that. ![]() Keralie “Kera” is the best dipper employed by Mackiel, her childhood friend and when she steals a comm case from a messenger she knows she is going to get a good payday offsetting the guilt she feels after hearing her father is dying. ![]() As we are introduced to our protagonist, Keralie, a talented thief I became aware this book was told from multiple perspective which is a love/hate thing for me. There is Archia which value agriculture and is ruled by Iris, Eonia which values technology and is ruled by Corra, Toria values intelligence and is ruled by Marguerite and finally, Ludia value pleasure and is ruled by Stessa. ![]() We learn that the world, Quadara, is split into four segments, each rule by a different Queen and values different things. Review: I have read The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte and it was one of my favourite books the year I read it, so I finally decided it was time to pick up her first book, Four Dead Queens but I didn’t know anything about it going into it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It makes me sad that so much of what he spoke about hasn’t changed. To see outside of my little town.įast forward to 2019 and I still find myself moved by Tupac’s lyrics. But he made me want to pay attention to what was going on around me. I cannot pretend to know or understand the life of a black man. There was something so powerful in his lyrics. I started listening with him and liked most of it. I listened to a lot of music, but my high school boyfriend (one of the handful of Hispanic students) listened to a ton of rap. ![]() I was brought up to think all police were good. I had no idea what type of problems happened in big cities and with minorities. ![]() I lived in small town Illinois that was almost all white. I was in high school in the 90’s (class of 95). Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energy - and his ultimate message of hope. His legacy is indomitable - as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been.įor the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist’s enigmatic world and its many contradictions. His death was tragic - a violent homage to the power of his voice. His talent was unbounded - a raw force that commanded attention and respect. Tupac Shakur’s most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur ![]() ![]() ![]() You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. ![]() You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it – it just requires breaking every rule in the „free-market” playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies and reclaiming our democracies. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on Earth. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. ![]() ![]() ![]() It turned out Will Smith’s education wasn’t nearly over. Only they didn’t see it that way: they felt more like star performers in his circus, a seven-days-a-week job they hadn’t signed up for. ![]() Will Smith thought, with good reason, that he had won at life: not only was his own success unparalleled, his whole family was at the pinnacle of the entertainment world. Will Smith’s transformation from a fearful child in a tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest pop stars of his era and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, with a string of box office successes that will likely never be broken, is an epic tale of inner transformation and outer triumph, and Will tells it astonishingly well. One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned.Īlong the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had. ![]() |
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