![]() The premium cut sits on top: "The Langoliers," whose wildly original premise-that a group of airline passengers travel a few minutes into the past to encounter the entities that eat Being, leaving Nothingness-unfolds in classic King fashion, with a psychic blind girl, a demented financier, a mystery writer, and a British spy awash in mounting suspense (why is the beer "Flat! Flat as a pancake!"? and what is that sound like "Animals at feeding time" at the place near the airport?). ![]() "A double-double Whopper hot from the grill of "America's literary boogeyman," as he puts it in his introduction: four sizzling horror novellas sandwiched within the theme of "Time.and the corrosive effects it can have on the human heart." Sure, they're dripping with excess wordage and high-calorie sentiment, but cut away the fat and there's still more steak here than in any other horror book of the year. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Black cloth boards with embossed SK, title in gold on spine. There is a neatly inked gift inscription (1990) on FEP. ![]() All my copies from different sources show endpapers overglued to front flyleaf, so I assume this was a publishing run error and not a repair. ![]() Fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security. ![]() ![]() Following the last book in the CHERU Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and won the Red House Children's Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category. Robert was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephew after he complained about the lack of anything for them to read. We owe much of the hunger games sucess to authors such as Robert. The Hunger Games phenomenon is part of the huge YA / Children's book explosion that has grown, thanks to the British Rat pack of YA authors, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, Mark A. Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. ![]() ![]() ISBN: 9780060988654 SKU: 1411899 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. ![]() This 2004 Regan Paperback is in fair condition. A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White - and has a truth and beauty all its own. mirror mirror by Gregory Maguire RELEASE DATE: Oct. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care - so to speak - of Lucrezia. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia - decadent children of a wicked pope - no one can claim innocence for very long. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm - and the world comes to Montefiore. The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thrown at his feet because he was who he was, because they were certain he would break her. ![]() And now they’d given him what only a few weeks ago had been out of his reach, someone he wasn’t even allowed to admire from afar, one of their most prized possessions. He was the unwanted bastard son who’d always had to content himself with the leftovers of others. ![]() Growl He’d never had something to himself, never even dared to dream about owning something so precious. You can read this before Bound by Vengeance (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #5) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Bound by Vengeance (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #5) written by Cora Reilly which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Bound by Vengeance (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #5) by Cora Reilly ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandy Dearborn, now Sergeant Commanding of Troop D, is the main narrator of the book, and tells the story to Ned, discussing various things that have happened with the car, and his father's fascination with it. It appears to be a Buick Roadmaster, but the steering wheel is immobile, the dashboard instruments are useless props, the engine has no moving parts and ignition wires that go nowhere, the car heals itself when scratched or dented, and all dirt and debris are repelled by it. The car, they discover, is not a car at all. The car is later held by the Troop D police of rural Pennsylvania in storage shed B. ![]() The Buick 8 resembles a vintage 1953 Buick Roadmaster, and was left at a gas station by a mysterious man dressed in black, who disappeared soon after leaving the car to be refueled. And while the Buick 8 is not a traditional ghost, it is indeed not of their world. It is in some sense a ghost story in the way that the novel is about a group of people telling an old but unsettling tale. The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him, and soon begin telling him about the "Buick 8" of the title. After Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit Troop D. The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a state police barracks in Western Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection - but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new. Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. ![]() ![]() Necessary work, but it's not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action. Now he's back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere. ![]() John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years.įor the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lyric is often considered to suggest simple, conventional romantic devotion, possibly alluding to Reed's relationship with Kronstad and Reed's own conflicts with his sexuality, drug use and ego. The song was written after Reed and his then fiancée (later his first wife), Bettye Kronstad, spent a day in Central Park. The song has a sombre vocal delivery and a slow, piano-based instrumental backing.īowie and Ronson provided backing vocals, with Reed saying "It's not the kind of part I ever would have come up with, but David hears those parts, plus he's got a freaky voice and he can go up that high and do that. The original recording, as with the rest of the Transformer album, was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson (who also wrote the string arrangement and played piano on the track). ![]() ![]() Reed re-recorded the song for his 2003 album The Raven. Its fame was given a boost in the 1990s when it was featured in the 1996 film Trainspotting and after a star-studded version was released as a BBC charity single in 1997, reaching number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway. It was originally featured on Transformer, Reed's second post– Velvet Underground solo album, and as B-side of his major hit, " Walk on the Wild Side". " Perfect Day" is a song written by American musician Lou Reed in 1972. " Walk on the Wild Side" / " Perfect Day" ![]() ![]() In Corinne’s solarized photographs of vulvas, the printing process abstracts the images labial folds could just as easily be rolling hills. Corinne often utilized solarization printing methods in her portraiture, a darkroom process that partially inverts light and dark tones. In presenting a lesbian subject vantage point, Corinne’s work expands and elevates depictions of lesbian intimacy with careful consideration. One such artist is Tee Corinne, who was a photographer in Oregon, as well as a published writer and activist. I often look to queer and lesbian artists to situate myself as a queer, female photographer. A slow becoming, especially for those of us who may not have had queer role models in our material reality-it is difficult to become what you cannot see. ![]() Queer experience is often characterized by unique relationships to time for some, a latent identity reveals itself quietly. ![]() From Intimacies, with permission from the publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy recalls her third grade teacher, Mr. When she thought to come back to her husband, he wouldn't have her, and both of them remained alone and sad the rest of their lives. Kathie, though she was very well off, had left her husband for another man, only to find out that the other man was gay. They discussed one of the women that Lucy's mother did alterations for, a Ms. Her mother, at first, just made small talk. Her mother hated hospitals, but had come nonetheless, which spoke volumes to Lucy. While in the hospital, many years later, when she, herself, was a wife and a mother, her own mother visited her, which was monumental, because her mother and father lived in impoverished conditions in a rural part of Illinois. She says that those times alone devastated her, and instilled in her the idea that she was a burden. She remembers that when her parents would go to work, and she was still too young to go to school, they would take her with them, and lock her in the cab of the truck until they were done for the day. ![]() Lucy recalls that her earliest memories of her parents are accompanied by a feeling of loneliness. The story is told in a series of flashbacks, beginning with Lucy's time in the hospital when she was younger. My Name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout, is written as a fictional memoir of a famous author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether we are conceiving babies or businesses, ideas or art, Queen Afua illuminates the importance of cultivating our Womb Wisdom. Queen Afua begins by helping us to discover our unique "womb-an-ness"-and to honor the womb as the center of our consciousness and creativity. ![]() Now, with Sacred Woman, she takes us on a transforming journey of physical and ancestral healing that will restore the magnificence of our spirits through sacred initiation. ![]() Her classic bestseller, Heal Thyself, forever changed the way African Americans practice holistic health. Queen Afua is a nationally renowned herbalist, natural health and nutrition expert, and dedicated healer of women's bodies and women's souls who practices a uniquely Afrocentric spirituality. ![]() |