![]() She meets-among others-a charismatic doctor helping to smooth the transition to democracy even as he struggles with drug dependence a band of Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian hippies in a Crimean idyll and a Jewish clarinetist agitating for Ukrainian liberation. With a keen eye for the dark absurdities of post-Soviet society, Pinkham presents a dynamic account of contemporary Ukrainian life. Sophie Pinkham saw all this and more during ten years in Ukraine and Russia, a period that included the Maidan revolution of 2013–14, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the ensuing war in Donbass. A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region, tracing the origins of the war that is now tearing Europe apart.Įach time Ukraine has rebuilt itself over the last century, it has been plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, and, most of all, Russian aggression. ![]()
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![]() Phaedrus is described as having hair the colour of hot copper. On reflection ( too late to change before the fest goes live), I should not have put roundhouses on the lower slopes of the hill - it is more likely (based on a further reread and also the 6th century hillfort) that the Dun occupied the top half of the hill. I tried to place the direction for the doorways towards the dawning sun, though this was pretty much guesswork. I couldn't find any information on 2nd century use of the site, so I drew wooden pallisades instead. The hillfort was in its heyday from the 6th century, when it had 4 lines of stone fortifications. ![]() The image of Dun Monaidh is referenced from the wiki page, of the modern day Dunadd Hillfort: and influenced from watching many episodes of Time Team (a little knowledge being a dangerous thing!). ![]() ![]() ![]() All other shifters fear him, even the cockiest of the wolves. Then I heard he was a were-bear virgin hero. When I heard from the author that this book had a virgin hero, I got excited. Note: Jessica Sims's Midnight Liaisons series includes the following installments as of July 2016. “I’d snap every neck in this room to bring a smile to your face.” “That is the sweetest, most bloodthirsty thing anyone’s said to me.” If you enjoy suspenseful and sexy shifter-based romances, then check it out! The shifter-world story was OK but the romance element was what kept me engaged. ![]() A damaged heroine who finds her strength. It's the second in a series and while I do feel that I missed a few things by not reading the first one, it worked out fine for me in terms of the romance.ĥ. Desperately Seeking Shapeshifter hit the spot for sure. It's been a long while since I read anything paranormal and I was in an epic mood for a good, steamy romance so I decided to find a worthy combination. ![]() ![]() ![]() and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite-or forever doom-her timeless love.From the Trade Paperback edition. ![]() And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her.the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland. ![]() Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the man buys a hunting knife and an old Ford Falcon, the narrator sees Agnes and her brother Dougie in the street. He meets the Airplane Man again when he travels to Havre, Montana, where the man tries to convince the narrator to take him across the border to Calgary in an attempt to escape from the FBI. The narrator travels to Malta, Montana to track her down, where he meets a white nameless "Airplane Man" from New York heading out West. ![]() After getting into a bar fight with a white man, the narrator comes home drunk to discover that his girlfriend, Agnes, has disappeared with his electric razor and gun. The novel features a self-destructive narrator undergoing an identity crisis. Alexie later produced the film adaptation of the novel, which was released in 2012. ![]() Welch received praise from such luminaries as Pulitzer Prize-winning Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, celebrated American novelist Reynolds Price, and Coeur d'Alene author Sherman Alexie. Set on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central Montana during the late 1960s, Winter in the Blood follows a nameless Blackfeet and Gros Ventre (A'aninin) man's episodic journey to piece together his fragmented identity. It was published by Harper and Row's Native American Publishing Program in 1974. Winter in the Blood is the debut novel of James Welch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ladies of the Bomb Squad Story of a Mission Accomplished - Sort of by Marcia Allen Bennett Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2008 by Outskirts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4327-2067-4, ISBN: 1-4327-2067-8 "Ladies of the Bomb Squad Meet the ladies of the Bomb Squad: Evie, Bertha, Sally and Melba. Umbrella Town won first prize in the Texas Katherine Anne Porter Literary Contest." Her decision to transform her own umbrella into one full of color brings scorn from the townspeople, but