5/30/2023 0 Comments Havoc at prescott high audiobookI'm also on Goodreads, Spotify, Google +, Instagram, and Pinterest. Oh, and Caitlin loves to chat (incessantly), so feel free to e-mail her, send her a Facebook message, or put up smoke signals. Please, come and join her inside her crazy. She's the author of over thirty novels - romance, new adult, fantasy, and young adult included. can be found with her nose buried in a book or her eyes glued to a computer screen. When she's not vacuuming fur off of her couch, C.M. She hates tapioca pudding, loves to binge on cheesy horror movies, and is a slave to many cats. If being crazy means hanging out with them everyday, C.M. Oh, and half the host of characters in her head are searing hot bad boys with dirty mouths and skillful hands (among other things). Some folks might call this crazy, but Caitlin Morgan doesn't mind - especially considering she has to write biographies in the third person. Stunich is a self-admitted bibliophile with a love for exotic teas and a whole host of characters who live full time inside the strange, swirling vortex of her thoughts.
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I gave it an A, John gave it a B, Greg a C, and Arvin gave it a D. Afterwards we went to a bar where we graded the film over beers. For now, let’s go to the tail end of those 1900 years – the Prince year of 1999.īack in 1999, four guys went to the movies. Right now, I want to go back a couple decades, back to that old century we left behind in 2000-2001. More still will come in the new decade and so many came out in all those decades of the past. They were there in 2019, more will come in 2020. 2020, resolutions, and all those hyped-up concepts, I thought I would simply begin the first post of the year doing what I do best – writing about scary stories. Everyone’s doing it! But since I don’t have any thoughts on 2019 vs. I just had to fit in some kind of “Hey it’s a new year” subject here at this blog. So, whatdidja’ think about my intro and how I segued from New Years thoughts to a creepy tale of the paranormal? Pretty nifty, huh? You are saying “no.” Oh. In this case both will suffice, for I’ll be discussing both the film and the novel! But when doing the latter, be careful not to get overwhelmed in those “Stir of Echoes’! Or is it “ A Stir of Echoes”? That depends on whether we are referring to the book ( A Stir of Echoes) or the movie ( Stir of Echoes). My first blog post of the new year! 2020! Woo Hoo and stuff! Time to look forward! Time to reflect on the past. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Maya angelou daughterMaya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.ĭedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Limited edition of only 1,075 signed and numbered copies. This magnificent leather-bound heirloom has been personally signed by Maya Angelou on a dedication page. Maya Angelou "Letter To My Daughter" Signed First Edition. A poet, dancer, singer, activist, and scholar, Maya Angelou was a world-famous author best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical writing style.Įaston Press, Norwalk. 5/30/2023 0 Comments My bondage and my freedom 1855First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, it covered events during and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.ĭouglass wrote several autobiographies. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. 5/30/2023 0 Comments The sword of shannara 1977from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University. Following undergrad, Brooks earned his J.D. There, he found particular inspiration in the works of William Faulkner and J.R.R. Told with a fresh, energetic voice, this fantasy puzzle box is perfect for fans of Terry Brooks and new readers alike, as one young woman slowly unlocks truths about herself and her world-and, in doing so, begins to heal both.īrooks discovered his love for writing during high school, before going on to earn a BA in English Literature from Hamilton College in New York. His latest novel, Child of Light, is the first novel of a brand new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she’s never known. “The Shannara Chronicles,” was a 10-episode TV show on MTV adapted from the second novel of the series, The Elfstones of Shannara.īrooks is also the author of the Landover and Word/Void series, including being hand-picked by George Lucas to create the novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, which hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. VJ Books Presents Author Terry Brooks! Terry Brooks is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Shannara series beginning with The Sword of Shannara published in 1977. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Brooks, Terry Now Bick, Beck, Tommy and Storm are stranded on a raft in the Mediterranean Sea, and their parents have been kidnapped by maniacal treasure hunters. But then their ship, The Lost, explodes in a ball of fire! The Kidd family is on an exciting new mission: using the augmented reality gear their parents created to uncover long-lost treasure. If they fail, Mom and Dad will be thrown in prison. But when their ship is waylaid by pirate Charlotte Badger, the Kidds’ parents are framed for stealing a set of priceless gems!