![]() There’s some squishy stuff, some Merchant Ivory stuff, some extreme, some subtle. If you’re brave enough, this is the ticket to ride the dark skies of Stories Of High Strangeness. Suffice it to say my stories are weird, bizarre and occasionally unclassifiable. What is it that I do? I’ll take the fifth on that one. A stud in a post- Apocalyptic world has one small problem. A low level drug dealer comes up with the perfect plan to wipe out the competition. An X rated ghost story plays out on the floor of a porno film dubbing stage. A one hit wonder faces certain death or worse because he refuses to play ‘Free Bird’. ![]() ![]() Marc Shapiro:Ī zombie goes looking for something more important than his next meal. In the end, we gain entry into the secret garden of his twisted mind with this short story collection by this experienced story crafter. What kind of personality hosts a radio show about the darkest American secrets ever imagined? Marc Shapiro brings his classic take on the persona of man, who is devilish and dark, himself. ![]()
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![]() With the help of Daniel McAdam, her attractive and charismatic confidante, Kat plunges into her own past to investigate. Charlotte makes the cook an offer she cannot refuse-if Kat can discover the identity of Joe's murderer, Charlotte will give her a share of the fortune Joe left behind. Kat is jolted by Charlotte's claims that not only was Joe murdered, but he had amassed a small fortune before he died. ![]() In Victorian-era London, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must solve a murder to claim an inheritance she didn't know she had in a riveting new historical mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Death at the Crystal Palace A stranger who appears on Kat's doorstep turns out to be one Charlotte Bristow, legal wife of Joe Bristow, the man Kat once believed herself married to-who she thought died at sea twelve years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2017 she was the Featured Illustrator for a prestigious publication. She is also a member of the Society of Children Illustrators and Book Writers. Megan currently makes her home in Missouri, where she lives with her husband and kids. However, her reimaginings of the English Regency era refused to go away which resulted in her penning “A Beautiful Love,” her first novella which she published in 2019. While she was studying for her Early Childhood Education bachelor’s degree, she met and married her soul mate and started a family. In 2014, Walker attended the University of Gloucestershire from where she graduated with a degree in illustration. She developed a love for stories and drawing at a very young age as she devoured all manner of books and scribbled her stories on any paper that she could get her hands on. During her childhood, she used her wild imagination to travel to worlds away and times past. Megan Walker is a historical fiction, Christian, and romance fiction author that was brought in Poplar Bluff, Missouri berry farm. ![]() ![]() Filming took place from September to November 2003. Although set in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, the film was mostly shot in Toronto, Canada. ![]() ![]() Fey was a long-term cast member and writer for Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels produced the film. The plot centers on a naïve teenage girl navigating her way through the social hierarchy of a modern American high school after years of her parents homeschooling her while conducting research in Africa. Fey also drew from her own experience at Upper Darby High School as an inspiration for some of the concepts in the film. The screenplay is based in part on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes female high school social cliques, school bullying and the damaging effect they can have on teenagers. The supporting cast includes Lizzy Caplan, Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Franzese and Neil Flynn. Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey, and starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried (in her film acting debut), Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler and Fey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Damien and I must forge a new strength from our shared passion and hope the fire between will burn away the darkness and protect everything we hold most dear. Now, all I want is to laugh with our children in the sunlight, then surrender myself to Damien's embrace in the dark.