Vampire Mistress by Joey W. Hill5/30/2023 ![]() As the bonds between the three of them draw tighter, Gideon faces an unbelievable truth.that the path to meaning in his life may be found in surrendering to the desires and needs of two vampires. When Anwyn is viciously attacked and turned by a rogue vampire, Gideon and Daegan join to protect her through a dangerous transition. But in the past year, his only family, his little brother. Their connection is immediate and intense, but she has a silent partner-the vampire Daegan Rei. Vampire Mistress Sometimes desire works three ways.Gideon Green is a hardcore vampire hunter. e for over a decade has been killing vampires, the violence that has scarred his soul now haunts his conscience.Then he crosses paths with sexy BDSM night club owner, Mistress Anwyn. ![]() But in the past year, his only family, his little brother, became a vampire queen's servant - and then a vampire himself, giving Gideon a different view of the vampire world. Sometimes desire works three ways.Gideon Green is a hardcore vampire hunter. Vampire Mistress: A Vampire Queen Series Novel ![]()
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Pushkin and the queen of spades5/30/2023 ![]() It is no wonder that readers and scholars consider him to be one of the fathers of Russian modern literary language. By the time he died in a duel at the age of thirty-seven, Pushkin had composed hundreds of works: lyrical poems, fairy tales, historical prose, romance novels, and even theoretical works on literature and journalistic articles. Book excerpt: Alexander Pushkin began writing his first works at the age of seven. ![]() This book was released on with total page pages. Book Synopsis 20+ Collected Poetry And Poems By Alexander Pushkin: EUGENE ONEGIN, THE QUEEN OF SPADES, BORIS GODUNOV and others by : Alexander Pushkinĭownload or read book 20+ Collected Poetry And Poems By Alexander Pushkin: EUGENE ONEGIN, THE QUEEN OF SPADES, BORIS GODUNOV and others written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. ![]() My family and other animals setting5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It was with encouragement from his brother that Durrell was persuaded to write about his life’s work. He founded the Jersey Zoological Park and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, and David Attenborough has been quoted as naming Gerald Durrell as his inspiration. In later life, this led Durrell onto numerous expeditions all over the world. There he developed an already burgeoning passion for animals, wild life and eventually conservation. Fear not I am back! Relatively recent Sunday night viewing of the televised ‘My Family and Other Animals’ by Gerald Durrell led me to borrow this bestselling and much-loved classic book from my mum, in an attempt to see what I had been missing out on all these years.įor those who don’t know although I imagine most people reading this do, at the age of 10, Gerald Durrell moved with his unwieldy family to the Greek island of Corfu. A recent preoccupation with running, a short break to Venice and a long spell reading the almost 1000 pages of David Copperfield has resulted in fewer blog posts and in particular fewer book reviews than usual. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The. This new edition also includes questions for reflection. Buy a cheap copy of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of. ![]() A brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, The Dreamkeepers challenges us to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children. What matters most is a teacher's efforts to work with the unique strengths a child brings to the classroom. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. ![]() She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not a matter of race, gender, or teaching style. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, 3rd Edition Gloria Ladson-Billings. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. 'The Dreamkeepers is an immensely important and useful book for teachers and teacher educators.In a creative, credible, and persuasive way, Gloria Ladson-Billings has made a major contribution to the field of multicultural education. ![]() Empty by Suzanne Weyn5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Regular people like Tom and his mom are having a difficult time Poorer people, like Gwen and her brother, who were abandoned by their alcoholic mother two years earlier, are really living on the edge. Electrical service, especially those companies that rely on fossil fuels to produce electricity, is not only spotty, but astronomically expensive, because, you know that all these costs are passed on the consumer. is about to declare war on Venezuela, which is suspected of hoarding their oil. and several other oil producing countries are clean out and the U.S. ![]() Ten years into the future, three upstate New York teens are dealing with this disturbing reality. ![]() (Free copy: chosen to review for NJ State Youth Services Book Evaluation)Ĭan you envision a world without fossil fuels? Do you ever wonder when the world will run out of oil? Suzanne Weyn tries to answer these questions. ![]() The light which we cannot see5/30/2023 ![]() He is close to his sister, Jutta, but both are consigned to an orphanage after their father is crushed in a coal mine. Marie-Laure grows up beloved and fortunate Werner’s life is more grim. The book opens in August 1944, two months after D-Day, with the sound of things falling from the sky and rattling against windows. Much of the story unfolds during the war, although it jumps back and forth. Doerr’s acutely sensory style captures the extreme perceptiveness Marie-Laure has developed by the time World War II begins. Privately, after his daughter is blinded by cataracts in 1934 at the age of 6, he devises