![]() ![]() He is also the creator and host of The Folklore Podcast. He is a council member of The Folklore Society and has been on the judging panel for the Katharine Briggs book awards for the last 4 years. ![]() AUTHORS: Mark Norman is a folklore author and researcher. 'Dark Folklore' highlights those aspects of our cultural beliefs and social history which are less 'wicker basket' and more 'Wicker Man'. 'Dark History' addresses those more salubrious aspects of our past. We are familiar with concepts such as the growth of 'Dark Tourism' legend tripping at sites such as the Paris Catacombs, Salem Massachusetts or even Chernobyl. How did our less enlightened ancestors use the concept of the demon to explain sleep paralysis? If fairies are sweet little creatures with wings and sparkles, why do they steal your children? And just what is a vampire watermelon? The fields of folklore have never been more popular: the recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past have led to an intersection of ideas which is driving people to seek out more information. The first entertaining, yet rigorously researched, modern anthology to explore a wide range of creepy beliefs, customs and stories. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In fact, two other black women had previously been arrested on buses in Montgomery and were considered by civil rights advocates as potential touchpoints for challenging the law. She was not the first African American to do this. Rosa Parks’ defiance of an unfair segregation law, which required black passengers to defer to any white person who needed a seat by giving up their own, forever changed race relations in America. Both knew the risks: harassment, lynching, losing her job. Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation. Nixon, friend, supporter, and former president of the Montgomery NAACP chapter, asked if she would let the NAACP use her case to fight segregation. She was tried on Monday, December 5, and convicted of disorderly conduct under a state statute and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. Rosa Parks was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation. ![]() ![]() ![]() When every seat in the white section was taken, the bus driver ordered the black passengers in the middle row to stand so a white man could sit. At the next stop, more passengers got on. It’s one of the most famous moments in modern American civil rights history: On the chilly evening of December 1, 1955, on a busy street in the capital of Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress boarded a segregated city bus to return home after a long day of work, taking a seat near the middle, just behind the front “white” section. ![]() ![]() “The Night Of The Storm” has four robots trapped by a snowstorm in a cabin being picked off one by one by a mythical creature - a human being! Great story! ![]() Highlight of the volume however is the final offering by Dean Koontz. ![]() Mutant births and home truths abound in this cautionary tale. In a post-holocaust USA Brother Abraham and his child followers are travelling through on their way to found a New Jerusalem in Edgar Pangborn’s marvellous ��The Children’s Crusade”. Anne McCaffrey gives us an origin story for her famous series in “Prelude To A Crystal Song”, while Thomas Scortia shows us a frightening invasion of mind-controlling insectoids in “The Armageddon Tapes - Tape I”. Killashandra fails her last vocal exam and flees the Music Center in despair but meets up with Carrik, a rich spendthrift who offers to teach her to be a Crystal Singer. Poul Anderson provides an entertaining standalone though, with the tale of settlers on a new world trying to retrieve a crashed ship in “My Own, My Native Land”, and Chad Oliver has a readable piece of space opera where a visiting crew manipulates the locals who developed a warlord similar to “Shaka!” Zulu. Paul Eyre shoots a flying saucer and seems to get super powers. ![]() Philip Jose Farmer’s story “Stations Of The Nightmare - Part One” is just that. Roger Elwood had a very spotty record as a book editor in the 1970s and this series promised four volumes of connected stories by the same eight authors (more or less) which stand alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some comments on the gender stereotypes from some of the characters but it is never indicated that these are the beliefs of the protagonist arguably, these comments are provided by characters who are implied to be less capable or intelligent than the protagonist and indirectly, the reader. While there is racial and derogatory language and concepts in the book, these are used by the author to contextualize the nature of some of the more antagonistic characters and identify them as villainous or cruel in nature. It presents the struggle of a child fulfilling the demands of his society for a savior and the idea that his only value is that of a brilliant strategist with a killer instinct. Ender's game is a great story whose biggest weakness is requiring the reader to fill in the world the characters live in as its focus remains on the internal struggle within the characters. ![]() ![]() The final book in the Skyward series will free humanity, or see it fall forever. ![]() Now, Spensa must ask herself: how far is she willing to go for victory, if it means losing herself-and her friends-in the process. But being Cytonic is more complicated than she ever could have imagined. ![]() Defeating them will require all the knowledge Spensa gathered while in the Nowhere. Spensa's team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off, and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it's only a matter of time until humanity-and the rest of the galaxy-falls. The Superiority didn't stop in it's fight for galactic dominance while she was gone, though. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about her own strange Cytonic gifts. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars ha. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() To serve, spoon into bowls and garnish each with fresh coriander leaves, crushed peanuts, bean sprouts, lime wedges and chilli to taste.Add the sugar snap peas, tofu and drained udon noodles to the sauce and stir well to combine. Add the mushrooms to the sauce in the first frying pan.Add the oyster mushrooms and fry over a medium heat for 3 minutes or until softened. Heat the coconut oil in a separate frying pan over a medium heat.Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. ![]() Pour in the coconut milk and vegetable stock and bring to the boil. Place a frying pan over a medium heat, add the spice paste and fry for 2-3 minutes.Cook the udon noodles in a saucepan of boiling water according to the packet instructions and set aside to drain.Place all the ingredients for the spice paste in a food processor and blend to a pulp.It’s a recipe that offers a wonderfully warming, nutritious meal in the colder winter months – a great alternative for vegetarians, plus a boost to the beauty of the skin as well. I love adding cubes of tofu to a noodle soup like this one: the gluten-free noodles and protein are sustaining, making me feel full, while the soup itself is full of gorgeous flavour from the chilli, turmeric and lemongrass. 150g fresh tofu, cut into 2.5cm squares and dried on kitchen paperĢcm knob of fresh root ginger, peeled and gratedĢ lemongrass stalks (outer leaves removed), choppedĢ fresh red chillies, deseeded and chopped, plus extra to garnish Recipes extracted from Eat Beautiful, Nourish Your Skin From The Inside Out by Wendy Rowe (Ebury Press 20) is out now. ![]() ![]() Teaming up to save the wedding from a hungover groom and intolerant parents, can Gideon convince Dan they're the best match since beer and pizza?", Could Gideon really be interested in Dan? When Dan needs someone most, Gideon offers his unconditional support, and with genuine commitment, he shows Dan the kind of man he really is. The unforeseen revelation that Gideon is bisexual raises Dan's hopes, especially when Gideon announces that he wants to accompany Dan to the wedding. Before he can protest, Ariel arranges a gay speed-dating event at the bar with Gideon as a participant. When Dan's friend prepares to tie the knot, everyone insists that Dan needs a date for the wedding. oh, and a brutal, unrequited crush on his straight alpha boss, Gideon. He enjoys his simple life, his apartment, and his cat, but he could do without the fights that break out in the bar, his boss's meddling daughter, Ariel. ![]() ![]() or disaster? Dan's pretty satisfied with his job at the working-class bar Cowboys and Angels. "item_description" : "Cowboys and Angels: Book One Will a mix of privilege and blue collar be a recipe for love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:waystation0000sima:epub:c68d4f9f-abdb-47c1-90ab-9f88f6a12ea9 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier waystation0000sima Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2s7k6r7zqw Invoice 1652 Isbn 1882968271ĩ781882968275 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200422 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:10:41 Autocrop_version 0.0.13_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40529103 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. ![]() But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. The #1 New York Times Bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() After high school she attended college, worked as a bellhop, fast food cook, and a museum worker until she decided to take an EMT course. She currently has several paranormal and contemporary romance series published including the Neighbor from Hell series. She’s known for her humor, quick wit and ability to write relatable characters. Somehow she made her way into his heart and started to make him want things that he never thought possible, made him smile and laugh even while she drove him out of his mind and started a legacy by turning him into. He tried to ignore her, tried to focus on anything but her, but nothing worked. Her hopes of escape abruptly end when Robert, her childhood nemesis that she hasn't seen in over fourteen years, comes back into her life and does everything he can to drive her out of her mind even as he steals her heart.Īt least, he tried to hate her, but it was so damn difficult to hate someone that he couldn't live without. ![]() Thanks to an inheritance her godmother left her years ago, her chance will come with her next birthday. She’s the daughter of an Earl and expected to marry well, say and do the right things with a smile on her face when inside she’s dying for a chance to escape. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth knows what’s expected of her, perfection. ![]() |