![]() ![]() And when Justine’s past catches up with them, Jack may be her only hope of survival. The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe, Jun 30, 2020, Avon edition, mass market paperback The Devil of Downtown (edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. When her mission brings her face-to-face with Jack, she’s shocked to find the man behind the criminal empire is considerably more charming and honorable than many “gentlemen” she knows.įorming an unlikely alliance, they discover an unexpected desire. ![]() Justine is devoted to tracking down deadbeat husbands and fighting for fair working conditions. But in uptown do-gooder Justine Greene-the very definition of an iron fist in a velvet glove-Jack may have met his match. Now he rules his territory better than any politician or copper ever could. Orphaned and abandoned on the Bowery’s mean streets, Jack Mulligan survived on strength, cunning, and ambition. The final novel in Joanna Shupe's critically acclaimed Uptown Girl series about a beauitful do-gooder who must decide if she can team up with one of New York's brashest criminals without losing something irreplaceable: her heart. “Nothing makes me happier than a new book from Joanna Shupe!”-Sarah MacLean ![]()
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Everything I have read so far has left me extremely intrigued, and wondering what interesting piece of information am I going to read next?Ĭhapter 1 discusses how taste has more to do with smell than actually tasting the food we eat. ![]() I was on a teen novel binge, my guilty pleasure when it comes to books, and I decided that I needed to supplement my reading with some educational texts. ![]() ![]() I don’t remember why I had this book in my ever growing pile, but I am so glad that I finally picked it up. ![]() ![]() Strengthened by its dense review of scholarship, stunning gallery of illustrations, and comprehensive bibliography, this is a valuable collection. In a hefty volume “driven by an expansive collecting impulse,” Gates and Tatar manage to both entertain and teach, to delight and instruct, as do the folktales themselves. The editors explore as well the innovative use of folklore by modern writers, including Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. The significance of Uncle Remus author Joel Chandler Harris, as both preserver of history and perpetrator of stereotypes, and of Disney’s controversial big-screen depiction of Uncle Remus in Song of the South, receive special emphasis throughout. They also offer other scholars welcome access to excerpts from rare historical periodicals, such as the Brownies’ Book and the Southern Workman. ![]() The editors’ commentaries pay homage to a host of previous story collectors, recognizing pioneers such as Zora Neale Hurston. ![]() ![]() ![]() In introductory chapters, literature scholar Gates ( Life Upon These Shores) reviews the sometimes disputatious history of collecting African-American folklore, while folklorist Tatar ( The Annotated Brothers Grimm) clarifies the organizing principle behind the book’s arrangement of stories, which go from continental-African tales to African-American ones to “folkloric cousins abroad” from the Caribbean and Latin America. and Maria Tatars African American folktale canon, The Annotated African American Folktales, is well researched and depicts honestly the. Unlike other volumes in Norton’s Annotated series, this impressive compendium does not focus on a particular text or author, but on an entire genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Middle Right: Cinderella is Dead inspired Socks designed by Catarina Book Designsīottom Middle: Caraval inspired Tarot Card designed by Morgana 0 Anagromīottom Right: The Blood of Stars inspired Book Sleeve designed by Rosie Thorns 88īOMT: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim signed with an author letter (bottom right) designed by Sall Teas, stenciled edges and sprayed edges, reversible dust jacket, exclusive dust jacket, and foiled cover. Top Left: The Star-Touched Queen Series inspired Foiled Print designed by Kavon Keyleighīottom Left: ACOTAR inspired Metal Tin designed by Chatty Nora that says “Be glad of you human heart otiy those who don’t feel anything at all.” I’ve already contacted FL about the umbrella and waiting to here back from them. When she escapes her betrothal ceremony and attracts the attention of her stepmother, she is banished and her brothers are cursed. Princess Shiori possesses a forbidden magic. Six Crimson Cranes is a beautiful tale inspired by East Asian folklore. ![]() ![]() This is the second month in a row that I’m missing something from the box □. From the author of Spin the Dawn comes a story about growing and maturing set in the same world. I want to go ahead and say that I’m missing the Heartless inspired umbrella. Hi everyone! I’m here with July’s FairyLoot unboxing! ![]() ![]() ![]() Parzival’s great strength is that he has absorbed all Halliday’s obsessions he knows by heart three essential movies, crossing the line from geek to freak. Halliday was obsessed with the pop culture of the 1980s, primarily the arcade games, so the novel is as much retro as futurist. Wade, or