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Welllp These Are Books: the February 2021 Edition

Most of my last month was spent on deadline and waiting for people to respond to my emails, which meant I did not have the time (or energy) to write much of anything, but had plenty of time to read, quite frankly, an absurd number of books. Some of which were very good, some of which were very cheesy, and some of which I have now told multiple people was quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. As always, though, what are my opinions if I am not sharing them with the internet? Ridiculous headlines, links, and those aforementioned opinions under the cut. As always, part two, feel free to send me any and all recommendations. It cannot possibly be worse than this one book. Seriously, you’ll understand in a second.

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Quite Possibly the First Book I’ve Gone Out of My Way to Buy On Release Day Since Breaking Dawn, Which Says a lot About Me. As a Person.

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.

Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.

I’m not kidding when I tell you that I was counting the days until this came out. I was kind of indifferent to Nesta after the original ACOTAR books, but intrigued enough that I was like, I need to read this, and then I did read this and now I care quite a lot about Nesta. And how in love with Cassian she is. And vice versa. Because, let’s be honest, dude is in l o v e. There were some parts of the story I was not super into — namely, Ferye having to die in childbirth. Like, you’re telling me Cassian could have his guts hanging out at one point and we don’t know how to do a c-section? Nah, that ain’t it. Also, pregnancy as a storyline is not always my favorite thing, but more on that in a second. Also, also, here’s a bunch more words about ACOSF.

A “Huh, So That Happened” Sort of Ending. Which Was Disappointing.

A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer

Emberfall is crumbling fast, torn between those who believe Rhen is the rightful prince and those who are eager to begin a new era under Grey, the true heir. Grey has agreed to wait two months before attacking Emberfall, and in that time, Rhen has turned away from everyone--even Harper, as she desperately tries to help him find a path to peace.

Fight the battle, save the kingdom. Meanwhile, Lia Mara struggles to rule Syhl Shallow with a gentler hand than her mother. But after enjoying decades of peace once magic was driven out of their lands, some of her subjects are angry Lia Mara has an enchanted prince and a magical scraver by her side. As Grey's deadline draws nearer, Lia Mara questions if she can be the queen her country needs.

As the two kingdoms come closer to conflict, loyalties are tested, love is threatened, and an old enemy resurfaces who could destroy them all, in this stunning conclusion to bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer's Cursebreaker series.

I loved the first book in this series. Absolutely adored it. So much so that I pretty quickly got the second one and read it. Enjoyed that on its own, but like I said in that one ask, I’m fairly certain A Curse So Dark and Lonely could have very easily been a standalone story. Should have been a standalone story? There was just SO MUCH going on here, and not nearly enough of it was resolved. Plot points just hung by the end of the trilogy, I was not ever entirely convinced Rhen and Harper were actually in love, let alone liked each other, and I thought Rhen got the very short end of an exceptionally cracked stick by the time the whole story wrapped up. Really, I think this tried to do too much in not enough time and there should probably be another book. Also Lia Mara getting pregnant was dumb. There I said it.

Free Books On Amazon Unlimited That Were Better Than Expected, But Also Read Like Fic

The Bargainer Series by Laura Thalassa

Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He’s a man who can get you anything you want … at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she’s been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she’s received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.

But for one of his clients, he’s never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the fae king of the night in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it’s just a chaste kiss—a single bead’s worth—and a promise for more.

For the Bargainer, it’s more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that’s been awoken.

If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he’ll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.

No one is going to be able to convince me this wasn’t ACOTAR fan fic. I don’t care about timing or dates, or whatever. The similarities just...did not stop. In all three books, even. There were three books in this series, by the way. Most of which I really enjoyed. I read them all in like four days of email waiting, so they must have been doing something right. Des was a good love interest and I really liked the flashbacks in the first book. Also Callie didn’t super annoy me. That being said, whoever edited this book. Oof. Some of the prose was so goddamn cringe, I literally lol’ed. Right out loud. Every now and then it was like we had to be reminded that Des was a BAD GUY ™ but it felt very Edward “I’m a killer, Bella” Cullen, and Callie’s internal monologue was occasionally hysterical. Not in a good way. Also Temper was the worst. She was so annoying. Every time she talked, I was like, oh, her again. The first book was the best one.

HITTING ALL MY ROM COM BOXES! BASEBALL! ROMANCE! PINING! ONLY VAGUELY UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN THEY HAD SEX IN THE PORT JEFF DUGOUT BECAUSE I’VE BEEN IN THE PORT JEFF DUGOUT.

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey

Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means.

Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)

Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)

Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?)

Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)

Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her...

Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite.

Legit, I saw the description for this and I was like—did I write this? Kind of. (Shameless plug to read my own rom com, it also has baseball and pining) It didn’t matter, I loved it. Seriously, it hit all my rom com boxes: childhood friends, best friend’s sister, coming back home under duress, FAKE DATING and, let’s be honest, I am not immune to the use of “baby girl” as an endearment. Every time Travis called Georgie “baby girl” I was like, oh, ok, this is cool. It was cool! I only have two quips. One, that the fake dating didn’t last a little longer. The pacing of the story felt very quick, but that’s also this genre’s style. So I kind of get it. And two, that it happened in Port Jefferson, which is a town in Suffolk County that I have not only been to, but have spent significant time in. Meaning I could picture every single thing, knew exactly where they were and have used the exit on the Northern State Parkway that the final moments of the book took place at. The Port Jeff girls basketball team won a Long Island championship last weekend. In real life, not the book.

In Which Spinoffs Continue to be my Kryptonite. Especially Well-Written Ones

Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Sarah Morgenthaler

Lana Montgomery is everything the quirky small town of Moose Springs, Alaska can't stand: a rich socialite with dreams of changing things for the better. But Lana's determined to prove that she belongs...even if it means trading her stilettos for snow boots and tracking one of the town's hairiest Christmas mysteries: the Santa Moose, an antlered Grinch hell-bent on destroying every bit of holiday cheer (and tinsel) it can sink its teeth into.

And really...how hard could it be?

The last few years have been tough on Rick Harding, and it's not getting any easier now that his dream girl's back in town. When Lana accidentally tranquilizes him instead of the Santa Moose, it's clear she needs help, fast...and this could be his chance to finally catch her eye. It's an all-out Christmas war, but if they can nab that darn moose before it destroys the town, Rick and Lana might finally find a place where they both belong...together.

I mentioned The Tourist Attraction in my January list, and this is the second in the Moose Springs trio. And it’s so good! I wish people were all as nice to Lana as Rick was. It’s what she deserved! More small-town antics, more kissing, another moose. This one was just as cute as the original book, especially because it brought back original characters and Zoey and Graham were so goddamn adorable as a committed couple I genuinely feared for the state of my teeth.

Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler

Former Hollywood darling River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she agrees to film a documentary about the picturesque small town of Moose Springs, Alaska. The assignment should have been easy, but the quirky locals want nothing to do with River. Well, too bad: River's going to make this film and prove herself, no matter what it takes.

Or what (literal) mountain she has to climb.

Easton Lockett may be a gentle giant, but he knows a thing or two about survival. If he can keep everyone in line, he should be able to get River and her crew up and down Mount Veil in one piece. Turns out that's a big if. The wildlife's wilder than usual, the camera crew's determined to wander off a cliff, and the gorgeous actress is fearless. Falling for River only makes Easton's job tougher, but there's only so long he can hold out against her brilliant smile. When bad weather strikes, putting everyone at risk, it'll take all of Easton's skill to get them back home safely...and convince River she should stay in his arms for good.

Wrapping up the Moose Springs trio, this one might have been my least favorite, but that’s not really saying much. Since I loved them all pretty equally. River and Easton’s banter was grade-A, top-notch, which is a one-way ticket to my reading-heart. Maybe part of the problem (I say problem like there really was one) was that most of the story took place on a mountain. I kind of wanted more small-town shenanigans, and updates on the condos and the state of the town and Graham being mayor. Still, this was very cute. I swooned multiple times. I’ll probably read anything Sarah Morgenthaler writes from here on out.

Seriously, What Is YA? Does Anyone Know?

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent in the middle of the carnival season, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its fancy soirées and even its danger. She becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain.

When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in Sébastien's own lair--the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks--Celine battles her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.

After a third murder, New Orleans becomes gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose--one who has now set Celine in his sights. As the murderer stalks her, Celine finally takes matters into her own hands, only to find herself caught in the midst of an age-old feud between the darkest creatures of the night, where the price of forbidden love is her life.

Like I said last month, I put a hold on pretty much everything Renee Ahdieh had written in my library. And this was just as good as the last series I read. Her world building is just—chef’s kiss, gorgeous. I dream of writing this airy, magical way, that makes you feel like you’re in New Orleans. That being said, I do not know what kid is reading this because apparently this is YA and I had to read every single word to figure out what was going on. Now, I know there are two more books in the series, but this one felt like a lot of set up and I spent most of it being like...will this make sense eventually? It did, but only during a very rushed climax of final few chapters. The sequel isn’t available on Kindle at the library, and I haven’t bought it yet. So, that’s probably kind of telling.

In Which You Cannot Always Depend On Old Favorites

No Judgments by Meg Cabot

When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island—as well as its connection to the mainland—twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn’t worried . . . at first. She’s already escaped one storm—her emotionally abusive ex—so a hurricane seems like it will be a piece of cake.

But animal-loving Bree does become alarmed when she realizes how many islanders have been cut off from their beloved pets. Now it’s up to her to save as many of Little Bridge’s cats and dogs as she can . . . but to do so, she’s going to need help—help she has no choice but to accept from her boss’s sexy nephew, Drew Hartwell, the Mermaid Café’s most notorious heartbreaker.

But when Bree starts falling for Drew, just as Little Bridge’s power is restored and her penitent ex shows up, she has to ask herself if her island fling was only a result of the stormy weather, or if it could last during clear skies too.

I love Meg Cabot. That should be stated upfront and at the very beginning because for a very long time I have claimed that being Meg Cabot was my dream job. I’ve read pretty much every book Meg Cabot has ever written and was fairly certain I’d be into these once I did read them. Only I was...not. Not really. Everything in this book happened so quickly, I felt like I was the one in the hurricane. People were kissing and then they were having sex and there was a storm and pets and then—it was over? The pacing was all over the place, I had no idea why Drew and Bree liked each other, some guy kicked a dog at one point?? It was weird. Which leads us to—

No Offense by Meg Cabot

A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library’s head of children’s services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate—in the form of a newborn left in the restroom—has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the “abandonment”. When John Hartwell folds all six-feet-three of himself into a tiny chair and insists that whoever left the baby is a criminal, Molly begs to differ and asks what he’s doing about the Island’s real crime wave (if thefts of items from homes that have been left unlocked could be called that). Not the best of starts, but the man’s arrogance is almost as distracting as his blue eyes. Almost…

John would be pretty irritated if one of his deputies had a desk as disorderly as Molly’s. Good thing she doesn’t work for him, considering how attracted he is to her. Molly’s lilting librarian voice makes even the saltiest remarks go down sweeter, which is bad as long as she’s a witness but might be good once the case is solved—provided he hasn’t gotten on her last nerve by then. Recently divorced, John has been having trouble adjusting to single life as well as single parenthood. But something in Molly’s beautiful smile gives John hope that his old life on Little Bridge might suddenly hold new promise—if only they can get over their differences.

This isn’t a sequel SEQUEL, but another one of those “exists in the same universe,” or same town, as it were, and it was better than No Judgments. Molly and John actually had a few legitimate conversations before they started kissing. The conflict was still weird and sort of forced, this was not Meg’s usual banter (I fell like I can call her Meg at this point, y’know?) and, again, the ending just felt like it...happened. I don’t know guys, maybe I should just reread The Boy Is Back. Or that quasi Persephone-Hades series. It’s been awhile. On that one, at least. I read The Boy Is Back like six months ago.

ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING ROM COM THAT I CANNOT BELIEVE I FINISHED, SOMEONE GIVE ME A PRIZE FOR FINISHING THIS

Fight or Flight by Samantha Young

The universe is conspiring against Ava Breevort. As if flying back to Phoenix to bury a childhood friend wasn't hell enough, a cloud of volcanic ash traveling from overseas delayed her flight back home to Boston. Her last ditch attempt to salvage the trip was thwarted by an arrogant Scotsman, Caleb Scott, who steals a first class seat out from under her. Then over the course of their journey home, their antagonism somehow lands them in bed for the steamiest layover Ava's ever had. And that's all it was--until Caleb shows up on her doorstep.

When pure chance pulls Ava back into Caleb's orbit, he proposes they enjoy their physical connection while he's stranded in Boston. Ava agrees, knowing her heart's in no danger since a) she barely likes Caleb and b) his existence in her life is temporary. Not long thereafter Ava realizes she's made a terrible error because as it turns out Caleb Scott isn't quite so unlikeable after all. When his stay in Boston becomes permanent, Ava must decide whether to fight her feelings for him or give into them. But even if she does decide to risk her heart on Caleb, there is no guarantee her stubborn Scot will want to risk his heart on her...

When I tell you guys that this was the worst book I have read in recent memory, I am not kidding. Might actually be the worst book I have ever read. Bar none. And that’s saying something because one time I had to read Ender’s Game in college and that, like, physically pained me. This was awful. Awful people. Awful plot. Awful resolution. AWFUL. Where to start? Well, I’m not going to apologize for spoilers, because God help us all, do not read this book. Ava has been through so many horrible things in her life it was like someone was trying to set a record. Bad parents, cheating ex-boyfriend, dead former best friend who was former because of the cheating ex-boyfriend. Naturally, this made her a control freak because—of course, or something. And Caleb! Oh my God, fucking Caleb Scott. The dickwad. I’ve never rooted for anyone to not get the girl more. When Ava “broke up” with him (they were never really together) I might have cheered. Shitty things does not give you an excuse to be a dick, and Caleb was a dick. Seriously, he started crying about how his ex-fiance KILLED THEIR BABY and I was like—this cannot possibly be a real book. It was! With lots of abortion opinions out of FUCKING nowhere, and weird possessive behavior from, like, every dude in it. Both Ava AND her best friend (not the dead one, a different one) got assaulted at one point. I kept reading solely because I was desperate to see how they rationalized Ava and Caleb getting back together at the end and they didn’t. He showed up on her flight when her boss came up with a fake work trip so he could sit next to her on the plane. What? WHAT?? It was so dumb. So bad. I can’t believe I read it.

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The Falcon and the Rose Ch. 61 - Patience

Chapter Rating: Teen Warnings: Discussion of wounds and menstruation Relationships: Alistair/Female Cousland Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Fereldan Civil War AU - No Blight, Romance, Angst, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Cousland Feels, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort

Read it on AO3 or start at Chapter 1

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He waited, and the mages emerged from the room with bloody hands. All he could do was replay the moment over and over, watch as Erimond spirited Loghain away from the field, and Cailan shouting across the ranks of surrendered Gwaren soldiers for a healer, everything slowed to a horrific crawl he could not stop. They had carried her in still with the sword through her gut.

Her hand felt cold where he held it. The blood loss, Wynne explained, kept her heartbeat thready and the circulation poor in her extremities. She explained, too, that she was being held under a Sleep to speed the healing and that everything had been done that could be. That now they would have to wait. He could barely see her breathing, and he watched each shallow rise and fall of her chest beneath the piled blankets as if will alone could keep her from the dark. Fergus stood behind him, with Cailan, Teagan, Morrence, and even the maid he’d heard called Graela, and he didn’t care that any of them saw when he leaned over her to brush a lock of raven-black hair from the pallid, feverish skin on her forehead. An action so like on the first night he met her but with such a world more meaning behind it, it staggered him. Someone put their hand on his shoulder, but he didn’t care who it was. It offered only empty comfort.

“It’s my fault,” Cailan spoke into the silence. “I let this happen. I don’t –” But the words faded, lost, or perhaps waiting for someone else to pick them up.

Alistair didn’t waste breath on contradicting him; he had seen everything from the walls.

Hours later, he heard the strains of an argument echo down the hall between the king and his newly reunited queen. The words didn’t carry through the distance, but the vitriol that carried to Rosslyn’s rooms held the sourness of long-buried resentment. Once, he might have worried for his brother, but now he only scowled and shifted closer into her side, careful not to disturb her wound as he shared his body heat with her. Despite Anora’s objections about propriety, he refused to be torn from her side, and they all agreed she was too cold, and her body needed to focus on healing, and someone had to stay with her in case – in case –

He refused to think about it. In between the mages’ examinations he lay on top of the covers pressed as close to her as possible, like a dog might, with his hand clasped tight around hers and his ear over her heart, willing it to keep time. Only Graela interrupted the monotony of the hours, bustling in every now and then to stoke the fire or purse her lips at him, but he never moved and she left him alone. The silence grated at him through the long, dark periods in between. To keep time and to ward away the spiralling turns of his thoughts, he did what he always did, and talked. He told her about the clean-up after the battle, the clemency Amell requested for Howe’s pressganged blood mage, the way Loghain’s forces surrendered when they saw the dead rise, and swore fealty to Anora not long after. The servants’ hall in the bailey had been transformed into an infirmary, and a mass pyre had been built for all those who didn’t make it. Fergus was improving now he was being properly housed and fed, but he worried. Of the riders who had gone out with her, only she still clung to life; Erimond had surprised the others with some kind of trap like the one he had seen snare Cullen in the Harrowing chamber, and there had been little left of them when scouts were finally sent out.

