6/27/2023 0 Comments Bloodwitch the witchlands![]() ![]() ![]() Readers are in for a treat as more of the world is explored and Dennard continues to dazzle with nonstop action, beautifully crafted characterization and stunning prose. "The Witchlands series is back with higher stakes, new tricks and a deeper dive into this already epic world. It’s so good it’s intimidating.”-Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red QueenĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. But to do so, he must confront his own father, and his past. ![]() Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling, young adult epic fantasy Witchlands series continues with the story of the Bloodwitch Aeduan.Īeduan has teamed up with the Threadwitch Iseult and the magical girl Owl to stop a bloodthirsty horde of raiders preparing to destroy a monastery that holds more than just faith. ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames![]() My back was pressed against the pitted stone legs of an angel in the shadow of an old-money crypt, all cool marble and arching columns. It was the first day of summer vacation, and the sun was already baking the dew off the grass. I sat in the graveyard waiting for Nina, drinking a slushie and sketching. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is why the girls decide to enter the mine themselves. And no matter how many vans of ghost hunters roll through, nobody can get to the bottom of what’s really going on. The people of New Basin start experiencing strange phenomena-sleepwalking, night terrors, voices that only they can hear. Their circle opens up for a strange girl named Lisey with a knack for training crows, and Piper, whose father is fascinated with the mine in a way that’s anything but ordinary. The ex-mining town relies on its haunted reputation to bring in tourists, but there’s more truth to the rumors than most are willing to admit, and the mine still has a hold on everyone who lives there.Ĭlem and Nina form a perfect loop-best friends forever, and perhaps something more. But life in New Basin is just as fraught. The disaster made it impossible to live in town, with underground fires spewing ash into the sky. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. Debut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Sawkill Girls. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Original casino royale bond![]() Feldman acquired the rights to Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale but couldn’t bring it into production before the first Eon Productions screen adaptation of a Bond novel in 1962. ![]() The production history sheds some light on the disaster. And yet, in spite of the sheer abundance, the only things one takes away from the film are a few moments of mild amusement and lasting bewilderment. The picture boasts at least five directors (one of them being the esteemed John Huston), a star-studded ensemble cast (including Peter Sellers, David Niven, original Bond girl Ursula Andress, the great Orson Welles, and even a young Woody Allen), elaborate sets (there’s a British country manor, a Scottish castle, an Indian palace, a German Expressionist West Berlin spy school, and, of course, the deluxe casino of the title), and a variety of lavish costumes (Sellers even models a few at one point). It’s as if someone had feasted on a cornucopia of cinema and then promptly threw it all up on screen, everything disfigured yet still retaining discernable shapes. ![]() I never knew what was going on anyways.)ġ967’s Casino Royale is a majestically bad film. Spoiler alert! This review gives away the identity of the main villain. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, Kalb writes with an unusual storytelling style filled with a blend of emotions. Another appeal is what you learn about a slice of history through the recollections. Part of its charm comes from the precise memories Kalb chooses to write about and the way these two women of different generations adored each other. ![]() It’s the kind of book that sneaks up on you, the story of the tender and fierce relationship between Kalb and her grandmother. This book was a surprise I stumbled upon it online and ordered it in hardback from a bookstore. One of the books I’ve enjoyed most during pandemic reading is “No One Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story,” a memoir by Bess Kalb. The next book in the Clara Jefferies series, “Her Final Prayer,” will be out Oct. To celebrate the series’ start, the e-book version of “The Fallen Girls” is available for 99 cents on such sites as Amazon, Apple Books and BN.com. As she investigates, Clara is forced to confront her own painful past and the horrors that once sent her fleeing Alber in fear for her life. To save her sister, Clara returns to Alber, Utah, a cultish enclave high in the mountains, and finds a town torn apart, her family in tatters, and a people still attempting to separate themselves from the outside world. Shockingly, no one is cooperating with law enforcement, not even Clara's family. A friend explains that Clara's 12-year-old half-sister, Delilah, has gone missing. Late one evening, Detective Clara Jefferies' phone rings on her desk at the Dallas Police Department. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper![]() ![]() By turns jubilant and moving, it’s a memoir for anybody who’s ever fallen completely and helplessly in love with a pet. It celebrates the refusal to accept limits-on love, ability, or hope against overwhelming odds. Homer’s Odyssey is the once-in-a-lifetime story of an extraordinary cat and his human companion. And by the time she met the man she would marry, she realized Homer had taught her the most important lesson of all: Love isn’t something you see with your eyes. But it was Homer’s unswerving loyalty, his infinite capacity for love, and his joy in the face of all obstacles that inspired Gwen daily and transformed her life. ![]() He survived being trapped alone for days after 9/11 in an apartment near the World Trade Center, and even saved Gwen’s life when he chased off an intruder who broke into their home in the middle of the night. Homer scaled seven-foot bookcases with ease and leapt five feet into the air to catch flies in mid-buzz. But the kitten nobody believed in quickly grew into a three-pound dynamo, a tiny daredevil with a giant