![]() Inexplicably displaced in time, Ceris is determined to seek out her descendants.īeing a woman traveling alone brings its own challenges, until Ceris encounters a mysterious-and desperate-godling. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it’s not nine months later-it’s seven hundred years later. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family’s honor and take control of her legacy. The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. ![]() ![]() When a star dies, a new one must be born. A woman’s heart proves as infinite as the night sky in a breathtaking fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wrath, who is often referred to as the Blind King, is the King of the Vampires and the last pure-blood vampire in existence. Such character names help create a slightly oppressed, ominous, and supernatural ambience which pervades the entire series. Immediately most readers begin to notice the clever use of common words with evil connotations misspelled as a play on the pronunciations of the words. Most of the main characters in the series are drawn from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, including Wrath, Rhage, Zsadist, Dhestroyer, Vishous, Phury, Rehvenge, Tohrment, and many more. The entire series revolves around the Black Dagger Brotherhood itself, which is a group of vampire warriors which basically acts as an army against any other beings or humans who are out to attack the vampires. It has a wide array of characters and an intricate plot woven throughout the series which keeps its audience interested and excited. So far, her Black Dagger Brotherhood has eleven separate installments with a twelfth to be released in 2014. ![]() She has received several decorations and awards, honoring for her work and influence in the romance and paranormal romance writing categories. Ward–in order to appeal to an audience that is more suited for this type of novel. ![]() ![]() She publishes the Black Dagger Brotherhood novels under a penname-J. The Black Dagger Brotherhood series is a widely known and loved paranormal romance novel series, written by the up-and-coming author, Jessica Rowley Pell Bird. About The Black Dagger Brotherhood Books: ![]() ![]() Stay far from the pixelated, incongruous world that Sterritt provides. For readers in the market for a farm-spackled and bootstraps trip through the American identity, I suggest you stick to Faulkner, to Steinbeck. ![]() It is the multi-faced-and simultaneously faceless-conglomerate of the American consumption network. ![]() History is the spidery wires and camera film that spins until the final moments of our lifetime. ![]() History, in this novel, instead begins at the dawn of electronic communication. What is America's history-the world's history-but fragmentary, translated through the eyes of the beholder and the opinions of the historian? In Brooks Sterritt's The History of America in My Lifetime, American history is not the colorful pages of the classroom textbook, nor a view of a collected Americana that we auction off as simple and meager, hard-won. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fourth child in a family of five children, her parents, Harold and Malene Woodward, divorced when she was eight, at which point she lived with her grandparents. Sherrilyn Kenyon was born on 11 December 1965 in Columbus, Georgia. Under both names, her books have appeared at the top of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today lists, and they are frequent bestsellers in Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Kenyon's novels have over 70 million copies in print in over 100 countries. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she writes historical fiction with paranormal elements. She is best known for her Dark Hunter series. Under her former married name, she wrote both urban fantasy and paranormal romance. Sherrilyn Kenyon (born December 11, 1965) is a bestselling US writer. Paranormal romance, Urban fantasy, Science fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Suspense Kinley MacGregor, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Sherrilyn McQueen ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A genuine Garwood gem!"- Romantic Times "Julie Garwood has become a trusted brand name in romantic fiction."- People, "Garwood entices readers with sizzling adventure punctuated with memorable characters…Humor and danger are a winning mix…A genuine Garwood gem!"- Romantic Times "Julie Garwood has become a trusted brand name in romantic fiction. ![]() A genuine Garwood gem!"- Romantic Times "Julie Garwood has become a trusted brand name in romantic fiction."- People, "Garwood entices readers with sizzling adventure punctuated with memorable characters…Humor and danger are a winning mix…A genuine Garwood gem!"-Romantic Times "Julie Garwood has become a trusted brand name in romantic fiction."-People, " Garwood entices readers with sizzling adventure punctuated with memorable characters. "Garwood entices readers with sizzling adventure punctuated with memorable characters&Humor and danger are a winning mix&A genuine Garwood gem!"- Romantic Times "Julie Garwood has become a trusted brand name in romantic fiction."- People, " Garwood entices readers with sizzling adventure punctuated with memorable characters. Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood: 9780345500762 : Books Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaper and the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-time thief. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much to my parents’ relief, I abandoned my theatrical aspirations after college for the far more stable and lucrative career of fiction writing. I graduated from Williams College in ’98 and I currently live in Boston with my husband, my perfect new baby, and my adorable yoodle Sunshine (what’s a yoodle? A puppy that’s three-quarters poodle and one-quarter Yorkshire terrier, of course!). ![]() because it was artistically fulfilling, yes.) I was born July 31 (same birthday as Harry Potter!) in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in Asuncion, Paraguay Miami, Florida and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before moving to New Jersey in high school, where I started doing theatre-mostly backstage work, because (a) it was fun, and (b) you got to hang out in the dark with cute boys. ![]() Among the many great things to come out of New Zealand (the Lord of the Rings movies, cats that paint, my mom) is a bird called the tui-not as well known as the kiwi, but a heck of a lot noisier! Tui? What kind of name is that? Is it short for something? ![]() ![]() ![]() Remedying this omission, Donald Rayfield accesses a mass of new material from recently opened archives to tell Georgia’s absorbing story.īeginning with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ending with the volatile presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Rayfield deals with the country’s internal politics and swings between disintegration and unity, and divulges Georgia’s complex struggles with the empires that have tried to control, fragment, or even destroy it. It also has one of the longest and most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, but no comprehensive, up-to-date account has been written about this little-known country-until now. It has ski resorts and mineral springs, monuments and an oil pipeline. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is a country of rainforests and swamps, snow and glaciers, and semi-arid plains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pollination is the process that brings these male and female gametes together. Female gametes are found in the ovules of a flower. Male gametes are found inside tiny pollen grains on the anthers of flowers. Plants have gametes, which contain half the normal number of chromosomes for that plant species. Flowers are the structures of flowering plants that contain all the specialised parts needed for sexual reproduction. It is part of the sexual reproduction process of flowering plants, which results in seeds that will grow into new plants. Pollination is a very important part of the life cycle of a flowering plant. This means that, if something happens that is fatal to one individual, such as a disease outbreak, it is likely to be fatal to all. However, all individuals produced like this are clones of their parent, with no genetic variation. ![]() Many flowering plants are also able to reproduce asexually through various structures such as stolons, rhizomes and tubers. ![]() ![]() Inside the store, we meet a mixed bag of locals and weekenders, including Brent Norton ( Andre Braugher), the Draytons' litigious neighbor Mrs. They leave mom behind, which may turn out to be a mistake. When the electric power goes out, David Drayton ( Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy ( Nathan Gamble) drive slowly into town to buy emergency supplies at the supermarket. In "The Mist," based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. ![]() Combine (1) a mysterious threat that attacks a town, and (2) a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror movies, from " Night of the Living Dead" (1968) to " 30 Days of Night." All you have to do is choose a new threat and a new place of refuge, and use typecasting and personality traits so we can tell the characters apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance, Jennieke Cohen does a great job with Victoria’s and Tom’s perspective. Additionally, it’s even more difficult making sure that both perspectives work well together. It’s not easy writing a dual perspective novel. Who is she to marry? And are the accidents coincidence or planned? Things get more dangerous when every outing Vicky takes becomes a near-death experience. ![]() ![]() Vicky is forced to come to terms about their broken friendship. Finding love isn’t easy, but neither is finding a worthy gentleman to get to know– even when Tom Sherborne, her childhood best friend, returns to Halworth manor after leaving for five years without a letter of explanation. The solution, she needs to marry, and soon, to save both her sister and her family. She’s the only one who can preserve her sisters reputation and keep the family’s estate from falling into the cruel hands of her brother-in-law. Yearning for that happy ending like in her favorite Jane Austen novels, Victoria Aston’s perfect family and life is on the verge of ruin when she finds out about her sister’s abusive relationship and divorce. Life isn’t always like the books we read. Mystery, romance & Elizabeth Bennett! DANGEROUS ALLIANCE: AN AUSTENTACIOUS ROMANCE by Jennieke Cohen gives us a Jane Austen-worthy novel that we didn’t know we needed. ![]() |