![]() ![]() You have said there is a lot of your relationship with your brother written into the friendship between Clay Cooper and Gabriel (I am paraphrasing). ![]() That said, the death of one character can be a very useful tool for motivating another, which is why-Well, I suppose I’d better stop there… While this is a great tool for fostering tension and keeping the stakes high, I think it’s possible to do so while not killing off characters for shock value alone. ![]() When I wrote Kings of the Wyld I wanted it to be different from what I’d been reading for the last decade or so-which is to say books wherein the main characters could and would die at any moment. What difficulties do you face writing the death of a beloved character? ![]() Of course, fantasy readers (and agents, and editors) love a good trilogy, so while I devised the plots of books two and three shortly after finishing the first, it was important to me that each book feature a new cast of characters, so as not to devalue the point of the first. I wrote Kings of the Wyld to be a standalone book, since it’s very much a story about a band’s last great adventure. Did you know where the storylines of Bloody Rose and Outlaw Empire were heading when you wrote Kings of the Wyld? ![]()
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![]() Lay originally focused on classical music as a career but after joining The Ten Tenors in late 2018, the award-winning performer said he was able to explore classical music in a new way and diversify his style. ![]() Lay and his wife live in an apartment in Melbourne’s Southbank, not far from the Arts Centre’s Hamer Hall, where Lay will perform as one of the Ten Tenors on May 27 for the singing ensemble’s Love is in the Air tour. She said yes, and the couple were then married in Warragul in 2011. “It was clearly not a good time to ask her to marry me - she was freaking out and terrified by the whole ferris-wheel experience,” Lay recalled.īut he wasn’t discouraged by the failed romantic attempt and tried again once they were safely on the ground beside the Yarra River. ![]() The 31-year-old had planned to pop the question on the top of a ferris wheel, but when the wind started rattling the cage and the amusement ride started to creak, Alexandra, his soon-to-be-fiance, understandably got a bit nervous. When it came time to making a marriage proposal, opera singer Nathan Lay decided he would soar to new heights. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not just a steampunk novella with a majority Black and brown cast. Just as Desmond uses Maroon mythology to keep Lij grounded in his past, so too does Broaddus in using the science fiction genre as a tool for exploring the philosophies and social mores of the real world. The stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell others, stories that hold our history and culture, stories that help us find our place in the world. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer alone.Īssassins, intrigue, and steammen stand between Desmond and Lij as they search for a place to call home in a North America that could have been.” (via Goodreads) My Thoughtsīuffalo Soldier is a story about stories. Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. “ Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari. Genre: Science Fiction, Alternate History ![]() ![]() Packed full of adventure, romance, exoticism and the power of friendship, THE ELITES is a highly compelling and beautifully written novel from a supremely talented debut author. Intertwining the story of the two young Elites with a parallel narrative about the children in the slums of the city, Natasha Ngan builds up a convincing picture of her futuristic metropolis, raising some intriguing questions along the way. Forced to flee the city with her best friend Butterfly (a boy with genetically-enhanced wings), Silver will have to fight to find her family, uncover the truth about Neo-Babel and come to terms with her complicated feelings for Butterfly. This cleverly-plotted young adult novel brings together elements of adventure, romance and dystopia. She'd never dream of leaving - but then she fails to prevent the assassination of Neo Babel's president, setting off a chain of events more shocking and devastating than she could ever have imagined. Fifteen-year-old Silver is an Elite, a citizen of Neo-Babel chosen to guard the city due to her superior DNA. ![]() Only one city has survived: Neo-Babel, a city full of cultures - and racial tension. Outside of writing YA fiction, Natasha works as a. ![]()
