![]() ![]() Yet Regeane finds allies as well: Lucilla, rumored to be the private courtesan of Pope Hadrian himself Antonius, a wise and gentle soul trapped within a body grotesquely disfigured by disease and the little Saxon girl Elfgifa, brave beyond her years, with a tongue as sharp as a blade. And if the Church discovers her secret, Regeane will burn at the stake. The most notorious, her depraved uncle and guardian, will not scruple to betray her to the Church unless she aids him in his sinister schemes. ![]() Possessed of preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years, and senses so keen they can pierce the veil of death itself, Regeane is a shapeshifter: woman and wolf, hunter and hunted.īetrothed by Charlemagne's command to a barbarian lord she has never seen, Regeane is surrounded by enemies. But unknown to those plotting against her, the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. ![]() Regeane's regal blood renders her an unwilling pawn in the struggle for political power. Now, into the Eternal City comes Regeane, a beautiful young woman distantly related, through her dead mother, to Charlemagne. In this new historical romantic fantasy of stunning originality and scope, Alice Borchardt breathes life into a bygone age, brilliantly recreating a sensuous, violent world-and the men and women whose grand ambitions, betrayals, and passions shape the era in which they live and die.ĭecadent Rome at the dawn of the Dark Ages is mired in crumbling grandeur. ![]()
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![]() ![]() * These are either short stories or novellas rather than full length novels. All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020) Novel. ![]() Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981) Novel.Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) Novel.This is the order that the Logan Family books were published in, but it’s not necessarily the order that they should be read in: ![]() Because I plan to review several, if not all, of the Logan Family books, it seems more expedient to make one post about the series order which can then be referred to in all future reviews. Oh, the Logan Family Saga! Both the joy and the frustration of many a school librarian – because this series is excellent historical fiction, and because it’s rather difficult to get a handle on the series. Please note that as of this writing I’ve only reread a few books in the series since starting this blog, so my understanding of some aspects might change as I read more. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Readers craving a witchy story full of found family, lush nature, and small-town secrets will find it utterly enchanting." (Hester Fox, author of The Witch of Willow Hall) It has secrets to reveal - if you're willing to listen. But a threat lingers in the woods - one that may have something to do with Sarah's untimely death and that has now set its sight on Mel. ![]() ![]() With every taste of sweet honey and tart blackberries, the wildwood twines further into Mel’s broken heart. There are secrets that call to Mel, in the gaze of the gnarled and knowing woman everyone calls Granny, in a salvaged remedy book filled with the magic of simple mountain traditions, and in the connection she feels to the Ross homestead and the wilderness around it. Yet Morgan’s Gap is more than a land of morning mists and deep forest shadows. ![]() To fulfill a final promise to her best friend, Mel travels to an idyllic small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. Ten years later, Sarah’s sudden death threatens to break her. A heartwarming tale of hope, fate, and folk magic unfolds when a young woman travels to a sleepy southern town in the Appalachian Mountains to bury her best friend.Īt the age of 11, Mel Smith’s life found its purpose when she met Sarah Ross. ![]() ![]() ![]() LB: I draw on my own experience as well as my collection of books on equestrianism, and the glorious internet (though you need to be careful about going to reliable sites). Q: Do you have to do lots of research? Where did the idea for T-touch come from? ![]() Tara's pure white show-jumper Apollo belongs to a friend of mine! I never base human characters on real people - although I do use real names - but several horses I have known in real life have made it into the Heartland stories. I check all veterinary details very carefully with my own veterinarian to make sure both the illnesses and Amy's responses are accurate. LB: I get inspiration from reports of equine diseases and accidents, but also from situations that I have encountered myself during my horse-riding career. Q: Did you base your books off real life cases or did you think of them yourself? Did you base the characters, both animal and human, off of people you know or did you make them up? Lauren Brooke: I'm delighted! Especially as the TV show is so well-produced, with stunning scenery and a talented cast who fit the characters perfectly. Q: Do you like that your books were made into a TV show? Brooke, working partners and Scholastic Canada! ![]() This week, she answers more of your questions. Last week, Heartland author Lauren Brooke told us about her childhood horse in England and her hopes of making a cameo appearance on a future episode of CBC's Heartland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations-yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.īorn in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one-a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leadersįranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Olivia is everything she’s ever wanted, but Margot let her in once and it ended in disaster. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. It has nothing to do with the fact that Olivia is as beautiful as ever and the sparks between them still make Margot tingle. ![]() ![]() When a series of unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room because she’s a Very Good Person. Obviously. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client’s Best Woman would be the one that got away. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow her dreams. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn’t gone exactly as planned. It’s been ten years, but the moment they lock eyes, Margot’s cold, dead heart thumps in her chest. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant-her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. But now her entire crew has found "the one" and she’s beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. Following Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur pens another steamy queer rom-com about former best friends who might be each other's second chance at love… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, years before young superstars like Jim Steranko and Barry Windsor Smith first rejected the poor conditions and nonexistent royalties and rights available to mainstream comic book creators in the early seventies, Wood had walked away from Stan Lee’s Marvel Comics in 1965 after his short but brilliant revitalisation and redesign of Daredevil. Wood repeatedly rebelled against the exploitation and shortsightedness of many editors and publishers in the comics industry, as well as the stifling constraints of the Comics Code Authority. So now’s a good time to look back at this unique and complex maverick. Patrol to deluxe editions of The King Of The World, the first volume in his trilogy The Wizard King, and Lunar Tunes, a previously unpublished satirical roller-coster created shortly before his death in 1981 and out in June from Vanguard Productions. Agents Archives and Dark Horse’s M.A.R.S. The last few months have seen a spate of handsome reissues of the late Wally Wood’s work, from DC’s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. A notice on his studio wall warned any potential imitators that, "There’s is only one Wally Wood and I’M HIM!" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It does lead into the letters from a Japanese fan, but that part was so sad, lacking the paired responses from Jansson herself. ![]() There are also fragments of fan letters and personal correspondences which Jansson has tinkered with to make the speaker seem more or less needy. It is composed of stories taken from Jansson’s childhood experiences, and then with a sudden lurch, those of her late adult life. And where I would accept this in other, more experimental authors, I felt let down by Jansson who is otherwise so steady. The book in question is not at all an uncertain book in its prose, in Finnish writer Tove Jansson’s matter-of-fact sentences, her wry peering at the foibles of human nature, but in its form – the way it is frustratingly not enough of one thing or another. I started this story collection on the 30th of December, so it’s a cross-over from last year’s Endless Reads to this, and so occupies disputed territory. The cover is grainy in the dim light of my living room. ![]() ![]() ![]() A man was prosecuted for Mirfield's murder, but his trial ended early due to reservations about the reliability of the two main witnesses. ![]() Ĭraig Mirfield, a 34-year-old car dealer, was shot in his car in Gipton on 15 March 2000 while trying to drive away from a man with a gun. Detectives thought it was because Egharevba had been mistaken for someone else. ġ7-year-old Gabriel Egharevba was shot when he and a friend were being chased by two men on motorcycles whilst riding their bikes through Longsight on 12 January 2000. Although he was questioned over their murders, no concrete evidence was found to link them to him before he died in prison in 2009. Kunowski was known to have been working in a dry-cleaning shop on the Uxbridge Road the day Chau was last seen walking past Ealing police station. Police believe her to have been killed by serial sex offender and suspected serial killer Andrzej Kunowski, who had murdered a 12-year-old girl nearby in 1997 and who is also the prime suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Chau, a woman who disappeared from almost the exact same location as Shenkoya some months earlier. Lola Shenkoya was a 27-year-old woman who vanished from Ealing Broadway on 3 January 2000. ![]() Main article: List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom 2000s Year ![]() ![]() This work is a must read for anyone who wants to understand what African Americans have experienced at the hands of powerful, racist whites, and how systemic racism has persisted through our justice system, our educational system, and all aspects of society to the present day. The examples the author shows of the invisible “white rage” against any progress made by African Americans, reveals the true depth of racial hatred and resentment that is a part of our country’s history. She shows how the courts and elected leaders stripped African Americans of the rights that constitutional amendments were supposed to have protected, and how those who tried to stand up for their rights were routinely subjected to the worst violence and brutal murders. Use of this term is intended to hold a mirror up to what political commentators have. The author details how new laws and “black codes” allowed the horrors of slavery to continue under other names. From the Civil War to our combustible present, and now with a new epilogue about the 2016 presidential election, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes. Author Carol Anderson labels this predictable backlash as white rage. Winner of a 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, this work recounts the brutal history of the treatment of African Americans following the Civil War. ![]() ![]() White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. ![]() |