![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim is an active member of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints who frequently finds himself thrust into adventures where he and his family members go back in time to the events chronicled in the Book Of Mormon, the Bible, and the Doctrine And Covenants. Jamie Hawkins, better known as Jim Hawkins, is the main protagonist of Chris Heimerdinger's Tennis Shoes Adventure Series. He serves as the main protagonist of Tennis Shoes Among The Nephites, Gadiantons And The Silver Sword, and The Feathered Serpent: Parts One And Two. Jim later appears as a minor yet pivotal character in The Sacred Quest and The Lost Scrolls before returning as a supporting protagonist in The Golden Crown. Jim is also a minor character in Warriors Of Cumorah and Tower Of Thunder, one of the main protagonists in Kingdoms And Conquerors and Sorcerers And Seers, and a minor character in Drums Of Desolation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() According to those present, scientists spoke of the necessity of having “an outpost” on Mars to help solve the many riddles of the galaxy. To help set the mood, NASA brought some zappy toys to share-a Hololens headset that offered an augmented reality view of Mars, as well as surreal images of winds carving the Martian surface. The aim of this odd confluence was to engage an “artistic response” to NASA’s journey to Mars, the space agency’s ambitious goal of putting a human on the red planet’s surface sometime in the 2030s. Thomas Pynchon may or may not have been present. Adding an extra layer of mystery to proceedings was the fact that the meeting was hosted by Grace Farms, a faith-based think-tank created by an evangelical hedge-fund billionaire. A group of four scientists from NASA, including an astronaut, a robotics expert, and the agency’s deputy administrator, conferred with some 30 painters, sculptors and poets. In a serpentine building that snakes through the Connecticut countryside, a strange meeting took place this past July. Our latest Exclusive is a new story by George Pendle, co-funded by Longreads Members and published by Atlas Obscura. ![]() ![]() ![]() It explores theft, betrayal, and murder in the larger context of the British Empire at a time of national upheaval, and the novel's flashbacks to India during the 'Mutiny' and its aftermath call into question the consequences of that imperial venture. The Sign of the Four has been a crucial part of the Sherlock Holmes canon since its first publication in 1890. Together the trio race through London to uncover the secrets of the Sholto family, who hold the key to uncovering the whereabouts of Mary's father and the existence of a treasure stemming from a crime committed years ago in India. ![]() When her intriguing correspondent requests a meeting, Holmes and Watson take on the case. ![]() Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as to the sender. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.' ![]() ![]() At the end of the play, Pentheus is torn apart by the women of Thebes and his mother Agave bears his head on a pike to her father Cadmus. In response, he intends to introduce Dionysian rites into the city, and he intends to demonstrate to the king, Pentheus, and to Thebes that he was indeed born a god. The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to avenge the slander, which has been repeated by his aunts, that he is not the son of Zeus. The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus's cousin). It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed. The Bacchae ( / ˈ b æ k iː/ Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai also known as The Bacchantes / ˈ b æ k ə n t s, b ə ˈ k æ n t s, - ˈ k ɑː n t s/) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. Pentheus being torn apart by Agave and Ino, Attic red-figure vase painting ![]() ![]() Ashley Barton’s boyfriend was the first teen to go missing, and she’s felt his ghost following her ever since. But the moment she and her dads arrive, she starts to get the feeling that there's more than ghosts plaguing this small town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV's ParaSpectors, has never been to Snakebite before. ![]() Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers point to TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just come to town. The Dark has been waiting―and it won't stay hidden any longer. "Imagine Riverdale crossing streams with Stephen King's The Outsider and you'll get a sense of this gripping supernatural mystery.Gould's debut begins as a snappy paranormal yarn and unspools into a profound story about the complex interplay between grief, guilt, and identity." - Oprah DailyĬourtney Gould’s thrilling YA debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places―and people―you didn’t expect. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted a Jewish Disney princess, and a princess who liked other girls, so that I could see myself in the Disney princess lineup. My dad died and I need a way to deal, so I wanted to write about someone else going through the same grieving process. What inspired you to write THE SECOND MANGO? ![]() They go on a quest to find the new queen a girlfriend, since she doesn’t know any other lesbians and the bodyguard is straight, but they soon wind up getting involved in a rescue mission instead when they find a group of women who have been turned to stone by an evil sorcerer. Too young, too sheltered, and too grieving to know what she’s doing, she finds a source of strength in a dragon-riding female bodyguard who takes her under her wing. Hi Shira, thanks so much for joining us today! To start with, please tell us about your debut novel, THE SECOND MANGO.