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He soon graduated to the king of Horror fiction in Stephen King that he believes was his most significant influence. Growing up during the seventies and eighties, he was significantly influenced by the “Lord of the Rings” novels. Christopher also had a huge interest in storytelling and was huge on horror and fantasy. He currently makes his home in St Petersburg Florida.Īs a teenager, Christopher Buehlman went to the Florida State University where he graduated with a French language degree and minored in History. His debut novel was the 2011 published novel “Those Across the River” that won a nomination to the World Fantasy Award. He has performed at the Michigan renaissance festival and the Texas renaissance festival and has also performed at other shows in Scarborough, Tampa and Louisiana. His performances involve roasting the friends of people that have paid him. Christopher Buehlman is a horror and fantasy author and poet that is best known for his novel “Blacktongue.” The native Floridian won the Bridport Prize in poetry in 2007 and has also written several plays including the very provocative “Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka.” Apart from his writing, he is something of a cult figure on the renaissance festival circuit where he is known as “Christophe the Insultor.” His comedic persona is a combination of Oscar Wilde and Doug Stanhope with a tinge of Dennis Miller.
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Looking for Smile by Ellen Tarlow7/6/2023 In the song, Smith meets a donkey on the road. The print version of a knee-slapping cumulative ditty. (This book was reviewed digitally with 9-by-19.6-inch double-page spreads viewed at 57% of actual size.) At long last, Smile appears on Bear’s face. As they fill the forest with song, something stirs deep within Bear. They share the comfortable silence of confidants-until Bird begins to sing, softly at first, then louder as Bear hums in harmony. Bear shares his sorrow, and Bird sits alongside him. As hope fades, Bird swoops in and asks what’s wrong. Bear slurps a pawful of honey as a last resort still, Smile doesn’t return. Rabbit notices something is amiss and suggests Bear seek Smile in his favorite places Bear searches everywhere, to no avail. Amid Bear’s gloomy landscape, a few objects retain their true colors, but the rest of the world is subsumed by a deep blue malaise. One morning-without warning, without reason-Bear finds himself alone. All is clearly well-but, as the world has a habit of reminding us, great difficulties sometimes arrive abruptly. Suffused with a solar glow, vibrant illustrations undergirded by the inimitable texture of Arches paper initially exude the most wonderful warmth. They do everything together: wake, munch, roam floral fields and wooded wilderness, plunge into waterfalls, and slurp golden gobs of honey. A tenderhearted, life-affirming exploration of the depressive cycle through simple language and a rich visual vocabulary.īear and Smile seem inseparable.
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Phantom Waltz by Catherine Anderson7/6/2023 Something that makes her believe in lifelong, lasting love. Something that makes her believe she can overcome every obstacle. But there's something about handsome Ryan Kendrick. She has even accepted the possibility that she'll never be able to enjoy a healthy intimate relationship-or have children of her own. In the years since, she has known both betrayal and heartbreak-and vowed never to open her heart to a man again. A long-ago barrel-racing accident has left Bethany confined to a wheelchair. She's absolutely perfect-in every way but one. A beguiling mix of sass and shyness, naiveté and maturity, she shares his passion for horses, has a great sense of humor, and can light up a room with her beautiful smile. Wealthy rancher Ryan Kendrick falls hard and fast for lovely Bethany Coulter. New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson presents the beloved Coulter family in a novel that's "romantic through and through" ( Publishers Weekly).
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A house for hermit7/6/2023 Package content is not flexible and cannot be modified. Please note that if your order ships in multiple boxes, package components may not all be in the same box. After he finds one, he decides it is too plain and asks various sea creatures. The package item number is also listed at the bottom of your packing slip for reference. Eric Carle tells the story of a young hermit crab who is looking for a shell. On your packing slip, package components are picked and packed individually and are identified with the code "PKGCMP" in the price column. Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. If you aren’t familiar with the story, a Hermit Crab gets a new shell, thinks it looks pretty boring so he sets out over the next year to decorate it with new friends he finds along the way. A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price.
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Blackhearts book nicole castroman7/6/2023 Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can’t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. There are a few books here that are creepy and intense, and my favorite thing to do with books like that is to curl up with a blanket and feel super cozy, because if there is space behind me, SOMETHING CAN COME UP AND GET ME, RIGHT? And, of course, there is one love story on this list, because love is truly wonderful and cozy.Įach book shares one things in common though I didn’t want to put any of these down while I was reading them. Plus, there are four more books in each series for you to read afterwards! And what better to curl up with on a rainy day than the perfect book to binge read? Look, children’s books like The Lightning Thief and Fablehaven are fun, light books and easy to spend away your day immersed in them. The thing about rainy days is that they can be really boring, but they can also be incredibly cozy.
