6/5/2023 0 Comments Fire country david estes![]() Young Siena is spunky and believable, and readers will pull for her to escape the clutches of her father and the dystopian society in which she lives.”- Rysa Walker, bestselling author of TIMEBOUNDĪnd don't forget that you can also GIFT Kindle copies of the books to all your friends, also for FREE. Title: Fire Country (Country Saga 1) Author: David Estes. “Strong world building and vivid characters make Fire Country stand out from other post-apocalyptic YA novels. Looking for books by David Estes See all books authored by David Estes, including The Moon Dwellers, and Soulmarked. In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer’s even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. You should too!" -Emmy Laybourne, bestselling author of MONUMENT 14 You will root for the protagonist, Siena, and her story will rake you across the coals. Readers who enjoyed Blood Red Road by Moira Young will absolutely love this book!"- Mike Mullin, bestselling author of ASHFALL ![]() "Exciting Post-Apocalyptic Tale.world building is rich, detailed, and believable. Positive Praise for Fire Country from Bestselling Authors: ![]() To kick off 2015 right, Fire Country is FREE for a limited time only, from January 17-21, as advertised on BookBub! ![]()
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6/5/2023 0 Comments Author of ballet shoes![]() I remember my mother, a former ballerina herself, reading this to me when I was four or five. It's not the greatest book-to-film translation of all time (sorry, that honour has to go to Peter Jackson), but it's a damn fine one. Buy this film for yourself and/or for your children and enjoy! Then, I typed "Pauline, Petrova, and Posy" into Google and found what I was looking for! Of course, I should have known that it was a BBC production, because it was so beautifully done! So, I am thrilled to have found this and am ordering the film as a keepsake of the fruits of persistence. Streatfeild was, indeed, the author of "Ballet Shoes" but had a tough time finding a film reference. Using the name, I searched and found that Ms. When I decided to do a little Web searching this afternoon, the memory of this film popped up again and I thought, "Hey, why not try again." This time as well, I wasn't finding much except one strange page that gave a bit of what seemed like script for what it billed as "Balley Shoes." And, a name - Noel Streatfeild. The memory of this beautiful film haunted me until today, nearly 30 years later. I tried over the years to find some reference to it, asking people once in a while if they'd ever heard of it, and searching the early Web one time in 1996 to no avail. I remembered the name of the show, "Ballet Shoes" and the names of the sisters, Pauline, Petrova, and Posy. ![]() ![]() When I was 13 years old, I saw a lovely show on the television one afternoon about three young sisters who take ballet lessons from a formidable old Russian dance teacher. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Absalom by Gordon Rennie![]() ![]() Two further planned collaborations with Phoenix, a one-shot graphic novel called "Orson Welles: Special Agent!" and Necronauts, later completed with Frazer Irving, were halted when Tundra Press ceased publishing in 1993. Both these stories were later collected into one-shot graphic novels and published by Tundra Publishing. ![]() ![]() He then showed his surprising range with the completely different White Trash in the same issue - a satirical journey through the USA, drawn by the New Zealand artist Martin Emond. It also featured appearances by characters from other Victorian fiction including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and characters from stories by Edgar Allan Poe. His first work was published in Blast! magazine in 1991 a metafictional Sherlock Holmes story called "Sherlock Holmes in the Curious Case of the Vanishing Villain", painted by Woodrow Phoenix. ![]() ![]() The shared anticipation of the game’s release linked us together. Blockbuster, of course, is a thing of the past, but the childlike desires of kids at heart remain.As people filled up the store last Thursday night, I was reminded of a simpler time.It was refreshing to be a part of a community, if only for a few hours. ![]() I was close to my son’s age when I begged my parents to rent video games every weekend. I celebrated the occasion at my local GameStop, which allowed enthusiasts to win prizes, pick up the game, and quite frankly, be kids again.I often chuckle when people suggest that a Blockbuster card is a form of ID for millennials. What I found was sweet nostalgia.The Legend of Zelda enjoyed its first release in six years: Tears of the Kingdom. Then, I picked up a sword in search of adventure. Last Thursday, a few hours before midnight, I left my house in a folktale-like fashion.As moonlight draped the bedroom, I tucked my oldest boy into the covers. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Armada novel![]() ![]() ![]() Pew Pew Pew!!! Hurry reader we must find shelter from the laser fire…. ![]() Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught, Zack can't help thinking of all the science-fiction books, TV shows, and movies he grew up reading and watching, and wonder: Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little too… familiar?Īrmada is at once a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien-invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before-one whose every page is infused with author Ernest Cline's trademark pop-culture savvy. And his skills-as well as those of millions of gamers across the world-are going to be needed to save the earth from what's about to befall it. Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.īut what Zack's seeing is all too real. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer.Ī minute later, he's sure of it. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom-if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF Ready Player One ![]() ![]() ![]() The book explores the inner demons every human has and fights with. Will Hyde be able to manage the dangers of his hidden self with a potion he concocted? What starts as a manageable illness rapidly spirals out of control. He starts his string of violence by trampling a young girl that bumped into him to death. ![]() Hyde, the man commits disproportionate crimes without remorse. Hyde: a cruel, self-indulgent, terrifying evil person that lacks any kind of empathy. Due to a split personality, he turns into Mr. Jekyll is an outwardly good, nice, and mild-mannered young man. In this novel, we will follow the story of Gabriel John Utterson, a legal practitioner that follows the case occurring to his old friend Dr. Read one of the Robert Louis Stevenson classics.The definitive edition.įeatures an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Mist by Kathryn James![]() Evan lives on the fringes of Nell's world, rarely glimpsed, misunderstood and feared, but a long-simmering showdown between the two worlds is looming. Only Nell guesses who's behind the kidnap - the boy she hoped was her friend, the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River. Trouble finds Gwen and drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses who's behind the kidnap - the boy she hoped was her friend, the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River.Evan is no ordinary boy - he has a secret which will lead Nell to question everything she has always learned from her grandmother's stories. A sweet sixteen party, and thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. Trouble finds Gwen and drags her through the mist. TRAINING London Studio Centre, receiving the Sheila ONeill Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. ![]() ![]() A sweet 16 party, and 13-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. ![]() A sweet sixteen party, and thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. Rating details 926 ratings 108 reviews Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. ![]() ![]() Tolson, due to his complexity of theme and language, as well as his work's utilization and transformation of the Western literary heritage. ![]() Others associate Wright with the African-American poets Robert Hayden and Melvin B. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim, with some comparing Wright's poetry to the work of Walt Whitman, T. This book included his famous poems The Homecoming Singer, The End of an Ethnic Dream, and An Invitation to Madison County. Wright's first publication was a 22-page chapbook entitled Death as History (1967), which contained 15 poems, published by Poets Press followed by his first full-length book, The Homecoming Singer (1971). ![]() As a student at Rutgers, Wright lived in Harlem, where he met African-American writers associated with the Black Arts Movement. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he lives in Bradford, Vermont. About Jay Wright Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments Griffin black like me![]() ![]() In 1975-fourteen years after the publication of Black Like Me-members of the Ku Klux Klan jumped Griffin and gave him a life-threatening beating. ![]() ![]() In the decades following this book, Griffin became a civil rights activist, often working with well-known figures like Martin Luther King Jr. In 1957, he inexplicably regained his sight, and two years later began conducting the social experiment that led to the publication of Black Like Me in 1961. ![]() Blind for the next ten years, he became devoutly Catholic and began publishing fiction and essays about his experience as a blind man. As part of the Air Corps, he went to the South Pacific, where he later suffered a concussion so severe that he lost his eyesight and returned home. Unfortunately, though, the Nazis soon learned of his involvement in such activities, so he fled the country, returning to the United States and joining the military. When he was nineteen, he became a medic and worked as part of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of Europe, eventually helping transport Jewish people to England. After spending his childhood in Dallas, Texas, John Howard Griffin moved to France to become a doctor. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments The Ringer by Edgar Wallace![]() As tension mounts, it seems increasingly clear that the Ringer is one of the people in the close circle around Meister. A police guard is set up around his house and, surrounded by burglar alarms, he waits for further news no intruder could possibly enter. Scotland Yard know the Ringer had left his sister in the care of unscrupulous lawyer Maurice Meister and that she was later found drowned, so they warn Meister that the Ringer is in London. Marking the directorial debut of Guy Hamilton, later to direct a string of iconic James Bond films, The Ringer is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original fim elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.'The Ringer' is an elusive criminal, reported dead in Australia but now thought to be alive in London. A luminary cast features in this classy adaptation of Edgar Wallace's thriller - the best-known and most widely adapted play by the celebrated British crime/suspense writer. ![]() |