![]() ![]() The Priory of The Orange Tree started quite slow, which I don’t necessarily mind, however it stayed slow. “We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.” The Priory of the Orange Tree was a highly anticipated title of mine, I’d heard amazing things and friends who’s taste in books runs similar to mine had loved it so I was gearing up to read a new favourite. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.Īcross the dark sea, Tane has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. ![]() ![]() The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannonīlurb: A world divided. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After attending UCLA and graduating with a degree in communications, I tried acting and television broadcasting. ![]() My AP English teacher taught me the two most important lessons an aspiring author ever needs: 1) verbs are the key to life and 2) a writer should get a real job. That year, for my twelfth birthday, my parents gave me a typewriter (with italic font – it was the coolest thing) and from that day on, I’ve had my fingers on a keyboard, pounding out love stories for fun. I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, the youngest of five (overachievers, every one), and fell in love with words and stories the summer I read Gone With The Wind. Evidently, when my mother brought me home from the hospital I seemed too scrawny and small to pull off “Roxanne” (she’d read Cyrano de Bergerac while pregnant or I would have been Judy) so they called me Rocki. Claire really is.įirst of all, call me Rocki. Let's skip the formal bio and I'll give you the inside scoop on who Roxanne St. ![]() I don’t know about you, but when I check out an author's bio, it’s usually because I’ve read a book I liked and wondered about the person behind it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. A girl on a hilltop credulous, plastic, young drinking the air as she longed to drink life. She lifted her arms, she leaned back against the wind, her skirt dipped and flared, a lock blew wild. ![]() She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears.Ī breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat–lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur–traders whose shadows were all about her. She saw no Indians now she saw flour–mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() “People seem to bitch, moan, whine, carp and kvetch as much as ever.” ![]() “None of us are as happy as we ought to be, given how amazing our world has become,” he writes. His new book, “Enlightenment Now,” is a spirited and exasperated rebuke to anyone who refuses to concede that the world is becoming a better place. Steven Pinker doesn’t just want you to be happy he wants you to be grateful too. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book in question, When Harry Became Sally, “not only promotes the dangerous practice of converting transgender children to be cisgender, he distorts and denies the consensus on the care transgender people do need while sidelining the experiences of transgender people ourselves,” writes Gillian Branstetter in LitHub. “As to your specific question about When Harry Became Sally, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.” All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer, as do we,” wrote Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy, wrote in a response to Senators Marco Rubio, Mike Braun, Mike Lee and previous star of my cancelled authors round-up, Josh Hawley. “e reserve the right not to sell certain content. The move came after four GOP senators made noise about the retailer’s removal of one title, When Harry Became Sally, and Amazon doubled down. Last week, Amazon decided to pull all books from their platform that frame LGBTQ identities as mental health issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The game's release was delayed by about a month due to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. The game was funded on Kickstarter on September 5, 2022. The developer stated that the Kickstarter funding was meant to provide a financial safety net for the game. A Kickstarter campaign was launched on August 4, 2022. The game received generally positive reviews upon release. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened was announced in July 2022 and released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on April 11, 2023. ![]() The plot was also reworked to serve as a sequel to the 2021 game Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. The remake builds upon the original game with updated visuals, a new voice cast, and improved gameplay. It is a remake of the 2007 game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened and the tenth installment in the Sherlock Holmes series. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an adventure video game developed and published by Frogwares. ![]() ![]() I went to my National Security folks who helped me with the Red Cell Program. ![]() Most people didn't even know who they were for over a hundred years, because they took their secrets to the grave. And the Culper Ring helped Washington move information during the Revolutionary War. ![]() He started his secret spy ring, called the Culper Ring. MELTZER: Everything gets me thinking about history and say where else has this happened? Who else taps civilians? And George Washington was the first. INSKEEP: But it got you thinking about history. And, obviously as a novelist, I was just one of those regular citizens who they brought in. ![]() And the Red Cell Program brings together out-of-the box thinkers to really look at problems in a very different way. MELTZER: But I was honored to be part of what they called the Red Cell Program. And my first thought was, if they're calling me, we have bigger problems than anybody thinks. BRAD MELTZER (Author, "The Inner Circle"): A few years ago, the Department Homeland Security asked me to come in and brainstorm different ways that terrorists attack the United States. Meltzer says his fictional plot grew out of a real life experience. "The Inner Circle" imagines that the spy ring is passed on from one president to the next. ![]() The latest thriller novel from Brad Meltzer supposes that the president of the United States has a private ring of spies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Lolly's mother's girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything: two enormous bags filled with Legos. They're still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting just a few months earlier. It's Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren't celebrating. ![]() Publisher's synopsis: A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel that's been described as a "fast and furious read in which we meet some amazing people, people that stay with us" by Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. Genres: Death and Dying, Family, OwnVoices, Teen Years ![]() Published by Random House Children's Books on September 15th 2017 ![]() The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore Lolly’s creativity, too, is a force he can harness. Debut author David Barclay Moore writes with open eyes about the challenges of Lolly’s life as a Black boy in a poor neighborhood on the cusp of young adulthood, and with eyes just as wide he shows the many things Lolly has going for him: his terrific mom and her wonderful girlfriend his dad, who may not be around every day but is a constant regardless the community center director the neighbor who gave him the book his best friend Vega the list goes on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The TV suddenly starts showing films of helicopter deaths in Nam, and she's doubly zapped when her boozing hubby is found enjoying a neighbor lady right on the livingroom couch in broad daylight! Meanwhile, Kim tries to rape Colquitt in The House. Anita is catatonic but recovering from her son's death in Vietnam her husband is a two-timing drunkard. And then the ghastly housewarming, with Pie's father having a fatal stroke when he walks in on Buddy and a boy-friend locked in a shameless naked embrace. And various neighborhood animals get similar treatment. Then comes the horrible abortion, with Pie's fetus found pulped in the cellar. And Kim Dougherty, their spanking fresh young architect, is hanging around and overseeing this house, his all-consuming piece de resistance. ![]() The new folks moving in are the swank Harralsons, Buddy and pregnant Pie. In a nameless Southern town, modish Colquitt and Walter Kennedy are snug in their pretty, pretty house when the lot on the ridge out back is sold, ravaged, and a new knockout place goes up. The Amityville Horror marries The Stepford Wives and produces a haunted house packed with plasticine people. ![]() ![]() ![]() This conflict, I argue, is at the heart of Socrates’ and Sozomen’s changes to the original report on the revolt of Mavia. In this paper, I aim to show that these deviations do in fact matter because they hint at a hitherto unnoticed conflict over primacy between the ideals of dogmatic purity and public safety. Deviations in their respective narratives have therefore never been ascribed any greater significance. The use of Rufinus as a common source has led to the assumption that Socrates and Sozomen represent a monolithic picture of the events surrounding Mavia. ![]() Building on the account of their predecessor, the fourth-century historian Rufinus, Socrates and Sozomen offer the only extant narrative sources for the relationship between Rome and its tribal neighbours on its Eastern border. This has also been the case with their accounts of the Saracen warrior-queen Mavia who laid waste to the Roman Near East in the late 370s. Considering both church historians to be nothing more than naive compilers of sources, scholarship has long refused to accept Socrates or Sozomen as authors in their own right. ![]() Penning their Ecclesiastical Histories in the mid-fifth century A.D., the church historians Socrates of Constantinople and Sozomen of Gaza are ‘gatekeepers’ to our understanding of the religious conflicts dominating the period between the first Christian emperor Constantine and Theodosius II. ![]() |