Ī chronically ill princess finds herself on her father’s throne after an unexpected fatal accident. She and her agender same-sex spouse live in north central Florida, where the alligators are mostly harmless because they’re too lazy to be bothered. ![]() Shira Glassman is a bisexual Jewish violinist passionately inspired by German and French opera and Agatha Christie novels. Today, I’m delighted to announce that we have an interview with author Shira Glassman. ![]() ![]() He returned to it in March 1955, when Joy Davidman Gresham (the woman he was to marry the following year) spent a weekend with Lewis and his brother. The story stayed in Lewis's mind, 'thickening and hardening with the years', but if he made other attempts to tell it in poetic form, nothing is known of them. A year later his 'head was very full of my old idea of a poem on my own version of the Cupid and Psyche story' he had by this point already started such a poem twice, 'once in couplet and once in ballad form'. with no success' and in November of that year he was 'thinking how to make a masque or play of Psyche'. A diary entry for May 1922 records, 'Tried to work on “Psyche”. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. Lewis first read the tale in late 1916, and responded by trying to write his own version of it. Lewis, 'Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche' And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. Background / The book is a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, from the Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, of Lucius Apuleius. ![]() It remains the least popular of his fictional works, though it is the most highly praised by literary critics. He was disappointed by the initial response to it: some reviews were partially negative and sales were lower than his other books, probably because of its difficulty and its differences from his earlier fiction. ![]() Lewis's last work of fiction, and the one he considered his best. ![]() Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) was C.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faced with the many challenges of being an immigrant and a refugee, she questioned stereotypes and built bridges with her classmates and in her community. Four years later, after a painstaking vetting process, her family achieved refugee status and arrived in Arlington, Virginia.Aged twelve, penniless, speaking only Somali and having missed out on years of schooling, Ilhan rolled up her sleeves, determined to find her American dream. ![]() They ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya, where Ilhan says she came to understand the deep meaning of hunger and death. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided to flee Mogadishu. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. ![]() An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar-the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress.lhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stunich is a self-admitted bibliophile with a love for exotic teas and a whole host of characters who live full time inside the strange, swirling vortex of her thoughts. This is book two of three in the series.Ĭ.M. This is a reverse harem novel, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. ![]() It has brief flashbacks of past bullying incidents as well as foul language and sexual scenes any sex featured is consensual. My boys and I don't mind using two wrongs to make a right-I just hope our brewing obsession with one another doesn't kill us all first.ĬHAOS AT PRESCOTT HIGH is a 150,000 word mature high school/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. You don't start a rebellion without a little bloodshed. You don't mess with a Havoc Girl without paying the price. The Havoc Boys are mine, and we were here first. This year, I'm going to run my tongue along the blade of vengeance and taste blood. This year, I'm going to bring down my enemies. ![]() These boys have never been saints, but this war that's brewing is resurrecting their inner demons. There's one gang you don't piss off at Prescott High, not unless you want them to destroy you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First published in 1985, it rose to become one of the most popular comic features in its medium, and has been reprinted in syndication in hundreds of publications. Rejected numerous times, he was finally picked up by Universal Press Syndicate after modifying the strip he was writing to better reflect the popularity of two minor characters,the titular Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. The inception of the strip came while Watterson was working at an advertising firm, and was cartooning in his spare time. Hailed as being interesting and complex enough for adults, but containing humor and wit that a child could understand, it was a breakthrough cross-generational strip that pleased both demographics without becoming patronizing or pretentious. Telling the tale of a hyperactive, precocious six year old boy, Calvin, and his laconic, anthropomorphic stuffed tiger, Hobbes. ![]() The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary BookĬalvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995Ĭreated by Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes have long been a mainstay in American newspapers, and have been published in syndication since the cancellation of the strip in 1995. 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