![]() ![]() Her relationship with Hardin was fast-paced and vibrant, sweeping them and everyone around them up in a whirlwind of drama. In the meantime, Tessa befriended the co-ed Landon Gibson, who happened to be Hardin's impending stepbrother. ![]() They were constantly driven apart and pulled back together. His sarcastic and witty remarks that were paired with a kind heart enticed her, though she soon learned the effects of his cruelty first-hand. These constructs of marriage and love disappeared when she attended college and met the tattooed rebel, Hardin Scott. Having come from a broken family, she grew up idolizing the concept of love and what it would mean to be in a relationship. Theresa "Tessa" Lynn Young is the main protagonist in the After series written by Anna Todd.Īn overachiever and dedicated student, Tessa deals with the trauma and dysfunction in her life by focusing on her schooling and making everything appear perfect an idea that was perpetuated by her controlling mother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After meeting Elise Hermansen, an attorney specializing in rape cases, on Tinder, he’s evidently bitten her to death with a formidable set of iron teeth and drunk her blood. Retired Inspector Harry Hole, who thinks he’s safe from his demons as an underpaid lecturer in Oslo’s Police College, gets blackmailed into returning to the Crime Squad Unit, with predictably explosive results.ĭo vampires exist? Maybe not, but vampirists, in academic expert Hallstein Smith’s suitably pedantic distinction, certainly do, and one of them is at work in Oslo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bill is currently working on a science fiction series, A Little Bit of Chaos, part of which can be found on Amazon. ![]() ![]() Bill was accepted to Temple University’s MFA program in 2014, where he met-and sadly only had one class with-Samuel Delany, now his boss and good friend. In 2013, he also received his MA in English with a creative writing focus there. His book-length autobiographical essay, The Motion of Light in Water, won a Hugo Award in 1989.īill Wood graduated from the University of Maine’s Honors College in 2011 with a BA in English and Philosophy. His has two experimental fiction collections, Atlantis: Three Tales and Phallos, while his novels include science fiction such as the Nebula-Award winning Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, Nova (now in a Library of America anthology), Dhalgren, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His science fiction and fantasy tales are available in Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories. Delany taught in the Temple English department for many years. Join us for a science fiction reading and discussion with authors Samuel Delany, Bill Wood, and Michael Swanwick. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her most recent books include THE SOUTH SHORES TRILOGY (CHASING SHADOWS, DROWNING TIDES and FALLING DARKNESS.) Her latest historical is THE ROYAL NANNY. Karen has given numerous talks to readers and writers across the county. Karen's books have been published in many foreign languages and she won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for 2005. Besides her American settings, Karen loves the British Isles, where her Scottish and English roots run deep, and where she has set many of her historical Tudor-era mysteries and her historical novels about real and dynamic British women. A lifelong Ohioan, Karen and her husband Don divide their time between the midwest and the southeast, both locations she has used in her books. ![]() A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Karen Harper is a former college English instructor (The Ohio State University) and high school literature and writing teacher. ![]() ![]() IT was adapted into a movie in 2017 and has since become one of Stephen King’s most popular books.Īnother scary Stephen King novel is Pet Sematary, first published in 1983. The horror-fantasy tells the story of seven children who are terrorized by an evil creature known as “IT,” which feeds on their fears. The Stephen King novel, widely considered the scariest, is IT, first published in 1986. What is considered the scariest Stephen King novel? The Shining was later adapted into a movie of the same name in 1980. ![]() This horror novel follows Jack Torrance and his family as they become caretakers of the Overlook Hotel in Colorado, only to find themselves terrorized by supernatural entities. One of Stephen King’s most successful and celebrated novels is The Shining, first published in 1977. What is Stephen King’s most successful novel? ![]() Stephen King’s books often focus on themes such as alienation, violence, and the struggle between good and evil. He has published over 60 novels and over 200 short stories throughout his career, many of which have been adapted into films or TV series. Stephen King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. ![]() ![]() Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and #1 International bestselling author of over one hundred novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() First it was an escape-artist Boxer then Thompson, a Beagle, a notorious lawn bandit that always left presents and lastly, Brutus, an adult black Chow Chow. Dina has been around werewolves before and she knows they are unstable, so she doesn’t approach him until the killings begin.ĭogs are being killed. Rumor has it he’s an ex-military, which sounds like a normal thing, but Dina has seen Sean at night running around and marking his territory. ![]() The book starts off with the arrival of a new neighbor, Sean Evans, to the subdivision. ![]() Clean Sweep Innkeeper Chronicles, Book #1 By Ilona Andrews ISBN#9781625173430 Author’s Website: īrought to you by OBS guest reviewer OmarĬlean Sweep tells the story of Dina Demille, the Innkeeper of the Gertrude Hunt Inn that is located on the entrance of the subdivision of Avalon in Texas. ![]() ![]() Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.įorced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. ![]() In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. ![]() 'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Notes from Underground is actually a response to another text, entitled What Is to be Done? (Marder, Meyer, & Wyshak, n. However, the novel did not convey a message agreeable to the intellectual milieu instead, it served to criticize its very existence. The prevalence of reason strongly influenced and inspired Dostoevsky to write Notes from Underground (Marder, Meyer, & Wyshak, n. Perfection was only attainable through the application of reason and the manifestation of “enlightened self-interest” (Marder, Meyer, & Wyshak, n. All of these movements were established on the belief that reasonable and natural-law theories could establish a perfect society (Emerson, 1992). Reason was the means in which man and society can develop for the better.Įuropean thought was dominated by materialism, liberalism and more importantly, utopianism (Marder, Meyer, & Wyshak, n. The period left no room for superstition or foolishness rationality reigned supreme (Marder, Meyer, & Wyshak, n. During this time, reason governed over every endeavor, and was valued above everything else. ![]() |