5/13/2023 0 Comments Sought by Evangeline AndersonHer curvy plus-sized body is the epitome of beauty on his home planet and her sharp mind makes her doubly attractive. Locks Tight, the light twin of the two, is already in love with Kat. And now she’s on her way to their home planet, Twin Moons, to find a cure for the debilitating illness their unorthodox joining caused, when all she really wants to do is go home. Then she couldn’t get their feelings out of her head. But there’s nothing common about what’s happening to her lately…įirst she was forced to have a kinky mind ménage with two of the hottest and most irritating men in the galaxy-Twin Kindred warriors, Deep and Lock-in order to locate her kidnapped friend. She’s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life. One Woman, Two Hot Guys, A Galaxy of Problems…
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The Matter of Britain refers to the collection of medieval literary works which depict legend and mythology, entwined with tales of heroism and patriotism, which exemplifies this genre of literature.Īs a medieval source, the text has great value and although it may prove to be fictitious and highly misrepresentative of the facts, the book provides an interesting insight into the medieval world. Starting with the Trojan founding of the British Isles and following the trail of those in power until the time of the Anglo-Saxons, this body of work forms a vital component of the Matter of Britain. The book charts the rise and fall of the kings of Britain, tracking the tales of conquest, power and success. The Historia Regum Britanniae, translated as ‘The History of the Kings of Britain’ is a medieval text written by Geoffrey of Monmouth around 1136, and is an account of British history laced with fictitious references and tales of drama. The page size is 10 x 13 1/4″ and the full page plate size is 6 1/2 x 9 1/4″. The total number of pages is 240 and the text is in French. The edition is 150 plus hors commerce, printed on either Arches or Rives. In fact, Schnessel indicates 20 full page etchings and 4 partial plates which is incorrect. The illustrations are quite spectacular and are not published in the common Icart references. The book was published in 1949 and is Icart’s last illustrated book. The 25th etching is only present in the first 20 books printed. The book by Jean de la Fontaine with illustrations by Louis Icart consists of 22 full page color etchings and 2 partial page color etchings as chapter headings, plus one additional etching at the end of the book. Louis Icart Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon All this will seem troublingly unoriginal not just to hardened SF fans, but to anyone with an average movie-going habit. The dystopian world that existed before the pandemic is seen in flashback: a nightmare of all-controlling corporations, out-of-control scientific innovations, ecological catastrophe and social breakdown which is equally familiar, from the likes of Blade Runner, Minority Report, The Hunger Games and countless others. I use Survivors – itself a remake of a 1970s series – as an example, but the post-apocalyptic sections of Atwood's books have many precursors, from Mad Max to The Omega Man and 28 Days Later. A mad scientist working for an evil corporation releases a virus that wipes out most of humanity the survivors must scrape a living from the ruins of industrial civilisation, fighting against feral gangs and sometimes each other. It is a peculiarity – a series of books written by a wonderful and justly venerated novelist, with a generic SF plot that closely recalls, say, the unloved recent BBC1 series Survivors. Banks's thoughts came back to me while I was reading Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, which concludes with this novel. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Under a Falling Star by JaeBud Light had been much more popular than rivals in the weeks before: From March 18 through April 1, customers ordered Bud Light 15% more than rival light beers. BeerBoard told CNN that the 3,000 locations tracked by the firm poured 6% less Bud Light than rivals, including Miller Lite and Coors Light, from April 2 to April 15. The controversy has hurt the Bud Light brand.īud Light pours at bars and restaurants declined in early April, according BeerBoard, which tracks sales data at thousands of bars and restaurants. It criticized the social media posts but said Anheuser-Busch wasn’t trying to make a political statement with them. But Del Papa Distributing, a major Texas-based wholesaler, issued a statement of support earlier this week. The wholesalers and Anheuser-Busch didn’t immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. The single can given to Mulvaney was not for sale to the general public. Grau/Icon Sportswire/Getty Imagesīud Light's inclusive ad campaigns are good for business, experts sayĪnheuser-Busch sought to correct “misinformation” and “confusion” about the can given to Mulvaney, reiterating that it wasn’t a formal campaign or advertisement, according to the company’s memo to distributors, obtained by BBD. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Making the case for christHe lines up scholars and theologians and confronts them with the hardest possible questions about their faith-and comes away convinced that the Evangelical view of the Bible and Jesus is true. Strobel’s wife converts, and Strobel sets out to prove her wrong, using the same strategy that made him a fearsome investigative journalist. The story that Evangelicals find so convincing and delicious is this: Strobel, a tough-as-nails atheist journalist and his atheist family are out to dinner when his daughter is saved from choking to death by an evangelical nurse who felt called by God to go to the restaurant that night. His 1998 book, The Case for Christ, has sold millions of copies, was made into a 2017 movie by the same name, and was recently re-issued in a “new and updated” edition. Many Evangelicals think of Lee Strobel as the man who can cure your doubts about their religion. 5/12/2023 0 Comments After 1177 bcBringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.Ī compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Age," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The short stories, now collected in The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, were originally published in three volumes: two picture books and one collection. Alexander drew names and atmosphere from these texts, then went on to create wholly unique and original characters, stories, places and concepts, independent of the medieval literature. The five novels and eight short stories in the Prydain series were inspired by medieval Welsh legends and folktales, some of which are collected in the so-called Mabinogion or the Welsh Triads. There are five books in Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series, plus a sixth book of short stories:ġ. Originally intended for children and young adults, the series remains popular among readers of all ages, many of whom consider the series to be on par with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The Chronicles of Prydain are a series of high fantasy novels written by Philadelphia native Lloyd Alexander, and published annually by Holt, Rhinehart and Winston from 1964 to 1968. Īs well as Dinosaur Comics, North also created Whispered Apologies, a site where users could submit comic art without text and others would write text to match the art. In 2005, it won "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" in the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards. named Dinosaur Comics one of the 8 funniest webcomics on the internet. Wired listed Dinosaur Comics as one of "Five Webcomics You Can Share With Your Kids" and PC Magazine included the comic in its "10 Wicked Awesome Webcomics" list. As of 2020 North has produced over 3,500 strips.ĭinosaur Comics was named one of the best webcomics of 20 by The Webcomics Examiner. Dinosaur Comics is a fixed-art webcomic which uses the same base art for every strip. North started the webcomic Dinosaur Comics in 2003, during the last year of his undergraduate degree. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Run rabbit run novelWhether it’s true is, of course, another question. When he died in 2009, 23 novels, countless stories, essays, and a few volumes of poetry later, the New Yorker pronounced him “one of the greatest of all modern writers, the first American writer since Henry James to get himself fully expressed, the man who broke the curse of incompleteness that had haunted American writing.” Even bearing in mind that the New Yorker had been, in essence, Updike’s house magazine for 50 years, this remains praise of an order few writers will ever achieve. This early review set the tone for what would follow, and for many years Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow were hailed as a kind of unquestioned trinity of the best modern American novelists. It singled out his stylistic achievement in particular, praising him for having created a “perfectly pitched voice for the subject”. The New York Times called it a “shabby domestic tragedy,” but also “a notable triumph of intelligence and compassion”. I n 1960, a 28-year-old writer named John Updike published his second novel, Rabbit, Run. |