![]() His likeness can also be found on a broad range of licensed items including clothing and games. Adding to his fame, Clifford became a TV star in 2000 with the launch of the PBS Kids animated series based on the books. ![]() The books in the Clifford series, all published by Scholastic, to date number more than 129 million copies in print and have been translated into 13 languages. Bridwell took further family inspiration when creating the Emily Elizabeth character in the Clifford stories she is named for the Bridwells’ daughter. But the author’s wife, Norma, suggested that the dog be named after her own childhood imaginary friend, Clifford. He was 86.īridwell’s famous pup, introduced in 1963, was originally going to be called Tiny. ![]() Norman Bridwell, creator of more than 150 titles starring the iconic Clifford the Big Red Dog, died on Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, December 12. ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments Bridgerton the duke and i book![]() ![]() And amidst the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. It wasn’t the plan, but it seems she’s falling for the duke, for real. ![]() Maybe it’s his devilish smile, certainly it’s the way his eyes seem to burn every time he looks at her. ![]() But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, it’s hard to remember that their courtship is a complete sham. Their ruse works like a charm – at first. But the two of them know the truth – it’s all an elaborate plan to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers.Īnd as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. Ĭan there be any greater challenge to London’s Ambitious Mamas than an unmarried duke? Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, April 1813By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend’s sister, the lovely – and almost-on-the-shelf – Daphne Bridgerton. This is the story of Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke: welcome to the ballrooms of Regency London. The first novel in Julia Quinn’s worldwide bestselling Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is certainly true of Duncan and Sam and now Pete. The kind of man who has to be strong out in the world but who at home, with the people who he loves and who love him, shows his softer, vulnerable side. MC: I think that there is the whole authority figure there that I like to play with. ![]() What is it about that sort of job that interests you and do you have more of lawmen planned? I used to write stories at school and read them to my family at night.ĭ: It seems that in “Where You Lead” we have another law enforcement type in ATF Agent Peter Lomax and he joins Marshal Sam Kage and Detective Duncan Stiel. ![]() Ever since I was 12 years old it was all I ever wanted to do. ![]() The first gay romance I ever read was A Bit Of Rough by Laura Baumbach and I fell madly in love with the genre and cannot imagine ever writing anything else. But the hero and his best friend were always much more interesting to me. MC: When I first began writing, I knew that I wanted to be in romance (I have to have a HEA, I have enough reality, thanks) and so I tried writing the hero and heroine. How did you get to writing in general and specifically in this genre? We at the Blog of Sid Love are delighted and proud to have joining us today Mary Calmes.ĭ: You are with us today because of the release of your new holiday novella “Where You Lead” ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Author julia phillips![]() ![]() In a provincial town, members of a family whose teenage daughter disappeared four years earlier are troubled by the similarities and differences between their case and this one. The daughter of a reindeer herder from the north, at college in the city, finds her controlling boyfriend clamping down harder than ever. Another young girl with a single mom loses her best friend to new restrictions imposed by the other girl's anxious mother. The rest of the book is a series of linked stories about a number of different women on the peninsula, all with the shadow of the missing girls hanging over them as a year goes by since their disappearance. After he drives right past the intersection that leads to the apartment they share with their mother, they disappear from their previous lives and, to a large extent, from the narrative. They are offered a ride home by a seemingly kind stranger. In the first chapter of Phillips' immersive, impressive, and strikingly original debut, we meet sisters Alyona and Sophia, ages 11 and 8, amusing themselves one August afternoon on the rocky shoreline of a public beach on the waterfront of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city on Russia's remote Kamchatka peninsula. ![]() ![]() ![]() A year in the lives of women and girls on an isolated peninsula in northeastern Russia opens with a chilling crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Storytel Awards have been bestowed since 2007 in Sweden to highlight the best audio books of the year. The nominees for this year’s Swedish Storytel Awards have been announced. (Best Crime Writer of Southern Sweden) SwedenĬlose award list Bibliography Stand-alone The Swedish Bookshop Association’s Your Book, Our Choice Award The Latvian National Library Children’s Literature Centre’s Award (Crime Writer of the Year - Readers’ Award) Sweden Shortlisted for the Crimetime Specsavers Award Shortlisted for the Swedish Radio’s Children’s Novel