![]() ![]() The idea of him picking up a stranger at the bar for a night of passion doesn’t quite gel with the character so I couldn’t wait to find out more. We got to know Ryan Kingston as Bishop Winslow’s best friend and know he’s a very straight-laced, milk drinking kind of guy. I neglected to mention that I’m the goalie for Seattle’s NHL team.Īnd Queenie? Turns out she’s the general manager’s daughter. Six weeks later I’m sitting in the first official team meeting of the season, and there she is. She left me a thank-you note in the morning and her panties as a parting gift. Her name was Queenie, and she was everything I’m not: reckless, impulsive, and chaotic. I don’t get drunk, and I definitely don’t pick up random women at bars.Įxcept the night I found out that my whole existence has been a lie. ![]() My name is Ryan Kingston, and I’m a rule follower. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting comes a new romance about trading secrets, breaking the rules, and playing for keeps. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Many people know, or at least think they already know, the classic story of alien invasion: a race of space parasites travel over millenniums pushed by the sun’s rays from planet to planet until landing, by happenstance, in Mill Valley where they attempt to survive. As the sentient pods begin to spread and transform the once human inhabitants of Mill Valley, it’s a race against time for Miles and his friends to seek outside help before the town closes down and the pods spread further. Giant plant pods, discovered on the outskirts of town, are like nothing anyone has ever seen before and these pods are able to duplicate, exactly, all life forms they come in contact with. The town is beginning to deteriorate and beneath the placid surface, something cold and unfeeling is infecting and transforming the citizens. Everyone seems the same – and yet not themselves. Miles Bennell, the woman he loves, and his two close friends are seemingly the only people in the sleepy town of Mill Valley who are aware of the subtle changes around them. ![]() The classic 1955 novel that spawned two major motion pictures and a vast cult following, Invasion of the Body Snatchers focuses on the creeping horror of the barely perceptible. A Timeless, Chilling Science Fiction Classic ![]() ![]() ![]() This man is given a job and begins to settle into and discover the world around him, which feels something like a combination of The Village from The Prisoner and the barren islands of Myst. ![]() The second story, The End of the World, involves a man who arrives in a walled village from which he cannot leave who finds that he has no memory of his life prior to arrival. This job, however, embroils him in a strange world of intrigue on levels he never imagined both figuratively and literally. This character gets assigned to a particularly interesting encryption job where he must use special advanced (and prohibited) techniques which make use of his subconscious mind. ![]() Simply put, he encodes data using the structure of his brain as a sortof encoding key. This man is, essentially, a human encryption device. This story follows a man working for The System: a pseudogovernmental organization dedicated to the keeping of certain information secret. The first story, Hard Boiled Wonderland, is a sort of detective story set in a technomagically realistic Tokyo somewhere in the vicinity of the present. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is really two separate narratives: Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World are two seperate stories, told in alternate chapters of this delightful novel. A novel by Murakami Haruki, famed Japanese Author. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the basis of the observations presented above, an effect on cell wall biosynthesis was suggested as the primary mode of action for mannopeptimycin δ. Mannopeptimycin δ rapidly inhibited N-acetylglucosamine incorporation into peptidoglycan in Bacillus subtilis and had no effect on DNA, RNA, or protein biosynthesis. aureus and caused spheroplasting of Escherichia coli imp similar to that observed with penicillin G in an osmotically protective medium. The mannopeptimycins were inactive against cell wall-deficient S. The median effective doses of mannopeptimycins γ, δ, and ɛ were 3.8, 2.6, and 0.59 mg/kg of body weight, respectively. The in vivo efficacies of the mannopeptimycins in Staphylococcus aureus mouse protection studies paralleled their in vitro activities. Mannopeptimycins α and β, which lack the isovaleryl substitution and the disaccharide moiety, respectively, had poor antibacterial activities. Mannopeptimycin ɛ was the most active component against methicillin-resistant staphylococci and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (MICs, 2 to 4 μg/ml for staphylococci and streptococci and 4 to 32 μg/ml for enterococci), while mannopeptimycins γ and δ were two- to fourfold less active. ![]() Mannopeptimycins γ, δ, and ɛ, which have an isovaleryl substitution at various positions on the terminal mannose of the disaccharide moiety, demonstrated moderate to good antibacterial activities. Mannopeptimycins α, β, γ, δ, and ɛ are new cyclic glycopeptide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus LL-AC98. ![]() ![]() Seeing him again makes her feel all warm and fuzzy.and afraid she might fall all over again!