tiny, intricate models of the places she must go, so that she learns to navigate by touch and then by memory. Professionally, Marie-Laure’s father oversees all the locks at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. ![]() The heroine is Marie-Laure LeBlanc, whose loving father, a talented locksmith, goes to extraordinary lengths to help her compensate for the loss of her eyesight. ![]() Doerr’s work, which includes the short-story collections “The Shell Collector” and “Memory Wall,” will know that its title has many more meanings than that. ![]() The heroine of “All the Light We Cannot See” is blind, but anyone familiar with Mr. ![]() Boy meets girl in Anthony Doerr’s hauntingly beautiful new book, but the circumstances are as elegantly circuitous as they can be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some also did agricultural work, usually on a much smaller scale than monks did.** They grew crops and kept farm animals, often dairy cows, pigs, and sheep. ![]() It’s unlikely that they were the only ones to do so. The repeated orders of a 13th century Norman bishop that nuns should restrict themselves to weaving and sewing liturgical cloths rather than creating frill collars and silk accessories to sell makes it clear that some communities were doing just that, probably to support themselves financially. They made altar cloths, priests’ vestments, and quite possibly their own clothing. Like other women throughout history, many communities of nuns turned their hands to textile work. This is not so much a consideration of how that category might be defined as much as an attempt to show some of the things nuns did as work. Benedict,* require a certain amount of labor beyond that. This usually didn’t occupy all of her time though and most Rules, most notably the Rule of St. Throughout the Middle Ages in Western Europe it was commonly agreed that a nun’s primary work was to concern herself with the glory of God through singing the hours. ![]() The discovery of witches matthew hopkins5/30/2023 ![]() Today, historians judge Hopkins as an opportunist who took advantage of unfounded suspicions to advance his own fame. That his 'investigations' required scant evidence to secure death sentences dismayed figures in the Church of England. Accorded status, Hopkins encountered opposition to his witch finding. At three hundred women killed, the efforts of Hopkins and his assistant John Stearne were prolific. The book is an illustrative portrayal of a society fervently given to superstitions about the powers of witchcraft. This book answers a total of fourteen queries, with replies ranging from a few sentences to a few paragraphs in length. curious about his investigatory techniques in finding witches. Hopkins' treatise is comprised of answers to various queries he had received by members of the public. ![]() In The Discovery of Witches, Matthew Hopkins - the Witch Finder General of England during the early 1600s - details the process by which he found and captured suspected witches. ![]() The Discovery of Witches: The History of Witch Trials and Witch Hunts in 17th Century England, by the Witch Finder General (1968) Price turns in one of his most chilling performances as the sinister, cynical, and obsessed Hopkins, who prowls the 17th Century English countryside. ![]() Froggy plays5/29/2023 ![]() He studied the practice at Studio 54 and Paradise Garage, watching DJ Larry Levan synchronising the rhythm of two records, cross-fading to play sections of their sounds simultaneously, while overlaying effects from a third turntable. In 1979 Froggy had visited Billboard magazine's New York disco convention, and there he picked up the theory behind New York's DJs' mixing techniques. ![]() In the early 1980s, prior to electro and hip-hop, he was the country's pre-eminent technical DJ. Froggy's style and theatricality heralded that explosion. Froggy's innovative use of mixing decks and tape recorders, alongside his self-built sound system and the mixing consoles he designed himself, transformed the British club scene, acting as a catalyst, and a blueprint, for late 1980s rave culture. A year later he was a DJ at the first Caister soul weekender in Great Yarmouth, alongside a group of DJs - including Robbie Vincent, Chris Hill, Greg Edwards and Jeff Young - which comprised the Soul Mafia. ![]() In 1978 the disc jockey DJ Froggy, who has died of a brain haemorrhage aged 58, installed his sound system at one of Britain's first soul "all-dayers", the National Soul Festival in Purley. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a stirring small-town story that explores many different issues-albinism, blindness, depression, dyslexia, growing old, and more-with a light touch and lots of heart. The funny thing is, as Alice confronts her own blindness, everyone else seems to see her for the first time. ![]() No one, not even her new friend Kerica, believes she can scout out her new town’s stories and write the essay by herself. To prove it, Alice enters the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest. She’s going to show them-and herself-that blindness is just a part of who she is, not all that she can be. ![]() But when her parents start looking into schools for the blind, Alice takes a stand. In Stinkville, Alice finds herself floundering-she can’t even get to the library on her own. Back in her old neighborhood in Seattle, everyone knew Alice, and Alice knew her way around. Until Stinkville.įor the first time in her life, Alice feels different-like she’s at a disadvantage. But life has always been like this for Alice. Putting on sunscreen and always wearing a hat are just part of life. And a cane keeps her from bruising her hips on tables. Sure, she uses a magnifier to read books. Before Stinkville, Alice didn’t think albinism-or the blindness that goes with it-was a big deal. ![]() |