Howe had disappeared in the confusion.

“But when you wake up,” he murmured to her, desperate, “when you’re better, I’ll help you track him down, no matter how long it takes, and then you won’t have to bite off his other ear.” He snorted softly and brushed her hair from her eyes. “Yes, Graela told me about that. It’s a very you thing to do, and I’m sure he deserved it.”

But the darkness crowded in on such small assurances, and as the lack of answer pressed against his ears, the fragile quirk of his mouth sputtered like a candle flame and went out. Beyond the walls, a storm raged about the castle, a howling wind that buffeted the keep with enough violence to almost be felt through the stone as well as the air, that frightened even the fire in the grate and drove sleet against the windowpanes. He had to turn his head into his shoulder to blink back the sting in his eyes.

The Sleep had been removed two days since, and yet she still hadn’t woken. Alistair took his meals – the little food he could stomach – in her rooms. He didn’t dare take the time away from her to bathe, or even to let Marten shave him, all for fear that she might wake up alone. Only the healers could pry him from his place at her side, and their sympathetic looks grated on his fraying temper. She might be healing physically, but whatever had happened to her mind had left her murmuring in nightmares, fidgeting beneath her blankets without any recognition of the people who surrounded her in the waking world. Worst were the times she screamed, or cried out his name in terror, and he had to hold her down so her thrashing did not tear open her wounds. The pressure of his hand in hers went unreturned, his assurances she wound be alright growing smaller and smaller with every passing fit.

For the moment, five days after they had brought her in, she lay quiet, her eyes still beneath their lids. He tried to focus on the growing colour in her cheeks, and the deep, even suck of her breath, but exhaustion hounded him. It made his eyes gummy and fogged his mind, but he preferred it to the cavernous ache of uncertainty that throbbed with every beat of his heart, because if he were too tired to think at all, he would be too tired to wonder about the future, to fear she might waste away without ever again waking and turning her smile on him.

He shifted in his chair in an attempt to banish the shadow, sitting forward to check the arrangement of her blankets for what must have been the hundredth time. After that, he untucked her hair from behind her shoulders so it wouldn’t itch, and fluffed her pillows, and checked her forehead for fever. Cailan had brought him books from the library to help distract him, and he glanced to them for a moment before a dark spot on the sheets caught his eye. Frowning, he touched it and fell back, shouting for help even before he reached the door.

“She’s bleeding,” he told Amell, who emerged from the room next down the corridor, where Fergus was convalescing. “It’s soaked through the sheet – maybe the last nightmare? I didn’t think it was that bad, but… Maker, I should’ve –”

“I’ll have a look,” the enchanter assured him, pushing past him into Rosslyn’s room.

Alistair lingered in the doorway, his sense of propriety warring with urgency as he watched Amell peel back the layers of blankets in order to examine her patient.

“Well?” he asked, when her expression turned from concern to something he couldn’t read.

The healer shook her head. “She’s fine, there’s nothing to worry about.”

“But she’s bleeding!”

“Her monthly courses have come,” Amell explained. “It’s normal.”

He scowled at that, the outrage that despite the stress to the rest of her body, she couldn’t even be spared such an indignity. And yet, considering the alternatives, it was a straw to which he was more than happy to cling. “So she’s not in any danger?”

“Not from this,” Amell assured him. “She’s healing well.”

“Wynne said she should have woken up by now,” he said, before he could stop himself. When the healer refused to meet his gaze, the frustrations of the previous few days spilled over into anger. “If there’s bad news, I want – I’d rather be prepared for it. I don’t need coddling.”

Amell bit her lip, but nodded. “Senior Enchanter Wynne suspects there might be something holding her in the Fade.”

“A demon?”

“Impossible to say, considering the trauma. But there’s still a lot to hope for.” For a moment it seemed like she wanted to say more, but as she looked him over that now-familiar pity shone in her eyes, and she shook her head. “You should go and get some proper rest, Your Highness,” she said. “You’re no good to Her Ladyship swaying on your feet like this. I’ll stay with her, and send for you if she wakes.”

“But –”

“Please, Your Highness. What if she wakes and the thing that greets is her is some great shaggy beast she hardly recognises?”

She meant the words as a joke, but they blunted the harsher truth. He had no response. He was so tired that the healer’s lightest touch on his arm guided him from the room, and by the time he realised he was being dumped in the corridor, she had already turned her most reassuring smile on him.

“I’ll make her comfortable, I promise,” she said.

“You’ll come find me? If –”

“Of course. Take care of yourself, Your Highness. I already have enough patients to deal with.”

The door shut in his face. Cut loose, he stood in the middle of the hallway, lost, without anywhere else to go. It was too late in the day to call for a bath, and how could he sleep with Rosslyn still yet to open her eyes? He considered going to see Cailan, to offer aid with paperwork so he might occupy his mind, but his few glimpses of his brother since the battle had shown him with sallow cheeks and sunken, fatigue-shadowed eyes that couldn’t be hidden by any amount of grooming. For the first time, Alistair felt a prick of guilt for not making more of an effort to help, or at least thanking him for the lightening of his own burdens. But it was the middle of the night, the castle was quiet except for the weather howling outside, and even if the king were still awake, Anora would likely not be happy at having their rest disturbed – and she disliked him enough already. He wished he could tell Rosslyn about her glares.

Instead, he took a lantern and turned to let his feet carry him down the three flights to the kennel, passing nobody, his thoughts turning to the long nights after his mother died but before he was taken to Rainesfere, when the warmth of dogs snoring in the straw became his only source of comfort. When he entered the harness room, the unexpected light roused Gareth from his cot, and the young man blinked and yawned as he untangled himself from the sheets. With the small number of Highever’s remaining war dogs needing to be housed, he had been declared kennelmaster in his father’s place. The majority of the dogs had gone to war with Teyrn Bryce, and those left behind had either been sold to help pay for Howe’s mercenaries, or had been sent to Vigil’s Keep to improve the stock in Amaranthine, which meant the young man’s duties consisted mostly of trying to track down which animals had gone where. It was one particular animal that Alistair had come to see.

“How’s the patient?” he asked, too tired to stand on formality.

“He knows something’s amiss, Your Highness,” came the reply. “He wunnot eat. If not for that Jowan he’d not be here at all, but he’s pining, and the poultices have knocked him further out’a kilter.”

He thought back, to the first night he had met Rosslyn. “Last time she was injured, he wouldn’t leave her side.”

“He’s not strong enough to leave the runs yet, let alone gan up all them stairs. You’ll see.”

Gareth shrugged on a jacket to ward off the chill, and beckoned Alistair into the next room. A few of the dogs rustled in their beds, and one chuffed in surprise at having its sleep interrupted, but they settled soon enough when they recognised who had come to visit, and why. In the nearest cage, piled with the deepest bedding, lay the only dark shape that didn’t move with the two humans’ arrival. Instead of a greeting, the dog stared vacantly at the far wall, the layers of blankets laid over his back rising and falling in time with his breath. Wraps of white bandage stood out against the brindle of his fur, breaking up his shape in the dim light.

“He’s not eating,” the kennelmaster said to Alistair. “He’s got no heart in him, and that’s without all the poultices sending him woozy.”

“Have you got any food I can give him?”

Gareth blinked. “Well… aye. But he’s trained to only take food –”

“I know.” At the sound of Alistair’s snap, Cuno’s head turned ever so slightly, nose twitching as he caught Rosslyn’s scent. “But he has to eat, and she isn’t here.”

Upstairs, he could do nothing for her but wait, and drive himself mad, but this – this he could do, and his heart surged with a faint hope that maybe by helping the one, it might help the other. Maybe the dog could do what he could not, and bring her back from whatever nightmare had her trapped. He had heard Dalish tales about the dogs that guarded their camps at night, and the Ash Warriors who sent their dogs into the Fade after their masters when they died, to protect them on the long road to the afterlife, so… why not try?

If nothing else, he was sick of being useless. While Gareth went to retrieve the kitchen scraps from the pail by the door, he let himself into the cage, murmuring reassurance to the dog, who tracked his progress with the slow rotation of an ear but still didn’t raise his head. Gareth returned and passed a shallow dish through the bars.

“Here, boy. Are you hungry?”

Alistair sat close enough to Cuno to touch him, but didn’t, and instead set the dish down and settled back comfortably with his legs crossed and his back against the bars to wait. He had learned very early that a dog not overtly inviting touch was one that should probably be left alone. It was understandable. From where he sat, he could see where the poultices had soaked through and discoloured the bandages wrapped around the gap of the missing limb. Even with the numbing effect of the herbs provided by the mages, Cuno had to be in incredible pain, and groggy from blood loss, and confused about why his mistress had abandoned him. The blood mage, Jowan, had worked hard to save the dog’s life, pouring healing spells and blood magic both into the wounds until the point of passing out, according to those who stayed to help him – and it was the only reason Cailan had decided to leave the boy in the dungeons and not hand him to the templars until Rosslyn woke to pass her own judgement.

When she woke up, not if.

With a sigh, Alistair moved the scraps into his lap and lifted a hand to stroke along Cuno’s neck. The dog growled, a low, true warning that echoed too loudly in the confined space, and he let his hand fall to his side with the slump of his shoulders.

“I know,” he said. “I know you’re in pain, and I know I’m not the one you want to see.” He hauled in a steadying breath, which stumbled past the stinging lump in his throat. “It’s not… Maker, it’s not because you failed, or because she’s forgotten about you, it’s…” He closed his eyes, though the tears still leaked between the cracks and rolled down his cheeks, and only smeared across his face when his head fell into his hands, spent.

“She’s lost,” he admitted. “She got hurt, and now she won’t wake up and I can’t bring her back and I don’t know what to do. I – I can’t…”

Something heavy landed on his knee. Blinking through blurred vision, he found dark eyes gazing up at him, their expression somewhere between hopeful and imploring, and still glazed with pain.

“She’ll make it.” Alistair swallowed, but when he cautiously rubbed a hand over Cuno’s ears, there was no growl to make him stop. “There’s nothing she can’t do. But you need to pull through for her. Imagine what she’d do if she woke up now and found out you weren’t eating? You need to keep up your strength so you can climb all those stairs to see her. Imagine how happy she’ll be.” His touch ran to the base of the dog’s neck, where the edge of the bandage met the short, coarse fur. “Don’t worry about this – she’ll love you just the same, and she’ll tell you how brave you are, what a good dog you are, but…” He faltered again. “You need to eat. Just a little. Please.”

He took a small strip of meat from the bowl for the dog to sniff, holding his breath. After a long moment, the very tip of a pink tongue poked out just far enough to lick the morsel from his fingers, and through a shower of half-hysterical praise, Alistair picked out another scrap, and then another. In the end, after a long-drawn endeavour that left his hands covered in grease and slimy with drool, only about half of the food had been eaten, but just before Cuno settled back to sleep, he lapped some water from the bowl pushed under his chin, with more enthusiasm than he had shown since waking from his injuries.

The effort exhausted Alistair. He kept his hand in the dog’s ruff until his soft breath turned into gentle snoring, and even then couldn’t bring himself to leave – and not only because Cuno was seeking comfort pressed tightly against his side. He didn’t want to go back, didn’t want to find out what was waiting for him. What if she was just the same, pale and catatonic and unresponsive? What if she was worse, gripped in another nightmare and calling his name? And what if she had awoken while he was gone, only to find he had deserted her? He couldn’t face it, any of it. His eyelids felt heavy, and the blanketed straw was so warm, the dog’s snores lulling him to surrender to the exhaustion that had been clawing at him for nearly a week…

“Your Highness!”

Cuno barked, startled from sleep by the clamour, but even as he was called again, Alistair took longer to rouse.

“What –?”

“Your Highness, you have to come quickly!” Graela pivoted to a halt in the doorway, her hair and dress both awry, and her eyes blown wide with alarm. “It’s Knight-Captain Irminric, he’s saying – ugh, no time! He’s come for Her Ladyship – I think he means to kill her!”

Bewildered, but stung by the urgency in the elven woman’s voice, Alistair staggered out from under the weight of the dog, stumbling through the pins and needles in his legs as he barrelled past Graela and up the stairs. His pulse rolled like thunder in his ears. He should never have left her. He should have been there, ready to defend, like he promised.

When he reached the second floor, he heard the commotion before he saw it, and skidded around the corner to see two templars standing off against Amell and a pair of soldiers in Cousland blue. Early morning sunlight fell across them from the open doorway, glinted off weapons drawn and raised.

Alistair didn’t hesitate. The templars barely registered his approach before he was barging past them. The sight that met him as he crossed the threshold stopped his blood cold. Irminric advanced on the bed with his sword in a guard, while Morrence stood before him, her own weapon in her hand, the snarl curling her lips a ragged counterpoint to the melancholy determination on the templar’s face. Rosslyn still slumbered, peaceful and helpless to the drama playing out around her.

“She’s possessed – an abomination,” Irminric was saying, placidly, as if explaining to a small child. “I do not want to do this, but it is a mercy.”

“You won’t touch her.”

“If she wakes, it will be worse for all of us, now stand –”

Alistair’s fist connected with the templar’s jaw, before he realised he had crossed the room. Stunned, Irminric went down in a crash of plate and a yell as his sword spun out of his hand. Morrence kicked the offending weapon into the far corner by the window then turned her attention to the two who had crowded in in Alistair’s wake.

“Knight-Captain!”

“Don’t even,” Morrence growled.

“I want you gone from the castle.” Every muscle in Alistair’s body shook, but his voice rang through the room like a bell, a lance of white hot fury that burned away even the smart where his knuckles had caught Irminric’s chin. “All of you. You’re no longer welcome here.”

The knight-captain worked his jaw, probing with his fingers for damage. “This is my duty,” he ground out. “It must be done.”

Incensed, Alistair took a step forward, raised his fist again. “You came armed with two knights as bodyguards so you could slaughter an injured, defenceless woman – who, by the way, saved all your lives less than a week ago.”

“I’ve heard her screaming too,” Irminric retorted. “Whatever demon is holding her in the Fade is torturing her, taking over her mind. I don’t want her to suffer, and she wouldn’t want to waste away like this.”

“And being murdered in cold blood by a coward is so much better.”

“I’ve known her since we were children,” he insisted, quieter now. “I do not wish for this, but it is a mercy. For the greater good.”

“She’s still fighting!” Alistair cried. “Whatever it is, she’ll beat it, and I will not let you take away her chance because your Chantry-fed paranoia likes to stab things first and ask questions later!”

“Your Highness –”

But whatever the reply was going to be, it cut short as a clatter in the doorway announced Cailan’s arrival with Graela, and hot on their heels, Fergus limping on the crutches that took the weight off his ruined legs.

“What’s going on here?” Rosslyn’s brother demanded.

“Nothing that hasn’t already been sorted,” Alistair replied, without moving. “The knight-captain was just leaving.”

“The thing inside her is tightening its grip – you know it, too, even if you refuse to see it,” Irminric insisted.

“I will not give up on –”

“Help me…”

Rosslyn’s voice. Everyone stopped. A frown had come to her face, and her breathing had quickened in the way that usually preluded a nightmare, her eyes fluttering beneath the lids as she rose from the depths of unconsciousness.

He all but shoved Morrence out of the way to get to her, to catch her hand.

“I’m here, love – it’s me,” he murmured as he sank to his knees by the bed.

“Alistair…”

“Rosslyn –”

She mumbled something else, too low and too quick to catch, but her expression crumpled into pain.

“I’m not going anywhere,” he told her, with an iron grip on her hand, the softest touch to the side of her face. Behind him, Irminric was arguing with Fergus, but he didn’t care. “You need to wake up – I need you to come back to me. I need you to fight it.”

“There’s something… something following… so many eyes…”

“Fight it.”

Her breath shortened, brow creased, teeth gritted as her body twitched. The fit only lasted a few moments, and then she went limp once more, the grip on his hand loosening as she fell back into deep sleep. He didn’t have the heart to call her name, not this time as grief and disappointment swelled so tightly in his chest it took all his self-control not to fling something across the room. He wanted to sob. Instead, he pressed his forehead against her hand and squeezed his eyes shut, determined not to give in to the loss of control. He would not give up, and he would not lose her to whatever monster was trying to consume her.

#dragon age #dragon age: origins #dragon age origins #da:o #alistair theirin #rosslyn cousland #alistair x cousland #cousland #the falcon and the rose

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In Marcher Fields - Chapter 23

Poppy Hawke was never the daughter her mother wanted, the sister her twin preferred, the hero Kirkwall desired. They do not see the woman who stands between them and the chaos that threatens. No one takes the time to look, until she crosses the path of a certain Knight-Captain with demons of his own to battle …

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9:42 Dragon, Solace

Skyhold was so quiet without the majority of the Inquisition in residence.

