![]() ![]() Then this one mummified corpse and the room filled with futuristic hardware sends Jorie Mikkalah, Guardian Force commander, right into his life. Theo Petrakos, Bahia Vista homicide detective cop, believed that he had seen everything. One dangerously sexy space commander and this irresistibly earthy Florida police detective pair up in order to save the civilized galaxy, however, will they be able to save themselves from one another? “The Down Home Zombie Blues” is a stand alone novel and was released in the year 2007. Her work is from the paranormal romance and science fiction genres. Linnea’s debut novel, called “Command Performance”, was released in the year 2002. She lives with Robert Bernadino in Naples, Florida, and their very spoiled furchildren kitties. Linnea teaches seminars in private investigation techniques for mystery authors and in the craft of writing for all levels of writers via writing conventions nationwide and online writing sites. ![]() Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine gives her books 4-1/2 stars (their highest rating) consistently. Her work gets starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and have claimed spots in the Locus Top Ten. “Gabriel’s Ghost” won a RITA Award for Best Novel in the year 2006. She is a retired private detective (she was a licensed for ten years in Florida) and a former news reporter (for both newspaper and television). Linnea Sinclair born in 1954 in New Jersey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She said: 'This is going to make us famous.' " "We went right over to Robert Lawson's house and read it to him and his wife. and 35 or 40 minutes later, he came back with six pages of handwritten legal pad paper, and said, 'Listen to this.' " It was a story about a young bull who refused to fight. "I was reading a manuscript and my husband kept bothering me," Leaf recalled. She was there in the same one-room apartment in New York where he was born. There is nothing Margaret Leaf doesn't know about Ferdinand the Bull. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its a fantasy set in the Caribbean, an invented Caribbean. And despite her hatred of all humans, her magic requires that she make a bargain: the comb in exchange for a wish.īut what Kela wants most is for her mother to be alive. My book A Comb of Wishes came out on February 8th of 2022 with HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books. So when Kela and her friend Lissy stumble across an ancient-looking comb in a coral cave, with all she’s already lost, Kela can’t help but bring home her very own found treasure.įar away, deep in the cold ocean, the mermaid Ophidia can feel that her comb has been taken. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set against the backdrop of Caribbean folklore, Lisa Stringfellow’s spellbinding middle grade debut tells of a grieving girl and a vengeful mermaid and will enchant readers who loved Kacen Callender’s Hurricane Child or Christian McKay Heidicker’s Scary Stories for Young Foxes.Įver since her mother’s death, Kela feels every bit as broken as the shards of glass, known as “mermaid’s tears,” that sparkle on the Caribbean beaches of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The other City Series champions were North's Sanjil Magar (106) and Dav Bhujel (113), Ellet's Cole Yurich (126) and Adam Barnett (190), Kenmore-Garfield's Jayce Parmer (157) and Bransen Hawkins (285) and Buchtel's Davian Greenlee (215). "This is step one, and we have to continue to get better and keep pushing forward." "Our goals coming into the season were to win the City Series championship, get as many wrestlers out of the sectional tournament and advance wrestlers to the state tournament," Firestone coach Jay Tiedemann said. Senior Hamzah Abdelrahim (120 pounds), junior Ali Abdelrahim (132), junior Braylon Brooks (138), junior Richard Cash (144), senior James Boykins (150), senior Isaiah Wallace (165) and junior Isaiah Moore (175) took home titles for the Falcons. Firestone won its fourth straight team title Saturday with seven individual champions at Buchtel. ![]() ![]() You also get to witness a little bit of a human side to him as well. The story focuses more on Joker’s sadistic side, not as far as Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke would go, but still pretty sadistic. ![]() You also get reacquainted with such villains as Killer Croc, Penguin, the Riddler, Harley Quinn and Two-Face. In this novel you get a better insight on the Joker and watch his struggle to take back his throne as crime lord of Gotham City. Jonny picks him up from Arkham and through the story becomes part of the Joker’s gang. The premise is focused on the Joker’s release from Arkham Asylum and is told in the perspective of new character, Jonny Frost. Written by Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets & Lex Luthor: Man Of Steel) and art by Lee Bermejo (100 Bullets). Hola Creeps, a couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of reading Joker, the new graphic novel from DC Comics. But friend of the Dead Pixels Podcast, SuperRadMike, told me otherwise and was great enough to write a review to shed some light. Released solely as a graphic novel, I did not really notice this and took it at face value and DC trying to turn a quick buck. Luckily DC comics did not do this, but in October they did release one in a similar vein, Brian Azzarello’s Joker. ![]() ![]() After the amazing success of the Dark Knight movie, I was expecting the comic world to be flooded with stories about Heath Ledger-esque Jokers and a saturation of the market to make me cry. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll ask the writer 5 fun and random questions to get everyone talking. The Featured Events include: Monday, Blogaganza on Novel Publicity! We’re kicking-off on the Novel Publicity Free Advice blog. ![]() So when you visit Novel Publicity’s site to fill-out the contest entry form, don’t forget to say that I referred you, so I can get a point in the poll. The blogger who receives the most votes in the traffic-breaker poll will win a $100 gift card as well. ![]() Over 100 bloggers are participating in this gigantic event, and there are plenty of prizes for us too. 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As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of The Gaia Wars eBook edition has dropped to just 99 cents this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the Gulf of Corinth is heavily fortified and guarded by the army, the demigods decide they have to circle the whole Peloponnese to reach Athens. They learn that Gaea's army does not plan to invade Mount Olympus, but instead the Acropolis in Athens. Plot Īfter the events of the previous novel, Jason, Piper, and Annabeth disguise themselves with Hazel's Mist to infiltrate Odysseus' home in Ithaca, where Gaea's resurrected souls are gathering. The novel is narrated in third-person, alternating between the points of view of Jason, Piper, Leo, Reyna, and Nico, making it the first time in the series that someone other than one of the seven demigods of the prophecy is the viewpoint character. The seven demigods of the Prophecy of Seven- Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang-go on their final adventure to defeat Gaea/ Terra while Nico di Angelo, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, and Coach Gleeson Hedge attempt to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood in order to prevent a war between the Roman and Greek demigods. It is followed by The Hidden Oracle of The Trials of Apollo. It was released on October 7, 2014, is the fifth and final novel in The Heroes of Olympus series. The Blood of Olympus is an American fantasy- adventure novel written by Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]() It was an Readers' Choice 2012 finalist for Best Children's Book for Single Parents. But there is so much he wants to tell his mother about: what happened that day at. Carol Gordon Ekster’s first published children’s book, Where Am I Sleeping Tonight-A Story of Divorce, Boulden Publishing, 2008, was inspired by one special former student who lived the schedule described in the book. Teachers, counselors, and families helping children come to terms with divorce will find this uplifting story of shared custody to be a valuable resource. Two authors share their new picture books. The messages presented in this book are appropriate for sisters, too. "Both my parents like to make sure I'm not goofing off in school."Ĭarol Gordon Ekster, the author, helps children see that while their lives and schedules may have become scrambled, leaving them feeling confused and frustrated, that with time, effort and the assistance of those who love them, they can be successful in their new family arrangement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark and Evan begin to realize that accepting responsibility and cooperating can make a big difference. We are loved a lot in not just one, but two homes." Mark, the older brother, decides that "for Evan's sake I will point out how lucky we are. They know that mom and dad have their own rules and that they run their homes differently. ![]() The two brothers in this story, Mark and Evan, come to terms with living in a split family. "Where Am I Sleeping Tonight?" is an excellent book for elementary school-aged children who have to adjust to the new realities when their parents get divorced. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You're going to have to get a thicker skin. And listen, you knew this was a man's world when you came, it's not always nice. In Ducks, she's routinely sexually harassed in every possible manner, and when she reports the problem to her supervisor she's rebuked with a series of sexist platitudes: "We work as a team here. But those struggles were nothing compared to what was inflicted on her by her fellow workers simply because she happened to be one of the very few women around. She pulled 12-hour shifts in an environment that, as she draws it, is little better than a hellscape. It's only now that Beaton has seen fit to tell the other side of her life story: how terribly she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil fields. ![]() It may come as a shock to find that there's so much darkness lurking within the mind that gave us those perky revolutionaries, feisty peasants and a roly-poly Napoleon. Beaton is best known for her quirky historical comic series Hark! A Vagrant, which became two bestselling books, as well as the equally lighthearted King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. ![]() ![]() It’s a fascinating medical history, but completely accessible to the lay reader.Īttack of the Books! is participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, a month long quest to post every day. I owe a shout out to my good cousin Adam, but for whose gift to me of the book I might not have read it. The tale, spun almost novel-like at points, includes doctors, chemists, children, victims, and survivors, each a story in its own weaving into the greater narrative about one of the greatest diseases to ravage our race and that has eluded cure or solution. ![]() It’s a 4,000 year history, and Mukherjee tells it well. ![]() In the author’s note to The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee notes that “Cancer is not one disease, but many diseases.” It anticipates Mukherjee’s history, a look at cancer starting in the ages and proceeding forward to the modern day. ![]() |