![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I have to thank a great many people for factual information, suggestions and for stimulating and sometimes heated discussions. For this reason a certain amount of repetition has been unavoidable in the earlier chapters. Although this volume is more or less a sequel to The New Science of Strong Materials it can be read as an entirely separate book in its own right. Some of the omis sions and oversimplifications are intentional but no doubt some of them are due to my own brute ignorance and lack of under standing of the subject. Indeed it is only when the subject is stripped of its mathematics that one begins to realize how difficult it is to pin down and describe those structural concepts which are often called' elementary' by which I suppose we mean 'basic' or 'fundamental'. I am very much aware that it is an act of extreme rashness to attempt to write an elementary book about structures. ![]() ![]() ![]() She returned to China a few years ago and wrote about that experience of rediscovering her roots in China Homecoming (Putnam, 1985 ISBN 0399211829. She came to the United States when she was thirteen where again she felt misplaced. Her life there already had an international flavor since she lived in a French compound, attended a British school, had two German best friends and spoke fluent Chinese. She also tells us a great deal about the culture of China of the 1920s. Hardcover.), she describes feeling homesick for the America she knew only through her father's stories about life there. ![]() In her book Homesick: My Own Story (Dell, 1984 ISBN 0440436834. The only child of missionary parents, Jean often felt lonely and misplaced in the country where she was born. She was, however, greatly interested in the culture of America. As a child Jean Fritz had little interest in the subject of American history about which she was to teach us all so much. For our author study this quarter, let's look at the work of Jean Fritz. ![]() ![]() This story of perseverance presents to children a personal side of the often-detached history of slavery. As a slave, Northup was permitted neither pen nor paper, yet he was able to recall his ordeal in exacting detail.Considered one of the best firsthand accounts of the slavery experience, this autobiographical story, originally published in 1853, has been painstakingly rewritten for children aged eight through twelve. ![]() His remarkable account of the epic journey from free man of color to slave to free man again is even more astonishing because it was written entirely from memory. Hicks, former Arkansas state supervisor of education"Solomon Northup's trials and tribulations are retold in such a way that young-adult readers will be totally captivated by his story." -Children's LiteratureSolomon Northup, a family man and hack driver in upstate New York, was kidnapped, whisked away from his home, and sold into slavery. ![]() "The retelling of Solomon Northup's true story is a valuable contribution to black history. ![]() ![]() Season Unending: Enforce a ceasefire to secure Dragonsreach.Rare Gifts: Do a favor by finding a rare item. ![]() No Stone Unturned: Find the 24 gems to restore the Crown of Barenziah.Blood on the Ice: Windhelm is plagued by a shadowy killer.Battle for Windhelm: Conquer the Stormcloak capital and bring Ulfric to justice!.Battle for Whiterun: Take Whiterun in the name of the Stormcloaks.Message to Whiterun: Deliver an axe to the Jarl of Whiterun.The Jagged Crown: Find this crown for Ulfric Stormcloak.Joining the Stormcloaks: Prove yourself worthy of being a Stormcloak rebel.Related Quests Civil War Quests Stormcloaks † Thongvor, Reburrus and Yngvar are only exiled from Markarth if the city changes hands twice, which can only happen through doing the quest Season Unending, and then progressing through the Civil War on the Imperial side. ![]() *** This person is removed from the game if the Empire seizes Windhelm. ** Captain Lonely-Gale was intended to serve as Brunwulf's steward, but he does not due to a bug. * These people die if the Empire seizes Windhelm. ![]() ![]() Personally, I prefer Night Kitchen to Wild Things because it’s a sweeter book and when read aloud, is more playful and lyrical to the ear. Perhaps best known for his book, Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak was one of the first to tackle many long-held taboos of children’s literature, in this case, the dark side of kids’ emotions. ![]() He also admits that much of his work is autobiographical. Oh yeah, I missed the oven reference too.īorn in Brooklyn in 1928 to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Sendak describes his American childhood as one very much shaped by the Holocaust. Its cheery bakers wear Hitleresque mustaches and try to stuff a young boy named Mickey into an oven.” ![]() ![]() Instead, I found out while reading an essay in The New York Times Book Review this weekend that said the “dream world Sendak concocted in ‘In the Night Kitchen’ (1970) was inspired by the Holocaust of all ghoulish things. If Maurice Sendak hadn’t drawn the bakers three in his book, In the Night Kitchen, as Oliver Hardy-esque characters with bulbous noses and rotund bellies, I might not have missed his Holocaust reference in the Hitlerstaches they’re sporting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fort Mosquito( Fort Myggenborgh), as it was commonly nicknamed, was eventually abandoned, the soldiers succumbing not to enemy cannon fire but bites. Īt that time, this area of the river was mostly swamp and the soldiers garrisoned there were inundated by mosquitos. Log farmsteads similar to those found in Sweden went up around the fort further downriver, so that Dutch West India Company ships coming up from the bay would have to get by them first. It was a Swedish style three-cornered earthen redoubt with eight guns. Fort Nya Elfsborg had iron and brass 12pd cannons mounted on earth and wooden palisades. He also built Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island (to the immediate SW of today's Philadelphia), where he built his own manor house which he called The Printzhof. Fort Nya Elfsborg was built shortly after Johan Printz, governor of New Sweden, arrived in the colony on 15 February 1643. ![]() ![]() ![]() For months, her warriors have waged a valiant, stealth battle, yet they cannot stop the enemy's advancement. The mad emperor of the Roven Empire has unleashed a horde of invading soldiers to enslave her lands. But her realm is facing a threat she cannot defeat by sheer will alone. Askia became heir to the Frozen Crown of Seravesh because of her devotion to her people. A stellar read that I thoroughly enjoyed." - Emily Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints A princess with a powerful and dangerous secret must find a way to save her country from ruthless invaders in this exciting debut fantasy, the first novel in a thrilling duology packed with heroism, treachery, magic, and war. ![]() "Propulsive and intricate, Greta Kelly has constructed a world of twisting politics and thrilling magic following a heroine who is both clever and uncompromising, but ultimately, has heart. ![]() ![]() Because after the first worst day of her life, Memphis learned a good life requires giving up on her dreams too. With his sharp, stubbled jaw and tattooed arms, he's raw and rugged and everything she's never had-and never will. Knox Eden is a beautiful, sinful dream, a chef and her temporary landlord. ![]() ![]() It's there, on the fifth worst day of her life, that she meets the handsomest man she's ever laid eyes on. Even if it requires working as a housekeeper at The Eloise Inn and living in an apartment above a garage. Even if it requires setting aside the glamour of her former life. If putting the past behind her requires a thousand miles and a new town, she'll do it if it means a better future for her son. Because moving across the country with her newborn baby is by far the craziest thing she's ever done.īut maybe it takes a little crazy to build a good life. Memphis Ward arrives in Quincy, Montana, on the fifth worst day of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Forty Autumns, Nina recounts her family’s story-five ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family-of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. So, when I heard about the opportunity to join a book tour for Forty Autumns, I couldn’t turn it down and it didn’t disappoint. As a new contributor to Literary Quicksand, you may not know how much I enjoy reading historical fiction (and non-fiction, in this case) yet. ![]() |