Poppy was uncomfortably reminded of Kirkwall in the days following the Qunari invasion, a population discovering slowly just how much had been lost in the chaos, a stillness covering everything for days. There was no such mourning here and now, of course - indeed, the Inquisition had just achieved a victory over Corypheus in the Arbor Wilds. But most of the Inquisition were still in the Arbor Wilds, dealing with prisoners, ferrying the wounded safely out of harm's way. The only reason she was in Skyhold was because she had outright refused to be left behind when Cullen had joined the rest of Xena's inner circle to rush ahead to the fortress.

But there was a restlessness hanging over Skyhold. Corypheus' army had been defeated, not Corypheus himself. No one knew better than Poppy that he would not give up so easily.

She pushed away from the gatehouse battlements, turning back to look into the lower courtyard, quietly agitated in herself. Xena and her advisors were closeted in the war room; the rest of the inner circle were in their accustomed places around the fortress, each waiting to be told what the next step would entail. A skeleton crew of guards and servants made the fortress seem far less populous than it had been just a few weeks before. But that lack of people made unknown faces very easy to spot.

It was a dwarf that had caught her attention. Ordinarily, dwarves were a regular sight in Skyhold, the much-needed connection to the lyrium supply from Orzammar, but this one ... there was something furtive in the way he moved. He walked with purpose, certainly, but kept glancing around, as though expecting to be challenged at any moment. Poppy's eyes narrowed.

Best not to disappoint him, then.

Passing through the unused gatehouse and down the steps into the upper courtyard, she lengthened her stride to intercept the furtive dwarf as he reached the top of the wide steps from the lower courtyard. He stuttered out an apology as she ran into him, barely catching his breath before her hand clamped onto his shoulder and dragged him back under the arch of the stairway that lead to the keep proper. Bearded and tattooed - Carta, or casteless-turned-exile, she realized - the dwarf glared up at her as Poppy pressed him against the stone.

"Who sent you?" she asked, pleasant enough for the time being.

"Messenger from the camp," he answered her in a gruff tone, though she noted he was clever enough not to try and pull out of her grasp.

"Nice try," Poppy countered. "But you're not wearing any insignia I recognize, and you move like someone worried about being caught. Now ... there are two people who could have sent you that immediately spring to mind. One of them will result in you being put in the cells; the other will result in you turning around and taking a message back from me. Lying to me will result in more than a few bruises. You look like a clever lad. So who sent you?"

She could see the options flickering through the dwarf's mind - was his employer worth getting himself beaten up by the Champion of Kirkwall? No one was worth that. Inviting the woman who had killed the Arishok to kick the Void out of you was stupidity worthy of a prize, and they both knew it. He sagged a little under her grip, pulling a neatly-folded letter from his pocket. Poppy glanced at the initial written on it, and felt a part of herself growl. Bianca.

"Where is she?" she demanded, her grip tightening on the dwarf's shoulder. "In the camp?"

He winced at the bite of her fingers through his cloak. "Not here, messare," he swore vehemently. "Traveling with her husband."

"But she found the time to write this and send it here," Poppy pointed out with a scowl. She considered her captive for a moment. "Are you her courier of choice?"

The dwarf cleared his throat awkwardly. "For Ferelden and the Marches," he told her. "Personal courier."

"How many of these letters have you delivered to Varric over the years?" she asked suspiciously.

"Too many," he admitted. "It's steady money, messare."

Poppy paused, thinking over her options. She knew that Varric had called it off with Bianca, not simply because he had begun a relationship with Xena - who, in her opinion, deserved her friend infinitely more than the smith who had kept him hanging for years - but also because he had shown her the letter he had sent to Bianca making his position absolutely clear. That Bianca would disregard his request to cut all ties was enough to make Poppy angry. But she could see a way to deal with it while preserving Varric's opinion of the woman he had once loved.

"That steady money should have dried up already," she told him honestly. "Varric wants nothing more to do with her, and I will not allow my friend to be badgered and prodded at by someone who forfeited her right to his attention years ago. I am going to burn this letter. You are going to assure her that you delivered it. I am sure she'll send another one when she gets no reply. You will burn it. You will burn every letter she gives you to give to Varric, and you will swear blind that you delivered them. And I won't hunt you down and make you regret ever lying to me. Are we clear?"

His eyes narrowed as he looked up at her. "What do I get out of this, messare?"

Poppy bent down until she was glaring into his eyes from barely an inch away, her voice low with menace. "To walk away."

The dwarf swallowed, apparently not needing much time to weigh his options at this point. An offer to have your ability to walk removed by a human legend in her own lifetime could do that.

"Right you are, Messare Hawke," he agreed. "Tethras won't get another letter from her via my hands."

"Glad to hear it." Poppy straightened, removing her hand from his shoulder, and jerked her head back toward the gatehouse and the bridge to the mechanized lift. "Sod off."

The unfortunate messenger did just that, taking the steps back down to the lower courtyard a good deal faster than he'd come up them. Poppy frowned, looking down at the letter in her hands. It was so tempting to open it, to find out exactly what Bianca thought she was doing, but at the same time ... these were private words. They were words that were not meant for anyone but Varric, and though Poppy had no intention of letting him find out they had ever been written, she wouldn't betray her friend by reading them.

"Although it really doesn't surprise me that she doesn't understand what the word "no" means," she muttered to herself, inserting one corner of the folded and sealed parchment into the flame of the nearest torch.

And, without warning, green light flashed across the world, a ponderous crack of thunder following it as high above the clouds swirled, horribly familiar to anyone who had looked up at the sky following the explosion at the Temple of Sacred Ashes. The burning parchment dropped from Poppy's fingers as he head snapped up, hearing the cursing that rose from everyone in this outer area.

Corypheus.

So he had surfaced. Too arrogant to run and hide, to lick his wounds and try again years from now, he was forcing a confrontation. And by the look of things, he had gone back to Haven to reopen the Breach.

She felt a flare of anger that her mistake had come back to haunt so many people all over again, her feet already moving toward the armory. She wasn't the only one headed in that direction - Iron Bull, Sera, Blackwall; they were all moving to collect their weapons, expecting to accompany the Inquisitor to this final confrontation. Poppy glanced up at the window of the war room, seeing Josephine's frightened face, Leliana's impassive wariness at her back.

A few minutes later, and she was ducking out of the armory, settling her armor and weapons about herself, unsurprised to be stepping aside as Xena and Varric hurried past her to arm themselves. Servants were bustling, throwing together packs for the journey down to the site of the Inquisition's first defeat; on the other side of the bailey, she could hear Master Dennet and his grooms preparing the mounts for their party. And there was Cullen, stone-faced, worry in his eyes as she tightened the last buckle and moved to join him for these few moments.

"I have to go," she told him before he could open his mouth to argue. "Corypheus was my mistake in the first place. I have to be there."

"I know." Cullen's sigh was heavy, but accepting, his hands falling to her shoulders as he looked into her eyes. "I want to come with you, but ..."

She reached up, gently curling her fingers to his cheek. "I know," she promised, drawing him down to press her brow to his. "We're going to win this, Cullen. I am coming back."

"Maker, please ..."

Heedless of any curious eyes that might turn to them, he pulled her into his arms, burying his face in the crook of her neck as she wrapped her own arms tight about him. She could feel him trembling, knew he could feel her shaking in answer. This was a fight she might not come back from ... but she refused to admit that aloud. She had lost too much not to have earned her happy ending. Not even Corypheus was going to keep her from having that promised home with her husband at long last. She just had to see this through to the end that loomed over them.

"Hawke."

Varric's voice as he passed, his hand on her back, drew her out of that embrace, a warning that there would be no waiting for her if she missed their departure. Cullen stiffened, his lips warm against her temple before he let her step back. No more words - everything that needed to be said between them had been said too many times before. All that remained was hope; hope that there would be no more need for such words when she returned again.

Poppy nodded to her husband, falling into step with the rest of Xena's motley crew, all of them somber with the knowledge that this really was the final confrontation. Riding out of Skyhold, turning their faces to the looming threat of the Breach, they all knew just one thing ... it was Corypheus or the world.

No more chances.

#in marcher fields #poppy hawke #random dwarf #cullen rutherford #tying up loose ends #skyhold #cullen x female hawke #sort of angsty?

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Honor List Fall 2018

NATCHITOCHES – One thousand one hundred thirty-one undergraduate students at Northwestern State University were named to the Honor List for the Fall 2018 semester. Students on the Honor Roll must be enrolled full-time at Northwestern State and have a grade point average of between 3.0 and 3.49. Students named to the Honor List, listed by hometown, are as follows.

Abbeville – Kyle Baudoin, Skyler Guerra, MaKayla Lewis, Kayla Marceaux, Julie Melancon, Zabrinia Spates;

Atlanta – Jamie Wagley;

Alexandria -- Aleisha Allen, Lili Bedoya, Samantha Bergeron, Madeline Blake, Morgan Brame, Jasmine Brown, Jamie Broussard, Angel Christophe, Mydacia Conaler, Karly Constantino, Noel Cusick, Deshod Dixon, Joshua Dorsey, Kaylie Edwards, Brittany Franklin, Bailey Gaspard, Mallory Halford, Chelse Hayes, Gustov Johnson, Jasmine Johnson, Breonna Jones, Kristina Langley, Naya Loyden, Katelyn Maggio, Aaron Martin, Dean Mayeux, Shauntae Perry, Sadae Polk, Kylah Porter, Carmen Rachal, Zachary Roberts, Mary Sampson, Savannah Sices, Taijha Silas, Kiaijah Thomas; Kirstyn Thomas, Erin Vandersypen, Cherell Wallace, Tameia West, Alaina Williams, Mikayla Wright;

Allen, Texas – Nautica Grant;

Alpine, Alabama – Courtney Willis;

Anacoco – Lindsey Alligood, Jacob Bennett, Kinsley Blakeway, Angela Guy, Christopher Guy, Connor Higgins, Kayli O’Toole, Cayla Roberts, Kaylee Runnels;

Arcadia – Deniesha Davis, Alliyah Murphy, Hannah Tinsley;

Arlington, Texas – Mariah Denson;

Arnaudville – Macey Boyd;

Athens, Texas – Jessica Dubose, Jacob Ellis;

Atlanta, Texas – Madison Hamson, Meredith Mcmanus, Jackson Teal;

Austin, Texas – Jennifer Jacob;

Avondale – Roger Jones;

Belcher – Loriann Long;

Boyce – Lane Robinson;

Baker – Devante George, Cherish Netter;

Ball – Brittany Breland, Christopher Constance, Mackenzie Owen, Will Salinas, Bryan Sayes, Alice Wilson;

Bastrop – Katelynn Chain, Kimberly Robinson;

Baton Rouge – Brianna Alumbaugh, Chloe Castello, Lydell Emerson, John Guillot, Brooke Harbin, Samantha Hebert, Mckane Kinchen, JeBreanne Morgan, Jennifer Normand, Katie Pham, Ashleigh Rumby, Kori Thomas, Jharon Whitfield, Jordan Williams;

Baunatal, Germany – Yannik Gerland;

Beacon Falls, Connecticut – Stacey Brown;

Belcher – Victoria Herbert;

Belle Chasse – Madison Hewitt, Denim Reeves;

Belmont – Ashley Hill;

Bentley – Heather Jones;

Benton -- Chasity Catanese, Bryanna Cooper, Sarai Fanene, Makayla Goff, Ali Hedgepeth, Leanna Plunkett, Blaine Reeder, Lilly Roach, Maegan Ross;

Berkshire, New York – Alexis Andersen;

Bienville – Sarah Macynski;

Blanchard – Ashlynn Hartley;

Bossier City – Shelby Ansley, Cassie Bailey, Lauryn Bakalis, Kaylan Beloso, Amanda Billieu, Shelby Booth, Quintin Braley, Katie Briggs, Megan Cathey, Kendall Corkern, Colby Cranford, Daniel Dial, Kasey Dice, Courtney Dismuke, Farrell Dulle, Jonathan Edie, Marissa Gardner, Margaret Gates, Nawal Gazawaneh, Adrianne Hampton, Andrea Haynes, Christian Henley, Dejaney Jackson, Nourain Jamhour, Jared Jarrell, Haley Joncas, Shane Kaiser, Alexandra Madrid, Samantha Maiette, Anthony Mulrenin, Dylan Nash-Browder, Shelby Peeples, Jordan Phillips, Kathryn Pierce, Rachael Pierce, Cierra Rachal, Nigmeh Rahman, Jenna Rambin, Sierra Richard, Emily Rideout, Nickolas Rizzo, Jasmine Roberson, Dakota Schudalla, Ranya Shihadeh, Kaylee Stewart, Giselle Trejo, Bobby Trichel, Chandler Vascocu, Lacey Velasquez, Madeline Webb, Pamula Whicker, Vikki Wolf;

Boutte – Jose Del Rio;

Boyce – Hannah Aslin, Tiffany Barnhart, Savanna Budnik, Natalie Dear, Devin Hilliard, Anna Lacombe, Kaitlyn Miller, Sydney Yerby;

Breaux Bridge – Dylan Davis, Mickayla Love;

Broussard – Matthew Buteau;

Brownsboro, Texas – Brice Borgeson;

Burnet, Texas – Marshall Skinner;

Bush – Serena Bonnette;

Cottonport – Jared Seaver;

Calhoun – Marissa Barentine, William Malone;

Campti – Adam Calder, Paige Cason, Damarte Fisher, Kortney Greer, Malachi Lester, Pepper Lloyd;

Cape Coral, Florida – Karleigh Acosta;

Carencro – Chaney Dodge, Jhonae Thibodeaux;

Cartagena, Colombia – Sebastian Alfaro Fontalvo, Samantha Arellano Chavez, Elias Castro Caballero, Gabriela Forero Salcedo, Julieth Maturana Orozco, Alonso Restrepo Cardozo;

Castor – Loxlie Dodd, Priscilla Harrell;

Center, Texas – John Harrington;

Centerpoint – Marissa Skursky;

Cheneyville – Laiken Haggart, Shelbie Moriarty;

Chicago, Illinois – Irene Frangos;

Choudrant – Krislyn Mardis;

Church Point – Meghan Bearb;

Cincinnati, Ohio – Terry Brewer, Kristin Byone;

Clinton – Christopher Sanders, Joshua Taylor;

Colfax – Michael Dupre, Paidin Luneau, Angela McCann, Peyton Ryder, Katilyn Slayter;

Colorado Springs – Rossana Potempa;

Conroe, Texas – Zachary Krolczyk;

Converse – Haleigh Sharrow, Triston Waldon;

Copperas Cove – Patrick Murphy;

Corinth, Texas – Madison Walford;

Corsicana, Texas – Sasha Ballard;

Cotton Valley – Taylor O’Rear;

Cottonport – Shelie Canoe, Jacob Harris, Joneshia Jacobs,;

Coushatta -- Journi Brown, Brandon Gay, Erikka Johnson, Aston Lester, Tianna Rock, Deja Sibley, Mikailah Smith;

Covington – Kenneth Sears, Crystal Tucker;

Creston – Madison Alexander;

Cullen – D’Agurelle Epps, Travon Jones;

Cut Off – Kaelyn Musgrave;

Cypress, Texas – Shemar Bartholomew, Jacob Farrell;

Dayton, Texas – Jerry Maddox;

De Berry, Texas – Sarah Britt;

Denham Springs – Joey Carroll, Jenson Wall;

DeRidder – Amie Ashworth, Samantha Barr, Sheridan Douglas, Sarah Fulford, John Ham, Genna Higginbotham, Latresha High, Alexis Holland, Jordan Mack-Mcnair, Casey McGlothlin, Jessica McManus, Mary Rabalais, Morgan Smith, Madison Tilley, Gavin Watson, Katie Wisthoff, Siaerphin Wolfe;

Destrahan – John Domangue;

Deville – Emily Biddle, Hailie Coutee, Kinley Deville, Jessica Horton, Colton Johnson, Alyssa Kline, Ashtyn Knap, Hannah Lewis, Jordan Paul, Garrett Sellers, Haley Spilker, April Thomas, Destiny Zito;

Dodton – Micah Broomfield, Melanie Thomas;

Downsville – Abby Fordham;

Doyline – Billi Jones, Joshua Kirkhart;

Dripping Spring, Texas – Bryce Potter;

Dry Prong – Joshua Christopher, Ethan Lewis, Shian Murrell, Lindsey Weatherford, Ashley Webb;

Dubach – Olivia Hancock;

Dubberly – Jared Bryce, Audrie Dison, Alex Robles;

Duson – JoBeth Caswell;

Edgard – TaiJhun Louper;

Edmond, Oklahoma – Jiyoon Lee, Ravon Nero;

Edwards, Mississippi – Taylor O’Bannon;

Effie – Jacey Dunbar;

Elizabeth – Kolby Friday, Hannah LaCaze;

Elm Grove – Camryn Sessions, Jacob Dunn;

Elmer – Courtney Baggett, Victoria Coleman, Garrett Holt, Brennan Mays;

Elton – Maia Lacomb;

Elverta, California – Erika Avery;

Eunice – Tanner Thibodeaux;

Evergreen – Miracle Oby;

