![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This story was essential to show more of these characters beyond how they appear when Mercy needs them or how they add to Mercy’s life – to try and claw back some sense of them as more than Mercy’s entourage and give them some of their own character and plot lines which I definitely like. That doesn’t sound like a bad thing – but in a story where just about everyone throws up some problems, the gay characters being the mellow “we’ll go along with whatever you want, straight folks” has shades of the GBF, even the foreward of this story notes that Mercy considers Warren the gentlest werewolf she’d met. The only gay characters, they are often background in Mercy and Adam’s story and, unlike just about every other member of the werewolf pack and assorted associates, they’re the most affable. In Red, With Pearls brings some desperate characterisation to Kyle and Warren which has been desperately needed in the series. ![]()
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![]() It is about an English starlet who hopes to rise to fame in Berlin. She has troubles trying to make a living, and mostly sings in a dingy club in order to do so – she is, however, reluctant to go back to her family as she was so set on the idea of becoming famous. The tale about Sally is probably the most popular one of Goodbye to Berlin. It does not come quite forth in the stories, aside from his reluctance to meet young ladies (or he evades the topic), and his openness towards a queer couple. ![]() If you are unfamiliar with the author, try to keep in mind that Isherwood was homosexual and how, especially in a 1930s Germany, this was a dangerous time for him. ![]() All of this is set against the background of Hitler’s rising influence in Germany. Each short story is about one of the persons Isherwood met, what their lives in Berlin were like and how it intertwined with his own. ![]() Goodbye to Berlin contains a set of short stories about Isherwood’s time there. ![]() Isherwood lived in Berlin in the early 1930s he tried to make a living as an author, but mostly had to get by through tutoring English to German citizens. ![]() ![]() ![]() This powerful environmental call to arms proposes that for optimal well-being, regular doses of nature are not only recommended but required. She also reveals how city planners can successfully bring nature into the urban environment. Within the U.S., she finds programs using nature to help kids with ADHD and veterans with PTSD. ![]() Williams brings some intriguing observations to light in the forests of South Korea, for instance, she learns that time among the cypress trees reduces stress and lowers blood pressure. What are new, however, are current and ongoing studies by scientists (many of whom readers will encounter in these pages), who are using forests and natural landscapes as laboratories to learn more about how nature affects human health. The idea that the open air enhances creativity and outlook isn’t new Williams traces it as far back as Aristotle. soon, she found herself yearning for the mountains, and feeling disoriented and depressed. Her curiosity was piqued when she and her family moved from Boulder, Colo., to Washington, D.C. Outside magazine contributor Williams ( Breasts) writes frequently about the environment in this extensively researched book, her travels take her to Japan, Korea, Singapore, Scotland, and elsewhere in search of hard evidence that exposure to nature causes positive changes in the brain. ![]() ![]() His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. The band said in a statement: "The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins. Megaforce Records also released Anthrax's first five studio albums from 1984's 'Fistful of Metal' through to 1990's 'Persistence of Time', and Ace Frehley, Living Colour, Testament, Overkill, Ministry, King's X, Stormtroopers Of Death, Fozzy, Bad Brains and Manowar are just some of the many acts who have been on their roster of the past four decades.įoo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died at the age of 50 on Friday 25th March 2022. The Zazulas founded Megaforce Records in 1982 and they helped launch the career of the then fledgling San Francisco heavy metallers Metallica by releasing their seminal first two studio albums, 'Kill 'Em All' (1983) and 'Ride The Lightning' (1984). Jonny Z's passing came 13 months after the death of his wife and Megaforce Records co-founder Marsha Zazula from cancer. ![]() He passed away in Florida from complications of the rare neuropathic disorder chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and osteopenia. ![]() ![]() Jon Zazula, the co-founder of influential heavy metal imprint Megaforce Records, died aged 69 on Tuesday 1st February 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was Lucky’s death an accident or murder? Does Fin want Lucky’s life? Unfortunately for George, her grasp on reality is fragile, and no one is willing to take her warnings seriously. When one of the friends, Fin, decides to stay in the sleepy little town and ingratiates himself into Lucky’s family (even Lucky’s dog, Rocket, is enamored of Fin) and starts seeing Lucky’s girlfriend Sonia, George becomes suspicious. To her it resembled drowning in an inch of water, possible, but not probable.