Katarina's determination overcomes their prejudice and brings surprising changes to the little town. ![]() Umbrella Town by Marcia Allen Bennett Paperback, 34 Pages, Published 2012 by Outskirts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4327-8439-3, ISBN: 1-4327-8439-0 "Little Katarina sees beyond the bleak parade of black umbrellas in rainy Umbrella Town. Being called "Elena-Paina" and having her accen. But her mother promised Elena's dying father that they would stay in this country and make a new life for themselves just as he had planned. Elena longs to be back in Mexico in familiar and comforting surroundings. But to be in a new school in a country where she doesn't know the language is almost more than the shy fifth grader can bear. Elena's Gift by Marcia Allen Bennett Paperback, 50 Pages, Published 2015 by Outskirts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4787-5901-0, ISBN: 1-4787-5901-1 "Being the target of the school bully is bad enough. ![]() ![]() And one can only imagine what first-nighters back in 1967 made of a meta-theatrical concoction that takes Hamletas a sort of palimpsest upon which are imposed all manner of discussion and debate that one might either classify as cod-Beckett or accept as deeply profound. This has been quite the season, in fact, for defining British plays returning to their original homes – No Man's Land pitched up at Wyndham's (its first West End perch), as did Amadeus at the National's Olivier, where it premiered in 1979. ![]() ![]() How lovely, too, to encounter it in the same theatre, the Old Vic, where Stoppard's existential vaudeville first announced this banner dramatist to the world. And if Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead as a play doesn't, in my view, rank with much of its author's extraordinary subsequent output, Leveaux's 50th anniversary revival nonetheless does the text's unbridled energy proud. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The count of monte cristo is an modern books like the count of monte cristo adventure novel by french author alexandre dumas. Yes, you read that correctly, bear grylls, the former british soldier turned adventurer and television personality is giving the classic story of love, betrayal and revenge a modern- day military. Dumas has a wonderful grasp of human nature and a talent for rendering all the follies of man in delightful, snappy prose. The count of monte cristo is a delicious book, full of intrigue, great fight scenes, love, passion, and witty social satire. The count of monte cristo ( ebook) : dumas, alexandre : edmund dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in paris. Modern books like the count of monte cristo Modern books like the count of monte cristo By dmmsug Follow | Public ![]() ![]() ![]() But Woolf was a more traditional reader, if also a subtler and more brilliant one, and not quite so single-mindedly focused on sex. ![]() Millett was preceded by a great many other “lady critics,” as they were then infuriatingly called, the most estimable being, of course, Virginia Woolf. You may not agree that literature is the proper medium for consciousness-raising, but you can’t deny that Millett made reading a life-changing, even world-changing, act. You could go to novels and poems for an education in sex as power. Lawrence-introduced a new and remarkably durable idea: you could interpret literature in light of its gender dynamics. Her urgent, elegant 1970 masterwork, Sexual Politics, with its wry takedowns of the casual misogyny and rape scenes that had made the reputations of the sexual revolutionaries du jour-Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, D.H. ![]() Let me state it plainly: Millett invented feminist literary criticism. Maybe Second Wave feminism now seems so far away that we’re hazy about what once made it so thrilling and threatening. When Kate Millett died, half-forgotten, on September 6 at the age of eighty-two, obituary writers struggled to take the full measure of this pioneering feminist writer and activist. Kate Millett with one of her sculptures at her studio at 295 Bowery, New York City, July 7, 1967 ![]() ![]() ![]() Except Gail.īut is one girl enough to find a long-dead king, kill the wicked queen, and save the world? Desperate to end the war, a plan is hatched that could put everything right again, only before it’s set in motion, the village is burned to the ground, all survivors taken prisoner to the castle. There’s a rumor that the king has been hidden away in a secret land, where only the worthiest can find him. The world has been destroyed and its needs a ruler to set things right again. Doc has found an actual cure for the Horologia virus, while Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa begin plotting the assassination of the queen with the help of Gail, an excellent huntress. With Everland and Umberland both destroyed, the survivors have taken refuge in a small village tucked within the shadows of the Bloodred Queen’s castle. Published on ApAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads ![]() |