6/25/2023 0 Comments A Justified Kill by MaryLynn BastDid she dare, to be held in the blood lust to be unleashed during her first change while near an innocent victim, while pursuing her justified kill? I think I love Amber a little more after reading this story. Then she overheard a conversation that worried her. Knowing her time was finally near she was prepared for her first change. She was traveling from to Series: She was traveling from town to town, taking jobs in bars, never getting close to anyone, never staying long lest she be discovered by the Council. She knew she was a werewolf, but had not changed. Sep 03, Mary Lou Hoffman rated it it was amazing Shelves: Heart of a Wolf Category: Paranormal Romance Recommended for: B - a few small errors Received from: MaryLynn Bast in exchange for an honest review This is the second book in the Heart of the Wolf series.īefore she reunited with Blake, Amber was alone for more than ten years. I received this book from the author with a request for my honest review without any compensation whatsoever, other than the joy of reading a new book. I definitely have this series on my radar and it now has a place on my watch list with me always on the lookout for more.
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6/25/2023 0 Comments Reunion by A.R. VonWhen Windows 95 launched on August 24th, 1995, it was the biggest software release the world had ever seen. (Even with those sponsors, it's not free: It's $47.50 to get in to the Team Reunion.) The Windows 95 Team Reunion is sponsored by Microsoft, along with some of its top executives and most prominent alumni:Ĭurrent Windows Phone boss Joe Belfiore is listed as a sponsor, as are ex-execs like John Ludwig, Brad Chase, and David D'Souza who were heavily involved in the Windows 95 launch. This September 12th, hundreds of Microsoft employees past and present will converge on Seattle's Benaroya Hall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Windows 95. It often indicates a user profile.īrad Silverberg, who led the team that made Windows 95, and is now an investor with Ignition Partners, a VC firm he founded. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The gunslinger seriesMany historians believe that Reeves would later go on to be partial inspiration for the “Lone Ranger.” There’s no official release date for Bass Reeves just yet. From 1838 to 1910 as a gunslinger and lawman, Reeves was said to have recorded over 3,000 arrests during his lifetime. Selma’s David Oyelowo will star as Bass Reeves, alongside Dennis Quaid as Deputy U.S. It won’t include anyone from the cast of 1883, however, because it's not tied to the Yellowstone universe at all. “I’m sitting here going, ‘Guys, everyone is dead.’” Bass Reeves will be another peek inside that era. “They’re like, there better be a fucking Season Two because we already picked it up,” he recalled. As Sheridan told Deadline, they wanted to hold a meeting to discuss how certain characters may have survived their deaths, so Sheridan worked up “another peek into the window” instead. When Sheridan finished 1883, producers over at the Paramount Network were mighty angry that he wrote it so that there couldn’t be a second season. Saddle up, because this new series may contain some history we ought to know. deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River. Reeves was a real figure in American history, and the first Black U.S. Bass Reeves may have existed in the 1880's, but he's not from the Yellowstone universe. Who is Bass Reeves? Was he a Yellowstone character I forgot about? Well, you can be at ease, cowboys. When Yellowstonecreator Taylor Sheridan first announced Bass Reeves, fans were initially very confused. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The city of brass bookBut when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, during one of her cons, she learns that even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.įorced to flee Cairo, Dara and Nahri journey together across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises and mountains where the circling birds of prey are more than what they seem, to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass. She makes her living swindling Ottoman nobles, hoping to one day earn enough to change her fortunes. On the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, Nahri is a con woman of unsurpassed skill. Chakraborty perfect for fans of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal | Vulture | The Verge | SYFYWire The story works as well as both science fiction and murder mystery, exploring a future where pride, guilt, and mercy are not solely the province of humans. De Bodard constructs a convincingly gritty setting and a pair of unique characters with provocative histories and compelling motivations. The corpse leads them both into an investigation that could reveal their own private secrets as well as the murky truth about the recovered body. Then Long Chau, a consulting detective, hires her to help recover a corpse from the deep spaces so she can study how bodies there decompose. The Shadow’s Child, a sentient spaceship who was traumatized by her war experiences as a troop transport, makes a subsistence living at a habitat in the “provincial backwater” of the Scattered Pearls asteroid belt, concocting drug mixtures to help travelers function in the deep spaces. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com publishing) Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor. De Bodard revisits her far-future Xuya universe setting with this gripping novella about damaged characters driven to search for the truth. The Tea Master and the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency) Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com publishing) The Black God’s Drums, by P. Thereafter, the Grande Armée was the principal military force deployed in the campaigns of 1806/7, the French invasion of Spain, and 1809, where it earned its prestige, and in the conflicts of 1812, 1813–14, and 1815. Napoleon later deployed the army in eastern Europe to eliminate the combined threat of Austria and Russia, which were part of the Third Coalition formed against France. The Grande Armée was formed in 1804 from the L'Armée des côtes de l'Océan (Army of the Ocean Coasts), a force of over 100,000 men that Napoleon had assembled for the proposed invasion of Britain. Widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest fighting forces ever assembled, it suffered enormous losses during the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, after which it never recovered its strategic superiority. From 1804 to 1808, it won a series of military victories that allowed the French Empire to exercise unprecedented control over most of Europe. La Grande Armée ( French for 'The Great Army' French pronunciation: ) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars. La Victoire est à nous (from the ballet-opera La caravane du Caire) 600,000 men at peak strength in 1812 (before the invasion of Russia) out of 2,175,335 men conscripted in total from 1805 to 1813 in the broader French Imperial Army 6/24/2023 0 Comments After we fall melanie harlowAnd the dual POV storyline, which was very well narrated, made this an awesome listen. Every single paragraph, every single sentiment, every single nuance, every single sex scene, every single crack in Jack's walls and every heartwarming romantic declaration was perfectly described. and finally on to that sweet sighworthy ending. From Margot throwing scones at her worthless ex during her Mother's posh dinner party, through the first awkward meeting between her and Jack, on to the push/pull rollercoaster relationship that tentatively smouldered then burned brightly. and so she should be because this epic relationship based emotional story claimed me right from the start. I'm sure Melanie Harlow is very proud of this book. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Black canary igniteWhen a mysterious figure keeps getting in the way of Dinah's goals and threatens her friends and family, she'll learn more about herself, her mother's secret past, and navigating the various power chords of life. Who knows, her rock star group of friends may even save the world, but first they'll need to agree on a band name. First, she'll win the battle of the bands with her two best friends, then she'll join the Gotham City Junior Police Academy so she can solve crimes just like her dad. Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she's going. First, she'll win the battle of the bands. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries comes Black Canary: Ignite, Meg Cabot's first graphic novel! With expressive and energetic art by Cara McGee to match the trademark attitude and spunk of Meg Cabot's characters and dialogue, this mother-daughter story embraces the highs and lows of growing up without growing out of what makes us unique. Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she's going. 6/23/2023 0 Comments The palace of illusions bookAnd it’s not the daughter or the sister that defines her, it is completely her, unsure of herself, in awe of Shikandi, protective of Dhri, and who doesn’t know if she wants to be a part of the prophecy that she and her brother were born to fulfil. I personally like the part of the book where she is still, in essence, Dhrupad’s Daughter and Dhri’s sister, “The Unexpected One” or “Offspring of Vengeance” as she thinks of herself. And I don’t find the magical tag inapplicable as a criticism, but because it sort of defeats the purpose of how the narrator, Panchaali, is depicted in the book. I enjoyed reading this book enough to wholly agree with the first 2 of the tags, not wholly convinced about the third. However, as a complete book, I quite enjoyed it. It was a much-recommended book after Karna’s Wife by Kavita Kane and I can say the recommendations were justified! The blurb of the acclaimed book calls it half history, half myth and wholly magical. Sometimes it adds to the value, sometimes it doesn’t. A lot of plot details are redefined with a feminist perspective often by changing a few points in the story. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni can be called a retelling or a reimagining of Mahabharata from Draupadi’s perspective. 6/23/2023 0 Comments 1491 america before columbusMesoamerican cultures include Zapotec, Toltec, Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, Totonac, Teotihuacan, Huastec people, Purépecha, Izapa and Mazatec. Sedentary societies developed primarily in two regions: Mesoamerica and the Andean civilizations. Small lithic stage peoples followed megafauna like bison, mammoth (now extinct), and caribou, thus gaining the modern nickname "big-game hunters." Groups of people may also have traveled into North America on shelf or sheet ice along the northern Pacific coast. The most popular theory asserts that migrants came to the Americas via Beringia, the land mass now covered by the ocean waters of the Bering Strait. The ancestors of today's American Indigenous peoples were the Paleo-Indians they were hunter-gatherers who migrated into North America. These groups are generally believed to have been isolated from the people of the " Old World" until the coming of Europeans in the 10th century from Iceland led by Leif Erikson and in 1492 with the voyages of Christopher Columbus. The history of the Americas begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an ice age. Much of the information in the image comes from a single remote-sensing device- NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, flying over 700 km above the Earth on board the Terra satellite in 2001. |