![]() The weather had been gratefully clear outside when I moved in, but it was still cold enough where the snow wouldn’t be melting anytime soon. I warmed myself, tossing that invite on the kitchen counter before kicking off my snow boots. I’d barely been here three days, and there were still boxes stacked around. My boots soaked, I stepped delicately over the salted walk, then back into my new house. ![]() I’d just hopped outside to put the trash out, my legs beading in goosebump pimples as I hadn’t even thought to put a coat on. ![]() ![]() I slammed the mailbox closed, wanting to get out of the slush and ice of the Midwest. He was getting married.Īnd he was doing it with a woman half his age.Ĭlarise could very well be my sister at her age, and here Dad was embarrassing himself, embarrassing me. My dad, a once respected man in our law-abiding community, had finally done it. All I could do not to shred the wedding invitation in my hands. My teeth gnashed together reading over the calligraphy. The elegant writing blurred beneath my fingertips, two names. ![]() This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, any place, events or occurrences, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, including electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Tabular surveys on the divine names in chapters 90-92, on amulets, spells and practical applications serve to illustrate the scope and workings of Thunder rituals in Heavenly Master Taoism that were documented in the 14th/15th centuries. The unity of Thunder rituals was studied in depth by the Taoist Chang Shan-yuan whose Comprehensive Discussion of All Rituals is contained in the Canon and presented in translation in this book. The translation of three chapters from A Corpus of Taoist Rituals (90-92) in the Taoist Canon (Cheng-t'ung tao-tsang) offers information about the character, the intent and practical structure of Taoist Thunder rituals, which are assessed to show the perceived connection between man, nature and the infinite, and finally the Taoist understanding of the unity of Thunder rituals. ![]() Reiter's new book offers a selection of representative source materials concerning Taoist Thunder Magic rituals, starting out with considerations about the pantheon of divine forces in such rituals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Snow in Winter by Wendy Worthington is a story of murder and coercion on a Hollywood soundstage, when a movie producer turns up dead, and her ambitious assistant discovers the killer’s identity, then uses that knowledge to blackmail him for her own showbiz ambitions. ![]() ![]() The entire compilation is comprised of eight short stories: I’ve never read any of the contributing authors before, but I am familiar with Jess Faraday and her novel The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, an outstanding historical mystery that I’m ever so impatiently awaiting the sequel to. – Agatha ChristieĪnd now for something completely different.ĭeath on a Cold Night can’t technically be categorized as LGBT, though there are two short stories in the anthology with gay thematic elements: Lee Mullins’ “Burnt December” and Christalea McMullin’s “Club Pandemonium”. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. ![]() Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. ![]() “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. ![]() The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. 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Alice Echols deserves praise, therefore, for taking on such a task in Scars of Sweet Paradise. Read 98 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the likely imminent extinction of the species, people still can't stop themselves from getting involved in destructive power politics and personal rivalries. A band of survivors in the former USA struggle against Plants, aliens and - themselves. Machines are systematically wiping out not merely humans, but all mammals. ![]() At one point in this novel a character expresses the view, "I'm not sure if we've been invaded or if they're just spraying the garden." Aliens have seeded the Earth with giant Plants that tend to eliminate all other plants by out-competing them for basic resources such as water and sunlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is separated into four narratives. 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