~August Newsletter~
Edited by Suisho Tomoe
~News~ by sab ip
~Rejected Olympics~
The Rejected Olympics is over and the winning team has been announced. The final rankings are as follows:
1. Barton
2. Durem
3. Isle de Gambino
4. Aekea
Congratulations to everyone who participated! If you have yet to claim your prize, you can still click here to do so.
~Cash Shop~
Be the coolest by buying the five new evolutions and two new items in the cash shop this week. Get the coocoon and gro-gain, the two new items, plus Yama No Tamago, Picolitrosso's Urn, Padmavati's Lotus, Alruna's Rose and The Enchanted Book! Click here for more information.
~Skin Tyte~
Potions on sale at Skin Tyte. Change your race to a vampire, imp, centaur and more there. There are thirteen new potions to choose from.
Prices:
Human - 100 gold
Imp - 3000 gold
Vampire - 100 gold
Centaur - 10,000 gold
Experiment 105 - 50 gold
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~Petals around the rose winners~ by sap ip
Month of June:
Toni59-06/16/2008
If you would like to participate in this contest, go to this thread to do so. Congratulations to Toni59!
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~HAPPY BIRTHDAY~ by Lillith D-Knock
Be sure to wish these fellow guild members a happy birthday! If you would like your birthday to be shown here in a future issue, go to this thread to list your birthday.
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~Book Suggestions~ by Toni59
Walk Two Moons-
Author: Sharon Creech
Summary: Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. “I could tell you an extensively strange story,” I warned.
“Oh good!” Gram said. “Delicious!”
And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother and the lunatic.
As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe’s outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold – the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.
In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.
Title- The Goblin Wood
Author: Hilari Bell
Summary: Makenna watched them from behind a screen of brush and grass as they dragged her mother, struggling now, over the dock’s rough boards. It took two men to carry the heavy chain and shackles. They always drowned a sorceress, so she couldn’t use the power of her dying breath to summon demons or to curse.
Then the scream rose, a terrible, wavering shriek, and her mother’s body flashed down, wreathed with chains, her face mindless with terror, like an animal caught in a trap.
When Makenna reached the end of the dock, the water was still, and she stared helplessly at its softly heaving surface.
The desire to scream rose in her, to scream and scream and go on screaming until the world was blotted out by the sound.
Title: Sirena
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Summary: The lure of song brings love . . . and death
Sirena is cursed. She will not become immortal unless she is loved by a human man. The siren song she sings with her mermaid sisters makes men adore her – yet it leads them to their deaths.
That is why she hides when she finds an abandoned young soldier. He wants to know her, though she should not let him near her or allow him to hear her sing. But how can she fight a love she has been waiting for all her life – a love that will make her life forever?
Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
Summary: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha.
In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where woman are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction – at one romantic, erotic, suspenseful – and completely unforgettable.
Title: The Foretelling
Author: Alice Hoffman
Summary: I chased away the ravens, and then I shouted the word we must never say aloud. It is a curse upon our own people when speaking of our enemies. Before it was spoken, it burned my mouth. That is why it was forbidden. It hurt too much to say.
Rain is a girl with a certain destiny, living in an ancient time of blood, raised on mares’ milk, nurtured with the strength of a thousand Amazon sisters. A girl of power, stronger than fifty men, she rides her white horse as fierce as a demon. Rain – Dream Rider, born warrior, and queen-to-be.
But then there is the foretelling.
The black horse.
In truth, Rain tastes a different future in her dreams. She is touched by the stirrings of emotions unknown. She begins to see beyond a life of war…and wonders about the forbidden. And about the words that are never used…Mercy. Men. Love. Peace.
Title: Circle of Magic Series
Author: Tamora Pierce
Summary: Written in Pierce's half-serious, half-lighthearted style, the Circle of Magic quartet tells the story of four orphaned and rejected children who are brought to Winding Circle Temple by the famous mage, Niklaren Goldeye.
Sandry, Daja, Tris and Briar each have something to learn about themselves at Winding Circle. Book 1 in the quartet is Sandry's book. Despite her high status, Sandry is eager to make friends with the other new children at Winding Circle, but that doesn't mean that they're ready to accept her advances.
Each of the four has strong, although well hidden, magic powers. These are the cause of endless trouble, but also lots of fun. It is their magic that finally brings the children together, with a bond giving them more power than anyone ever imagined.
Title: The Tea Rose
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Summary: East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night. Where shining hopes meet the darkest truths.
Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright, defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gas lit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor.
Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.
But Fiona's plans are shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man force her to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit – and the ghosts of her past – propel her rise from a modest West Side shop front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade.
Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, however, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.
The Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph.
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That's it for this issue of the Guild Newsletter. Thanks to everyone who helped with the production of this newsletter. To all of the readers, I hope you enjoyed this.
Until next time, the Midnight Book Club Guild Newsletter Staff.
