![]() ![]() ![]() And my expectations were relatively high. Where should I even begin? It is rare for a series to have a strong first book, but A Dark and Hollow Star exceeded every expectation I had. ![]() Magic had its rules, and woe betide anyone who tried to sidestep them. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts-until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. Synopsis The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. Genre: fantasy, romance, urban fantasy, young adultĬontent Warning: provided at the beginning of the book! ![]() A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth: Fast Facts ![]()
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Disney sued the book’s publisher for “piratical” use of characters. ![]() Printed in Hungary, the underground screed against Disney’s Donald Duck comics was immediately detained by the Imports Compliance Branch of the US Customs Department. HOW TO READ Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in The Disney Comic landed in the United States in 1975. ![]() dreams and redeems itself, and then imposes that dream upon others for its own salvation” ![]() ![]() Haraway’s cyborgs are a blending of imagination and material reality. Haraway’s use of the cyborg illustrates her conceptualizations of socialism and feminism in the examinations of dichotomies such as nature/culture, mind/body, and idealism/materialism. She introduces the potential of a completely new ontology of hybridization of nature and culture through the cyborg, a combination of machine and organism. Haraway’s piece is a novel approach to examining the culture-nature divide. ![]() Evolution, she claims, has blurred the lines between human and animal 20th-century machines have blurred the lines between natural and artificial and microelectronics and the political invisibility of cyborgs have blurred the lines of physicality. ![]() Haraway begins the "Manifesto" by explaining three boundary breakdowns since the 20th century that have allowed for her hybrid, cyborg myth: those between human and animal, animal-human and machine, and physical and non-physical. ![]() ![]() Complete with a surly, albeit hot, navigator who doesn't immediately believe in her visions. Good thing she knows about a particular pirate ship that’s in tip-top shape. So when dream after dream compels her to visit specific coordinates in the Atlantic, she can’t ignore it. ![]() But when fascinating, petite dynamo Diana Williams marches up to his ship and demands to speak to the captain, Caleb is caught up in a wave of unexpected fear…and an electric frisson of longing for this captivating woman.ĭiana wouldn’t be a true psychic if she didn’t listen to her spirit guide. Nor the terrible dreams of sailing through a vicious, supernatural storm that he keeps having. And yet he can’t explain the erratic tides threatening Savannah. Pirate Caleb Graves may be an immortal, but he’s also a navigator and a man of science. ![]() ![]() ![]() With clear biblical teaching and illustrative stories and reflections, Alcorn shows how your life today will impact the eternal reality that awaits you. ![]() Far from boring, Heaven promises to be an exhilarating adventure in which every chapter is better than the one before. In Light of Eternity will grip your soul and open your eyes to the realities of Heaven. What you really crave can only be found in the land of Heaven. But you'll never find true satisfaction with what this world has to offer. Heaven is that place.Ī thousand counterfeits vie for your attention, trying to convince you that they are what you're looking for. The deepest longing of your heart is for one person and one place. Now, he responds to the widespread hunger for more insight on this subject with a straightforward, real-life look at heaven, rewards, and how to live in light of eternity. In bestseller after bestseller, Randy Alcorn has held readers spellbound with fast-paced, gripping fiction infused with eternal themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() He swiftly rescues her from drudgery, proposes marriage, and takes her back to England to live in his beautiful and ancient estate, Manderley. In Monte Carlo, our narrator meets Maxim de Winter, a tall, dark and handsome aristocrat, recently widowed. She is exceedingly young - shy, inexperienced, and under the thumb of a wealthy lady who has employed her as a travel companion. She is quite simply, not Rebecca - her husband’s late first wife. It is the novel’s unnamed narrator who speaks that first line - the second Mrs de Winter, a woman perpetually in her predecessor’s shadow. Newly discovered Du Maurier poems shed light on a talented writer honing her craft This is the strange paradox of Du Maurier’s novel: its characters are doomed to refer (and defer) endlessly to Rebecca, who “always” did things, perfectly and elegantly, a certain way, while Rebecca herself never appears. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” the book begins - though it is not Rebecca who speaks. Its opening line perfectly encapsulates the narrative’s core theme. ![]() Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (1938), belongs to this elite collection. A small group of novels are famous for their first lines: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He invites you to enjoy his macabre flights of fancy, but be warned: The Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy. Most famous for his Nightlife Series novels, Travis lives vicariously through his writings. Find Travis catching a third degree sunburn with his wife and children in San Antonio, Texas, while plotting world domination through erotic paranormal badassery. Chock-full of sexy alpha-males, naughty vampires, mafia & mayhem, the Nightlife Series is a wicked blend of paranormal romance and dark fantasy from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Travis Luedke. Travis Luedke is a NY Times & USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal romance, best known for his violently sexy NIGHTLIFE SERIES. 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