Ī bunch of Lucky’s friends congregate at George’s California home for a party, not a memorial service, because Lucky would prefer it that way. Considering he was an excellent surfer, George can’t grasp that it was an accident. Lucky, George’s older brother, was killed in a surfing accident in Australia. Both the readers and George (short for Georgia), the protagonist of Yvonne Prinz’s latest engrossing entrée into YA Fiction, If You’re Lucky, aren’t quite sure where reality ends and George’s scrambled mind takes over. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Shelley led a life nearly as tumultuous as the monster she created. The story explores philosophical themes and challenges Romantic ideals about the beauty and goodness of nature. The ideas for both Frankenstein, and Polidori's The Vampyre, which was published in 1819, were both born that day.Īlthough serving as the basis for the Western horror story and the inspiration for numerous movies in the 20th century, the book Frankenstein is much more than pop fiction. The group, trapped indoors by the inclement weather, passed the time telling and writing ghost stories. ![]() Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron's physician, John Polidori. Cruelly rejected by its creator, it wanders, seeking companionship and becoming increasingly brutal as it fails to find a mate. The gentle, intellectually gifted creature is enormous and physically hideous. In Shelley’s tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses. The book, by 20-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks in part to Reinhardt's access to the Tower of London Armories, facilitated by his friendship with Ewart Oakeshott, the Armories' head curator, the firm was able to produce quality replicas, many made and tested by Reinhardt himself. Back in America he held a number of jobs before joining in the 1980s with Bill Adams, president of Atlanta Cutlery, to establish Museum Replicas Ltd, a mail order firm specializing in recreations of medieval weaponry and armor. Interested in knives and swords from an early age, Reinhardt furthered his education in arms during his Army service and through visits to various European museums. He was survived by his second wife, daughters Dana and Cathy, and two grandchildren. ![]() He died in Athens, Georgia at the age of seventy-three of a staph infection contracted in the wake of heart bypass surgery. He was married twice, first to Janet, who predeceased him and with whom he had two daughters, and second to Toni Weisskopf. He later lived for many years in Alabama. Reinhardt was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the husband of editor Toni Weisskopf, formerly married to publisher Jim Baen, whom she succeeded as publisher of Baen Books. He wrote as Hank Reinhardt, the nickname by which he was widely known. Julius Henry ("Hank") Reinhardt (Janu– October 30, 2007) was an American author, editor, science fiction fan, and noted armorer and authority on medieval weaponry. ![]() ![]() Submissions of video clips or screengrabs must include the name of the movie or TV show. Submissions of comic panels must include the title (and preferably issue #) in the title. 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You may disagree, but there's no reason to not be civil about it. ![]() Don't attack others over differences of opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. After all, she is the captain's daughter. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid society-but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it "brilliant, feminist science fiction."Īva is the captain's daughter. ![]() Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. ![]() Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection is searchable by keywords including state, city, military personnel and battle name, among others. In the fall of 2010, the Digitization Projects Group of the Baylor University Electronic Library digitized an extremely high quality copy of the Atlas and placed the plates online via their Digital Collections site. OFFICIAL MILITARY ATLAS of CIVIL WAR by GEORGE B.DAVIS/1000+ PICS/MAPS/HUGE 1983. ![]() Ten (10) plates containing diagrams of defensive elements ( redoubts, redans, and forts, for example), equipment and armaments, uniforms, and flags. THE OFFICIAL MILITARY ATLAS OF THE CIVIL WAR. Twelve (12) plates that include images of Charleston Harbor and Fort Sumter, Missionary Ridge and various elements of mid-nineteenth century warfare. Illustrations of uniforms worn by Union and Confederate soldiers, from the War of the Rebellion Atlas Plate 172Ī total of 156 plates containing maps ranging from small-scale engagements to regional views and date-specific snapshots of long-running sieges like Vicksburg and Atlanta. ![]() |