![]() ![]() Actually, yes that Nimue, if your readings of Arthurian lore goes back to medieval roots. ![]() It will eventually become hugely important, as will her new traveling companion, a hunky mercenary named Arthur (Devon Terrell). Tragedy forces Nimue to go on the run, lugging the bulky Sword of the First King with her. It all threatens the reign of King Uther Pendragon (Sebastian Armesto), whose position of power has been jeopardized since court magician Merlin (Gustaf Skarsgard) stopped being able to do magic. Religious forces, led by Carden (Peter Mullan) and his red paladins, are going through the land wiping out supernatural beings, spurred by the mysterious and lethal Weeping Monk (Daniel Sharman). ![]() Cursed is designed as a prequel to the familiar and oft-told saga of King Arthur - the next Game of Thrones before there was a Game of Thrones - introducing us to the sword-bestowing Lady of the Lake when she was still just a magically gifted Fay maiden named Nimue (Katherine Langford). ![]()
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![]() ![]() In a statement, Mayfair Witches EPs Spalding and Ashford said, “The world of witches has fascinated and terrified for centuries, and yet Anne Rice’s particular lens on witches explored something new altogether - women who are powerful, and often brutal, and always committed to subverting our current power structures. New launches, meanwhile, include 61st Street, Dark Winds, Moonhaven and the Tales of the Walking Dead anthology. Mayfair Witches joins what portends to be “the biggest year for original programming in the history of AMC Networks,” with The Walking Dead, Killing Eve, Better Call Saul, Kevin Can F**k Himself and A Discovery of Witches all serving up their farewell seasons, and Gangs of London returning. Masters of Sex‘s Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford are executive producers and writers on the series, with Spalding serving as showrunner. ![]() Law & Order: Criminal Intent Spinoff Set in Toronto Has Been Ordered to Series ![]() ![]() ![]() The enormous emotional strain he felt at this time is reflected in the intense pessimism found in his work. Only in 1918, when her presence in the family constituted a real threat to their daughter's safety did Pirandello agree to have his wife committed to an asylum. Financial disaster and a severe illness brought on by the birth of their third child drove his wife to a hysterical form of insanity. In 1894 he married Antoinetta Portulano, the daughter of his father's business associate. It was followed by other volumes of poems, critical essays, novels, short stories, and over forty plays. ![]() His first published work, Mal giocondo (1889), was a collection of poems. As a young man he studied at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn, where he gained his doctorate in 1891. ![]() Luigi Pirandello was born of rich, middle-class parents in Girgenti (Agrigento), Sicily, on 28 June 1867. ![]() ![]() People who are intrigued by Native Americans, wars, teenage lives. She uses great adjectives and indian words to help the readers understand. The Yana are one of the last Native America Indian Tribes left in America. T.Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. The book, Ishi: Last of His Tribe, by Theodora Kroebar is a well written book, which deeply describes the life of a Yana Indian. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. Ishi: The Last of His Tribe is a made-for-television biopic based on the book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. ![]() Also included are many contemporary photographs, nineteenth-century drawings, maps, and, of course, the thirty-two photographs that were included in the original edition. /rebates/2f97805750188392fIshi-last-Tribe-KROEBER-Theodora-05750188362fplp&. Many of the photographs were taken at the actual locations in the Deer Creek country of northern California where Ishi was born and lived for nearly half a century as a 'wild' Indian. ![]() This deluxe edition of the classic biography is embellished with pictures that help to bring the story to life. ![]() For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. ![]() ![]() Pearson, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Remnant Chronicles Be prepared to laugh, cry, and gasp." - Mary E. I fell in love with Ziva, her sister, and their very “interesting” companions. Loaded with action, betrayal, slow-burn romance- honestly, that is the best first kiss scene ever -I couldn’t put it down. " Blade of Secrets was an addictive page-turner. ![]() Joined by a distractingly handsome mercenary and a young scholar with extensive knowledge of the world’s known magics, Ziva and her sister set out on a quest to keep the sword safe until they can find a worthy wielder or a way to destroy it entirely. When Ziva learns of the warlord’s intentions to use the weapon to enslave all the world under her rule, she takes her sister and flees. A sword with the strength to topple kingdoms. A sword that can cut far deeper than the length of its blade. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Ziva receives a commission from a powerful warlord, and the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims secrets. She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power. In Blade of Secrets, the first book in Tricia Levenseller's exciting new YA fantasy duology, a teenage blacksmith with social anxiety is forced to go on the run to protect the world from the most powerful magical sword she's ever made.Įighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, the plot having these two as lovers was hard-to-digest at first. ![]() Not one bit ideal but hey, that’s the fun. Prim, sharp dresser, organized, uniform guy, slightly corrupt, power hungry, stoic, detached, obsessed and impulsive. Whereas Agent Christian is everything a fantasy’s made of. Be it her “skimpy” clothes or too old of a husband, she is a walking trouble. This is what I love about reading fiction- how a multitude of contradictory thoughts arise and how they are still justified and complementing.