![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury. The book contains ninety - eight pages, which. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy. The Silmarillion (Paperback) Northshire Manchester as of Feb 15 6:19pm (SCIFI & FANTASY) Northshire Saratoga as of Feb 15 6:19pm (SCIFI & FANTASY). Eight of the drawings were originally from the Lord of the Rings and eight were from the Silmarillion. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. ![]() The three Silmarils were jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves. The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. This mythopoetic masterpiece is a must-read before you watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Prime Video. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is what she's been drawn to-and fled from-her entire life. Wearing a collar again is terrifying, but under the powerful dominant's care, Kim starts to heal and then to blossom. Desperate to help the Feds locate the big auction, she agrees to pose as Master Raoul's slave. An FBI raid is their only hope for rescue. Kimberly's freedom has come at a devastating price: the other women are still slaves. ![]() Ruining the FBI's carefully laid plans, he buys her. She has a scarred body.and an unbroken spirit. To Raoul's shock, one of the slaves is the kidnapped friend of a Shadowlands sub. Once informed, the FBI orders him to reject the limited choices so the slavers will invite him to the big auction. Determined to find the human traffickers preying on Shadowlands' submissives, Master Raoul gets himself invited to a small slave auction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Between 19 the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC)-an Anabaptist Christian renewal movement in Ethiopia-experienced a profound transformation. Prepared to die for the sake of the gospel, they demonstrated leadership marked by a highly effective pursuit of purpose, compelling integrity under pressure, attractive love, and remarkable creativity-leading to extraordinary results. Persecution forced MKC leaders to clarify the priority of their commitment to Jesus and the mission of the church. Drawing on interviews and other first-person accounts of faithful MKC leaders in the Derg era, this essay explores the dynamics of their experience using the leadership theory of Robert E. Although persecution has been an enduring reality in the global church, leadership in that context has received scant research attention. ![]() Under persecution during the Ethiopian Revolution (1974-1991), highly committed men and women led the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) through remarkable transformation and growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Jack and his neighbor Lilly must follow her to a world between worlds beyond the vines and stalks, where giants grind the bones of human children to feed their beast in the castle up above, and a fearsome goblin king rules down below. One particularly mean creature has kidnapped Maddy and carried her off. Hatke will discuss his writing and drawing style, do some sketching, and tell us how his memorable characters are conceived.Ībout the Book: The garden behind Jack’s house has gone wild with creatures set loose by the magic beans Jack and his kid sister Maddy planted. In a format sure to inspire emerging artists, illustrators, animators, and writers, superstar graphic novelist Ben Hatke ( Zita the Spacegirl, Little Robot) will be in conversation with NYTimes bestselling author Cory Doctorow ( Little Brother, In Real Life). ![]() GRAPHIC NOVEL GREATS! Once Upon A Time is thrilled to welcome Ben Hatke and Cory Doctorow to introduce the 2 nd book in the Mighty Jack series! ![]() ![]() ![]() Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. ![]() In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. Shortlisted for the National Book Award–Fiction ![]() ![]() It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. ![]() Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages.A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). ![]() New York Times best selling author William R. A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. ![]() ![]() ![]() His non-fiction book - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? - deals with secrecy in the modern world. Startide Rising won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. A movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on his post-apocalyptic novel, The Postman. His ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages.Įxistence, his latest novel, offers an unusual scenario for first contact. ![]() His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. David Brin is a scientist, speaker, and world-known author. ![]() ![]() The challenge is being honest and clear with others about what’s okay and not okay. Generosity: Learning how to set the boundaries that allow us to be generous in our assumptions about others. The challenge is letting go of ‘helper and fixer’ as our identity and the source of our self-worth. The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown. ![]() Nonjudgment: Learning how to give and receive help. and The Gifts of Imperfection Look for Bren Browns new podcast, Dare. The challenge is choosing courage over comfort. ![]() Integrity: Learning how to practice our values even when it’s uncomfortable and hard. Vault: Learning how to keep confidences, recognise what’s ours to share what’s not. The challenge is letting go of blame and staying out of shame. The challenge is not overcommitting and overpromising to please others or prove ourselves.Īccountability: Learning how to step up, be accountable, take responsibility and issue meaningful apologies when we’re wrong. Reliability: Learning how to say what we mean and mean what we say. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it’s the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. ![]() The challenge is letting go of being liked and the fear of disappointing people. Brown writes, The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. Boundaries: Learning to set, hold and respect boundaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Working Girl Sophia Giovannitti considers the material and metaphorical overlap between the sexual and artistic marketplaces Josephine Houman, ![]() She invites us to be more than voyeurs, and to think with her what is at stake in the art of sex and the sex of art McKenzie Wark, author of Capital is Dead Working Girl documents Giovannitti's critical and creative interventions into this fraught and fascinating zone. And later, as you begin to release all your outdated beliefs, you then realize Working Girl completely turned out in the best way possible: you too can be the art object that verbs Tourmaline, artistīetween the sex worker and art worker is a tension that defines the contemporary commodification of bodies, genders, time and desires. Filled with clarity and a generous spirit, Sophia Giovannitti's Working Girl is a singular sensation you immediately feel the power of while reading. Sarah Michelson, artistĪn art object that also verbs in the most pleasurable way possible. It's fresh, exacting, and spaciously precisely unfettered. Working Girl is fascinating in its specificity - the product of Giovannitti's lived experience in a particular niche of both industries - and through this comes a treatise that is both hopeful and new. In Giovannitti's informed and elegant analysis, sex and art come soaked in capitalist relations, their potential for holiness no barrier to the all-encompassing reach of commodification. Highly original and unnervingly smart, Working Girl strips bare the worlds of art work and sex work, revealing unlikely parallels. ![]() ![]() To end what the Blood Queen has begun, Poppy might have to become what she has been prophesied to be-what she fears the most.Īs the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Ancient primal powers have already stirred, revealing the horror of what began eons ago. Together, Poppy and Casteel must embrace traditions old and new to safeguard those they hold dear-to protect those who cannot defend themselves. Not if she has any hope of building a future where both kingdoms can reside in peace. With the strength of the Primal of Life's guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the Atlantian generals to make war her way-because there can be no retreat this time. ![]() Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable. Armentrout comes book four in her Blood and Ash series.Ĭasteel Da'Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could've prepared for the staggering revelations. After Casteel was taken by the Blood Queen, Poppy will need to manage leading a war as well as finding a way to free her heartmate. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() |