![]() ![]() They realise that nothing remains hidden forever… and they know the situation will only become more complicated when Declan's private life is revealed. As Simon and Declan fumble toward building a relationship together, there is yet another obstacle in their way: keeping Declan's homosexuality a secret amidst the intrusion of well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media. ![]() In that first awkward meeting, neither man has any idea they will change each other's lives forever. Declan is suffering a horrendous year of injuries, and the public is taking him to task for it, so Simon's support is a bright spot in his struggles. There, players are deemed gods and treated as such – until they do something to cause them to fall out of public favour. Like his entire family, Simon revels in living in Melbourne, Victoria, the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. Against his will, they drag him to a party, where Simon barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tyler - unaware that the athlete is present and listening. ![]() ![]() Despite being lonely, Simon is cautious about looking for more, and his best friends despair of him ever finding that special someone to share his life. Elisa_rolle Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedyīlurb: Football, friends, and film are the most important parts of Simon Murray's life, likely in that order. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We need to talk about your eighteenth birthday.” Alisa’s words echoed through the largest of Hawthorne House’s five libraries. ![]() In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake-and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning.ĭiscover what’s next for the Hawthornes in The Brothers Hawthorne, available for preorder now! Read Excerpt It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. She knows their secrets and they know her.īut as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES!Īvery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. ![]() ![]() ![]() NACTA REVIEW OF PRAIRIE FIRE "PRAIRIE FIRE," writes Charles Francis from the Department of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, "is more than a totally engaging story that captivates the reader as if it were a Dan Brown suspense adventure. DAN ARMSTRONG INTERVIEWED ON PEAK MOMENT TV The Yuba Girls found PRAIRIE FIRE provacative enough to travel to Oregon to interview Dan about his novel. "That's the beginning of PRAIRIE FIRE," he continues, "and while it takes you back to the thrilling days of yester-year–when farmers all across America rose up and formed, out of necessity, the National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry!–it also pulls you hard into the crisis felt by small and medium-sized farmers today." Read this review in the California Grange Newsletter. ![]() Reviews of Prairie Fire CALIFORNIA GRANGE REVIEW OF PRAIRIE FIRE "What happens when enough grain farmers across America, especially the Midwest, decide that the convoluted structure of the economic system between the small, independent family farmer and the end-user is unfair?" asks Lanny Cotler in a review of PRAIRIE FIRE in the California Grange's Newsletter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The I Am Number Four series is perfect for fans of action-packed science fiction like the Fifth Wave series by Rick Yancey, the Maze Runner series by James Dashner, and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. And now, their Legacies are our only hope. Lost Files: #3: The Fallen Legacies reveals the riveting true story behind One, Two, and Three, the ill-fated members of the Garde, as told by one of soldiers sent to kill them.īefore they were hunted by the Mogs, before Number Four was next, the Garde were all just teens on an alien planet called Earth-discovering their powers, trying to stay hidden, and running for their lives. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games - I Am Number Four is the first book in Pittacus Lores Lorien Legacies series and is now a major Disney film. Lost Files: #2: Nine’s Legacy sheds new light on how Nine became the fierce and fearsome warrior he is today. ![]() Lost Files: #1: Six’s Legacy is the captivating story of Six’s harrowing capture by the Mogadorians-and her dramatic escape. Originally published separately, these stories are now together in one print volume. Originally published as separate e-novellas, this is their first time in print, in one volume. I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies is the first collection of novellas from Pittacus Lore. The perfect companion book to the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! ![]() ![]() ![]() While trying to sort out Philip’s involvement in the artifacts, Emily meets Andrew Palmer, a dashing man about town who hopes to win her heart and her hand. Emily turns to Colin for advice and support since he knew Philip best, but Emily begins to wonder if she can trust Colin as she is unclear of his motives. She learns that her husband was involved in procuring original Greek antiquities, what is unclear are his motives.Īccording to Philip’s best friend, Colin Hargreaves, Philip was always an honorable man who would never deal in stolen artifacts. ![]() Not only did Philip love to hunt on the “Dark Continent”, he was a romantic at heart with a love for Emily she has no idea existed he also was a lover and collector of ancient antiquities and Greek literature.Īfter discovering his journals and interests, Emily begins to study Homer and ancient Greek herself. She soon discovers that Philip was in fact wildly interesting and very much in love with her. Now that she is a widow, she finds she has even more freedom than she did as a wife.