![]() ![]() But no one knows where the Stone of Farewell is. A single chance remains: if Simon can deliver Thorn to Joshua and lead his followers to the Stone of Farewell, the rebels may be able to muster the forces necessary to rise up against Elias and the Storm King. ![]() And the Storm King may also be in possession of one of the swords. But Simon is more alone than ever before: his friends have been imprisoned and his liege lord, Prince Josua, has been exiled. Once but a humble kitchen-boy, Simon is now Simon Snowlock, dragonslayer and bearer of the mythical sword Thorn. A single hope remains: if the rebels can find the three swords of legend - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - they might be able to bring the Storm King and evil King Elias down. ![]() Following a brutal civil war, Osten Ard has been crushed under the rule of the two villainous High Kings. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But he refuses to let Noah go, and Noah’s not sure he wants him to. The two share a mutual attraction, but deep down, Noah knows Adam’s not like other boys. ![]() ![]() Since their confrontation, Adam is obsessed with Noah, and he wants to help him uncover the answers he seeks, however dark they may be. Headcase is a high heat, intense, lovers-to-frenemies, psychopath romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. 2022, Onley James Books Hardcover, New Available Copies: 10+ Details: ISBN-13: 9798885254892 Pages: 340 Publisher: Onley James Books Published: 2022 Language: English Alibris ID: 17135963696 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: 4.49 Trackable Expedited: 9.99 Two Day Air: 29.99 Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Unable to ignore his own surfacing memories, Noah embarks on a quest to find the truth about his childhood with the help of an unlikely ally: the very person who murdered his father. Noah Holt has spent years dreaming of vengeance for the death of his father, but when faced with his killer, he learns a daunting truth he can’t escape. By night, he’s an unrepentant killer, one of seven psychopaths raised to right the wrongs of a justice system that keeps failing. By day, he’s the spoiled youngest son of an eccentric billionaire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Burton is more intensely aware that if all the preparations he has put into this disguise-preparation that would put the likes of Robert DeNiro and Daniel Day-Lewis to absolute shame-were seen through he would never walk out that room again. Chapter One begins with a thrilling portrait right out of a spy novel of an explore Richard Burton sitting in a room in Egypt in 1854 disguised as a man claiming to be Shaykh Abdullah. The Prologue fashions a thematic introduction out of the date it begins: 1801, quite literally the first year of the 19th century. It is one of the great ironies of the modern world that many of the greatest archaeological treasures extricated from beneath the sands of ancient Egypt are stored in the British Museum. In fact, he won’t even make it beyond the Prologue, but the little short story about him making up that section previews most of the greater themes the book will proceed to pursue. ![]() Hamilton is by no means a major character in the book or even a supporting character for that matter. ![]() This book begins with a Prologue which describes a British soldier named William Richard Hamilton arriving at the gates of Alexandria in the wake of Lord Nelson’s defeat of Napoleon. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other members of the Cronus Club later inform Harry that the world is ending and that with each life Harry lives, the ending is becoming closer. ![]() Eventually, Harry and Vincent both realize the other is also an Ouroboran. Vincent and Harry become friends as they talk about theoretical physics and the nature of time. With knowledge from previous lives, he easily becomes a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge, where he meets an intelligent undergraduate student named Vincent Rankis. In later lives, Harry studies biology, chemistry, and physics. He is not alone and is soon contacted by the Cronus Club, an organization of similarly affected members, who look after him in childhood in subsequent lives. He learns he is an Ouroboran or Kalachakra and is destined to be reborn again and again. He then finds himself born again back in 1919 in the same circumstances, gaining the knowledge of his earlier life at an early age. Harry August is born in the women's washroom of Berwick-upon-Tweed station in 1919, leads an unremarkable life, and dies in hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1989. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was featured in both the Richard and Judy Book Club and the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, was nominated for the Arthur C. ![]() The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is a novel by Claire North, a pseudonym of British author Catherine Webb, published in April 2014. ![]() ![]() They commanded all seven of us tellers to put up our hands-so we wouldn’t push any silent alarm or panic buttons, no doubt. Somebody was attacking the bank I so deeply hated! The institution behind the ruination of my family. ![]() ![]() I was startled, and frightened for my teller pals and the handful of customers in there-I didn’t want anybody to be hurt-but this tiny little buried part of me felt a kind of dark glee. There were only three of them, but it seemed like they were everywhere. In addition to the masks, they wore business suits and leather gloves, and they moved with military precision. The robbers perpetrating all this violence wore zombie masks-mottled skin, sunken eyes, the whole zombie nine yards. ![]() One moment the bank was quiet, even sort of sleepy the next moment, it was an explosion of mayhem with people yelling, screaming, and crying guns flashed, things got smashed and tipped over. I was looking busy behind the teller window at First City National Bank one Sunday, a delicate operation that involved doodling a frame of stars around the very edge of a piece of scratch paper, when three bank robbers burst in.