![]() ![]() ![]() As the emotional turmoil of Ryan’s past starts to tear at his relationship with his partners, Ryan understands that only by returning to Oklahoma and confronting his demons can he save all he has now, including the men he loves.Ĭarol Lynne’s Cattle Valley series were some of my first books when I started reading m/m fiction. How can they help with when Ryan doesn’t realize he needs their help to begin with. ![]() When Nate and Rio realize that Ryan has been withholding the truth about his travels from them, they are hurt and worry about the man they love. Without telling either Rio or Nate why he is going, Ryan leaves on a trip back home, to face his past and confront the abusive father who raised him. Ryan’s mother has died and the landlord wants the trailer moved off his lot or the rent paid for. But a phone call from Oklahoma revitalizes old memories, bad ones that upset his hard won equilibrium and makes him pull away from those he loves. Sheriff Ryan Blackfeather has worked hard to overcome his torturous past to get where he is today, successful in his job as Sheriff, in a town where he has friends and is respected, and most importantly, content and happy, in love with his two partners, Nate and Rio. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Led by the brutal (fictional) second-in-command to Joseph Kony himself, a band of mostly child soldiers manhandles the teens across Tanzania and into the Congolese jungle. A potential Olympic sailor, she blunders into a psychodynamic she doesn’t fully understand, particularly the tension between charismatic Ash, who walks on two prosthetic legs, and his gorgeous girlfriend, the other assistant. ![]() Present-tense narrator Rio, a Brit of Jamaican and Sikh descent, is one of the assistants. What’s meant to be a symbolic round-the-world sail goes horribly off course when the yacht and its teenage crew, four disabled British veterans of the Middle East conflict and two able-bodied assistants, is boarded off Tanzania by members of the Lord’s Resistance Army. ![]() ![]() ![]() All episodes are available now on Peacock in the US. With the central cast back and some new faces as well (including The Wilds’ Joe Witkowski and Doralynn Mui from The 100), One of Us Is Lying season 2 delivers more drama, intense thrills, and jaw-dropping surprises than ever before. ‘Murder Club’ is blackmailed by someone with the alias Simon Says: an anonymous texter who forces the group to commit increasingly heinous acts – intimidation, kidnapping, maybe even murder – in exchange for their silence. McManus and developed by Erica Saleh, season 1 gave us serious John Hughes vibes mixed with the murder-mystery thrills of Knives Out, as high-schoolers – Jock Cooper (Chibuikem Uche), cheerleader Addy (Annalisa Cochrane), grade-A student Bronwyn (Marianly Tejada), and drug-dealing dropout Nate (Cooper van Grootel) – were framed for the murder of unpopular student Simon during detention.įollowing a fatal showdown with the actual killer, season 2 looks to go in a darker, I Know What You Did Last Summer kind of direction. ![]() Watch from anywhere: with a 100% risk-free VPNīased on the young adult novel by Karen M. ![]() Cast: Marianly Tejada, Chibuikem Uche, Annalisa Cochrane, Cooper van Grootel, Alimi Ballard, Jess McLeod, Melissa Collazo, Sara Thompson, Joe Witkowski ![]() ![]() ![]() Takezō, now pettily seeing himself as being at war against all mankind, goes on violent rampage in Miyamoto. Unfortunately, Matahachi falls in with bad company and ditches Takezō. ![]() Musashi, at this time named Takezō, and his childhood friend, Matahachi, with their dreams of military glory crushed, start on the business of evading search parties and trying to make it back to their home village of Miyamoto. The story of Musashi's quest to become the greatest swordsman of all time begins, ironically, with him lying among the wounded after the Battle of Sekigahara, which historically marks the beginning of the end for the era of great wars and honorable single combat among Samurai. It's had several adaptions over the years, the two most notable being the Samurai Trilogy of films starring Toshiro Mifune, note Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple and Samurai III Duel At Ganryu Island and the manga Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue. A long Serial Novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa and published between 19, this novel follows the path of legendary Rōnin Miyamoto Musashi as he slowly transforms from violent thug to Martial Pacifist using the Way of the Sword. ![]() Featuring awesome swordfights, epic Character Development, melodramatic loves, thrilling escapes, and thoughtful reflections that don't sound like they came out of a Cracker Jack box, Musashi is perhaps the quintessential samurai epic. ![]() ![]() Some very well known creators are involved, Guy Davis, Gene Ha and Terry Moore to name three, but while their art is among the best, it’s largely the lesser known names who contribute the better stories. ![]() His introduction considers these out of continuity stories, but they supply much to his world. It should be noted that Petersen’s a generous host. Totally disparate material is themed via the technique of each tale being told by a patron of the June Alley Inn, with the best as selected by June herself clearing the teller’s bar slate. ![]() He’s constructed an entire inn complete with regular patrons, whom he identifies in the rear of the book, complete with brief biographies. The care and thought Petersen applies to the background detail of his work is apparent here firstly by a description of the objects used in his cover illustration, and then in the short linking sequences he supplies, thematically uniting the varied contributions of others. ![]() This isn’t restricted to readers of the main series, as there are now almost as many collections of material produced by other creators, with three volumes of Legends, as there are books of work by Petersen himself. Many have fallen for the visual charm of David Petersen’s Mouse Guard series, in which the protectors of a mouse society go about their business with tiny swords. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t remember why, but that’s probably why she’s crying now. Sharon or Karen behind me told Michael he was a prick at that party. One of those awful holiday work parties in a school auditorium where they serve cheap wine in plastic cups and people stand around making awkward small talk until they’re drunk enough to say what they really think about each other. Sharon? Karen? A colleague of Michael’s who I met at a long-ago faculty party. ![]() Grief has blown me apart, scattering my bones into a desert wasteland where they’ll bake in silence under a merciless sun for a thousand years.Ī woman behind me quietly weeps into her handkerchief. There’s a Michael-shaped hole in my chest, and nothing matters anymore. So many words, and all so meaningless.Įverything is meaningless. I stand motionless under an umbrella with the other mourners, listening to the priest drone on about resurrection and glory, blessings and suffering, redemption and the holy love of God. Raining hard, as if the sky itself is about to rip in half like my heart has. It’s raining as my husband’s casket is lowered into the hole in the ground. ![]() ![]() And mostly the quality has been very high, there are a handful of truly outstanding adaptations(After the Funeral, Five Little Pigs, Sad Cypress, Wasps Nest, The Chocolate Box, Adventure of the Italian Nobleman, The ABC Murders, Peril at End House), a few disappointing ones(Taken at the Flood, Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Adventure of Johnny Waverly, Mystery of the Blue Train, Labours of Hercules, none of them are terrible though or below 5/10 on personal ranking) and rest decent to very good(even the much-maligned, but to me underrated, Appointment with Death and Murder on the Orient Express). ![]() The series has been a pleasure to watch in so many ways, even when you see an episode countless times you find something more to like further about it and pick up on things you didn't see before. ![]() Ever since seeing Sad Cypress for the first time 10 years ago, I have been a loyal fan of Agatha Christie: Poirot and of Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stories are the lifeblood for human experience and are just as important as food, water, and shelter. ![]() However, Eva Luna shows through stories about how people connect and is a universal language for humanity. It would be easy to dismiss a novel like this as an ode to the soap opera or telenovela. The words flow easily and the story did not feel excessive or bloated. Eva Luna is a spinner of tales and the stories from growing up poor on the streets of an unnamed South American country (Peru comes to mind for me) to falling in love with men like Riad Halabi, the Turkish-born merchant with a heart of gold, to Humberto Naranjo, the streetwise kid who becomes a leader in the guerilla movement, and to Rolf Carle, a German immigrant photographer that captures the attempted revolution going on in the country, Eva gains plenty of material for her stories.Īllende creates a colorful life for Eva Luna, and I get the sense that she wrote this novel like she was in a passionate love affair. That sentence from early in the novel, Eva Luna, by Isabel Allende captures the spirit of her protagonist. “Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them they were all hers.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The religious ferocity of Heavy Metal fandom is one of the most fervent in the history of subculture. Limited to 100 copies, only available direct from Sacred Bones.*** ***The artist-edition comes with all of the above and a battle vest starter pack consisting of 5 other exclusive patches including new designs for Aura Noir and Black Magic, and a hand-numbered and signed artist print photograph. Limited to 400 copies, only available direct from Sacred Bones.*** ![]() ***The limited-edition comes with a faux leather bound slipcase, a 7″ featuring unreleased music from blackened thrashers Aura Noir and old-school heavy metallers Black Magic, a Defenders of the Faith patch, and a two sided poster. To celebrate the release we have limited edition battle vest starter packs as well as a small run of t-shirts. These deluxe full color art books are all hardcover and embossed. Patches 2, and many more of the CU patches.ĭefenders of the Faith: The Heavy Metal Photography of Peter Besteĭefenders of the Faith is a collection of heavy metal photography by the artist Peter Beste. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brave and brazen." This edition of Little Tulip, which was originally published in French, features Charyn's new English translation. Shifting between the living hell of a 1940s Siberian gulag and the crime-ridden chaos of New York City during the 1970s, this graphic novel's stunning artwork provides an atmospheric backdrop to its tale of corruption, murder, and revenge.Īuthor Jerome Charyn was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a fearless writer. But Pavel's true calling is as a tattoo artist, and the so-called Bad Santa killings conjure up memories of the nightmarish world in which he learned his craft: a Russian prison camp that shattered his childhood and destroyed his family. Pavel, a Russian émigré, assists the police investigation as a sketch artist. ![]() ![]() A serial killer haunts the city streets, a stalker of isolated women who leaves a Santa Claus hat at the scene of his crimes. ![]() |