![]() ![]() Despite their differing motivations and instant antagonism upon meeting, their end goal is the same in order to achieve it, they decide to form an alliance. ![]() Historical tensions position these two witches as enemies, both possessing plans to remove the current doyenne. ![]() Iraya Adair is an 18-year-old Obeah witch and the rightful heir to the Aiycan throne, newly free after 10 years of imprisonment. Jazmyne Cariot is a 17-year-old witch of the Alumbrar order and next in line to rule as doyenne of her island of Aiyca, though she has yet to inherit her magical powers. A Jamaican-inspired fantasy about a matriarchy maintained by magic and marred by manipulation. ![]()
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She reaches out to her high school friend turned homicide investigator, Ryan Parker, for help. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. ![]() After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Jans is an exceptional storyteller ?-? no nature writer can top him in terms of sheer emotional force.”?-?The New York Times “Jans is a perfect narrator for this story. Part memoir, part moving animal narrative, part foray into the mystique, lore, science, and history of the wolf, A Wolf Called Romeo is a book no animal lover should miss. When Romeo first appeared, author Nick Jans and the other citizens of Juneau were wary, but as Romeo began to tag along with cross-country skiers on their daily jaunts, play fetch alongside local dogs, or simply lie near Nick and nap under the sun on a quiet afternoon, Nick and the rest of Juneau came to accept Romeo, and he them. McConnell, author of The Education of Will and The Other End of the Leash)A Wolf Called Romeo is the true story of the exceptional black wolf who spent seven years interacting with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring interspecies dance, and bringing the wild into sharp focus. ![]() From award-winning author and photographer Nick Jans, A Wolf Called Romeo is “beautifully written.a thoughtful and moving story about one of nature’s most evocative animals.” (Patricia B. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was a slow train and a long walk away, and over the course of that endless, anxious journey, night fell. The police called my parents, and my parents, in a fury, tracked me down and ordered me home. I was 16 when I first read Araby, and in the autumn of that year I got into what was, at that point, the worst trouble I'd ever been in. This Joyce characterises as a transition from perennial hope to perennial disappointment. That he sets out at a time unsuitable for children is significant, as the journey will lead the boy from childhood into adulthood. That day his uncle is late home, and it is after nine before the boy departs to cross the dark city. He asks his uncle if he can go the following Saturday. ![]() When Mangan's sister finally notices the boy, she shines from the surrounding darkness: "The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon the railing." She says she can't go to the Araby bazaar, and the boy promises that if he does then he'll bring her something back. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires." 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