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Ilsa J. Bick
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If you’ve been out of town or off-grid for the last few days, then you probably missed hearing about Neil Gaiman’s commencement address to graduates of the University of the Arts. Even if you’ve heard about and/or listened, it’s a speech well worth listening to again. So, go ahead; I’ll wait.
Now, there’s a lot in this particular speech worth focusing on, especially the stuff about making your o...
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Ashes (Ashes Trilogy, #1)
   3.97 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
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2011
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Draw the Dark
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2010
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Drowning Instinct
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2012
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Well of Souls (Star Trek: The Lost Era, 2336)
3.50 avg rating — 52 ratings
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2003
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Star Trek: SCE: Wounds
by Ilsa J. Bick (Goodreads Author), Keith R.A. DeCandido 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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2005
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Shadows (Ashes Trilogy, #2)
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2012
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Daughter of the Dragon (MechWarrior: Dark Age #16)
by Ilsa J. Bick (Goodreads Author), Roc Books 3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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2005
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Blood Avatar
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2005
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Dragon Rising
3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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2007
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Lost Time
3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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2005
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Great book! I love a well-written character and a plot full of action. This book has both. Alex has lost both of her parents and has a brain tumor. For her last hurrah, she is hiking to Lake Superior to spread her parents' ashes. While she is hiki...
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“In my experience, the truly evil are few and good people, with the very best intentions, often make very bad decisions and get in way over their heads before they know it. People drown, quietly before our eyes, all the time.”
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April 27, 2012 05:30PM
location: The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia, 449 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA, The United States description: Please join us on Friday, April 27, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. in the Freedom Hall Complex of The King Center in Atlanta, GA, as we celebrate what would have been Mrs. King’s 85th birthday and launch the latest biography about Mrs. King. Entitled Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King, the book was co-written by Mrs. King's sister, Edythe Scott Bagley and NY Times bestselling author Joe Hilley. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the Coretta Scott King Foundation to help prepare...more |
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| I have to admit I’d been curious about this 2003 novel for some time but was a little turned off by the wallowing, the misery, and the epistolatory narrative about the lead-up to and aftermath of a school shooting, and so just never got around to it....more | |
“Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?"
She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance.
Instead, he kissed her.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes
She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance.
Instead, he kissed her.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes
“It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn’t. It’s what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes
― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes
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