![]() ![]() She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two children. Bleck has a degree in graphic design from the University of Illionis, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author and illustrator of Pepper Goes to School and the illustrator of a series of children’s treasuries of nursery rhymes, songs, lullabies, and prayers. We Gather Together Celebrating the Harvest Season Author Wendy Pfeffer Illustrated by Linda Bleck. Bleck is making memories with her own children in Wisconsin, where the fall’s brilliant colors of changing leaves and crisp blue skies, as well as visits to local fruit and pumpkin farms, provide her with the inspiration to create her vivid illustrations. Linda Bleck grew up in a family of nine children in northern Illionois, and their Thanksgiving feasts were celebrated at a table her father made from a large door. She lives with her husband, Tom, in New Jersey, where the change of seasons allows them to sail and swim in summer, then cross-country ski after the winter solstice welcomes winter each year. An early-childhood specialist, she enjoys visiting schools and teaching creative writing to children. ![]() ![]() Wendy Pfeffer is the author of many science-oriented children’s books, including From Tadpole to Frog and A Log’s Life, which won the Giverny Award for Best Children’s Science Picture Book. We Gather Together : Celebrating the Harvest Season 3. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Piper's death, a third novel, "Fuzzies and Other People" was discovered and published. They also find out that only about 1 in 10 pregnancies results in a viable Fuzzy child - a virtual death sentence for the race. ![]() Piper wrote "Fuzzy Sapiens" (which kinda spoils the mystery of the above paragraph), in which the humans try to organize the government (including a constitution and elected legislature) for a race of sapient creatures who are as trusting and mentally developed as the average human 12-year-old. He seemed extremely intelligent, but could he actually be sapient? If so, that would cause extreme complications for the Company in charge of the planet. Now that Fuzzy Sapiens has been officially recognized as a sapient race, humans are obligated to protect their well-being on Zarathustra, with Jack Holloway being their official guardian, backed up by the Colonial Marines. Beam Piper wrote "Little Fuzzy", about an extraterrestrial critter about 2 feet tall and covered with hair. The small fuzzy species discovered on the planet Zarathustra has been declared sapient, but now that the Fuzzies are protected by law, the humans who have colonized Zarathustra have to figure out how to live with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() For older audiences he has published an illustrated memoir of his year-long trip around the world in 1990-91 entitled You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons. In addition to picture books, Mo created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of “Easy Readers”, which were awarded the Theodor Suess Geisel Medal in 20 and a Geisel Honor in 2011. The sequel, Knuffle Bunny Too: a Case of Mistaken Identity garnered Mo his third Caldecott Honor in 2008. The following year Knuffle Bunny: a Cautionary Tale was awarded a Caldecott Honor. His debut effort, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! became a New York Times Bestseller and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2004. While serving as head writer for Cartoon Network’s #1 rated show, Codename: Kids Next Door, Mo began writing and drawing books for children. During his nine seasons at Sesame Street, Mo also served as a weekly commentator for BBC Radio and created two animated series, Nickelodeon’s The Off-Beats and Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. New York Times Bestseller Mo Willems began his career as a writer and animator for PBS’ Sesame Street, where he garnered 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, she met women from all walks of life-who were all struggling through the same upside-down world of corrections. There, in the Twilight Zone of New York’s jails and prisons, Keri grappled with the wreckage of her missteps and mistakes as she sobered up and searched for a better path. Her arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars for nearly two years. Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice.įor the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Inspiring and relevant.”Īn electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. ![]() a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you wanted a sticky situation resolved, she could fix it. If you wanted intel on someone, she could get it. She was one of the best free agents in the business. Nothing more than a one night stand whenever the itch got too strong to scratch by herself – and it always worked for her. The safest kind of love for Camille Devereaux has always been none at all. Kings of Chaos is a full length dark new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes, featuring a slightly psycho heroine and four even more psychotic men. To let their demons loose on me.īut maybe these Kings of Chaos have let my pretty face fool them.īecause I’m just as vicious as they are. Even though they’ve agreed to help me, I know they want to punish me too. They’ll give me a chance to exact my vengeance, and in exchange, all they want is… ![]() Lucky for me, the last name on my list is someone they’ve got their own grudge against, so instead of killing me, they offer me a deal. But it turns out revenge is a messy business, and when I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I royally piss off four brutal, twisted, gorgeous men. Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I was a good girl once, but now I dance with devils. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll post contests and chances to win p rizes throughout the year. Remember to come back and visit often for new updates, too. Perhaps, your next read is only a click away. Please sit back with a cup of coffee or with your favorite drink and browse. Whether your reading fancy is paranormal, time travel, contemporary romances, all my stories capture the rich array of emotions that accompany the most fabulous human phenomena of falling in love. When I'm not time traveling, fighting outlaws, or otherworldly creatures, I create pre-made book covers with my daughter Katrina Gillian at: Gillian’s Book Covers, “Judge Your Book By Its Cover". Jack, my Chorkie, is my writing buddy and sits long hours with m e at the computer. Though my three children are grown and starting their own adventures, I still have fur babies. As a multi-published author, I spin tales for The Wild Rose Press, Highland Press, and Twin Star Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. ![]() ![]() It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A powerful take of possession and liberation. 'Stunningly gorgeous and devastatingly romantic, you won't want to miss this one!' Katee Robert, author of Neon Gods But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things.įinding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession.Ī deliciously dark retelling of Dracula, A Dowry of Blood is a sensual story of obsession, desire and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. 'DARK, LUSH AND HEARTRENDINGLY ROMANTIC' Lyndall Clipstone, author of Lakesedge ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, there was something of a backlash against scientists who had been involved in vivisection. Protests of inhumane treatment of animals became increasingly prevalent. But once Darwin's theory broke down the barrier between human and animal in the popular mind, many people felt a stronger connection to the "lesser creatures." The idea that there might be unbroken lines of descent connecting species to common ancestors ultimately served to humanize the animals (at least, the ones that seemed most human to begin with). ![]() ![]() Very few people considered animals as anything but inferior species, so anti-cruelty legislation was all but absent. It is still practiced today, in part as an alternative to experimenting on people.īefore the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution, animal experimentation was more or less tolerated in England and other countries. Vivisection, or operating on living animals for the purposes of scientific research, has a long history in medicine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It later added David Walker’s Occupy Avengers (2016). The return of the Marvel Universe launched with two flagship titles – All-New All-Different Marvel included Mark Waid’s All-New All-Different Avengers (2015) and Al Ewing’s New Avengers (2016). He would later add Avengers Assemble (2012) to focus on a movie-friendly team.Īfter that point, Avengers flagships continued into Jonathan Hickman’s relaunch of Avengers (2012) and New Avengers (2013), his Infinity (2013) event, the addition of Avengers World (2014), and the lead-up to his Secret Wars in 2015. That changed in 2010, when Marvel and Bendis launched the twin Avengers flagship books of Avengers (2010) and New Avengers (2010), each focused on a different element of the team – the heavy-hitters and the street-level characters. In its place was his relaunched New Avengers, and later Mighty Avengers along with it. In 2005, Marvel stopped publishing a comic called “Avengers” for the first time since 1963 in the wake of Brian Bendis’s “Avengers: Disassembled” event. ![]() Last updated April 2023 with titles scheduled for release through August 2023. A part of Crushing Comics – Guide to Marvel Comics. The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide on collecting Avengers flagships comic books from 2010 to present, including Avengers & New Avengers, Avengers by Hickman, and Avengers by Aaron via omnibuses, hardcovers, and trade paperback graphic novels. ![]() |