![]() ![]() ![]() I will say that I was surprised by how hot this couple was. And this is supposed to be a super easy job protecting one widow.Īs you can imagine, Arthur and Violet get close and spend a whole lot of alone time together and readers of romance know exactly what happens next. The money that Grey has promised him will go a long way toward that goal. Fearing for her safety Grey hires a bodyguard to keep her safe until she can finish her formula.Īrthur wants to buy a farm and get out of the bodyguard game. Violet also works for the Crown through her stepson, Grey. This story features a heroine, Violet, who has a brilliant scientific mind and a desire to see women like her have a safe space to work on their ideas. I’m not exactly sure what I was expecting, but I was surprised at how fun and yet off the charts sexy this book turned out to be. This book was fun… in a screwball comedy, bodyguard falls for the scientist who runs a secret society for other women scientists way. A Lady’s Formula for Love by Elizabeth Everett ![]()
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![]() The American author, however, may have found his inspiration closer to home. Wikimedia Commons The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is widely considered to be Washington Irving’s best work, and it catapulted him to international acclaim. ![]() The Headless Horsemen That Inspired Sleepy Hollow Indeed, Washington Irving’s haunting work is born out of a mixture of foreign lore, local history, and a bit of the uncanny. While the legend is a staple in American folklore, its inspiration is global. ![]() “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere… Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the mind of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.” Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ![]() The beloved American legend follows the tale of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolteacher who finds himself in the haunted town of Sleepy Hollow, where he suffers an ill-fated encounter with the village’s infamous headless horseman before he mysteriously disappears from the community for good. Washington Irving's famous tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its iconic headless horseman were inspired by a mix of real history and spooky folklore.Įvery year when the green leaves turn bright orange and pumpkins appear on our doorsteps, Washington Irving’s classic ghost story, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, is retold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Covering his thematic influences and analyzing Burnham's layouts as an effort to break away from the cinema's stranglehold on comics, Morrison provides an intriguing springboard to not only a second reading, but further investigations into the areas of his obsessions. I was going for Rod Serling Immediately after reading Grant Morrisons new sci-fi/occult fantasy/horror book, I grabbed a slice of lemon pound cake and started. This is one of those rare comics where the author's afterword is immensely helpful, providing some fascinating method to the muddle. Nameless 1 Image Comics Grant Morrison Please see pictures for condition of the book(s) so you can determine its potential grade status as I am not a. Mais Chaos Magick para todo lado, tenho que voltar a ler estudar esse troço, é inspirador demais, nem me lembro de muita coisa do Liber Null and the Psychonaut, que agora es. The story jumps from place to place with confusing intention, and disparate narratives%E2%80%94a space mission to stop an asteroid from colliding with Earth, a haunted house s%C3%A9ance featuring the luminaries of the occult world%E2%80%94trade places in alarming succession, their scenes linked by the appearance of appropriately gross celestial monsters. O Nameless é mais um alter-ego do Grant (assim como o King Mob no Invisibles), durão e provavelmente da Escócia. A man known only as Nameless is on the run through city streets, fleeing from lizard-like creatures with an item called the Dream Key in his possession. The journey is more important than the destination in this occult SF mind-bender from Morrison (Doom Patrol), a writer who knows his way around mind-benders. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a thought I recalled subsequently whenever I saw something organically out-of-place in the sterile environment of corporate office spaces. I remember joking to a friend that maybe a big insect, a bee or something, worked in that cubicle. In one window, and one window only, someone had placed a bright red flowering plant to catch the sun. The earliest idea for Cicada came during a visit to Berlin around 2005, although it could have been any city at any time: I was looking at the imposing grey façade of an office building, studded with hundreds of grey windows. or is it? You never can tell what a bug is thinking. ![]() It's a very simple 32-page picture book about the unspoken horrors of corporate white-collar enslavement. Cicada is the story of an insect working in an office, and all the people who don't love him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after this begins, the government sanctions what they call “The Transition” and “special meat” becomes a legal menu item. Even casual contact with animals can mean certain death for human beings. He finds himself in a world where an infectious virus has made all forms of regular animal meat poisonous for human consumption. ![]() The author makes it clear just how it could happen. Could a virus infect all meat fit for consumption? Could governments eventually approve the consumption of human flesh as the only viable alternative? In this world, the answers are yes and yes. ![]() Genre fans and others will come to appreciate the world Bazterrica creates as she deftly crafts a place that is both abhorrent to our current norms, yet so close to a real possibility. This book holds appeal for a wide variety of readers. Why the English literature history lesson? Agustina Bazterrica’s newest novel, Tender is the Flesh, shares similarities in subject, tone, and unsettling ideas, yet is wholly unique. Titled A Modest Proposal, this essay is shocking in its matter-of-factness. Agustina Bazterrica, Tender is the Flesh.