![]() ![]() ![]() Lix also likes to try other artistic endeavors and pursuits and doesn’t always stick to writing. She also likes to plan places to travel to and go on the road. ![]() When Caryn is not busy writing or working on her next book, she spends a lot of time reading stories written by other people. She thinks that people who have an affinity for the unusual, the rare, the paranormal or the just plain bizarre may also be the perfect candidates when it comes to consuming some of her books. Of course, it has come in more than a little handy these days! She really enjoys writing bits and novel pieces that are designed for teens and young adults, although anyone is welcome to read her work. ![]() Lix went to school for English literature and graduated with her Master of the Arts degree in that subject. She has also always enjoyed reading fantasy and so it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that not that much longer later she is putting out a full length fictional novel of her own for readers to enjoy! Her first novel to make her an officially published author is the novel Sanctuary, which came out in 2018.Ĭaryn Lix has always had an affection for science fiction and the unusual and the uncanny. She has been writing ever since she was in her teen years and has now made her debut onto the scene. Caryn Lix is an American author of fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Summers considers this job to be his last he will take the money from this hit and retire.įrom the start, Summers has an uneasy feeling about this job. The title character is a hit man, a former army sniper, who kills only “bad men.”Īs the book opens, he’s accepted a job to kill Joel Allen, who may or may not have incriminating evidence on his gang bosses. However, King’s latest novel, “Billy Summers,” forgoes any hint of supernatural horror and instead relies on solid plotting and character development to turn out a quite successful crime thriller. Since 1974, when Stephen King published his first novel, “Carrie,” he has written more than 60 books and 200 short stories, most of which fall into the horror genre, from the vampires in “Salem’s Lot” to the ghosts in “The Shining.” ![]() ![]() The reader can guess what’s coming next: Here’s the first crisis one set of young lovers will face, then conquer, then here’s the next they will face and conquer - for now. This book has one clever idea to recommend it, but the rest is as cliché as it gets: American Royals copies familiar storylines used in movies such as “The Princess Diaries” and “The Prince and Me” and trots them out in predictable fashion. ![]() They face all the concerns royals do, or at least that we commoners imagine royals have to deal with, as evidenced by popular books and movies. So now, there’s a king of America, whose oldest daughter, Beatrice, is next in line for the crown, and who also has twins named Jefferson and Samantha. Katharine McGee’s novel imagines an alternate reality in which George Washington was not voted president of the newly independent United States of America, but was installed as king of the new country instead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instagram/Brittany WilliamsĪnother posted, “He fumbled the bag hard.” Brittany Williams no longer follows Josh Allen on Instagram. “Slay on him queen,” one fan commented on Williams’ Instagram page. Getty Images for The MatchĪllen, however, still follows Williams as of Monday afternoon.Īlthough neither has yet to address the breakup rumors, fans have flocked to social media to offer their commentary on the matter. ![]() Josh Allen and his longtime girlfriend, Brittany Williams, are at the center of recent breakup rumors. Breakup buzz appears to be building in Buffalo.īrittany Williams, the longtime girlfriend of Bills quarterback Josh Allen, quietly unfollowed the two-time Pro Bowler on Instagram, internet detectives recently pointed out.įurther, photographs of the couple that previously appeared on Williams’ page have also disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. ![]() He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and here. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as her life continues to quickly spiral out of control, she realizes that something BIG is about to happen. Tis the season to be jolly… Or is it?ĭaisy’s life is flipped upside down by strange letters that are sent to her by her best friend, Amelia. And Christmas is right around the corner. ![]() You can get your copy for just 0.99 cents on Kindle, Smashwords and Nook only during the month of December.ĭaisy has the perfect life, beautiful children and a wonderful husband. This great novella brings mystery, suspense and the best stocking stuffer for your favorite e-reader. I hope you enjoy this short read which will be on sale for 0.99 for the month of December. ![]() You’ll be able to see on my new novella “Season’s Greeting from Amelia” how good intentions are not enough to justify our wrong actions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphan vagabonds journey into the unknown, crossing paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. Together, they steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi in search for a place to call home. Out of pity, they also take with them a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school.Īfter committing a terrible crime, Odie and Albert are forced to flee for their lives along with their best friend, Mose, a mute young man of Sioux heritage. It is also home to Odie O’Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent’s wrath. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over two-thirds of the approximately 2.1 million Native Americans in the United States live in urban areas (Fixico ix), and even if this fact has not significantly infiltrated the American popular imagination, Native American literature has nonetheless represented Indian urban experience in many contemporary works, such as the fiction of Sherman Alexie and Greg Sarris and the poetry of Esther Belin. Groups such as the legendary Mohawk steelworkers on the East Coast and the American Indian Movement, which emerged from urban Indian neighborhoods in cities such as Minneapolis, Oakland, and Cleveland, give testament to a significant part of the "survivance," to use Gerald Vizenor's term, of contemporary Native American peoples and cultures. It is impossible to accurately imagine contemporary Native American identity without understanding the contribution of urban Indians. Studies in American Indian Literatures 17.4 (2005) 114-143 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Me? Steal? I would rather die first!" I declaimed movingly as I slipped out a handful of the incredibly expensive cigars destined for visiting VIP's. ![]() "Do you know how much you have stolen?" His face was bright red now, and his eyes were beginning to bulge in a highly unattractive manner. As a baby my mother found me slippery when she soaped me in the bath." The humidor sprang open, and my nose twitched at the aroma of fragrant leaf. "They don't call you Slippery Jim for nothing!" "Never!" I cried, lockpick busy in my fingers. You have been cheating your own organization, our Special Corps, your own buddies-" "Embezzlement, swindling and worse-the reports are still coming in. "A victim of a campaign of cold, calculating lies." I had this humidor behind my back and by touch alone-I really am good at this sort of thing -I felt for the lock. I leaned back against the sideboard in his office, a picture of shocked sincerity. "YOU are a crook, James Bolivar diGriz," Inskipp said, making animal noises deep in his throat while shaking the sheaf of papers viciously in my direction. ![]() ![]() It’s a story of people who, when finally blessed with abundance, were humbly eager to recognize divine mercy, and to respond with generosity. The Thanksgiving story is a one of sincere, flawed, courageous people who made mistakes, and suffered loss, and walked through the valley of the shadow of death only to be confronted by the threat of starvation. Stranger still (to me), every child has a first time to hear the story, and a first time to remember hearing it–and the remembering rarely happens upon the second hearing! I think it’s important that the first many tellings convey the bright kernel at the center. ![]() The funny thing is, however, no child knows this too-familiar story until it is told to them. It’s a complex story, with plenty of food for thought about the effects of colonialism, the experiment in communal living, and so on, and we probably take it too much for granted. Yes, I mean the story of the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth. ![]() ![]() Not only is it specifically devoted to the virtue of gratitude over consumption, but it even offers us a way past the too-abstract notion of “being thankful,” by means of a story. ![]() |