![]() ![]() But Shannon isn’t all human, she’s part puma and cats and wolves aren’t known for being chummy. When he realizes it’s a woman who is treed above his wolves Anton is pissed to the second power. When Anton-easily the most charming Harris-finds his pack hunting on territory grounds not to be culled any further, he is pissed. Eve will do anything to make that happen, including murder, mayhem, and betrayal. All her sons need to make strong alliances when they mate and ONLY with WOLVES. She wants Anton to make a strong alliance to bind the Harris Pack to another powerful one. Not only does Grady’s origins make him unfit in her eyes he chose a human as a mate which Eve finds sacrilege. His eldest son Grady is a product of a relationship prior to Elroy’s mating with Eve and would never be an option in Eve’s eyes. He expects Anton to be his heir, ready to lead the Harris wolves when Alpha steps down. Elroy holds his sons up to the example he leads, to be warriors and protectors. ![]() Alpha Elroy guides his family and pack with a firm hand. The Harris Pack is one of the strongest shifter clans in the region. ![]()
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LitHub 'Vuongs powerful voice explores passion, violence, history, identityall with a tremendous humanity. “Immigrant Haibun” unfolds as the narrator and his family travel across the ocean, escaping the war-torn city they once lived in above them, stars symbolize the promise of safety like “little centuries opening just long enough for us to slip through.” This experience serves as a reminder of the perilous journeys many refugees and immigrants have endured throughout history. ' Night Sky with Exit Wounds is the kind of book that soon becomes worn with love. In his poems, Vuong also draws from his family’s experience with immigration and the cultural divides stemming from his origins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Former staff for magazines such as True Police Cases and Startling Detective has also worked variously as a technical writer, fiction consultant, middle school and high school teacher, tour leader, school bus driver, department store sales clerk, artist’s model, waiter, bartender, magazine editor, and assistant producer of a television show, In Person, for the Columbia Broadcasting System.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Stegner fellow, Stanford University, 1964-65 National Endowment for the Arts grants for fiction, 1974-92 O. News Associates and Radio Press, reporter, 1959-60. New York University, School of Continuing Education, New York, NY, instructor, 1979 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, assistant professor, 1980-83, associate professor, 1984-89, professor of fiction, 1989. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, writing, listening to serious music, “reading the New York Times over several cups of black coffee.”ĪDDRESSES: Office-The Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218.ĬAREER: Educator, producer, and author. Education: City College of New York (now City College of the City University of New York), B.A., 1958. ![]() PERSONAL: Born Stephen Ditchik, June 6, 1936, in New York, NY son of Abraham Mayer (a dentist) and Florence (an interior decorator) married Anne Frydman (a translator and lecturer), Januchildren: Sophia, Antonia. ![]() ![]() ![]() She herself is experiencing supernatural changes unlike anything she's ever felt before and she needs the touch of his skin to survive. She learns that not only is she his soul mate, and can feel his heartbeat in her chest, but there is a whole other world of people with gifts and abilities that she never knew existed. 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