The Twelve by Justin Cronin7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man?s extinction. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind?s salvation. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned?and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. Kittridge, known to the world as ?Last Stand in Denver,? has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. ![]() Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child?s arrival even as society dissolves around her. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The end of the world was only the beginning. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. ![]()
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Without remorse movie7/8/2023 ![]() Armed men move through a house after they cut the power, they enter a bedroom and shoot a bed several times (we later see bloody bed clothes and understand that a man’s pregnant wife was killed) one of the intruders shoots another intruder and another man in the house arms himself and shoots several other armed intruders before being shot himself (we see bloody wounds and he gasps and gags as he drags himself to a bedroom where he finds his wife dead). A van stops in traffic and a man exits the back and shoots a man in another car several times (we see blood spray as the body thrashes and the windshield shatters). – A man taking out his trash in a suburban neighborhood is run down by a van, as his young daughter sees him and screams we see his body caught up under the tires and he lies crumpled and bloody on the pavement. ![]() ![]() Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse VIOLENCE/GORE 7 ![]() The Beetle by Richard Marsh7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense. « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next » sort by « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh is set in London and tells the story of a shape-shifting Egyptian visitor who seeks revenge on a British politician. ![]() ![]() shelved 20,459 times Showing 30 distinct works.Download cover art Download CD case insert The BeetleĪ story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Books by Richard Marsh (Author of The Beetle) Books by Richard Marsh Richard Marsh Average rating 3.55 ![]() Dumplin' by Julie Murphy7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I want to start by saying this book is really refreshing and liberating in a great way. Great writing, amazing rep and realistic characters who don’t wish to be liked but to be accepted for who they are: this is a good read despite the tropes it has that I didn’t like. ![]() ![]() (Just in case you’re feeling lazy to read a long one) But she’s still set to show the world she deserves to be in the pageant as much as everyone else. Things get out of her control and she even finds herself in conflict with her best friend Ellen. And before she knew it, she’s joining the Miss Clover City beauty pageant inspiring others. But instead of making her self-confidence rose, Will starts to doubt herself. Until Will takes a job at the local fast-food joint where she meets and finds herself attracted to Bo and she finds it surprising he seems to like her back. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked. Willowdean or ‘Dumplin” to her former beauty queen mom has always been at home in her own skin. PUBLICATION: September 15th, 2015 by Balzer + Bray GENRE: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, ![]() Fangirl book review7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() L E A S T F A V O U R I T E C H A R A C T E R ![]() Cath was dimensional and not in a predictable way. She never actually stated that she had social anxiety she just gave us glimpses of Cath’s ‘craziness’. The way that Rowell portrayed her social anxiety was so respectful and touching. I love to write and read and my ideal Saturday night is tucked in with a book. It also was really like Harry Potter, I thought. I found them boring and hard to get into. But everything was realistic and the problems were real and believable. We know Cath’s life is going to continue and this is only the beginning of her journey as a writer and hopefully there is more to come from Rowell. ![]() Finally reading something realistic! With no ‘happy ending’ or even a solid ending. And in books about writing, I find a lot of advice. It’s when I can relate to the characters most: when they are like me. ![]() There’s not much I love more than books or movies or TV shows about writing. Through the first few months of college, many people come in and out of Cath’s life to send her on an eventful journey of self-discovery. Cath, on the other hand, hardly ever leaves her dorm room due to social anxiety and having an incredible amount of people reading and wanting more of her online fan fiction. Wren wants to party, meet boys and get crazy drunk. Cath + Wren are identical twins but have two completely different attitudes towards their freshman year of college. ![]() Bird Watch by Jane Yolen7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() “I hardly ever watch television, unless my grandkids are around.” GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGĪ wall of family photographs in Yolen’s Hatfield home. GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGĬhildren’s book author Jane Yolen takes a call in the “television room” of her Hatfield home, a favorite writing spot that gives her room to spread out her things and use her laptop. Illiustration, left, by Ruth Sanderson, in the home of children's book author Jane Yolen. GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGįrom Greek mythology, a chimera: part lion, part eagle, part serpent GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTING GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGĬhildren’s book author Jane Yolen in what she calls the television room, a favorite writing spot that gives her space to put up her feet and use her laptop (with the TV off). GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGĪt right, Yolen depicted in caricature as an owl. ![]() GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGĬhildren’s book author Jane Yolen has tea in the kitchen of her Hatfield home. GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTINGĪ portrait of Yolen’s late husband, David Stemple, as Don Quixote. Children’s book author Jane Yolen visits with illustrator Bob Marstall in the dining room of her Hatfield home. ![]() King richard william shakespeare7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Sir Pierce of Exton decides solely on his own to execute the deposed king, and then, as a result, he is banished by King Henry. Richard is imprisoned in Pomfret Castle, where he faces his death alone, philosophically contemplating the meaning of his fall from grandeur. The rebel noblemen force the king to abdicate, and Bolingbroke is crowned as Henry IV. When Bolingbroke and his army decide to return from exile in France, the rebel forces prepare to confront Richard on his return from Ireland. ![]() ![]() Unhappy with Richard's incompetence as a ruler and worried by his seizure of the Duke of Lancaster's wealth, a number of nobles rally support for Henry Bolingbroke. When he dies, Richard takes possession of all of Gaunt's wealth and leaves for Ireland. Gaunt warns Richard with his dying words that he is flirting with danger and doing great harm to the country by allowing himself to be influenced by his sycophantic courtiers. Then the king makes plans to leave for the wars in Ireland.īefore departing, Richard visits the ailing father of Bolingbroke, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. On the field of combat, the king changes his mind and banishes the two men - Bolingbroke for ten years (commuted to six) and Mowbray for life. After attempts to reconcile them fail, Richard orders them to take part in a traditional chivalric trial by combat. Bolingbroke has accused Mowbray of treason, and the two of them exchange insults in the presence of King Richard. ![]() The play opens with a dispute between Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. ![]() Dennis dunaway book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! is the riveting account of the band's creation in the '60s and strange glory in the '70s and the legendary characters they met along the way. From struggling for recognition to topping the charts, the Alice Cooper group was entertaining, outrageous, and one of a kind. Their journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene, along the way adding new dimensions of rock theater. As teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway and lead singer Vince Furnier, who would later change his name to Alice Cooper, formed a hard-knuckles band that played prisons, cowboy bars, and teen clubs. Their utterly original performance style and look, known as shock rock, was swiftly copied by countless bands.ĭennis Dunaway, the bassist and cosongwriter for the band, tells a story just as over-the-top crazy as their (in)famous shows. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out", they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one on the US and UK charts with Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. ![]() When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame says, "Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson, or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band." ![]() ![]() She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of prop Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. ![]() Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. ![]() Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. ![]() Winspear books in order7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Following higher education at the University of London’s Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing communications in the UK. She currently divides her time between Ojai and the San Francisco Bay Area and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom and Europe Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. A regular contributor to journals covering international education, Jacqueline has published articles in women's magazines and has also recorded her essays for KQED radio in San Francisco. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal / professional coach, Jacqueline embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer. ![]() Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. ![]() |