Flatwoods – Lindsey Willis;

Florien – Connor Arthur, Whitney Byles, Cullen Hopkins, Tyler Johnson, Megan Wagley;

Flower Mound, Texas – Cody McGee, Randall Ruffner;

Forest Hill – Brett Atkinson, Anna Doherty, Celina Thrasher, Leslie Winners;

Fort Bliss, Texas – Brittany Passi;

Fort Polk – Nadia Charlot, Amber Ferguson, Jayla Hart, Amanda Kuhn, Jesica Mattson, Genesis Rondon Torres, Sarah Sullivan, Hannah Sweeney, Nohora Valencia Camacho;

Franklin – Shelley Bell, Zabreana Daniels, Jalena Kelly;

Franklinton – Brittany Sanders;

Friendswood, Texas – Malik Sonnier;

Frierson – Austin Barnes, Mason Barnes, Shelby Callens, Treanna Howard, Madison Locke, Nicholas Parham;

Frisco, Texas – Kalee Williams;

Gibsland – Dianna Pearson;

Guin, Alabama – Taylor Porter;

Gadsen, Alabama – Damian Thompson;

Gainesville, New York – Ray Anikwue;

Garland, Texas – Adriana Velarde, Nia Ranall;

Geismar -- Emilee Hawkins, Brenna LeGlue, Elijah Jon-Baptiste;

Garland, Texas – Adriana Velarde;

Georgetown – Joci Harris, Kaleb Hudson;

Georgetown, Indiana – Elisa Rohlf;

Gibsland – Madison Shidiskis;

Glenmora – Phillip Bullitt, Jacob Dunson, Kerstyn Johnson, Ashton Swanson, Derrick Welch;

Gloster – Emmaleigh Cleary, Paris Gillum;

Goldonna – Brianna Calhoun;

Gonzales – Julie Breaux, Malayah Currie, Courtney LeJeune, Harlee Melancon, Jennifer Enloe;

Grand Cane – Cassiah Davis, Sandra Kimble;

Grand Couteau – Alesia Francis;

Grand Prairie, Texas – Stephen Carrett;

Grant – Tyler Stanco;

Gray – Lori Anthony;

Grayson – Sabrina McKeithen;

Greenwell Springs – Morgan Bellot, Micah Fontenot, Ashleigh Klein, Madison Szekely;

Greenwood – Tamera Harris;

Gretna – Kayla Anderson, Terralyn Schram;

Harvey – Jesse Coats;

Hackberry – Lexie Stine;

Hagerstown – Stacy West;

Hahnville – Imani Butler, Cierra Puryear;

Hall Summit – Ashley-Kate Roberson;

Hallandale Beach, Florida – Ralph Boereau;

Hallsville – Emma Hawthorne;

Hammond – Joseph Martin;

Harker Heights, Texas – Khalil Corbett-Canada;

Haughton – Deitric Alexander, Taylor Breed, Darius Brock, Kyler Burns, Sarah Carroll, Haylee Douglass, Dakota Hawkins, Megan Hobgood, Jasmine Jackson, Nathan Johnson, Luna Karkar, Mackenzie Langen, Alana Lewis, Hannah Robertson, Taylor Trombely, Katherine Weeks, Chase Woltz;

Heflin – Kendall Brunson, Simiuna Cook, Cody Robinson;

Hessmer -- Carly Barrere, Daren Dauzat, Lakken Lemoine, Gabrielle Savoy;

Hineston – Victoria Carroll, Cheyanna Crane, Chase Powell;

Homer – Madison Cain;

Hornbeck – Emma Dubose Rogers, Torri Hollis, Joshua Hughes, Ariel Rodgers, Amber Stanley;

Hosston – Qanisha Thomas;

Houma – Rhiannon Dean, Jennifer Doiron;

Houston – Luis Cervantes, Levar Gumms, Jennifer Hitt, Natashia Jackson;

Inkster, Michigan – Kanesha Price;

Jacksonville, Florida – Destinee Christie;

Jacksonville, Texas – Donovan Trent;

Jamestown – Kristen Campbell, Ieshia Thomas;

Jasper, Texas – Kylee Dominy;

Jefferson – Emily Ricalde;

Jena – Jasmine Furlow, Mercedes Farris, Parker Fink, Hannah Spicer, William Tradewell;

Jennings – Kelsey Fitzgerald, Mallory Martinez;

Jolon, California – Abigail Vallery;

Jonesboro – LaVonna Lawrence;

Jonesville – Adrian Johnson, Sidney Spinks;

Keithville – Kaylee McDuff;

Kinder – Kelsey Frank;

Kaplan – Chris Hebert;

Katy, Texas – Brittany Cecil;

Keatchie – Katelyn Hicks;

Keithville – Taylor Hughes, Latavein Kennedy, Erin McDonnell, Maya Porter;

Kenner -- Emily Bennett, Isabel Jemison, Ryan Johnson, Nicole Lala, Willie Soniat;

Kerens, Texas – Richard Brumbelow;

Kinder – All Lorin, Micaela Autin, Nicholas Moldovsky;

Lacey, Washington – Shana Sweeney;

Lafayette – Rachael Bryant, Sasskia Chassion, Madison Duplechine, Jeffrey Elkins, Justin Guillory, Michele Kramer, JaKayla Lee, Paul Martin, Melissa Pesacreta, Dana St. Julien, Julia Towry;

Lafitte – Helen Kassahun;

Lake Arthur – Gabriell Landry;

Lake Charles – Holly Bray, Khristina Croker, Kennedy Fontenot, Haleigh Gates, Karley Hebert, Kathleen Hilliard, Adam Lindstrom, Jordan Mulsow, Jessica Newell, Shelby Rodrigue, Michael Thomas, Destany Washington;

Lancaster, Texas – Deohjia Henderson;

Laplace – Caitlyn Turnbull;

League City, Texas – Blake Tessitore;

Lecompte – Linzey Evans;

Leesville – Patricia Adamson, Kyle Ashley, Jebediah Barrett, Hannah Blackwell, Hailey Brantley, Katrina Brinson, Jonathan Bruce, Victoria Butler, Charlotte Cassin, Charity Childress, Amy Eckerle, Ashley French, Brittany French, Brandon Furlow, Payton Gordy, Gabriella Haymon, Taylor Helton, Lauren Kreyenbuhl, Justin LeBleu, Mahala Lewis, Christina Lluvera, James Magee, Xavier Mccarty, Malcolm Mitchell, Marguerita Moffett, Stefanie Peters, Jessica Ramirez, Morgan Richard, Samantha Richard, Claudia Rouleau, Cesar Santos, Brett Schmidt, Rachel Smith, Payton Soto, Joyce Stevick, Grant Stolfi, Britnie Stroud, Daija Taylor, Devin Toups, Mackenzie Vincent, Tyler Vincent, Shelby Welch, Cheyene Wise, Michael Zschach;

Lena – Bettina Doty, Juan Gonzales, Taylor Nichols, Justin Williams;

Leonville – Lauren Briscoe;

Lettsworth – Landon Benton;

Liberty, Texas – Trevor Powell;

Livingston – Cody CAmbre;

Livonia – Ryann Bizette, Shanyia Haynes;

Lockport – Courtney Cedotal, Malaina Falgout;

Logansport – Susannah Cox, Amanda Hill, Jessica Thompson, Shelby Woods;

Lone Oak, Texas – Kaylee Isenburg;

Longview, Texas – Robdrick Halton, Deja Moore;

Lynwood, Washington – Meghan Castille;

Morgan City – Wykema Morse;

Madisonville – Zoe Almaraz, Jensen Volz;

Magnolia, Texas – Ray Tenninty;

Mandeville – Carrie Maxwell;

Mansfield – Rowdy Burleson, Cheyenne Free, Trevor Garrett, Hannah Hughes, Emily Jilg, DeAsia Maxie, Meliyah Mitchell, Demetric Preston, James Sowell, Devin Vanwinkle, Madison Welborn, Stanley Woodley;

Mansura -- Phillip Augustine, Deaisha Johnson, Jonah Johnson, Katherin Lemoine, Kate Losavio;

Many – Madilyn Armstrong, William Branam, Jocelyn Cannon, Kyle Elliott, Alison Garcia, Savanah Hall, Kelsi Horn, Clayton Kelley, Charles LaFollette, Johnathan Medine, Brianna Miller, Matthew Peace, Tanner Rains;

Marksville – Regan Balius, Madison Bordelon, Andre Boyer, Miracle Fourcha, Kayla Gaspard, Makayla Laborde, Rachelle Lair, Nehemayeaux Smith, Kylie Spivey;

Marrero -- Luis Escobar, Lorena Martin;

Marshall, Texas -- Alexis Balbuena, Khari Jenkins, Sierra Smith, Tristian Zamora;

Maurice – Nicole Levine;

McKinney, Texas – Jasmine Dansby, Jameria Smith, Jocelyn Scott;

Melville – Alexis Barker;

Meridian, Mississippi – Reed Michel;

Mesquite, Texas – Curtis Williams;

Metairie – Trevor Brown, Madysen Norra;

Minden – Shatarrius Batton, Angelina Carlin, Erin Dotson, Layla Easley, Lauren Holland, Jorge Zaldivar;

Monroe – Kennedy Butler, Jansen Chisley, Jaquita Davis, Brianna McKinney, Ashley Murphy, Jameelah Sanaany, Kia Williams;

Montegut – Nicole Cohen;

Montgomery – Miranda Bartlett, Laryn Graves, Raygan Lecroix, Hailee Skains;

Monticello, Arkansas – Kamilah Kelley;

Mooingsport – Jo Anna Fisher;

Moreauville – Reginea Alexander;

Morgan City – Kriystina Pitre;

Morganza – Sydney Beauvais;

Morrow – Kiante Mouton;

Moss Bluff – Bayleigh Smith;

Napa, California – Jordan Greenlee;

Natalbany – Kierra Cooks;

Natchez – Hailey Courville, Madison Holmes, Amberlyn Metoyer, James Rougeou;

Natchitoches – Jeremy Aaron, Alissa Addison, Sharlexus Addison, Adrian Alfaro-Fontalvo, Rayshaughn Armant, Cass Arnold, Kayla Arnold, Jose Arrieta Cuesta, Abbie Atwood, Black Bechtel, Megan Berry, Kacy Bonds, Andrew Boyd, Dania Briceno Vaxquex, Keyana Brown, Dustin Burns, Thomas Celles, Valerie Chadick, Gilda Chan, Kaleb Chesser, William Coffey, Donna Cooper, acob Dahlhoff, Catherine Davis, Cieara Davis, Richard Duncan, Franchesca Forest, Rachel Formeller, Fernando Gonzales, Peyton Graham, Jasmine Hall, Deshon Hayes, Michael Hernandez, Saul Hernandez, Ashlyn Hogan, David Holmes, Jacob Horton, Kanika Irchirl, Rachel Jeane, Holly Jenkins, Brittany Jordan, Deylon Key, Cristofer Larcarte, Robert Lee, Lacy Martin, Lamarr McGaskey, T’Onna Mcfarland, Nestor Mercado-Garcia, Amber Minor, Joshua Minor, Destiny Moody, Donovan Ohnoutka, Eden Parker, Zachary Parker, Meredith Phelps, Rekeithia Pier, Keator Poleman, Darian Raymond, Jeffery Remo, Devin Reyes, Taylor Rutledge, Daniela Sala Ricardo, Dante Samuel, Christopher Sanders, MacKenzie Settle, Trayvon Snow, Blake Teekell, Rebecca Thomissee, Aaon Trichel, Kaleb Usleton, Barbara Vercher-Smith, Deja Vercher, Kayven Victor, Garrett Vienne, Huey Virece, Alex Wade, Naloni Walker, Brianna Watermolan, Anna Waxley, Emma-Leigh Webster, Deondra White, Mary Whitehead, Nicholas Wiggins, Leah Wilkins, Shatney Winslow, Alasia Young, Ashtin Youngblood,

New Iberia – Taylor Freyou, Destinee Leger, Caitlin Melancon, Kira Tobias, Madison Willett;

New Llano – Trey Anderson, Bailey Glaze, Alexis Harbin, Reaz Khan;

New Orleans – Demetrius Boulieu, Rayna Brantley, Marquise Davis, Maya Dolliole, Darlene Fairley, Felicia Franklin, Matthew Gonzales, Jacqueline Gross, Mia Jackson, Karrington Johnson, Raphael Jones, Seven Joseph, Jamilah Pelrean, Phallon Robinson, Julian Shum, JoeNee Smith;

Newellton – Chasity Glasspoole;

Noble – Ethan Morgan, Krista Rivers, Thomas Rivers;

Norwood – Ty’Dashia McElwee;

Oak Grove – Tonya Creech;

Oakdale – JaQuanda Evins, Dylan Hamblin, Ayana Jones, Brooke Viscardis, Sarah Wharton;

Oberlin – Kaitlyn Fontenot, Haily Wade;

Oil City – Maegan Allborty, Chaddrick Thomas;

Opelika, Alabama – Ceaser Stephens;

Opelousas – Keylee Boone, Kescheler Guillory, Juwan Manuel, Lashante Richard;

Otis – Joshua Poston, Sabrina Thiels;

Paris, Texas – Emily Essary, Cody Vorwerk;

Pelican – Tabitha Averitt, Tabetha Caldwell;

Pflugerville, Texas – Kamika Ward;

Pierre Part – Blaise Crochet;

Pineville – Savannah Hope Andries, Emily Bordelon, Tabatha Bowlin, Kurt Burkett, Payten Collins, Brendan Day, Zachary Desselles, Sara Dorsey, Selena Ferguson, Hannah Gaspard, Taylor Holloway, Alissa Joseph, Trey Joseph, Corey King, Matthew Koepke, Santana Mount, Abby Nichols, Kaylie Parsons, Judith Peek, Christina Rachal, Relen Sanders, Elizabeth Shuler, Glynn Sillivan, Chloe Solomon, Peyton Spurgeon, Robert Tabor, Tyler Thompson, Gage Ulrich, David Veal, Emily Wiley, Sarah-Elizabeth Wilkes, Jewel Woods, Madeline Wright;

Pitking – Hannah Johnson, Jessica Jones, Logan McClure, Emily Odom;

Plain Dealing – Dormesha Noble, Ja-Mela Williams, Hunter Horton;

Plaquemine – Ma Kayla Washington;

Plaucheville – Philip Pepiton, Kimberly Poret, Brittany Taylor;

Pleasant Hill – Montana Binning, Mickayla Brown;

Pollock – Krystal Bennett, Alara Faulkner, Allie Frost, Christina Kendrick, Julie McGehee, Mary Robinson, Kari Taffi;

Ponchatoula – Chaule Saing;

Pontotoc, Mississippi – Elizabeth Murrah;

Port Allen – Kaleb Gauthier, Ishmael Lane;

Port Barre – Danielle Schexnayder, Andrew Lalonde;

Prairieville – Haley Beason, Sarah Bishop, Alicia Boudreaux, Samantha Daigle, Whitney Duplantis, Bailey Mohler, Kristen Prettelt, Caleb Ricca, Madeleine Sheets;

Pride – Ashlyn Johnson, Leann Willls;

Princeton – Jacorious Jeter;

Provencal – Taylor Craft;

Raceland – Megan Parks;

Ragley – Katherine Greenmun;

Rayne – Cameron Desselle;

Rayville -- Alana Odom, Frederick Lee;

Reserve – Rianna Russell;

Rhinehart – Bethany Russell;

Richfield, Minnesota – Leah Barnes;

Richmond, British Columbia – Jalen Donaldson;

Richmond, Texas – Sidney Harris;

Ringgold – Alora Bryant, Jered Cook, Martin Gould, Arvionne Reliford;

Robeline – Candice Adcock, Arica Ammons, Keira Huff, Kristal Lachney, Angela Mitchell, Kacy Morace, Laura Olguin, Morgan Rachal, Terra Schulze, Christopher Taylor, Candace Thompson, Seth Woodel;

Round Rock, Texas – Ana Ruiz;

Rowlett, Texas – Daniel Miner;

Roxton, Texas – Aleckse Mikeuchey;

Ruston – Karenthia Crosby Onwudebe, Jalen Garrison, Reagan Lee, Phynecha Richard, Aujani Richburg, Joshua Riggs;

St. Amant – Larson Fontenot, Kayley Naquin;

St. Barthelmey d’Angers, France – Salome Gledel;

St. Francisville – Ellie Wheeler;

St. James – Keionne Octave;

St. Martinville – Malik Anthony, Jacoby Fontenette, Destiny Simon, Maleik White;

St. Rose – Crystal Jones;

Saline – Aaron Savell, Shelby Savell;

San Antonio – Matthew Aguilera, Hilton Brown, Anthony Renteria;

San Pedro Sula, Honduras – Jonathan Andino Madrid, Vilma Castro Lopez, Meredith Corrales;

Scott – Danaysia Senegal, Tayla Soileau;

Scottsboro, Alabama – Jessica Provenza;

