![]() They're hot on the trail of a human killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. The catch? Her new partner is Christian Poe - a smug, handsome Vampire whom she’d rather stake than go on a stakeout with. When a Russian Shifter offers her a job in his covert organization hunting outlaws, dignity and a respectable career are finally within her grasp. Half Vampire, half Mage, she’s spent years living as a rogue to stay alive. SERIES COMPLETE! Raven Black hunts evildoers for fun, but her vigilante justice isn’t the only reason she’s hiding from the law. Surprise twists, intriguing characters, and a world of magic so compelling that readers keep going back for more. USA Today Bestseller Dannika Dark presents the first book in her most addictive urban fantasy series to date. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() These accounts tell us about the furred imps of the accused witches: Alice Whittle alias Chattox’s dog familiar, named Tibbe Elizabeth Device’s dog, Ball James Device’s dog, Dandy Jennet Preston’s unnamed foal and the unnamed dog of Alizon Device. The animal familiars of the Pendle witches feature throughout Thomas Potts’s 1613 pamphlet The wonderfull discoverie of witches in the countie of Lancaster, where we can read reproductions of the examinations taken during these trials. With accusations supported, and elaborated upon, by a young family member of some of the accused, the Pendle witch hunt – which resulted in eleven trials and ten deaths by hanging – serves as a fascinating example of the complex interrelations that sometimes existed at the heart of such trials. ![]() One of the most intriguing aspects of the evidence gathered was the account given by Jennet Device, the nine-year-old daughter of the Device family, incriminating many of her relatives and neighbours. ![]() From here, accusations of witchcraft abounded, bringing many other members of the Device family, the Chattox family, and others into the hunt. Following the encounter, Law was stricken with a sickness that was attributed to Alizon’s malefic witchcraft. The 1612 Pendle witch trials in Lancashire began when the peddler, John Law, refused to sell his pins to Alizon Device. ![]() ![]() ![]() More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn’t read. Oh! It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. Wilde, prolific in both playscripts and scenarios, and distinctly more bankable, was eventually successful in placing An Ideal Husband, and agreed to compress The Importance of Being Earnest to satisfy Alexander’s criteria. Shaw performed his role combatively in the columns of the Saturday Review, and in his energetic attempts to market his unpleasant plays through actor-managers such as Charles Wyndham and George Alexander. For a brief period, Wilde and Shaw mounted a combined assault on the West-End London stage, an outpost of mediocrity defended by serried ranks of Philistines, puppets and time-serving journalists, where the actor-managers offered to a complaisant public wholly predictable and limited theatrical fare. Shaw, rival as well as colleague, also found himself in the role of critic when he began to write theatre notices for the Saturday Review in January 1895, and had to respond successively to An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, which marked Wilde’s re-entry to the public arena of West-End theatre in the first months of that year. He was soon to be followed by George Bernard Shaw, who, while relishing the Celtic heritage he shared with Wilde, fashioned a distinctively contrasting public personality. ![]() Wilde was arguably the first English-speaking playwright who systematically cultivated an image for himself. ![]() ![]() A secret society known as the Tabula Rasa formed after this failure its directive is to prevent the use of magic on the Earth, motivated by the fear that such a disaster may occur again. All previous attempts failed the most recent resulted in the horrific death or madness of those involved. This Reconciliation can only happen once every 200 years. Great magic users called Maestros have attempted through the ages to reconcile the Earth with the remaining Imajica, including Christ. The void that separates Earth from her sister worlds is called the "In Ovo". This explains both the appearance of extraordinary phenomena on Earth and the lack of understanding of magic and acceptance of the extraordinary as commonplace (as it is in the other four worlds). However, Earth became separated from the other four worlds long ago. Overseeing all of the dominions is the Unbeheld, Hapexamendios (God). The Earth is actually just one part of 5 connected worlds or Dominions, called the Imajica. Barker has stated he wrote the novel in fourteen months writing fourteen to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. The inspiration and many of the ideas for Imajica came to Clive Barker in dreams, and so inspired, he worked at an intense pace to complete the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() King, saying that he’s a scholarship student at Braselton Preparatory Academy, is ranked fourth in his class, is captain of the debate team, has high test scores, and believes he has a bright future “despite growing up in a ‘bad’ area.” Unfortunately, though, “none of that mattered” the night before, when Officer Castillo arrested him. Martin Luther King, Jr., explaining that he admires the way Dr. Transitioning from the scene of Justyce’s arrest, Nic Stone gives readers a glimpse of Justyce’s diary, in which he writes a letter to Dr. ![]() Justyce tries to explain that he was only helping Melo, but Castillo punches him in the face and tells him not to “say shit,” calling him a “punk ass” who “couldn’t resist the pretty white girl who’d locked her keys in her car.” Just then, a police car drives up and a white officer named Tommy Castillo jumps out and grabs Justyce, handcuffing him and slamming his head against the car. Still, he takes her keys and maneuvers her into the backseat. ![]() He knows Melo is drunk and wants to make sure she won’t drive, but she tells him to go away when he finds her. He’s wearing a hooded sweatshirt and is on his way to find Melo, his ex-girlfriend. Seventeen-year-old Justyce McAllister walks through a wealthy neighborhood outside Atlanta, Georgia one night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this Dent asked the Monotype corporation to design a new typeface: Veronese was a remake of a foundry-face Dent had used before. ![]() Dent followed the design principles and to a certain extent the style established by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press. Dent (itself later a division of Weidenfeld & Nicolson and presently an imprint of Orion Books), who continue to publish Everyman Paperbacks.