![]() ![]() And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. ![]() ![]() While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "Aside of my eldest son being born, and seeing Oasis's second-ever gig, all of the 1990s, ten years of my life, was a complete washout." "I hated the 1990s," Lake once told The Independent newspaper. He played only four more matches for the club thereafter, suffering the same injury on two more occasions before announcing his retirement in January 1996. The midfielder's career was effectively over aged just 21 when he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Aston Villa on September 5, 1990. And as Andy Greeves discovers, Lake's story is now set to be told on the big screen.Īs I write this article in December 2014, former Manchester City player Paul Lake is recovering from yet another operation. In a saturated market of largely uninspiring and clichéd football autobiographies, Paul Lake's 2011 effort I'm Not Really Here stood out as one of the most original of its kind. ![]() ![]() Claimed to be one of the orphans that Damen turned, she looked to Ever to finish what she was born to do. The women, Lotus, is the oldest person Ever have ever met. Now with the sickness growing in Summerland, an old woman looking for Ever, and things are on rocky terms with Sabine, Ever have to determine if being an immortal is worth it, and if, there is any way to reverse it. ![]() Then Haven has the shirt that has the antidote spilled on it, as she burns it, which causes Ever to kill her. Following the next series of events where Ever tried to get the antidote from Roman, only to succeed right before Jude killed him. There was no choice in Ever’s mindset as she and Damen deal with the side effects of the elixir: if their DNA touch, Damen dies. Roman forced Ever to choose between giving Damen an elixir to save his life, or let him die. After killing Drina and her sidekick Roman, nothing stands between Damen and his happily ever after with Ever. Damen is determined not to lose her as he made her immortal. ![]() Evaline, Abigail, Chloe, Fleur, Emala, to Ever the last version of her soul. Ever and Damen have been through the wringer for their relationship. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried Laura through. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. They weren't alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. ![]() And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. ![]() Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The activities depicted therein are dangerous and are not meant to be an example of realistic BDSM. Beware: this is a dark, weird, kinky read. It is intended only for an adult audience. Is it only a game?Only revenge?Only a dare?Or is it something more?This book contains intense fantasy scenes of hard kinks/edgeplay, graphic sex, and harsh language. What ensues is a dark game of pleasure and pain, fear and desire. It's a dare that Jessica's pride - and curiosity - won't allow her to refuse. Losing the game means taking the dare: a dare to serve Manson for the entire night as his slave. He never should have been able to humiliate her in front of everyone. He never should have been able to beat her at a game of Drink or Dare. But a lot changes after high school.A freak like him never should have ended up at the same Halloween party as her. ![]() ![]() The most unworthy of them all? The "freak," Manson Reed: her favorite victim. As Prom Queen and Captain of the cheer squad, she'd ruled her school mercilessly, looking down her nose at everyone she deemed unworthy. Please review the full content warning below.Jessica Martin is not a nice girl. Warning: This erotica contains scenes and elements that may be disturbing to some readers. ![]() ![]() The difference between Plato’s Socrates and Xenophon’s is very instuctive. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. I have a complete Xenophon on my Kindle, and one day I’ll read more than the Socratic ones and the Anabasis. Read reviews and buy Thessaly - by Jo Walton (Paperback) at Target. ![]() Apart from the Republic, the Penguin translations are good. The Jowett (linked above) has the great advantage of being free online, and generally the online free translations of Plato are pretty good, and the only reasonable way to get the obscure ones. For the first time, Jo Waltons critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy Thessaly: The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity will be available in a. Lindsay) translation is way better than the Penguin. I thoroughly recommend the new (2013) Loeb translation of The Republic, which is lucid and excellent and well worth the price. ![]() There was one moment when I wanted to look up something and I realised there was Plato on absolutely every flat surface in my study - and that’s not taking into account anything on my e-reader, which has all of Plato and Xenophon conveniently in the original and in translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Volume III, we’ll submit, is not quite as funny or viscerally pleasing as the first two volumes, but it captures a stage of life-the onset of adulthood-as well as or better than the original comics captured being young and dysfunctional in the days of grunge. Don’t get me wrong: Buddy’s solution to his financial woes is buying a dump, and his more sordid past keeps turning up like a bad penny (literal skeletons, as one he thought was buried needed to be re-buried in this volume…twice). There’s a degree of realism in the aging Buddy trying to provide for a family and dealing with other issues of getting older that the ‘90s HATE didn’t have (or need). In the ‘90s version of HATE, Peter Bagge’s stock-in-trade was parodying societal norms through Buddy’s increasingly outlandish misadventures and gaffes.ĭomestic life with Buddy isn’t quite as over-the-top, but the stories are a bit more poignant for it. ![]() Buddy Baker’s life is less frenetic, having settled down with the certifiable Lisa Leavenworth and started a family. The past decade-plus worth of HATE comics certainly are paced differently than the prior volumes. ![]() ![]() ![]() And audio excerpts from Cohen’s interviews with former Rolling Stone reporter Larry “Ratso” Sloman also give viewers some clues as to why Geller and Goldfine only dig so deep into the meaning of “Hallelujah” and its surprising combination of religious and sexual images. ![]() It’s great to see so much old concert footage from various periods of Cohen’s career. “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” glosses over some of the best evidence to support what is, at heart, a basic story: after laboring for years on the lyrics for “Hallelujah,” and then later struggling with his own personal and creative demons, Cohen’s song helped to spark a late-career revival and mini-creative renaissance, too. ![]() Cohen’s “Halleluljah” is then presented as a trite symbol of his frustrated creative ambitions, though archival interviews with Cohen do effectively suggest that there’s more to his music-and that song, in particular-than the usual artistic triumph over industrial exploitation narrative. This was decades after the song debuted in 1984 on Various Positions, a (rather good) studio album that was rejected by Columbia Records and barely released in the United States. Geller and Goldfine’s docu-collage of interview and concert footage doesn’t give deep consideration to the conditions that led to “Hallelujah” becoming a late career hit for Cohen. ![]() ![]() ![]() With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends-not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. She’s an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat-but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. the Homo Sapiens Agenda-soon to be a major motion picture, Love, Simon-we follow Simon’s BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst. In this sequel to the acclaimed Simon vs. ![]() #1 NYT Bestseller and winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Novel of 2018. ![]() ![]() His bride-to-be, Hester, loves Little Women, and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town’s new movie theater. Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet-until Deputy Andrews pulls Nora into the sci-fi section and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal. While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington is encouraging customers to cozy up indoors with a good book. ![]() Entertainment Weekly hails the Secret, Book, and Scone Society series by the beloved New York Times bestselling author as “a love letter to reading.” In this entrancing new story, bookshop owner, bibliotherapist, and occasional sleuth Nora Pennington must enlist the help of her brilliant, brassy librarian friend to unravel the connection between The Scarlet Letter, an obscure 19th century writer, and a dead hiker… ![]() |