![]() ![]() The realization that Hellraiser was more than just a slasher horror movie brought Clive Barker to my attention. ![]() And not only was it just based on a book, the screen play was written and the movie was directed by the guy who wrote the book! What that means to me isn’t that the book and movie are going to be exactly the same but it does mean they will have the same feel, and cover the same themes and the film does exactly that. So, imagine my surprise when I got a little older and a little wiser and realized Hellraiser was based on a book. Hellraiser I could always watch and be as absorbed in the movie after a tenth viewing vs the first time. Other than Halloween, I wouldn’t go back and watch those moves over and over again. ![]() Sure, I liked the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and Friday the 13th and Childs Play were good too. Of all the horror movie franchises that came about in the 80s and 90s, Hellraiser was always my favorite. ![]()
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![]() Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point, because we see life this time through the eyes of children, not, as the author puts it, from the perspective of a grown-up man encumbered with a Harvard education. ![]() In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago. ![]() ![]() Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. No scientist had seen a Blakiston's fish owl so far south in a hundred years. ![]() I saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia. Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you." ![]() ![]() Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General NonfictionĪ Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year AwardĪ Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Reviewīest Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London)Ī terrifically exciting account of time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston's fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water. ![]() ![]() After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. Arrives by Tue, Apr 11 Buy Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780807842881) by Robin D G Kelley at. ![]() The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. ![]() ![]() Whenever he's near, she feels his heartbeat, his breath, his blood racing in her veins. But she's not in control - in fact, the magyck has bound her eternally to her immortal enemy, Roman. Ever has been dabbling in Magyck - seeking to explore her own powers, hoping to find a future for her relationship with Damen. Dark Flame Once it seemed being immortal was a gift to Ever Bloom - now it's a curse. ![]() ![]() or torn apart forever? Readers will finally discover the truth in this anxiously awaited conclusion! 2. Now in EVERLASTING, their destiny is finally within reach. Ever and Damen have spent centuries facing down bitter rivals, jealous friends and their own worst fearsall in the hope of being together forever. EVERLASTING is the sixth and final instalment of the epic love story that has enchanted readers across the world. Everlasting With 3.2 million copies of her Immortals series in print, Alyson Noël is one of the hottest paranormal teen authors writing today. Home About Us Shipping Returns View Feedback Main Description The Immortals Series 6 Books Collection Set Alyson Noel Description 1. Readers will finally discover the truth in this anxiously awaited conclusion! The Immortals Series 6 Books Collection Set Alyson Noel. ![]() Item: 113967817725 The Immortals Series 6 Books Collection Set Alyson Noel Everlasting, Night Star. ![]() ![]() ![]() We'd been humanity's supersoldiers-designed to fight and to die without thought or feeling-and we'd almost turned the tide of the war.īut not all of us had been trained strictly as soldiers, just as not all of us were unfeeling. Most of us hadn't come from human stock, but were rather a mix of shifter and vampire, which gave us most of their strengths and few of their weaknesses. It said a lot about humanity's opinion of us that we were given a nickname that meant "waste product." These labs had created not only an enzyme that gave humans the same capacity to heal as the shifters, but also the designed humanoid. But humans had not wasted the many years leading up to the war, and bioengineering labs, which had initially produced nothing more than body-part replacements for the sick and dying, had gone into full-and secret-production. The shifters-with their greater strength, speed, and the capacity to heal almost any wound-should have wiped the stain of humanity from Earth. She can see them and converse with them and they can help her with weapons and such. But Tiger also has many ghosts that help her and others that are cranky but they help too. ![]() Bear and Cat are the main ghosts that are her friends and it was sad to read about why they are ghosts. ![]() There are worse things in this world than the vampires and Others, and many of them hide under the veil of civility and lights. Wow, I have never read a book like this one before! I thought it was pretty awesome! Buddy read w/some beautiful peeps over at BB&B ♥ ![]() ![]() ![]() The Manti realize there is nothing more for them to do with Earth, so they leave.Īt the time of this writing, this is the only legitimate rating and review of this book on Goodreads. ![]() Although it starts with the Manti, the vast majority of book takes place from the perspective of a few different humans as they try to cope with the changes wrought by the Manti.Įnding spoiler: A virus from China spreads worldwide and is projected to wipe out 90% of the Human population. As a song from a couple years after the book was published said, "You've gotta be cruel to be kind, in the right measure" which is how the Manti justify what they do and the Humans feel likewise about their own actions to each other. Humans have so much new and exciting stimuli to offer and they want it all. Eventually they come across Earth and decide to save humanity from itself, or enable their self-destruction, it's all the same really. To alleviate boredom a mated pair travel throughout the galaxy inhabiting other intelligent species to live as they do and to experience all existence has to offer. The Manti are an ancient race whose final enemy is boredom, as all else has been conquered. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cal feels someone is watching him and he’s right, as it turns out, and this drags him into a search for local wrong-side-of-the-mountain urchin Trey’s missing brother, Brendan.įrench's novel isn't in a huge hurry to get to the plot, but you won’t mind the wait because you get to spend it with local characters like Cal’s farmer neighbour Mart and local shopkeeper Noreen. It doesn’t last, needless to say, because there wouldn't be much sport in that. Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago cop, buys a wreck of a house in rural Ireland, and finds a kind of happiness in carrying out the repairs and the peaceful beauty of the surrounding area. The Searcher is the second stand novel by the American-Irish writer after 2018's The Wych Elm, another book that earned its share of acclaim. ![]() That didn't agree with me at all, but I shouldn't judge a book by its cover (version). I've heard good things about them, but my reticence to get stuck in may have something to do with the TV show which was based on two of the novels in the series. I must admit that I haven't read any of Tana French's wildly popular Dublin Murder Squad books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Caroline Linden's What a Woman Needs "A skillful blend of scorching sensuality and the tenderness that tempers passion. But David and Vivian are playing a dangerous game in which forbidden love is a wild card. Instead she becomes a former rogue's greatest challenge: the object of a passionate seduction. Locked in a spare bedroom, Vivian vows to hate her captor. And handsome David Reece has become their victim-until he tracks her down and makes her his prisoner. The eBook edition of About a Rogue includes a bonus short story in Caroline Linden’s Desperately Seeking Duke series The first book in the new series Desperately Seeking Duke from USA Today bestselling and RITA award-winning author Caroline Linden. Now she and her brother have reluctantly graduated to highway robbery. Street orphan Vivian Beecham has grown up a pickpocket, and a very pretty one indeed. All is going swimmingly until highwaymen waylay his coach and steal that precious ring. To prove he has reformed he's agreed to watch over his absent brother's estate and signet ring. What he wants to be called is trustworthy and a true gentleman. What A Rogue Desires After a wayward youth, David Reece, the youngest scion in a noble family, has been called one of the most scandalous rogues of the ton. A gentleman and a very improper lady are bound together by a passion that crosses the line between upper class and underworld in Caroline Linden's daring new romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'The perfect blend of whimsy and ferociousness, with twists and turns that will tug at your heartstrings' Chloe Gong 'A dazzling fairy tale full of breathtaking storytelling' Stephanie Garber It will take every ounce of strength Shiori can muster to defend the life and the love she's fought so hard to win. The pearl itself is no ordinary cargo it thrums with malevolent power, jumping to Shiori's aid one minute, and betraying her the next - threatening to shatter her family and sever the thread of fate that binds her to her true love. She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all the while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned at the stake for the magic that runs in her blood. ![]() ![]() Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. Shiori's quest continues in the soaring sequel to the New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy Six Crimson Cranes. ![]() And a cursed pearl with the power to mend the world, or break it. ![]() |