![]() ![]() Thus, amid dangers she could never have imagined, menaced by the fierce and magnificent forces of man and of nature itself, Tawny discovers that her past has relaxed its hold upon her heart, and she begins to experience emotions she has never known before. ![]() Tawny had promised to deliver both to the runaways frantic brother in Kathmandu. Things began to happen and, almost without realizing it, she found herself high in the snow covered mountains, on the trail of a willful young woman who was the key to a treasure of immeasurable price. Tawny's arrival in Kashmir- so different from her native England- seemed to be a signal. Seeking escape, Tawny went to stay with her brother and found herself in a gorgeous new setting- Kashmir in the late 1800s- as dramatic as the adventures about to come her way. Tawny Butler had come to believe that the scandal in her past would forever define her future. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jim's 'Walter Mitty' monologues liven up his dull life as he scrapes his way through. They get the atmosphere right with the various classes portrayed accurately and the humour comes from the clashes and 'unlucky' Jim's near misses with girls and success. It's good fun as you follow Jim Dixon round Swinging London never quite getting into the groove and gelling with the beautiful people no matter how much he tries. Probably wouldn't be allowed before 9pm now although it was early evening viewing then. Everyone smokes cigarettes and drinks alcohol at lunch time with the occasional reference to cannabis and free love. Set in the nineteen sixties it is awash with pretty girls in mini skirts and mini cars. Remember watching this as a child when it was broadcast and it is pretty standard fare for the comedy of the time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her rhythm and rhyme will make you want to read them aloud, with a smile on your face.īut these poems also have an edgy feel, dipping into nightmares, ghosts and werewolves. Her poems are full of familiar situations, from playing hide-and-seek to wanting the coolest shoes. Wilson declares from the very beginning that humor's her game, but she always invites young readers to see more in a situation than there is at face value. ![]() Their humor still resonates with kids-which is why they love this new collection of poems, Outside the Box, which combines quirky observations, outrageous situations and unexpected twists just like the great Seuss and Silverstein did. They twisted words like a verbal gymnasts, making them dance and flip in my head. As a kid, I loved the wacky poetry of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() His book A Fistful of Shells won the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and was shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize. His interests are slavery in the Atlantic and cultural and economic links between America and Africa. He has other publications regarding the issues of religious prosecution and oppression in Africa and other European colonies. ![]() Green disagrees with the notion of a Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition and often quotes sixteenth-century sources regarding the institution's abuse of power in Latin America, and is often cited regarding this subject. He has also written on the Spanish Inquisition. He is Chair of the Fontes Historiae Africanae Committee of the British Academy, and has written extensively about African early modern history and colonial African slavery, mainly focussed on slavery in the Portuguese colonies. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in African studies at the University of Birmingham. Toby Green is a British historian who is a Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London. ![]() For the Australian rules footballer, see Toby Greene. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, it's not like he's cool or confident or comfortable in his own skin. If only Miles could figure out why Eric likes him so much. But after Eric and Miles pretend to date so they can score an invite to a couples-only Valentine's party, the ruse turns real with a kiss, which is also definitely not in the plan. Not what he needs to be focusing on right now. Then Miles meets the new boy in town, Eric Mendez, a proudly queer cartoonist from Seattle who asks his pronouns, cares about art as much as he does-and makes his stomach flutter. Plus, Miles' new, slightly terrifying piano teacher keeps telling him that he's playing like he "doesn't know who he is"-whatever that means. For one thing, Shane broke up with Miles two weeks after Miles came out as trans, and now Shane's stubbornly ignoring him, even when they literally bump into each other. ![]() Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre, and 2) finally beat his slimy arch-nemesis at the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition. ![]() A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win back his ex, but a new boy complicates things in Edward Underhill's heartfelt debut YA rom-dram, Always the Almost. ![]() ![]() ![]() This thin volume introduces Elric and many of the ideas that permeate the books: the island of Melniboné and the Young Kingdoms, his cousins Yyrkoon and Cymoril, the Gods of Chaos and Law, the Elemental Rulers, and Stormbringer and Mournblade. The first book is the novel Elric of Melniboné (a.k.a. A sense of nostalgia has caused me to pick up those six books, along with Moorcock's later additions to the saga, The Fortress of the Pearl and The Revenge of the Rose for a re-reading. DAW Books was releasing the six books that included Moocock's novels and short stories about Elric (as well as many other aspects of the Eternal Champion) around that time (all with character-defining Michael Whelan covers) and it was relatively easy to wander into a bookstore and find them. the first three books)." in Appendix N of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master Guide at the perfect time. My introduction to Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné came from the line of text "Moorcock, Michael: STORMBRINGER STEALER OF SOULS "Hawkmoon" series (esp. ![]() ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ by Michael Moorcock DAW Books 160pp/$1.25/October 1976 ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Well, well, well this was a quite a raunchy little tale. The shame and sorrow of what he’s lost will stay with Roe wherever he goes-until he’s ready to let love lead him home. As his affair with Travis grows into more than just sex, Roe’s past catches up with him, threatening the thin ray of happiness he’s found, reminding him it’s well past time he went on his way.īut even a loner gets lonely, and at this point, there’s nowhere left to run. Shut out by his family years ago, Roe survived by steadfastly refusing to settle into so much as a post office box. As long as they’re both clear this is sex on the side, no relationship, no interfering with the job, they could make it work. Getting involved with the ranch owner is a bad idea, but Roe’s and Travis’s bedroom kinks line up against one another like a pair of custom-cut rails. ![]() Ranch hand Roe Davis absolutely never mixes business with pleasure-until he runs into his boss, Travis Loving, at the only gay bar within two hundred miles. Love will grow through the cracks you leave open. ![]() ![]() I've no doubt that one day we'll learn that the Earths are infinite once again.Īs a fan of the various DC Who's Who series (currently being discussed on the endlessly entertaining Who's Who: The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe show), and the many encyclopaedias released down the years, I love handbook pages, and the ones sandwiched between the framing sequences here don't disappoint. Or at least, what the 52 - that's Earths 0-51 - we're being told about are. Currently, we're in a rebuilding phase, with Morrison using his grand adventure to classify and clarify what the 52 worlds of DC's post-2011 Multiverse are. 'There's just too much continuity, wipe the slate clean-ish'Īnd every time, after a few years, they - or a new set of hands - realise what has been lost: the JSA returns the Multiverse is found to persist the old continuities survive in these worlds. 'Parallel worlds are too tough to understand, merge them!' 'The JSA members are too old, the kids won't relate, kill/banish them!' Several times over the years we've seen editorial regimes decide their comics cloth is too large, perhaps unwieldy, and hack it back. □The very notion of 'the local multiverse'.Īnd, as the phrase goes, much, much more - writer Grant Morrison is a perpetual motion ideas machine, inventing new concepts, revamping earlier ones, unravelling and expanding the tapestry of the DC Multiverse. ![]() □Dr Will Tornado and his Metal League of Earth 44. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.īurning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito, and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents-the fascinating but caustic Mr. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work the New York Times described as "riveting" and the Wall Street Journal called "thrilling."Ī sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her.Īfter years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. ![]() |