![]() ![]() The problem is: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion. Living in the past is hard, especially when your time travel companion is a serial killer who knows where you live. ![]() ![]() Caught on the roof of a very magical building during a storm, he's found himself back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. For Commander Sam Vimes, it all feels horribly familiar. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. People die, and nothing changes.' For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Until next time.' SFX The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. (Sorry about that, weird timing stuffs.) And then we’re back with Night Watch. Sixth book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch 'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The intensity of her unwanted fame is too much. The Leaving Tara Altebrando Bloomsbury Publishing, Young Adult Fiction - 304 pages 338 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. Media requests pour in – the mommy wars are on – and everyone has an opinion, good and bad. ![]() After going on camera drugged, she becomes an unwilling cause celebrity to women in the same boat. Tara’s relatable post about being undervalued as a mother and blocked as a professional goes viral. It is her secret venting place until her 5-year-old son shares her thoughts with the world by accidentally posting a rant on social media. Tara copes by writing cathartic, scathing notes on her computer. 4.0 out of 5 stars haunting but beautiful. John is absent far too often, leaving Tara to pick up the parenting slack and dream of better times when she was with her old boyfriend, Francis, played by superfood rock star David Avocado Wolfe. How customer reviews and ratings work See All Buying Options. Compounding Tara’s situation is the fact that her husband John works for a company that expects slave-like devotion from its employees. ![]() Bored and isolated, she longs for a time when she was a rising star at work. THE LEAVING by Tara Altebrando RELEASE DATE: JFive teens who were part of a group of six that vanished as kindergartners reappear as mysteriously as they went missing in this thriller. ![]() The Bad Mother is about Tara, a mid-30s woman struggling with her role as a stay-at-home mom after leaving a rewarding career to raise kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lords of Law who disregard the Cosmic Balance do so because they wish to stop Chaos from breaching the Balance forever, and ironically, they go against the Balance themselves when they do this. Just like Chaos, Law is beyond good or evil, and too much Law can be just as harmful to life as too much Chaos. This does not mean the Lords of Law are inherently good. The Lords of Law are prone to appearing in human form, but when seen in their truer forms, they appear as perfect in every way, flawlessly symmetrical and painfully beautiful to look upon. When they appear, the Lords of Law are usually more benevolent than the Chaos Lords, who are seductive but also sinister and prone to losing their temper. Most of the stories are set in a cosmic cycle when Chaos is most powerful. The White Lords of Law are much less developed than the Lords of Chaos. They are worshiped as gods in many worlds, and reviled as tyrants in others. ![]() The Lords of Law are essentially living embodiment of Law. Chief among these are the Lords of Law, also known as the Lords of Light and the White Lords. Law manifests itself in an unknown number of forms and ideals. The Lords of Singularity and Justice, and servants of Law. ![]() ![]() A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon conveys the heart of the story in rhyming verse, perfect for read-aloud and easy for even the little ones to remember and recite. The Kissing Hand has become a children's classic that has touched the lives of millions of children and their parents. It's Mommy saying, 'I love you, ' wherever you may go. Just press your hand upon your cheek and feel that loving glow. With a Kissing Hand, said Chester's mom, We'll never be apart. Chester could feel his mother's kiss leap straight into his heart. Now younger children can get in on Mama Raccoon's secret and find comfort in A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon, a board-book adaptation of the original picture book. During the last 20 years, parents and teachers have passed along the secret of the Kissing Hand to children facing first days of kindergarten, first grade, and other separations. ![]() ![]() ![]() She offers a unique perspective from inside the military with her first book, The Obsession and its sequel, Wind the Clock. For more information about Dawn’s books and book signings, go to. She has also written middle grade book Lady Tigers Series about girls’ fastpitch softball, encouraging female athletes to reach for the stars in the game they love. She is a contributing author to the non-fiction A-10s over Kosovo, sharing stories from her deployment. Her books include the Jackie Austin Mysteries and the Global Ebook Bronze Award Winner, Worth the Wait. ![]() When it comes to exceptional writing, Dawn draws on her experience as a retired colonel in the US Air Force as well as a softball coach. Dawn Brotherton is an award-winning author and featured speaker at writing and publishing seminars. ![]() ![]() At first, Montag believes that he is happy. When books and new ideas are available to people, conflict and unhappiness occur. Without ideas, everyone conforms, and as a result, everyone should be happy. Therefore, Montag, along with the other firemen, burn the books to show conformity. ![]() Books are not to be read they are to be destroyed without question.įor Montag, "It was a pleasure to burn." The state mandated that all books must burn. As a fireman, Guy Montag is responsible for destroying not only the books he finds, but also the homes in which he finds them. However, firemen have been given a new occupation they are burners of books and the official censors of the state. In this dystopian (dreadful and oppressive) setting, people race "jet cars" down the roads as a way of terminating stress, "parlor walls" are large screens in every home used dually for entertainment and governmental propaganda, and houses have been fireproofed, thus making the job of firemen, as they are commonly known, obsolete. ![]() ![]() In the first part of Fahrenheit 451, the character Guy Montag, a thirty-year-old fireman in the twenty-fourth century (remember that the novel was written in the early 1950s) is introduced. ![]() ![]() In addition to measuring blasphemy and apostasy, Pew Research Center measures other laws and policies that penalize hate speech related to religion, as well as speech that is critical of religion. Apostasy laws were counted when there were restrictions placed on religious conversions or if there were penalties for leaving one’s faith. ![]() In some cases, if laws were characterized as “blasphemy” laws in the sources used for the study, they were counted in this analysis even if they didn’t align with the study’s specific criteria for measuring blasphemy. The study captures whether laws or policies criminalizing blasphemy and apostasy exist (even if they were not enforced during the year). Pew Research Center measures government regulations on speech or actions deemed to be blasphemy or apostasy as part of our research on global restrictions on religion. ![]() ![]() At the gym where she works, at the coffee shop she frequents, and then at the LGBT therapy group she decides to attend on a whim. Parker is less than a year out of a toxic relationship when she starts seeing Ava all over town. But when she starts seeing Parker everywhere, she finds it hard to ignore how familiar Parker is, and how at peace Parker's presence in her life makes her feel. ![]() Ava's traumatic past with relationships, and her inability to fully embrace her asexuality has made it hard for her to connect with anyone. When Ava meets Parker in an LGBT therapy group, she's hesitant to get close to someone new. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was simply a beginning and I don't see more volumes for this run. I do feel like there was much more to the story. I hope they do make this into a movie and give it a good treatment. ![]() I didn't know anything about the Eternals and I was excited by this Marvel outing. Preferably told by someone other than Neil Gaiman? Anyone? that gives this a somewhat Marvel universe-y feel to it.Īt the end of this I was kind of left scratching my head, but maybe this isn't the whole thing? The story takes place during the events of the Superhero Registration Act, so there are a few cameos with Tony & Co. They're living among us as humans and occasionally superheroes. Ish.ĭue to vaguely explained happenings, the lion's share of these Eternals have been mindwiped and have no idea who or what they are anymore. The Eternals are these super-powerful & immortal beings that were created before humanity, and they (I guess) act as our protectors when even bigger, more powerful, older immortal beings decide it may be time to end us. So, if he can do no wrong in your book, then you'll want to check this out. It does, however, have that typical Gaiman smell to it. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly satisfying (to me) in any sort of a meaty story sort of way. The first time I read this I was a diehard Gaiman fangirl and I gave it 4 stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. 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