![]() To apply for livestream or record & stream rights, please complete this form. To review some frequently asked questions about streaming, please click here. Notes Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available Lies begin to unravel and the truth is revealed as the Sugar Bean Sisters hatch a diabolical plot to ensure the space people's return. ![]() A strange bird-like woman suddenly appears out of the darkness of Buster Swamp, setting in motion a chain of extraordinary events. A disturbance in the sugarcane field lures the sisters outside to investigate, and Faye recalls how their infamous daddy claimed to have witnessed dead folk walking through Sugar Bean on a similar night many years before. ![]() Having witnessed the landing of an alien space craft some 25 years ago in her daddy's sugarcane field, Faye prepares for the return of her celestial visitors on this night, the very anniversary of that fateful day. We meet Faye and Willie Mae as they return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling in Sugar Bean, Florida, after a disastrous daytrip to Disney World, where Willie lost her prized Eva Gabor wig on Space Mountain. In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood-Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the "space people" return for another visit. ![]()
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![]() As the two head out into the snow-swept city, they rediscover the passion that once drew them together-before it tore them apart. Though she's stunned when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, Glenna agrees to accompany him for a drink. Now, decades later, Gordon is a former globe-trotting consultant with a grown son, an ex-wife, and an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. What would you do if you had a second chance with the one that got away? More than thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an aspiring writer with a low number in the draft lottery, packed his belongings and reluctantly drove away, leaving behind Glenna Rising, the sexy, sharp-witted med student he couldn't imagine living without. ![]() About the Book Golden's evocative debut reminiscent of Nicholas Sparks is a bracing journey into the hearts of two lovers who came of age in the 1960s and plumbs the depths of youth, regret, and desire.īook Synopsis A debut novel about a man and his romantic quest to find the woman he loved and lost years before. ![]() ![]() Plot foiled.Īt war’s end, William stayed with the military. She did the job: The traffic was from Hindus living in New York who used German funds to send weapons to colleagues in India fighting British rule. One early success by Elizebeth involved messages the British intercepted but could not read. One key to success was finding a pattern in the frequency of letters and making sense of seeming gibberish. ![]() ![]() But intercepted messages were a “raw block of babble,” which piled code atop code. The advent of radio-transmitted messages, rather than hand-carried communiques, opened a new field of espionage. They joined a new code-breaking unit of the War Department. As Elizebeth put it, she and William were among the “three or at most four persons” in the United States who knew the slightest thing about codes and ciphers. ![]() Their shared lives began when they met (and soon married) on the estate of a wealthy - and eccentric - Chicago industrialist who was smitten with the notion that coded messages were embedded in Shakespeare’s plays.Īmerica’s entrance into World War I put an end to such nonsense. ![]() ![]() But a greater and more disturbing mystery arises when James tells Jackie that Curtis and three other neighborhood boys were found frozen to death in Frank’s meat locker during the 1965 riots. There, James Lanier, director of a youth group, tells her that Curtis was his cousin and used to work in Frank’s shop. ![]() So Jackie goes down to Frank’s old neighborhood, near Watts, and asks around. The shop was closed and sold long before Frank died, so technically the bequest was null, but Frank’s widow Mary asks Jackie to find out who Curtis was and why Frank wanted him provided for. Law student Jackie Ishida spots something funny when her grandfather Frank Sakai’s will leaves his Los Angeles grocery store to one Curtis Martindale. ![]() ![]() A mulligan stew of family saga, whodunit, and social history as a woman’s attempt to understand her grandfather’s will leads to the reopening of a murder case from the Watts riots. ![]() ![]() ![]() So there are elements of me inside the pages. However, Nila Weaver suffers vertigo which I suffer sometimes, too. – Tell us something more about your main characters? Are they close to someone from your real life? ![]() – Making sure I stayed true to the characters, managing to tie up every loose end and generally ignoring outside influences to complete the story I’d envisioned. – What was the biggest challenge during the write up process? I based Jethro Hawk’s estate Hawksridge Hall on the manor. I went to Waddeson Manor in Buckinghamshire and the family feud and romance bloomed from there. – I was inspired by a trip to England to visit family. – How did you decide to write the story around Indebted series? However, the first book DEBT INHERITANCE is free on all online platforms. ![]() I can’t give too much away about Final Debt as it would spoil the other books. The story is set in modern day England and is a Dark Romance told with new debt in a volume. Debts have to be paid for circumstances that happened in the 1500’s. – It’s the finale to a long running series about a six-hundred-year old contract over two English houses. – Pepper, what is your book Final Debt about? ![]() We are honored to host our next talk with Pepper Winters and to say welcome to Land of Books. The master of Dark romance is recognized