Shreveport – Phillip Adams, Kendall Allen, Trayveon Allen, Laurie Basco, Tylar Bedford, Austin Beene, Azhani Bennett, Jordan Bogan, Alyssa Bonacci, Kevin Branch, Leta Broome, Tiffany Brown, Tamika Kate Cang, Kathryn Carroll, Myjoycia Cezar, Christina Clark, Audrey Copeland, Derienne Copeland, Reonia Davis, Hailey Deaton, Takea Dorsey, Melissa Dragon, Hannah Ellis, Candice Faith, Sierra Foster, Meghan Fry, Dejohn Garrison, Jameala Ghazawneh, Cassidy Giddens, Hallie Glick, Ellen Grappe, Brekendria Graves, Andrell Green, Destinee Green, Lashonda Hall, Ricci Haltom, Jesamin Huff, Brittany Jefferson, Matthew Jensen, Deaveon Jones, Nathan Jones, Summer Jones, Tradeya King, Elysia Lanier, Hannah Lee, Tra’Kyrin Lemons, Grandon Lewis-graham, Katherine Lind, Christopher Markham, Katelyn Martin, Samantha Metoyer, Mollie Millen, Destiny Mitchell, Maria Moreno Ponte, Armani Nation, Yasmin Newman, Doine Ngwen, Reondrick Owens, Tara Pair, Cristina Peterson, Elizabeth Peterson, Panasia Peterson, Patrick, Pierce, Sierra Prelow, Falon Prentiss, Caleb Rounsavall, Zachary Sanders, Johnathon Schluter, Tyler Sears, Devonne Seelig; Jackiesha Simmons, Kariah Sisk-Shaheed, John Slocum, Adrianna Smith, Kayla Smith, Kaylin Smith, Asia Stevens, Jamie Stewart, Gabrielle Thomas, Bailey Thompson, Magen Tucker, Terran Turner, Jessica Ursua, Rhiannon Venable, Earnestine Walker, Ilyanna Warlen, Jasmine Washington, Gaylin White, Dillion Wilkerson, Donald Williams, Shamolia Williams, Chad Wilson, Debriar Wilson, Morgan Woodall;

Sicily Island – Shawn Perry;

Sieper – Emily Goerge, Loren Robinson;

Silsbee, Texas – Carson Fuller;

Simmesport – Kimani Batiste, Michael Canal, Lexi Gremillion, Demi Williams;

Simpson – Carleigh Standifer;

Simsboro – Andrea Coon;

Skiatook, Oklahoma – Anna Bonham;

Slidell – Juliana Garcia, Noah Glass, Ashley Henry, Kierston Jackson, Maci Walgamotte;

Spring, Texas – Elyssa Hernandez, Madelyne Mangum;

Springfield – Kattie Bankston;

Sterlington – Catherine Trichell;

Stonewall – Alana Bankson, Alexa Barron, Hailey Compton, Dawson Cranford, Madison Parker, Kirsten Sanders, Heather Schiller, Chase Slater, Christy Washington;

Sugartown – Madison Budnik;

Sulphur – Darisu Ardoin, Bralyn James;

Sunset – Zachary Linville, Charlie Milton;

Tallahassee, Florida – Edward Clarke;

Tallulah – Anna Boney;

Teneha, Texas – TaKameria Barnes;

Terrytown – Roshane Brown;

Texarkana – Daphne Hammett, Emily Landers;

Thibodaux – Terrance Johnson, Tierra Johnson, Landon Olivier;

Tickfaw – Brittany Culotta;

Tomball, Texas – Nicole Henry;

Toms River, New Jersey – Jacqueline Manza;

Trout – Hayley Lisenby, Jacie Paul;

Tullos – Kendall Normand;

Van Alstyne, Texas – Kevin Hendricks;

Vidalia – Evandria King, Kaitlyn Randall, Shanerria Squalls;

Ville Platte – Christopher Casey, Hannah Gallow, Andrea Bradley;

Vinton – Toby Stanley,

Violet – Julia Verdon;

Vivian – Kaylee Scott;

Washington – Catherine Stevens;

Waskom, Texas – Jonas Richardson;

Welch – Macala Broussard, Misty Compton;

West Monroe – Michael Dailey, Austin Dodson, Jasmyn Johnson, Eva Sanford;

Westlake – Baleigh Derouen;

Whitewright, Texas – Jearld Battles;

Wilmington, North Carolina – Noelle Cox;

Winnfield – Harli Austin, Landon Creel, Trenton Dill, Kerry Fitzgerald, Dezani Fountain, Kara Grantadams, Trinity Homan, Madisyn Hubbard, Saquan Jenkins, Jacob Jones, Michaela Maloy, Trakita Rainwater, Fatima Rodriguez, Katreiona Starks;

Wisner – Jordan Price;

Woodworth – Taylor Henry, Linzay Hunnell, Brandon Michot, Lexus Weston, Derek Wilson;

Youngsville – Shaneda Armstrong, Randall Blair, Devin Forestier, Lorin Prejean, Devyn Shores;

Zachary – Laney Davis, Neil Ahldwin Garcia, Caitlyn Thibodaux, Alaijha Trim, KeAra Thie;

Zwolle – Kamryn Bedsole, Kirstyn Meshell, Samantha Rivers, Chyna Sepulvado, Rylea Sepulvado, Autumn Wyatt;

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Books Owned But Unread

Fiction:

Joe Hill - The Fireman

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley

Emma Cline - Girls

Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers

Seth Patrick - Lost Souls

Slyvain Neuval - Waking Gods

Mark Z. Danielewski - The Familiar Vol 1

Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project

Austin Wright - Tony & Susan

Patricia Highsmith - Carol

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me A Healthy Person

Tracy Chevalier - New Boy

Andy Weir - Artemis

Michelle Paver - Dark Matter

Robert Daws - The Posisoned Rock

Laura Lam - False Hearts

Italo Calvino - If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler

Megan Bradbury - Everyone Is Watching

Sunil Yapa - Your Heart Is A Muscle the Size of A Fist

George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings

Sarah Moss - The Tidal Zone

Matthew Blakstad - Lucky Ghost

Toni Morrison - Tar Baby

Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation

Colson Whitehead - Zone One

Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour

Ann Cleeves - The Crow Trap

Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee

Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies

Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted

Michael Crichton - State of Fear

Neil Gaiman - How the Marguis Got His Coat Back

Agatha Christie - The Double Clue

James Patterson - NYPD Red 2

Maud Pember Reeves - Round About A Pound A Week

Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing In the Yemen

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Daniel H Wilson - Robopocalypse

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

David Wong - John Dies At the End

Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

John Ajvide Lindquist - Let the Right One In

Gregory Maguire - Wicked

Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

Paul Beatty - The Sellout

Jane Shemilt - Daughter

Jane Isaac - The Truth Will Out

Karin Slaughter - Genesis

S.K. Tremayne - The Fire Child

Isaac Marion - The Burning World

Adrien Bosc - Constellation

Laura Power - Air-Born

Laura Power - Earth-Bound

Keith DeCandido - House of Cards

Wayne Simmons - Flu

Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman

Dean Koontz - The City

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Ali Smith - The Accidental

John Burnside - Glister

Lauren Owen - The Quick

Tom McCarthy - Satin Island

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Robert Harris - The Ghost

Michel Faber - The Fire Gospel

Michel Faber - The Book of Strange New Things

James Patterson - Pop Goes the Weasel

Jeff Lindsay - Dexter’s Final Cut

Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

Sinclair Lewis - It Can’t Happen Here

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Cory Doctorow - Makers

YA/Children's Fiction:

A.S. King - Still Life With Tornado

Patrick Ness - More Than This

Andrew Smith - Stand Off

Andrew Smith - The Alex Crow

Johan Harstad - 172 Hours on the Moon

Ernest Cline - Ready Player One

Tommy Wallach - We All Looked Up

Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles

Tess Sharpe - Far From You

Leila Sales - This Song Will Save Your Life

Darragh McManus - Shiver the Whole Night Through

Rachel Cohn & David Levithan - Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Laura Lam - Pantomime

Laura Lam - Shadowplay

Cassandra Clare - The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare - Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy

Cassandra Clare - The Shadowhunters Codex

Cassandra Clare - Lady Midnight

Cassandra Clare - Lord of Shadows

Andrew Smith - 100 Sideways Miles

Karen Nesbitt - Subject To Change

Anna Day - The Fandom

Brendan Reichs - Nemesis

Chinelo Okparanta - Under the Udala Trees

Nina LaCour - We Are Okay

Sarah Alexander - The Art of Not Breathing

Liz Kessler - Read Me Like A Book

Lisa Williamson - The Art of Being Normal

Laurie Halse Anderson - Wintergirls

Marie Lu - Legend

Eve Ainsworth - 7 Days

Lesley Walton - The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Malinda Lo - Ash

Larry Duplechan - Blackbird

Makina Lucier - A Death Struck Year

James Patterson - Witch & Wizard

Jandy Nelson - I’ll Give You the Sun

Nick Burd - The Vast Fields of Ordinary

Libba Bray - Beauty Queens

Jack Cheng - See You In the Cosmos

Jennifer Niven - Holding Up the Universe

Becky Albertalli - The Upside of Unrequieted

Lauren Oliver - Replica

Ken Catran - Deepwater Black

Will McIntosh - Burning Midnight

Tahereh Mafi - Shatter Me

Libba Bray - The Diviners

Emily M Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Carolyn Jess-Cooke - The Boy Who Could See Demons

Bali Rai - Killing Honour

Gayle Forman - If I Stay

Andre Aciman - Call Me By Your Name

E. Lockhart - We Were Liars

Katie Coyle - Vivian Versus the Apocalypse

Leah Thomas - Because You’ll Never Meet Me

David Arnold - Mosquitoland

Laure Eve - The Graces

Lisa Heathfield - Paper Butterflies

Ransom Riggs - Hollow City

Em Bailey - Shift

Francesca Haig - The Map of Bones

Rainbow Rowell - Carry On

Bryony Pearce - Phoenix Rising

Lou Morgan - Sleepless

Graham Marks - Bad Bones

Jess Vallence - Birdy

Teri Terry - Slated

Non-Fiction:

Brian Cox - Human Universe

D’Arcy Jenish - The NHL: A Centennial History

Greg Oliver - Don’t Call Me Goon

Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing: The Enigma

Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Brian Cox - E = mc“?

Stacey Schiff - The Witches

Julian Sayarer - Interstate

404 Ink - Nasty Women

Lynn Povich - The Good Girls Revolt

Michael Finkel - The Stranger In the Woods

Kent Russell - I Am Sorry To Think That I Have Raised A Timid Son

Luke Harding - Snowden

Mary Roach - Stiff

Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus

Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent

Naomi Klein - No Is Not Enough

Dave Cullen - Columbine

Ian Nathan - Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts

Bob McCabe - Harry Potter Page To Screen

Adharanand Finn - Running With the Kenyans

Aurellien Ferenczi - Masters of Cinema: Tim Burton

Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner - Think Like A Freak

Olivia Lang - The Lonely City

Michelle Tea - The Chelsea Whistle

Simon Singh - Big Bang

Tristan Taormino - The Feminist Porn Book

Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without A Country

Nick Frost - Truths, Half Truths & Little White Lies

Russell Brand - Revolution

Robert M Pirsig - Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Francis Spufford - The Child That Books Built

Dominic Hibberd - Wilfred Owen

George Vecsey - Baseball

Richard Wiseman - Paranormality

Neil Gaiman - Adventures In the Dream Trade

Nicola Field - Over the Rainbow

Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti - Yes Means Yes

Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction

Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill

Stephen Smith - Underground London

Plays/Poetry/Short Story Collections:

Tom Hanks - Uncommon Type

Joe Hill - Strange Weather

Dean Atta - I Am Nobody’s N*****

Amerlle - Because You Love To Hate Me

Roxanne Gay - Difficult Women

Mark Gatiss - Queers: Eight Monologues

Graphic Novels/Manga:

Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 6

Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 7

Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 8

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13 years - 305 books

I am an avid reader and friends frequently ask me what I am reading. Here I will try and post a brief review of each book I read. To begin with here is a list of books I have read over the last 13 years. Feel free to ask me any questions.

2017: (22)

-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

-Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

-Corporate Communication, Theory & Practice by Joep Cornelissen

-Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen

-Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

-A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

-Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

-Theorizing Crisis Communication by Timothy Sallow and Matthew Seeger

-Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism by Eric Burns

-The Global Public Relations Handbook by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh and Dejan Vercic

-The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

-When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

- Introducing Communication Research by Donald Treadwell

- We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby

- Ethics in Public Relations by Kathy Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Bronstein

- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

- Origin by Dan Brown

- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

- Social Media Communication by Jeremy Harris Lipshultz

- A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

2016: (20)

-A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell

-Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

-The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale

-Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

-The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

-The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

-The Speechwriter by Barton Swaim

- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

-The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

-But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman

-Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

-Brewster by Mark Slouka

-Rosemary The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

-The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

-The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

-The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

-The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

-A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman

2015: (29)

-All The Truth Is Out by Matt Bai

-Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

-The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

-Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

-Yes Please by Amy Poehler

-A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

-All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

-The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

-To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

-In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

-A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka

-The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

-Persuading Scientists by Hamid Ghanadan

-The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey

-Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

-A Heartbreaking Word of Staggering Genius by David Eggers

-Polio, An American Story by David Oshinsky

-The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

-Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

-One Summer America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

-Brain on Fire by Susannah Catalan

-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

-The Making of Modern Medicine by Michael Bliss

-People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann

-Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt

-The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

-The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

2014: (10)

-David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

-Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by The Oatmeal

-Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

-Wild by Sheryl Strayed

-Stiff by Mary Roach

-An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

-Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

-Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

-Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

-Columbine by Dave Cullen

2013: (13)

-The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner

-The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough

-Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

-I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman

-Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

-A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers

-Inferno by Dan Brown

-The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

-Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

-Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith

-The Brief Wondrous Live of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

-Truth in Advertising by John Kenny

-The Cell Game by Alex Prud'Homme

2012: (16)

-Walden by Henry David Thoreau

-Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

-The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

-Overtreated By Shannon Brownlee

-Listen To Your Heart by Fern Michaels (TERRIBLE BOOK!)

-The Ten, Make That Nine Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten, by Steve Martin

-The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

-Baby Proof by Emily Giffen

-Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond

-The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

-The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

-Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

-Secrets of The Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

-Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

2011: (20)

-Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

-I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

-Tinkers by Paul Harding

-How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

-What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

-The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

-The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

-An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

-Tea Time For the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

-Bossypants by Tina Fey

-The Pearl by John Steinbeck

-Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

-Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian and Al Switzler

-Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

-The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

-Of Thee I Zing by Laura Ingraham

-A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

-Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

-Trust Me I'm Dr. Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne

2010: (26)

- History's Worst Decisions and the people who made them by Stephen Weir

- Junky by William S. Burroughs

- One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

- Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman

- Food Rules by Michael Pollan

- Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler

- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

- Drive by Daniel Pink

-The Help by Kathryn Stockett

-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

-US Americans Talk About Love Edited by John Bowe

-For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl

-The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

-Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston

-The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

-Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

-You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

-Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

-The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

-I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

-The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

-Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer

-Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

-A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

2009: (22)

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

• Remember Me? By Sophie Kinsella

• A Long Way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah

• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

• Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill

• Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

• Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells

• My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler

• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• Mistakes Were Made, by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

• Gertrude by Herman Hesse

• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

- The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

- Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich

-The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

-Super Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner

2008: (21)

• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

• Inside the Minds, The Art of Public Relations by CEOs

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol

• The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell

• The Known World by Edward P. Jones

• Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan

• Wired by Bob Woodward

• One Pill Makes You Smaller by Lisa Dierbeck

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

• Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

• Pound for Pound by F.X. Toole

• All the Way Home by David Giffels

• Bonk by Mary Roach

• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

• Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

• The Sea by John Banville

• Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

• Female Chauvinist Pigs, Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy

2007: (28)

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• 1984 by George Orwell

• What Ifs? Of American History edited by Robert Cowley

• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

• Rabbit, run by John Updike

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

• Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald

• FiSH by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen

• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

• 1776 by David McCullough

• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

• Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

• A Dog Year by Jon Katz

• 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann

• IV by Chuck Klosterman

• Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig

• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

2006: (27)

• Collapse, How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond

• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

• Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner

• Harry and Ike by Steve Neal

• State of Denial by Bob Woodward

• Crossroads in American History by James McPherson & Alan Brinkley

• The Lexus & The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

• Strategery by Bill Sammon

• Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

• Japanese Canadian Redress, The Toronto Story

• The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum

• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

• Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

• Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi

• Wifey by Judy Blume

• Frantic Transmissions to and from LA by Kate Braverman

• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

• The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Hadden

• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

• Marley & Me by John Grogan

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

• Boni y Tigre by Kathrin Sander

2005: (51)

• Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

• Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

• Mary Magdalene by Lynn Picknett

• Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

• The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

• Bob Dylan Chronicles Volumn 1 by Bob Dylan

• Smashed by Koren Zailckas

• Culture Shock Costa Rica by Claire Wallerstein

• The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

• Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris

• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart

• All the President's Men by Bernstein & Woodward

• The Final Days by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

• The Secret Man by Bob Woodward

• Shadow (5 Pres. & the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward

• All Politics is Local, by Tip O'Neill

• What's the Matter With Kansas? (How Conservatives Won the Heart of America) by Thomas Frank

• Don't think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

• Confessions of a Political Junkie by Hunter S. Thompson

• America The Book by Jon Stuart

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London

• Animal Farm by Goerge Orwell

• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnecut

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo

• The Great Fire by Shirly Hazzard

• A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Skirt and the Fiddle by Tristian Egolf

• Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

• Deception Point by Dan Brown

• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyers

• Angry Housewives by Lorna Landvik

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

• Loving Che by Ana Menendez

• Wolves in Chic Clothing by Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman

• Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

• And Sister by Sophie Kinsella

• Trading Up by Candace Bushnell

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magicrobins · 7 years

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Dragon Age Dual AU Worldstate

Long post, all under the cut.

