![]() ![]() Rand and Mat discuss rumors with their friend Perrin, who has also seen the rider. ![]() ![]() The peddler Padan Fain arrives with news of a man in Ghealdan proclaiming himself the Dragon Reborn. A raven stares at Mat and Rand, but is scared off by Moiraine, a lady in fancy clothing who gives the boys each a silver mark. The village youth are excited about strangers from far away. Rand’s friend Mat has also seen the rider. Along the way, a mysterious rider in black appears, then vanishes. Rand al’Thor and his father Tam walk from their farm to the village of Emond’s Field, intending to celebrate Bel Tine there. Elan Morin observes the volcano created by Lews Therin’s death and promises that their battle will continue.Ĭhapter 1: An Empty Road (Aine 8 N.E. Lews Therin, horrified by his deeds, flees and then kills himself by drawing too much of saidin, a tainted source of magic that only men can wield. His enemy, Elan Morin Tedronai, comes to kill Lews Therin, but decides to give him a moment of lucidity before the end. The madman Lews Therin Telamon-called the Dragon-wanders his broken house, calling for a wife and children who lay dead on the floor. ![]()
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![]() Even if the trip includes a third couple―Jesse’s best friend, Lou, and their cool-girl flame, Darcy―whose It-queer clout Sasha ridicules yet desperately wants.Īs the late December afternoons blur together in a haze of debaucherous homecooked feasts and sweaty sauna confessions, so too do the guests’ secret and shifting motivations. ![]() When a pair of older, richer lesbians―prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda―invites Sasha and Jesse to their country home for the holidays, they’re quick to accept. Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. ![]() Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis (Queer Fiction)Īn addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This series will conclude in the summer of 2023 with the release of Esrahaddon, the final piece in a narrative that began in 2008 and contains 19 full-length novels spread across four series.Īnother Character that I Fell in Love With. With this tale, Michael continues his tradition of unlikely heroes who must rise to the call when history knocks, demanding to be let in. ![]() This latest set of stories sits snugly between Legends of the First Empire and the Riyria books (Revelations and Chronicles). Sullivan, Farilane is the second novel in the Rise and Fall trilogy. Respected and beloved by the Teshlor Knights, not even their legendary skills can protect her for what she finds is more dangerous than what she sought.įrom the three-time New York Times best-selling author Michael J. ![]() Her singular obsession is finding the mythical Book of Brin, a tome not just lost but intentionally buried. Some truths are dangerous, certain secrets best concealed, and one story never should have been written at all.īeing an unwanted twin in the Imperial line of succession, Farilane became a scholar, adventurer, and in a time when reading was once more forbidden-a book hunter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s going to be a little bit of a challenge with this microphone. Now to help you understand how emotional intelligence operates in the brain, I need to introduce you to a guy by the name of Phineas Gage. ![]() And emotional intelligence is your ability to understand your emotions and to respond to them effectively to produce the behavior that you want. Whether you’re aware of these experiences or not they can really drive the bus if you let them do that. It can change the way you see the world around you and everyone around you and it can absolutely change the way you go about reaching your goals in life and pursuing your goals.Īnd emotional intelligence is an absolutely critical skill because we have more than 400 emotional experiences every single day. I’m really excited to be here today to introduce you to a skill that can change the way you see yourself. Listen to the MP3 Audio: The Power of Emotional Intelligence by Travis Bradberry at TEDxUCIrvine Here is the full transcript of author Travis Bradberry’s TEDx Talk: The Power of Emotional Intelligence at TEDxUCIrvine conference. ![]() ![]() Hand of Miriam, A Bayla and the Golem Novel is a gothic/steampunk/paranormal romance. ![]() I also write steampunk and Victorian era historical and alternative novels. ![]() I love to create stories that combine my passion for mythology, romance and werewolf lore. ![]() I write fantasy and paranormal novels with a strong romantic element. Will they be able to stop the Third Reich before its evil conquers all of the realms? Together they must join the forces against Hissler in the Tenth Realm and help stop Hitler from world domination in Sophie’s realm. Drawn by the haunting sound of his bagpipes, Sophie and Logan meet.Įven as love ensues, the dark evil of the Third Reich threatens the Tenth Realm, led by Gustaf Hissler, Adolph Hitler’s doppelganger. Logan MacLeod, a Scottish warrior, hunted for a crime he did not mean to commit, flees to the Bestiary, a forest so dangerous no man dares enter. ![]() By way of Prague and with the help of a golem and a magic stone, she is transported into the Tenth Realm, a magical dimension that parallels the world she left behind. Sophie Katz, a Jewish chemistry student, harrowingly escapes a Nazi concentration camp. ![]() ![]() A novel treatment of the biblical flood myth in terms of male pregnancy is the penultimate essay, while the concluding article proposes an ingeniously imaginative interpretation of the underpinnings of anti-Semitism. This is followed by a study of the saga of William Tell, one of the most celebrated legends in the world. He argues that all of these activities can be seen as forms of macho battle to determine which individual or team feminizes his or its opponents. He then presents a striking analysis of the spectrum of behavior associated with male competitive events ranging from traditional games-such as soccer and American football-to warfare. From Game to War offers five of his most mature essays on this topic.