Passionflix wicked series5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But letting him in is as dangerous as hunting the cold-blooded killers stalking the streets. With forest-green eyes and a smile that’s surely left a stream of broken hearts in its wake, he has an uncanny, almost unnatural ability to make her yearn for everything he has to offer. He’s six feet and three inches of temptation and swoon-inducing charm. Ren Owens is the last person Ivy expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she’d sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. ![]()
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The mystery of the terracotta dog5/29/2023 ![]() Since its discovery in the 1970s, scientists have been working to understand how the monument was built and preserved. It was buried with the emperor, supposedly protecting him in the afterlife. The army consists of 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots, 520 horses, and 150 cavalry. The Terracotta Army, which dates to between 210 and 209 B.C., was built for Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin dynasty and first emperor of a unified China. and China looked at how the ancient civilization brought together technological knowledge, artistry, labor and materials to "create something as large and sophisticated as the First Emperor's Mausoleum," he told Newsweek. ![]() ![]() The collaboration between researchers in the U.K. Marcos Martinon-Torres, from the Department of Archaeology at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge, was part of a project to understand how the Terracotta Army came to be. The weapons, once thought to have been coated in some advanced anti-rust technology, was actually preserved by accident due to the natural conditions in which the monument was erected. A long standing mystery about the preservation of China's Terracotta Army appears to have been solved. ![]() James baldwin and giovanni5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() “Love takes off the masks that we cannot live without and know we cannot live within,” Baldwin wrote in The Fire Next Time. Love remained a preoccupation for Baldwin in his life and it was not limited to the realm of the romantic: the love of family was contentious because it was undeniable. In a 1987 interview on British television, Baldwin attested the point of Giovanni’s Room was to show “what happens to you if you can’t love anybody.” A person unable to relent to the pain and release of love was “dangerous”, Baldwin said: “You have no way of learning humility, no way of learning other people suffer.” “ is trapped in my mirror as it is trapped in time and it hurries towards revelation.” ![]() “I long to crack that mirror and be free,” he reflects. David is gay, and yet unable to accept his sexuality or the vulnerability of loving Giovanni. In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, David, the protagonist, regards himself in the mirror, contemplating Giovanni, a captivating Italian man he meets in Paris. ‘If Love Will Not Swing Wide the Gates’: James Baldwin on Love ![]() George orwell books5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Orwell and his wife were accused of "rabid Trotskyism" and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938. Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause, The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), was painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization (Trotsky was Joseph Stalin's enemy) and disbanded. Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat. In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism. Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ![]() Babycakes armistead maupin5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:851979848 Republisher_date 20150416011433 Republisher_operator Scandate 20150401025333 Scanner . Babycakes by Armistead Maupin - Penguin Books Australia Books Features Authors Events Published: 6 October 2000 ISBN: 9780552998796 Imprint: Black Swan Format: Paperback Pages: 320 RRP: 22. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:16:27 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1130406 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorīlogistics Edition Reprinted External-identifier The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupins best-selling San Francisco saga. ![]() Mlk jr letter from birmingham jail5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() King’s arrest, eight male Alabama clergymen issued a public statement directed at him, titled “The Call for Unity,” following a letter penned a few months earlier under the title “An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense.” They accused him of being an “outsider” to the community’s cause, suggested that racial injustice in Alabama shouldn’t be his business, and claimed that the nonviolent resistance demonstrations he led were “unwise and untimely.” “We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations,” they wrote. On April 12, he was violently arrested on the charge of parading without a permit, per an injunction against “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing” that a local circuit judge had issued two days earlier, a week into the protests. (January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) began coordinating a series of sit-ins and nonviolent demonstrations against racial injustice in Birmingham, Alabama. On April 3, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() The seven mansions of st teresa of avila5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The Order of Carmelite Friars in Venice, Italy, has created a “Mystical Garden” with seven flower beds, each representing one of the mansions of St. Today, you can visit a place that has actually turned her literary allegory into reality. ![]() Teresa of Jesus, as she is often referred to, imagined our soul as a castle-shaped diamond containing seven houses or mansions, each representing a step in the journey that leads to total union with God.Ī monastery garden based on a saint’s vision Her seminal work, completed in 1588, is titled The Interior Castle and provides imaginative insights on how to lead a fulfilling life in communion with God. Joseph in Avila, Spain, and compiled a series of texts that have become a staple of Catholic literature. Born a Spanish noblewoman, the Carmelite sister founded the monastery of St. Teresa of Avila is one of the most important female saints of Catholicism. ![]() Love and freindship jane austen5/28/2023 ![]() They are in turns hilarious and overly sentimental, a parody of the cult of “ sensibility” that Jane Austen would revisit in a more serious light with her novel Sense and Sensibility. The novella contains 15 letters which begin with the narrator Laura and her friend Isabel, and continue with Laura and Isabel’s’ daughter Marianne. The misspelling of the third word in the title “freindship” is the customary spelling as it appeared on the original manuscript in Jane Austen’s hand. It was first published in 1922, and can often be found in versions of her work entitled “ Minor Works“. Love and Freindship, (note the original misspelling on friendship) a novella written as an epistolary inscribed “Deceived in Friendship & Betrayed in Love” was dedicated to Madame la Comtesse de Feuillide (Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza Hancock who married a French Count, Jean-Francois Capot de Feuillide) and completed on 13 June 1790 when she was 14 years old. I have been reading Jane Austen’s Juvenilia and find it delightful. ![]() Dresden files book 75/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of. In this one Dresden finds himself face to face with his inner Daemon. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”- Library Journal Dead Beat is book 7 of the Dresden Files. “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. ![]() ![]() “What’s not to like about this series?.It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”- SF Site The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”- Booklist (starred review) “Butcher.spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”- Cinescape “Superlative.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”- Midwest Book Review “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”- Entertainment Weekly ![]() This is the firefighter by laura godwin5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Language eng Summary In short, rhyming sentences tells the story of firefighters responding to a fire in a building from the time the alarm rings and the firefighters leave the station until they declare "all clear" and return Cataloging source DLC Godwin, Laura Dewey number Illustrations illustrations Index no index present LC call number PZ8.3. The rhyming text introduces readers to a heroic firefighter, his station and his equipment. The firefighter jumps in the truck and races to a daring rescue Get ready for an adventure as Laura Godwin and Julian Hector celebrate. Copper Mountain Branch, E GODWIN, 39068001963752, Childrens Easy & Board Books, Available,. ![]() Label This is the firefighter Title This is the firefighter Statement of responsibility by Laura Godwin pictures by Julian Hector Creator THIS IS THE FIREFIGHTER by Laura Godwin illustrated by Julian Hector RELEASE DATE: MaYet another firefighting tale that emphasizes the rescue of a pet. ![]() |