Claus enjoy a miraculous birth, but because of a terrible curse, the heart of their daughter is frozen. In The Legend of Holly Claus (2006, by Brittney Ryan), Santa and Mrs. It's Chrissie's memory of her father's own magical words that gives her the courage to save the day. But come Christmas Eve, someone has to make sure that children everywhere wake up to their gifts under the tree. Spirits sink so low that poor Santa can't even get himself out of bed. Until one day when the Big Boss of the Exmas Express company, Warrie Ransom, arrives and declares that "EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE"-including Christmas! With the North Pole run by Exmas Express, work is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Chrissie spends her days playing with reindeer and elves. In his book NOEL (2000), Ed McCray told the life story of the Clauses' daughter, Noel.īestselling novelist James Patterson, wrote a book in 2004 for young audiences about Santa's daughter Chrissie. In this piece, the young Kitty Claus, who has known no one but her papa, asks him to find her a man. One of the first works to present this figure was a short musical play of 1892 called Santa Claus' Daughter (by Everett Elliott and F. Santa Claus' daughter is a fictional character of Christmas folklore who appeared in North America in the late 19th century.
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The sackler dynasty6/29/2023 But he was also a keen philanthropist with a consuming determination to get his family name inscribed on the walls of the most important art galleries, museums and universities in the world. The brothers were feted the world over and no one worried too much about how they came by their moneyĪs he grew increasingly rich, he liked to remain in the shadows, often keeping his name away from the businesses he owned or controlled. A drug that, in contrast to Arthur’s claims, led to high dependency, Valium became one of the bestselling medicines of the 1960s and 1970s and Arthur made sure that he received a healthy percentage cut on sales. He also paid for his two younger brothers, Mortimer and Raymond, to attend medical school and the three of them bought or set up a number of businesses, one of them being Purdue Frederick, a small pharmaceutical company that would later change its name to Purdue Pharma.Īs the owner of a medical advertising agency, Arthur aggressively marketed Valium direct to physicians with misleading and false information. He funded himself through college and medical school, partly by his work as an advertising copywriter, trained as a psychiatrist and became a leading medical publisher. Arthur was an extraordinary figure, highly gifted and even more motivated. Keefe begins his story with Arthur Sackler, the eldest of three boys born to a Ukrainian Jewish grocer in Brooklyn in 1913. Fyodor dostoevsky the underground man6/29/2023 His first big argument concerns free will and the laws of nature. His narration takes the form of a retort – he imagines his reader responding to his absurd claims, so he fills in our half of the conversation and then responds in turn. Despite his surroundings of mire and filth, he sometimes experiences attacks of "the sublime and beautiful," American Beauty-style moments where is taken by the awe-inspiring things of the world (art, philosophy, love). He used to be a civil servant, but he inherited some money and retired, all the more time for discoursing on his life's many problems. The Underground Man reveals that he is 40 years old and living in St. Intelligent men, he says, can never become anything – and he himself is the case in point. It seems he's been living "underground" for 20 years, unable to act in any way because he's so intelligent he can debunk any justification for doing so. The Underground Man, our first-person narrator, begins by telling us how hateful and unattractive he is. The blind owl novel6/29/2023 But while it may seem to sacrifice character development in favor of mood, in the manner of a prose poem, and while it does convey the trance-like states and hallucinations produced by the narrator’s opium smoking, The Blind Owl is actually an intricate narrative exercise whose formal elements perfectly express the density of its metaphysical and metapsychological preoccupations. These elements, together with the writer’s personal habits, have given the work its unwarranted reputation as a druginduced, formless, and singularly incomprehensible reverie suffused with intimations of mortality and populated by its harbingers. He has generally owed his reputation to his extraordinary and enigmatic novella The Blind Owl, which on the surface is reminiscent of Thomas De Quincey’s opiated phantasmagoria and Edgar Allan Poe’s hysterical first-person narratives of obsessive morbidity, murder, and deathless corpses. Sadeq Hedayat (1903–51) was for many decades the best-known modern prose writer in Persian, the language of a country whose purified literary lexicon and restrictive linguistic formalism he sought to violate by introducing crude idioms and colloquial phrases. Analysis of Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl The dragonriders of pern reading order6/29/2023 Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. 