īut lingering secrets and hidden menace threaten our family. The dark days seemingly behind us, we have carved a life out of adversity, chiseling away pain to reveal strength and beauty. For him, there is no burden I wouldn't bear, no decadent punishment to which I won't submit. My love for Damien fills me, and the intensity of our bond brings me to my knees. Kenner comes a new full-length novel in the wildly popular Stark Saga that's left millions of readers breathless. From New York Times and #1 International bestselling author J. ![]() ![]() ![]() In ‘Mary Murphy’ one soldier reflects about the hard life of a laundress. In the end, hers is a story of loss, love and survival. She struggles with isolation and the cruelty of the others in the fort because of her rapid marriage. ‘Kathleen Flaherty’s Long Winter’ weaves a tale of an Irish woman who has no choice but to marry a man she barely knows after the death of her husband leaves her penniless. This collection of nine stories set in the era of the frontier army gives an entertaining and educational glimpse into a world not often explored in fiction. Here’s to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier ArmyĬarla Kelly wants to tell the truth, to discard myths about the U.S. ![]() ![]() A Christmas Promise (By:Jennifer Moore,Annette Lyon,Joanna Barker) (2020).Moore,Rebecca Connolly,Jen Geigle Johnson) (2020) A Week in Brighton (By:Annette Lyon,Donna Hatch) (2019).Eden,Elizabeth Johns,Sally Britton) (2019) Moore,Donna Hatch,Michele Paige Holmes) (2018) ![]() A Night in Grosvenor Square (By:Heather B.Falling for a Duke (By:Rebecca Connolly,Nichole Van,Janelle Daniels) (2018).A Holiday in Bath (By:Julie Daines,Caroline Warfield,Jaima Fixsen) (2018).Moore,Rebecca Connolly,Elizabeth Johns) (2018) A Country Christmas (With: Jennifer Moore,Josi S.Spring in Hyde Park (By:Jennifer Moore,Nichole Van,G.G.A Midwinter Ball (By:Annette Lyon,Heidi Ashworth,Michele Paige Holmes) (2015).Autumn Masquerade (By:Nancy Campbell Allen,Josi S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's going to have to do some very fancy manoeuvring - cast some spells, incite a few assassinations, start a war or two (the usual stuff) - and shag every lusciously shaggable wench who's amenable along the way. The only person who can possibly make things right is Pocket, who has already managed to sidestep catastrophe on numerous occasions, using his razor-sharp mind, rapier wit, and the equally well-honed daggers he keeps conveniently hidden behind his back. But Cordelia's blunt honesty ends up costing her her rightful share of the kingdom and earns her a banishment to boot. Christopher Moore is the author of 15 previous novels: Practical Demonkeeping, Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, A Dirty Job, You Suck, Fool, Bite Me, Sacré Bleu, The Serpent of Venice, and Secondhand Souls. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy to brownnose Dad. So he can see trouble brewing when Lear demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. ![]() A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years, from the time the king's grown daughters - selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic but hot Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia - were mere girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly, Uggie’s breakthrough role could also be his swan song. “A lot of actors and actresses are intimidated by dogs, but Jean was a super-confident actor, and he let the dog do everything,” says von Muller. And the trainer also credits Dujardin, who invited the dog to spend time with him before filming began, for establishing a real rapport. Because the movie is silent, von Muller could call out commands when scenes were rolling. ![]() Fix It, opposite David Boreanaz, and most recently appeared as Queenie in Water for Elephants, starring Reese Witherspoon.Īrtist is Uggie’s real star turn, though. ![]() He then worked his way up through commercials, made his film debut in 2006’s Mr. Uggie - whose favorite trick is riding a skateboard - was soon on the road, appearing in The Incredible Dog Show throughout the U.S. “He was full of energy and spirit,” says von Muller, who recognized a star in the making. Trainer Omar von Muller, based in Panorama City, Calif., took in the dog when he was a hyperactive pup because the family who originally owned him was about to send him to the pound. ![]() Foreign-Language Oscar Spotlight: Spain's Basque Romance 'Flowers'īut don’t tell that to Uggie, a natural performer. ![]() ![]() It’s pounding against my chest because I realize I’ve never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. Not even because I want her worse that I’ve ever wanted her before. ![]() It was totally worth it though! The continuation of Will and Lake’s beautiful love story had me captivated from start to finish as they begin the next stage of their lives together, and I couldn’t put this book down as it all played out in gloriously fun, sweet, swoony and emotional detail. At one point I had to put my kindle down just to take a moment before going on it was so gut wrenching (like Joey in Friends, I was tempted to put my kindle in the freezer for a bit). OMG! Absolute butterflying rollercoaster!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My theme is the process by which the Mediterranean became in varying degrees integrated into a single commercial, cultural and even (under the Romans) political zone, and how these periods of integration ended with sometimes violent disintegration, whether through warfare or plague. This book is a history of the Mediterranean Sea, rather than a history of the lands around it more particularly, it is a history of the people who crossed the sea and lived close by its shores in ports and on islands. ‘Mediterranean history’ can mean many things. ![]() |