![]() ![]() ![]() “What happened to her face?” her father bellowed. A second later, a horrified gasp filled her bedroom. What happened to your eyes? Rick! Rick! Hurry!”Ī curse was followed by the pound of hard, fast footsteps. “Annabelle? Are you all right?” A pause, then a hiss of breath. The whine of hinges, the clack of high heels against the hardwood floor. In seconds, panic chewed her up and spit her out. A warm liquid now coated her hands.Īnother scream left her, followed by another and another, each like a serrated piece of glass scraping her throat raw. She rubbed at her face, even clawed, hoping to remove whatever was causing the problem, but there was nothing out of the ordinary. ![]() The pain spread, riding the too-swift tides in her veins and threatening to burst through her skin. She pried her swollen eyelids apart, but…there was no dawning light. ![]() When full awareness finally struck, her entire body tensed and bowed, a scream ripping free of her throat. She became aware of the sensation gradually, her mind still fogged from sleep. THE MORNING OF HER eighteenth birthday, Annabelle Miller woke from the most amazing dream feeling as if her eyes had been ripped out, dipped in acid and shoved back into their sockets. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While this seems like a pretty clear-cut answer to the question of whether or not Eren loves Mikasa, the reality is much more complicated than this. ![]() He further explains that she doesn’t really love him, since her devotion is merely a side effect of her bloodline, which was created to serve and protect. In it, Eren even claims to have always hated Mikasa, expressing frustration toward her constant need to be by his side. We’re talking about chapter 112 of the manga, of course, which was brought to the small screen in episode 15 of the anime’s fourth season. Despite how many fans wished for the two to get together eventually, a time came when Eren’s feelings were questioned more than ever before. ![]() ![]() Questions re: the Cinco de Mayo festival may be emailed to Rocio Martinez or Claudia Chavez at Please note that alcohol is not permitted, and vendor applications are no longer being accepted. Martinez said that at the last time the festival was held in 2019, more than 100,000 people attended.Ĭhevron Richmond is a major sponsor of the event, with other local businesses like the City of Richmond, Mechanics Bank, AC Transit and more lending their support too. Two stages - one sponsored by La Raza 93.3 FM on 23 rd & Rheem Avenue and another sponsored by Radio Lazer 1510 AM at 23 rd & Clinton Avenue - will provide the crowd with live entertainment. ![]() Included among the festivities will be a lip-smacking variety of Latinx food vendors, food trucks and restaurants, as well as music, art/other booths, pony rides and kid-friendly fun. Rocio Martinez of Rigo’s Auto Sales - whose Rigoberto and Carla Mendoza sit on the association’s board - confirmed the return of the family friendly festival, which will take place along the 23 rd Street corridor in Richmond between Clinton Avenue and Rheem Avenue. This year marks the festival’s 17 th trip around the sun after a three-year pandemic pause. ![]() Richmond’s 23 rd Street Merchants Association is organizing the return of the Cinco de Mayo festival Sunday, May 7 from 10 a.m. ![]() ![]() You will reflect on the lighthouses in your own life and be reminded that the greatest heroes are alongside us-and within us. ![]() With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a "human lighthouse," inspiring those around you. Insight from The Light House Effect by Steve Pemberton Your life experience is an opportunity to touch the life of another, to see in their life a connection. John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need "human lighthouses" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. ![]() ![]() Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tokarczuk never gets too close to the character of Jacob, instead presenting him through the eyes of his contemporaries, both ardent believers and staunch skeptics. ![]() The movement espoused “redemption through sin”: fast days became feasts, and rules on modesty, purity, and even incest were overturned. Jacob Frank, as he would come to be known, was a real man who inspired legions of followers into “Frankism,” a Sabbatean Jewish movement that held, at its core, the belief that people should transgress every moral boundary they know. Whether Jakub Lejbowicz Frank is a true mystic or a fraud is not clear, neither in Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s long-anticipated The Books of Jacob nor in the history books. ![]() Rumors of a young and charismatic Jew, said by some to be the Messiah, reach the region’s townspeople through long chains of scholars and merchants along the trade routes from Smyrna (Izmir) on the Mediterranean coast to the settlements on the North Sea. THE YEAR IS 1752 (the page, 900-or-so), and a carriage is barreling through misty Podolia, a historic region that now sits on Ukraine’s eastern border. ![]() ![]() Perhaps together we could forge a new world. If my power began her curse, perhaps it's what can lift it. But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating-and she can't stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. Even though a power like mine was responsible for her curse. ![]() Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. One who isn't bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. ![]() Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. You've heard this before, haven't you? The handsome prince. ![]() A curse that could only be broken by true love's kiss. "Walter's spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women who've been told to keep their gifts hidden and for those yearning to defy gravity."