Edits may be made as details are added or changed.

(I typed this the best I could remember us discussing the details a while ago.)

Shared with: @bxtgrl (Nat), @jellyfishlovesloki

Dragon Age Origins

Heroes of Ferelden: Namera Cousland (sword/shield warrior, Alistair romance), and Piras Surana (mage, Zevran romance).

Companion OCs: Sylvas Mahariel (dual-wielding/archery rogue, Tamlen Rendlin romance), Sarabeth Tabris (archery rogue, Leliana romance), Christian Amell (mage, Morrigan romance), Rendlin Amell (sword/shield warrior, Sylvas romance), Paige Brosca (dual-wielding rogue, no romance), Atlen Mahariel (dual-wielding rogue, Jowan romance), and Noah Talbot (two-handed warrior, Anora romance).

All companions except for Loghain are recruited.

Companion decisions: Returned Sten’s sword, defeated Flemeth for her grimoire, sent Marjolaine away, and helped Alistair find Goldanna.

Namera has a mabari, Konroy, and Piras got a mabari after Ostagar, Sammy.

Broken Circle: Sided with the mages, gained some Templar supporters, and managed to save First Enchanter Irving.

The Arl of Redcliffe: Helped Redcliffe prepare and fight, Piras used lyrium and the help of Circle mages to fight the demon in the Fade, Connor alive, not possessed, and Piras and some companions helped Jowan escape at night (Sylvas directed him to Atlen for protection).

The Urn of Sacred Ashes: Urn wasn’t poisoned, and word about its discovery eventually got out.

Nature of the Beast: Sylvas helped Namera and Piras broker peace.

Paragon of Her Kind: Rendlin had a son with Mardy, restored Mardy’s son’s birthright, Dagna left to study, defeated Branka and destroyed the Anvil of the Void, Namera supported Harrowmont, Piras supported Bhelen, and the choice was ultimately left up to Rendlin who surprised everyone by choosing Bhelen.

Stone Prisoner DLC: Matthias and Amalia both alive, and neither are possessed.

Warden’s Keep DLC: Piras gained the Power of Blood, Sophia killed, and Avernus allowed to continue research under more ethical restraints.

Denerim: Helped Sarabeth figure out and stop the city elves from disappearing, rescued Anora, and Namera killed Howe in combat, avenging her family.

Landsmeet: Loghain killed by Alistair, Alistair became King of Ferelden, and later married Namera, making her Queen of Ferelden.

The Battle of Denerim: Alistair took part in the Dark Ritual with Morrigan, only Grey Warden to die was Riordan, and Namera and Piras killed the Archdemon together.

New Grey Wardens: Sylvas, Christian, Rendlin, Paige, Atlen, Noah, and Jowan joined the Grey Wardens after the Battle of Denerim. Sarabeth joined the Grey Wardens in the beginning of Awakening.

Namera and Sarabeth belong to @bxtgrl.

Piras, Sylvas, Christian, Rendlin, Paige, Atlen, and Noah belong to @magicrobins.

The Golems of Amgarrak DLC: Namera and Piras helped Jerrik, however they both vocally objected to the idea of bringing back the creation of golems.

Witch Hunt DLC: Christian follows Morrigan through the Eluvian.

Dragon Age Awakening DLC

New companion OCs: Halin Andras (mage, one-sided Nathaniel romance), Hannah Caron (two-handed warrior, Jaden romance), and Jaden Kader (archery rogue, Hannah romance). Companion OCs from Origins returned with Namera and Piras, as well as Jowan, a canon character.

Piras is named Arl of Amaranthine.

All companions recruited and joined the Grey Wardens.

Oghren and Felsi reunited.

Both the Keep and Amaranthine were successfully protected after hard battles.

The only casualty of the battles: Justice was “killed” when Kristoff’s head is chopped off while defending Vigil’s Keep.

Piras and Namera side with the Architect against the Broodmother and allow him to live.

Zevran eventually returns to Amaranthine, and he and Piras marry at Vigil’s Keep.

Majority of companions stay with the Grey Wardens, though Velanna eventually leaves after believing she saw her sister.

Halin Andras, Hannah Caron, and Jaden Kader belong to @magicrobins

Dragon Age II*

*The timeline of DA2 is being edited to better fit in with the timeline of Origins. We have it to where the Hawke family were younger when they fled Lothering, and the Hawke siblings were indentured for more than just a year in Kirkwall.

Champions of Kirkwall: Derek Hawke (mage, eldest sibling, Fenris romance), and Vera Hawke (mage, Anders romance).

Companion OCs: Kenrick Lolani (two-handed warrior, Merrill romance), Stella Montgomery (dual-wielding/archery rogue, Isabela romance), Talia Fredericks (dual-wielding rogue, Sebastian romance), and Jaxton Montgomery (dual-wielding/archery rogue, Tallis romance).

All companions recruited, and all relationships are friendship.

Companion decisions: Carver became a Grey Warden, Bethany became a Circle mage, Bartrand lived, convinced Varric not to keep the lyrium idol, Isabela returned with the Tome, didn’t turn Isabela over to the Qunari, didn’t convince Merrill to destroy the Eluvian, didn’t kill Merrill’s clan, and Aveline married Donnic.

Mages fully supported.

Prologue: Both Bethany and Carver live, Bethany is gravely injured from the ogre attack, Vera and Derek join the smugglers, and Stella and Jaxton join the mercenaries.

Act 1: Derek and Vera sometimes disagreed when it came to letting mages go or returning them to the Circle, Saemus saved and returned to the Viscount, Kelder killed, the slaver Danzig killed, Derek and Vera both own the Bone Pit, Feynriel sent to the Dalish, defended Ketojan, left Bethany in Kirkwall, and took Carver to the Deep Roads.

Act 2: Gascard killed, didn’t side with Varnell, didn’t side with Petrice, Javaris was alive and well, helped with the raiders on the cliffs, freed Feynriel and allowed him to leave for Tevinter, and Derek and Vera killed the Arishok together.

Legacy DLC: Sided with Larius, defeated Corypheus, and found Malcolm’s Will.

Mark of the Assassin DLC: didn’t make Tallis angry, and Jaxton kissed Tallis.

Act 3: Met and let Zevran go, later aided by Zevran in the battle against Meredith, rescued Nathaniel, reunited Charade and Gamlen, handed conspirators over to Orsino, Derek disapproved and Vera approved of Anders destroying the Chantry, Anders was spared, Sebastian and Talia left for Starkhaven, vowing revenge on Anders and the Hawkes, the Hawkes and companions had to flee Kirkwall and go into hiding; to protect Vera, Derek solely took on the Champion of Kirkwall title; and Derek and companions spread false information that there had only ever been one Champion.

Derek Hawke, Stella Montgomery, and Jaxton Montgomery belong to @magicrobins. Vera Hawke and Talia Fredericks belong to @bxtgrl. Kenrick Lolani belongs to @jellyfishlovesloki.

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Inquisitors: Aya Lavellan (dual-wielding rogue, Cullen romance), and Galen Lavellan (mage, Dorian romance).

Companion OCs: Elaith Lavellan (mage, Solas romance), Nova Adaar (two-handed warrior, Iron Bull romance), Lilya Avery (mage, Blackwall romance), Jacob Lombardi (archery rogue, Josephine romance), Ju-long “Striker” Trevelyan (archery rogue, Cassandra romance), Mordecai Bayley (dual-wielding rogue, Lace romance), Ricka Cadash (dual-wielding rogue, one-sided Varric romance), Ozera Herah (dual-wielding rogue, Sera romance), Rasha Andras (two-handed warrior, Arven romance), Arven Karaas (mage, Rasha romance), Ai Trevelyan (mage, Krem romance), Zhen Trevelyan (mage, Bailey romance), and Bailey Carrian (archery rogue, Zhen romance).

All companions are recruited.

Companion decisions: Dorian reconciled with his father, Blackwall left prison with his true identity revealed and eventually joined the Grey Wardens, Iron Bull saved the Chargers and became Tal-Vashoth, Cassandra discovered the Book of Secrets, Harmond was kept alive but forced to work for the Inquisition, Cole became more human, Solas freed his friend, Varric pursued the red lyrium source lead, Vivienne gained the snowy wyvern heart, Cullen was encouraged not to use lyrium, Aya and Galen did favors for the Du Paraquette family, and Leliana was inspired.

Exploring Thedas: Reached the inner sanctum of the Temple of Pride, helped the refugees, gained the allegiance of the cultists, closed the rift in the lake, claimed Griffon Wing Keep, investigated the dwarven ruins, rescued troops from the Avvar, kept Fairbanks’ nobility a secret and helped him defeat the Freemen, killed Imshael, and captured Suledin Keep.

Operations: Failed to save Clan Lavellan, Sutherland’s company was successful, Jecin and Celeste married for love, and both Johi and Charade were recruited.

The Wrath of Heaven: Aya and Galen claimed to not know whether they were chosen by Andraste or not.

Champions of the Just: Elaith sent to Therinfal Redoubt with a few companions under the disguise of an Inquisitor, offered the Templars a free alliance, and Ser Barris is alive and promoted to Knight-Commander.

In Hushed Whispers: Aya and Galen went to Redcliffe with a few companions, and offered the mages a free alliance.

Tension was high in Haven among the Templars and mages, many uneasy with the Inquisition allying with both groups.

In Your Heart Shall Burn: Cole arrived at Haven, and Aya and Galen both stayed behind to fight and distract Corypheus.

Here Lies the Abyss: Derek Hawke, Stella Montgomery, Kenrick Lolani, Jaxton Montgomery, and canon companions except for Sebastian and Anders arrived at Skyhold upon Varric’s request to aid in the trouble with the Grey Wardens; Derek, Stella, and Kenrick fell into the Fade with the Inquisitors, a few companions, and Stroud; Stroud chose to stay back in the Fade, telling Derek to find his cousin (Christian Amell) to lead the Grey Wardens because it’s common knowledge the Heroes of Ferelden and several of their companion Wardens have gone missing; Derek, Stella, and Kenrick had to pull Aya and Galen out of the Fade to get them to leave Stroud behind; the Grey Wardens are offered a free alliance to rebuild their strength and ranks; and Derek urges the Inquisitors and Leliana to find Christian Amell, who at that point was a high ranking Grey Warden.

Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts: Christian Amell was found attending the ball with Morrigan and joined her and Kieran at Skyhold, Empress Celene lived and Grand Duchess Florianne both lived, Celene continued to rule and reconciled with Briala.

What Pride had Wrought: Galen chose to respect the temple’s traditions, Aya chose to follow the quicker route through the temple’s underground, Galen managed to get the alliance and help of the guardians, Samson and Calpernia were the Inquisition’s nemesis, Aya destroyed Samson’s armor, Galen talked to Calpernia and convinced her that her loyalty was misdirected, and Aya and Galen decided to share the price and drank from the Well of Sorrows together.

Doom Upon the World: Aya and Galen made no formal support for either Cassandra, Leliana, or Vivienne for Divine, not wanting to choose between their friends; Aya and Galen defeated Corypheus together while their companions and Inquisition forces fought off the demon horde; and Leliana was chosen as Divine Victoria.

The Descent DLC: The earthquakes were stopped, and the secret origin of lyrium was discovered.

Jaws of Hakkon DLC: Discovered and met Ameridan, shared the truth about Ameridan, killed the dragon, and Aya and Galen both gained a legend-mark from the Avvar.

Trespasser DLC: Iron Bull remained loyal, the Inquisition was disbanded at Aya’s order, and Aya and Galen vowed to redeem Solas.

Aya Lavellan, Jacob Lombardi, and Lilya Avery belong to @bxtgrl. Nova Adaar, Mordecai Bayley, and Ricka Cadash belong to @jellyfishlovesloki. Galen Lavellan, Elaith Lavellan, Ju-long “Striker” Trevelyan, Ozera Herah, Rasha Andras, Arven Karaas, Ai Trevelyan, Zhen Treveylan, and Bailey Carrian belong to @magicrobins.

Anything post-Trespasser can be discovered through asks or fanfics! <3

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shannaraisles · 6 years

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In Marcher Fields - Chapter 18

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9:41 Dragon, Firstfall

"You're doing it again."

Poppy blinked, dragging her gaze from the table across the hall to stare at her brother, mildly uncomprehending. Alex was smirking at her over a forkful of Antivan cherry pie.

"Doing what?" she asked innocently.

"Come to bed eyes at your dreamy commander," he teased, and yelped as her foot made contact sharply with his ankle. He laughed, reaching down to rub it. "All right, all right. Just try not to lay him out on a table in public, would you? I love you, but not that much."

Poppy smirked back at him, ignoring the snickering rising from Varric on her other side to let her gaze return whence it had come. Cullen was apparently deep in discussion with the Inquisitor on the far table, his own dessert hardly touched. Xena was animatedly talking about something that was clearly important to her, and the sheer force of his attention was endearing to see. It was good to know that he had learned to make friends of his colleagues in these past years, that he wasn't as alone as he could so easily have been. As she watched, his eyes flickered toward her, meeting her gaze with a warmth that blossomed deep inside, in her heart and in her belly, casting her face into a gentle glow of a smile that made her brother snort with laughter again.

"Oh, shut up," she managed, rolling her eyes away from Cullen as warmth grew in her cheeks. "This is all your doing, you can't complain about it."

"Am I complaining?" Alex defended himself. "I thought I'd earned the right to be smug."

"Not until it's a done deal," Varric interjected across Poppy. "Half an hour of grabby kisses does not mean they're back for good."

"Gosh, aren't you the little ray of sunshine?" Poppy drawled to her friend, unable to keep her smile in check as he guffawed with laughter. "Easy there, short-arse. You're already halfway to the done deal with Xena, you know."

Varric's laughter abruptly stopped, and Poppy had the privilege of seeing her friend look totally disconcerted. He glanced across at the Inquisitor's table himself, his own gaze lingering as Xena let out a raucous laugh of her own. She knew that look - she'd seen it in Cullen's eyes too many times not to know it - but Varric seemed hell-bent on not admitting his heart was already lost.

"Not gonna happen, Hawke," he told her quietly, dragging his eyes away.

"Bianca?" she murmured, concerned when he blanched and nodded. "One of these days, you're going to have to tell me this story."

"When it's over, maybe." He sighed, shaking his head. "But enough about me. Can I write your epic love story now?"

Poppy let out a burst of cackling laughter, quick to quiet herself when noble heads turned toward her, burning with curiosity.

"When the adventurous part is over, maybe," she allowed, knowing it had to be killing Varric to be sitting on romance he wouldn't have to make up to get it written down. "I'll tell you when that is."

"I'm going to be an old man before you say yes to that, aren't I?"

"It's a distinct possibility, yes."

Varric sighed exaggeratedly, throwing a grin her way as he poured more ale into his tankard. With a quiet giggle to herself, Poppy made a valiant attempt to finish her pie, but her eyes rose yet again to the opposite table.

To Cullen, gazing back at her with a fiendishly secretive smile glimmering in his gaze, raising one eyebrow at the turn of her blush. All she could do was smile in return, her mind's eye lingering on the kisses they had shared not so very long again, on the newfound certainty that he still loved her. Work and duty had got in the way of a proper reunion ... but now the night had come, and the meal was over. Varric had said Cullen worked long into the night, every night, but she didn't think that would be the case tonight. She hoped it wouldn't be. There was still so much that hadn't been said, so much they needed to renew together. One night would not be enough. A lifetime ... well, that might be time enough.

"Just go to bed, would you?" she heard Alex sigh exaggeratedly. "This is getting nauseating."

She kicked him again for good measure, laughing as he whimpered just for her benefit, and finally rose from her seat, locking eyes with Cullen once more. He nodded to her, slowly rising from his own seat as she turned away to head for the door into the walled garden, ignoring the hopeful attempts by various nobles to get her attention as she passed them by. She had no time for them anymore, and certainly not tonight.

The sound of the gathering in the hall faded as the door swung shut behind her. Poppy breathed in the fragrant air of the little garden, smiling faintly as she recognized the scents of elfroot, embrium, Crystal Grace, even the dank tang of deep mushroom. Xena's little herb garden was coming along very well, it seemed. She stepped across the cloister, resting her temple against the cool stone of the uprights, one arm wrapped about the narrow column. Nerves flickered in her belly - would she be all he remembered? Was she good enough? Would he even bother to follow her out here?