heart who eagerly made friends with every human who crossed his path. Everyone warned that Homer would always be an “underachiever,” never as playful or independent as other cats. Then Gwen’s veterinarian called with a story about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens. ![]() ![]() Hastings then offers this anecdote: "Mussolini's propaganda department in Rome made a film designed to demonstrate the superiority of fascist manhood. In one such case, he writes about how Italy was boastfully confident about its military prowess, but then lost a huge percentage of its military capacity during the North African campaign. He starts with a 10,000-foot descriptive overview, buttressed with statistics and other data, but then lasers in with a story that encapsulates his point. When Britain declared war two days after the invasion, Hastings describes how Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering phoned von Ribbentrop and ripped him a new one.)Hastings uses an effective system to make vivid and understandable points. (For example, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Germany's Ambassador to Britain, insisted to Hitler that Britain would not intervene if Germany invaded Poland. When the statesmen and generals are heard from, it is more in their human roles, not their official statuses. ![]() The book's readability is largely due to Hastings's inclusion of so many views from soldiers and civilians involved in the action. Max Hastings's impressive achievement here is that he has written such a readable one-volume study of the war. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Jack kerouac on the road 1957![]() ![]() Now, The Library of America collects On the Road together with four other autobiographical "road books" published during a remarkable four-year period. In his portrayal of the fervent relationship between the writer Sal Paradise and his outrageous, exasperating, and inimitable friend Dean Moriarty, Kerouac created one of the great friendships in American literature and his rendering of the cities and highways and wildernesses that his characters restlessly explore is a hallucinatory travelogue of a nation he both mourns and celebrates. The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'" Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop prosody," Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Lucca by Karen Michelle Nutt![]() His gaze landed first on a boy who was about nine or ten years old. One quick sweep, told him only two humans were in there. Dryers lined against two walls and the washers were down the middle of the room, eight in all, four in a row lined back to back. The white walls of the Laundromat made the place look large and clean. The scent couldn’t be laundry detergent, could it? If so, he wanted a bottle or two to take home. “Dear Lord.” The fragrance came from within the Laundromat. He inhaled again and his body shuddered with pleasure, his pulse quickening at the sensation that swamped his body. ![]() Lucca had passed by the shops of the strip mall, halting in front of the Laundromat. It's a race against time to find out who will end up with his soul. Only Juliet Romeo has a secret that will bring the wrath of Heaven down upon their heads. To make his life more complicated, he fears he found his soul mate in a human female. ![]() His estrange father resurfaces after centuries of being absent and he's brought a friend from Hell. ![]() Angels and demons demand he do their bidding. He'll either learn to respect his human side of existence or live out eternity trying. Banished for crimes against one of his fellow brethren, the elders bind his glamour and wings, casting him to the human's realm. Lucca Marlowe is half human, half angel, one of the Nephilim. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Forever... by Judy Blume![]() ![]() ![]() What taboo topics should we talk more about when it comes to aging? Your books cover topics pertaining to adolescence that feel very hush-hush. But you can’t go a whole day without one good thing happening.” And often there is that small good thing, no matter your age. Freedman as Herself), she would say: “So that’s the bad news, sweetie pie. When I told my grandmother something bad happened (I wrote this in Starring Sally J. Well, guess what? I’ve learned that this is your real life happening while you’re waiting. Yes, I am 85-woo-hoo! I remember talking with friends when we were much younger about when our real lives would begin and how we’d then be free to do this and enjoy that. Now I’ve decided to embrace it and enjoy it for as long as I can. ![]() ![]() I hate to disappoint them, but Margaret is always going to be 12.įirst I had to accept it. Then there are women who grew up with my books who want me to age Margaret. You can’t protect yourself from bad things happening. You can’t stop your parents from moving or splitting up. Being a child can be very hard-there’s so little you can control. It especially brings back the hard times. I think it’s because I represent their childhoods and meeting me brings it all back, not just for them but for me, too. I have a bookstore in Key West, and I work there three days a week, so I meet a lot of women who grew up with my books. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĭoes it surprise you that readers are so nostalgic for your books? ![]() ![]() ![]() La Pourpre et le Noir est un téléfilm américano-italo-britannique réalisé par Jerry London produit en 1983, d'après le roman historique de, Scarlet Pimpernel of The Vatican (1967).Unter dem Titel Der Priester und der Standartenführer wurde der Film 2012 erneut auf DVD veröffentlicht. Der Thriller entstand nach dem Buch Der Monsignore und der Standartenführer (Originaltitel: Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican) von. Im Wendekreis des Kreuzes ist ein britisch-US-amerikanischer Fernsehfilm aus dem Jahr 1983, dessen Handlung auf historischen Fakten beruht.Hlavní postavy ztvárnili Gregory Peck a Christopher Plummer. Námětem mu byla kniha, pojednávající o skutečné postavě monsignora O'Flahertyho, který za druhé světové války v Římě založil a řídil podzemní organizaci, která zachránila tisíce Židů a spojeneckých vojáků uprchlých ze zajetí před pronásledováním gestapem. The Scarlet and the Black) je americký válečný film z roku 1983. ![]() |