Award – Varulvens hemlighet The Werewolf’s Secret (Children’s Crime Fiction of the Year) Sweden Shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award ![]() ![]() ![]() I can still read the books again, but I'll skip the Dan-porn sections, because they just don't fit his character, and I don't like cheating that causes pain. Then he starts screwing every guy he can? I don't believe it. ![]() Dan had committed his heart and soul to his country, and to Vadim. Up to that point, Dan was fiercely loyal. more eve the characters changed at that point, and Dan became someone ales. ![]() However, emotionally, I wish I had had a love that would have brought me to the feelings Dan and Vadim had for each other after their reunion and reconciliation in Thailand.I do beli. Logically,I know that if I had gone through what Dan and Vadim had gone through, I would have killed myself or my lover. If I had not spent so much time with my heart pounding, not being able to sleep until I got to through some parts, I would feel jealous that I had not felt that kind of love in my own life. I will summarize my feelings by saying Soldiers (Director's Cut) and the first part of Mercenaries are brutal in so many ways, but they build up to a love that makes most other romances seem boring. ![]() Review 1: I have read all three books, three times, and am starting on them for the fourth time. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments The shack william p young book buy![]() ![]() Mack meets a Hispanic woman in a cave named Sophia ( Greek for wisdom), played by Alice Braga. ![]() Mack spends a weekend with the Trinity, cooking, hiking and gardening as they take turns trying to “ justify the ways of God to men,” to use the words of English poet John Milton.īut the divine beings strangely proliferate. “Papa,” or God the Father, is played by Octavia Spencer, the Holy Spirit is played by Sumire Matsubara and the Son is played by Avraham Aviv Alush. There, Mack meets the members of the Trinity, the three divine persons in one God worshipped by Christians. The dilapidated shack in the snowy mountains magically turns into a beautiful summer cabin by a lake. He wants to know why God allowed his daughter Missy to be sexually abused and murdered.Īfter a mysterious invitation, Mack travels to the site of the murder years before. In The Shack, protagonist Mack (Sam Worthington), gets the chance to question God. ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin Bomber Henderson of Keithley Gothic band the Skeletal family drummed in the live band at this time but does not appear on the album. At one point during the recording sessions a version of the band traveled to the northeast of England to perform some live shows and procure valuable funds leaving Langford, Edmonds and Goulding in the studio cutting rhythm tracks. The songs on Edge of the World were written and demoed in Leeds by Tom, Jon and Kevin early in 1986 and recorded at Offbeat Studios in Kirkstall with Three Johns live Soundman Tony Bonner who had recorded parts of Fear and Whiskey the year before.Īround this time the live band was expanded further to include Rico Bell and Sally Timms who both perform lead vocal duties on Edge of the World. The success of Fear and Whiskey in 1985 saw the Mekons with a stable line-up and enough money to record a new album for the first time in years. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Plato's Republic by Plato![]() It is also one of the great longstanding puzzles in the interpretation of the Republic: there is no scholarly consensus as to why Plato chose to the end his most important work of political theory in this strange way. The Myth of Er is a myth about the afterlife, and it describes in great detail the journeys that await souls there. Nowhere in the Republic is this tension more pronounced, and the effect more jarring, than in its famously enigmatic conclusion, the Myth of Er. Plato was, on top of being a philosopher, a master prose stylist who paid great attention to the literary construction of his dialogues. Yet despite its canonical status and familiarity, the Republic is not always a straightforward text. It is safe to say almost all political theorists – if not most political scientists – have had to study it over the course of their education and training. ![]() As Plato’s most celebrated work of political theory, it is usually the first text taught in introductory surveys of the history of political thought. In many of the standard narratives that political theory tells about its history and origins, Plato’s Republic stands out as a kind of foundation text of the discipline itself. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Cyteen book![]() ![]() Cherryh (24) clones (38) cloning (37) Company Wars (10) Cyteen (89) cyteen series (21) ebook (26) English (10) eugenics (9) fantasy (23) favorites (8) female (8) fiction (293) genetic engineering (27) genetics (17) goodreads (7) hardcover (22) Hugo (22) Hugo Award (34) hugo winner (36) mmpb (15) mystery (8) novel (46) omnibus (12) own (14) owned (11) paperback (32) politics (23) psychology (11) read (33) science fiction (911) Science Fiction/Fantasy (27) series (30) series: Alliance-Union (11) sf (231) sff (82) signed (11) space (9) space opera (27) speculative fiction (14) to-read (183) Union (8) Unionside (7) unread (48) women authors (12) Top Members ![]() 1980s (9) Alliance-Union (80) alliance-union universe (70) American (10) azi (10) C. ![]() |