The noise from the hall swelled for a moment at her back - she started to turn - and Cullen was there, arms reaching for her, mouth hungry for more of the kisses they had been denied for far too long. She couldn't help giggling into the first of those kisses, feeling his lips curve in an answering smile lost in the heady rush of knowing that this was what she had been missing all these years. The safety, the warmth, the love that Cullen could envelop her in with just a kiss filled a hole in her heart she had been nursing since the last time he had been able to touch her.

Bare hands skimmed her sides, kneading, holding, one smoothing down over her hip to pull her ever closer, the other diving into the fall of her hair, cradling her head in his palm as her hands passed restlessly up and down his back. No armor tonight, for either of them - simple jerkin and shirt for the Commander of the Inquisition, never before seen without his plate and mantle by the eager nobles until this night. But he wasn't the Commander of the Inquisition, not here, not now. He was Cullen, her Cullen, and the woman in his arms wasn't Lady Hawke, wasn't the Champion, wasn't even the consultant helping the Inquisition with the Warden problem - she was Poppy. For the first time in a very long time, she was simply Poppy.

Stone pressed against her back as he surged forward, pinning her there quite literally between rock and a hard place, filling her mouth with his soft groan at the gentle rake of her nails through his hair. She was vaguely aware of the rise in sound behind him, and an embarrassed female voice stuttering out an apology for interrupting as he drew back from her in frustration. She caught a glimpse of Chantry robes disappearing back into the Great Hall, unable to keep herself from snorting with laughter at being interrupted again.

Cullen's frown smoothed away as he looked at her, slowly relaxing into a smile of his own as they leaned into each other in the moonslight.

"I think it's time we found a little privacy, don't you?" she murmured, tracing a fingertip along the stubbled line of his jaw.

"Maker, yes," was his fervent reply, drawing another laugh from her as she pressed a quick kiss to his lips.

She pushed him back, claimed his hand in her own, guiding him quickly away from that access way toward a door set into the outer wall of the castle. Skyhold was enormous, there was no doubting that - plenty of space for visitors and inhabitants alike - but she had been given a room beneath the Inquisitor's rooms in the tower, with a wide window that overlooked the bailey of the keep. It was a great honor, of course, to be quartered all but with the Inquisitor, but right now, Poppy was more frustrated with the sheer number of stairs required to reach the appropriate level. It was very difficult to force herself to keep going with Cullen walking close to her back, the hand she hadn't claimed brushing hungrily over her side and hip as though he couldn't bear to stop touching.

In the darkness of the hallway, she fumbled with the door handle, loosing a breathless whimper as his lips found her throat, seeking out the sensitive dip behind her jaw that he knew would turn her to water in his grasp. The door came open, and she stumbled forward, released from his arms to turn back and watch as he closed and locked the door, turning to her with predatory tenderness in his gaze. And she didn't care. For the first time in a long time, she was glad to be the prey, glad to be caught and kissed and touched, reminded all over again that this was where she should be, this was where she should have stayed. She loved him.

It could have been hours later, it could have been moments, but the moons soon shone through the window on rumpled sheets and bare skin, on limbs tangled together without any wish to separate. Poppy lay on her side, facing Cullen, her fingertip teasing gently up and down a new scar on his chest; his fingers pushing through her hair to trail down her back as he brushed kiss after soft kiss to her lips.

"You look good," she murmured to him in the darkness. "Not so haggard. Not so driven. Apart from this -"

Her hand rose, gently touching the pad of her thumb to the groove between his brows, proof that a frown lived there more often than not. He, predictably enough, frowned at the touch, eyes tilting upward for a brief moment before returning to her own.

"I have headaches," he admitted quietly.

"I thought you had good supply lines here," Poppy queried in a soft voice. "Surely you're not low on lyrium?"

Cullen grimaced, a flicker of that old awkwardness touching his expression as he sighed. His hand covered her, drawing her palm to his mouth to press a hot kiss there.

"No, Poppy, I ... we have good supplies," he promised her. "I simply ... I haven't taken lyrium for over a year now, not since I left Kirkwall."

Horror flashed through her for a long moment - memories of Samson's hungry addiction, of Cullen's own descriptions of the templars in the infirmary at the Gallows when their reliance on lyrium had become too much. But no ... he wasn't raving. He wasn't haggard or grasping for something he couldn't have. He had made the decision himself. And she couldn't deny that it had done him so much good already. His flesh was warmer, pinker; his eyes, brighter; his mind just as sharp as it had been. He had not lost anything through this decision of his. Perhaps he could teach others to do the same, and finally break the Chantry's leash entirely.

"I wish I had been there to help you," she whispered tenderly, drawing her fingers along his cheek as his hand returned to her back, encircling her in his embrace once again. "I'm so proud of the man you've become, Cullen."

He shook his head, a deprecating smile touching his lips - lopsided, thanks to the scar Alex had branded him with years ago.

"You made me the man I am, Poppy," he murmured back to her. "Even without you there to hold me to account, I have spent years wondering what you would do. I have tried to live my life the way you would want me to. I turned a blind eye to too much in Kirkwall; I allowed too many abuses, too much misery, to fester and bloom under my hand, just because I refused to let go of my own anger. I'm still angry, Poppy. But I won't let it blind me again."

She smiled sadly, knowing he had been through too much to ever let some of it go, shifting closer to touch her lips to his brow as his hands tightened on her once more, gathering his cheek to her breast, lowering her head, curling to wrap him close and stroke his hair, letting him listen to the beat of her heart as he had done so many times before.

"I will never leave you again," she whispered into the darkness. "Let the world find another Champion. I've found where I belong."

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Spring 2018 Honor Roll

NATCHITOCHES – One thousand and ten students were named to the Spring 2018 Honor Roll at Northwestern State University. Students on the Honor Roll earned a grade point average of between 3.0 and 3.49. Those named to the Honor Roll listed by hometown are as follows.

Abbeville -- Kyle Baudoin;

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland -- Adrian Borel;

Atlanta -- Jamie Wagley;

Alexandria -- Raven Adams, Iris Barrera, Samantha Bergeron, Ariyanna Bonton, John, Jasmine Brown, Kayla Busby, Keana Byone, Joshua Cain, Alyssa Carpenter, Brandy Danzy, Josyf Das Neves, Anne David, Joshua Dorsey, Tai Fletcher, Bailey Gaspard, Mallory Halford, Adrienne Jett, Jasmine Johnson, Tadriel Jones, Leslie Katz, Dean Mayeux, Claudine McGlory, Olivia Mosley, Deasheneire Payne, Kellie Pebbles, Madeline Pharis, Ragan Richey, Imani Ricks, Kenya Sariale, Nadage Scott, Taijha Silas, Carlos Sykes, Payton Tassin, Alexander Trotter, Hailey Urena, William Welch, Tashiana Whitehead, Elaina Williams;

Anacoco -- Ryan Blanton, Alysia Copen, Shelby Mcelveen, Jason Ortiz, Ireland Slocum, Tyler Stephens, Erica Wade, Cameron, Emily Williams;

Arabi -- Cursten Smith;

Arnaudville -- Ariana Broussard, Bailey Dautreuil;

Athens -- Ryan Carroway;

Atlanta, Georgia -- Tremayne Flagler;

Atlanta -- Jackson Teal, Kara Teddlie;

Ball -- Brittany Breland, Katherine Cohenour, TyKiera Fikes, Kaitlyn Humphries, Will Salinas;

Barksdale AFB -- Aleigh Rosenberry, Kimberly Ventura Gonzalez;

Bastrop -- Kayla Bonner, Haleigh Irby;

Baton Rouge -- Aubrey Barrett, Rosa Campbell, Coe Castello, Marquise Foster, Cameron Hooper, Ethan Johnson, Syera Lane, Daniel Midyett, Rachel Monsour, Victoria Simmons, Julia Soileau, Jordan Williams;

Beaumont, Texas -- Christian Bluiett;

Belcher -- Jessica Herbert;

Belle Chasse -- Hayley Barbazon, Denim Reeves;

Belmont -- Ashley Hill;

Ben Wheeler, Texas -- Cheyenne Brown;

Bentley -- Joshua Ellis, Heather Jones;

Benton -- Ali Hedgepeth, Elizabeth Jones, Abigail Lauterbach, Jackson Mathews, Blaine Reeder, Maegan Ross, Hannah Schott, Audrey Trujillo;

Berwick -- Brittany Vidos;

Bethany -- Emily Lafitte;

Blanchard -- Carrie Johnson;

Blue Ridge, Texas -- Amber Bishop;

Bogalusa -- Brittany Galloway;

Bossier City -- Austin Averitt, Adriana Avie, Colton Bailey, Ashley Bennett, Leah Benoit, Jontil Benson, Mickayla Blue, Alexandra Borrmann, Kayli Brewer, Alexander Brooks, Courtney Brooks, Takeynea Brown, Mckay Crews, Karla Cruz, Marda David, Jordan Davis, Kasey Dice, Kelly Flores, Courtney Giddens, Sydney Gootee, Jacob Hammons, Adrianne Hampton, Asylynn Henderson, Angelo Hurtado, Haley Joncas, Emily Larosee, Mikayla Lehane, Savannah Lewwe, Rance Mason, Claire McMillan, Michelle Moline, Brittany Morris, Reondrick Owens, Michael Phelps, Khayla Pugh, Nigmeh Rahman, Sierra Richard, Johnathon Schluter, Sydney Shannon, Allisyn Steele, Crystal Tuggle, Tomaya Turner, Jacory Williams;

Boutte -- Jose Del Rio;

Boyce -- Hannah Aslin, Seth Baggett, Brooklynn Basco, Devin Hilliard, Amanda Land, Lizabeth Lee, Eli Maffioli, Alexandra Morgan;

Breaux Bridge -- Braylon Daigle;

Brookland, Texas -- Paige West;

Brownsboro, Texas -- Brice Borgeson;

Brusly -- Dominique Bennett, Emma Wallace;

Bunkie -- Kelsey Coulon, Haley Laprairie;

Bush -- Serena Bonnette;

Calhoun -- Marissa Barentine;

Callisburg, Texas -- Maycy English;

Calvin -- Erin Price;

Campti -- Zachary Friday, Dalton Parker, Donta' Turner;

Carencro -- Jhonae Thibodeaux, Harold Williams;

Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia -- Sebastian Alfaro Fontalvo, Edwin Castro Frias, Valeria Correa Meza, Victor Lopez Ramos, Jair Morelos Castilla, Cristian Paez Geney, Alejandro Restrepo Cardozo, Alejandro Dager Carrasquilla, Veronica Perez Espinosa;

Carthage, Illinois -- Nicole Clark;

Carville -- Megan Tallo;

Castor -- Loxlie Dodd, Hogan Nealy, Kaycee Collinsworth;

Central -- Hayley Tarver;

Cheneyville -- Laiken Haggart;

Chesapeake, Virginia -- Chandler Monk;

Choudrant -- Krislyn Mardis;

Church Point -- Meghan Bearb, Hayden Bourgeois, Kristian Burrow;

Clarence -- Jalicia Small;

Clifton -- Alaina Smith;

Cloutierville -- LaKrisha Burrell;

Colfax -- Mikayla Richardson;

Colleyville, Texas -- David Fry;

Columbus, Georgia -- Jonathan Williams;

Columbus, Mississippi -- William Taylor;

Conroe, Texas – Zachary Krolczyk;

Converse -- Corey Dixon, Kimberly Dobbs, Victoria Gasper, Jared Jagneaux, Noah Sepulvado, Delia Smith, Triston Waldon;

Copperas Cove, Texas -- Patrick Murphy;

Corsicana, Texas -- Sasha Ballard;

Cotton Valley -- Nicholas Smith;

Cottonport -- Shelie Canoe, Brikeysha Duskin;

Coushatta -- Kori Allen, Elizabeth Cummins, William Jordan, William Lee, Aston Lester, Amey Sepulvado, Mikailah Smith;

Covington -- Rachelle Baham, Kayla Keys, Marissa Rogers, Alina Smith, Crystal Tucker;

Dallas, Texas -- Tiffany Calhoun, Blayne Fugere, Amy Renteria;

DeBerry, Texas -- Jonathan Morris;

Delhi -- Ashley May, Saniah Parker, Jasmine Poe;

Denham Springs -- Ross Dougherty, Lenni Kunert, Brandi Robertson;

DeQuincy -- Hayden Robertson;

DeRidder -- Samantha Barr, Breanne Brauer, Sheridan Douglas, Bobby Guichet, Genna Higginbotham, Mckynzi Hill, Kenyon Johnson, Christa Mccormick, Jessica McManus, Ashley Miller, Julie Ramos, Shynikia Roberson, Shynikia Roberson, Scott Stearns, Emma-Leigh Webster, Mandy Wilson, Ashley Wisthoff, Tyler Wright;

Deville -- Joni Burlew, Kayla Dewilde, Colton Johnson, Ashtyn Knapp, Jordan Paul, Marcia Rogers, Haley Spilker, Destiny Zito;

Dobson -- Melanie Thomas;

Downsville -- Abby Fordham;

Dry Prong -- Cobi Bolen, William Bordelon, Ariana Christopher, Taylor Kight, Ethan Lewis, Jared Price, Lindsey Weatherford;

Duson -- Desmond Prejean;

Effie -- Hailee Kyrou;

Elizabeth -- Sadie Perkins;

Elm Grove -- Jacob Dunn;

Elmer -- Garrett Holt, Brennan Mays;

Elton -- Maia Lacomb;

Erath -- Elizabeth Touchet;

Evans -- Lakin Smith;

Evergreen -- Miracle Oby;

Farmerville -- Julia Legrande;

Flatwoods -- Jennifer Desselle, Jasmine George, Lindsey Willis, Stephanie Willis;

Florien -- Hillary Charles, Jennifer Cotten, Cullen Hopkins, Tyler Johnson, Elizabeth Squillini, Jordan Weldon;

Folsom-- Alma Diaz, Shaylee Laird;

Forest Hill -- Rachel Humphries, Claudia Marie Musgrove;

Forrest City, Arkansas -- Michael Mcgruder;

Fort Belvoir, Virginia -- Quindarrius Thompson;

Fort Polk -- Jamie Curtis, Amanda Dhondt, Laura Gee, Amanda Kuhn, Jennifer Lara, Donna Mareeh Milsap, Stephanie Reid, Desirah Ritchie, Genesis Rondon Torres, Jeffrey Ruiz, Jenna Silvius;

Forth Worth, Texas -- Jessica Sharp;

Franklin -- Zabreana Daniels, Jalena Kelly;

Franklinton -- Aron Stephens;

Fresno, Texas -- Shalandrea Martin;

Friendswood, Texas -- Malik Sonnier;

Frierson -- Austin Barnes, Nicholas Parham;

Gadsden, Alabama -- Damian Thompson;

Garland, Texas -- Adriana Velarde;

Geismer -- Brenna LeGlue;

Georgetown, Indiana -- Ellisa Rof;

Gibsland -- Madison Shidiskis;

Glenmora -- Eric Baker, Tiara Baker, Bailey Johnson;

Gloster -- Jennifer Simmons;

Gonzales -- Jennifer Enloe, Courtney LeJeune, Corley Payne;

Grand Cane -- Kayden Booker, Brittney Cross, Brittany Davies, Ciana Mcintyre, Brittany Miller, Emily Miller;

Grand Prairie, Texas -- Charles Harris, Kori Levingston;

Granite City Illinois -- Megan Obrien;

Gray -- Triston Johnson, Austin Pierre;

Greenwood -- Rachel Hermes;

Gretna -- Brandi Bealer, MyDung Hoang, Trinity Velazquez;

Guston, Kentucky -- Shelbie Jantzen;

Hahnville -- Imani Butler;

Halifax, Virginia -- Kyle Lacks;

Hall Summit -- Ashley-Kate McNatt;

Hammond – Raqual Cockerham, Laura Sharp, William Woodworth;

Harvey -- Jesse Coats, Tyrone Johnson;

Haughton -- Kelsy Baker, Bailey Boyd, Darius Brock, Arneshia Brooks, Payton Curry, Haylee Douglass, Makayla Feibel, Shelby Grubbs, Daniel Langen, Alyssia Mobley, Angie Nguyen, Hannah Robertson, Hunter Woods,

Haynesville -- Destiny Burns, Trenton Franklin;

Heflin -- Kendall Brunson, Haley Shepherd, Rachael Vickers;

Henderson, Texas -- Christina Marie Colley;

Hessmer -- Ryan Armand, Daren Dauzat;

Hineston -- Victoria Carroll;

Homer -- Amberly Banks, Shannon Rhodes, Lakota Smith,

Hornbeck -- Erin Gentry, Joshua Hughes, Logan Hughes, Haley Killian, Megan Martelle, Ariel Rodgers,

Hosston -- Kylie Moore;

Houma -- Gavin Bergeron, Courtney Chancellor, Kyle Siddle;

Houston, Texas -- Alexander Allen, Bruce Beth, Julio Galvan, Rashuad Powell, Crystal Turner;

Ida -- Genesis Thomas;