ĭundes begins with a comprehensive survey of the history of psychological studies of folklore in the United Slates. Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1999. Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1997. Alan Dundes is a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to applying psychoanalytic theory to the materials of folklore. From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1997. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. ![]() Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother’s funeral, she’s prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he’s been keeping from her threatens the only place she’s ever felt at home.īestselling author Elle Kennedy returns to Avalon Bay in this sexy second chance story about two exes who can't stay away from each other, Bad Girl Reputation. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.ĭespite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn’t just another rich clone and falls for her. Mac’s had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents’ insistence. It’s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot is a people pleaser. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not a story about a particular event, but about its aftermath. “Empties,” “hell slime,” a golden ball that grants wishes–images like these are most powerful when they’re left to the imagination. Nonetheless, you need to read this version of Roadside Picnic because the book forces you to imagine what some of these mysterious pieces of alien technology might actually look like. Though I haven’t yet seen Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker, loosely based on the novel and with a screenplay written by the Strugatskys themselves, I’ve heard good things. And Roadside Picnic, especially in this uncensored and newly-translated version, is a fascinating combination of science fiction, mystery, and thriller. ![]() The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn is wild and strange and mysterious Snail on the Slope is darkly enigmatic The Inhabited Island is terrifyingly believable. The great thing about Strugatsky novels is that they’re all brilliant in their own unique ways. ![]() Grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore (censored version originally translated into English by Antonina L. Translated from the (uncensored) Russian by Olena Bormashenko ![]() ![]() ![]() A fourth book in the series, titled Serafina and the Seven Stars was published in Summer 2019. Serafina and the Splintered Heart is preceded by Serafina and the Black Cloak and Serafina and the Twisted Staff. The release of the third book put the Serafina Series on the New York Times Best Selling Children's Series list. Serafina and the Splintered Heart was published on July 4th, 2017 by Disney Hyperion. While fiercely fighting a battle that seems impossible, Serafina also faces questions about the value of true friendship and the power of forgiveness. Serafina, Chief Rat Catcher and protector of the Biltmore Estate, encounters a strange and unnatural force which threatens Biltmore with wicked storms and violent floods. It is the third novel in the Serafina Series and follows Serafina and the Twisted Staff. Serafina and the Splintered Heart is an American historical fiction, fantasy novel written by Robert Beatty and published in 2017. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book This book continues the spooky adventures of twelve-year-old Serafina, Chief Rat Catcher of the Biltmore Estate, as she works with best-friend Braeden Vanderbilt to save the people and animals of Biltmore and the surrounding forests from a series of sinister attacks. American novel written by Robert Beatty Serafina and the Splintered Heartįantasy, Historical Fiction, Middle-Grade novel ![]() ![]() Although both of their characters are sharply etched and recognizable, Kate and Charlotte make such strong demands upon the reader's affection that scenes in which only one of them appears seem incomplete. Six-year-old Kate, daughter of a frustrated Olympic swimmer who disappeared before her birth, spends most of her time in the pool or the bathtub, and wants to stay put until she feels like a ""human bean'' again. Charlotte is determined to wait there until her unknown fatherwhose shoes she keeps on her shelf as a kind of sacramentpays the visit her mother is always forecasting. It is one of the most gripping and involving novels I've read. Danns work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese. ![]() My first novel, MERMAIDS, become a movie with Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci. Patty Dann's novel did not disappoint, to say the least. Patty Dann is the author of 'Mermaids' (which was turned into a film starring Cher and Winona Ryder) and 'The Baby Boat. ![]() Flax, whose promiscuity extends to her surroundings, has driven Charlotte and her little sister Kate all over the country looking for a place that will not pall this time, though, the children clamor to stay. After watching the 1990 movie 'Mermaids,' one of my favorites, I absolutely had to read the book on which it was based. Charlotte may censure her mother's bedroom generosity, but she is doubly severe with her own, flagellating her body and emulating the nuns in the convent near her house, one of 18 she's inhabited in her short life. Flax and whose impulse toward martyrdom is enfeebled by erotic desire. ![]() There is a charm and freshness to this first novel, whose 14-year-old protagonist, Charlotte, speaks of her mother as Mrs. ![]() |