5/12/2023 0 Comments Stephen fry troy![]() ![]() Fans will love hearing his interpretation, whether they are familiar with the original Greek myths or not. Illustrated throughout with classical art inspired by the myths, this fresh take on an ancient tale invites you to explore a captivating world with a virtuoso storyteller as your guide.īELOVED AUTHOR: Stephen Fry is an icon whose signature wit and mellifluous style makes this retelling utterly unique. Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Helen, their lovers, and their mortal enemies all burn bright in Fry's compelling prose. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor, and vivid emotion. ![]() In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War with his trademark wit and vibrance.įull of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Cursed by frank miller tom wheeler![]() ![]() ![]() Wheeler, a writer and producer perhaps best known for the “Puss in Boots” (2011) screenplay, was a self-described “lifelong Frank Miller fan” when the two were introduced several years ago. When the show premieres Friday, it will be the latest stage in a kind of evolving dream project for Miller and Wheeler, which started with their collaboration on the 2019 illustrated young-adult novel on which it is based. That’s the magic Netflix is hoping to pull from “Cursed,” a live-action fantasy series created by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler that puts the young Lady of the Lake at the center of Arthurian myth. In a post-“Game of Thrones” world, every programmer’s dream is finding the next big spectacle series - and in the age of Covid, a new binge-worthy show is worth its weight in mystical swords. Imagine a version in which Merlin is a heavy drinker who has lost his magic Arthur is a scrounging but ambitious nobody with questionable scruples and the Lady of the Lake is a teenage fairy with powers she can’t control and isn’t sure she wants. Merlin, King Arthur, the Lady of the Lake. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Cornwell's gift for combining cutting edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a true modern classic. With this novel, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell created one of crime fiction's most compelling heroines: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. He was a Professor of Pathology and Chief of Forensic Sciences at the University of Arizona. Froede – The chief among all forensic scientists! Best Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1989.” The recipient Richard Froede was a forensic pathologist who assisted Cornwell regarding facts in this novel. Association copy, inscribed by the author prior to the publication date on the title page, “To Dr. First edition of Cornwell’s first novel and the first to feature Kay Scarpetta. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Ghostland an american history![]() ![]() Most revealing is the author’s examination of the logical factors that contribute to hauntings-e.g., hotels feel eerie because they are uncannily not home, and homes often feel haunted because they have been abandoned. Interwoven throughout the narrative are the voices of writers and thinkers including Nabokov, Freud, Poe, Dickens, and Stephen King. ![]() This allows us to see how ghost stories often say “more about the tellers than they do about the supernatural.” Throughout history, ghost stories have been used to make money, offer a moral, mark a location, and explain the unexplainable, among many other functions. In each location, the author reveals not only the ghost stories of the site, but also, most importantly, the site’s true history. While not a new concept, Dickey’s theme has been more extensively explored where fairy tales and general folklore are concerned. ![]() ![]() On his quest, the author examines every manner of haunted place, from houses like the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts, which inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Gothic romance of the same name, to haunted cities like New Orleans as well as asylums, cemeteries, battlefields, and haunted hotels. Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith, 2012 etc.) exploration into the ghost stories of America and what they reveal about society. So begins Dickey’s (Creative Writing/National Univ. “If you want to understand a place, ignore the boasting monuments and landmarks, and go straight to the haunted houses.” ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Armada book 2 ernest cline![]() ![]() No planned release date has been set by Universal. It's uncertain whether he'll keep his writing credit for Armada as Mazeau boards the project.ĭan Farah ( Ready Player One) and Dylan Clark ( Planet of the Apes) are producing Armada. Cline co-wrote the Steven Spielberg-directed blockbuster with Zak Penn. How fortunate, then, that Universal is bringing Armada to the medium to which it possibly belongs.Ĭline is enjoying the box office run of Ready Player One, which just crossed the $200 million threshold worldwide. Book cover for Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline Book cover for Armada by Ernest. AV Club called it "a pale imitation of" Cline's own work," while The Washington Post said Armada was an exercise in "nostalgic narcissism." However, many reviewers noted how cinematic the story is, observing that while it may be a poor novel, Armada would make for a great movie. ![]() Like Ready Player One, Armada is also filled to the brim with Easter eggs and and references to '80s and '90s pop culture.Īrmada wasn't quite as well-received as Ready Player One, though it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks. Armada, libro o eBook de Ernest Cline, David Tejera Expósito y Editorial: B. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Cathedral story by raymond carver![]() To the implied reader the narrator exclaims, "It was like nothing else in my life up to now" (3.45). Soon after she opens her eyes, the narrator closes his, but continues drawing, with Robert's hand tight around his. ![]() Robert has his hand over her husband's hand, and the two of them sitting on the floor drawing on a paper grocery bag. When the woman wakes up, she can't quite process what she sees. When Robert and the narrator draw the cathedral together in front of the narrator's sleeping wife, something amazing is happening, something that isn't necessarily visible to the eye. ![]() After lots of drinks, a huge meal, and some marijuana, an ordinary living room is transformed into what could be considered a scared place, kind of like a cathedral, but one where the people in it are worshiping only each other. In a story called "Cathedral" one might expect setting to be a little more complicated than that. The basic setting of the story is a middle-class home somewhere in New York, over a single evening. One night in a New York home, late 1970s or early 1980sįirst published in 1981, "Cathedral" is set in the days when the switch from black and white to color television was in its early stages, and when cassette tapes were a cutting edge technology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her story is narrated by an unusual cabin boy with a sharp wit. Along her journey, Tress encounters a talking rat, a crew of reluctant pirates, and plenty of danger. Luckily, Tress is kindhearted, resourceful, and curious-which also makes her an appealing heroine. Ships protected by spore-killing silver sail these seas, and it’s Tress’ quest to find a ship and somehow persuade its crew to carry her to a place no ships want to go, to rescue a person nobody cares about but her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Verdant spores explode into fast-growing vines if they get wet, which means inhaling them can be deadly. The seas on Tress’ world are dangerous because they’re not made of water-they’re made of colorful spores that pour down from the world’s 12 stationary moons. To do that, she’ll have to get off the barren island she’s forbidden to leave, cross the dangerous Verdant Sea, the even more dangerous Crimson Sea, and the totally deadly Midnight Sea, and somehow defeat the unbeatable Sorceress. Charlie, meanwhile, has been captured by the mysterious Sorceress who rules the Midnight Sea, which leaves Tress with no choice but to go rescue him. When the duke realizes the two teenagers are falling in love, he takes Charlie away to find a suitable wife-and returns with a different young man as his heir. Charlie is the son of the local duke, but he likes stories more than fencing. Tress is an ordinary girl with no thirst to see the world. A fantasy adventure with a sometimes-biting wit. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Story thieves book series![]() ![]() He soon learns that she’s a half-fictional girl (her mother human, her father fictional) in search of her missing dad, and insists on joining her quest, by traveling into one of his favorite fantasy series to procure some help. ![]() In the first volume, regular kid Owen sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. The paperback edition of Story Thieves has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 20 straight weeks to date. Who hasn’t fantasized about becoming a character in their favorite book? Author James Riley has turned that idea into a bit of wish fulfillment by creating the briskly selling Story Thieves series (S&S/Aladdin), whose first two books have sold more than 170,000 copies combined since the publication of book #1, Story Thieves, in January 2015. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Perfect lies kiersten white![]() White avoids sequel padding, keeping her tale lean and streamlined, and again makes skillful use of temporal shifts (readers are wise to keep track of dates and times) in constructing her suspenseful plot. Fia’s emotional extremes verge on tiresome without quite crossing the line. The sisters’ alternating narration helps to modulate the tension, balancing Fia’s jittery, violent persona with Annie’s focused, levelheaded one. ![]() Always the more stable of the sisters, Annie’s equally determined to protect the vulnerable, including Fia, a task complicated by romantic entanglements and the choices they entail. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Annie can’t enjoy the freedom for which her sister sacrificed herself, not when her own visions point to a calamitous future. Without her sister to rely on, Fia grows increasingly dependent on James, who’s got issues of his own. ![]() Fia’s freed her sister, Annie, from the sinister Keane organization but at a high price: severing contact between them to maintain the fiction that Annie’s dead ( Mind Games, 2013).Ĭompeting demands and desires further rend Fia’s tattered psyche: recruiting girls with paranormal abilities to be shaped by the Keane School while plotting its destruction and protecting the vulnerable-especially Annie, who’s blind. ![]() ![]() The story of Frederick gives us all hope that even at our lowest point, if we look hard enough, we will find the light of our true joyful self within us. This fading of light is meant to represent how a person with depression feels inside. As Frederick notices his light fading, this once beautiful light is dimmed by feelings of sadness, anger and loneliness. Throughout the story, the metaphor of a beautiful light inside of Frederick is used to represent the happiness, uniqueness and self-confidence that we all hope to strive towards in our lives. This story offers children a unique insight into understanding their depression or that of a family member or friend. Lily, Frederick is able to see that his beautiful light was within him all along. With the support of his parents and his new counselor Mrs. ![]() His light was dimmed by sadness, anger and loneliness. Frederick started to doubt himself and his light started to fade. The third result is Katherine Capria Jones age 50s in Ponte Vedra, FL. ![]() ![]() Select this result to view Katherine E McIntyres phone number, address, and more. Katherine is related to William Teal Rachal and William C McIntyre as well as 2 additional people. When he was younger he believed in himself and his light shone brightly for all to see. They have also lived in Victoria, TX and Saint Petersburg, FL. This was the light of happiness, love and uniqueness. Synopsis: Frederick was born with a beautiful light inside of him. ![]() |