![]() ![]() ![]() I created three pieces for this exhibition, inspired by my people's connection to the horse nation. Location: Various locations (SD, MN) | Opening Date: September 2016 Both pieces contain the reflection of the horse and person playing on the thought that what we do in life carries on with us during our journey in the afterlife. I decided to feature the body of water known to Americans as Devils Lake in two of my pieces the name of my tribe is call Spirit Lake (North Dakota) and this is where we live these are a homage to the long history of my Dakota people and my memories of my tribe. Thus, that memory is also represented in this piece, as the horse carrying on that belief that we have a connection with the nations around us. My older cousin told me if I whistled and sang, the lights would dance for us and so we did the lights reacted! ![]() ![]() The horse in this piece comes from my memories: visiting my tribe as a child, far away from the city lights, I remember looking up at the stars one night and seeing the faint Northern Lights. This piece is homage to that thinking, that even in the depths of winter’s cold, the traditional teachings will help us through those hard times. She also promised the people would survive and prosper if they followed the ceremonies and teachings she revealed. Many times I recall the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman and the differences in outcomes for people if they approach each other with respect. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Amc interview with a vampire![]() Lestat sees Louis for the passion he has inside of him, and not just because Lestat is a hungry vampire who can read and control minds. ![]() “Interview with the Vampire” becomes a love story when Lestat de Lioncourt ( Sam Reid) enters the picture, with his staggering, accented low voice and Brad Pitt-esque looks and a self-assured presentation as a classy outsider. ![]() In a saga that’s all about unlikely bonds, Louis and his brother have a touching relationship that ends with one of the series’ few gripping twists of fate. Norfleet) who preaches at the dinner table. Louis has pride in his community, and a closeness with his family, particularly that of his mighty religious brother Paul (Steven G. Louis de Pointe du Lac ( Jacob Anderson) is a Black business owner who runs underground affairs while also gaining some upward mobility-he can play cards with local white politicians and fat cats, but they also expect a “sir” at the end of his statements. And this “ Interview” is told through a perspective not often used when going to this point in history. ![]() This “ Interview with the Vampire” takes viewers back to 1900s New Orleans’ Storyville neighborhood, also known as the Red-Light district, which is treated with ornate production design and large sets that fill up the screen and suck us in all on their own. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lover mine by jr ward![]() His insanity made it impossible for the Brotherhood to protect him, or protect themselves from him. His skills previously failed him under mysterious circumstances, and the result was catastrophic: he lost his mind. Most Brothers are gifted with unique skills that make them perfect killers, but Murhder is different. In The Savior, you’ll meet Murhder, the only vampire to be kicked out of the Black Dagger Brotherhood (an elite species of vampires who fight against a society of slayers determined to destroy them). You can start here, with this brief refresher on the newest vampire anti-hero to belong on your bookshelf! Ward’s group of bloodthirsty and sensual vampires. ![]() But you don’t have to start at the very beginning of the series to fall in love with # 1 New York Times bestselling author J. ![]() The Black Dagger Brotherhood (BDB) series has seduced readers for years with stories of bloodthirsty, sensual vampires willing to kill to protect their community and the women they love. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Life of a cactus![]() ![]() Southwest Books of the Year "Best of the Best" 2017 Multnomah County Library Best Books of 2017 Library of Congress's 52 Great Reads List 2018Ĭhicago Public Library "Best of the Best" 2017Īustin Public Library Best Tween Fiction 2017 But Aven's about to discover she can do it all. ![]() It's hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again. The two soon find themselves immersed in a mystery at the park.īook Synopsis "Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." -School Library Journal (Starred review) Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. ![]() After her dad takes a job running a dying Western theme park in Arizona, she bonds with a classmate named Connor, who has his own disability to conquer. About the Book Aven Green was born without arms. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Boiled Over by Barbara Ross![]() ![]() (What's a clambake? Picture all the Maine summer foods at once, from lobster and clams to potato salad and blueberry dessert. Only her family's dire financial predicament has her back to the rocky coast, for a rescue mission that she figures won't last all that long.īut here we are in BOILED OVER and it's clear her family still needs her - every small accident costs the struggling family clambake enterprise in customers and profits. Snowdon may be from Maine, but her skills have been honed in New York City. Ross's first book in this series, Clammed Up, introduced Julia Snowden to readers last year. ![]() Let's add the new Maine Clambake Mystery from Barbara Ross. It's time to stack up the summer reading, whether it's for the beach or the hammock or the couch. What can I say? My mom loved the rocky, wind-swept coast of Maine my dad never took us to the "gentle" beaches on Cape Cod because they are more crowded - we could go to the colder side and spend less money and waste less time while still collecting shells and sniffing the salt air and by the way, here in land-locked Vermont, "beach" means a narrow strip of sand alongside a lake where the last ice vanished maybe six weeks ago.