![]() ![]() There is a lot of lesbian flirt, and some kisses. And Jayla, scientist and good at blowing things up. Then the thief Sunshine, half desert elf. In the end, Raven decides on a female crew based on Katie's D&D group. So parody, fun, and swashbuckling action. well a friend, once told something very similar. The interview that Raven does when looking at first for a male crew says it all, especially with the guy who expresses her 'study' of oriental culture. I guess I don't have to tell you how strange it is to find a diversity of body shapes graphed that expresses normality in any medium, right? As well as making jokes about the impracticality of a fighter's shortage of clothing. We have diversity ahoy!: race, religion, form and color, sexuality. The concept is the same: that women do not need a man to rescue them, they can do it themselves. Raven the Pirate is a spin-off of Princeless (which I haven't read, but apparently it's intended for a younger audience than Raven's). ![]() I came across it by chance, looking for some pirates for a challenge. I wonder why this comic has not attracted attention among the fans of Lumberjanes and Rat Queens. You see, the title of Pirate Queen of the island of free women was inherited from Raven's ancestors, it always went to the eldest daughter. Raven Xingtao, the Black Arrow, is the daughter of the Pirate King, but she was betrayed by her brothers, locked in a tower, and now she seeks revenge and wants to recover what belongs to her by inheritance, her ships and her lands. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness. At thirty-eight, her life's not what she'd expected - she's childless, a recent widow, alone. 4) TWENTY WISHES: Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired a young widow named Colette Blake. ![]() 3) BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET: There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. ![]() In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived and so has Lydia. 2) A GOOD YARN: Lydia Hoffman owns the shop on Blossom Street. It's owned by Lydia Hoffman, and it represents her dream of a new life free from cancer. 1)THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET: There's a little yarn shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. Read the entire Debbie Macomber Blossom Street Series in order. ![]() ![]() Confessore's articles include some surprising details, such as the fact that Carlson hosts many of his shows from a town in rural Maine where he has a home and a studio. Our guest, New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore, recently wrote a series of articles about Carlson drawing on an analysis of more than 1,100 episodes of his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," conducted by Confessore and a team of Times reporters as well as interviews with dozens of current and former Fox executives, producers and journalists.Ĭonfessore concludes that Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news and, by some measures, the most successful. ![]() He's known for praising authoritarian leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and warning his viewers about the dangers of foreign immigrants and elites who want to control their lives. ![]() If you follow cable TV at all, you probably know that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is one of the most influential commentators in conservative media and one of the most provocative. ![]() I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross. ![]() ![]() The most often-cited findings included: 45 percent of students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” during the first two years of college and 36 percent of students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” over four years of college. In the 2011 report, students were measured on gains in critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and other “higher level” skills taught at college, and the results were not encouraging. Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates, by Richard Arum, professor in the Department of Sociology at NYU and senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Josipa Roska, associate professor of sociology and education and associate director of the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Virginia, is the much-anticipated sequel to the authors’ celebrated, often cited, and hotly debated Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (2011), which documented in great detail the academic gains – and stagnation – of some 2,300 students of traditional college age enrolled at a range of 4-year college and universities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Using a protagonist who is also a con artist, Crusie highlights the inherent con in romance novels - that two extremely different people who have known each other for only a short time could live happily ever after. Sophie's movie, which includes scenes taken from her courtship with Phin, provides an opportunity to explore the boundaries between private acts and public events. ![]() Through imagery and plot points, Crusie shows the shift in the power dynamics between the couple change as their relationship progresses, resulting in a more equal balance of power. The novel examines perceptions of reality versus fantasy and concludes that embracing a fantasy may lead to greater self-awareness. The lead characters appear in supporting roles in the sequel, Faking It, which centers on Sophie's brother, a secondary character in Welcome to Temptation.Ĭrusie, who has often defended the romance genre against critics, wrote the novel to deconstruct the complaints levied against the genre. Over the course of the story, they solve a murder and deal with conflict around Sophie's movie, which is alternately a documentary or a porn flick. The novel explores the love story between Sophie Dempsey, a screenwriter making a movie in the small town of Temptation, and the mayor, Phinneas "Phin" Tucker. Welcome to Temptation is a contemporary romance written by Jennifer Crusie and released in 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling, and even “threatening” demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed? ![]() As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.Ĭan you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation? ![]() He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving. The answer to each of these questions is simply this: because He’s God. ![]() In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.īecause we don’t often think about the reality of who God is, we quickly forget that He is worthy to be worshiped and loved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race uncovering a plan that could bring the West to its knees. But it’s Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting between SMERSH’s driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin. ![]() The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. It’s 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. ![]() Literary legend James Bond returns to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. ![]() ![]() Four books in his middle-grade Alcatraz vs. ![]() He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight were followed by the final book in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013. ![]() Tor has published Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy and its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, the first two in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.īrandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() The lone survivor of the murder-suicide is baby Charlotte, who is found unharmed in her cot at the family farm. However, the community is still stunned when Luke Hadler, a respected local farmer, kills his wife Karen and six-year-old son Billy, before turning the shotgun on himself. The Dry is set in Kiewarra, a small farming community a few hours from Melbourne in south-eastern Australia, which for the past two years has experienced a horrendous drought and sustained financial pressure. I’d heard on the grapevine that this Australian debut was fantastic, and following a reminder from my mum (who likes to read The Times crime recommendations down the phone to me), finally managed to get hold of it. If you haven’t read The Dry yet, then drop everything. Jane Harper, The Dry (Little, Brown/Abacus, 2017 Hachette audiobook)įirst line: Even those who didn’t darken the door of the church from one Christmas to the next could tell there would be more mourners than seats. ![]() ![]() ![]() Helping them get away is a young girl named Sido, the marques lonely daughter. Tetu (the dwarf) and Yann are next if they don't escape from the house and France immediately. That is the night Topolain, the magician, is murdered. One night, they are invited to perform in front of the Marque de Villeduval and Count Kalliovsky at the marques's home. He works with two magicians, one of whom a dwarf that raised him as his own. ![]() In an old theater in 1789, France, a boy named Yann Margoza had a unique talent for throwing his voice and reading people's minds. I love historical fiction, but I didn't exactly care for The Red Necklace. If anyone knows of somewhere I can listen to it, please let me know!ĮDIT AGAIN My good friend Sei gave me a link to the audiobook, and now I'm listening and reading it at the same time. He could read me a cookbook and I'd happily and joyously listen to it.ĮDIT: Alas, I couldn't find the UK audiobook, but I'm reading it anyway. ![]() |