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![]() ![]() To add to the weirdness, she receives an anonymous letter telling her there's a job waiting for her at the county morgue-and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse. Angel remembers being in a horrible car crash, but she doesn't have a mark on her. That is, until the day she wakes up in the ER after overdosing on painkillers. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken. Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. ![]() Horror meets humorous urban fantasy in first book of the White Trash Zombie series - Winner of the 2012 Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist by the RT Awards Angel Crawford is a Loser. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t look at the receipts without flinching. What is your greatest extravagance? Books! My house overflows with them. LeGuin though she passed on recently, I feel her spirit is still here. Which living person do you most admire? Ursula K. Also, cruelty to animals and people, and mindless destruction of ecosystems. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Cruelty in the name of ideological purity-and totalitarianism in general. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My inability to stick with being a vegetarian. What is your greatest fear? Something terrible happening to someone I love. What is your idea of perfect happiness? A day in a spring or autumn garden with my family and many birds. In the hot seat today: Kaela Noel, author of the debut middle-grade novel COO (Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2020). The Proust Questionnaire, popularized by the French essayist and novelist Marcel Proust, is said to reveal a person’s true nature through a series of probing, soul-searching questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the torch for freedom will be lit once more by Robert "the Bruce." Scouring the darkest corners of the Highlands, the Bruce handpicks ten warriors to form an elite fighting force unlike any the world has ever seen. With the death of William Wallace, Scotland's struggle for independence from English rule seems all but doomed to failure. Now the first nine books in the series are available in one sizzling eBook bundle: Her sensual Highland Guard novels, tales of elite warriors and the remarkable women they love, just keep getting better and better. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty has established herself as a favorite in the world of Scottish romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were joined by August Brinkman, Sok Leng’s eventual husband. NEW LEGEND: BALLISTICīefore the Apex Games, a more brutal competition held sway: the Thunderdome Games! Here, sibling fighters Sok Leng and Kit Siang Phua reigned supreme. ![]() ![]() ![]() This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items.Īpex Legends™: Arsenal Patch Notes Delve into the full patch notes for Arsenal including new legend Ballistic, Weapon Mastery, and updates to the Ping System. 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BUY NOW About the Authors ZOEY GONG was born and raised in rural Hunan Province, China. ![]() In this incredible retelling of The Princess and the Pauper, based on true events, authors Zoey Gong and Amanda Roberts bring to life the opulent and dangerous world of imperial consorts trapped within the great red walls of the Forbidden City. But living within the Forbidden City is even more dangerous than she imagined… And if she fails, if she is discovered, she will be guilty of treason and put to death.ĭaiyu cannot allow her family to suffer if it is within her power to save them, so she strikes the deadly bargain. In order to pull off the ruse, Daiyu must abandon everything she ever knew and become a completely different person, a person she despises. Living in poverty in the shadow of the Forbidden City, Daiyu never imagined that the life of the emperor would impact her own.īut a chance meeting with a girl who looks exactly like her changes everything.ĭaiyu’s family is offered enough money to support them for life if she only agrees to take the stranger’s place at the emperor’s selection for new consorts. To save her family, one girl will sacrifice her very identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() I truly hate not liking books and it's not really that I didn't like it, I certainly didn't hate it but it just didn't live up to its promise there could have been much more depth to the characters and story, all the premises were there but they just petered out.and it's not that I dislike happy endings, I'm a sucker for them, but usually there is a lot of heartache and trouble before the happy ending. ![]() ![]() Don't get me wrong it was nice to read a nice story about nice friendships and nice relationships and nice husbands but where were the problems we were promised? They all nicely disappeared with no real heartache, everything worked out just.well, nicely. I wanted to like this so much more as it is a new author and the blurb sounded like it would be a fairly decent story however I have to say I was disappointed, the blurb didn't come through with it's promise - confrontation of pasts, a friendship that changes their lives, breaking points.not from where I was reading. ![]() ![]() I think if there is a swap it’s either the fight that leads to the baby dying or the fight that leads to “jack” dying killing 23. The scene were Rob mentions contacts is when she tell the store clerk she is pregnant after losing the baby. I didn’t make the connection with the coins either. ![]() ![]() I think in total there are three mentions of her contacts all from Callie’s viewpoint. There is also another hint early in the book when Callie says that Rob keeps contact solution hidden in her writing desk even though she doesn’t wear them. 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No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. ![]() ![]() Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Isacoff's “Temperament” gives an in-depth history of the development of piano tunings and temperaments starting with Pythagoras's perfect fifths in 6th century BC, moving through Da Vinci, mean-tone temperament, Galileo, Zarlino, and Rameau, and finishing with contemporary minimalists such as Michael Harrison and Philip Glass. So, how was equal temperament developed and why was it so difficult to achieve? Aptly named, these intervals produce sounds that resemble the howling of a wolf and thus had to be avoided by musicians and composers at all costs. In non-equal temperaments there exist so-called “wolf” intervals. Basically, this allows a song to be transposed into any key and still sound musically pleasing. For those not familiar, equal temperament is a system of tuning for stringed instruments in which every note within the octave is equally spaced. These books did their job of piquing my interest in the topic. All of the piano repair books that I have read have included a short section on the development of equal temperament and it's predecessors, but none of them really dig deeply into the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Those pricey pet fish, called arowanas, are a real thing.) Embellished with snarky but informative footnotes, the novel is colored with Asian cultural context as the plot moves briskly through the decadent lifestyles of an extended Singapore-based Chinese family, the Shangs. What makes these campy novels so deliciously fascinating is that they sometimes read more like an insider crash course on uber-rich Asian society than satirical comedy. ![]() ![]() (The last drama with an all-Asian cast was 1993’s The Joy Luck Club, a tale of immigrant Chinese women.) It’s placed Kwan on the New York Times best-seller list and spun off to an upcoming Crazy Rich Asians movie starring Constance Wu, a game-changer in its own right as the first Hollywood romantic comedy to feature an all-Asian cast. This is one of many details in Kevin Kwan’s new novel Rich People Problems, the last in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy that has garnered intense international buzz since the first book’s debut in 2013. For those who have made it to this gilded stratosphere-or were born into it-it’s not out of line to spend $300,000 on a pet fish and then hire a plastic surgeon to give it an eye lift and fix its crooked jawline. There is a point in wealth after which even the sky seems limited. ![]() |