Īll of London society can’t stop singing the praises of Lord Ashford to Emily which makes her uncomfortable, but in an effort to at least try and morn the stranger she married, Emily listens to their stories. ![]() So when she receives word that her husband died on safari in Africa, she can hardly morn a man she barely knows.Įmily married Philip to escape the constraints of her family and hoped that marriage would provide that. Lady Emily Ashford is not in love with her new husband, the Viscount Philip Ashford. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s a miracle they got beyond that and made one more album, ‘Abbey Road.’”Įvidently Parsons was taking thorough notes while working in the studio with such masters as The Beatles and Pink Floyd (he was an engineer on the mega-smash “Dark Side of the Moon”). “There was a bit of tension in the air in the studio (during the ‘Let It Be’ sessions),” Parsons said. Parsons was also on hand in Abbey Road Studio when The Beatles recorded its final album, “Abbey Road,” not long after the famed Rooftop Concert. I think the ‘Get Back’ on the album ‘Let It Be’ came from that concert.” “Everybody thought they were crazy for doing it, but it paid off. And I was being paid for it,” Parsons, 65, said during from a phone conversation from his home in California earlier this month. “It was a great day, an unforgettable day. Parsons, who was in his 20s at the time, pulled cable and set up microphones before the show started around the lunch hour of Jan. ![]() The most famous music group on the planet was bickering and grumpy while shooting the documentary “Let It Be,” so the fading Fab Four decided to lighten up the mood by performing an impromptu concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps Ltd., 3 Savile Row in the heart of the city. During Alan Parsons’ first week on the job as an assistant in Abbey Road Studios, he was dispatched to London’s business district to help out a little band called The Beatles. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1891 he interrupted his participation, forced by illness, and had to abandon the final test. In 1889 Lodewijk Mortelmans took part 'just to try' and then, together with Paul Lebrun, won a shared second prize from Rome with the cantate Sinaï. As the first of his students, he was destined to achieve this state prize. Benoit's hope was set in Lodewijk Mortelmans. A student who became laureate of the Prize of Rome and thus crowned the best Belgian composer of his generation, was an irrefutable quality label for his school. In order to reinforce his claim, he wanted to demonstrate at all costs that his education was equivalent to that of the Royal Conservatories of Brussels, Ghent and Liège. For so long he saw his best students leave for Brussels to get – in french! - a First Prize. It was his ultimate aim to give his Municipal Music School the status of Royal Conservatory. Peter Benoit To have a winner of the Rome Prize in the house, that was one of Peter Benoits major concerns in the 1880s. Lodewijk Mortelmans (standing in the middle),Īs member of the jury of the Prix de Rome ![]() Lodewijk Mortelmans 1868-1952 1893 - Prix de Rome Participations at the Belgian Prix de Rome for music composition :ġ889 - 1st participation: deuxième second prixġ891 - 2st participation: withdrawel due to sickness ![]() ![]() ![]() “A soul mate is someone who you carry with you forever.“A soul mate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.” – Kenny Loggins. ![]()
![]() ![]() They know each other really, really well. ![]() ![]() They’re not so much in the honeymoon stage of their relationship like they were in Hothouse Flower. ![]() How would you describe Daisy and Ryke at the start of LWD?īecca: By this time, they’ve been a couple for a long while. My thoughts ranged from this is everything we hoped it’d be to this can’t be the end. And it’s not a normal crying, it was the full-on snot-nosed, blubbering. What were your thoughts right after you finished writing Long Way Down?īecca: It’s over. Krista: Bittersweet is the perfect word! We’re so ready to share the end of the series with everyone, but at the same time it’s a bit heartbreaking to finally let it go. 20th (3 more days)! Author Interview: Krista & Becca Ritchie This is the FINAL book in the Addicted series (kinda)!!! I can’t believe it’s almost over! How are you two feeling about this?īecca: so many emotions! I bounce back between being overcome with joy to being overcome with sadness. Welcome to today’s stop on the promo tour for Long Way Down by Krista & Becca Ritchie!!! I’m so, so, sooo excited to have Krista & Becca here today on the blog with an interview! Check it out below – and don’t forget that Long Way Down releases on Nov. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they drove a stake through his heart, to which he reacted by groaning and bleeding, and burned the body. They saw that the corpse was undecomposed "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears that the shirt, the covering, and the coffin were completely bloody that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Ten days later, villagers, advised by their hadnack (a military/administrative title) who had witnessed such events before, opened his grave. These people all died shortly thereafter. Within 20 or 30 days after Paole's death, four persons complained that they had been plagued by him. About 1725, he broke his neck in a fall from a haywagon. He reportedly often mentioned that he had been plagued by a vampire at a location named Gossowa (perhaps Kosovo), but that he had cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with his blood. Arnold Paole: "Arnold Paole was a hajduk who had moved to the village from the Turkish-controlled part of Serbia. ![]() |