![]() To right this wrong, and save lives and her own magical powers, Frances must hunt down answers in the parlors of Parisian secret societies, the halls of the Louvre, and the tunnels of the catacombs. Once she and her classmates Maxine and Lena reach the vibrant streets of France, Frances learns that the spell she used to speak to her dead brother has had terrible consequences - the veil between the living and the dead has been torn by her recklessness, and a group of magicians are using the rift for their own gain at a horrifying cost. When an opportunity to visit Paris arises, Frances jumps at the chance to go, longing for adventure and seeking answers about her own power. But one thing nags her magic has begun to act strangely. Druon and the witches of Haxahaven, Frances has built a quiet, safe life for herself, teaching young witches and tending the garden within the walls of Haxahaven Academy. Months after the devastating battle between the Sons of St. ![]() The lush and pulse-pounding sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Witch Haven follows Frances and her fellow witches to the streets of Paris where family secrets, lost loves, and dangerous magic await. ![]()
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![]() ![]() According to Jaman Rani, the store manager we spoke to, it wasn't the gang's first time in the store: "They used to come in here and sit and not buy anything, so I've called the cops and kicked them out before, four or five times." The Village Voice is estimating that the damage to the store hovers around $5,000. After " reportedly terrorizing" the staff and some other customers in the store, the teenager stole drinks and, obviously, donuts, before leaving with the cash register untouched. Security cameras show about two dozen teens storming through the store, overturning tables and coffee machines, plus throwing chairs at the staff, during a seemingly random seven-minute attack. Crazy teenagers and their out-of-control hormones, or something-we're actually not sure what caused a gang of teenagers to rampage through a Christopher Street Dunkin' Donuts last week, but riot they did-perhaps in pursuit of some Meat Munchkins? ![]() ![]() In 2019, Fatal Shadows became the first LGBTQ mobile game created by Moments: Choose Your Story. The Adrien English series was awarded the All Time Favorite Couple by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place on the list). Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. Her FBI thriller Fair Game was the first Male/Male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, then the largest romance publisher in Italy. ![]() Author of nearly ninety titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance, JOSH LANYON’S work has been translated into eleven languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() We explore this world of long, vining plants and how they can be grown to produce edible harvests in your garden! ![]() Fruiting Vines Vines produce all sorts of fruit from cucumbers to passion fruit. ![]() Lovely lemons, luscious limes, great grapefruit, tasty tangerines and mighty mandarins… and even the freaky finger limes and more!
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Batman, the Robins, Batgirl, Red Hood, Spoiler, and more will have to contend with not just the usual villains, but a corrupt police force as well! Until his name can be cleared, he'll be locked up alongside all the dangerous criminals he put in jail. Worst of all, Batman's greatest ally inside the city, police commissioner Jim Gordon, has been arrested and can't help. Someone is orchestrating the pandemonium, but who? Every one of Batman's allies is fighting to keep the city under control. In the wake of Forever Evil, the world looks at heroes in a different light, creating tension between Batman and his allies and the Gotham City Police Department.ĬOMMISSIONER GORDON ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The crowds went absolutely berserk: that’s what it meant to be Roman. Pompey himself rode in a gemstone-encrusted chariot, wearing a cloak taken from Mithridates and said to have been worn by Alexander the Great. As Adrian Goldsworthy demonstrates admirably in Caesar: Life of a Colossus, the real Julius Caesar was a much more complex character, and the Republic he. In this definitive biography, Adrian Goldsworthy places Caesar within the broad canvas of the Mediterranean world in which he lived, describing the rich but. Three hundred kings, queens, princesses, chieftains and generals, all wearing national costume, walked ahead of Pompey as hostages. ![]() As might be expected from the historian of the Roman army, it offers particular insight into Caesar’s military campaigns and operations. ![]() His Caesar is exciting, readable, and balanced. At his celebratory triumph on 28 and 29 September 61 BC, Pompey had placards made to inform the crowds of precisely what he had achieved: 12,183,000 people killed, captured or defeated 846 warships taken or sunk 1,538 towns surrendered every soldier given a bounty of 1,500 denarii (more than ten years’ pay) 20,000 talents of gold and silver paid into the state coffers and Rome’s annual revenue nearly trebled from 50 million to 135 million denarii a year. Goldsworthy does a marvelous job of exploring and explaining this strange mental universe, at once misleadingly familiar and dumbfoundingly exotic. In December 62 BC, Pompey returned to Rome after clearing the Mediterranean of pirates and defeating the Eastern potentate Mithridates, thus laying the groundwork for Roman control of the East up to the Parthian border (roughly Iraq). ![]() ![]() This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. ![]() In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. ![]() This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story moves along in pictures and the only words are the ambient sounds-a cat’s meow, the click of a buckle, a woodpecker knocking on a tree. Details included in the background show a suburban home, an SUV, expensive outdoor equipment, as well as the animals and plants along the hike. Verdict: Though there isn’t much actual story in this richly illustrated picture book, the obvious love between the parent and child comes through. Lunch, celebratory photographs, bird watching,planting a tree-the point of the hike-and then the hike back down the trail and road trip bring the two back home at the end of a long day together. Stylized but detailed illustrations show a brown skinned man and child as they walk through a forest filled with birds and forest animals, crossing streams, always ascending until a rock climb brings them to the top of a ridge. Early scenes show their careful preparation through gathering supplies-food, warm clothing, protective helmets, a compass and map-and the effective use of perspective shows the long road trip out of town and up into the foothills. P7Q9Ī father and child get up early to go for a hike in the mountains in this (mostly) wordless picture book. ![]() ![]() ![]() His private life is also complicated, as he was first in love with Black Widow, married and divorced Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird, and also had a relationship with Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman, Echo, and Moonstone. ![]() In a way, Hawkeye/Clint Barton is a mix between Green Arrow and Nightwing (from DC Comics). He also sometimes changed codenames and has been Goliath, the Golden Archer, and Ronin.Ĭlint has no superpowers but he is a skilled archer, and a very dangerous martial artist and swordsman. He has founded the West Coast Avengers, been the leader of the Thunderbolts, worked with the S.H.I.E.L.D, and served as a mentor to Kate Bishop, the Superior Hawkeye. His career on the wrong side of the law was short as he joined the Avengers less than a year later, in The Avengers #16 in May 1965.Ĭreated by Stan Lee and Don Heck, Clint Barton is one of the most famous Marvel heroes and a regular member of the Avengers, who had come and gone from the team several times. But before joining the superhero team, he was introduced as a supervillain in Tales of Suspense #57 in September 1964. ![]() ![]() Today, Clint Barton is known for being a major player in the Avengers as Hawkeye. ![]() ![]() He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. ![]() When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. ![]() |