![]() Clair, Thierry Dumont and Sebastien Noyer, and even Raymond Payet and Jean Bellaiche, leader of the Paris vampires, who is fighting to establish a stable covenant with his own partner so he might lead by example.Īs the war rages on and heartbreaking casualties mount on both sides, the dark wizards keep searching for clues to understand and counter the strength of the Alliance, while the blood-bound Alliance partners hunt through ancient prejudices and forgotten lore to find an edge that can turn the tide of the war once and for all. ![]() ![]() The strife of uncomfortable relationships, both personal and professional, is threatening to tear up the Alliance from the inside, despite the efforts of Alain Magnier and Orlando St. As the Alliance wizard-vampire partnerships grow stronger, the dark wizards feel the effects and become increasingly desperate to find enough information to counter them, unaware of the growing strain of the blood-magic bonds on the wizards and vampires alike. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Mitchell albala artist![]() ![]() Mitchell Albala has been a landscape painter and teaching artist for more than 25 years. ![]() The book is illustrated with the work of many notable landscape artists, each with a different style, in order to provide the reader greater inspiration. Lessons are based on observation rather than imitation and applicable to both plein air and studio practice. It is designed to assist in working with what are the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, most notably simplifying complex material, selecting strong compositions and translating colour and light. This is a concise, practical guide to landscape theory and practice. The landscape painter is continually challenged to find ways of translating these qualities into a convincing representation of space and light. The landscape is unique among subject matter-in its grandeur, complexity and colour dynamics. Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice by Mitchell Albala ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, she allowed herself to ask for help and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. When notebook paper, pencils, and most schoolbooks were declared dangerous to her health, her GPA imploded, along with her plans for the future. Her parents questioned her behavior, leading to explosive fights. ![]() Unable to act "normal," the once-popular Allison became an outcast. ![]() She had to avoid hair dryers, calculators, cell phones, computers, anything green, bananas, oatmeal, and most of her own clothing. Over the following weeks, her brain listed more dangers and fixes. It started with avoiding sidewalk cracks and quickly grew to counting steps as loudly as possible. Allison believed that she must do something to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. "A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder-and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side-in this powerful and inspiring memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Sizzles with inside information and CIA secrets' Dan Brown Rapp tracks Mukhtar across Europe to America, where they are pitted against each other. With the US on high alert, the President calls on the one man ruthless enough to counter the fanatical terrorist: Mitch Rapp, America's terrorist hunter and one-man wrecking crew. ![]() All he needs to launch his strike against America is approval from Iran's Supreme Council. An outraged United Nations condemns the attacks while Iran swears vengeance against Israel and her chief backer: the USA.Įnter Lebanese master terrorist Imad Mukhtar, who has spent the past decade picking his targets and preparing his cells for this exact moment. In a daring raid, Israel destroys Iran's main nuclear facility, creating a radioactive tomb and an environmental disaster. With Iran on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, Israel is forced to react. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN ASSASSIN ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Theodore roosevelt the jungle![]() ![]() ![]() What I just read to you was not from "The Jungle." It did not happen 60 years ago when Upton Sinclair was writing his book. Drums of bones and meat scraps were covered with maggots." ![]() Beef was being broken on an open dock, by a dirt road, in 95-degree weather. He dropped one in the sawdust, picked it up and wiped it off with a dirty, sour rag. (all) taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast." in the barrels (were) dirt and rust and old nails and stale water. "There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor. I thought it would be good this morning if I read you a line or two: In 1906, Upton Sinclair roused the conscience of the country with his book "The Jungle." It described conditions in our meatpacking plants. Secretary Freeman, Miss Furness, Senator Holland, Senator Mondale, Senator Montoya, Chairman Poage, Members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen: ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Plated prisoner glow![]() ![]() When the Fifth King asks for a night with her, Midas agrees on the condition he send his army to Fourth Kingdom to meet with Sixth's army and strike. Auren is extremely lonely in the beginning, musing about the likelihood of turning solid gold like a bird named Coin in the atrium.