5/30/2023 0 Comments Blackmail and bibingka![]() Why do you have all of these?” Elena Torres, Adeena’s girlfriend and the third and final member of the Brew-ha Cafe crew (aka our voice of reason), scrolled through the cafe’s playlist on Adeena’s laptop. “Hon, you don’t even celebrate Christmas. My best friend and business partner, Adeena Awan, turned the cafe’s speaker system down to a decibel that didn’t make my ears bleed. Despite obsessing over it for the past month, I had less than two weeks till the big bash and hadn’t finalized anything. Considering what a mess the Founder’s Day Celebration had turned out to be, I really needed to wow at this party. It tied with the Founder’s Day Celebration as the biggest event in my tiny town of Shady Palms, Illinois (population: 18,751), and this was the first year my business-my dream-the Brew-ha Cafe, would be participating. ![]() I scratched out the third mistake I’d made while trying to finalize the menu for the annual Shady Palms Winter Bash. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Mike mignola gotham by gaslight![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now formally known as Earth-19, the Gaslight universe has made recent in-continuity appearances in Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight, Convergence and Booster Gold: Futures End. Craig Russell Presenting for the first time the adventures of the. The Elseworlds imprint has waxed and waned over the years, but it seems that the universe of the Victorian-age Batman first established Gaslight has achieved something few of its subsequent stablemates have managed: carving out a place for itself in the current DC Multiverse. In this video, Owen explains the history of Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignolas Gotham By Gaslight, and how the comic comments on the gothic influences and leg. Written by Brian Augustyn Cover by Mike Mignola Art by by Mignola, Eduardo Barreto and P. RELATED: 12 DC Comics Elseworlds We Want to Revisit Coming next is this fantastic Batman resin designed by Mike Mignola. ![]() Over the years Elseworlds books, each emblazoned with a stylized star logo encircled by the "Elseworlds" name, have featured a wide range of heroes from across the DC Universe in such acclaimed works as Kingdom Come, a deconstructionist tale about changing tastes in superhero values, and Superman: Red Son, which imagines a world in which the Man of Steel landed on Earth in the Soviet Union rather than in rural Kansas. White Batman by Mike Mignola Gotham by Gaslight 110 Resin Statue MF30155. Moreover, the reception of Gaslight actually prompted DC in 1991 to found its Elseworlds imprint as a home for high-quality out-of-continuity tales. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Border Songs by Jim Lynch![]() ![]() His wife Jeanette, Brandon's mother and champion, is losing her memory and spends her days poring over old photos and memory flash cards. His knees are giving out on him and he wishes he'd sold out to the big milk conglomerates when they offered to buy his farm. Norm, Brandon father, is a struggling small dairy farmer whose cows have been struck by a mystery illness. At his father's insistence, he's recently joined the US Border Patrol and has an uncanny knack of being at the right spot when drug smugglers attempt to cross the US/Canada border near where he is stationed. He wants most of all to be inconspicuous. The hero of our story is Brandon: he's 6ft 8in tall and solidly built, severely dyslexic, can mimic bird calls and likes to builds banners of made of leaves and towers of stones. There is a whole slew of slightly oddball characters in this novel. But I was captivated by the opening sentence and the story that followed. This is my first Jim Lynch novel so his style was totally unknown to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() TDOV is just one opportunity to do our part as allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate and care for trans and non-binary folks - but first, we’ll give you a little history lesson. It’s more imperative now than ever to fight for and affirm our trans neighbors, friends, and loved ones. Not to mention, Black and Brown trans women continue to face fatal violence. Whether it’s attempts to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth, trans youth participation in sports, or even ban insurance companies that provide trans adults with healthcare, basic human rights have been put up for debate. In states across the U.S, trans people are under attack. ![]() ![]() This year in particular, TDOV feels especially important. Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) celebrates the joy and beauty of trans and non-binary folks across the globe, elevating their voices, and working together to make them feel seen, understood, and protected. March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility! This annual, international event is an opportunity to highlight and celebrate transgender and non-binary individuals while also fighting for a safer, more just future for all trans people. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Black creek crossing by john saul![]() ![]() It’s Seth who tells Angel the unspoken truth about the legacy of murder that hangs over her family’s home-and the whispered rumors that something supernatural still dwells there. Until she meets Seth Baker, a fellow outcast-and a fateful kinship is forged. ![]() But when she is shunned by her new classmates, Angel falls deeper into despair. Then Angel’s family moves to the quaint town of Roundtree, Massachusetts-where a charming home is available, a promising job awaits Angel’s unemployed father, and most of all, the chance to make a new start beckons to the shy, hopeful teenager. For most of her young life, fifteen-year-old Angel Sullivan has been on the outside looking in, enduring the taunts of cruel schoolmates and the angry abuse of a bitter father. With these eerie ingredients, bestselling master John Saul once again works his unique brand of sinister magic to conjure an unforgettable tale of unspeakable terror. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retribution. ![]() ![]() Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. You can read this before Black Creek Crossing PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Black Creek Crossing written by John Saul which was published in 2001–. Brief Summary of Book: Black Creek Crossing by John Saul ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The lucky one nicholas![]() Nowhere in the course of events does he exhibit any sign of patriotism or nationalism which would explain why he is taking part in the war. Nevertheless, Logan’s point of view is also vague. ![]() As the narration follows the protagonist, it is natural that little attention is paid to the broader picture, like the political proceedings behind the conflict. The protagonist, Logan Thibault, is a marine at service in the war in Iraq. The concept of finding meaning is developed by contrasting the chaotic nature of war and the order introduced by the photograph he has found. ![]() ![]() However, despite the consensus among critics, both the fate and the chance are methods that are used by the author to reveal a much deeper concept of the journey through which the protagonist searches for the meaning of his life throughout the narrative. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Least heat moon blue highways![]() The often uproarious, often terrifying narrative teems with high adventure and fascinating characters. He and Nikawa braved record-shattering floods, foundered on hull-crushing sandbars, and overcame innumerable other travails great and small. Aboard his little launch Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage), Heat-Moon logged more than five thousand miles, completing a trek no American had ever managed, yet following in the wake of our greatest explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark.Įn route, he encountered odder adventures, bigger and nastier cities, lonelier spaces, stranger people, and more turbulent waters than even he had expected. ![]() In 1995, Heat-Moon set out on his most ambitious trip yet, from New York harbor to the breakwater of Astoria, Oregon, almost entirely by water. Brimming with history, drama, hilarity, and wisdom, River Horse ranks among the greatest American travelogues. The acclaimed, best-selling author of Blue Highways and Prairyerth chronicles his one-of-a-kind journey through America's waterways from Atlantic to Pacific. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Ruthless people book 2![]() ![]() Through their marriage he will not only take over his father’s, but also her father’s mafia empire AND gain a meek wife to represent them to the world… Heiress Melody Nicci Giovanni is the final piece in the puzzle. Liam has worked tirelessly alongside his father and the time has finally come for his father to pass the reigns and title of Ceann na Conairte to him. Ruthless People (book 1) opens up to prodigal son Liam Alec Callahan, in bed with his mistress reflecting over the marriage contract that had been signed twelve years prior between two of the most powerful mafia houses in the world - his family and The Giovanni’s. The Ruthless People trilogy follows two mafia families, The Callahan’s (Irish) and The Giovanni’s (Italian) in their merge, through marriage, with the intent of maintaining power, wealth and world domination through mainly drug trafficking and corruption by a.n.y. ![]() ![]() I had been so shocked and horny that my mind couldn’t even comprehend what had happened.” A whirlwind, blood-filled merger of two mafia houses and the power struggle / fuck-fest that ensues between a prodigal son & a mafia heiress! ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Fantastic mr fox book![]() ![]() Their home had been razed but, in the concluding scene, they discover the fruits of commercial society in the shape of an ‘international supermarket.’ In the end, they are banished from the comforting orange tinge of the wood for the dark, grey gloom of the urban sewers, and made complacent by the easy and sanitized food chain of the city. By the end, the foxes and the rest of the animals of the woods are banished to the sewers. A series of escalations, provocations, and altercations ends in tragedy (as Mrs. ![]() Naturally, a fox being a fox, conflict ensues. The problem is these neighboring farms in the valley were owned by the three worst farmers, the ‘horrible crooks’ Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Fox’s desire for upward mobility and the finer things in life moves them to a fox hole under an idyllic tree in the woods, fit with a beautiful vista overlooking a spanning valley of fields and orchards. Fox and family’s story begins in a decent burrow, a home proper to the fox. ![]() Fox (2009) recently, I was first struck by its often less-than-subtle critical perspective on the onset of industrial society and its encroachment against nature and community. ![]() |