īut it's June, and there will be hot sunny afternoons, even if the mornings are "fresh" (almost frosty) and the nights sparkle with a cold clear star-scape. My beach life has been the northern New England version: bring sweatshirt, blanket, long pants, extra socks, maybe even hot tea in a Thermos. ![]() ![]() His mother is the Atlantean Goddess of Destruction Apollymi. To quickly summarize: Acheron came into being 11,000 ago in the Atlantean pantheon. Lucy Dosch, blogger at Heroes and Heartbreakers, explains the back story of these twin brothers in her post, “Bad Romance: The History of Styxx and Acheron.” It should be read in conjunction with Acheron, published in 2008, the story of the Dark-Hunter leader. With her latest installment, we have the highly anticipated story of Acheron’s brother, Styxx. I fell in love with her Dark-Hunter stories four years ago when I first heard her speak at Dragon*Con - and I’ve been hooked ever since, finishing all of the books in the New York Times’ bestselling series. ![]() Sherrilyn was in great form in the packed ballroom of the Westin Peachtree Plaza on the eve of Dragon*Con. Last night I joined hundreds of fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon for the launch party of Styxx, the 23rd novel in her Dark-Hunter series. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Fishbowl sarah mlynowski![]() ![]() Sarah also co-edited two bestselling charity collections (Girls' Night In and Girls' Night Out), and has contributed to various anthologies (American Girls About Town, Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, 21 Proms, First Kiss (Then Tell), Fireworks, and Vacations from Hell). Lockhart, Sarah also wrote How to Be Bad, and along with Farrin Jacobs, she wrote See Jane Write, a guide to writing. ![]() ![]() Me the New York Times bestselling middle grade series Whatever After the middle grade series Upside-Down Magic (with Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins) and the teen novels Bras & Broomsticks, Frogs & French Kisses, Spells & Sleeping Bags, and Parties & Potions (all in the Magic in Manhattan series), as well as Gimme a Call, Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have), Don't Even Think About It, Think Twice, and I See London, I See France. Since then, Sarah has written four additional novels for adults: Fishbowl, As Seen on TV, Monkey Business, and Me vs. While she never met Fabio, she used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel Milkrun. After graduating with an honors degree in English literature from McGill University, she moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her works, including this one, are held as classics in this genre and still widely read. It won acclaim due to its succinct and concise expression of social, political, and gender issues through the genre of Sci-Fi. In this novel, the writer has fictionally explored the relationship between politico-economic systems and gender equality. It is set in an anarchist society, Anarres, where there is no central organization and no government, while in contrast is ‘Urras,’ which is a hierarchical society. This novel is the first in the cycle of the Hainish series. Her Sci-Fi works, including The Dispossessed, are set in the ‘Hainish’ universe. She received five Nebula Awards, nineteen Locus Awards, and five Hugo awards.Ī Fascinating Book About Imprisonment #booktube #bookreview #bookish She has published twenty-two novels, seven poetry books, more than a hundred short stories, and a number of other literary works. She revolutionized the genre of science fiction by employing political ideologies and current social issues in it. Le Guin was a prolific writer, and one of her most famous works is her Science-Fiction novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Marisha pessl neverworld![]() ![]() ![]() First of all, it’s geared toward young adults, but it also has a bit of a fantasy element. This book is different from what you’ve written before. Here, Pessl talks to T&C about creating Neverworld’s dark and disturbing world, how it’s different than the books she’s written before, and why prep school makes for a decidedly terrifying setting. ![]() Set among a group of boarding school friends-or former friends a classmate’s untimely death has made things a bit awkward-in tony Watch Hill, Rhode Island, the book explores what can happen when you have every opportunity to learn the truth, but doing so can be fatal. Her latest effort, Neverworld Wake, might be geared toward a younger audience that either of her first two books but it has all the hallmarks that made both so remarkable. Her next novel, the brainy, delectable horror-tinged Night Film delved into the secrets of a world-famous filmmaker after the mysterious death of his daughter and cemented Pessl’s reputation as not only a masterful novelist but a stylish one to boot. The book, which followed a young girl maneuvering an erudite, perhaps dangerous high-school experience, won literary prizes and became a New York Times bestseller. When Marisha Pessl released her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, in 2004, it put her on the map as one of the most exciting authors working in fiction. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Crow Country by Kate Constable![]() It got to a point where I had to decide whether I kept reading or tried something else and I decided to go with trying something else and I had Crown Country by Kate Constable, this other time travel book sitting on my (virtual) shelf. And you know when you are reading a book and you keep willing it to be good because you truly think there is potential there? It didn’t work (does it ever?). ![]() The problem is, 200 pages (out of 412) into the book and nothing had really happened and I was just bored out of my mind. And the premise is pretty cool: young boy learns that he can travel in time (the idea is that many people can, in fact, time travel by slipping though time in the stillness of those near-sleeping moments) and then goes back to Victorian London where he will take part in the theft of the world’s most famous diamond, the Star of Banhavgarh. I had to buy it there and then and the book had been sitting on my TBR for a while until I decided it was about time to read it. I learnt about the book at Foyles (The Best Indie Bookstore in the UK), which is one of the few bricks and mortar bookstores to sell the book because they love it so much. So today I was supposed to be reviewing The Stillness of Time Travel a self-published novel by A.J. ![]() |