"Sheepskin." She looked at him with genuine amusement. "What is this?" she asked, running her hand over the jacket. Falcon (BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2016) Solomon's Sieve (BEST VAMPIRE NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2014) Moonlight (BEST SHIFTER NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2013) A Summoner's Tale (BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2013) Knights of Black Swan 1.My Familiar Stranger THE KNIGHTS OF BLACK SWAN (BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES Five Years in a Row) She also won Paranormal Romance Novel of the Year Four Years in a Row and Scifi Fantasy Series and Novel of the year for Irish War Cry. Reviewers Choice Awards, The Paranormal Romance Guild. Her Knights of Black Swan series won BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES FIVE YEARS IN A ROW. New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Victoria Danann, is the author of over forty works of romance: paranormal, scifi, fantasy, and contemporary.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Dracula bramJonathan, following this hair-raising incident, tries to cross the walls to escape the fortress. Harker also discovers the Count’s secret, which is he survives by drinking the blood of human beings and, now, his next victim would be Harker. Yet but finds himself saved by Dracula, who shoves away the vampires. He daily waits for a new sign when one night, three female vampires attack him. Harker is shocked when, after accidentally cutting himself while shaving, the Count lunges at Harker’s throat in “demoniac fury.”Īs soon as Jonathan sees the noose tightening around his neck, he panics and realizes the frightening diabolical powers of the Count. Although his accommodations are comfortable, Harker finds Count Dracula to be some pale and gaunt man, rather strange. Finding the crumbling castle further plays havoc with his fraught nerves. Nervous, in his determination and resolve, he meets the Count in Borgo pass, his castle, after confronting wolves and accidents on the way. The castle is located on an imaginary land of Transylvania, a countryside area, where the local farmers pray for Harker’s safety, warning him about threats to his life. The story starts with Jonathan Harker, an English legal consultant in the eighteenth, visiting the castle of Count Dracula about a transaction of purchasing a mansion in London. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Love Can't Conquer by Kim FieldingNevin is a detective who investigates crimes against seniors and the disabled. It overlaps with Love Can't Conquer so we hear about Jeremy and Qay, and see Jeremy on page interacting with Nevin, but the focus is on Nevin and his love interest Colin. Love is Heartless is the second book in the Love Can't series but can be read as a standalone. The question is whether they have the heart to build something lasting. But sparks are short-lived, dampened by the advent of brutal crimes, and Colin and Nevin have seemingly little in common. But being a witness to a terrible crime-or two-was more than he bargained for.ĭespite their differences, Colin and Nevin discover that sparks fly when they’re together. Maybe it’s time to try something more exciting. Now he’s thinking maybe he won’t just go with the flow. Colin does do relationships, but they never work out. Too supportive, perhaps, since his childhood illness has left his parents unwilling to admit he’s a strong, grown man. Property manager and developer Colin Westwood grew up with all the things Nevin never had, like plenty of money and a supportive, loving family. Until he responds to the severe beating of a senior citizen and meets the victim’s bow-tied, wealthy landlord. He doesn’t take crap from anyone, and he doesn’t do relationships. Now a dedicated member of the Portland Police Bureau, he didn’t let a tough start in life stop him from protecting those in need. Small but mighty-that could be Detective Nevin Ng’s motto. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Priceless wittmanAs a result of specialized training in art, antiques, jewelry and gem identification, he served as the FBI’s investigative expert involving cultural property crime. Wittman joined the FBI as a Special Agent in 1988. In this eclectic episode of Ira’s Everything Bagel, Robert talks about why he decided to join the FBI and how he was assigned to specialized training in cultural property crime why it’s a a $6 billion industry every year the two most valuable pieces recovered why, after leaving the agency, he decided to write PRICELESS his success in finding top Nazi Alfred Rosenberg’s diary, which went missing after the Nuremberg trials and why he wrote the story of the search and included the translation of it in THE DEVIL’S DIARY. He also finds time to be a keynote speaker at meetings and conventions across the country, as well as a zoom lecture series he is doing on Thursdays, September 8-29 for the University of Pennsylvania museum. This week, Ira spoke with Robert Wittman, author of author of Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures and The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich. Author, PRICELESS: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures and T HE DEVIL’S DIARY: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, this book throws light on the medieval body from head to toe-revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time.īringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, Hartnell's work is an excellent guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. In this richly illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored, and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Chasing Liberty by Theresa LindenThis novel explores the loss the individual faces when government is allowed to grow too big and reach too far. Set in the not-so-distant future, Chasing Liberty is a young adult novel about a woman who wants to direct her own life, instead of having it controlled by the government. Before they return her to society, she witnesses the rescue of a man scheduled for government re-education. She wakes in an underground facility, discovering a secret group that watches over Aldonia. She's about to lose consciousness when someone rescues her. But Liberty does not want to be a Breeder.