On basilisk station5/13/2023 ![]() But the people out to get her have made one mistake. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place the major local industry is smuggling the merchant cartels want her head the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Fue publicada en español por la editorial La Factoría de Ideas en 2004. Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace. En la estación Basilisco (título original en inglés: On Basilisk Station) es una novela de ciencia ficción del subgénero bélico escrita por David Weber y publicada por la editorial Baen Books en 1993. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. Domestic orders shipped with USPS tracking numbers. ![]() ![]() Honor in Trouble: - Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. ![]()
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Once burned night prince5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I can’t, heh.įavorite “evil” vamp might be Colin Farrel’s Jerry from the recent Fright Night remake. JEANIENE FROST : Favorite “non-evil” vamps would have to be Eric and Bill from HBO’s True Blood series, and no, don’t ask me to pick between them. Who is your favorite silver screen (or TV screen) vampire? Naturally, there had to be some vampires in there. JENA FROM PURE TEXTUALITY : Folks can read on your website bio that you have always been a big fan of horror movies. I am so FRIKKIN PSYCHED right now! After reading ALL of the Night Huntress books, Night Huntress World books and Once Burned (Night Prince #1), I was DYING to pick Jeaniene Frost’s brain and last night, she got back to me! Not only did she take the time to answer my questions, but she’s also hooking us up with a GIVEAWAY! Without further delay, I’d like to welcome Jeaniene Frost to Pure Textuality!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Jordan, a young American International Brigader, is ordered to blow up the bridge. The plot is simple, about a bridge over a deep gorge behind Franco’s lines. any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.”įor Whom the Bell Tolls is 1) a great Hemingway love story 2) a tense story of adventure in war 3) a grave and sombre tragedy of Spanish peasants fighting for their lives. He took the title from a passage by Preacher Poet John Donne: “No man is an iland, intire of it selfe every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were. This week he published the great novel- For Whom the Bell Tolls. ![]() In 1936 Hemingway found the great experience-The Spanish Civil War. But, TIME’s critic declared, any doubts about his abilities had been misplaced: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, isn’t among the historians who have prominently utilized social media and other platforms to open up that work in recent years. Still, much of the soundest scholarship on our history remains largely inaccessible to lay readers-either sequestered away from the general public behind academic paywalls or too dense and dry to hold the interest of broad nonacademic audiences. Conservatives are hoping to engineer a wide and enduring backlash to the examinations of racial inequality and America’s past that have been shaking up Democratic Party politics and popular culture for the better part of the last decade. In Texas, a representative bill signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott specifically bans the state’s educators from teaching that racism and slavery are “anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the authentic founding principles of the United States, which include liberty and equality.” The right’s motivations here are plain. ![]() By mid-July of this year, 10 states had banned the teaching of “critical race theory,” a progressive school of legal scholarship that conservatives have redefined as an attack on American patriotism and a conspiracy against white K-12 students. ![]() It’s been some time since public school curricula sat at the center of America’s culture wars, but panicked parent politics have returned with a vengeance. ![]() Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Lived in black and white seems like all my life. Tyra fights back and continues to feel a combination of deep attraction and fear for hawt, scary biker dude Tack as they play his game until she succumbs and becomes his biker-babe - because he colors her world. ![]() "Nope, and I didn't before when you sucked my cock, I ate you, you fucked me hard and I fucked you harder. "You don't even know my name," I retorted "I am not going to warm your bed!" I fired back. "I do not work with bitches who've had my dick in their mouth," īecause she's desperate for a job at this point, she stays and the sexual harassment begins. On her first day at work these are Tack's words to her: During the aftermath, Tyra daydreams that Tack is 'her dream man' but is quickly disabused when he dismisses her from his bed. ![]() The Saturday before she starts her job, she parties with the Club members and ends the night by having sex with Tack, the president of the MC. ![]() Tyra falls into this world after quitting her job and finding one at a body shop owned by the Chaos Motorcycle Club. The characters in this romance live an alternative lifestyle that takes place, for the most part, within the narrow confines of a motorcycle club and the homes of its