![]() ![]() We Are Bridges, Lane’s debut novel, is the product of such reflection: a work which intertwines past and present, pain and love, as well as documented and imagined histories. Over one hundred years later, Lane, pregnant with her first child, begins to reflect on what it means to inherit and transmit a family history. In 1904, Cassandra Lane’s great-grandfather was lynched by white men in a small town in Mississippi. With novelist Cassandra Lane and artist Malika Harding Click here to RSVP Join Evenings with an Author and Black History Month to discuss We Are Bridges Writing Workshop Winter 2023: Landscape & Memory.Writing Workshop Summer 2023: Form & Craft. ![]()
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![]() The series focuses heavily on creative twists on well-known and more obscure mythologies. He's tasked with using their minds, memories, and bodies to find the monsters responsible and gank them. It follows Vincent Graves, a soul murdered by the paranormal and forced to inhabit the bodies of others killed by monsters. And it's the more that's the problem!'s one of the problems.Vincent's investigation also seems to have drawn the attention of a relentless FBI agent and then there's the little bit where he has only thirteen hours to solve the case, or he dies.Talk about your literal deadlines.No pressure.By the end of this case Vincent will come to understand the meaning of an age old proverb: Be careful what you wish for - because you just might get it!Click buy now to dive into this paranormal investigator thriller!Frequently Asked Questions:Q: What is The Grave Report?A: The Grave Report is a paranormal investigator series inspired by Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and the show, Quantum Leap. ![]() ![]() Hell, it's not even a good one and Vincent Graves is going to find out just how unlucky of a number it can be.Because someone, or something, is killing people in the Empire state, and whatever it is, it gives people everything they ever desired and more. Who says you can only die once?Vincent Graves:Free SpiritParanormal InvestigatorSoul Without A BodyThirteen.As far as numbers go, it isn't a great one. ![]() ![]() ![]() People will laugh at me? Not the people I respect they haven't yet, and they're not going to start now.Ģ. So I combat my fears with a staring-down ritual, like a boxer looking his opponent right in the eye before a bout.ġ. If I let them, they'll shut down my impulses ('No, you can't do that') and perhaps turn off the spigots of creativity altogether. ![]() "There are mighty demons, but they're hardly unique to me. Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind. ![]() When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. Whatever I am going to create will be a reflection of how these have shaped my life, and how I've learned to channel my experiences into them. These ten items are at the heart of who I am. “When I walk into I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are powerful and tender in the same breath, but this ain't no sit-around, clap-your-hands, feel-good poetry. The Definition of Empty is holistically intoxicating, laced with acts of forgiveness and compassion, so much of what is needed in the world right now."-Levi Romero, Inaugural Poet Laureate of New Mexico, "Bill O'Neill's poems are graceful, fluid, and revealing. ![]() Throughout, O'Neill provides revelatory flashes of his own imperfect humanity in the role of a public servant."-Molly Boyle, Santa Fe Reporter, "Bill O'Neill's poems are graceful, fluid, and revealing. "The withering wit O'Neill wields about political posturing is maybe the most satisfying part of his poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Victor decided not to give the news to his family. Guillem died in battle shortly thereafter. Before Guillem returned to the front, they had sex, feeling that the future was almost nonexistent anyway. ![]() She nursed him back to health over the following weeks, a period which inspired the two to fall in love with one another. Roser immediately realized he was unwell. Nine days after Marcel Lluis's burial, Guillem returned home. Back home in Barcelona, Victor, Carme, and Roser, the girl their family had taken in years prior, sat with Marcel Lluis on his death bed. Victor tried contacting his brother Guillem to come home with him, but Guillem could not leave his position on the front. Victor received a letter from his mother Carme informing him that his father Marcel Lluis would soon die. Victor told his colleagues the act was not inspired by medical training but was born of impulse. One day, when a man died on his table, he reached inside his chest and squeezed his heart. In 1938, Victor Dalmau was serving on the front as a medic during the latter years of the Spanish Civil War. Although the narrator shifts between various characters and settings throughout the novel, for the sake of clarity, the following summary adheres to a more streamlined mode of explanation. Tracing nearly 60 years, the novel begins in Spain in 1938 and ends in Chile in 1994. ![]() Isabel Allende's novel A Long Petal of the Sea is written from the third person point of view and in the past tense. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Allende, Isabel. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is currently finishing the follow Alan Mitchell was born in Newark and raised in Linden, New Jersey. He expanded his involvement in the business when he wrote, produced and directed the short film "Pretty Boy" (1999) along with several spec commercials and independent rap videos. In 1998 he penned the Acapulco film Festival winning short film "Breakdown". Alan's writing career began with rewriting screenplays for independent film producers and treatments for music video directors. ![]() There he began to hone his skills as a writer and develop his eye as a director. The author has cut his teeth as a production assistant on over one hundred music videos and commercials. ![]() He earned a B.S.in corporate fitness from The College of New Jersey in 1991. Alan Mitchell was born in Newark and raised in Linden, New Jersey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve read a lot of books that I have given 3 stars to, and I don’t regret any of them. *a note on my rating system: I go by the rates I use on, which are as follows:Īnything a 3 or above is worth reading, in my opinion. As with most books that have been made into movies, I suggest reading the book first! Howls Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones - Google Books In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. It’s a great film (although it does change things a bit from the book). There is also the bonus that this book was made into an animated movie by the great Miyazaki (you know him as the director of movies like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke). It’s the kind of book that I find myself coming back to when I need a good book to curl up with on a rainy day. The book has so many great fantasy elements to it: a moving castle, a fire demon, a difficult wizard, and a great heroine. Her only hope of breaking the curse is tracking down Howl, a wizard who might be able to help her, if he can look beyond his own selfishness for two seconds. The novel tells the story of Sophie, who gets on the bad side of the Witch of the Waste and winds up cursed to be an old woman. ![]() Diana Wynne Jones wrote a lot of great fantasy, but this is my favorite of all of her works. Why am I recommending this book?: It’s one of my favorite fantasy novels. Teen Book Recommendation #16: Howl’s Moving Castleby Diana Wynne Jones ![]() ![]() ![]() In March 2008, Hughes received a Lifetime Achievement award at the inaugural Whitney Awards. re interested in Church or world history, or if youre simply looking for a powerful LDS novel, you wont want to miss Rumors of War. He is one of the writers largely credited with the rapidly increasing quality of Mormon literature in recent years. Much of his writing is targeted to children and young adults (particularly sports-themed and World War II-era books), although he is also well known to adult readers of LDS Fiction for "Children of the Promise" and "Hearts of the Children" series, set in World War II and Vietnam War eras respectively. He has written and published over ninety books. Hughes was 35 when his first book was published. Hughes has also taught creative writing at Brigham Young University. Before he became a full-time writer, he taught English at Central Missouri State University for 8 years. He attended Weber State University studying English, and received a Masters in creative writing and a PhD in literature from the University of Washington. ![]() Gary Dean Smith died almost 55 years ago during the opening battle of the. During his senior year in high school he started his first novel. In 1917, the first American civilian casualty of World War I was a Red Cross. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high school. Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah in 1943. ![]() ![]() ![]() ) broaden the focus to insect life, to weather and the seasons ("I have talked with the faint clouds in the sky") and to other parts of the U.S. One of the 42 new poems watches ravens on a "morning of green tenderness and/ rain" others describe a mockingbird, a white heron, an obedient dog, tiger lilies, deer, terns, blueberry fields on Cape Cod (where Oliver lives) and a "Mountain Lion on East Hill Road," glimpsed just "once, years ago." Poems reprinted from six earlier books (beginning with 1994's White Pine Buy New and Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on. Understand, I am always trying to figure out what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape-New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a career in poetry that has spanned nearly five decades. , this big and very quotable collection offers more of what Oliver's fans revere: optimistic, clear and lyrical explorations of varying ecosystems, (especially the birds, mammals, ponds and forests of the northeastern U.S.) mingled with rapt self-questioning, consolation and spiritual claims some might call prayers. About New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. Following by 13 years her National Book Award–winning New and Selected Volume One Mary Oliver The Swan Across the wide waters something comes floatinga slim and delicate ship, filled with white flowers and it moves on its miraculous muscles as though time didn't exist as though bringing such gifts to the dry shore was a happiness almost beyond bearing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Levine mysteriously disappears eighteen months later, and Malcolm fears he might have discovered the location of "Site B", and in his impatience already set out for it without letting Malcolm know.Ĭustom field vehicle creator Doc Thorne and his assistant Eddie Carr, who provided much of Levine's equipment, deduce the location of Site B, with the assistance of Malcolm and two schoolchildren who assisted Levine, computer whiz R.B "Arby" Benton and his friend Kelly Curtis. That place is Site B, located on an island named Isla Sorna, was the secret "production factory" for Jurassic Park, where dinosaur stock were first hatched and grown, before shipped to Isla Nublar. ![]() ![]() 3 Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures mentioned or appeared in the novelĪfter miraculously surviving the 1989 disaster on Jurassic Park in August 1993, eccentric mathematician Ian Malcolm encounters wealthy dinosaur-enthusiast Richard Levine during Malcolm's own lecture and is convinced to find remaining dinosaurs from InGen's site a mysterious unknown location. ![]() |