![]() ![]() ![]() YA readers who like scary stories will like this one. Is it a story about being young and gay, an anti-bullying story, or a retelling of one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays? The writing is crisp, the characters engaging, and the darkness intriguing. VERY loosely based on Macbeth, this modern tragedy has so much going on it is hard to know author Robin Talley’s true intent. ![]() Hundreds of people descended on Paignton. Maria is in competition with popular girl Delilah for a scholarship, and when Lily suggests drugging Delilah to ruin her reputation, Maria does and starts wishing for other things to help her, but the evil powers kind of take over and terrible things start happening. The Red Arrows at the English Riviera Show (Image: Devon Live/Emma Slee) Day one of the English Riviera Show has drawn to a close. She runs the school, and if she chose, she could blow up Maria and Lily’s whole world with a pointed look, or a carefully placed word. Read online free As I Descended ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Things go terribly wrong and it seems they have unleashed some powerful evil forces. Golden child Delilah is a legend at the exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. Download As I Descended full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. ![]() They choose the old dining hall at their boarding school, a place thought to be haunted. Lily buys an antique Ouija board and convinces Maria they should try having a seance with their friend Brandon. Maria had some experiences as a little girl that make her think she may have a special connection to the spirit world, a fact she shared with her roommate and lover, Lily. ![]()
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When Ruth started a new life, her past slowly disappeared. She also explained that her faith in Judaism curtailed when her mother died, meaning her mother was a symbol of her "former" identity before she fell in love and had children. She felt she needed to forget her sins and to reconnect with God in order to let her mother go. ![]() The loss of Ruth's mother also caused Ruth to change her faith and beliefs. ![]() I think the reason why she is so strong with her children is because she does not want to experience the awful feelings she once felt, also because her children would take advantage of her if she was an emotional wreck. By reading this page Ruth's character surprised me. I would of assumed she would feel hurt but I did not know her loss would result in depression and great weight loss. Ruth had a better relationship with her mother than any other elders in her life. I believe this is a moment where she showed her weakness. ![]() Lord, I was burning with hurt." Ruth relieves plenty of emotions that is not normally expressed when she is with her children. On page 217, " Why couldn't it have been me that died? I would go on long walks and would forget where I was.She was gone. The way it was written allowed me to imagine how Ruth must have felt during that time. The moment when Ruth loses her mother in "The Color of Water" was very emotional and almost brought me to tears. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, people throughout the world are using email, text messaging and cell phones to help upend entire governments, organize mass protests, raise millions of dollars for campaigns, and expose injustices. ![]() ![]() Thanks to technology and the array of communication tools it provides-from email and text messaging to YouTube and Flickr-people are now able to connect with one another and, with just a few key strokes, form new kinds of groups with a capacity for collective action and collaboration that was previously unimaginable. In Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Shirky, a leading observer of technology and communications professor at New York University, argues that technology is not only changing culture, it is revolutionizing it. Clay Shirky clearly is a man who does not subscribe to the adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their aim is to ensure justice, harmony and balance in the inner and outer realms, guaranteeing the survival of not only this planet, but others in the universal eco-system encompassing every being who fights to maintain the light of the Creator. Throughout history, we find them in roles of great power, counsels to the ruling elite, or as matrilineal High Priestesses. They are considered cosmic, primordial and ancestral, their essence is multi-layered. They were present on Earth before humans arrived here. The name Iyami relates to the Yoruba religion of West Africa, yet their expansiveness is worldwide, having been revered throughout the woman’s mysteries since time immemorial. They are the right-hand counsel to the Supreme Creator, an inextricable force of creation who sustain all life. Our Mothers (Iyami) are the super powerful cosmological Divine Mothers (Super Goddesses), who throughout the annals of history are known by a thousand names. Reading this book will stretch the boundaries of sacred knowledge as you immerse yourself in a primordial ocean of revelations. ![]() ![]() In this world, there are three empires at the brink of war-with one another, and within themselves. Legend goes that Galian Berethnet, wielding the mythical sword Ascalon, succeeded in drawing borders around the Nameless One’s power and consigning him to the Abyss, but whatever he did is melting away and the fire-breathing dragon will surge back with a vengeance, doling death in his wake. Without surrendering any spoilers, the story goes like this:Īfter a millennium of peace, rumors of the Nameless One’s return-gliding vulture-like in the skies above-had finally descended and sunk in their claws for good. ![]() This, I've come to realize, is the hallmark of a great book. The same experience of waking up just as the last vestiges of some delightful nocturnal adventure are disappearing. ![]() I barely felt time passing, and when I finished reading, I had the strange experience of looking up from the pages, feeling dreamy and obscure and so keenly aware of the world around me, almost to an abject degree. I feel like a thread of my heart had snagged in The Priory of The Orange Tree and is still trying to tug me back in. ![]() ![]() Afghanistan War veteran Clifford Dee is content working as a private investigator. The likable, endearing hero fights to get out of the clutches of the mafia in Reed’s sharp, relentlessly edgy tale. Fans of Max Allan Collins’s Quarry series will be pleased. Well plotted, engaging, and full of surprises A page-turner. Reed’s willingness not to pull punches-his lead’s prepared to sever fingers of the Tyes as proof for Bandoni-is refreshing. The action-rich plot, which also involves political corruption, never loses steam. This novel is told in present tense with an omniscient point of view. Structured much like an action movie, the novel begins in medias res with a short subplot, quickly resolved, that turns out to have implications for the main story. This job proves to be just the prologue to more complicated involvement with Don Bandoni, who warns Dee off being equally diligent on behalf of another, more typical client, who suspects his wife of infidelity and hires Dee to verify that suspicion. Clifford’s War is a plot-driven story with many twists, turns, and complications. ![]() Things get off to a bad start when the Tye brothers take Dee captive, but he manages to escape from the abandoned church where he’s been left strapped to a table and pursue the Tyes. Brenden had the misfortune to be in bed with the person the Tyes were targeting, the daughter of the head of a rival gang. ![]() Mafia boss Eustachio Innocenzo Bandoni hires Kentucky PI and occasional hit man Clifford Dee, the protagonist of Reed’s suspenseful crime novel, to kill assassins Darius and Marcus Tye after the Tye brothers murder his nephew, Brenden Bandoni. ![]() ![]() ![]() A competition between her suitors for her hand in marriage saw Menelaus emerge victorious. In her youth, she was abducted by Theseus. Her story reappears in Book II of Virgil's Aeneid. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta "who became by her the father of Hermione, and, according to others, of Nicostratus also." Her abduction by Paris of Troy was the most immediate cause of the Trojan War.Įlements of her putative biography come from classical authors such as Aristophanes, Cicero, Euripides, and Homer (in both the Iliad and the Odyssey). ![]() ![]() She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. Helen of Troy, Helen, Helena, ( Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē, pronounced ) also known as beautiful Helen, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. ![]() Clytemnestra, Castor, Timandra, Phoebe, Philonoe (half-siblings)Īethiolas, Hermione, Nicostratus, Megapenthes, Pleisthenes (by Menelaos)īunomus, Aganus, Idaeus, Helen (by Paris) ![]() |