Īnd don't miss the first book of the Big Sky Centennial miniseries, Her Montana Cowboy by Valerie Hansen.īig Sky Centennial:A small town rich in history.and love. She vows to avoid the man who once stole her heart-until a stray dog and her impending puppies bring Annette and Tony face-to-face. And that's what has Annette Lakey worried. ![]() The former bad boy is now a respected veterinarian, but he's still got that sparkle in his eye. Word travels fast in a small town, and it spreads like wildfire that Tony Valdez is back in Jasper Gulch. In this short prequel from Valerie Hansen, a small-town beautician with a big heart reunites with the high school beau she could never forget. ![]() The tiny town of Jasper Gulch, Montana, is celebrating their hundredth anniversary, and you're invited! Get lost in Big Sky Centennial, a land of ranches and romances and memorable characters you can't help but root for. ![]() ![]() But Gurba's is never language play just for its own sake her words always bend back to the lives, bodies, and psyches damaged by abuse: "Did you know PTSD is the only mental illness you can give someone? A person gave it to me. ![]() Mean is full of wordplay as language slips and slides through short sections, mostly narrative, but also frequently poetic, including a shaped poem and several lists. ![]() ![]() Language becomes the artful manner through which Gurba can articulate her experience while connecting it to the abuse that others have suffered. On the other hand, Mean, as Gurba describes below, makes demands on its readers, refusing them any simple accounting of the damages done to her while also challenging readers to contend with her complex, sharp, and even witty approach to talking about some of the most devastating experiences our culture creates for women, queer women, and queer women of color. On one hand, Gurba generously offers us a stark recounting of her own (and others') sexual abuse and trauma in a racist, misogynistic culture, telling deeply personal stories so we might better understand the dynamics of sexual predation in our culture. Her powerful memoir, Mean, published in 2017, reads like the queerest of gifts. For us, Gurba was an obvious choice to interview. ![]() In the following interview, guest editors Jonathan Alexander and Timothy Oleksiak sat down with writer Myriam Gurba to talk about queer generosity. ![]() ![]() It's also fun to see him in his element, interacting with fans. He's a good raconteur, alternately funny, snarky, and disarmingly honest. Having heard many of Stephan's stories first-hand over pizza and beer, I hadn't intended to go until he made me promise I would. ![]() I'm amazed it's visible at all.Ī few hundred people crowded the old auditorium, most clutching a book to be signed (also for sale in the lobby). Although Stephan had the misfortune to grow up in southern California, his wife Staci is a third-generation alum and his son Tom attends now, so close enough.Ĭolors are off because I cropped this from a photo of a slide projected on the back wall of a high school auditorium that I then manipulated in Photoshop to remove the distortion caused by shooting it from a lower-left angle. The event was one of a series of "Author's Night" appearances hosted by the alumni foundation, meant to feature writers with a connection to the school. ![]() I had a nice evening last night watching my pal and former neighbor Stephan Pastis be interviewed on the stage of our local high school. Pastis by morning, sailors take warning." Isn't that how the old saying goes? ![]() ![]() ![]() The events unfold in little more than twenty four hours. Thus Sophocles conforms to the principle of the unity of place. Although the play itself was written in 441 B.C., the legend goes back to the foundations of Hellenic culture, many centuries before Sophocles’ time.Īll the scenes take place in front of the royal palace at Thebes. The play is set in Thebes, a powerful city-state north of Athens. Furthermore, Antigone dies after defying King Creon. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and the father of Laius, whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother, Jocasta, as well as the double fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices. This tragedy is set against the background of the Oedipus legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a tabloid scandal catches up to him, he’s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA. ![]() On the other hand, Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as Rosie’s been clipping coupons and secretly writing massively popular fanfiction. So when she loses her grocery store job in a heated moment of smashing the patriarchy, she knows she may be forced to give up on her dream of leaving her small town for a prestigious college creative writing program. Rosie Thorne and her father have been short on luck - and money - for years. In the third book in Ashley Poston’s Once Upon a Con series, Beauty and the Beast is retold in the beloved Starfield universe as bad boy Vance Reigns meets his match in fanfiction writer Rosie Thorne. ![]() |