![]() ![]() ![]() When Morgan discovers that the Reeds&’ struggling tree farm is the only thing standing between Fern Falls and corporate greed destroying the whole town&’s livelihood, she decides she can put heartbreak aside to save the farm by planning her best fundraiser yet. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachel&’s sexy new lumberjane muscles acquired from running her family tree farm. ![]() The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen snow. Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another. With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn&’t headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Be one of the first to read this sneak preview sample edition!Morgan Ross can plan world-class events, but she didn&’t plan on returning to the hometown that broke her heart seven years ago-and re-discovering the girl of her dreams. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Rare is the viewer, of course, who could sit through this movie in blissful ignorance of who Bundy was and what he did. ![]() When did Liz begin to suspect? More pertinently, the movie wants you to ask, would you have guessed the truth if you were in her unfortunate shoes? The ostensible protagonist is Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), who was Bundy’s girlfriend before and during his notorious 1970s killing spree, and whose slow-dawning realization of his true nature - the title provides a clue - is meant to provide the story’s dramatic fulcrum. In “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” an exasperatingly oblique account of the life and crimes of Ted Bundy, the actual crimes remain almost entirely off-screen. ![]() ![]() Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.īut lighting the lamp has dire consequences. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? ![]() While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. ![]() ![]() But that's not quite the right definition either. The NA label is more accurately used for older YA, or for crossover novels that don't fit neatly in either the YA or Adult categories. There's a widespread misconception that New Adult is just Young Adult with some Romance-quality smut or even straight-up erotica thrown in. So far no one can provide a definitive definition of the genre. ![]() This is a question that writers, agents, and publishers alike are struggling to answer right now, being that the genre is so new (I'm talking like newborn baby new, as in almost no one had heard of it just a few months back). ![]() Read and reward yourself-there's a giveaway at the end! But first, a little primer. I'm so excited to introduce a new feature on Fictiffous! Please welcome my first guest blogger, author ST Bende, who's here as part of a blog tour for her upcoming release, ELSKER (book one of the New Adult paranormal romance series, THE ELSKER SAGA, releasing this May from Entranced Publishing). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe she’s been quiet about the wrong things. Then Suki tries to kill herself, and Della’s world turns so far upside down, it feels like it’s shaking her by the ankles. But who has been protecting Suki?ĭella might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet where it counts. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. When their mom’s boyfriend, Clifton, took them in, Della had Suki. Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. “Sometimes you’ve got a story you need to find the courage to tell.” Themes: Sisters, Childhood sexual abuse, Homelessness, Foster care, Mental Health, Healing, Courage, Hope Dial Books for Young Readers, Fiction, Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() An exciting mix of secret tunnels and military adventure with myth and folklore alongside love, friendship, family and a great deal of bravery. ![]() ![]() While out on the hillside, the ancient Daughters of Stone stand strong, weaving their magic into her life forever. Her Dad is the keeper of the lighthouse that Pet has lived in all her life, but when things go horribly wrong for her family, it is Petra who must fight to keep the Lighthouse safe. Set on the south coast of England during WW2, Our Castle by the Sea follows the story of 12-year-old Petra as her life is turned upside down by the war. I haven’t read a 9-12 book as good as this in a while – I literally could not put it down! First-of, I’ve recently read Our Castle by the Sea written by Lucy Strange (author of The Secret of Nightingale Wood) and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. ![]() ![]() For this reason I wished then, and still wish, to make some answer to it, which I now take the opportunity of doing. It was intended to controvert opinions which I think just, and to assail (politically, not personally,) those men who, in common with me, entertain those opinions. I listened to the speech at the time, and have read the report of it since. Two weeks ago Judge Douglas spoke here on the several subjects of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, presented his critique of the decision in a speech in Springfield, Illinois on June 26, 1857.įELLOW CITIZENS: I am here to-night, partly by the invitation of some of you, and partly by my own inclination. ![]() It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. Supreme Court on Mawas supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. ![]() ![]() The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What dangers await Hale and Remy on their quest? Can they keep the Northern Kingdom from ruling the world? Will Hale betray his father and kingdom to protect Remy? Something about the red witch calls to him. Hale presses her to aid him on his quest. He and his companions run across Remy in a backwater tavern. He needs a red witch to help find two important magical artifacts to thwart the Northern Kingdom’s domination. Hale Norwood is the illegitimate son of the Eastern Kingdom’s monarch. Will Remy and Hale find the magical artifacts in time? Can they successfully elude the Northern Kingdom? And what will Remy learn about herself? Remy cannot fight her growing attraction to Hale, the Prince of the Eastern Kingdom. However, she finds herself coerced into accompanying them on their quest. Remy tries to flee when she encounters four mysterious fae in the tavern she works at. She and her brown witch companions evade the witch hunters searching for them. ![]() ![]() Although bombarded with simplifying forces, the characters' incapacity to express their "sentiments" "articulate," or possess strong communicative abilities, is one of the key strategies Wharton employs for a psychologically simple yet intense character who personifies his mute landscape. The isolated figure emerges "scarcely more articulate" than his origins (4). Where "any attempt to elaborate and complicate their sentiments would have falsified the whole," the characters' representations are circumscribed through lack of education, finances, and communication reciprocated by their snowy, barren environment. ![]() In the introduction to Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton discusses her stylistic intention as an author to portray complex theory through relentlessly "simple" characters. ![]() ![]() When we master Awareness, Transformation, and Love, we reclaim our divinity and become one with God. ![]() Then every action we take is an expression of love, and love in action can only produce happiness. We are no longer the body, or the mind, or the soul, we are Love. When we master love, we align with the Spirit of Life passing through us. From the Toltec perspective, everything is made of love. The Mastery of Love is the result of the first two masteries. This mastery shows us how to change the dream of our life by changing our agreements and beliefs. The second is the Mastery of Transformation, which teaches us how to become spiritual warriors, and stalk our actions and reactions so we can break free of the knowledge that enslaves us. The Toltec said, 'Let us see ourselves with truth,' and they created a mastery just for awareness. ![]() It is the first step toward freedom, because we cannot be free if we don't know what we are, or what kind of freedom we are looking for. This mastery teaches us to be aware of what we really are. In the Toltec tradition, three fundamental masteries guide us to our true nature, which is happiness, freedom, and love. ![]() |