Īs the day draws near, Liberty is attacked. Love for faith, family, and freedom inspired her to write the Chasing Liberty trilogy, a dystopian story about a future she hopes never becomes a reality. Every girl in Aldonia wishes she had this vocation because of the alleged bonuses and privileges that come with it. Using top specimens, scientists create and implant only the best into the fittest women. Life begins in the laboratory, making the family obsolete. They want her attributes-intelligence, beauty, health-to pass on to the next generation. She's been measured, tested, and examined all her life, and now they've matched her to a vocation. Liberty 554-062466-84 of Aldonia grew up knowing that one day she, along with every member of society, must contribute to the greater good. It wasn’t enough to see the world through Ariane’s eyes because if I have no anchor point to build her situation on and around, Ariane can not fully flesh out to me. Still, as a reader, I need more visual descriptions of the situation around Ariane, so I can anchor her to a point. What has happened? I am lost.”ĭescription-wise, the author nails Ariane’s confusion about her situation. This is not my bedroom, nor is it any hospital I would be sent to. I struggle to remain calm, but I can already feel the onset of panic. I hope there is no one around to witness my shame! The thought is born and dies in an instant. I take a deep breath in, which promptly turns into a coughing fit as I spit… something on the ground.Īgh! Disgusting. However, one of the initial problems I ran into was that the author’s style of dialog left me disconnected from the world Ariane found herself in.įor example, the first few lines of the book are: It helps explain some of Ariane’s thoughts, reactions, and rationales. There are certain sensibilities and characterizations that one associates with this era that the author hints at. Ariane is a southern belle type of woman in the south in the 1800s. As a reader, you become intimately involved in every feeling, desire, and passing thought that the main character Ariane has. As much as I hoped, A Journey of Black and Red by Alex Gilbert did not get its hooks in me.įirstly, I want to commend the author on the effort they put into the stream-of-conscious type first-person narration of the main character. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Saul leiter color photographyHebegan shooting in black and white with a 35mm Leica, but in 1948 he moved tocolor, and he started with other contemporary photographers such as RobertFrank and Diane Arbus, the”New York School of photography”. At 23,having left his studies to become a rabbi, Saul became interested in painting,especially the Impressionist, but soon moved his passion to photography. Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1923. In this generation stands Saul Leiter, whoimmortalized the streets of New York for more than half a century: from thefifties, in fact, until his death in November of 2013. “Sam Leiter had, an uncanny ability to pull complex situations out of everydaylife, images that echo the abstraction of painting and yet, simultaneously,clearly depict the world.”Īlthough introduced in the US since 1907, color photography has begun to takeshape as an artistic expression only in the fifties, with photographers such asErnst Haas, Helen Levitt, and others. John was getting married in a week, and the two of us wanted to go somewhere authentic, which notion was important to us-him studying art and me studying creative writing-even if we would never say such a thing publicly. No strippers, no tequila shots, no wild night in Vegas with a bunch of friends. This was the bar where we chose to celebrate John Puglia's "bachelor party," such as it was. You don't really want goldfish swimming in open waters surrounded by people carrying glasses of alcohol, especially when you know that some of them will get the shakes before the night is through. This was unfortunate for many reasons, but mainly because the Taj Mahal was directly across the street from the Mayflower Hotel, which had once offered the finest lodgings in town, but now was a subsidized flophouse for drunks and crazies. Off to one end of the bar, displayed on a table, was a large model of the actual Taj Mahal, complete with a moat that was stocked with goldfish. He'd spent his life visiting ruins, which was good training for operating a tavern in downtown Akron, Ohio, as the eighties drained down. The old man's bar was called the Taj Mahal because one of the ancient brothers who owned the place was something of a world traveler and had decorated the interior with photographs of himself in European capitals and on African safari and shaking hands with Pygmies and whatnot. From David Giffels' brilliant new collection, The Hard Way On Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Born Ready by Jodie PattersonIn 2015, Family Circle Magazine named her the #1 Most Influential Mom. Her story has been featured in numerous daytime talk shows, evening news programs, national print publications, podcasts, and radio programs, including a short documentary produced by Cosmopolitan magazine that reached more than 11 million views and is currently used by the State of New York for diversity training of its employees. The picture book was inspired by Patterson’s child’s pronouncement at the age of three, “Mama, I’m not a girl, I am a boy” as well as Patterson’s transformation into an unapologetic LGBTQAI advocate. In 2021, she published her second book, "Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope." It has won several awards and was gifted to all public schools in the state of Kansas. Patterson’s first book, "The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation," was hailed by Alice Walker as “Marvelous,” and since it’s publication in 2017, Patterson has spoken weekly on topics of identity, gender, race, beauty and how they play out in family dynamics. In 2019, she became the first Black person elected to the role of Chair of the The Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, America’s largest LGBT organization with more than forty years of experience advocating for the rights of this community. Jodie Patterson is an award winning author, speaker, advocate, and entrepreneur whose work spans communities as diverse as fashion and beauty brands to media and entertainment organizations to queer and BIPOC advocacy groups. |