Īnd I really do mean burst. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author Lindsay Mattick, the great-granddaughter of Harry Colebourn, spoke with Here & Now in 2015 about the picture book she wrote about Winnie, "Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear." That real-life bear became the inspiration for one of the most loveable characters in children's literature, Winnie the Pooh. The bear traveled with him to England, where she became a regiment mascot for the soldiers training for the battlefield. In 1914, Canadian veterinarian Harry Colebourn was making his way from Winnipeg to Quebec to deploy for battle in World War I, when he met an orphaned bear cub at a train station in White River, Ontario.Ĭolebourn purchased the bear for $20, reboarded his train with members of his unit, and named her Winnipeg - after his hometown - or Winnie for short. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old. "Winnie's Great War," by Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut. ![]() ![]() She is a member of Romance Writers of America's coveted Hall of Fame as well as a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). The faith-based film explores the life of Angel as she. Her numerous bestsellers include Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind, and Bridge to Haven, and her work has been translated into more than thirty different languages. Redeeming Love is inspired by the Book of Hosea from the Bible, with its title referencing the redeeming love God has to sinners. Twitter: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. ![]() Her numerous bestsellers include Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind, and Bridge to Haven, and her work has been translated into more than thirty different languages. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. ![]() ![]() The voices of my characters are as clear in my thoughts as the lace, gems, and beaded clothes which I imagine them to wear. My style of writing has often been described as "cinematic", never loosing the focus of the plot which is based upon the main protagonist's actions and emotions.įor Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters? Their emotions and experiences, result in their actions, which creates the plot. I always consider the characters which inhabit my story first. I am always on the lookout for interesting historical tidbits in books and newspapers, which I can create into a tale. ![]() ![]() I am often inspired by newspaper clippings, unusual folklore, and historical transportation, such as a Napoleonic era frigate ship or a 1930's Dusenberg car. All books are available in e-book and paperback formats. As for her biographical novel Two Lovers: the love story of Carole Lombard and Russ Columbo, it has been called a "must read" by The Russ Columbo Society President, Damon Leigh. ![]() She is the author of the popular Regency romance series: The Honorable Gentlemen (Lachesis Publishing). An award winning author, Beverly Adam enjoys researching history and weaves facts with fiction into her novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second section of the book, Standage turns his attention to wine in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. He also notes the part beer played in the movement from a hunter-gatherer way of life to an agricultural one, and in the development of the first systems of writing and accountancy. ![]() Beer has always been a social drink, and Standage points to the way that raising a glass to someone’s health is a continuation one of the earliest traditions associated with beer. ![]() Beginning with the discovery of beer and its uses in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, Standage discusses the variety of different uses these cultures had for this drink-as well as quenching thirst, it was used as a form of currency and as an offering to the gods in religious ritual. ![]() ![]() He made all-district in football at Bishop Watterson High School in Dublin, Ohio. Then-Ohio State coach Urban Meyer with wife Shelley Meyer, son Nathan Meyer and daughter Gisela Meyer celebrate after the team won the Rose Bowl on Jan. I changed my major to psychology like you were and I want to be a football coach,” Urban Meyer said with a laugh by phone on Wednesday. ![]() Nate Meyer called his father a few days later. Urban Meyer recalled Nate Meyer being back in Columbus on fall break from Cincinnati in 2018, after he’d spent a few days with the Buckeyes as they prepared to play Nebraska. That’s the same major Urban Meyer had as a student at Cincinnati, where he played football after a failed minor league baseball stint and eventually got into football coaching. Urban Meyer said that his son changed his major at Cincinnati from business to psychology after the fall of his freshman year. After that, I had a fall season that didn’t have football. “I fell in love with the whole environment and the people there,” Nate Meyer said. That experience ultimately planted the seed for him to become a football coach. ![]() Nate Meyer said he has a sense of the competition level from spending the summer before his freshman year working out with Ohio State’s football team. He joins one of the hottest programs in college football, as Fickell has led Cincinnati to a 22-5 record the past two seasons and a likely top-20 preseason ranking. ![]() Nate Meyer is looking forward to the experience to help him on his coaching path. ![]() |