![]() ![]() You will find these scattered throughout the book at random intervals. Read it wherever you feel most comfortable! Just for good measure, I have also included a handful of stories (and a poem) from other authors who are friends of mine. “The book is best read in a dark and lonely room by the light of a small reading lamp,” says author David Hayes, “while the rain patters against the window, and the wind howls a mournful tune. The stories are long enough to describe all the events in gory detail, but short enough to keep you gripped until the very end. ![]() Mysteria can be dipped into, and a couple of stories can be read in a single break, or you can sit down at home and have a “spookfest” and read several stories all at once. Included are stories about UFOs, secret government experiments, vampires, time-slips, and wherever else the author’s imagination led. Nor is it merely confined to the spirit world. ![]() Mysteria: A Book of Spooky and Fantastic Tales is a collection of short stories on the subject of mysterious happenings of a paranormal nature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The only reason this is getting 4 stars instead of 5 from me is probably more of a “me” thing than this book, because it’s something I know is common with werewolf fantasy books: Charles’ level of dominance was fine, but the way he acts regarding the whole “finding his mate” arc was frustrating and overly pushy at times. She’s been through a lot (major trigger warnings here for mentions of rape and abuse), but she’s got a fighting spirit left in her and she really develops it quickly in these 61 pages. Patricia immediately builds up a lot of depth surrounding the Chicago werewolves and even gives us more back story on the Cornick family, plus we get to meet Anna, who is instantly such a likable character. This is a really short novella and it does fly by, but I was impressed by how much world-building is packed into so few pages. Charles never expected to find Anna, a rare Omega wolf - and he certainly never expected to recognize her as his mate… ALPHA & OMEGA (#0.5) Now his father has sent him to Chicago to clean up a problem there. But when she discovers wrongdoing in her pack, she has to go above her Alpha’s head to ask for help.Ĭharles Cornick is the son - and enforcer - of the leader of the North American werewolves. After three years at the bottom of the Chicago pack, she’s learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. TITLES: Alpha & Omega, Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #0.5 & #1)Īnna Latham never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack… and became one herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I tell him that old joke about going backward. “Do you ever wish you were thirty again?” asks the lonely heart engineer. I brave a theory about vaccinations and another about late capitalism. 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Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. ![]() This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession 'I love Idaho' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train **WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD** Opening with an act of inexplicable violence, Idaho is a stunning debut about loss, grief and redemption ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Several sourcebooks were released based on the novels the second book, Dark Force Rising Sourcebook, takes its material from the second novel of the trilogy, Dark Force Rising. However, by 1992, having published many supplements and adventures, West End Games was finding it increasingly difficult to create original material out of the original trilogy of movies they decided to release a second edition of the game called The New Republic, based on the Thrawn trilogy of novels by Timothy Zahn. In 1987, four years after the release of the third (and at the time, the final) Star Wars movie, Return of the Jedi, West End Games published the popular Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. The New Republic: Dark Force Rising Sourcebook is a supplement published by West End Games in 1992 for the science fiction role-playing Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. 1996 The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook (40131). ![]() ![]() Jimmy knows he will survive this ordeal because he believes terrible day two awaits him in the future. Explosives are placed in tunnels that link the library underground to the courthouse. Two decades later, Jimmy is in the library when seemingly the same clown from twenty years ago and two accomplices shoot the librarian and capture Jimmy and Lorrie Lynn Hicks. On that same day at the same location, a circus clown goes on a killing rampage. ![]() Rudy soon learns how accurate the predictions are as Josef stated the height and weight of his grandson and that the child will need surgery to correct Syndactyl or call him Flipper. The sandwich generation Tock is Rudy who paces between the maternity and death wards until Jimmy is born at the same moment his father dies. ![]() Of the forecasts, the most ominous is that Jimmy will face five terrible days in his future. In Snow Hospital in Snow County, Colorado, dying Josef Tock makes ten predictions about his unborn grandson who is also in the hospital about to leave the womb. ![]() ![]() ![]() And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vanna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. ![]() 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113įrom the widely acclaimed author of American War: a new novel-beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving-that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes.More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. ![]() ![]() In 1842, Marx became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, a liberal democratic newspaper in Cologne. Hegel, the 19th-century German philosopher who sought a dialectical and all-embracing system of philosophy. He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Jena and initially was a follower of G.W.F. Karl Marx was born in Trier, Prussia, in 1818–the son of a Jewish lawyer who converted to Lutheranism. 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On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist League. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.Įntangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. ![]() The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer’ Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland ![]() I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. ‘A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. ![]() |