Įveryman's Library was conceived in 1905 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent, whose goal was to create a 1,000-volume library of world literature that was affordable for, and that appealed to, every kind of person, from students to the working classes to the cultural elite. It is currently published in hardback by Random House. Dent hardback with its distinctive yellow dust jacket, an early example of an Everyman Paperback also published by Dent from the 1960s, the present design of Everyman paperbacks published by Dent since the 1990s, an example of the initial 'plain' hardback Everyman volume published by David Campbell, an updated version of Campbell's Everyman hardbacks with a striated front cover and orange spine with black band.Įveryman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon. (click on thumbnail to view the image in its original size) Different incarnations of Everyman's Library throughout history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Which is weird, because she was teaching there in Crimes of Grindelwald.ġ938 – Dumbledore offers Tom Riddle a place at Hogwarts. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledoreġ932 – Grindelwald attempts to subvert the International Confederation of Wizards' election of a new Supreme Mugwump unable to battle him directly due to his blood pact, Dumbledore gets Newt and pals to fight him on his behalf.ġ937 – At the age of eleven years old, Minerva McGonagall starts at Hogwarts. ![]() Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald also beings in 1927.ġ928 – Hagrid is born. Watch it on Amazon Prime Video (from £6.99)ġ927 – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by Newt Scamander, is first published. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald One of the most dangerous Dark Wizards of all time, Gellert Grindelwald, is taken into custody by the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) after it was discovered he had infiltrated the organisation some time previously. In the same year, Scamander visits New York City. Watch it on Amazon Prime Video (from £3.49)ġ926 – The first Fantastic Beasts move begins. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a twist of bad luck throws a rebellious heiress into his arms, at the very moment he finds out he’s the new Duke, marriage is the only alternative to massive scandal.īoth are quick to deny it, but a wedding might be the only way out for both of them. Scorned and shunned, he swore never to return to the land of his birth. Lord Courtland Chase, grandson of the Duke of Ashvale, was driven from England at the behest of his cruel stepmother. She’s refused dozens of suitors and cried off multiple betrothals, but running away-even if brash and foolhardy-is the only option left to secure her independence. Sometimes, finding love means flouting the rules…īorn to a life of privilege, Lady Ravenna Huntley rues the day that she must marry. And a scandal between them that will have the whole town aflutter.A shunned duke forced to return to his family estate. ![]() A rebellious heiress determined to be independent. ![]() ![]() ![]() None of this is news, especially if you are a woman who has ever held a job. Living inside a capitalist system that thrives off of “global theft, racially uneven playing fields, and unidirectional wealth that rushes upward,” women have been and continue to be exploited, often providing free or cheap labor, working in sexually violent conditions, and working without many of the basic rights afforded to men. But I would add a third component to Kendi’s twins, as I see instead a tripartite monster of three equal faces: capitalism, racism, and misogyny. I’d arrived at a similar conclusion years ago, around the time I stopped identifying as a Libertarian, started to see the lies upholding many of my beliefs about the free market, and realized that subjugation and exploitation undergird capitalism as much as racism. “The life of capitalism cannot be separated from the life of racism.” Capitalism emerged alongside the growth of the transatlantic slave trade and thrived during colonialism, and the two institutions have grown together and solidified over the last four hundred years. “The origins of racism cannot be separated from the origins of capitalism,” he says. ![]() ![]() Kendi writes about what he terms the “conjoined twins” of racism and capitalism. In his bestselling book, How to Be an Antiracist (2019), Ibram X. ![]() ![]() Wambach is wildly undisciplined compared to Lloyd’s painfully perfect image (always fit, a long-term boyfriend who becomes her husband, incredibly kind). ![]() In high school, Wambach struggles with her sexual identity, which she hides from her parents until she goes to college. She’s convinced by a sibling to keep playing. Each chapter title is a label she would give herself, such as “rebel,” “teammate,” “lesbian,” “depressive,” and “captain.” The story begins with little Abby, who excels at soccer but doesn’t love it. While Lloyd’s book focused largely on soccer itself, even giving a play-by-play of the more important games, Wambach looks at her identity. She played on the same teams as Abby Wambach, whose 2016 memoir, Forward, takes a different approach to the same subject: what is it like to be a professional female soccer player when such a thing didn’t exist that long ago? ![]() A few years ago, I read Carli Lloyd’s 2016 memoir, When Nobody Was Watching. Around the same time period, women’s professional soccer has grown in leaps and bounds, garnering well-deserved attention for the success of the women’s team in the Olympics, the Women’s World Cup, and the fight for pay equality. In the last five years, I’ve gotten into soccer. ![]() |