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An accessible, practical, step-by-step how-to guide that supplements Getting Things Done by providing the details, the how-to's, and the practices to apply GTD more fully and easily in daily life ![]() ![]() ![]() In this neighborhood, the Shah is a subject of contempt rather than veneration, and residents fear SAVAK, the state’s secret police force, which operates without any restraint. At first the girls scarcely know the boys are alive, and one of them, Zari, is engaged to Doctor-not actually a doctor but an exceptionally gifted and politically committed young Iranian. They’re bright, funny and good-looking they’re going to graduate from high school in a year and they’re in love with a couple of the neighborhood girls. ![]() ![]() A star-crossed romance captures the turmoil of pre-revolutionary Iran in Seraji’s debut.įrom the rooftops of Tehran in 1973, life looks pretty good to 17-year-old Pasha Shahed and his friend Ahmed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “What the hell has marriage got to do with it? You were engaged for years to that man in Chicago.” For example, when he is upset she didn’t tell him she was a virgin she says “Tell you? Why on earth would I tell you such a thing? You know I have never been married before” ![]() The way the two interact with each other is so modern for the era the story is set it. She doesn’t sulk or is reduced to a puddle of tears. Even when they fight she just gets on with it. She is constantly at him like a yappy dog at a postman’s ankles and but she isn’t irritating because she is right. She is a ball buster and I love how she challenges Cord yet she isn’t sassy. What I liked about this book is how fabulous Annie is. So he shuts himself off from the world and isn’t a man of many words (surprise, surprise). A wonderful girl like Annie does not belong with an outcast like him. For a while the niggly voice in his head tells his conscious that she will leave him soon because he is a half “breed” and all he has known is racial discrimination. So they are thrown together in a violent way and she chooses to stay with him (but not in a Stockholm syndrome way). The beginning of the book is quite brutal with both characters being bashed and Annie left to try save Cord’s life. His own brothers occasionally would like to see him dead too. The way Cord is described, he is so dangerous that even the Sheriff is scared of him. Cord Bennett according to Goodreads reviewer Heidi ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() TowneBank is presenting sponsor of the 2023 Director’s Series. For questions, call (757) 253-4572.Īdmission is limited and each individual must purchase a ticket online in advance, so please update the “Quantity” to “1” when completing the form below. Photo by Noah Fecks When food writer and historian Michael Twitty traveled to Caesarea National Park in Israel several years ago, he was struck by the broken mosaic among the rubble on a dining room floor. Admission is limited and tickets must be purchased online in advance. Food writer and historian Michael Twitty is the James Beard Award-winning author of The Cooking Gene and Rice. Reserve your seat to enjoy these thought-provoking conversations for $10 per program either in-person or virtually. Get ready to explore how he connects his personal roots through food. He has appeared on numerous national television programs and holds esteemed roles as a National Geographic Explorer and 2022 TIME 100 Next class member. Twitty, an African American and Jewish culinary historian and food writer, is a blogger at and author of award-winning books - the 2018 James Beard Award’s “The Cooking Gene” that traces his food ancestry from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom, “Rice” and “KosherSoul,” a recipient of the 2023 National Jewish Book Award. Working and Racing on the Bay: The Chesapeake Log Canoe.TENACITY: Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia.FOCUSED: A Century of Virginia Indian Resilience. ![]() Jamestown and Bermuda: Virginia Company Colonies.AfterWARd: The Revolutionary Veterans Who Built America. ![]() ![]() It's a dark bully romance that contains mature content and demanding alphaholes that some readers may find disturbing. The Destruction You Desire is the fifth book in my Maddison Kings University series and the second book in a duet for Peyton and Luca. Until he proves that the boy I fell for still exists, underneath the one who broke my heart.Īnd I begin to wonder if there ever was a question about our future. Something I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to give him. ![]() Only this time Luca is right there beside me, reminding me how things used to be… fighting for me. ![]() Just when I think the darkness couldn’t drag us down any further, it threatens to swallow me whole. That might put us on the same side this time, but that doesn’t mean I can forgive him for not believing me. Now the vengeance he so desperately craves isn’t directed at me, but the monster responsible for destroying all our lives. ![]() A brutal discovery he refused to accept when I needed him most. After six years of living in denial, Luca is finally faced with the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831 - and now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo. A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. But with the office unmanned - and under threat - how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right? Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past. ![]() Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula. Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong. ![]() |