![]() ![]() Arthur Thatcher : The last of the Teeheemen (fin).Robert Eugen Ulmer : The headless horror.Eudora Ramsey Richardson : The haunting eyes.Burks : Strange tales from Santo Domingo 3 - Daylight Shadows Frank Owen : The wind that tramps the wolrd.Greye La Spina : Invader from the dark (first installment).Seabury Quinn : Servants of Satan : 2 Giles and Martha Corey. ![]() Donald Edward Keyboe : The grim passenger.Joel Martin Nichols Jr : The lure of Atlantis.Nictzin Dyalhis : When the green star waned.Lady Anne Bonny : Wings of Power (Conclusion).D’après cet écrivain n’aurait publié que quatre nouvelles. : A Gadaan Alaad Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il a servi dans l’armée américaine. George Ballard Bowers George Ballard Bowers George Ballard Bowers (15 juillet 1878 - 9 janvier 1944) a servi à l’Assemblée de l’État de Californie pour le 78 e district de 1931 à 1935 et pendant la guerre hispano-américaine. ![]()
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![]() The success of the novel and its stage and film adaptations also helped it to become a popular cultural icon that was used to promote numerous commercial products. It was blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the first novel ever to receive such praise. Original title: Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ 1925 Not Rated 2h 23m IMDb RATING 7.8 /10 7.8K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 3:10 1 Video 74 Photos Action Adventure Drama A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. ![]() The 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur was seen by tens of millions and won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, after which the book's sales increased and it surpassed Gone with the Wind. Ben-Hur remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936). The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales. "In America, 300,000 copies were sold in the first ten years after publication, making it one of the highest-ranking bestsellers of the nineteenth century" (Grolier). Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Laid in is a one page autograph letter signed by Wallace to the editor of The Century Magazine in which the author encloses an installment of The Capture of Fort Donelson and apologizes for his delays (1 page, Crawfordsville, 8 October 1884). ![]() Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a few small closed tears. First edition, first issue (with the first issue dedication “to the wife of my youth.”) of Wallace’s classic work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Daniel who cannot bear his own aging, implores Armand for the “dark gift,” to be made immortal, but Armand desperately needs to hold onto Daniel who is his last link to the humanity he has forever lost: Their relationship, though unnatural in the extreme, is both breathlessly erotic and heart-breakingly sad. He becomes enamored of Daniel, a lovely young human lad and the “interviewer” of the first novel. One of Rice’s many splendid characters is Armand, a beautiful boy-vampire who has walked the Earth since the early Renaissance. ![]() Their immortality serves to heighten those concerns which have beguiled and befuddled humans for centuries. Rice’s vampires are natural philosophers. What lies beyond death? What is the nature of goodness? Is there meaning to life? But here these age-old enigmas are mulled over, puzzled through and furiously attacked, not by mere mortals, but by the blood-sucking undead. In all truth, the epic scope of this novel is mandated by the profound mysteries and timeless questions which Rice seeks to answer. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re absolutely thrilled to bring people back to the Twilight Saga world and to celebrate this major achievement with Stephenie and the fans and booksellers who’ve supported her for the last fifteen years,” Megan Tingley, executive vice president and publisher of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, told USA TODAY in a statement. “In addition to the breathtaking sales, it is profoundly gratifying to hear how much the fans are loving the novel. That number includes presales and all formats: print, e-books and audio. 1 spot this week on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, selling more than 1 million copies in its first week out. Stephenie Meyer has talked about releasing Midnight Sun but then there was a leak and she pulled back on it and the idea kind of went away as the Twilight. ![]() Stephenie Meyer's "Midnight Sun," the long-anticipated retelling of "Twilight" from vampire Edward Cullen's perspective, rather than Bella Swan's, claims the No. New Moon has a slightly longer timeline because of the few months when Edward leaves Bella behind after breaking up with her. The fourth and final novel, Breaking Dawn, is the longest book in the original tetralogy at 756 pages in the US hardcover version, and 700 pages in the US paperback release. So, the first Twilight book takes place in less than a single semester of high school. ![]() A dark and moody vampire is making quite an impression with readers this summer – more than a million impressions, to be exact. The second book, New Moon, was originally published in the US on August 21, 2006. ![]() ![]() As Jane tries to understand everything that happened to her and work through her trauma, we as readers are finding out what happened in the order it happened and also finding out how it is affecting her now that she is at home.Īs you would expect, Jane is having trouble adjusting at home. So the book goes back and forth, then (from her kidnapping forward) to now (present). So Jane decides to write about her experience as a form of therapy, both her time in captivity and since she got home. She came back in pieces as she describes it (PTSD in psychological terms), but she refuses to talk to the psychologists she tried because of different issues, one used candles that smelled like the ones her captor “the monster” used, another treated her like she was crazy. She was held for over seven months and she is trying to come to terms with what happened. ![]() The story is told from the ten months after the day she was abducted when she is back at home. He gets her with chloroform after she turns around to wrap up his gift. The store is closed but the guy looks nice, he is handsome and seems genuine about it being his 1 year anniversary with his girlfriend, so she lets him in. ![]() Jane Anonymous is abducted after stopping at the boutique where she works to pick up her best friends birthday gift that she had forgotten to bring home. ![]() ![]() Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. We visit the birthplace of humanity we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. ![]() ![]() Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. This is the past as we've never seen it before. ![]() A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, we can glimpse tantalizing signs of women-usually those of the highest wealth, education and family status-finding ways to claim new powers and rights for themselves. No Roman woman could vote, play a direct role in political or military affairs or otherwise play an official part in how the republic and, later, the empire was run. With few exceptions-like the words of the female poet Sulpicia or the graffiti of a woman summoning her lover, found scrawled on the walls at Pompeii-what we know about them comes almost entirely from the writings of men in Rome’s most elite circles.Īs in many cultures, women’s value in ancient Rome was defined almost solely in relation to their fathers and husbands the majority were married off by their mid teens. ![]() But they lacked any voice in public life. Women in ancient Rome, whether free or enslaved, played many roles: empress, priestess, goddess, shop owner, midwife, prostitute, daughter, wife and mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had so much fun with this! This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2021 and I’m happy to say that it was just as good as I hoped. ![]() Only one question stands: Is Emmy in?īut most concerning of all: Why can't she stop thinking about the terrifyingly competent, devastatingly gorgeous, wickedly charming Talia Avramov?Ĥ.25 Stars. Talia had let herself be charmed, only to discover that Gareth was also seeing Linden-unbeknownst to either of them. On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia Avramov-an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts-who is fresh off a bad breakup. ![]() She's determined to do her familial duty spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn and get back to her real life in Chicago. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams.īut when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana Harper.Įmmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one-in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire-how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin-five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, Voyage is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. In the center of the collection is the title poem, Voyage of the Sable Venus, an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present-titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. ![]() ![]() This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a powerfully evocative ( The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd heard about Gor (and things "Gorean") for years, but this was the first time I'd gone straight to the source. It was with that thought in mind that I ordered an old copy of Tarnsman of Gor off of Amazon. Far better, to my mind, to actually sit down and engage with a thing directly that's a large part of the difference between an opinion and an informed opinion. I dislike forming opinions about things based solely on second- and third-hand information. Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman (Published 1966) ![]() |
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