- O: The Oprah Magazine Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. But in this "bewitching and fascinating" (Tamora Pierce) retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," true love is more than a simple fairy tale. ![]() A princess isn't supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this way, this doctoral thesis concentrates on the ontology of life as it emerges through the selected bioartworks: “semi-living” sculptures created by The Tissue Culture and Art Project and the performance May the Horse Live in Me (2011) by L’Art Orienté Objet. Instead of examining the defining criteria of life, bioartistic practices explore and enact life as processual, differential, and always already uncontainable, thus transcending preconceived material and conceptual boundaries. They expose the enmeshment between the living and non-living, organic and inorganic, and, ultimately, life and death. When examined from a Deleuzian feminist perspective and in dialogue with contemporary bioscience, bioartistic projects reveal the inadequacy of asking about life’s essence. ![]() Uncontainable Life: A Biophilosophy of Bioart investigates the ways in which thinking through the contemporary hybrid artistico-scientific practices of bioart is a biophilosophical practice, one that contributes to a more nuanced understanding of life than we encounter in mainstream academic discourse. ![]() ![]() ![]() The end before the return homes still makes me mad and honestly was a cop out for the author. In this case I felt the same and Brooklyn is the worse. Sometimes I can connect more with a audiobook. Update I listened to the audiobook provided by NetGalley. But really At this point they all deserve better and Brooklyn forget her. The end is the only reason I gave it two stars because something might happen. It ends 10mins after book 4 nothing no new development. ![]() I honestly don't know if I'll finish the series. HE THINKS UR DEAD WHY WOULD HE BE LOOKING FOR YOU. ![]() Once she escapes she doesn't do anything just cries and compares everything she does to Matt every happy memory she's like what about Matt he thinks I'm dead he should be looking for me. ![]() I've never liked Brooklyn she is winy and makes the dumbest decisions now we get a recap of the end of book 3-4 and I feel like the author messed up the timeline and of course here she goes making the dumbest decisions and the love story was Stockholm Syndrome romance. I was super sad with book 3 and book 4 I was like ok time jump but it was a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will come out quarterly, except for when I have exciting news to share like new book deals, cover reveals, or releases! You can sign up here if you want to be sure not to miss anything. I’m starting a newsletter soon which will have fun extras, deleted snippets, giveaways, and book recommendations. It’s truly been a privilege to share Cate and Maura and Tess and Finn with you. ![]() Knowing how busy everyone is – knowing how many books there are in the world – knowing all the things that compete for our attention – I’m profoundly grateful to anyone who chooses to spend their time reading my story. I love hearing from readers! And I’m incredibly grateful for everyone who’s already gotten a copy of the book, whether it’s from your local bookseller or for your Kindle. Thank you so much to everyone who’s been in touch with me over email (cahillwitch at gmail dot com), twitter, Facebook, Instagram, comments here, or anywhere else. Have you read it yet? What do you think? I’m crazy excited to share the ending of the trilogy with you all! (I wrote a whole trilogy!) Eep! SISTERS’ FATE has been out for a whole week already! ![]() ![]() Kell is one of the last Antari―magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. ![]() In Book Two, Cass comes to Paris, where she discovers that the City of Light hides scary poltergeists in its dark underbelly.Īnd Book Three brings Cass to New Orleans, where Cass and her friends will have to face off with a servant of Death itself. Can Cass, together with Jacob and a new friend who seems to share her gift, outsmart the Raven in Red? When her parents are tapped to host a show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to film around the world.īook One takes them to Edinburgh, Scotland, where graveyards and castles teem with restless phantoms, one of whom has their sights set on capturing Cass. ![]() Even her best friend, Jacob, is a ghost.īut Cass's life is about to get much stranger. ![]() And a host of ghosts you won't soon forget.Įver since Cassidy Blake almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead. ![]() |