![]() One student stands out: Alexandria DeCambray, whose brother believes he is the chosen one foretold in a prophecy. To Ivy’s surprise, it’s just like a regular high school, except that the kids are armed with magical arsenals. ![]() Reluctantly, Ivy visits the school-where her magically gifted twin, Tabitha, whom Ivy greatly envies and resents, happens to teach. ![]() Sylvia Capley, the school’s health teacher, was found bisected head-to-toe in the library, and Marion does not agree with the findings of accidental death she’s certain it was murder and wants Ivy to prove it. Then, Marion Torres, headmaster at Osthorne Academy for Young Mages, walks into Ivy’s office and asks her to solve a murder. ![]() In this clever and fast-paced magical mystery, Gailey ( River of Teeth) introduces Bay Area PI Ivy Gamble, who usually tracks down adulterers and insurance scammers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is history on a grand scale-a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. ![]() ![]() In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as “out of his senses” and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. John Adams by David McCullough The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. ![]() ![]() ![]() The technology is accurate and prescient. He died in the late 90s and this play was made well before that (mid 1970s), ie, it was set 20 years in the future. ![]() The parts are played well and had I not seen those two movies, it would have been an exciting radio play.įor those who haven't seen the movies, definitely listen to this - it's very good. ![]() This radio play is almost the same as "Dr. Follett was a tech writer at the British MoD, so he should have some awareness of the issues, but somehow in the process this story became stupid. Technical-focused stories shouldn't be written and produced by people who don't understand the relevant technology. Deeply implausible technical design, including both errors - assuming things are impossible which were well known or even obvious to even the most basic technical analyst in the 1960s, and assuming things are possible which are equally obviously impossible.īleh. I listened based on being interested in nuclear submarines (and particularly the question of what happens after the initial mission is accomplished), and the title being a quote from both the Bhagavad-Gita and Oppenheimer.īig problems: personnel and military leadership issues entirely incompatible with even a basic understanding of how the military actually works. Originally a BBC radio broadcast later a written novella. A story about a future submarine with a "fail-deadly" launch initiation system with the inevitable malfunction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had to admit, the one thing he wanted from her was her body when this whole thing started, but he’d thought about her a lot lately and he really liked Jessica. Once he finally got his keys in his hands, he unlocked the door, and tossed the things he had in his hand inside the cab. He ducked as he reached the side of his truck, fumbling with the latch on the door. They’re all just lookin’ to get in bed with a young lady like you, Jess. You won’t be hookin’ up with one of them Young boys. ![]() I’ll teach his ass to come sniffing around my baby girl. ![]() He could see her standing in her bare feet, jeans, and a tank top.īoy, she’d dressed fast after her father caught them in her room in a state of semi-undress. Stop it, Daddy! Jessica Marshall yelled from the front porch. If you show up here again, this won’t be buckshot, boy. I’m leavin’, damn it! Quit shootin’ at me! He carried his boots and his cowboy hat in one hand while he tried to get in his pants pocket for his keys with the other.īuckshot hit the back of his tailgate. Damn it! His shirt hung down his back, covering the top of his naked ass as his belt buckle clinked every few steps. Joey ran across the field toward his truck in his bare feet, hopping every couple of steps when he stepped on a rock. I’m gonna shoot your ass, Joseph Young! Don’t you come around Jessie no more! You hear me. Cowboy Dreamin’ 9 Sandy Sullivan Chapter One ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The split comic with the several art panel is amazing I must say skeleton children plague is quite horrific ![]() What was good was the horror like parts those were wonderful. To the point I got wondering if perhaps there were alternatives to it, like guest artist or something. Oh that wait for nothing, there was too much use of digital enchantment. I will admit I was waiting for big fight against the Plutonian but when the heroes started fighting one another, I was instantly a failure. So even superheroes have closet of uhm things huh?Īrt: The art remains the biggest failure in this comic, but hard to focus on the art of such a good story. But what more important we learn about his team the Paradigm, the once heroes and friends of the most powerful hero in the world and how they each in there own way took something from him. Story: We learn more of the Plutonian troubled passed and what caused him to go down this spiral of hate and destruction. This particular issue collects volume 5-8 I have to declared that Mark Waid is a genius, just the anticipation alone was enough to kill me, I love this series! Everything about is incredibly well put together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 14.11. Powerhouse Films is delighted to present the longest known version of the film for the very first time on home video in this definitive, world premiere Blu-ray edition. Buy Eve / More Deadly Than the Male by James Hadley Chase, Gregory Shepard (Introduction by) online at Alibris. Jeanne Moreau ( Jules et Jim) and Stanley Baker ( Yesterday’s Enemy) star as two lovers caught in a deadly affair in Joseph Losey’s 1962 adaptation of the James Hadley Chase novel.