![]() ![]() ![]() LLV,you have given me a new appreciation to our hero's who serve this country unconditionally, and by heros, that includes the families of these brave young men and women. I loved this peak into how they met and fell in love. Over the course of the interconnecting books by LLV,Blaine and her Elliot made their presence known.They are one of the founding families of "Free" so to speak. Blaine and Elliott have a love like no other, and time and distance will never change that. Regrettably, that meant being away from Blaine Christmas after Christmas, year after year.īlaine made the best of her situation, and did what any good military wife should do, even if it tore her to pieces to do it. He loved Blaine with his whole heart, but he had a responsibility to his team and to his country. When the orders are handed down, he has to go, leaving his new wife at home while he risks his life half a world away. She knew that deployment was a very real possibility… one that scared her to death. From that moment on, they loved fiercely, and never wasted a day. Then she met Elliott while he was on leave from the Army. She was never one to believe in love at first sight. Blaine didn't understand the true meaning of lonely until she spent her first Christmas away from her husband. ![]()
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The two hundred and forty-four poems that form the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is really a series of epitaphs about the citizens of a fictional town called Spoon River and deals with the “plain and simple annals” of small town America.Įdgar Lee Masters grew up in a small town in Illinois. ![]() Two hundred and twelve residents of a small town tell their stories without fear of recrimination or ridicule. ![]() ![]() ![]() After three days of battle, Lee retreated towards Virginia on the night of July 4. ![]() Casualties were high on both sides: Out of roughly 170,000 Union and Confederate soldiers, there were 23,000 Union casualties (more than one-quarter of the army’s effective forces) and 28,000 Confederates killed, wounded or missing (more than a third of Lee’s army) in the Battle of Gettysburg. Meade) in Gettysburg, some 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 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The story begins a few days after the events of the previous book, "The Dark Prophecy". The Burning Maze received positive reviews from critics, who praised Apollo's narration and the book's humor. The novel was published in hardcover, audiobook, ebook, and large-print editions and the cover was illustrated by John Rocco. Joined by the demigod Meg McCaffrey and the satyr Grover Underwood, Apollo goes to the Labyrinth in search of the Oracle of Erythraea, the next Oracle to be rescued. The story follows the Greek god Apollo, turned into a human teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, in his quest to free five oracles of Ancient Greece from Triumvirate Holdings, a group of three evil Roman Emperors, in order to regain his immortality. It was published on May 1, 2018, and is the third book in The Trials of Apollo series, the second spin-off of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. ![]() The Burning Maze is an American fantasy novel based on Greek and Roman mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. ![]() Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]()
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