members. There is something to it, that's for sure, but I don't even know where to begin explaining what it is. I think I will always remember Motorcycle Man as one of the most cringe worthy romance reads ever. ![]() Impulse by ellen hopkins5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Book banning would mean adults can’t read this book. “A lot of what we’re seeing is authors or characters or both that are people of color, disabled groups already marginalized and discriminated against and so what it is really coming down to is it is less about pornography and it is more about continuing to marginalize and discriminate against these people,” said Jessica Tierney. It’s a graphic novel called ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’. ![]() She highlighted one book that she says has 58 copies at Mason City high school. The Mason City Community School Board heard from a group opposing what it says are obscene books in district libraries at its meeting Monday.Ĭonnie Dianda is worried about a few dozen books that she says are currently in school libraries, she feels are obscene. (ABC 6 News) – There is a push to get some books removed from Mason City Community schools. ![]() The witching hour book series5/13/2023 ![]() Aaron approaches Michael for membership in the Talamasca, and invites him to read the Mayfair history. Though Rowan has sworn never to try to find out about her birth mother, she finds that promise worthless when she finds out about Deirdre's death. ![]() When Michael and Rowan finally connect, they fall in love. ![]() Rowan is intrigued by his power, because she has her own terrifying power to kill by telekinesis. He also remembers fragments of a vision and a mission. After the rescue, Michael has a new ability to see images when he touches things. Rowan is the daughter of Deirdre Mayfair, but Rowan is adopted at birth and grows up in San Francisco. ![]() Michael grows up in New Orleans but moves to San Francisco after the death of his father. Part One introduces Michael, Rowan, and Aaron and the Mayfair family. However, Rowan is torn between her scientific curiosity, and her resolve to kill Lasher. ![]() Rowan Mayfair, and her new love, Michael Curry, work with an occult organization called the Talamasca and its representative, Aaron Lightner, to resist Lasher's attempts to be born into flesh. The Witching Hour is an epic novel describing the influence that a spirit called Lasher has over the Mayfair family. ![]() The Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Clymer5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Parker showed his deep-dyed devotion to trolleys by accepting the trolley he had driven, instead of a month's salary. Parker was not a man who would give up a lifetime of driving a trolley for a new-tangled bus that didn't even run on a track. Parker's company exchanged its trolleys for busses! This meant no job for Mr. Jefferson-their next-door neighbor-would never have noticed how quiet they were on the sad day when Mr. Binding appears in tact.Inside dust jacket reads:If the Parker's hadn't usually been so noisy, Mr. ![]() There is a name & address written on inner cover page. ![]() Book itself is in very good condition with only minor shelving wear to binding edges and book tips. Vintage IllustratedChildren's Book The Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Clymer 1947 1st Edition withDust Jacket256 pagesDust jacket has wear and tearing as shown in the photos. ![]() Queen of fire by anthony ryan5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To this end Vaelin must travel deep into the icebound north, in search of a man who cannot die - and he must do it without the aid of his blood song, which has fallen ominously silent. Only by unmasking the Volarians' mysterious ally can the tide of war be turned. Vaelin Al Sorna would sacrifice his life for his queen - and may yet have to. To do so she must place her faith in the Seventh Order: men and women who wield terrible powers born of the Dark itself. But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisfy her lust for vengeance - she wants to pursue them across the ocean and burn their empire to ashes. Now she must rally her troops and take back the capital from the Volarian invaders. Queen Lyrna has survived the bloody siege of Alltor. The spectacular conclusion to the New York Times best-selling Raven's Shadow series, which began with the critically acclaimed Blood Song.Įmpires will fall. ![]() From an american childhood5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She spoke about the importance of choosing family over one’s dreams through her mention of her father who painfully decided to give up his personal dreams to protect his family from the dangers of what would come from the talk of the people. Her story portrays a variety of lessons about family living, of chasing dreams and fatherhood, gentleness and motherhood, racism, respect and discipline. ![]() It presented her world from a child’s point of view where an adult reader would be amazed at just how one child would be as full of wisdom and insight as Annie. An American Childhood: Meaning and Style Full Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood is a short story that paints the colorful childhood memories of the author about her family and neighborhood as she vividly recalls them. ![]() |