Executable (2014) (442 pages) ~ (Companion book with alternate lead) Black Frost (August 4th, 2011) Short story (114 pages) First person narrative told by Chris Gordon.Fallen angel/Human-vampire-demon hybrid, Paranormal cop-ability to banish demons.~ Slime Sama in Chris Gordon Respect Thread Lead's Species Think Dresden Files with far more over the top fights and more of a superhero vibe. And then there's her overprotective vampire mother! ~ Fantasy MuseĬhris Gordon is the main protagonist of the Demon Accords, an ongoing urban fantasy series about a superhuman exorcist who fights everything from demons and vampires, to aliens and fae, all to protect earth. Finding himself surrounded by vampires, were weasels, and facing a giant short-faced bear, Chris struggles to stay alive, all while protecting his deadly new girlfriend. But when he saves a beautiful girl from a demonic attack, he discovers there is more to fear than just demons. In his spare time, Chris is an exorcist without equal with a gift from God. ~ GoodreadsĬhris Gordon is a rookie with the NYPD - one with a secret. Vampires, werewolves, shadowy federal agencies and a giant short-faced bear. But after rescuing a beautiful girl from a demonic attack, he finds life stranger than he ever thought possible. Chris Gordon is a rookie cop in the Big Apple with an interesting sideline-hunting demons.
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The Americans may be paint-by-numbers stereotypes, but that doesn't matter. Recommended for children and adults alike, 'The Canterville Ghost' is charming, touching, and with just the right amount of suspense. Donald Sinden and Joan Sims play butler and housekeeper, shielding guilty secrets, and Leslie Philips appears briefly as the current representative of family de Canterville. This being a fairy tale there's romance for Ginny as well in the shape of a local Duke (Daniel Betts) who is sympathetic to ghosts and very charming, as local Dukes so often are in these stories. Patrick Stewart is the ghostly Simon de Canterville, doomed to walk the house at night for all eternity for his earthly crimes, and he is watchable, especially wrestling with the pride of 400 years dead and no one to bow and scrape around him. Oscar Wilde's story takes shape beautifully in this TV version, one of the numerous adaptations of his tale for children. Bumps and moans in the night, bloodstains, invisible hands on the shoulder - yes, there's a ghost about. Neve Campbell and her family (small brothers, sympathetic mum, physicist and cynic father) travel from America to England when he lands a lucrative research post, and almost immediately strange things begin to happen in the de Canterville ancestry home. Along the way, he goes behind the scenes of some of the greatest rock music ever recorded, without shying away from the infamous and painful deaths of his brother, Duane, and Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley. Bringing to life the carefree early days of the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg holds nothing back-from run-ins with the law to meeting girls on the road, from jamming at the Fillmore East to experimenting with drugs. But all that changed when Duane and Gregg came together with four other men to forge something new-a unique sound shaped by soul, rock, and blues and brimming with experimentation a sound not just of a band, but of a family. The story begins simply: with Gregg and his older brother, Duane, growing up in the South, raising hell with their guitars, and drifting from one band to another. Now, he tells the unflinching story of his life, laying bare the unvarnished truth about his wild ride that has spanned across the years. As one of the greatest rock icons of all time, Gregg Allman has lived it all and then some. As near as I can tell, the “reluctant messiah” part of the subtitle refers to both Richard and Don, but perhaps more so to Don. He teaches Richard how the world works, and the novel essentially shows vignettes of those teachings. Don is also a barnstormer, and he and Richard begin traveling together from town to town. Donald used to be a messiah but “quit” the job because people weren’t listening to him. Richard (the narrator, not the author) meets Donald Shimoda while barnstorming: flying from farm town to farm town and taking locals for airplane rides. It has some of what I think would be considered postmodern elements, and I needed the re-read to help me separate the fiction from the philosophy of how to view the world. I needed the time to process and absorb it. I finished this book just before the new year, then immediately reread it and finished it again yesterday. But Vidal never looked back.ĭespite his output as a novelist and playwright, many critics considered Vidal's witty and acerbic essays his best work. After 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, he returned to centre stage with a series of blistering pamphlets and public pronouncements that led many, including his former friend Christopher Hitchens, to pounce on him. His public career spanned seven decades and included 25 novels, numerous collections of essays on literature and politics, a volume of short stories, five Broadway plays, dozens of television plays and film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under the pseudonym Edgar Box. Gore Vidal, the American writer, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died aged 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin's poise. The distinction between Space-Time vs. The secret science of the pineal gland and its role in accessing mystical realms of reality.The difference between third-dimension