ĭuring the visit of the king from the Fifth Kingdom (of whom, Midas is allies with), Auren is used to flaunt Midas' power and wealth, parading around each expansion of her cage. However, Auren is kept in a cage that extends the entire length of the top floor of the castle in Highbell. She is considered his "favored saddle" out of his harem. ![]() She is living in Sixth Kingdom with King Midas, who found her ten years prior. ![]() She meets Midas and spends the next 10 years with him in a gilded cage and castle in the frozen mountains of Sixth Kingdom.Īuren is the main character and sole POV of this book (minus one chapter at the end). She escapes on a ship to Second Kingdom, wandering the desert until her power developed. ![]() She was sold to a flesh trader in Derfort Harbor, forced to beg and steal for 10 years until she was forced to be a street-saddle. She tried to escape with the other children though she was captured and taken to Orea. Though one fateful evening there was a raid. For the first five years of Auren's life, she spent it in Annwyn with her father and mother. ![]() ![]() In this, the fifteenth in the series, Maisie Dobbs is asked to work with American agent Mark Scott, whom she met in Munich a few books ago, to find the murderer of a young American reporter. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend-and the possibility that she might be falling in love again. ![]() As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. ![]() MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon's death. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice-Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Wicked sexy liar book![]() ![]() ![]() With London he wants more.Įvery relationship involves two people…plus their pasts. But after an amazing time with London, he realizes that he hasn’t been moving on from a devastating heartbreak so much as he’s been drifting to wherever-and whomever-the current takes him. ![]() Sure, he’s a total player, but the Why not-it’s only one night is a persistent voice in her ear.įor his part, Luke’s been on hookup autopilot for so long that he rarely ever pauses to consider what he’s doing. Everything’s going great and according to the non-plan.īut when a wave knocks her for a loop one morning, then Luke Sutter’s flirtatious smile knocks her for another that evening, she veers slightly off course…and into his path. London Hughes is very content to surf daily, tend bar, hang out with her group of friends, and slowly orient herself in the years after college. Book Four in the New York Times Wild Seasons series that began with Sweet Filthy Boy, Dirty Rowdy Thing, and Dark Wild Night. When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything can-and does-happen. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments American assassin book review![]() ![]() “American Assassin” is based on Vince Flynn’s series of series of spy novels - there are 16 in total - and is the first chapter of a potential Mitch Rapp franchise. Rapp is a natural - “he’s testing through the roof!” - and soon he’s off to stop the detonation of a nuclear bomb, which is in the hands of “Ghost” (Taylor Kitsch), a former student of Hurley’s who’s gone bad. His online activity gets him flagged by the CIA, who invite him to an secret, elite training program, headed up by Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton, always awesome, even in this terrain). But before he can even post the video to Instagram, his world flips when terrorists storm the beach and begin indiscriminately gunning down beachgoers, including his fiance of about four minutes.Ĭut to 18 months later and Rapp has styled himself into a killing machine ready to take on the terrorists his damn self. Annoyingly, he’s using his phone to film himself proposing to her, so immediately you kind of hate the guy. ![]() Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) is on vacation with his girlfriend in Ibiza when he decides to pop the question. A little bit Jason Bourne, a little bit Jack Reacher, a little bit any other rogue hero you can think of, “Assassin” suffers from its self-seriousness and a sense that we’ve been here and seen this before. “American Assassin” is a tough-talking, scowling and ultimately generic action thriller assembled from the spare parts of other action thrillers. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Sulaco conrad![]() Instead, Gould's refurbished silver mine and the wealth it has generated inspires a new round of revolutions and self-proclaimed warlords, plunging Costaguana into chaos. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and uses his wealth to support Ribiera's government, which he believes will finally bring stability to the country after years of misrule and tyranny by self-serving dictators. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera.Ĭharles Gould is a native Costaguanero of English descent who owns an important silver-mining concession near the key port of Sulaco. ![]() Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. ![]() Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. ![]() |