![]() ![]() ![]() Scorpio is the one who's supposed to deal with the Dead, not me.” Otter's grandfather is a medicine man, so I didn't have to worry about explaining anything. “It's not thatーI found if I try to drink, dead people start talking to me and that always creeps me out. His eyes squinted from the sensation and the sharp stink of cheap liquor hit my nose. “Wussie-pussy,” he laughed, opening it up and taking a mouthful. “It's what we Kiowas call vodka, 'cause it's traditionally made from potatoes.” “What's potato juice?” I took the battered thing and shook it. ![]() “Have some potato juice,” Otter said, handing me an old silver thermos. This tale is part of The Real Story Safe Sex Project dedicated to using entertainment and popular culture to spread the word about HIV/AIDS and safe sex to gay and bi male teens and twentysomethings. But it also might tell you a few things you didn't know. Warning: this story uses explicit language and is sexually graphic. He’s enjoying the experienceーuntil Coyote himself walks into the workshop. They’ll have a chance to hear new legendsーlike the Dancing Deer Woman and more about Coyote than our Reluctant Shaman would ever want to knowーfrom the workshop leader, Professor Comesflying. ![]() Otter has discovered attending a monthly safe-sex workshop is the best place to find a date who is already interested in “love with a glove.” He’s in the Big City to visit his old friend Otter as they continue to explore sexuality. The uniquely sexy Native American Two-Spirit hero from Memoir of a Reluctant Shaman is back in a standalone tale. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The couple split their time between Hollywood and Europe until Igee's death in 1964, after which Caspary remained in New York where she wrote a further eight books. She eventually married her lover and writing collaborator of six years, Isidor "Igee" Goldsmith but despite this being a successful partnership, her Communist connections later led to her being "graylisted", temporarily yet significantly affecting their offers of work and income. Caspary visited Russia in an attempt to confirm her beliefs, but became disillusioned and wished to resign from the Party, although she continued to contribute money and support similar causes. Caspary joined the Communist party under an alias, but not being totally committed and at odds with its code of secrecy, she claimed to have confined her activities to fund-raising and hosting meetings. įollowing her father's death, the income from Caspary's writing was at times only just sufficient to support both herself and her mother, and during the Great Depression she became interested in Socialist causes. ![]() Independence is the key to her protagonists, with her novels revolving around women who are menaced, but who turn out to be neither victimized nor rescued damsels. Though she claimed she was not a "real" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots. Her best-known novel, Laura, was made into a successful movie. Vera Louise Caspary (Novem– June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. ![]() ![]() 'Eye-opening, funny and horrifying' - Observer 'Everyone who has any interest in public life should read it' - Daily MailĪn anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system - and explains how it's failing all of us. A Sunday Times top ten bestseller for twenty-four weeks. In The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken I want to share some stories from my daily life to show you how the system is broken, who broke it and why we should start caring before it's too late. The innocent are wronged and the guilty allowed to walk free. ![]() Too often the system fails those it is meant to protect. I work in the criminal justice system, and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed. Whatever your role, you'd expect a fair trial. You might be a juror, a victim, a witness or - perhaps through no fault of your own - a defendant. You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone you love will almost certainly appear in a criminal courtroom. Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. ![]() Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award. An anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system - and explains how it's failing all of us. ![]() ![]() ![]() A work of future history and speculative evolution, Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells' era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the savage, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively. ![]() Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells' text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller's journey into the far future. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The Time Machine is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. ![]() ![]() ![]() Angry that Shara vanishing will make her default valedictorian and wanting to beat her fair and square (no other reason of course, wink), Chloe teams up with Smith and Rory to find Shara. Popular, beautiful Shara kisses her boyfriend Smith, bad boy next door Rory, and a stunned Chloe before vanishing, leaving only pink letters and clues for the trio to follow to find her. ![]() ![]() Raised by two moms and openly bisexual, Chloe has always felt out of place at her Christian school in Alabama. Chloe Green has her eyes on the prize: win valedictorian, finally vanquish her academic enemy Shara Wheeler, graduate high school, and say goodbye to her small town and its homophobic inhabitants. ![]() ![]() The Gray Man became a national bestseller. While Mark Greaney may have had ideas and manuscripts that never came to fruition before the publication of his first novel in 2009, his path to authorship certainly holds true to the old adage that good things