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![]() Pages are lightly tanned and some slightly marked. Hard cover with moderate rubbing/wear and slight soiling. The favourite of generations of Australians since it was first published in 1908, We of the Never-Never can truly be called a classic. She had an unerring ear and eye for the sounds and sights of the country and this is her moving and simple account of her life amidst the beauty and cruelty of the land, and the isolation and loneliness - together with the comradeship and kindness of those around her. ![]() One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, till her warmth and spirit won their affection and respect. She married Aeneas Gunn in 1901, who had become a partner in Elsey cattle station in the Northern Territory. 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(Author) 1,268 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() in History, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Hardcover Apby Henry Louis Gates Jr. A native of Piedmont, West Virginia, Gates earned his B.A. Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998 he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. ![]() from his alma mater, the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of a number of honorary degrees, most recently a Litt.D. ![]() He has also produced and hosted more than 20 documentary films, most recently Making Black America on PBS.įinding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is heading into its ninth season. ![]() ![]() Make no mistake: this is a stunningly brisk thriller. 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It has been eighteen years since NYPD Detective Kat Donovan‘s last meaningful relationship, when her soul mate, Jeff, broke off their engagement and disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kell had seen what happened when power warred with the body, watched it darken in the veins of corrupted men, turning their blood from crimson to black. Others in each world show some tendency for magic, and may even have dominion over some of the elements, but only Antari also have dominion over blood: ![]() A smear of his blood, when paired with a token from another London, allows him move between the worlds. ![]() Kell, 21, has one totally black eye, which marks him as an Antari, or magician, one of the last in existence. They have little in common, save for their geography, and the fact that each has a version of this city straddling this river on this island country, and in each, the city is called London.” “Think of them as different houses built on the same foundation. As Kell, one of the protagonists, explains: ![]() But not just the London we know, herein called “Grey London.” There is also a Red London, White London, and Black London, representing four different worlds. This imaginative historical fiction/fantasy is set in 1819 London. ![]() ![]() Superstition and the belief in the power of omens feature prominently in the book. ![]() Whether her visions are merely cabin fever or something else isn’t revealed, but this ‘episode’ is something which the family don’t talk about and is the elephant in the room. In the midst of all this stress, Amanda flips out, claiming to see the Devil after which she struggles to grasp onto reality. There is a second narrative which flicks back to the previous year when there was a severe snowstorm, stranded the family in their home, while their mother became ill while heavily pregnant. The reader quickly twigs that the infant has a disability, but what this disability is, is not revealed until much later in the story. She is secretly having an affair with a post delivery boy and early in the novel realises she is pregnant. Written in the first person, with a very authentic 16-year-old female narrator, who lives with her parents and four younger siblings in a remote cabin near the bottom of a mountain. ![]() ![]() This wickedly well-crafted chiller had more creeps in it than many adult horror novels I have read and has an edginess you rarely find in horror aimed at kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() The next day the little boy tells his balloon to wait outside of a pastry shop while he goes in to get something sweet to eat. The little boy is able to get his friend back and manages to outrun the other boys and get safely home. Some neighborhood boys jealously steal the balloon away. The balloon goes to school with the boy and gets him in trouble. It follows him around and they have small adventures together on the beautiful old streets of Paris. The boy soon discovers his balloon is magical. ![]() He climbs up and unties the balloon and thus begins a unique cinematic friendship. Remarkable for a live-action short with only a few lines of spoken dialogue all of which are spoken in French.Ī little boy discovers a large red balloon tied to a lamp-post on the streets of Paris while walking to school. It won all kinds of awards from film festivals around the globe, including - incredibly enough - the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It runs only 34 minutes but is a whimsical, magical half-hour of entertainment. The Red Balloon is a wonderful children’s fantasy made in 1956. ![]() ![]() Baxter then withdraws-leaving Matty feeling angry and used-until an accident forces him to confront his fears. Baxter is drawn to the new young hand, but he’s deeply closeted, and after an openly gay veterinarian shows he’s interested in Matty, Baxter’s repressed feelings lead to an explosive encounter. Despite not knowing anything about herding cattle or taking care of horses, Matty does his best to impress the older hunky foreman, Baxter Hollingsworth. ![]() When Madison “Matty” Ward finds himself out of work and without a place to live, his cousin comes through with a job on the Gates cattle ranch. Keywords/Tags: Closeted, Cowboys, OFY, Grief, Grovel you Bastard!, Healing, Hostile Work Environment, Hurt/Comfort, May/December, Sexual Abuse/Assault ![]() The Ranch Foreman by Rob Colton August 16, 2013 ![]() ![]() With a voice to match his stunning good looks, it isn’t long before Viper’s taking notice. Halo is everything they’ve been looking for. Time’s running out and the pressure’s on to find a new singer, but it isn’t until an angel walks through the door that the band’s prayers are answered.Ĭharismatic. Fame chasers.Īfter months of lackluster auditions, Viper, the lead guitarist and resident bad boy of the group, is ready to find solace in the bottom of a bottle. But it all comes to a screeching halt when the lead singer walks out of the studio one day and never comes back.Įar-blistering vocals. ![]() Groupies galore.Įvery day is a party for Viper and the guys of TBD, the biggest rock band in the world. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Copyright © 2019 by Brooke Blaine & Ella Frank ![]() |