![]() This was a well done historical fantasy set in a Viking-like society. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.įaced with her brother's betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. ![]() ![]() Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. ![]() A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book from debut author Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings-and all heart. ![]()
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For ten years she worked in an Oslo office and immersed herself in books until late at night she was driven by the un-quenchable desire she voiced in 1908 through one of her earliest heroines, Charlotte Hedels, narrator of the short story Undset ironically titled “The Happy Age”: Like many poor Norwegian girls of her generation, Undset in 1898 took up the responsibilities of maturity at 16 years of age. Sigrid Undset’s youth, which was the matrix of her artistic message, was far from the carefree “happy age” that many people today consider the privilege, if not the right, of adolescents. ![]() ![]() ![]() WHY AM I STARING AT PIXELS ON A SCREEN PRAYING I FIND MY ASSASSIN? ![]() WHY DID I SMOKE 10000 CIGARETTES IN THE BLISTERING COLD WHILE READING THIS? WHY DO I WANNA KEEP ANTHO CLOSE AND NEVER LET HIM GO? WHY IN ALL THAT IS HOLY WAS THIS BOOK ONLY 36 PAGES? WHY? WHY? View the original prompt here (M/M Romance Group members only): (less) Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. ![]() This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group’s “ Love Has No Boundaries” event. Unable to walk away, Antho makes a choice that could cost them both their lives. When he rescues the assassin in secret, he finds the monster on his screen is only a young man, cursed with the effects of a trauma as outsized as his deadly skill-and somehow linked to the stirring of a terrifying power. Antho is no murderer, but in watching the killer stumble he recognizes something that links the two of them together. ![]() Only minutes from escape, he suffers a violent seizure, collapsing in a service corridor.Ī lonely surveillance operator becomes the only person in the building to see him fall. A standalone short story in the Syntax universe.Īn assassin has come to Tower Oh-Seven-Two, and no one can keep him from his target. ![]() ![]() ![]() I need not gloss over what has occurred with petty words, twisting them to show myself most favorably. I prefer to speak to my goddess through my daily actions, and through my honest emotions. Nowhere might you learn more than in a land unlike your own.Īre you more trapped by the way the world sees ye or by the way ye see the world seein’ ye? 7) Legacy 8) Starless Night ![]() Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action. And a man stranded homeless on the frozen steppes with the first winds of winter already beginning to blow is a formidable enemy indeed! 5) Streams of Silver 6) Halfling’s Gem A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life. The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. 1) Homeland 2) Exile 3) Sojourn 4) Crystal Shard ![]() ![]() ![]() Shion was born in Japan, and …Ryan, I'm a Ryan too, you don't need to hear other people say your great and funny. Popular modern sources typically suggest that the name means "little king" or "illustrious", but the original meaning is unknown.Ryan’s channel had launched just as YouTube was spreading to Asia, and videos like Ryan’s filled a void that TV had overlooked. It comes from the Irish surname Ryan, which in turn comes from the Old Irish name Rían or Rian. Traditionally a male name, it has been used increasingly by both males and females since the 1970s. It comes from the …Ryan is an English-language given name of Irish origin. ![]() Ryan is an English-language given name of Irish origin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Race provides brief introductions to each ode and full explanatory footnotes, offering the reader invaluable guidance to these often difficult poems. Readers have long savored them for their rich poetic language and imagery, moral maxims, and vivid portrayals of sacred myths. In these complex poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society. His forty-five victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honor of prize-winning athletes for public performance by singers, dancers, and musicians. ![]() Race now brings us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of the four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of Pindar's other poems. Most of the Greek lyric poets come down to us only in bits and pieces, but nearly a quarter of Pindar's poems survive complete. 518-438 BCE) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found him to be very cruel.As for heroine Gracie Snow, I found her to be a bit of a doormat. Often times he took out his anger and frustrations on the heroine, laughing at her inexperience and self-perception. Even up until the end, he continued to believe that he was so far above the heroine as far as desirability I just never could warm up to him. ![]() Basically, he got her fired by acting like a complete jerk. He had made a commitment to star in a movie, but when the heroine came to escort him to the movie set, he treated her as if she were some kind of prison matron. In the begining of the story, I downright disliked the man. ![]() He was very arrogant, and what was supposed to be charm I found more smarmy. I found the characters somewhat inconsistent, and the story itself left me cold.As a hero, Bobby Tom Denton left a lot to be desired IMO. For as much as I've heard raves about this book, I was a bit disappointed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pay the highest shipping/handling charge for one listing and the shipping/handling charge for each additional listing will be only $1.00. IMPORTANT NOTE: If multiple listings are purchased, I will provide a combined shipping/handling discount. It’s those soft hearts that are the tenderest meat.Check out my other listings for additional items. This horrifying tale of nightmare-inducing monsters-inspired by true events-comes into stark reality in THE FLESH EATERS, an imaginative novel by Edgar Award winning author L.A. There’s little the community can do but be hunted. We eat our fill,” they chant as they descend upon their prey. Just eight miles east of the modern city of Edinburgh, Sawney Bean and his murderous family prowled the Scottish coasts, robbing travelers and consuming their victims. The first half of the fifteenth century saw savagery and fear that erased the line between man and beast. It sounds like the horrors of prehistoric savages, but it falls well within recorded history of civilized men. Huge, terrifying clans roaming the moors, seeking out human flesh to rend and consume. ![]() ![]() It has a "USED" stamp on top of pages.Cannibalistic cave dwellers. The paperback book is in good condition, with general reading wear. Published by WARNER BOOKS in 1979, a first printing. ![]() ![]() As usual, beautifully and plentifully illustrated.Ī Journey to the Center of the Internet, by Andrew Blum, HarperCollins, 294 pages, $29.99 She also examines the hyena as a totemic object in tribal culture (amulets to avert evil woven from its hairs, virility treatments) as well as the portrayal of hyenas in such works as Life of Pi, The Lion King and the Tarzan novels, where they come off less well. Hyenas, she claims convincingly, are complex, intelligent and highly social – and can even be easily trained to live with human beings. psychoanalyst and cultural critic Mikita Brottman reassesses these maligned creatures. But in the latest entry in this invaluable (if sometimes uneven) series on individual animals, U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is there a creature more unlovely and less loved, or more loathed, than the hyena, the slope-backed, mighty-jawed, yammering, cowardly skulker of the night? In much of Africa, hyenas are no laughing matter more feared than lions, they have been known to come into villages and carry off children. By Mikita Brottman, Reaktion, 167 pages, $20.95 ![]() |