įed up with government inaction, Jonathan Swift proposed the cannibalization of babies and young children as a valid (and satirical) solution to starvation and overpopulation in 1729 Ireland. The Transition enabled us to be less hypocritical." ![]() If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. “After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil Over 35 step-by-step demonstrations for both traditional and watercolor pencils ( PDFDrive ) was published by SITI ZANARIAH BINTI. (The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil) By (author) Gary Greene November, 2010 : Amazon. ![]() With this easy-to-use handbook, best-selling author Gary Greene provides you with instant access to his best tips, tricks and techniques for creating exceptionally realistic colored pencil artwork. Check Pages 1-50 of The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil Over 35 step-by-step demonstrations for both traditional and watercolor pencils ( PDFDrive ) in the flip PDF version. ![]() ![]() “Full of twists and turns.…If you have not been a reader of Gardners fiction in the past, this is the time to jump in.”- The Huffington Post “Pitch-perfect.…No one writes this kind of modern horror tale better than Gardner, no one.”- The Providence Journal “No-holds-barred…suspense builds as the action races to a spectacular conclusion.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Gardner has a reserved seat on most bestseller lists, and shell be claiming her spot once again.”- Booklist “Gardner retains her place on thrillerdoms top tier. “Absorbing.…Gardner repeatedly ratchets up the tension.”- Publishers Weekly ![]() “An intelligent, sophisticated psychological thriller.…Gardner continues to show us why she is on the short list of top thriller writers today.”- Suspense Magazine “ Fear Nothing rushes off on a dead sprint and never lets up.”- The Providence Journal “No one owns this corner of the genre the way Lisa Gardner does.”-Lee Child ![]() “Lisa Gardners work has the chills and thrills to excite, and the heart to draw you in.”-Sandra Brown ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Pols of Time magazine wrote that "what makes Sendak's book so compelling is its grounding effect: Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side, but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper 'still hot." Generations have shared this beautiful picture book, and children of all ages will want to return to it again and again. Sendak himself enthusiastically endorsed this impressive new interpretation of his art. Astonishing state-of-the-art technology faithfully captures the color and detail of the original illustrations. Let the wild rumpus continue as this classic comes to life like never before with new reproductions of Maurice Sendak's artwork. But then from far away across the world, Max smells good things to eat. From there, Max sets sail to an island inhabited by the Wild Things, who name him king and share a wild rumpus with him. When Max dresses in his wolf suit and causes havoc in the house, his mother sends him to bed. This iconic story has inspired a movie, an opera, and the imagination of generations. Maurice Sendak's Caldecott Medal-winning picture book has become one of the most highly acclaimed and best-loved children's books of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leech’s sequel expands the Fae world that she introduced in The Dark Prince and introduces a dynamic new heroine. ![]() ![]() He desires her love and trust, but his secrets could have devastating, far-reaching consequences. His cold, calculated seduction soon turns into something deeper as he realizes he’s fallen in love with her. Claudette is completely besotted with Corin, despite warnings that he has a dangerous side. She’s his ideal wife-sweet, innocent, and easily manipulated if he can cajole her into accepting three gifts, she will be bound to him forever. Unwilling to accept his mother’s choice of a bride, he travels from the Fae world to the mortal one in search of a young woman named Claudette, whom he’s heard about from friends of friends. She issues him an ultimatum: either he finds a wife or she will force him to enter into an arranged marriage. ![]() His dissolute lifestyle is a source of consternation to his mother, Queen Audrianne, who’s desperate for him to start acting like a future king. Losing his beloved Océane to his best friend, Laen, devastated him, and he dulls his heartache by womanizing and drinking himself into oblivion. Prince Corin Albrecht of Alfheim is a broken man. A Fae prince journeys to the human world to secure a bride but gets more than he bargained for in Leech’s sequel to The Dark Prince (2015, etc.). ![]() |