![]() ![]() ![]() BBC/HBO series was a huge success in autumn 2019, with an all-star cast of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel Miranda."Rarely, if ever, have readers been offered such a casket of wonders" ( Independent).1,465,946 ratings by Goodreads Pullman, Philip. "Remarkable writing: courageous and dangerous as the best art should be" ( The Times) Northern Lights: the Illustrated Edition (His Dark Materials).First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature.His Dark Materials is one of the most popular and successful children's series of all time.A stunning illustrated edition of the first in Philip Pullman's muchloved series, His Dark Materials, featuring breathtaking full-colour illustrations by Chris Wormell.Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. "Without this child, we shall all die." Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of JordanCollege, Oxford. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Abarat by clive barker![]() ![]() Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. Where? To the Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from The Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion.Ĭandy has a place in this extraordinary world: she is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. ![]() There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or braving the Plentiful Darkness, a bewitching world devoid of sky and stars. Even if it means leaping into a pool of darkness after it swallows Trick and her mirror. When Trick Aidan, the worst of the roughhouse boys, steals her lunar mirror, Rooney will do whatever it takes to get it back. ![]() All the while she tries to avoid the rival roughhouse boys, and yet another, more terrifying danger: the dreaded thing that's been disappearing children in the night. In order to survive on her own, twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra collects precious moonlight, which she draws from the evening sky with her (very rare and most magical) lunar mirror. A visual treat of a tale." -Stefan Bachmann, international bestselling author of Cinders and Sparrows "Gleams with an eerie magic, its characters burning bright and fierce. In Heather Kassner's spine-chilling fantasy novel, reminiscent of Serafina and the Black Cloak, an orphaned girl chases a thieving boy into a magician’s land of starless, moonless gloom where other children have gone missing before her. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the manga run, it's gotten one Nintendo DS game that was released between 20 ◊. In 2009, Viz Media translated all 5 of the volumes and was sold in the United States and Canada. The anime also gained an official Korean dub and aired on a few Korean stations around the same time. The anime was broadcasted on TV Aichi, Tokyo Mix, and Kids Station from JSeptemwith a total of 13 episodes. The manga later got an animated adaptation in 2007 of the same name by Group TAC. ![]() The manga was serialized on Ciao Magazine the same magazine that Sayuri's previous manga series Pukupuku Natural Circular Notice was shown. Clover's main goal is to try to impress Rambler so she can go out traveling with him someday. ![]() Clover's dream is to travel with Rambler The Rambling Rabbit, but he thinks she's too young to go traveling with him. It takes place at a forest called "Crescent Forest" where the main story takes place along with other animals that live there. Happy Happy Clover (はぴはぴクローバー Hapi Hapi Kurōbā) (2005-2008) is a Shoujo manga series by Sayuri Tatsuyama that focuses on a day to day life of a female rabbit named Clover and her friends Mallow, Kale, and Shallot. Welcome to Crescent Forest note Clockwise starting from the top: Clover, Hickory, Mallow, Kale, and Shallot. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The black dahlia by james ellroy![]() ![]() Bless that poor girl's soul.ĭirty cops, women seen as skirts, corruption and sometimes just pure stupidity threads throughout this book. It's based loosely on a true story but in real life the Black Dahlia case is still open. Then a few minutes later I would pick it up and begin reading it again. I kept putting this book down saying that I was going to dnf the bastard. tries to keep some of it out of the press because the public won't care about women they see as hooers. Betty/Elizabeth Short's story will become ingrained into your memory after that point. They team together after the fight as partner's. ![]() The hotshot team that got the LA police dept a raise with their boxing match. It starts with the boxing fight of two young police officers Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard. My friend Hulk-boy told me to read this author. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Premeditated myrtle![]() ![]() Only, as more evidence emerges, she begins to believe that the town prosecutor, her own beloved father, has arrested the wrong man. With the help of her unflappable governess and brave kitten, Peony, Myrtle takes it upon herself to follow the clues official investigators overlooked. When Myrtle’s neighbor, a wealthy spinster and breeder of valuable rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle is the first to notice anything amiss. In Premeditated Myrtle, readers will be delighted by the quick, witty, and fearless Myrtle Hardcastle, a Young Lady of Quality with an unseemly obsession with forensic science. Goodreads || Book Depository || Target || Barnes and Noble || IndieBound || BookShop Description ![]() Bunce Publishers: Algonquin Young Readers Pub Date: 6th Oct 2020 Genre: Fiction/Mystery Age-Range: Middle-grade Source: Publisher ARC ![]() Title: Premeditated Myrtle Author: Elizabeth C. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Ayn rand graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() On the contrary, Rand conducted an intellectual auction among competing publishers, finally deciding on Random House because its editorial staff had the best understanding of the book. ![]() Publishers knew that her fiction would sell, and consequently they bid for the right to publish her next book.Ītlas Shrugged, although enormously controversial, had no difficulty finding a publisher. ![]() With the success of The Fountainhead a decade earlier and its subsequent production as a Hollywood film starring Gary Cooper in 1949, her stature as an author was established. Rand was already a famous, best-selling author by the time she published Atlas Shrugged. With its publication in 1957, the author accomplished everything she wanted to in the realm of fiction the rest of her career as a writer was devoted to nonfiction. The Role of the Common Man in Atlas Shrugged: The Eddie Willers StoryĪtlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece and the culmination of her career as a novelist.The Role of the Mind in Human Life in Atlas Shrugged. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Lucky t kate brian![]() ![]() But readers get a vivid sampling of Calcutta ("A few feet away a man sold steaming hot, spicy-scented meat out of a pot. The plot is predictable, from Carrie's unconvincing reconciliation with Doreen, to her slow realization that she has it better off than most, with or without her shirt. To retrieve her shirt, the California teen joins her mother's hippie best friend and her obnoxious daughter, Doreen (whom she nicknames "Dor-mean"), on a volunteer vacation in Calcutta. ![]() She also secretly hopes that it will "make her lucky enough to bring her family back together." But when her mother accidentally donates the T-shirt to Help India, Jason suddenly breaks up with Carrie, and she blows a big test. When Carrie's parents divorced, her father gave her a "lucky" T-shirt from Morocco after that Carrie lands a spot on the varsity basketball team, leads in school plays-and even scores a cute boyfriend, Jason. The author of The V Club (aka The Virginity Club, in paperback) cooks up another frothy novel from an original premise and delivers a positive message. ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy on A Lie for a Lie Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills on A Lie for a Lie “Helena Hunting delivers a smart, funny, emotional story that grabs you from page one.” USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow on A Lie for a Lie “Nothing hits me in the feels like a Helena Hunting romance!” And as I’ve already said…it’s complicated.īut when Hanna finds out she’s pregnant…suddenly things get real serious. ![]() Here’s the problem: we live on opposite ends of the country. It starts with one searing kiss, but quickly ends with us between the sheets-and in the shower, and the hot tub, you get the picture-and turns into months of sneaking around. ![]() And I spent months trying to keep a lid on that attraction. I’ve been drawn to her from the moment I laid eyes on her. The truth is a little more scandalous than that. For the last twenty-plus years, Queenie has been my main priority, but now she’s getting married.Ī beautiful, sexy complication named Hanna. I walked away from a career as a player so I could raise my daughter. I’m Jake Masterson, single dad, and the General Manager of Seattle’s NHL team. ![]() READ ON FOR AN EXCERPT FROM LOVE NEXT DOOR ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Pygmalion play![]() ![]() First productions Īfter creating the role of Col. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet. ![]() Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Shaw would also have been familiar with the musical Adonis and the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version. Its English-language premiere took place at His Majesty's Theatre in the West End in April 1914 and starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree as phonetics professor Henry Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle. ![]() It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented in German on stage to the public in 1913. Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. ![]() |