![]() ![]() When the ship crashes onto an uncharted jungle planet, Krisa has no choice but to trust the menacing convict with both her virginity and her life. Even so, her heart jumps at the sound of his deep, gravely voice. In the cargo hold, she stumbles across Teague-so fierce a prisoner he’s blindfolded and chained to a wall. Resigned to her destiny, Krisa boards the starship that will take her to another planet and her loveless marriage. ![]() His tortured past has turned him into a ruthless killer-an unthinkable fate to the innocent, sheltered Krisa. He is also Feral, a proud and savage people known for their indomitable wills to survive and their fiercely possessive natures. ![]() Kurt Teague is a prisoner-a galactic criminal wanted for multiple murders. Though she secretly longs for just one adventure all on her own, she knows the reality of her life-she is destined to be the wife of the elderly and pompous Lord Radisson. Krisa Elyison is a bride-to-be-bought and paid for by a stuffy aristocrat. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Those who have read Koontz will already be aware of his tendency to overdo the imagery and description in his novels. ![]() Instead this is a more immediate slice of thriller action. This turns out to be a blessing (no dodgy monastery pun intended!) as we are saved hiss usual and irritating habit of describing until the cows come home. Koontz expects us to know our central character already and as such, there is little in the way of introduction. Brother Odd is both a progression and a departure from this and is based much more in thriller/horror territory. The first book concentrated on a young fry cook called Odd discovering his strange abilities and coming to terms with them. What is their obsession with the tragically disabled children saved by the monastery and who is the sinister Russian who also claims to be seeking peace?īrother Odd is the third book involving the enigma that is Odd Thomas. With the ghost of Elvis in tow, Odd finds himself once again in the middle of a mystery involving Bodachs, the shadowy harbingers of violence. But wherever Odd goes, strangeness inevitably follows. ![]() His strange sense of the otherworldly has led him to a self-imposed exile. Odd Thomas thinks he has gained some respite at the snow mountain monastery in High Sierra. Expect fast-paced thrills with tight plots and intriguing characters. ![]() Summary: Brother Odd is Koontz at his best. ![]() ![]() ![]() That hot fucker made him question his sexuality. Even Mackleby would hit that,” she smirked, “and not with his fist.” “You don’t needa lie, he’s hot as fuck, totally drop dead gorgeous. I was thinking ’bout shit and he just happened to look up at the wrong time.” “If you’re talking ’bout my smile the other day, it wasn’t at him. “You don’t want Marko, cos you want Jasper Rakete.” If you don't already know, Jenna and Phelia are prison guards at a men's prison. ![]() Just remember, they aren't episodes like My Masters' Nightmare, they are novels. ![]() I'm doing it like this so you don't have to wait much. ![]() You'll have two books very close together. BTW, the book is practically ready to send out to my editor, but I'll wait a tick until I finish the second book, which is already well under way and won't take long to finish (a week or two). Also, different characters have different speech patterns, hence the change between cos and 'cause/wuz and was. I'll pop in Phelia's name so you know the first line belongs to her, with Jenna following. Here's an unedited peekaboo at a scene with Jenna and Phelia talking about Jasper in the ladies' restroom at the pub (from Chapter 9). ![]() ![]() Damien Maslin is the gay friend of the group. ![]() She is a caramel skinned black woman from Connecticut. Shaunee Cole is the other half of Erin Bates. Erin is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Oklahoma beauty. But Zoey knows that she had no choice in the matter: Ever since Nyx Marked her and spoke to her, Zoey has been ready for this fight. Stevie Rae Johnson is the roommate and best friend of Zoey who was Marked three months before her. Stevie Rae sees the whole thing and she congratulates Zoey on standing up to Aphrodite. ![]() Aphrodite tries to disinvite her from the Dark Daughters, but Zoey says that Nefret will see that it's over a boy and not legit, so instead Aphrodite makes some empty threats and walks away.Aphrodite tries to hit Zoey, but Zoey catches her hand and tells Aphrodite not to try to bully her-it won't work, because Zoey isn't afraid of Aphrodite.Zoey makes it through her classes, but then Aphrodite confronts her about how she's "stealing" Erik.Zoey has them help her get ingredients for the ritual (like the herbs needed for a smudge stick and candles) and they agree to meet near a stream after dinner.For a second Zoey is going to argue that she needs to do it alone, but a voice inside of her tells her to value her friends.Zoey tells them about her idea to pray to Nyx for help, and Stevie Rae volunteers everyone to help out with the ritual. ![]() Everyone (Damien, Shaunee, and Erin) is disturbed to hear that Zoey has joined the Dark Daughters, but they offer their help figure out how to displace Aphrodite. ![]() ![]() He immediately decides that the person is “more lovely and more temperate” than a summer’s day. In this stanza, the speaker is considering whether or not to compare the person he is addressing to a summer’s day. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Stanza-Wise Explanation: Sonnet 18 First Stanza Explanation:Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date:” So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ![]() So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, ![]() Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date You could also discuss the poem’s themes of love, beauty, and the power of language to preserve what is most important to us. ![]() In the case of Sonnet 18, you might explain how Shakespeare compares his beloved’s beauty to a summer’s day, and why this comparison is so powerful. ![]() The poem begins by questioning whether the beloved’s beauty could ever truly be captured or preserved in words, and goes on to argue that such a feat is impossible. Sonnet 18 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, which praises the beauty and immortality of the beloved, comparing it to a summer’s day. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible. ![]() ![]() In what The Boston Globe calls his greatest achievement, Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. ![]() In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies. In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland's best-known historian gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history.īook Synopsis During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated. About the Book During a biblical seven years in the middle of the 19th century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The brothers’ hopes rely on winning money from dog fights and dreams of basketball scholarships. Esch is highly literate and streetwise, but her future already looks bleak: she is pregnant, alone with her thoughts, and doesn’t know where to turn. ![]() We see their efforts in fighting for themselves, and, when they can, caring for each other. ![]() They live a raw existence feeding off scraps in their poverty- stricken community. The children have been dealt tough cards from on- high. But even the hurricane’s threat offers little more than a menacing backdrop: the novel starts with the disaster 10 days away, and the siblings have concerns far more immediate. The all- powerful Hurricane Katrina is fast approaching the Mississippi Gulf town of Bois Sauvage, where our narrator, fifteen- year- old Esch, lives with her alcoholic father and three brothers. As you might expect, so follows a tale imbued with Biblical myth taking in life, death, suffering, and dashed with occasional light. With these words from Deuteronomy 32:39, Jesmyn Ward begins her highly impressive US National Book Award-winning novel Salvage the Bones. ‘I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any can deliver out of my hand’. Jim Morphy casts a critical eye over Salvage the Bones the latest novel from Jesmyn Ward. ![]() ![]() Plans change and the next thing Portia knows, she’s marrying her intended’s heir, and what she learns is that she should always read the fine print in any contract she signs. The physical attraction between the two is immediate and visceral. ![]() Which is how she’s introduced to his heir and only child, Killian St. Portia is so desperate in fact, she’s willing to marry an aged marquess, whom most people think is crazy. As I read The Viscount and the Viscount, my question was why. Portia Gadstone is desperate to marry…really almost anyone of rank. Because as she begins to fall for her devilishly seductive husband, her dark secrets surface and threaten to ruin them both-unless Locke is willing to risk all and open his heart to love. Now the sedate-and, more importantly, secure-union Portia planned has been tossed in favor of one simmering with wicked temptation and potential heartbreak. Or so she believes until the marquess’s distractingly handsome son peruses the fine print. The arrangement will offer the protection she needs. as long as inconvenient feelings don’t interfere.ĭesperation forced Portia to agree to marry a madman. A marriage of mutual pleasure could be convenient, indeed. But when his sire arranges to marry flame-haired fortune hunter Portia Gadstone, Locke is compelled to take drastic measures to stop the stunning beauty from taking advantage of the marquess. Viscount Locksley watched it happen to his father after his cherished wife’s death. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've got to rest up my great brain so it will be ready the next time something happens which you grown-ups can't solve." (3.209) When they failed, I knew it was up to me to save the day. ![]() I would have done it sooner, but I wanted to give the grown-ups every chance. ![]() "When I learned that Uncle Mark and the search party were about ready to give up the search as hopeless," he said, with about as much modesty as a plucked chicken in the window of the Deseret Meat Market, "I knew the only way to save Frank and Allan and Lady was to put my great brain to work. Check out his after-action report on the rescue in Skeleton Cave: In fact, we might say he's downright cocky about his ability to accomplish any task he sets his mind to. (1.51-52)īolstering his cleverness, as Aunt Bertha touches on here, is Tom's confidence. "He gets it from his father," Mamma said as if she was proud of Tom instead of angry with him for marching ten kids across her clean kitchen floor. "I tell you, Tena, that boy could talk his way around anything." But while he is book smart, he is also incredibly clever, able to think through any problem-or any objection to his schemes-thrown at him:Īunt Bertha shook her head. Let's start with the cleverness, because that's what drives him (and what drives his parents crazy). ![]() The Great BrainĪnyone who nicknames himself the Great Brain and constantly refers to his "great brain" (no citation here, because we do mean constantly) clearly doesn't lack confidence or cleverness. ![]() ![]() ![]() To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.Ĭlive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. ![]() ![]() Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. ![]() |