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Paulo coelho book eleven minutes7/6/2023 You cannot categorize this as an erotica, rather it will stir your soul and will force you to think and look within. The descriptions are vivid and yet leave a lot to the imagination. At this strange time, love has found her door, will she let it in? Or will it be another sexual adventure for her? This honest tale of a woman's journey to understand her physically and emotionally is bound to keep you hooked till the last page. There is a chance that she might fall in love. She is instantly smitten by his charm and he is captivated by Maria too. While she is living a life of a prostitute, trying to understand herself sexually, she comes across a man. The quest for physical pleasure leads her into some interesting situations, where she tries to find her own body and desires. It is during one of her walks down a street that she feels a sexual awakening inside her. She has accepted her life in this way and keeps on going with it displaying great strength. She is poor and has to do menial jobs to survive in Geneva. This novel is based on a fictional account of a woman named Maria who lives in Rio, but moves to Geneva. ?Eleven minutes? is the masterpiece of Brazilian bestselling author Paulo Coelho.
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The seventh tower the fall7/5/2023 Every member of the top echelon of Dark World society - the Chosen - must have a spiritshadow and a sunstone, or risk ejection from privilege and into the ranks of the Underfolk.Īnd this is Tal's problem. Inhabitants of the Dark World take more than just sunstones from this land they also bind some of its creatures to themselves as spiritshadows or spiritguards. Aenir is lit and warmed by the Sun, but the Dark World uses sunstones - crystals grown and charged with light and heat in Aenir. The Dark World is blocked from the Sun by an enchanted Veil created by Tal's forebears to protect it from the creatures who inhabit Aenir - a spirit land full of magic and magical beasts. Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books This one sets the scene for five further books about two children trying to protect their world's way of life. Summary: The first book in a pacy and enjoyable fantasy series for 9s and up, set in a world of perpetual darkness.
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The sayings of confucius book7/5/2023 Selected discussions were published as the Analects ( Lunyu), while the rest was collected in the Jiayu. In the postface to the Kongzi Jiayu, its author describes the collection as discussions Confucius had with his disciples and others, recorded by his disciples. Ĭhinese scholars had long concluded that the received text was a 3rd-century forgery by Wang Su that had nothing to do with the original text of the same title, but this verdict has been overturned by archaeological discoveries of Western Han dynasty tombs at Dingzhou (55 BC) and Shuanggudui (165 BC). The extant version, however, was compiled by the Cao Wei official-scholar Wang Su (195–256 AD), and contains 10 scrolls and 44 sections. Ī book by the title had existed since at least the early Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), and was listed in the 1st-century imperial bibliography Yiwenzhi with 27 scrolls. The Kongzi Jiayu ( Chinese: 孔子家語), translated as The School Sayings of Confucius or Family Sayings of Confucius, is a collection of sayings of Confucius (Kongzi), written as a supplement to the Analects ( Lunyu). Cover of an 1895 printed edition of the Kongzi Jiayu
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How to walk away katherine center7/5/2023 And sometimes love can find us in the least likely place we would ever expect. Sometimes we all need someone to catch us when we fall. Sometimes the last thing you want is the one thing you need. Ian, who won't let her give in to her pity, and who sees her like no one has seen her before. Finally, there's Ian, her physical therapist, the one the nurses said was too tough for her. Then, there's her sister Kit, who shows up after pulling a three-year vanishing act. First there is her fiancé, Chip, who wallows in self-pity while simultaneously expecting to be forgiven. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie must confront the unthinkable. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes the instant New York Times bestseller (May 2018), an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances.
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The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker7/5/2023 The second myth Ball analyzes in his book is Frankenstein, the full potency of which was cemented with James Whale’s 1931 film version. IN HIS NEW BOOK, The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination, Philip Ball argues that “the Western world has, over the past three centuries or so, produced narratives that have as authentic a claim to mythic status as the psychological dramas of Oedipus, Medea, Narcissus, and Midas.” These stories, which “everyone knows without having to go to that trouble” of reading them, have “seeped into our consciousness, replete with emblematic visuals, before we reach adulthood.” Modern myths - of which Ball identifies seven, starting with Robinson Crusoe and ending with Batman - are not, despite their origins in specific texts, so much singular narratives as “evolving web of many stories - interweaving, interacting, contradicting each other” - but with one thing in common: “ rugged, elemental, irreducible kernel charged with the magical power of generating versions of the story.” This fecund capacity to produce new narratives is what allows these myths to do their “cultural work”: they “erect a rough-hewn framework on which to hang our anxieties, fears and dreams.” |