Riding the Storm – Thor and Orin (mpreg elements – Jason gives birth in this one) You’ve Got to be Kidding Me – Poseidon and Claude (mpreg) The God’s Made Me Do It ( A Cloverleah Pack Spin off Series) Home is Where the Heart Is – Wesley and Cass On The Brink – Teilo, Raff and Nereus (M/M/M) Scenes from Cloverleah – four short stories Tangling With Bears – Tobias, Kurt and Luke (M/M/M)Īn Angel in Black Leather – Adair and Vassago Getting Close To The Omega – Dean and Matthewįae For All – Jax, Aelfric and Fanir (M/M/M) Never go Back (3.5) – also about Scott and Damien with a short story about Malacai and Elijah When No Doesn’t Cut It – Scott and Damien The list is in order from book one onwards □ But the series themselves can be read in any order as they are not related to each other in any way. So below please find a list of the books I have written so far (I will do my best to keep you updated) and the focus couple in the book. While most of my books can be read as standalone, if you have a thing for secondary characters, especially those in a pack situation, then it is always nice if their story has been written as well. Some of my readers have been getting in touch with me on Facebook and asking me which books they should read first.
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The story of her hiring, oft repeated by both Hawks and Brackett, is that the director told his secretary to “get me this Leigh Brackett fella on the phone.” The Brackett fella turned out to be a young woman, not yet thirty, who had just written her first film, the cheapie horror flick The Vampire’s Ghost. The novel caught the eye of director Howard Hawks, who was preparing his adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. After compiling an impressive body of work in the science fiction market, Brackett published a mystery novel, No Good From A Corpse. She started writing early, publishing her first story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940 when she was still in her mid-twenties. How does one person knock down both the ultimate private eye movie and the ultimate deconstruction of the private eye movie? And how does that same person write what is considered by some fans to be the best western of all time and a remake of that same movie? And how does the person who pulled off those two neat tricks write, in her sixties no less, the ultimate pop sci-fi flick of all time? Well, the answer to all these questions is that Leigh Brackett was awesome.īrackett was born in 1915 and raised in Los Angeles. Pop quiz: What do The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, The Long Goodbye, and The Empire Strikes Back have in common?Īnswer: They were all written or co-written by the same woman, the amazing Leigh Brackett. However, she soon discovers that the mill’s conditions are bleak and harsh, and desperately longs for escape, determined to leave the life she is forced to endure behind her …īess soon hears tales of a terrifying monster – a mermaid – living in the millpond, but she does not believe what she has heard … until she sees something in the water. She arrives from a London workhouse to the rural cotton mill with the hope and false promise that life will be better. The story is written as a first-person narrative through the eyes of eleven-year-old Bess. I was absolutely entranced by this richly atmospheric tale with its depiction of the harsh realities of life for children working in Victorian mills the slow building of the heart-warming friendship that develops between Bess and Dot and, the symbolism between the mermaid’s situation and that of Bess. The Mermaid in the MillPond is a dark, tense and hopeful story intertwining history and myth in perfect symbiosis.
It comes as no surprise that, as a child, she adored Dr Seuss because of his 'crazy sounds and the fact that he took such liberties with the English language.' Other favourite authors included A A Milne and the fairy tales of The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes To Hide in Boxes. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. For the soldiers’ loved ones, it’s a celebration. This searing portrait of jungle combat has been adapted twice for feature films.Īfter a long journey across the Pacific, a ship finally lands on American soil. The unit’s captain is too intelligent and sensitive for the job, his first sergeant is half mad, and the enlisted men begin the campaign gripped by cowardice. But the soldiers of Charlie Company are not of the heroic mold. The invasion of Guadalcanal ignites a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. A true classic, From Here to Eternity was made into an Academy Award–winning film and a television mini-series, as well as adapted for the stage. This edition includes scenes and dialogue censored for the novel’s original publication. A challenging young private is transferred to a unit where the commander is determined to make his life hell. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones’s World War II Trilogy stands as one of the most significant achievements in war literature. Three classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity.Īn army base at Pearl Harbor. “How accidents happen” is the first part where you will get to learn how someone might get into unplanned incidents. The books comprise many mini true stories of outdoor adventures turning into tragedies, and how one wrong decision can cause disasters. Gonzales spent his entire life fascinated by the unbelievable true survival stories he heard as a child. Written by Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival has survival stories that serve as examples of how outdoor adventure can turn tragic. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why Short FAQ about the best Survival Stories Booksġ.Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors 127 Hours: Between A Rock And A Hard Place The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival After the Wind: Tragedy on Everest: One Survivor’s Story 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival 15 Best Survival Stories Books Based on True Stories. Cline later recalled that the film "changed my whole life. It was finally released in 2009 after reshoots, reedits, and delays. Cline shot some low-budget scenes himself and shared his screenplay draft with Harry Knowles, whose connections in the film industry helped Cline get the film produced. Fanboys Ĭline co-wrote the screenplay for Fanboys, based on a storyline he had developed in the late 1990s while his mother was dying of cancer. He worked in information technology in his twenties and worked on screenwriting during his spare time. As a youth in the 1970s and 1980s, Cline was "addicted to video games and movies," especially Star Wars, the movies of John Hughes, and the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. He wrote the novels Ready Player One, Armada, and Ready Player Two and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.Ĭline was born and raised in Ashland, Ohio, the son of Ernest Christy Cline and Faye Imogene ( née Williams) Cline. Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American science fiction novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. His only companion is a wolf cub only three moons old, whom he seems to understand better than any human. He must lead the bear to the mountain of the World Spirit and beg that spirit's help to overcome it. With his dying breath, Torak's father tells his son of the burden that is his. Only one boy can stop it - 12 year old Torak, who has seen his father murdered by the bear. Until an ambitious and malevolent force conjures a demon: a demon so evil that it can be contained only in the body of a ferocious bear that will slay everything it sees, a demon determined to destroy the world. They know every tree and herb and they know how to survive in a time of enchantment and powerful magic. Thousands of years ago the land is one dark forest. Tags: adventure animal myth & legend fantasy nature It was inkvines, whale fur, shigawire, Ixian artifacts and entertainers, trade in people and places, the Hajj, those products which came from the borderline legality of Tleilaxu technology it was addictive drugs and medical techniques it was transportation (the Guild) and all of the supercomplex commerce of an empire which encompassed thousands of known planets plus some which fed secretly at the fringes, permitted there for services rendered. The Combine Honnete was much more than House Atreides, much more than Dune, much more than the Priesthood or melange. There are separate pages for this subject as it appears in the other canons such as CHOAM in Expanded Dune and CHOAM in the Dune Encyclopedia This article or section refers to elements from Original Dune |