and fifth-dimension creation.How you can create reality, in the generous present moment, by changing your energy.How to free yourself from the past by reconditioning your body to a new mind.Demystifying the body’s seven energy centers and how you can balance them to heal your body.If done properly enough times, we can develop the skill of creating a more efficient, balanced, healthy body, as well as a more unlimited mind and greater access to the realms of spiritual truth. This energy can then be used to intentionally change our brain chemistry in order to initiate profoundly mystical, transcendental experiences. Readers will also discover our capacity to tune in to frequencies beyond the material world to receive more orderly, coherent streams of consciousness and energy. It seems that during drunken conversations with not just Cindy but also others at the bar, Lulu confesses to the fact that she believes her husband no longer loves her and maybe planning to leave her. Perhaps it is Pierce she has murdered in a fit of rage?Ĭindy Anderson is a bartender at the wedding and she does admit to believing that Lulu could be calculating enough to murder, not that she has met her before, but after 10 years in the job, she knows she can read people well. Is this because she senses there are issues in her marriage? Issues she cannot resolve and has a very real fear that her husband is about to leave her? After all, Lulu should be able to sense when a marriage is failing she has already been married four times before settling down with Pierce. Lulu is the first to confess to a man’s untimely death. Lulu Franc is 68 and married to Pierce Banks, the uncle of the groom. A man is dead and there seems to be a line of people queuing up to confess. One thing does become evident very quickly though. Of course, that doesn’t mean there are no dramas and as with any good weddings, this one is certainly full of them. A week-long celebration in a fancy spa hotel, surrounded by friends and family, who can all seemingly afford to quaff champagne like most people drink water. When the rich decide to arrange a wedding, they go big and the DeBleu/Banks is definitely a grand wedding fiesta. He's readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, complete with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Asgardian gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. His cousin, Annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, Percy Jackson, to give Magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough? Now Magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including Hearthstone the elf, Blitzen the dwarf, and Samirah the Valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating Fenris Wolf and battling giants for Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. As the son of Frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, Magnus isn't naturally inclined to fighting. Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen warriors. To promote Reading for Fun and Reading to Learn, we at David Lewis Books have started a WordPress blog at to connect with our readers and promote our books. To her I give my undying love and admiration and hope she will also work with me in more upcoming titles. Her skills have been significantly useful in overcoming some of the more difficult aspects of creating a book of this nature and bringing it to readers as a polished and professional looking book. Alexis Lewis, my oldest daughter, has been tremendous help with the technology, cover design, and artwork. The ascent of Mount Carmel by John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591 Lewis, David, 1814-1895 Zimmerman, Benedict, 1859-1937. To her I give my undying gratitude and hope she will continue to work with me on my upcoming projects. Her many insights and edits to this manuscript have been instrumental in helping this true collaboration to become a 'great read.' Her strong persistent Christian faith has encouraged mine and Debra's as well during this arduous journey of our own. Vaughn-Marie is my cousin and a first-rate editor. I would not publish one word without her first giving me the nod. Her expertise is well known among the local area educators as a teacher and expert on the English Language. Debra Head, a long-time friend, editor, consummate English teacher, and mentor has worked with me through the years to develop my writing style and polish the dull areas. This book has been a true amalgam of cooperation between Debra Head, Vaughn-Marie Rodriguez, Alexis Lewis, and me over a multiyear period. That night he was taken fatally ill, apparently with gastritis. Returning from a holiday in North Wales in better health, Boyes had dined with his cousin, the solicitor Norman Urquhart, before going to Harriet's flat to discuss reconciliation, where he had accepted a cup of coffee. Harriet, outraged at being deceived, had broken off the relationship.įollowing the separation, the former couple had met occasionally, and the evidence at trial pointed to Boyes suffering from repeated bouts of gastric illness at around the time that Harriet was buying poisons under assumed names, to demonstrate – so she said – a plot point of her novel then in progress. Publicly professing to disapprove of marriage, he had persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him, only to renounce his principles a year later and to propose. The novel opens with mystery author Harriet Vane on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and free love. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the first in which Harriet Vane appears. Strong Poison is a 1930 mystery novel by Dorothy L. |