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![]() ![]() Allanon reveals to Wil that he is a descendant of the royal House of Shannara and tasks him with protecting the Elven Princess Amberle Elessedil.Ī year after Amberle Elessedil restored the Ellcrys, Wil Ohmsford is scarred by the loss of Amberle and his separation from Eretria. He is awoken by the Druid Allanon, who has come looking for him. ![]() Naive and out of his depth, Wil is nearly killed by a Troll soon after leaving Shady Vale, only to be saved, drugged, and robbed by the Rover girl Eretria. Flick urges Wil to throw away the Elfstones, and Wil pretends to comply, but he takes the talismans with him when he leaves the Vale. In her final breaths, she insisted that Shea was a good man, not the crazy person people thought him to be, and that Wil should "seek out the Druid."Īfter burying his mother, Wil resolves to leave his home in Shady Vale to study the art of healing at Storlock, over the protests of his uncle Flick Ohmsford. Not much is known about Wil's early years except that he never once stepped foot outside Shady Vale, his home.Īs Heady lay dying, she gave to Wil the Elfstones that had once belonged to his deceased father Shea, and told him that they contained magic. ![]() He is an aspiring Healer and the only child of Shea Ohmsford and Heady Ohmsford. Wil Ohmsford is a main character in The Shannara Chronicles, based on the lead character of the same name in The Elfstones of Shannara. ![]() ![]() Some content used under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND LIKE OUR VIDEOS & PODCASTS THANKS! Your donation is appreciated, just BUY ME A COFFEE Some content used under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License or Images - Nightshade Diary,, images in the public domain or available through fair use. Music –, Kevin MacLeod (), Myuu (), Lucas King (/LucasKingPiano) Listen or Download mp3 files, also links to video seriesĪLSO LOOK FOR NIGHTSHADE DIARY ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST PLATFORMS This volume includes all six Shiela Crerar stories. ![]() ![]() Who's hiding in the closet? What's under the bed? You'll be asking yourself these questions after you listen to these creepalicious tales that'll have you leaving the lights on when you go to sleep. Her adventures take her from the streets of 1920s Edinburgh to the romantic Scottish Highlands, where she uses her 'sight' and her knowledge of local lore and history to confront ghosts, demons, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. Podcast of classic horror, mystery, skulduggery, adventure and ghost stories. Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer The Phantom Isle and The Wraith of Fergus McGinty, featuring the psychic detective Shiela Crerar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, in the dank heart of London, their shared ambition manifests itself in a fledgling shipping empire. They meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb’s Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their twisted friendship by initiating the innocent Scrooge into the art of extortion. But in Jon Clinch’s “masterly” ( The New York Times Book Review) novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. ![]() “Marley was dead, to begin with,” Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The acclaimed author of Finn “ digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” ( The Washington Post) on Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her long-time agent has been calling and neither Yoli nor Elf’s loving husband knows what to tell him. Yoli is a beguiling mess, wickedly funny even as she stumbles through life struggling to keep her teenage kids and mother happy, her exes from hating her, her sister from killing herself and her own heart from breaking.īut Elf’s latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving sisters. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, and a love that illuminates life. Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. ![]() ![]() SS: The idea of steampunk has appealed to me for a while because I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Victoriana. MP: What was the inspiration for Rebel Mechanics ? Rebel Mechanics is my first novel for young adults, though a lot of teens have read my earlier books, as well. I had a few romance novels published, then moved into fantasy with the Enchanted, Inc. I started seriously writing - as in finishing a book instead of starting a lot of ideas - about a year after I finished college and sold my first book not long after that. I studied journalism in college with the idea that it would be a way to learn about writing while getting trained in something I could get a job in (since there aren’t really any “entry-level” novelist jobs). I think that was when I decided this was what I wanted to do when I grew up. ![]() I was about twelve when I realized that if I wrote these stories down, I’d have a book. ![]() Shanna Swendson (SS): I’ve always entertained myself by making up stories in my head. ![]() Miss Print (MP): Can you tell us a bit about your path as a writer? How did you get to this point? Today Shanna Swendson is here for to talk about her delightful latest novel. This alternate history novel blends elements of fantasy and steampunk to create an adventurous novel with romance, action and tons of fun. Rebel Mechanics has quickly become one of my favorite books. ![]() ![]() ![]() What begins as a means to an end becomes a deeply personal commitment, and Arilyn is willing to sacrifice the sword that is her identity and purpose to win freedom for the forest elves. ![]() Arilyn’s moonblade recognizes this elf woman as a former wielder, and the elves of the Wealdath recognize her as an ancient hero returning in a time of need. This quest for her elven roots takes on a new dimension when she finds in a treasure hoard a moon elf warrior in deep magical sleep, displayed in a glass case. But she takes on the job, determined to demand as payment answers about the sword she carries. The Harper chosen to carry this message–half-elf Arilyn Moonblade–is barred from Evermeet by her mixed blood, despite the fact that she is Amlaruil’s granddaughter. When someone starts staging atrocities that are blamed on the forest elves, Queen Amlaruil of Evermeet sends an offer of a home on the elven island. The elves of the Wealdath forest have a long, troubled history with Tethyr’s humans. These stories run in the same time slot, different channel. Danilo heads north to pursue the mysteries of Elfsong, while Arilyn returns to the southern land of Tethyr. ![]() ![]() After their meeting in Elfshadow, Arilyn and Danilo part ways to pursue separate adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() June is Pride Month! As we celebrate LGBTQ+ history, and honor gender identity and self-expression, it is essential for young readers to learn about Pride so that they, too, can celebrate! Below are a recommended selection of board books and picture books that help show young readers the meaning behind the Pride celebrations they see around them today. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess that it could be a reference to Sally, making several mistakes during her life and being saved by Rudy after one of them, but I'm not completely sure and I hate to fail at understanding such an important line as the last one, even if it's just probably a "funny" reference. "They're just so dumb they'll come back over and over and get shot?" "Is that true?" he asked his father when his was father through explaining about the squirrels. The ending lines for the book are as follows: I'm not a native English speaker, but I went through the whole book with no major issues, apart from searching a few words here and there, so I'm not sure I could blame the language. ![]() I've recently finished William Gibson's Count Zero, and I admit I have no idea of what the ending lines mean. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Missing, according to Marion, is a fertile place, a sort of paradise: The loneliness of the foreigners is part of the setting. ![]() Translation: the novel's setting is an unpronounceable hospital filled with foreigners.īesides the corruption of Mission to Missing, the hospital's name also constantly reminds us that, error or not, everyone there is "missing" someone or someplace. ![]() So it's fitting that they all take refuge in the hospital they call "Missing." The name seems strange, because it's "really Mission Hospital, a word that on the Ethiopian tongue came out with a hiss so it sounded like 'Miss ing'" (P.6). Most of Cutting for Stone takes place in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.Įven so, the majority of the characters are considered ferengi, foreigners, and that's because most of them were either born elsewhere or were born to immigrant parents. While outside there is chaos, danger, and poverty, inside of both Missing and Our Lady, the world is regulated by science and medicine. The characters live apart from the societies that their hospitals serve. Almost all of the action of Cutting for Stone takes place within one of two hospitals. ![]() |