![]() ![]() ![]() But when kids start disappearing and glowing creatures start showing up, Kick's theory quickly evaporates in a puff of foul-smelling swamp gas. by pretending to be psychic.Īccording to her calculations: one teeny-tiny life + (fake) psychic skills = popularity. But Kick is the new kid in school and she's determined to make a name for herself. She knows there's a scientific explanation for everything, especially curses and monsters. It's the Bohring curse and all the kids are about to become monsters or so the legend goes. Bohring is anything but boring for Kick who has already blown a hole through the kitchen floor, befriended a chicken-eating gator, and discovered that the town's hundred-year curse is upon them. Welcome to Bohring home to 453 people, 2,053 alligators, and one monster curse.Ĭorrection: home to 454 people, now that Kick Winter is living in the swamp Hollows with her Grandma Missouri, the town (fake) psychic. ![]() Welcome to the town of Bohring home to 453 people, 2,053 alligators, and one monster curse. ![]()
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![]() Xander and I have known each other for years, so this should be a breeze. Going undercover has never been an issue in the past, so I don’t see why there’d be a problem now. ![]() I mean, I’m allowed to give him a hard time about it, but when some creep decides to cross the line and go after him, they’re gonna have to answer to me. ![]() It must be so hard to be Alexander Thorne, the number one prime-time news anchor in the country, with millions of dollars and a car that costs more than my house. Now, not only do I have a bodyguard, I also have a fake boyfriend. I only wanted the name of a bodyguard I didn’t expect for Sean to volunteer for the job. He also happens to be the best they have, which is why I find myself on his doorstep the night my life is threatened by an anonymous stalker. The older brother of my life-long best friend, Sean is a detective for the Chicago PD, and is also known as Detective “Dick” for being…well, a surly, temperamental pain in everyone’s ass. Never in that equation would I ever include the word boyfriend-and not just because he’s straight. ![]() If I had to describe Sean Bailey, it would be: a surly, temperamental pain in my ass. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has two sons that are the bravest he could ask for and a wife that is an indomitable woman. That being said, he regrets nothing and later got degrees in education and English with certifications in folklore and creative writing. Ritter took such classes in meaningful subjects like Seventeenth Century Italian Longsword, Juggling, and Trampoline. ![]() While in college, at the University of Oregon, he chose to take classes so that he could have a great story to tell about taking the class, rather than any practical use that he could get out of it. He was taught by his parents to value creativity, intelligence, and individuality above all when they would read stories to him, they always read with voices. When William Ritter is not writing bestselling novels, he is educating high schoolers language arts in the state of Oregon (he also teaches them other things like reading, writing, heroes and mythology). ![]() ![]() I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction." -Celeste Ng "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous and accessible-though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.Ī Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle AwardA Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed "Effortlessly lyrical." - New York Times " Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. ![]() Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a "huge beating genius machine" striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment.
![]() ![]() ![]() In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations. The series was chiefly inspired by the poem " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix. In addition to the eight novels of the series proper that comprise 4,250 pages, many of King's other books relate to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. ![]() The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels, one short story, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. ![]() Michael Whelan, Phil Hale, Ned Dameron, Dave McKean, Jae Lee, Bernie Wrightson, Darrel Andersonĭark fantasy, science fiction, horror, Western ![]() ![]() Minha primeira crítica é uma que considero grave e é ao começo. ![]() Infelizmente, ter a escrita bonita e saber estruturar uma história são duas coisas bem diferentes, e ela deixou bem a desejar na segunda. No primeiro capítulo já, achei isso estranho, porque dava para ver que a autora escreve muito bem. Só depois de já ter os três livros e começar esse primeiro que percebi que ele tinha desagradado muitas pessoas. Eu só quero ler todos os livros e saber o que acontece. Para falar a verdade, de vez em quando fico tão curiosa com certas séries, que nem me importo se são realmente boas. Normalmente, procuro várias resenhas antes de comprar um livro, mas esse resolvi ler sem nem saber direito do que falava e se as pessoas cuja opinião mais me importa tinham gostado. Como muitas outras pessoas, eu resolvi ler esse livro depois de ver a trilogia em mil lugares diferentes. ![]() ![]() Brande does not take too kindly to having to vie for his sons attention with the Spanish gardener, and becomes increasingly suspicious of his rival. José is like no one Nicholas has ever met before and he instantly holds him in high regard. He monitors his sons every move and is obsessed with ensuring that the bond between them is stronger than ever.But history begins to repeat itself when Nicholas befriends the gardener José. ![]() His beloved wife has recently fled his stifling love and now Brande has transferred all of his adoration onto Nicholas. ![]() And only the two of them.For Mr Harrington Brande is a proud man and a jealous man. When Mr Harrington Brande moves himself and his precious young son Nicholas to a grand house in the deserted Spanish town of San Jorge he is planning on a fresh start for the two of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is a work of investigative reportage like no other and a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease-one that offers a sobering and prescient warning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague. HIV and National Security: Where Are the Links 1 copy. ![]() ![]() LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo on a harrowing, fifty year journey through the history of our battles with microbes. Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, on LibraryThing. Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesĪfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one. The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize -winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett ![]() ![]() Part 2: Portuguese Reception of Antigone (20th–21st Centuries)ħ António Sérgio’s Antígona: “a social study in dialogue form”Ĩ António Sérgio’s Antigone Revisited: Two Invectives against the Salazar Dictatorshipĩ Júlio Dantas’ Antigone: Or the Martyr of Late Romanticismġ0 Taking Liberties: António Pedro’s Recreation of Antigoneġ1 Antígona by António Pedro: Dialogues with European Aesthetic Currentsġ2 Creon, the Tyrant of Antigone on Stage: His Reception in Júlio Dantas and António Pedro during the Portuguese Dictatorshipġ3 Antigone: Code Name – Mário Sacramento’s One-act Playġ4 “Like a Ghost of Antigone”: Ganhar a Vida (Get a life), by João Canijoġ5 Antigone, Daughter of the D’Annunzian Oedipus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal: 20th and 21st Century Rewritings of the Antigone MythĢ Portraits of Antigone in Portugal and Brazil: The Reception of Antigone in the 20th and 21st Centuriesĥ Jean Anouilh’s Antigone: A Free “translation” of SophoclesĦ Seven Reflections on María Zambrano’s La Tumba de Antígona (Antigone’s Tomb) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each is a scene from Skinner’s life, probably rather exaggerated and fictionalised, usually telling a self-deprecating foible of mid-century middle-class life. The title comes from the opening sketch – which seems a better term than ‘story’ or ‘essay’, though they could equally be called that. But I didn’t get Excuse It, Please! (1936) – and yet, here it is, and that is because Lisa May very, very kindly sent me a copy! That was also in 2015, but every book has its correct moment and, in 2022, Excuse It, Please! found its time had come. When I was in America in 2015, I ordered a whole heap of them to my friend’s apartment – because they’re much easier to find in the US than in the UK. A lot of people know and love Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, but fewer people have gone on to discover Cornelia Otis Skinner’s collections of humorous short sketches. ![]() |