6/28/2023 0 Comments The gone world tom sweterlitschMoss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.ĭetermined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. Libra-a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family-and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. “I promise you have never read a story like this.” -Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Pageboy a memoirBut for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. 'Can I kiss you?' It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world. This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.' -Alok Vaid-Menonįull of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. 'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant. Pageboy helps chart the course.' -Jamie Lee Curtis 'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. 1927) was predated by another north Georgia group, (Clayton) McMichen's Melody Men, on Nov. The Scottdale String Band's recording (OKeh 45188, Oct. Bill Rattray wrote about the group in Old Time Music magazine ("Scottdale Boys," OTM, Summer, 1971) and said the group's records sold "well, or at least fairly well," and that "their instrumentation was profoundly different from that of the other, more well-known Georgia bands like the Skillet-Lickers, and gave their music a more sophisticated sound that that of the 'rough North Georgia' school." The group's repertoire varied more than usual for string bands from the region, and included "a wider range of material including tunes used chiefly by the jazz bands.the more traditional breakdowns, songs and ballads are hardly featured at all.". Their first recording was made for the OKeh studios on October 28, 1926, and between that date and 1932 the group recorded nearly thirty sides (all but two-released by Paramount-for OKeh). The tune was recorded in Atlanta by the Scottdale String Band, named in honor of the mill village of Scottdale, near Atlanta, and home to the band members (Wayne W. One of the most popular old-time songs ever recorded. C Major (Bayard): G Major (Phillips, Rosenbaum). 6/27/2023 0 Comments 1952 bowman stan musialAll of that being said, there are some valuable cards in the set, and I wouldn’t toss any of them in the wastebasket! A turf war erupted among the distributors, with Bowman salesmen insisting that their product must be displayed at least 24 inches away from the competition. The cards have a facsimile autograph on the fronts, but really nothing new. While Topps was producing their first real issue in 1952, a set that would go on to become the most collectible of them all, Bowman released this crummy set of rinky-dink cards that had advertisements on the back. Bowman’s poor effort in 52 sealed their eventual doom 6/27/2023 0 Comments James patterson book the noiseAside from the two of them, she was alone in the large aircraft as it lumbered down the tarmac and took flight. She’d noted his fatigues bore no name badge or insignia of any kind same with the other pilot. She’d felt like a child as one of the pilots helped secure her with a double- banded belt, tugging it tight over her shoulders. After getting picked up at just after two in the morning from her apartment in San Francisco, she’d been shuttled to a C-1 transport plane at Yerba Buena Island, rushed from the Army sedan up the steps and into one of the jump seats on the port side of the aircraft. “They’re the smallest I have.” He’d apologized twice now.Īt only five foot one, Martha was no stranger to things not fitting, particularly when it came to military aircraft. The heavy thwack of the helicopter rotors were reduced to a rhythmic thump with the metallic breathing of her pilot amplified over the speakers. Even with the band adjusted to the smallest setting, they kept slipping down her forehead-she found herself holding them in place, alternating from her right hand to her left and back again whenever her arm got tired. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Corduroy bear and bookThis new career turned out to be a near-perfect fit for Don, though, as he had always loved the theater. One evening, he was so engrossed in sketching people on the subway, he simply forgot it was sitting on the seat beside him. This shift was helped along, in no small part, by a rather heartbreaking incident: he lost his trumpet. Gradually, he eased into making a living sketching impressions of Broadway shows for The New York Times and The Herald Tribune. He managed to support himself throughout his schooling by playing his trumpet evenings, in nightclubs and at weddings. After graduating from high school, he ventured to New York City to study art under the tutelage of Joan Sloan and Harry Wickey at the Art Students' League. He practiced obsessively and eventually joined a California dance band. At an early age, he received a trumpet as a gift from his father. Don Freeman was born in San Diego, California, in 1908. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Ghosts of Fire by Cherie ReichGwen Gardner takes the reader to England in her "Mind the Gap." I enjoyed the idea of Gap Walkers and the combination of it and art theft. I loved the use of mirrors to reflect Lucy and the grim worlds she's caught between in her attempts to free her family. Pax's "The Vargaries of Eloise Stanton," Lucy must save her family from a museum art project gone awry. "On Day 168" was by me (Cherie Reich), so I'll just say if you like dragons, elves, and treachery, then you might like my story as much as I do. The Otherkind were fascinating creatures, and I would love to read more about them. Meradeth Houston creates a world not too different from our own in "The Cost of Greatness," but I'm hoping for a better outcome from our world. This story has such fantastic voice that sets the reader right on down into an old western setting. In Jeff Chapman's "The Flaming Emerald," Jimmy and Orville must return a cursed emerald before they go up in flames. Pax, Christine Rains, Cherie Reich (me!), and Catherine Stine. Ghosts of Fire features ten thrilling fantasy and horror short stories by Angela Brown, Jeff Chapman, River Fairchild, Gwen Gardner, Misha Gerrick, Meradeth Houston, M. Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death. Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society. Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Wendy Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Richard Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Inkheart by Cornelia FunkeRowling", Funke was chosen by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in their 2005 list. The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider, and Inkheart have all been adapted into feature films and spent numerous weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. She subsequently achieved wider recognition with the Inkheart series of novels, which include Inkheart (2003), Inkspell (2005), and Inkdeath (2007). įunke achieved acclaim as the author of the children's novels The Thief Lord (2002) and Dragon Rider (2004), which were translated and released in English after originally being published in Germany. Her work has been translated into several languages and, as of 2012, Funke has sold over 20 million copies of her books worldwide. Funke has since become Germany's "best-selling author for children". She began writing novels in the late 1980s and focused primarily on fantasy-oriented stories that depict the lives of children faced with adversity. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator. Cornelia Maria Funke ( German: ( listen)) (born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Hooked by joe s mcilhaneyRegardless of what we wish were true, the facts tell us "safe sex" isn't as safe as it seems. PLUS! This updated edition also includes a brand new chapter about the effects of pornography on the brain.Īll this data about bonding, sex, and pornography has important implications in a casual sex culture. The continual forming and breaking of these bonds can have permanent effects on a person's brain.Once formed, however, breaking these bonds can have damaging effects on the brain such as depression and difficulty bonding with someone else in the future.Sexual activity releases chemicals in the brain, creating emotional bonds between partners.With scientific data put in layman's terms, this book demonstrates that: Hooked is about what's happening to your brain when you're having sex. What does a three-pound brain have to do with one's sex life? A lot, actually. How sex is rewiring your brain-for good and for bad |