5/13/2023 0 Comments Secret admirer by rl stine![]() Of all her friends, he was the only one who still called Selena by her childhood nickname. Hey-you weren’t bad, Moon, Jake added, punching Selena lightly on the shoulder. Alison was pretty, with emerald eyes and long, straight black hair. ![]() ![]() The audience leapt to its feet, cheering loudly.Īll of these people came to see me, Selena thought in wonder. ![]() She joined hands with Alison Pearson and Jake Jacoby, and the line of actors-everyone in the play-bowed together. Then she straightened and turned to the other actors in the cast. She bowed deeply, her blond curls tumbling over her shoulders. Selena stepped to the front of the stage, smiling as she gazed out over the audience. Slowly the curtain came down, closing off the stage. He’ll never hurt you again." Selena Goodrich’s last words were almost a whisper. Someday I will be the only person in your audience. Though I see you every day, you don’t see me. Your blond hair is silvery like the moon’s rays.Įveryone admires you. Like the moon you are pale, beautiful, and mysterious. Then she stepped behind the door and waited. ![]() She tried not to hear the rhythmic sounds. She sat up in bed, her heart hammering in terror. She settled back on the bed, as lightning crashed and rain thundered against the Fear Street Woods behind her house.Īnd then she heard something over the noise of the storm. Maybe I should forget homework and go to bed early, she thought. A bolt of lightning sent long shadows across Selena’s room. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Resurrection bay novel![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. 'On par with some of the heavyweights of crime writing' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ![]() 'A plot-driven thriller that is not for the faint-hearted' - THE AGE 'Outstanding, gripping and violent' - GUARDIAN 'Grabs you by the throat and never slackens its hold' - CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, author of The Slap ![]() And the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets. And it's here he learns that everyone - including his murdered friend - is hiding something. Caleb and his business partner Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the victim texted to Caleb.īut chasing the elusive Scott leads them back to Caleb's hometown of Resurrection Bay. When his childhood friend is brutally murdered while helping him on an insurance case, Caleb vows to find the killer. WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD for Best First FictionĬaleb Zelic may be deaf, but he knows how to read people better than anyone. WINNER OF THREE DAVITT AWARDS: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut Book, Readers' Choice Award The multi-award-winning first novel in the Caleb Zelic series. Sometimes the smallest towns hide the darkest secrets. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Best larry mcmurtry books![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve always thought of Gus and Call as part of the “buddy cops” genre. The first is “ Dead Man’s Walk.” Call and Gus are young men, in their early twenties. ![]() There’s a great deal more trail to ride with Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. Yet, I also know, from long experience, that some fans of the book and film, are unaware that there are three other books. Without a doubt, many who thanked Larry for “Lonesome Dove,” have read the other three books in the quadrilogy. To many, “ Lonesome Dove ” is a book of proverbs, with advice such as: “The best way to handle death is to ride on away from it.” Or “Yesterday’s gone on down the river and you can’t get it back.” In fact, “Lonesome Dove,” the day after McMurtry died, rocketed up into the top 100 best selling books on Amazon, and became the #1 bestseller in Westerns. It was to thank McMurtry for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “ Lonesome Dove.” Most considered it his premiere gift to them personally, a gift that had immeasurably enriched their lives, as culturally vital as Homer’s Iliad was to the Greeks. Of the thousands of mourners who posted their goodbyes and gratitudes to Texas writer Larry McMurtry across last month, there was one stand-out theme. ![]() ![]() ![]() free will (or the desire to be an individual, even one who suffers). The story remains basically the same as Jack Finney’s 1954 novel The Body Snatchers, which is a disturbing meditation on conformity (or the desire to be “happy”) vs. Kino Lorber’s new Blu-ray presents a welcome return to this modern classic in the UHD format. ![]() Its reputation has only grown, and it’s now commonly reckoned at least as good as the original, with some viewers liking it better. Many startled viewers, especially of younger generations, were forced to admit that it freaked them out. When Don Siegel‘s 1956 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a certifiable classic of postwar paranoia, was remade in a shiny, sleek, color update in 1978, a funny thing happened. Both assumptions are riddled with exceptions and a systematic analysis would probably shut them both down forever. It’s axiomatic for film audiences to complain that remakes aren’t as good as the original, just as it’s a given that films are never as good as the original novels. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bell hooks and education![]() ![]() Two themes stand out across this diverse body of work 1) the insistence that feminism has the potential to better the lives of all people not just those gendered as women 2) a commitment to finding ways to collectively address oppressive structures that result in dehumanisation and environmental injustice. This is reflected in her insistence on spelling her name lower case, in subversion of current grammar rules. ![]() A counter to this criticism might be that rather than lacking rigour, bell hooks is acutely aware that language is a site of struggle and opts not to conform to normative markers of academic rigour because they reinforce hierarchies. For critics, this pursuit of accessibility results in bell hooks’ scholarly writing lacking academic rigour. To some, the breadth of this work is testament to bell hook’s insistence on writing for and engaging with a range of audiences. Her work covers a range of issues and genres including, but not limited to gender, race/racism, class, sexual politics, spirituality, love, education and pedagogy, cultural criticism, poetry, and children’s fiction. ![]() Bell hooks (* 1952) is the pen name used by the American public intellectual, author and activist Gloria Jean Watkins. