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5/30/2023 0 Comments Buy the thorn of emberlain![]() ![]() In 2010, I lost a marriage but gained a cat, a charming ball of ego and fuzz known as Muse (Musicus Maximus Butthead Rex I). Bounds Best Newcomer Award from the British Fantasy Society. In 2007 The Lies of Locke Lamora was a World Fantasy Award finalist. I trained in basic firefighting at Anoka Technical College in 2005, and became a volunteer firefighter in June of that year. Prior to that I had just about every job you usually see in this sort of author bio- dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer. The Lies of Locke Lamora, my first novel, was bought by Simon Spanton at Orion Books in August, 2004. Paul area my entire life currently, just across the border in Wisconsin, about half an hour east of the Twin Cities. Paul, Minnesota on April 2, 1978, the first of three brothers. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Scattered Seeds by Julie Doherty![]() ![]() Lost amid a world of pampered show dogs, Jimmy Don Baker gets revenge with the help of an equally abused rescue dog. If you could give a quick log line for your story in Running Wild Press Anthology – what would it be? ![]() She fed the pooch treats and spoke to it in the most loving way, yet she berated the hungry child tugging on the hem of her shirt. The idea came to me at a dog show, when I watched a woman groom a fluffy dog on a table. How did you come up with the title of your short story? Where did the idea come from? Then, I wanted to see if I could get one published. I really just wanted to see if I could write a novel. Let’s get the logistics out of the way – what is your name, where are you from and what is the title of your short story in the Running Wild Press Anthology of Stories Volume 2? ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Migrant by Maxine Trottier![]() ![]() Metaphors, Anna’s imaginative tool, may require some introduction to young readers and some practice in their use. Anna’s imagination lifts this story through and beyond the hardships of migrant life. ![]() Literary elements at work in the story: Pictures and text in Migrant are a single voice the book has won prizes for both its art ( NY TIMES, Best Illustrated, 2011) and story (ALA Notable Books, 2012). Fall comes and Anna and her family travel back to Mexico “…like a robin, like a feather in the wind.” The author provides information about the Mennonite migrants who travel from Mexico to Canada each year at the close of the story. She flies like a goose, borrows a jack rabbit’s burrow, flies from plant to plant like a bee, snuggles with her sister’s like a kitten, hears languages as a thousand crickets, and imagines being like a tree with deep roots that never moves. Anna has an imagination that mutes and even enriches the hardship of travel, long working hours for her family, poor living quarters, little money, and being different. They have maintained their language, low German, and their community identity. Now they return each year to harvest the crops. ![]() They are from a Mennonite community that once lived in Canada and left for Mexico seeking freedom to worship. Summary: Anna’s family travels from Mexico to Canada each summer to harvest fruits and vegetables. ![]() ![]() ![]() They discover that things have changed in the human realm, and not everything is what it seems. Unfortunately, the mess caused by Aria’s ancestors is about to come and haunt her. They’ve outdone themselves doing the right thing in the coven, and when evil threatens their existence, Aria decides to return home and try to make things right. Her family gave their kingdoms to others and relocated to another world. ![]() Aria is not any ordinary witch she comes from a ruling family of witches and is a descendant of Hecate. Aria is the heroine of the series from the Hecate family of witches who is determined to correct the mistakes committed by her ancestors even if it means going to war.įlame of Chaos is the debut novel in the Legacy of the Nine Realms series. The first novel in the series is Flames of Chaos. Legacy of the Nine Realms is a paranormal fantasy series by Amelia Hutchins. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Slave by Kate Aaron![]() How can he hold everything together, when inside he's falling apart?ĬONTENT WARNING: This book contains scenes of graphic violence. Suffocated by guilt, Lysander begins to spiral. But with pressure piling up from every angle, peace is the last thing he's likely to find. To recover from the horrors of his experience at the hands of his enemies. All Lysander wants is to be left in peace. ![]() Together they plan to take over the world. Kate swapped the north-west for the midwest in October 2015 and married award winning author AJ Rose. Even if he succeeds, how could anybody ever love the thing he's become in order to survive? Born in Liverpool, Kate Aaron is a bestselling author of the 1 LGBT romances What He Wants, Ace, The Slave, and other critically acclaimed works. Beaten, starved, and tortured, when the chance comes to escape, Kai is barely strong enough to make the journey. 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Travel for Bashō, explains Yuasa, culminated a period of casting away the material things of life, so that the poet might “restore his true identity (what he calls the ‘everlasting self which is poetry’…).”īashō’s travel sketches are neither travel accounts nor poetry collections in the conventional sense. The chronological arrangement of the narratives offers a portrait of the poet’s development as traveler and narrator over the decade of his journeys between 16. The combination of travel and poetry intrigued me, so I picked up a copy of The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches.Ī helpful introduction by translator Nobuyuki Yuasa situates Bashō’s travels in his long poetic career as well as in the longer tradition of Japanese poetry. ![]() I first learned about the travel sketches of seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō from a comment in an interview. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Nell painter sojourner truth![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by religion, Truth transformed herself from a domestic servant named Isabella into an itinerant pentecostal preacher her words of empowerment have inspired black women and poor people the world over to this day. Now, in a masterful blend of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, eminent black historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths, words, and photographs to uncover the life of a complex woman who was born into slavery and died a legend. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence yet, unlike them, what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of personality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women-indeed, for all strong women. Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. A monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The kiss quotient review![]() ![]() You can find One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid here. But when Jesse is found and Emma learns he’s been trying to get back to her all these years, she has to make the horrible choice between her husband and fiancé. Eventually, they get engaged, and she thinks she might actually have another chance at happiness. Now that she is in her 30s, Emma is finally falling in love again with an old friend named Sam. But when Jesse disappeared in a helicopter over the Pacific Ocean on their 1 year anniversary, Emma assumed that he was gone for good. When Emma was 20 she married her high school sweetheart, Jesse, and they left their hometown to travel the world together. You can read Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren here. This story is very sweet and features love, loss, and betrayal. This book is told in the past and present, so we hear about Elliot and Macy’s past love story as a current one unfolds. But when she runs into her first and only real love, Elliot Petropolis, Macy is suddenly unsure. Getting married to a financially secure man and focusing on her career makes the most sense. ![]() Macy Sorenson isn’t exactly thrilled about her life, but she knows she has the right plan. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Martin Hel, Libro 1 by Robin Wood![]() ![]() ![]() The give away includes free worldwide shipping and is only open to folk over 18. If you miss out or would like to buy a kit anyway they are available here If you sign up for my newsletter or subscribe to my blog then you’ll be around for future giveaways and be the first to hear of new tools and woodworking projects. 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