Jamestown -- Ieshia Thomas;

Jeanerette -- Kennedi Boutte, Mary Rochon;

Jefferson -- Emily Ricalde;

Jena -- Braegan Burlew, Candace Decker, Erica Hebert, Lakerielle Kittlin;

Jennings -- Ashton St. Germain;

Jonesboro -- JaVonna Lawrence, Tia Moore;

Jonesville -- Julie Odom, Erin Wiley;

Kalaupapa, Hawaii -- Kamamalu Nishihira-Asuncion;

Keithville -- Laurilyn Crossland, Mary-Kathryn Fuller, Taylor Hughes, Latavein Kennedy, Jerry Parks, Taylor Rose;

Kenner -- Shannon Drake;

Kerens, Texas -- Cody James;

Kilgore, Texas -- Jonathan Hubbard;

Kinder -- Kelsey Frank, Katharyn Hebert, Nicholas Moldovsky;

Kingwood, Texas -- Alexandria Bailey;

Klamath Falls, Oregon -- Bradley Baker;

Labadieville -- Logan Simoneaux;

Lacombe -- Casey Casler;

Lafayette -- Hayley Aymond, Luther Brooks, Sasskia Chassion, Oliver Conday, Adele Hebert, Tyler Jones, Hudson Laborde, Robert Middleton, Josef Raines, Dhaija Smith, Stuart Suffern, Hannah Travis;

Lake Charles -- Jennifer Arabie, Landon Dore, Anna Eaglin, Daryan Gibson, Brandi Hansard, Kateen Hilliard, Maysen Linscomb, Savanah Moses, Michael Thomas, Destany Washington, Laura Wilkins;

Lake Providence -- Lakarven Pitts;

Laplace -- Melvin Bates, Darian Cline;

Larose -- Peyton Guidry;

League City, Texas -- Lacee Savage;

Leander -- Karissa Boswell;

Lecompte -- Ikeia Johnson, Hannah McCann;

Leesville -- Heather Alexander, Jebediah Barrett, Katrina Brinson, Damion Brown, Rachal Brown, Jonathan Bruce, Victoria Carbaugh, Jacob Cart, Brandon Fredieu, Beatrice Green, Robert Green, Cheyenne Grigg, Morgan Hall, Brianna Harperhoward, Britney Harvey, Taylor Helton, Angelica Hilton, Meghan Jones, Lane Koury, Constance McManus, Stephanie Miller, Miranda Mize, Taylor Newman, Brittany Paris, Pete Rodriguez, Cesar Santos, Brandy Sherman, Marissa Skursky, Joseph Slaughter, Payton Soto, Britnie Stroud, Marissa Weldon, Lana West, Chyla Winslow, Cheyene Wise, Jacqueline Young, Michael Zschach;

Lena -- Kamryn Glenn, Justin Williams;

Lettsworth -- Landon Benton;

Libuse -- Alysia Hawthorne;

Lillie – Jesikah Ford;

Little Elm, Texas -- Hunter Gagnon, Kaitlyn McCullough;

Livingston -- Cody Cambre, Chase Crane;

Lockport -- Malaina Falgout;

Logansport -- Charles McClintock, Jessica Thompson;

Lone Oak, Texas -- Kaylee Isenburg;

Longview, Texas -- Deja Moore, Travis Pope;

Loreauville -- Tiffany Trahan;

Luling -- Macie Barrios;

Machesney Park, Illinois -- Alicia Teran;

Madisonville -- Zoe Almaraz, Sarahjane Ladut;

Mandeville -- Maci Burt, Anthony Pastorello, Hunter Swent;

Mansfield -- Rowdy Burleson, DeAsia Maxie, James Sowell, Markeit Steverson, Devin Vanwinkle, Stanley Woodley;

Mansura -- Beau Barbry, Cori Hayes, Magen Hegger, Adrienne Prevost;

Many -- Chancee Branam, Salvador Cruz Montellano, Destinee Dowden, Kelsi Horn, Clayton Kelley, Ashley Lafitte, Mayci Lewis, Chase Manning, Adina Manshack, Johnathan Medine, Chelsea Parrie, Andrew Penfield, Anna Porterfield, Lisa Scott, Hannah Webb;

Marksville -- Regan Balius, Javoanta Batiste, Aaron Bergeron, Leah Dupuy, April Gaspard, Olivia Johnson, Makayla Laborde, Sara Lambert, Shelby Lemoine, Victoria Lucas, Jessie Negrotto, Paulette Thomas;

Marrero -- Tara Brown, Lorena Martin;

Marshall, Texas -- Alexis Balbuena, Matayzsha Dorsey, Abagale Godfrey, Khari Jenkins, Michelle Sarubbi, Sydney Swilley;

Marthaville -- Dylan Daniels, Erica James, Thomas Lirette, Kendrick Moore;

Maurice -- Adele Vincent;

McKinney, Texas -- Jasmine Dansby, Tyler Gatewood;

Melville -- Alexis Barker;

Mer Rouge -- Tequilla Winston;

Meridian, Mississippi -- Reed Michel;

Merryville -- Kyleah Franks;

Mesquite, Texas -- Kaleb Fletcher;

Midland, Texas -- Channing Burleson;

Midlothian, Illinois -- Daniel Hlad;

Minden -- Peyton Gray, Chelsey Harper, Lauren Holland, Donna Law, Jerryca Law, Rakeem Moore, Jesse Seymore, Lamonica Smith;

Monroe -- Caroline Aydelott, Trinity Butcher, PetraAnne Carpenter, Ty'Esha Coleman, Jaquita Davis, Taylor Edwards, Breonna Gibson, Parron Jones, Ashley Murphy, Tia Smith, Skylar Sorrell, Treniya Wadley, Ronnie Wells, Asia West, TaMya Williams, Gail Wilson;

Montegut -- Nicole Cohen, Megan Pellegrin;

Montgomery -- Miranda Bartlett, Morgan Bartlett, Tyler Cotten, Logan Lambert, Morgan McManus, Hannah Vercher;

Mooringsport -- Jo Anna Fisher;

Moreauville -- Reginea Alexander;

Murrieta, California -- Brittany Caserma;

Natchez -- Shaneda Armstrong, Brandi Carpenter, Jackson Carroll, Deshon Ficklin, James Rougeou, Brittany Slaughter;

Natchez, Mississippi -- Henry Cooley;

Natchitoches -- Shelton Adams, Ariel Adkins, Austin Aldredge, Daniella Angulo Martinez, Kayla Arnold, Abbie Atwood, Thomas Balthazar, James Bankston, Ramon Barralaga, Jacob Bartels, Terrius Bell, Allison Berry, Megan Berry, Christopher Billiot, Janieya Bobb, Keaton Booker, Andrew Boyd, Samantha Broughton, Keyana Brown, Morgan Burris, Kezia Butler, Thomas Celles, Halley Chapa, Kaleb Chesser, Lane Clevenger, Jacob Dahoff, Kenneth Darcy, Ajeahnell Dempsey, Chasity Dupree, Eric Fredieu, Matthew Gallien, Jasmine Hall, Rodney Harrison, Tyler Henry, Saul Hernandez, Jared Hulsey, Maina Ibn Mohammed, Retsel Jackson, Michael James, Anthony Jones, Casey Jones, Hannah Jones, Haley LaCaze, Cristofer Larcarte, Tarah Lott, Alyssa Martin, Madelyn Matt, Andrew McAlister, Melonia McDaniel, Amanda Metoyer, Jasmine Milsap, Joshua Minor, Samantha Muncey, Donovan Ohnoutka, Chaka Palm, Zachary Parker, Kenneth Penrod, Meredith Phelps, Michael Raymond, RaeGan Rogers, Paula Sanchez Luna, Emily Sitarz, Athena Smith, Rachel Smith, Shannon Smith, Skyler Speer, Hollie Spillman, Cierra Stephens, Blake Teekell, Alexander Thibodeau, Rebecca Thomisee, Angelo Vergara Otero, Garrett Vienne, Huey Virece, Naloni Walker, Brianna Watermolen, Anna Waxley, Leah Wilkins, John Williams, Lanae Wilson, Laurence Wynder, Ashtin Youngblood;

Navasota, Texas -- Shelton Eppler;

New Iberia -- Courtney Cotone, Shania Dauterive, Madison Romero, Kira Tobias, Madison Willett;

New Llano -- Undrea Beasley, Deja Castille, Tristan Thorman, Alyssa Turner;

New Orleans – Nyasha Brown, Maya Dolliole, Felicia Franklin, Taylor Gibbs, Karrington Johnson, Trevor Morgan, Jonae Skinner, Rishard Winford;

New Roads -- Landry Davis;

Newllton -- Chasity Glasspoole,

Noble -- Joshua Ray, Thomas Rivers,

North Richland Hills, Texas -- Cody Germany,

Oak Grove -- Tonya Creech;

Oak Hill, West Virginia -- Jessica Limer;

Oakdale -- Clayton Ashworth, Tia Dixon, James Obrien;

Oberlin -- Morgan Gradney;

Oil City -- Chaddrick Thomas;

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Jasmine Juarez;

Olympia, Washington -- Kimberly Delatorre;

Opelousas -- Caleb Allen, Keylee Boone, Matthew Collins, Kelsey Gallow, Haley George, Kayla Pitre, Sydney Stewart;

Orange Beach, Alabama -- Elizabeth Gilliam;

Otis -- Joshua Poston;

Oxnard, California -- Kateen Starman;

Paincourtville -- Hannah Brister;

Palmetto -- Destiny Celestine;

Panama City, Florida -- Adam Normand;

Paradis -- Kaitlyn Dunn;

Parma -- Tracy Hromadka;

Pearl River -- Joseph Lagreco;

Pineville -- Emily Bordelon, Victoria Bordelon, Latasha Cain, Jasmine, KataraRiana Clark, Payten Collins, LaShundra Duncan-Williams, Selena Ferguson, Katelan Gossett, Trey Joseph, Cedrick Lott, Sonya McClellan, Shaqunda Peters, Victoria Peterson, Bonni Rayburn, Glynn Sillavan, Courtney Squyres, Micah StAndre, Emily Wiley;

Pioneer -- Kayla Rockett;

Pitkin -- Preston Brown, Braydon Doyle, Jayce Doyle;

Plain Dealing -- Ja'Mela Williams;

Plaucheville -- Hailey Brouillette, Rachael Martin, Philip Pepiton, Brittany Taylor;

Pleasant Hill -- Montana Binning, Makenzi Patrick;

Pollock -- Allie Frost, Whitney Jenkins, Kari Taffi;

Port Allen -- Evan Daigle;

Port Barre -- Skylar Guidroz;

Prairieville -- Hannah Beason, Otha Nelson, Jacob Townsend, Mikayla Tudor;

Princeton -- Keeleigh Bennett, Chelsea Morris, Katelyn Nattin, Ty Shilling;

Princeton, New Jersey – Hannah Bradley;

Prosper -- Gabriella Gamboa;

Provencal – Carson Custis, Katlynn French, Jamie Litton, Taylor Trichel;

Rayne -- Mary Peltier;

Reno, Nevada -- Olivia Marazzo;

Richfield, Minnesota -- Leah Barnes;

Ringgold -- Joseph Hays, Kylee Love;

River Ridge -- Rachel Chimeno, Toni Hebert;

Robbinsdale, Minnesota -- Rachel Stoks;

Robeline -- Arica Ammons, Jonathan Comeaux, Willie Garcia, Patricia Goodwin, Hannah Hennigan, Kristal Lachney, Mallary Lester, Alyssa Maley, Megan Maley, Courtney Rachal, Madelyn Rachal, Morgan Rachal, Fawn Slaughter;

Rock Falls, Illinois -- Cody Donoho;

Rosepine -- Emilee Johnson, Jamie Nelson;

Ruston -- Stormy Dickey, Phynecha Richard, Lara Schales;

Saint Amant -- Kylie Nix;

Saint Cloud, Florida -- Sage Leffew;

Saint Francisville -- Ryan Reed;

Saint Martinville -- Emily Guidry, Chaselyn Lewis;

Saline -- Makayla Jackson, Aaron Savell;

San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras -- Jose Bustillo Aguero;

Sarepta -- Katie Ingle;

Savannah Georgia -- Larry Johnson;

Shreveport -- Tiara Anderson, Keyln Andrews, James Baldwin, ShyMiracle Ball, Desean Britton, Rachael Bryant, Breonnica Collins, Madison Connella, Audrey Copeland, Daniel Crews, Hannah Crnkovic, Taylor Davis, Kevin Denks, Zandria Douglas, Chenara Dredden, Lauren Edwards, Keiauna Evans, Meghan Fry, Lauren Gabour, Tyler Gardner, Cassidy Giddens, Rebecca Gilcrease, Savon Gipson, Andrell Green, Ricci Haltom, Jaimee Henderson, Monica Holloway, Kimberly Housley, Meghan Jelks, Drake Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Ainsley Johnson-Braden, Bethany Jones, Quanese Jones-Young, Haley Joyner, Luis Juneau, Colton Kennedy, Tradeya King, Mallory LaLena, Princess Lane, Shermaria Lewis, Rukiya Lewis, Katherine Lind, Jakobi Malone, Alexis Mason, Kristen Massinburg, Mozell Mcduffy, Janna Mclellan, Samantha Metoyer, Alison Mitchell, Myles Mitchell, Dylan Molenhour, Shanautica Montgomery, Terrye Moore, Maria Moreno Ponte, Ellison Mullen, Hillary Nicholls, Karina Pena Morla, Elizabeth Peterson, Patrick Pierce, Dalton Randolph, Nahjee Reid, Mollie Reynolds, Carribean Richardson, Jasmine Roberts, Savonya Robinson, Chekayah Samuel, Jasmin Samuels, Zachary Sanders, Fredricka Seawood, Latrice Smith, Chaniqua Smith, Vincent Spinks, Asia Stevens, Keyaunta Stewart, Jordan Taylor, Shakari Taylor, Rodnisha Terry, Angela Thomas, Gabrielle Thomas, Ashlea Trosclair, Rhiannon Venable, Isabella Vines, Earnestine Walker, Gia-Caroline Weber, Kristin Welch, Charity Wesley, Victoria Whaley, Crystal Williams, Destiney Williams, Lajayda Williams, Shamolia Williams, Tre'Darius Williams, DeShaun Wilson, Ansonia Wisner;

Sibley -- Madison Mouser;

Sicily Island -- Jalisa Johnson;

Sieper -- Alexis Williams;

Silsbee, Texas -- Carson Fuller;

Simmesport -- Olivia Draper, Elise Normand;

Simpson -- Christina Snider, Carleigh Standifer;

Slidell -- Juliana Garcia, Whitney Legier, Cameron May;

Spring, Texas -- Madelyne Mangum;

Springfield -- Brian Pickett, Tyler Pigott;

St. Martinville -- Asi Gachassin, Maleik White,

Starks -- Melina Royer;

Stephenville, Texas -- Natalie Damron;

Stonewall -- Alexandria Cole, Emma Delafield, Mallory McConathy, Stephanie Parker, Heather Schiller, Spencer Tatum;

Sugartown -- Madison Budnik;

Sulphur -- Madeline Fortenberry, Trevor Molitor, Shelby Sullivan;

Tallulah -- Christian Cobb;

Tatum, Texas -- LeAndrea Allison;

Terrytown -- Katlynn Klein;

Texarkana, Texas -- Sydney Cowgill, Miles Powell;

Thibodaux -- Gabrielle Dantoni, Cierra Winch;

Tioga -- Lorali Hebert;

Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania -- Brianna Morosco;

Tomball, Texas -- Cylandria Clemons;

Tool, Texas -- Kimberly Kidney;

Trout -- Harley Lisenby, Andrea Walters, Garett Walters;

Vidalia -- Evandria King;

Ville Platte -- Tre Fontenot;

Vinton -- Autumn Hanks, Madison Zaunbrecher;

Washington -- Kyeishia Evans, I Ambrieanna Lazard;

Waskom, Texas -- Mary Alexander, Colton McCracken, Jonas Richardson;

Waynesboro, Mississippi -- David Hodo;

Welsh -- Alisha Ledoux, Katherine Salassi;

West Monroe – Taylor Cox, Aubrey Gamble, Bailey Hargrove, Tyler Hortman, Rachel Simpson, Melissa Taylor, Christopher Wynn;

White Castle -- Kiosha Elzy;

Winnfield -- Mia County, LaTerrion Green, Saquan Jenkins, Brooklyn Johnson, Morgan Martinez, George Parish, Trakita Rainwater, Chinna Thompson;

Winnsboro -- Samira Wiley;

Wisner -- Jordan Price;

Woodworth -- Ashley Ortiz;

Yigo, GU -- Mary Szabo;

Youngsville -- Devin Forestier, Lorin Prejean;

Zachary -- Darryl Anderson, Alyse Quebedeaux, Alaijha Trim;

Zwolle -- Kamryn Bedsole, Dayton Craig, Cheyanne Ebarb, Addison Garcie, Emmalee Lewing, Ethan Morgan, Deidre Rivers, Chyna Sepulvado, Rylea Sepulvado.

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