īick, Beck, Storm and Tommy have seven days to navigate the dangerous Australian Outback, find Charlotte Badger, and steal back the evidence they need to prove their parents are innocent. The Kidd family is on the hunt for Lasseter’s Gold, one of the legendary lost treasures of Australia. And if they don't find it soon, the USA as we know it could be gone forever. But the key is exposing the conspiracy may have been under their noses the whole time. Now they're crisscrossing the country in a race to prove the document is a forgery. without any priceless antiques to hunt – BORING! But everything changes when the Kidds uncover a dastardly conspiracy: a fake Bill of Rights! The USA is in danger.and only the Kidds can find the treasure that will save it!īick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are stuck in Washington, D.C. Treasure Hunters: All-American AdventureĢ. "But I'm sure those fellas would look at it and say, 'It's obvious Paul didn't want this on the front of his book'. "I didn't see it until the book was finished, and then I thought, 'Why did they have to put in something like that?' If I was a Roy Keane, a Liam Brady, a Johnny Giles, a Ronnie Whelan, I'd have been insulted. His book is subtitled "The story of Ireland's Greatest Ever Footballer", and I can't help wondering whether this quietly-spoken (when sober), fiercely intelligent, engagingly self-effacing man concurs with the description. His superb, corruscatingly candid autobiography is called Back From The Brink, and the brink refers to the precipice overlooking the grim canyon of alcoholic self-destruction on which he has teetered many times.īut let's not start with the booze. It is disconcerting finally to come face to face with Paul McGrath in his agent's office in the heart of Dublin, for I have just spent a couple of hours walking round the city seeing him gazing out at me from every bookshop window, under the banner "Number One bestseller". 5/29/2023 0 Comments The beauty myth authorShe explores six areas of life where major problems come about because of the beauty myth. In “The Beauty Myth,” Wolf does not discount the fact that beauty is important and that it aids in our attraction to one another her issue is that beauty is very often defined as extreme thinness and youthfulness. These sources end up forming the concept of “beauty” into a weapon, which is then used to ultimately make women feel badly about themselves when they fail to live up to the “ideal.” According to Wolf, this image comes from television, advertisements, women’s magazines and pornography. In the 1991 book “The Beauty Myth,” author Naomi Wolf argues that it is not just the idolized women in the media that are detrimental to women, but rather our culture’s image of beauty as a whole. But how can a couple of scrawny, emaciated actresses and models cause so much physical and psychological damage to millions of intelligent and beautiful women? Unrealistic ideals lead many females down an unhealthy and dangerous path of chronic exercising, extreme diets and overall dissatisfaction with their bodies. One would be hard pressed to find a woman who is not affected by this, whether emotionally, physically or both. The “normal” size for women in Hollywood and in the fashion industry is nearly 60 pounds lighter and six sizes smaller than the average American woman. Reading Time: 2 minutes Johnny Cage, don't judge my body! Photo illustration by Anonymous. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Magic breaks ilona andrewsAnd this time, if she fails, she'll find herself embroiled in a war which could destroy everything she holds dear… **Includes the bonus Kate Daniels story Magic Tests** When one of the Masters of the Dead is found murdered there, apparently at the hands of a shapeshifter, Kate is given only twenty-four hours to hunt down the killer. As Roland's long shadow looms ever nearer, Kate is called to attend the Conclave, a gathering of the leaders from the various supernatural factions in Atlanta. Since Kate's connection to Roland has come out into the open, no one is safe-especially those closest to Kate. Not only is she still struggling to keep her investigative business afloat, she must now deal with the affairs of the pack, including preparing her people for attack from Roland, a cruel ancient being with god-like powers. No matter how much the paranormal politics of Atlanta change, one thing always remains the same: if there's trouble, Kate Daniels will be in the middle of it… As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Chesapeake requiem reviewThe National Geographic, New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Politico, and CNN have all run stories about the disappearing island’s challenges due to erosion and climate change. Tangier has received more attention in recent years than you’d expect of a remote island with a population now under 500. If you’re not up to taking a 12-mile boat ride from Crisfield, MD, to visit Tangier Island in Accomack County, VA, this winter, you may journey there by sitting on your couch by the fireplace and opening Earl Swift’s new book, “Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.” The author’s clever weaving together of history, science, and folklore makes for compelling reading. |
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