“I didn’t know Sam before tonight,” Kia said. What are you supposed to do? Call him up and tell him I fell for your alien story?” He strode behind the bar and into the kitchen and opened the fridge. Because the only thing worse than falling wildly in lust with someone who’s not playing with a full holodeck is the thought that she’ll soon be leaving for a galaxy far, far away. In which case, he’s in even deeper trouble. Other options: a) she’s crazy, or b) she’s not kidding about being an alien. Could she have mafia connections? Kia’s certainly not like any woman he’s known - flat out demanding sex, and following through with a sensational romp that leaves his mind blown and world rocked. And right now, trouble is sitting at the bar - black-clad, sexy as hell, and about to mess up his sting operation to take down some Russian mobsters. And while at first Kia just wants undercover cop Nick Scericino to help locate her cousin.well, it would be a shame to come all this way without finding out whether everything really is bigger in Texas. At least, not until she meets a virile, muscular human intent on rescuing her (how quaint!) from a bar brawl. Kia can’t imagine why her cousin Mala left planet Nerak - utterly perfect in an ever-so-slightly boring kind of way - to go in search of Earth men.
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Even seen through the primary narrator’s somewhat romantic eyes, there’s a businesslike miserableness in these books I hadn’t previously encountered in fantasy. Mercenaries pillage, rape, and slaughter, presented in some detail and matter-of-factly. There’s a rejection of the mythic, fairytale setting in the Black Company books, and a wholehearted embrace of a “realistic” world where the battlefield reeks of blood, excrement, and decay. He set aside the archaic prose flourishes of all those authors, instead drawing on hardboiled fiction to give his stories a contemporary feel. No matter how callous their heroes, they were ultimately still cut from recognizable heroic cloth.Ĭook introduced something new. Both Moorcock and Wagner were rooted in the foundations of swords & sorcery laid by Robert E. I had read some gritty fantasy previously - Michael Moorcock and Karl Edward Wagner in particular had published some pretty dark stories in the 1960s and 70s - but it was all written in the old familiar fantasy style. When my friend Carl lent me his copy of The Black Company back in 1984 I didn’t know what was about to hit me. As soon as I opened The Black Company last May, I knew I was back home among a band of brothers I’d first met and come to love over thirty years ago. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Kiowa Vengeance by Ford FargoPhil Dunlap - Rattlesnake Jake, bounty hunter THE WRITERS OF WOLF CREEK, AND THEIR CHARACTERS Read ‘em Cowboy! These are the legends of Wolf Creek. Visit our website at Beneath the mask, Ford Fargo is not one but a posse of America's leading western authors who have pooled their talents to create a series of rip-snortin', old fashioned sagebrush sagas. Any resemblance to actual incidents or locales, or persons living or dead, is entirely coincidental. 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Dead Breath (Japanese Edition) eBook : Melody Jade Allen: .uk: Kindle Store Continue without accepting. Hello Select your address Books Hello, Sign in. Jade says even now she would like Pettingill to hand over any items from her father. Dead Breath: Allen, Melody Jade: 9781795477383: Books - Amazon.ca. His mother Kath Pettingill was executor: "We were supposed to have had a Catholic education. She says her father, wealthy from drug dealing, made out a will to look after his two daughters. The following year Allen died of heart disease brought on by massive drug abuse. In August 1986 Sissy, 27, hanged herself in Pentridge Prison, leaving a note to her two daughters that she was sorry but just wanted the pain to stop. Title, Dead Breath Author, Allen Melody Jade (author) Publisher, Independently Published, 2019 ISBN, 1795477385, 9781795477383 Length, 252 pages. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Immanuel kant ethicsAs Richard Dean points out at the start of this book, the tricky challenge of the humanity thesis is the explanation of the moral obligations it implies (p. Most commentators seem to allude to this fact in that the humanity thesis seems logically attractive and appeals to our intuitions, and it is the grounds for all normative theories, especially, in applied ethics. There is no gainsaying that Kant’s humanity thesis, which is the bedrock for which this book was written, appears to stand out among the other two formulations-The Universal Law of Nature Formulation and the Autonomy Formulation. The Value of Humanity in Kant’s Moral Philosophy is a critical exploration of the core themes in Kant’s ethics, namely, the notions of humanity, dignity, good will, autonomy and end-in-itself. 6/4/2023 0 Comments Insatiable by meg cabotThe bad luck of the fire horse seemed to show its colors when Meg flunked twice in freshman Algebra. However, no one was aware of her stigma until she became a teenager. As she was born in the astrological year of the Chinese Fire Horse, she was considered unlucky by some. Meg was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington as Meggin Patricia Cabot and was raised in the same city. Many of the novels of her series have featured in the New York Times Bestselling lists, which has increased her popularity as an established author. She has written several successful series in her career, in the Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, and Romance genres. 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The memory of him sliding in and out of me with powerful thrusts short-circuited my brain, and I stood captivated, mute, and dazed. The broad, corded muscles of his back flexed as he drew the shirt over his head, and I was thoroughly enjoying the view until I noticed the tiny red lines I’d left behind with my fingernails. He was pulling on his shirt and I paused in admiration. “J AMES?” I CALLED OUT, looking over my shoulder. Her 2016 novel, All the Birds in the Sky, was #5 on Time Magazine's list of the year's 10 best novels, and won the Nebula, Locus and Crawford awards. Her novel The City in the Middle of the Night came out in 2019-it won the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, and was named one of the year's best books by the Guardian, Den of Geek, Polygon and Autostraddle, among others, and was optioned for television by Sony and Mom de Guerre Productions. Up next: Never Say You Can’t Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy. The wildlife tours also consist of feeding sessions, where visitors can watch trained staff feed the alligators and crocodiles in a stunning show that will send chills up your spine. "One of our primary goals is to get some of these really rare animals to reproduce and live well, and they have to realize they are not living on concrete." "So you're actually going to them, rather than us bringing the animal to you," Dieter said. PHOTOS: Celebrate Memorial Day weekend at this epic Houston area backyard water park Visitors are allowed to get up close and personal with some of the center's apex predators thanks to enclosed, 1-acre interactive exhibits consisting of winding boardwalks that travel through the animals' natural habitats. The 23-acre facility is home to at least 250 crocodiles and alligators as well a 200 or so other animals, including kangaroos, lemurs, antelopes, pigs, tortoises and more. Dieter describes the wildlife educational facility as a cross between a zoo and a nature center that promotes species survival for endangered animals. |