rather his avatar Parzival, is the first gunter (egg-hunter) to win the Copper Key, first of three. Old-fashioned riddles lead to three keys and three gates. He had devised an elaborate online game, a hunt for a hidden Easter egg. Its creator, the legendary billionaire James Halliday, left a curious will. So who can blame Wade, our narrator, if he spends most of his time in a virtual world? The 18-year-old, orphaned at 11, has no friends in his vertical trailer park in Oklahoma City, while the OASIS has captivating bells and whistles, and it’s free. The real world, in 2045, is the usual dystopian horror story. ![]() Video-game players embrace the quest of a lifetime in a virtual world screenwriter Cline’s first novel is old wine in new bottles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Master the Method before exploring your own creativity. Begin by learning the true work of Joseph Pilates. What tips do you have for beginners? Study carefully. As a teacher, the Method’s brilliance has been proven to me over and over again. What do you love most about Pilates? My body craves the Pilates Method and it amazes me how the Method meets my needs each and every day. I found a local Pilates instructor, started taking apparatus and mat classes and never stopped. While in high school, I developed a strong desire to explore fitness systems and was intrigued by the Pilates Method after reading an article in a magazine. How did you get into Pilates? After spending my childhood as an athlete, I had developed an understanding of the role physical fitness plays in maintaining overall well-being. Here is our Exclusive Spa it Girl Interview with Instagram Pilates Motivator Laura Browning Grant: ![]() ![]() Laura Browning Grant is the PILATES GIRL on to follow she is a Qualified Pilates Teacher from the US who posts non stop motivating pilates workouts videos that will have you becoming a Pilates Addict in next to no time. ![]() ![]() The parents were afraid to pursue the animal in case it dropped the boy, and frantically signalled for it to bring the child down but the monkey, with the infant in its arms, merely grinned and chattered.ĭesperate, the parents fell to their knees and earnestly implored the Holy Virgin to save their son and after a few minutes, the monkey carefully descended and tenderly placed the boy in his mother’s arms. They also had an infant son and the monkey decided one day to grab the baby and scamper up to the tower’s parapet. ![]() The owners of one such tower kept a pet monkey, an agile and rather mischievous creature. This allowed them to impress rival clans or perhaps dump noxious liquids on their heads when the situation required it. Long ago in Rome, wealthy families often embellished their palazzi with tall, fortified towers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Don't have a tub? Brew potions or tie magical knots. Afraid of fire? Cast your spell by creating enchanted baths. If one style of spell doesn't suit you, there are others. There are many styles of spells, featuring all sorts of ingredients. What separates a magic spell from just any random series of actions is you, your intent, goals and desires.Ī magic spell is a conscious formalized attempt to manipulate magic power and energy (heka) in order to achieve your own personal goal. ![]() Definitions of exactly what constitutes a magic spell depend a lot upon one's personal history and experience, the stories you were or weren't told as a child, and cultural expectations. stand?Magic spells come in virtually unlimited form, some dramatic, some shocking, and some perhaps surprisingly mundane. ![]() ![]() How do you cast a magic spell? Do you shout abracadabra, turn around three times on one foot and shoot sparks from your wand? Or do you stand within a circle of lit candles, magic sword at the ready, attempting to read unknown, unpronounceable words from a dusty grimoire? Will you tuck one single crumb of bread, one single grain of salt, and some burned-out charcoal into a scrap of red fabric, and then make knots in the cloth as if your very life depended upon it? Perhaps you will stand at the crossroads and just. ![]() ![]() Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. ![]() Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. ![]() ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reconstructed as Mother’s Day Massacre, the story follows the lives of acquitted detective Slager, a wrongfully convicted father facing the death sentence, Langston Brown, and his daughter Liza, who’s in law school fighting until the end to prove Brown’s innocence on a case where “every witness said that the murderer was white.” Setting the story in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Robert Justice takes a single family’s story of injustice and places it on a larger communal level. ![]() Anyone familiar with the incident can easily trace the similar threads that Robert Justice skillfully weaves in his debut crime novel, They Can’t Take Your Name. The prime suspect, a former cop, was acquitted at trial. It’s been thirty years since the Father’s Day Bank Massacre of 1991, a robbery at the United Bank Tower in Denver which ended in the murders of four bank guards. ![]() |