![]() ![]() ![]() Alanea’s most influential authors include Lynn Hagen and Heather Ranier who encouraged and inspired her towards writing her first novel. Alanea’s career began with a circumstantial impetus to create a career for herself in full time writing from home. Her childhood experiences as well as her family connections with their romantic stories tend to influence her imagination and storytelling in her novels. Alanea’s father and mother are happily married and her brother is also happily married with one little girl. ![]() Alanea Alder’s father was in the military when she grew up, and she spent a lot of her childhood years interacting in a military town with her brother. Her early childhood and growing up experiences have had a large impact on her current day writing style. Her imagination is extensive and she tells her stories with ease. She is imaginative, funny, down to earth, and creative in her storytelling in a way that captivates her audience. Alanea Alder is an author and individual who writes passionately about love, romance, connection, the paranormal, erotica, and sensuality. ![]()
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Jerome David Salinger ( / ˈ s æ l ɪ n dʒ ər/ Janu– January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first Marked Men novel in Jay Crownover's combustible New Adult series. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love. He doesn't have time for a good girl like Shaw-even if she's the only one who can see the person he truly is.īut a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. She lives by other people's rules he makes his own. ![]() ![]() To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess-and his dead twin brother's girl. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won't listen. She isn't afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Rule is everything a straight-A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn't want-and the only person she's never tried to please. Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pieces range in genre from psychological horror through science fiction and ghost stories, but they all share fundamental qualities: feminist themes, an emphasis on voice, a focus on characters' psychologies and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look toward promising but often terrifying futures. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future collects Christi Nogle's finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. Don't miss this book it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023.- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. ![]() Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() While predominantly a textual analysis of the primary sources written by the nationalists, this volume takes into account how political developments influenced Turkish nationalism and also tackles the question of how an ideology that began as a revolutionary, progressive, forward-looking ideal eventually transformed into one that is conservative, patriarchal, and nostalgic to the Ottoman and Islamic past. Partly in response to the rising nationalist voices of these groups, Turkish intellectuals began propagating Turkish nationalism through academic as well as popular books, and later associations published semipropagandist journals with the support of the Unionist and Kemalist governments. Turkish nationalism erupted onto the world stage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Greeks, Armenians, and other minority groups within the Ottoman Empire began to seek independence. In this book, Umut Uzer examines the ideological evolution and transformation of Turkish nationalism from its early precursors to its contemporary protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Licking Woman" features a grotesque, creepy monster woman who stalks the streets licking people with her monstrous boil-infested tongue, which results in them developing ugly skin rashes like a venereal disease that kills them. There's also a Lovecraftian fear of female sexuality in Ito's stories though it's hard to tell if it's genuine or just a trope he likes to put in his stories. That only makes them lust after her even more and things don't go well. "Venus in the Blindspot" is an Ito original about a society of UFO geeks who become convinced the girl who runs the club is an alien because she's turning invisible. ![]() Reading the adaptations and the Umezz story is a peek into the stories and ideas that informed Ito's thinking in how he creates horror stories. Umezz would probably have been flattered at the portrayal. It's a surreal in-joke where Umezz is portrayed as another of Ito's weird, creepy monsters. "Master Umezz and Me" has Ito talking about master of horror manga Kazuo Umezz' influence on him and turns his encounter with the famously eccentric Umezz into another Ito monster story. Rampo's "An Unearthly Love" features a bride discovering what her creepy husband has been cheating on her with a doll that might be haunted. His telling of Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" pushes the fetishistic creepiness of the original short story. The collection features several adaptations that reveal Ito's influences think seem to determine his thinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Too bad Viper’s body isn’t listening to his head-at least not the one on his shoulders. Viper has already broken rule #1-big mistake? Interpersonal relationships in the band are discouraged?Ģ. But there are several reasons this is a bad idea:ġ. ![]() With a voice to match his stunning good looks, it isn’t long before Viper’s taking notice. Halo is everything they’ve been looking for. Time’s running out and the pressure’s on to find a new singer, but it isn’t until an angel walks through the door that the band’s prayers are answered.Ĭharismatic. Fame chasers.Īfter months of lackluster auditions, Viper, the lead guitarist and resident bad boy of the group, is ready to find solace in the bottom of a bottle. But it all comes to a screeching halt when the lead singer walks out of the studio one day and never comes back.Įar-blistering vocals. Groupies galore.Įvery day is a party for Viper and the guys of TBD, the biggest rock band in the world. ![]() ![]() Kant started this third project in the Critique of Pure Reason, but would go on to complete it in two other works, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of the Power of Judgment. ![]() Third, he suggests how the core beliefs of the Western metaphysical tradition that cannot be justified as theoretical knowledge can nevertheless be justified as objects of “moral faith” because they are the necessary conditions of the possibility of moral agency. Second, he delivers a devastating critique of traditional “speculative” metaphysics on the basis of his new theory of knowledge. First, he constructs a new theory of knowledge that delivers certainty about the fundamental principles of human experience at the cost of knowledge of how things are in themselves. In this massive work, Kant has three aims. KANT’S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. T he c a m b ri d g e c o m p an i o n t o ![]() ![]() ![]() Coreys Hugo Award-winning Expanse series. Corey On DecemBy In Audiobook, Science Fiction 4 Comments Publisher: Orbit/Recorded Books (Audiobook 30 November 2021) Series: The Expanse Book Nine Length: 19 hours and 40 minutes My Rating: 4. Package was wet but the way the book was wrapped protected my purchase. The biggest SF series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S. Helpful communication, excellent quality book.īook was left on stoop right before snowstorm, I discovered it the next morning under four inches of snow and sleet. This was a gift for a family friend, and he absolutely loved it! Shipping and delivery were quick, and the book was packed well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leviathan Falls - Signed First Edition Book Corey The StoryGraph Leviathan Falls The Expanse 9 James S.A. 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful: ![]() ![]() ![]() He said: “Alien invasion is always a political subject, and Tade Thompson's debut novel Rosewater expertly explores the nature of the alien, global power structures and pervasive technologies with a winning combination of science fictional invention, gritty plotting and sly wit.” Rosewater saw off competition from Semiosis by Sue Burke (HarperVoyager), Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (REBCA), Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Oneworld), The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Simon & Schuster) and The Loosening Skin (Unsung Stories) by Aliya Whiteley.ĭr Andrew M Butler, who represented the Arthur C Clarke Award in a non-voting role as the chair of judges, said it had been an “incredibly close” contest this year. He received a commemorative engraved bookend and prize money of £2,019. His book, a twisty tale of alien invasion, was crowned the winner at a ceremony in Foyles, Charing Cross Road, on 17th July. Tade Thompson has won the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction with his novel Rosewater (Orbit). ![]() |