![]() But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. After the brutal slaying of her best friend, Bryce joins forces with a powerful warrior-angel to hunt down the killer, leading them toward a treacherous enemy that could destroy the fabric of their world.īryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Set in a world where humans struggle to survive amid intricate hierarchies of demons, shifters, angels, and countless other magical creatures, House of Earth and Blood tells the story of half-human, half-Fae Bryce Quinlan. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Blue latitudes book![]() ![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-459) and index He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farm boy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also relives Cook's adventures by traveling in the captain's wake to such places as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef along the way, he discovers Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. By the time of his violent death in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. ![]() His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. ![]() This book retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Richard siken![]() ![]() A man walks into a bar, you this time, and says: Walk a mile in my shoes. A man walks into a bar, you this time, and says: Make it a double. Your co-workers ask if everything’s okay and you tell them you’re just tired. ![]() You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Boots continue to fall to the floor in the apartment above you. You swallow a bottle of sleeping pills but they don’t work. You take him home, and you make him a cheese sandwich, and you try to get his shoes off, but he kicks you and he keeps kicking you. A man walks into a bar and says: Take my wife–please. ![]() You hear the first boot hit the floor and you’re looking up, you’re waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn’t make sense. And you can hear the man in the apartment above you taking off his shoes. You’re on your back in your undershirt, a broken man on an ugly bedspread, staring at the water stains on the ceiling. You take her out into the rain and you fall in love with her and she leaves you and you’re desolate. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Shroud by Marisa Mohdi![]() ![]() ![]() An especially pious Jewish man may next be enwrapped in either his kittel or his tallit, one tassel of which is defaced to render the garment ritually unfit, symbolizing the fact that the decedent is free from the stringent requirements of the 613 mitzvot (commandments). Intermixture of two or more such fibres is forbidden, a proscription that ultimately derives from the Torah, viz., Deut. Traditionally, mound shrouds are made of white cotton, wool or linen, though any material can be used so long as it is made of natural fibre. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the famous Shroud of Turin, tachrichim (burial shrouds) that Jews are dressed in for burial, or the white cotton kaffan sheets Muslims are wrapped in for burial.Ī traditional Orthodox Jewish shroud consists of a tunic a hood pants that are extra-long and sewn shut at the bottom, so that separate foot coverings are not required and a belt, which is tied in a knot shaped like the Hebrew letter shin, mnemonic of one of God's names, Shaddai. Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. ![]() Detail showing body in a burial shroud, grave of William Carstares, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh (1720) ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The hot flash club book series![]() Thayer dutifully lays down her threads and weaves them into a busy plot. Faye, a widow and blocked painter, solves a locked-room mystery while sleuthing on behalf of Marilyn and also discovers her inner art therapist. Brilliant and lovable, but a "dowdy academic," Marilyn botches her attempt to save Alice's high-power job but rediscovers her sexuality (after the Club revamps her wardrobe) and loses her insufferable husband, Theodore. Recovering alcoholic and perennial hippie Shirley, a talented masseuse, unknots workaholic Alice, who clues Shirley on how to dress for success, craft a business plan and establish her dream spa–retreat. A chance meeting at a cocktail party brings four Boston-area women in their 50s and 60s together to found the titular club, in which they confess their woes and plot to help one another. It's chick lit for the AARP crowd in Thayer's spirited but not very funny 14th novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Lexie’s movement from paralysis to possibility is a little quick, her range of emotions is believable, and Hand is effective at showing how guilt can impede one’s ability to move through tragedy. Hand’s writing can be stiff, and Lexie’s ex-boyfriend, Steven, is a too-perfect cipher, but she persuasively conveys the aftermath of suicide and the ways those left behind struggle with grief, anger, and guilt. She kept writing stories all through grade school, most of them wildly fantastical musings on supernatural beings or creatures, none of which ever won the annual short story competition where the writer got to meet Kenneth Thomasma,the author of one of Cynthia’s favorite books, Naya Nuki. During the two-month span over which the novel is set, Lexie sees a therapist (reluctantly), reunites with an old friend, withstands another suicide in her Nebraska high school, and learns more about what Ty was thinking. ![]() When the book opens, seven weeks after Ty’s death, Lexie’s grades have slipped, she has broken up with her boyfriend, and she feels like she might be going crazy. ![]() Then her younger brother, Ty, commits suicide. Hand (the Unearthly trilogy) shifts to realistic fiction with the story of Lexie, a math star and unashamed nerd whose biggest problems are the aftereffects of her parents’ divorce and wondering whether she’ll get into MIT. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rollo then accompanies Ragnar on the first raid to England, despite their ruler, Earl Haraldson, refusing to allow them to go. During the feast, Rollo tells Björn and Ragnar that Earl Haraldson was known for wanting Eric's land, hinting that this is the real reason why he sentenced Eric to death. Rollo and Ragnar are shocked when after his execution, Earl Haraldson curses Eric, thus making it so that he will not be able to enter Valhalla. Rollo witnesses the execution of Eric Trygvasson. He demonstrates how this device works, showing it to be a sun dial. The three head to a tavern where Ragnar reveals a device to his brother which would keep a journey west, over open ocean, on a true course. During The Thing, Björn will receive his arm ring, marking him as a man in Viking society. Upon meeting in Kattegat, Rollo congratulates Björn on his growth and in becoming a man. ![]() Sometime afterward, Rollo meets Ragnar and Ragnar's son Björn in Kattegat to attend The Thing. During the battles, Rollo fights with typical Viking viciousness. ![]() Rollo participates in the Norsemen-Balts Battle with his younger brother Ragnar. ![]() ![]() Bush (known here as “Gampy”) set out on a nighttime search for his young granddaughter’s misplaced stuffed animal, with a band of Secret Service agents trailing with flashlights, or when prankster Jenna’s water broke at her baby shower (even her husband didn’t believe it because the sisters had fibbed in the past). Some of the anecdotes are hilarious, as when then–Vice President George H.W. ![]() attending public high school while living in Austin’s governor’s mansion and coming of age in the White House under the close scrutiny of the public, the press, and the Secret Service. Hager (a correspondent for NBC’s Today Show) and Bush (CEO and founder of Global Health Corps) describe their early childhood in Midland, Tex. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush offer their perspective on growing up in the public eye. In this funny and heartfelt memoir, the twin daughters of President George W. ![]() ![]() The four-issue comic permanently redefined the character of Batman, and is arguably responsible for making him the pop culture sensation he is today. The influence of Miller’s Dark Knight, however, extends far beyond this one movie. It is safe to say that without The Dark Knight Returns, Batman v Superman wouldn’t exist. The passage in question was an internal monologue from the book’s final chapter, which revolves around a fight between Superman and an aging Batman Batman delivers a pulverizing blow and thinks, "I want you to remember … the one man who beat you." Snyder was teasing an epic showdown between the two comic book heroes by referring to one of the most iconic scenes in comic history.īatman v Superman is not even a loose adaptation of Miller’s book, but as Snyder said on the Comic-Con stage, "It is the thing that helps tell that story." Imagery and dialogue lifted directly from Miller’s graphic novel appear throughout the movie, and were prominent in its advertising as well. When Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con in the summer of 2013, director Zack Snyder introduced the film by bringing actor Harry Lennix to the stage to read a passage from Frank Miller’s seminal 1986 Batman story The Dark Knight Returns. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Krishna meri drishti mein osho![]() ![]() With links to all known information for each event: location, audio, video, publications, a synopsis. Timelines In the timelines by year, you will find all known events in date order, This excerpt shows Osho’s far-reaching vision that helps understand what is happening with man’s lust for creating wars that is spanning now even into outer space. Most Hindi recordings have yet to be translated.īesides every topic under the sun, Osho talks about more than 600 people.Īt present the wiki cannot display the full content of Osho's discourses due to ongoing copyright disputes. On JOsho began the Hindi discourse series Krishna: Meri Drishti Mein ( : ) (Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy) at C.C.I. Over a period of four years in England, Germany and India, 6,500 audio and 1,870 video discourses were re-mastered onto digital tape. ![]() There are 4,800 hours of English discourses and 4,000 hours of Hindi discourses recorded on DAT audio tape, and 3,000 hours of English discourses recorded on D2 digital video tape. More than 3,000 Hindi discourses, about 3,156 English discourses, and more than 2,000 Satsangs and Darshans were recorded between 19, in more than 100 locations in India and around the world. A Timeline of Osho's Discourses, Darshans, Letters and Interviews OTOH, Hathi Trust also has a book with the whole title, Krishna: Meri Drishti Mein, in its collection, with all the same details, including that pic at right, so possibly just an error. ![]() |