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On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square-a place of many memories-she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue-the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" ( Wall Street Journal). Hell for leather julie ann walker6/29/2023 But facing down danger with Delilah is one passion-filled thrill ride. Throw in a ticking clock, a deadly homegrown terrorist, and some missing nuclear weapons, and a man just might find himself on the wrong end of a gun. Mac knows a thing or two about beautiful women-mainly that they can't be trusted. What the big, blue-eyed, former FBI agent has against her is a mystery, but when bullets start to fly, Mac becomes her only hope of survival, and her only chance at finding her uncle alive. Delilah is certain that Bryan Mac McMillian has the connections to help her find her uncle. But her uncle has vanished into thin air and she must turn to the sexy, surly Black Knights Inc. One of Booklist's 101 Best Romance of the Last 10 Years Only the most urgent crisis could persuade Delilah Fairchild to abandon her beloved biker bar. Ī New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! Black Knights Inc.-Behind the facade of their tricked-out motorcycle shop is an elite special ops team assigned the jobs too hot for anyone else to handle. Delilah is certain that Bryan Mac McMillian. A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! Black Knights Inc.-Behind the facade of their tricked-out motorcycle shop is an elite special ops team assigned the jobs too hot for anyone else to handle. Scratch the Surface by Mary Calmes6/28/2023 As they are apart, they talk on the phone and their connection only grows. Their plans to see each other again that night are derailed when an emergency calls Cameron home. And a tension filled conversation in the bathroom has them both admitting that what they feel is unprecedented, but cannot be ignored. Neither Jeremiah nor Cameron expect to run into each other again at the restaurant. Cameron’s preoccupied during his very important meeting, but all the while, he’s planning on ways he can find out who the stranger is and how they can meet again. He can’t get the tall dark man out of his head, and he just knows there’s something more between them. He vows to head back to that hotel after his shift at the restaurant in hopes of seeing the man again.Ĭameron Gallagher doesn’t have sex with strangers, and the night is an anomaly in more ways than one. But Jeremiah leaves before morning light without getting the man’s name, though he can’t stop thinking about him. The night is spent dripping in sex like Jeremiah has never experienced, and the connection between them can’t be denied. After Jeremiah gets the drunk man squared away, the other man asks if Jeremiah is a hustler, and then invites him in. When the occupant of the room next door comes out to see what the noise is about, Jeremiah is both angry at the man’s attitude, but also captivated by his looks. Jeremiah Wolfe is doing a favor for a friend, but he ends up having to help a drunk man up to his room at the hotel instead. Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Sunshine by Robin McKinley6/28/2023 Sunshine makes cinnamon buns for Charlie’s Coffeehouse, and her mother (married to Charlie after a difficult divorce from Sunshine’s dad) handles the administrative side of things. Yet, after the Voodoo Wars, they all seem to get along well enough. It’s considered pretty cool to be a fallen angel, but the global council has decreed that Weres must take drugs to control their more beastly behavior, and being a vampire is technically illegal. The lurid copy and cover art of this American edition of McKinley’s first for grownups (inaccurately described as “ A Mesmerizing Novel of Supernatural Desire”) are wildly at odds with the story itself: Sunshine, a cheerful chatterbox with a touch of magic in her soul, is very much at home in a near-future that’s as cozy as can be, though inhabited by various Other Folk, including werewolves, Supergreens (ecology-minded supernatural beings of ordinary mien), assorted demons, sprites, and fallen angels. Mild-mannered vampire fantasy from Britisher McKinley, author of whimsical, rather talky rewrites of classic fairytales for young adults. Unstable Prototypes by Joseph R. Lallo6/28/2023 (March) Library Journal To maintain the integrity of their reputation as the galaxy's mercenary elite, the soldiers of the barren world of Metzada adhere to a rigid code of loyalty and honor reminiscent of their Jewish-Israeli ancestors. Rosenberg's interesting idea of combining the mysticism of oriental martial arts with pragmatic sabra toughness is as undeveloped as the stock characters and the unexamined romanticism of arms and man. The second, however, gets so tangled in obscure future politics that it seems just as pointless. To establish the pair's powers, Rosenberg shows how their cleverness and ruthlessness clear up the first assignment in puzzlingly short order. Shimon Bar-El, Tetsuo here becomes involved in two of his government's campaigns. Publisher's Weekly Tetsuo Hanavi may hold the noncombatant rank of inspector-general in the Mercenary Corps of the Israeli-descended planet Metzanda, but his real job is something closer to hitman. |