Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() *Don't miss the Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment blockbuster movie of Beautiful Creatures directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. Every kiss is a curse.Ethan's next heartbeat could be his last.It is their curse now. A Caster and a Mortal can never truly be together. On her sixteenth birthday Lena made a terrifying choice, which now haunts her day and night.And as her seventeenth birthday approaches Lena and Ethan face even greater danger. ![]() His life would never be the same.Lena is a Caster and her family is locked in a supernatural civil war: full of darkness and demons. One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. Beautiful Darkness is the second bewitching instalment in the bestselling love story Beautiful Creatures - a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere.Some loves are meant to be. ![]()
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Andrew wyeth art7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The exhibition also includes a number of sketches and studies that complement and enrich the finished watercolors and temperas. More than 70 works are featured in this important look at the first family of American painting. C., his son Jamie and his sisters Carolyn and Henriette. In celebration of the centennial of his birth, the Greenville County Museum of Art presents the exhibition Wyeth Dynasty, a retrospective not only of Andrew Wyeth's work but a glimpse into the work of his father, N. Wyeth wrote him a congratulatory letter prophesying, “You are headed in the direction that should finally reach the pinnacle in American art.” On the occasion of the young artist’s remarkable debut, his father and mentor, noted illustrator N.C. ![]() Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009), regarded as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century, launched his career in 1937 with a sold-out exhibition of his watercolors in New York. ![]() When aidan became a brother book7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When he’s worried about being a good big brother, his mom reminds him that they didn’t know everything when Aidan was born, but he helped them learn. Aidan doesn’t like when people ask if his mom is having a boy or a girl (“I’m having a baby,” his mom replies). ![]() Buoyant illustrations show that Aidan’s own clothing choices range from dinosaur t-shirts to bowties, baseball hat to head wrap, shorts to frilly pinafore, because that’s the kind of boy he is. “It was hard to tell his parents … but it was harder not to.” Following the news that he’s going to become a big brother, Aidan helps his parents choose baby clothing (seahorses or penguins?), paint the nursery (sky blue with clouds), and consider names. When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. ISBN: 978-1-62014-837-2 When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff ![]() Josef albers color theory7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() We could find many examples of this kind telling us how inadequate the language is for the expression of taste, only one example more: try to describe the taste of sweet or sour-impossible to find the right word.”įurthermore color is “the most relative medium in art” (from: Interaction of Color) depending on the light of the surrounding, on the form and quantity of the color, on the other colors, the background, on our own flexible way of looking. On Albers’s intention with building not a theoretical treatise but a practical toolkit for understanding color: Albers was not interested in creating a treatise on color. ![]() But the psychic reactions are still different. ![]() Only the pigment red, the color by itself, is able to get all the different imaginations into the same direction. Even when you explain this red more precisely through other words, dark, light, deep, flat, active, substantial, loose, dense, transparent, opaque-still we will have different reds in our minds. In the lecture Abstract Art (August 1935) Josef Albers says: “Take for instance the word red. Any form can be described, but trying to catch color in words is impossible. ![]() Even knowing that visual language is a totally different language than the language of words, each acting on its own level, color is still a very difficult subject to describe. ![]() Burn suzanne wright read online7/7/2023 ![]() He won’t allow anyone to take her from him. He’ll have her, and he’ll keep her safe from the threat that looms over her. Knox is used to getting what he wants, and he wants Harper. Unpredictable, elusive, and complex, she draws Knox and his inner demon like nothing ever has. ![]() Harper does neither, which unexpectedly amuses him. He’s also used to people fearing and obeying him. And when an unknown danger starts closing in on Harper, it seems that Knox is the only one who can keep her safe.Īs Prime of his Las Vegas lair and a successful businessman, Knox Thorne is used to being in control. No one seems to know what breed of demon Knox is, only that he’s more dangerous than anything she’s ever before encountered. She’s not so sure she wants either of those things. The billionaire also wants Harper in his bed. ![]() Compelling, full of secrets and armed with raw sexuality, Knox Thorne is determined to claim her as his anchor, creating a psychic bond that will prevent their inner demons from ever turning rogue. That changes overnight when she discovers that her psychic mate, or ‘anchor’, is a guy who’s rumored to be the most powerful demon in existence. ![]() Part of a small demon lair in North Las Vegas, tattooist Harper Wallis lives a pretty simple life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the beach club the next morning, Hailey and Claire find that the storm has left its mark, filling the cloudy waters of the swimming pool with jellyfish and seaweed. In this small, spacious book, Hoffman's spare words reveal the magic and the gritty realism in daily life, "somewhere between laughter and a wave breaking." Hazel Rochman, Booklistĭespite the girls' fear of change, everything shifts with a summer