come to those who wait. But then the target is on him, and Gentry must fight formidable foes to make it out alive. He lurks in the shadows and is a great assassin, always hitting his target. The Gray Man, or Courtland Gentry, is an elusive figure and a lone wolf. ![]() The Gray Man books in order will take readers all around the globe with its captivating and action-packed missions following the titular Gray Man. ![]() ![]() It began a bestselling series of international intrigue and spy thrillers. Mark Greaney found the perfect combination with his debut novel. Last updated on March 16th, 2023 at 09:34 am ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the greatest thing to happen in her life so far, until Ashley finds herself pursued by a government agency that wants those paints back! Now she has to make hard choices to protect her new parents and learn what it truly means to be a family.įrom writers Jennifer Muro ( Star Wars: Forces of Destiny) and Thomas Krajewski ( Netflix's Buddy Thunderstruck) and artist Gretel Lusky comes a brand-new superhero for the DC Universe in a story that is alternately fun, dramatic, emotional, and uplifting. Writers Jennifer Muro and Thomas Krajewski, alongside artist Gretel Lusky, have created a modern and refreshing new superhero in Primer. ![]() But her life quickly gets more complicated when she also finds a suitcase full of specially enhanced body paints, changing her from artist to the world's newest superhero. Things start looking up for Ashley when she finds new, loving parents, a best friend, and an outlet for her creative skills. With a father in prison, Ashley has bounced from foster home to foster home and represents a real challenge to the social workers who try to help her-not because she's inherently bad, but because trouble always seems to find her. Thirteen-year-old Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. Artistry and super-heroics collide ain this new superhero story! ![]() ![]() ![]() A head computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination were performed on day 3, because she was still unconscious. Anti-coagulation therapy consisted of treatment with recombinant thrombomodulin for 4 days (days 1–4) and recombinant antithrombin for 1 day (day 1). She was diagnosed with severe heat stroke and managed with rapid cooling, intravenous fluids therapy, antibiotic therapy, and anti-coagulation therapy for DIC. She was brought to our hospital unconscious with a high bladder temperature (42.5 ☌) and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC score 4). Case presentationĪn 80-year-old Asian woman was found lying unconscious at her house, with no air conditioner and closed windows the highest outside temperature was 36.1 ☌. We report a very rare case of a patient who developed severe heat stroke complicated by multiple cerebral infarctions. Usually, a heat stroke causes cerebellar ataxia, cognitive impairment, dysphagia, and aphasia. Heat-related illnesses include symptoms such as heat syncope/cramps, heat exhaustion, and life-threatening heat stroke. ![]() ![]() ![]() In “The Magpie Murders” there is even the tragedy of a dead dog whose brutal passing by having its throat cut is more than enough to darken the lives of two children. Not only whether they are telling the truth but whether they are who they say they are. ![]() He is busy completing the notes in which he names the murderer when he dies in a fall from the roof of his palatial home, or was he pushed? The reader has to pay attention because unraveling the web of who did what to whom roams from character to character and many doubts about their credibility. As is the name of the village, Saxby on Avon.Ĭomplications abound, as when the detective discovers that he is dying of cancer and that the case of the housekeeper in Pye Hall will be his last case. ![]() ![]() The deaths are also Agatha Christie-like, from the nasty village squire whose head gets cut off to his bitter sister deprived of her birthright and the inquisitive housekeeper whose body is found at the foot of the stairs in the ancestral mansion The mansion is called Pye Hall, which is another Christie touch. In this collection there is a formidable array of characters, from the eccentric detective Atticus Pund and his echoes of Hercule Poirot to Susan Ryeland, a literary agent trapped in an unexpected peril in her work. ![]() ![]() She was also uneasy because he was writing it for a "shilling shocker" series of novels. "It's my belief that she thought Dr Jekyll, which was partly based on a dream, was not worthy of him. Yesterday, Liz Merry head of Phillips's book department, said the writer's wife apparently threw the manuscript on the fire because "she considered Dr Jekyll and the duality of man rather distasteful. The letter is expected to fetch some £1,500 at auction at Phillips in London on November 17. He is still known for the lines: "I am the master of my fate,/I am the captain of my soul". Henley, who was one-legged, was the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. It was written by her in 1885 to Stevenson's close friend and fellow poet WE Henley. Some 115 years later, Fanny's deed has been disclosed in a two-page letter on pages torn from a notebook. For the first time, the couple had enough money to live comfortably. It rescued the Stevensons from acute debt. It was pirated in the US and in translation. Sermons were preached on it in thousands of churches, including St Paul's cathedral, London. Despite Fanny's view, it was an instant bestseller. Within weeks, the new version of his pioneering novel about split personality was in print. Stevenson, an invalid almost deranged by tuberculosis and the effects of medicinal cocaine, had to spend the next three days feverishly rewriting and redrafting the 30,000-word story by hand. ![]() |