worldwide for her books and made it into New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today International Bestseller. Few days ago Pepper Winters released Final Debt, the sixth part of her popular Indebted series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To attend this event in person, you must reserve tickets to visit National Children’s Museum on December 11, 2021, during the morning session from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.This event will take place both virtually + in person. Recommended ages: 3+ (Please note, this event is for children.) Then learn more about holiday traditions in Finland. Sit down, get cozy, and listen to a live-reading, followed by discussion, of this wonderful Christmas story. If you pay attention, you might learn something very important through this story. And yet, in typical Moomin fashion, they stumble on the true meaning of this festival. They are taken aback by all the fuss they encounter when everybody is rushing to prepare for the big day. However, in Tove Jansson’s short story The Fir Tree, the Moomin family is awakened from their winter sleep to encounter Christmas for the first time. The Moomins sleep during winter – and so, they don’t know what Christmas is. © Moomin Characters™ © Gutsy Animations 2021 ![]() ![]() ![]() This book does not talk about the art fundamentals that goes into the making of a good painting, e.g. This is unlike other watercolor instructional books where the techniques learned are used to paint a complete painting. The projects and easy to follow along and examples easy to replicate.Įach project is sort of self contained where you get to paint a simple subject, mostly plants or animals. This makes it easier to learn and understand the techniques. There's explanation for each step or technique involve so it's not just following blindly but you also get to understand the concept and reasons behind. The book starts off by introducing the various materials you may need, very basic colour theory and techniques, and then goes straight into the daily projects.Įach daily project starts with a sketch, choosing a colour palette, learning and applying a watercolour technique. ![]() This book is written for beginners so anyone can jump right in. Everyday Watercolor is a watercolour instructional book with 30 days of projects to get you up to speed with various watercolour techniques. ![]() ![]() ![]() Truth to tell, it was a little overwhelming to discover that Patrick had produced so many gorgeous books while I wasn’t looking. Here’s the back covers for the volumes above. Could this possibly be the same Fairwood Press? ![]() I was walking through the sprawling dealer’s room when I spotted Patrick sitting behind a table groaning under the weight of dozens and dozens of eye-catching science fiction and fantasy books, from some of the biggest names in the industry - including Robert Silverberg, Michael Bishop, Jay Lake, Carrie Vaughn, Devon Monk, Tom Piccirilli, Tina Connolly, James Van Pelt, and many others. ![]() I helped Patrick negotiate with a squatter who was sitting on the address he wanted for his website (unsuccessfully, as I recall.) At the time, Fairwood Press was a small press underdog, with only a handful of titles to its name, but a fast-growing reputation.įastforward about 17 years, to Worldcon in 2016. ![]() I think it might have been James Van Pelt who introduced us, after I wrote a review of Patrick’s magazine, TaleBones. I first met Patrick Swenson, publisher and editorial mastermind at Fairwood Press, back in the late 90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Breq, aka One Esk, aka Justice of Toren, has his/her/its work cut out for him/her/it: There’s a strange plot afoot in the far-flung Radch, and it’s about to make Breq violate the prime directive, or whatever the Radchaai call the rule that says that multisegmented, ancillary humanoids are not supposed to shoot their masters, no matter how bad their masters might be. ![]() But when she came back-she was alive!” Debut novelist Leckie’s premise dips into the same well, only her spaceship has become, over thousands of years, a sort-of human that is also a sort-of borg made up of interchangeable-parts-bearing dead people. Those who have seen the film Event Horizon will remember that a starship that got caught up in a time-space-continuum eddy got all, well, weird-or, as its creator puts it, “hen she crossed over, she was just a ship. In which a zombie imperialist space cop gets caught up in a complex plot to-well, this enjoyable sci-fi outing gets even more complicated than all that. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This article re-evaluates the scholarship that led to the 'gadfly' translation and argues that the 'spur' translation is correct based on the use elsewhere in Greek literature of M'YΩΨ and other significant words in the passage. However, this word was generally translated as 'spur' until the 1800s. ![]() This article re-evaluates the scholarship that led to the 'gadfly' translation and argues that the 'spur' translation is correct based on the use elsewhere in Greek literature of M'YΩΨ and other significant words in the passage.ĪB - The standard translation of M'YΩΨ in Plato's Apology of Socrates 30e is 'gadfly'. N2 - The standard translation of M'YΩΨ in Plato's Apology of Socrates 30e is 'gadfly'. T1 - Gadfly or Spur? the Meaning of M'YΩΨ in Plato's Apology of SocratesĬopyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2017. The Apology of Socrates is Platos version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of 'corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel' (24b). Who Socrates really was is fundamental to virtually any interpretation of the philosophical dialogues of Plato because Socrates is the dominant figure in most of Plato’s dialogues. ![]() |