Ī highly personal project for Losey, Eve was blighted by producer interference, and was heavily cut for its general release under the title Eva. Limited Edition Blu-ray (World Blu-ray premiere) ![]() ![]() ![]() His prescience cast such a long shadow over twentieth century that we are in many ways still living within it today.Įdited by John Rodden, a renowned Orwell scholar, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the British writer. ![]() ![]() With the advent of surveillance, the spread of euphemistic corporate and political jargon, and the growing prevalence of demagogic rhetoric, the early decades of the twenty first century have shown Orwell to have been right about much more than the dangers of communism. Though both novels were written as critiques of communist Russia, their relevance has endured for decades after the end of the Cold War. "Big Brother Is Watching You," "Two plus two make five," "Some animals are more equal than others"… George Orwell's two famous novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, have added numerous phrases to the lexicon we use to describe our world. A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Orwell and the critical discussions surrounding his work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The founding of the United States was a complex colonial battle between the English, the French, and an overlapping set of native tribes, most of whom had been displaced by the English and French over the course of the eighteenth century. ![]() During his lifetime and after his death, aged 62, he was recognized as perhaps the first great American man of letters. Cooper also wrote non-fiction, including a volume on the history of the United States Navy. The Last of the Mohicans, for which Fenimore Cooper is most famous, was released in 1826, and three other “Deerslayer” novels followed. ![]() The earliest of the “Deerslayer” or “Leatherstocking” novels, entitled The Pioneers and featuring the adventures of Natty Bumppo, was released in 1823. Precaution, Fenimore Cooper’s first novel and the response to this “dare,” was published in 1820. Fenimore Cooper began writing after a “dare” laid down by his wife, Susan, about whether he could write something better novel than a novel Susan liked. After study, in his teens, at Yale-where he did not graduate, because of his early dismissal for violating the university’s rules-Fenimore Cooper served for several years in the US Navy, then came into the family’s fortune and settled back in New York City and in Cooperstown. Related to a line of Quakers who had emigrated from England to the Northeastern United States, James Fenimore Cooper grew up in upper-middle-class comfort on the shores of Lake Otsego, in a town planned and constructed by his father: Cooperstown, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our journey begins with Elena still learning to cope with her new role as Princess of Paegeia. If this is the direction of the series, I'm not sure will finish it.and I will definitely read a LOT of reviews before trying it. I was so disappointed with this book, and would NOT let young teens read this. Thirdly, I don't read YA for graphic, horrific events.there's plenty of that in the real world (just pick up a newspaper).I read YA so that I DON'T have those kind of surprises! ![]() Second, if anyone had told me that this was the drive behind the whole plot in this book, I probably would have not read it. For one, the event didn't add much to the story besides giving Elena another reason to close off from everyone a.d create a lot of drama. I was completely surprised and livid at this turn of events. The "sensitive content" was that a main character is RAPED by multiple guys (and there is plenty of description too)! I mean, WTH. And finally, my biggest issue was the "sensitive sensitive content".I'm still ticked off 2 days later! Secondly, Elena didn't grow as a person AT ALL.if anything she seemed weak, fragile and selfish. ![]() First of all, this book seems completely unnecessary, the whole plot of this book seemed to be mostly filler.and everything ended up basically where it started! There was no progress to the overall story (the bad guy, the relationship between Elena and Blake, etc.). I really liked the first three books in the series, but this one. What the heck!?!?.NOT suitable for under 18! ![]() ![]() US graphic novel with variant covers $3.99.īy Clive Barker, Boom! Studios, US, 2012. US graphic novel with variant covers $3.99.īy Clive Barker, Boom! Studios, US, 2011. US graphic novel with variant covers $3.99.īy Clive Barker, Chris Monfette, Boom! Studios, US, 2011. US graphic novel with variant covers $3.99.īy Clive Barker, Chris Monfette, Stephen Thompson, Boom! Studios, US, 2011. US graphic novel with multiple variant covers $3.99 (C cover: $9.99).īy Clive Barker, Chris Monfette, Leonardo Manco, Boom! Studios, US, 2011. ![]() US graphic novel in electronic format, available for free download.īy Clive Barker, Chris Monfette, Leonardo Manco, Charlie Kirchoff and Travis Lanham, Boom! Studios, US, 2011. By Clive Barker, Chris Monfette, Leonardo Manco, Juan Manuel Tumbrú and Johnny Lowe, Boom! Studios, US, 2011. ![]() |