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Sweet evil by wendy higgins5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She now lives in Virginia with her children and dog Rue. Higgins taught 2 years of 9th and 12th grade English before becoming a full-time author. Fans of Cassandra Clares Mortal Instruments series will be drawn to Wendy Higginss sexy, thrilling Sweet Evil series. Higgins then transferred to George Mason University where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing, and went on to study at Radford University, where she earned a master's degree in Education. After graduating from Potomac Senior High School in Dumfries, Virginia, she attended Longwood College for three semesters. Wendy Higgins (née Wendy Hornback) was born in Anchorage, Alaska. Wendy is a voice of hybrid publishing, having been published traditionally and independently. Wendy Higgins (born May 15, 1977) is an American USA Today and NY Times bestselling author of romantic fantasy and paranormal fiction for young adults. Sweet Evil series, Flirting with Maybe: A Novella, See Me ![]()
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Ghost story peter straub summary5/31/2023 ![]() The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved by Joey Comeau (2014) ![]() Without further ado, we present our choices for the best horror novels of all time.ĥ0. We’re prepared for you to question our choices, we ask only that you leave the chainsaw at home before doing so. ![]() And while we kept an eye on the diversity of our featured authors, the inclusion of women, authors of color and queer creators came naturally as we gathered the best of the best. We narrowed our focus to prose novels, so please don’t ask after The Books of Blood or Uzumaki. One (obvious) author makes five(!) appearances, and easily could have qualified for a few more another has written just one novel during his decades-long career. Ghosts, serial killers, great heaving monsters, the loss of self-control, plagues, impossible physics and a creepy clown all figure into our countdown, with entries spanning from the 1800s to the last few years. And what is scary? What might shock one reader is laughable to another. ![]() If it’s meant purely to scare, then some of the heftier books on this list would have wracked up a body count, terrifying readers to death over 700 pages or more. ![]()
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William shakespeare book julius caesar5/31/2023 ![]() Antony uses a funeral oration to turn the citizens of Rome against them. At the Senate, the conspirators stab Caesar to death. A conspirator, Decius Brutus, persuades him to go to the Senate with the other conspirators and his friend, Mark Antony. ![]() Cassius and others convince Brutus to join a conspiracy to kill Caesar.On the day of the assassination, Caesar plans to stay home at the urging of his wife, Calphurnia. Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic. As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. ![]() The first part of the play leads to his death the second portrays the consequences.
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Book review the love songs of web dubois5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Du Bois was longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. The Age of Phillis was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry), while The Love Songs of W.E.B. In 2018, Jeffers received the Harper Lee Award for Literary Distinction. Du Bois, an epic novel that focuses on protagonist Ailey Pearl Garfield’s coming of age while also narrating the story of her African, European, and Creek ancestors. This is especially true in The Love Songs of W.E.B. Having grown up in North Carolina and Georgia, Jeffers often incorporates her background as a Black Southerner into her work. ![]() Her work often involves deep historical research, especially her 2020 poetry collection The Age of Phillis, which combines archival records with imagination to tell the story of 18th-century African American poet Phillis Wheatley. ![]() Prior to the novel’s publication, Jeffers worked primarily as a poet, publishing five collections of poetry since 2000. Du Bois, published in August 2021, is Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s debut novel. ![]() |