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Hernan diaz in the distance![]() In the Distance tackled the Western from uncanny new angles, and Trust unpacks the stories we tell ourselves about money, what they capture, and what they exclude.ĭiaz lives about one mile and 100 years from the world of his new novel. It is perhaps more accurate, however, to call him a literary myth-buster, a writer who breaks down and reexamines classic American narratives. Technically, Diaz is an author of historical fiction, insofar that his books are set in the past. Now, for the literary equivalent of his major-label debut, he has written a genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ‘20s and Great Depression. Diaz burst onto the literary scene in 2017 when his first novel, In the Distance, made its way from the slush pile at a small press to the short list for the Pulitzer Prize. The library has granted Diaz a private visit for an interview about his new novel, Trust, published by Riverhead Books this week. ![]() He longingly gestures toward a stack of old maps. ![]() COVID protocol is still in effect-no touching the books. This stately room filled with black ash woodwork has long been one of his favorite haunts, but today is his first time back since the Center for Brooklyn History closed to the public during the pandemic. Tucked away in a corner of Brooklyn’s Othmer Library, Hernan Diaz waves his hand over a shelf of 19th-century land records. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Poppy yearns to unravel her husband’s secrets - and to tempt the duke to risk his heart. The arrangement is meant to be just business. Never mind that it means spending a month with the dullest man in England. ![]() Or, at the very least, stage a whirlwind fake engagement to repair his reputation. But there is something so compelling about Westmead, with his starchy bearing and impossibly kind eyes - that when an accidental scandal makes marriage to the duke the only means to save her nursery, Poppy worries she wants more than the title he is offering. She’s beautiful, rich, and reckless When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp’s entire future with her gossip column, she does what any honorable young lady must: offer her hand in marriage. She wants the capital to expand her exotic nursery business - not a husband. An ambitious self-taught botanist designing the garden ballroom in which Westmead plans to woo a bride, Poppy has struggled against convention all her life to secure her hard-won independence. Poppy Cavendish is not that type of woman. Which means he must find a wife who won’t discover his secret craving to spend his nights on his knees - or make demands on his long scarred-over heart. Having overcome financial ruin and redeemed his family name to become the most legendary investor in London, the Duke of Westmead needs to secure his holdings by producing an heir. ![]() No one would expect the proper Duke of Westmead to be a member of London’s most illicit secret club. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The young hitler i knew![]() ![]() And thus he kept himself from deviating from his own path indeed, this strange relationship, through the power of love, increased his own will. But as he himself avoided any personal meeting, this girl, although he could see that she walked the earth, remained nevertheless a creature of his dream world, towards whom he could project his desires, plans and ideas. He arranged his whole life as though he possessed this beloved creature entirely. Instinctively, the young Hitler found the only correct attitude in his love for Stefanie: he possessed a being whom he loved, and at the same time, he did not possess her. How many men who had set out with great intentions had been forced off their path by irregular and complicated love affairs. Love was a field where the unforeseeable might happen, and which might become dangerous. “So, in spite of all apparent contradictions, this strange love of Hitler for Stefanie falls into the pattern of his character. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Whose body dorothy sayers![]() The block of new, perfect and expensive flats in which Lord Peter dwelt upon the second floor, stood directly opposite the Green Park, in a spot for many years occupied by the skeleton of a frustrate commercial enterprise. The taxi, under the severe eye of a policeman, revolved by slow jerks, with a noise like the grinding of teeth. ![]() His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola. "I'm afraid it's an awkward place to turn in," said Lord Peter, answering the thought rather than the words. D'you mind puttin' back to where we came from?" "To the Savile Club, sir?" "No-110 Piccadilly-just beyond-thank you." "Thought you was in a hurry," said the man, overcome with a sense of injury. "I've left the catalogue behind," said Lord Peter deprecatingly, "uncommonly careless of me. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 'bus, a 38-B and a bicycle, bent an unwilling ear. ![]() "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. ![]() ![]() Just over 30 years ago, she published the text that launched her to fame in the first place, The Beauty Myth. This has all been unsettling to watch because Wolf’s work once transformed me. The first time she went on Alex Jones’ show (but not the last) was in 2008. Just this week, she shared a 1944 photo of a Jewish couple in the Budapest ghetto wearing stars on their jackets, with the caption “Biden: ‘Show me your papers.’ ” There were many pre-COVID portents of Wolf’s conspiracy turn: In 2019, she was sharing suspicions that oddly shaped clouds were manufactured, and getting corrected on live radio for disastrously misunderstanding historical documents on which she hung the thesis of an entire book. ![]() She went on Tucker Carlson in February-not long after an actual coup attempt-to warn that the United States was “moving into a coup situation” because of COVID restrictions. ![]() ![]() The bestselling author spent the pandemic doing things like celebrating indoor restaurant meals and declaring that children are losing the reflex to smile because of masks (when asked for evidence, she stated: “The children I see around me is the citation”). First, it must be said: Naomi Wolf is a COVID truther. ![]() |