Īnyone who has read the first instalment would agree that Gianna’s character has been portrayed as a stuck-up, rich girl who is basically a gold digger and just not likeable. But knowing what this book entails, I grew (more) eager than ever. I don’t know if it happens with you, but until now I always had this notion that a spin-off story mars the original story and can never measure up. It wasn’t for its genre or setting, (come to think of it, I have actually found fondness for both of them) rather the fact that The Maddest Obsession’s story is somewhat linked to The Sweetest Oblivion. Just like the first book in the quartet series, I was apprehensive about this one too, don’t get me wrong but for a completely different reason. And nobody gives up their fucking spot in Heaven. When you’re obsessed with something for so long and finally obtain it? It feels like coming home to God. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy - a girl caught between two distant continents - and two very different men. Nathan is a happy-go-lucky surfer boy, with no prospects, no place to live, an almost-girlfriend in tow. So why, at the wedding in Sydney of her best friend Molly, does she have niggling doubts, and find herself attracted to Molly's brother-in-law Nathan? The sooner she gets back to her regular life in London, the flat she shares with James, her job in PR, the better. ![]() James is a lawyer, persuasive and gorgeous and Lucy adores him. She finally calls him and he reassures her: it was only his mates playing a silly joke. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James. Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Escape to the summer and feel the warmth of Paige Toon's storytelling ![]() ![]() 200 BCE), and continued for over a thousand years. The trade routes giving rise to the Silk Road began development under the Han dynasty (c. China began domesticating silkworms for this purpose as early as 4000 B.C.E., and since the silkworms, and their exclusive food source, the leaves of the mulberry tree, are native to Asia, China controlled a near monopoly for thousands of years. If harvested before the pupa emerges, the cocoon can be soaked and unwound into a long singular thread, which can be woven into textiles. Silk is produced by silkworms when they form their chrysalis. Using the backstory of each character, we will attempt justify their in-game abilities mostly sarcastically.īefore exploring the histories of the Silk Road, its nice to understand its namesake. We will begin by providing some historical context regarding the Silk Road, and then explore the lives of each character. The game now contains a suite of nineteen characters, but other than Marco Polo and Kublai Khan most live in historical obscurity. With the new Agents of Venice expansion adding several new character into the fold, we have decided to explore the backstory of The Voyages of Marco Polo's various characters. Learn the complete history of the Silk Road, the Mongolian Empire, and of the leaders, explorers, and merchants that ventured the trade route. ![]() Visit Pip Modern for the full article, with images and more: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She and her cousin Sparks are lovers, and both are "merry-begots", conceived during the planetary festivals held every 20 years to remind Tiamat of the cycle of power. The novel follows Moon, the only one of these clones to survive to adolescence. She has secretly implanted several Summer women with embryos, clones of herself, in the hopes of extending her rule past her ritual execution at the end of Winter. ![]() This also allows a single Snow Queen to reign for the entire 150-year season, and it is with the Snow Queen, Arienrhod, that the story begins. Mers are hunted as frequently as possible during the Winter years, to the brink of extinction. The Hegemony's interest in Tiamat has to do with the "mers", sentient sea-dwelling creatures whose blood provides the "water of life", a virus that halts the aging process. Interstellar travel between Tiamat and the Hegemony is only possible during the 150 years of Winter rule, and a single woman rules the entire planet: a "Snow Queen" in Winter, a "Summer Queen" in Summer. Every 150 years, the suns orbit around a black hole dramatically impacts the planetary ecology and to keep the uneasy peace, the government switches from Winter rule to Summer rule under a matriarchal monarch. The residents of Tiamat are split into two clans: "Winters" who advocate technological progress and trade with offworlders, and "Summers" who depend on their folk traditions and rigid social distinctions to survive on this marginal planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He starts by sharing memories of coming out in his youth and moving to Toronto, where he was confronted with the dreary reality of young gay men trapped between the jaws of the Big City and saddled with dead-end jobs. The author’s frame tale periodically interrupts the set of interwoven stories and provides the context for the disappearance of the main characters. But they typically face a complete lack of interest or support, and eventually give up on their searches. The victims’ friends struggle to solve the mystery, alerting the authorities as well as estranged relatives. Their disappearances are usually greeted with disbelief and incomprehension by their friends, as nothing in their quiet, unassuming routines hinted at suicidal tendencies. ![]() The novel is divided into several stories centring on the lives of gay men just before they go missing. It calls attention to the disappearance of vulnerable men from Toronto’s gay village, a recurring phenomenon that has been consistently met with indifference from the police and society at large for decades, and therefore remains unexplained. Red X by David Demchuk is a novel unlike any I have ever read. Content warning: graphic violence, sexual assault, animal violence, homophobia, ableism, racism ![]() |