storm. She's is no romantic forsaken damsel: she's a rude, rebellious teenager, as needy as those who help her. ![]() Of course, in helping the stranger, the girls transform themselves and face the changes in their lives. They send her home to her ocean sisters, but first they help her find love and adventure with the handsome guy who works in the snack bar. Then they find a beautiful mermaid, Aquamarine, huddled in the beach pool. They don't want anything to change, but as the searing summer draws to a close, Claire has to move to Florida, and the bulldozers are closing in on the girls' beloved hangout near the ocean. Her first book for middle-graders is about 12-year-old girls, Hailey and Claire, who have been neighbors and best friends forever. Teens enjoy many of Hoffman's adult novels, which often focus on young women. ![]() ![]() They don’t compete with us as other humans do. But what we often don’t consider, and what Akhtar astutely points out, is that animals make friends in ways humans can’t.Īnimals don’t judge us. Meeting an animal is like making a new friend. ![]() Our connection with animals is not taught to us in school, but instead picked up through definite expressions of personality – a wagging tail, a cocked head, and a look that says, “Want to play?” – from the animal friends we so readily invite into our lives. Our Symphony with Animals is new required reading for anyone interested in humans’ timeless connection with animals. In 265 spell-binding pages of ethical exploration, Akhtar shines a light on the animals we invite into the deepest and, oftentimes, the darkest corners of our lives.įollowing the tack of prolific animal thinkers like Frans de Waal and Gregory Berns, Akhtar breathes new life into the most fundamental beliefs of what it means to laugh, smile, and cry with an animal by your side. ![]() Aysha Akhtar is a true testament to the power and importance of our relationship with animals. Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies (Pegasus Books 2019) by neurologist and public health specialist Dr. ![]() The first bad man novel7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a spectacularly original, unsettling, accomplished, and moving first novel with a tender and beguiling happy ending. “Brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing- T he First Bad Man powers past sexual boundaries and gender identification into the surprising galaxy of primal connection” ( O, The Oprah Magazine). And yet it is Clee-the selfish, cruel blond bombshell-who teaches Cheryl what it means to love and be loved and, inadvertently, provides the solace of a lifetime. When Cheryl’s bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl’s eccentrically ordered world explodes. Cheryl is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six she also believes she has a profound connection with Phillip, a philandering board member at Open Palm, the women’s self-defense studio where she has worked for twenty years. In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early forties who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat, unable to cry. The instant New York Times bestseller is “astonishing.In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime” ( Vanity Fair). ![]() Aquaman by peter david7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() David is an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan, and Aguaman's childhood is similar at times to Tarzan's. Put out to die, the infant Orin was raised by dolphins. This was stage two, a fresh origin of Aquaman.Īquaman adds his own story to the Chronicles, narrating his life. Stage one was The Atlantis Chronicles, a fresh origin for DC's Atlantis. In the nineties he did the same thing to Aquaman. In the eighties Peter David took over The Incredible Hulk, a mainstay character that nobody actually wanted to work on, and turned the title into one of the top comics at the company. If you want an Aquaman fix (and i mean really there is not enough Aquaman, sort it out DC!) it is worth picking up, it's kind of crackers but just go with it don't expect too much from it. The art is blindingly colourful and Arthur looks like he could join an 80's band at any given second but it is quite an angst filled read there's a lot of drama and murder so don't let the cutesy appeal fool you. Then later his dolphin mother and brother having to delicately explain to Arthur why he can't fuck a dolphin and at this point i had to take a time out because i couldn't stop laughing and let me tell you i wasn't expecting that. ![]() It also shows Arthur being raised by dolphins, y'know just the usual. It is a wild ride from start to finish which begins with the Flash showing up and helping Arthur out and giving him his superhero name which was sweet. Arthur sees himself as a bit of a history buff so decides to chronicle his life and it jumps around from place to place but this is mainly an origin story. ![]() Royals rachel hawkins7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot is just perfect for a romance story. The concept of modern royalty and stuff makes my fluffy heart gone wild! Of course thr princes are doing their great job of damaging my heart but anyway, I just loved it. ![]() ![]() I love the story line soo muchh □ That’s all I can say. Summarizing the story, we have girl named Daisy who her sister is engaged to the crown prince of Scotland and somehow her life is surrounded by all cute royal boys in the hierarchy. Just say a book about royalty, IM UP TO IT! □ something about royalty, especially modern kingdoms, crown princes and princess are just my things. but Daisy may just rewrite the royal rulebook to suit herself. The crown–and the intriguing Miles–might be trying to make Daisy into a lady. While the dashing young Miles has been appointed to teach Daisy the ropes of being regal, the prince’s roguish younger brother kicks up scandal wherever he goes, and tries his best to take Daisy along for the ride. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her to join Ellie at the relative seclusion of the castle across the pond. She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. ![]() |