![]() I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive.įollow Georgia's hilarious antics as she tries to overcome the dilemma's that are weighing up against her, and muddle her way through teenage life and all that it entails: how to replace accidentally shaved-off eyebrows how to cope with Angus, her small labrador-sized Scottish wildcat her first kiss with Peter - afterwards known as Whelk Boy annoying teachers unsympathetic friends and family, and how to entice Robbie the Sex God! Phew - she's really got her work cut out! I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home.Ħ. In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberführer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic 'teachers'.ĥ. ![]() I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room.Ĥ. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years.ģ. ![]() There are six things very wrong with my life:ġ. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Bonne by Nancy J. Healy![]() Once her best friend, Kat has now become Sarah’s sister-in-law. Sarah has spent her life loving Kat at a distance. As the pair of friends grow, so do their feelings - Sarah’s for Katelyn, and Katelyn’s for Sarah’s brother, Neil. But, life is not always as simple and charming as it seems. Looking in, they have an idyllic life in a quaint New England community. ![]() Within minutes, Katelyn will never think of any other place as home again.īest friends from the moment they meet, Katelyn and Sarah are inseparable. As she’s pulled to her feet, Katelyn meets with the inquisitive gaze of Sarah Masters. When Katelyn looks up from her position on the ground, she finds a hand stretched out to greet her. That is until a 10-year-old boy named Neil Masters crashes into her bicycle. It’s the day before her 12th birthday, and all Katelyn wants to do is go back home to Pennsylvania. ![]() Katelyn (Kat) Summers’ family has just moved to Webster, Massachusetts. When two bicycles collide at the end of a driveway in 1993, three lives are changed forever. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments PTSD by Guillaume Singelin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G.H. ![]() Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985), born in Wimbledon, received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audienceĪnd, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons.” His work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths the legends of the births and lives of the great Olympians the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles the Argonaut voyage the tale of Troy, and much more.Īll the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning, Full references to the classical sources, and copious indexes, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader and a full commentary on each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today’s archaeological and anthropological knowledge. ![]() ![]() The group encounter a human skull with a maggot crawling through an eye socket, before looking up to discover a severed arm dripping with blood. Mulcahy and his screenwriters (four are credited, including Flynn’s grandson Luke) whisk the audience through a series of rapid-fire escapades. When the cameraman, Ronald (Lochlyn Munro), asks the director, Joel Schwartz (Dan Fogler), where he found this funny Australian fellow, Schwartz responds: “He was the only schmuck who answered the ad.” Introduced as “a mostly true account of the Hollywood star’s early adventures”, the plot kicks off in the jungles of New Guinea where Flynn (Thomas Cocquerel) leads a small expedition of US film-makers. Mulcahy’s oeuvre includes the Ozploitation film Razorback (AKA “Jaws on Trotters”), two Highlander movies and an array of music videos including the Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star.įlynn’s legacy is tied to the idea that the story of our lives and the narrative of real-life events are two very different things. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is both celebration and embellishment of his legacy, directed by a man who is a bit of a legend himself. The director Russell Mulcahy’s Queensland-shot period swashbuckler In Like Flynn adapts a novel written by Flynn himself, Beam Ends, set during his pre-acting years when the future star supposedly embarked on a quest to locate a stash of gold in New Guinea. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Oathbringer book cover![]() ![]() When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make. Eventually, the “powers that be” selected the approach and I was on my way. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this newest story (like Edgedancer before it) takes a deeper look at several characters in the saga, and brings them to the forefront. I was torn whether to show Rand and his companions outside or inside the cave I attempted to visualize both. Many websites and blogs devoted to the Wheel of Time books provided details of character appearances that the scene lacked.Īfter studying the covers of the earlier volumes, I elected to bring the protagonist Rand forward to dominate the front book jacket. ![]() My compositional ideas were limited to depicting-in the best way I could-the brief episode provided. ![]() ![]() The author and publisher selected the cover scene in advance. I usually insist on reading the manuscript, but it wasn’t possible this time. I decided the last cover should retain a sense of continuation while bringing the epic to a close. I was honored to paint the cover image for the final book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, but it was a daunting prospect given the massive backstory of 14 books written over a span of 20+ years.Įach volume, illustrated by the late Darrell K. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The shack book william p young![]() Her body has never been found, but the evidence pointed toward her murder at the hands of a serial pedophile at this abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness. Mack, too, undergoes a remarkable transformation, although that change takes longer to accomplish.įour years earlier Mack’s youngest daughter Missy was kidnapped during a family outing. ![]() When he arrives at the shack, it and its environment are transformed by the presence of God into an idyllic setting. It takes Mack a little while to decide to keep the appointment, but his curiosity and his pain eventually convince him to make the trip. In this novel the protagonist Mackenzie Allen Phillips receives an invitation from God to meet at a shack in the woods. Where is God in the midst of pain and suffering? How can a good God allow the kinds of horrific evil that humans and other creatures experience? Why does He not do something to stop it? ![]() The book addresses the most difficult of all theological dilemmas, the goodness of God and the problem of evil. This book was written by a Christian father for his children, to help them understand his relationship with God. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Terrier by tamora pierce![]() ![]() Assigned to two of the best Dogs (veteran officers) in the Jane Street kennel, Beka quickly distinguishes herself, assisted by winged informants (pigeons who carry the ghosts of murdered children and whisper only to Beka) and her aide-de-camp, Pounce, the purple-eyed cat (who will be familiar to Alanna devotees). Beka, now 16, begins her story with her first night on the job, told through journal entries. The noble takes in Beka's impoverished family after the girl, at age eight, demonstrates near-magical abilities in law enforcement. Her latest heroine is not a lady knight but a "Puppy," a police trainee whose talents lift her from the slums to the manor of Lord Gershom. Pierce returns to the Tortall Realms for a new series, a kind of prequel to those of her popular "sheroes" Alanna, Kel and Aly. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Dark challenge by christine feehan![]() ![]() ![]() But if they claim each other as lifemates, it will change them down to the bone. They both know they must reveal the darkest parts of their souls if they hope to survive and protect the ones they love. They are so alike, warriors bound by honor and plagued by secrets. He can see into her mind and feel what is in her heart. In all the centuries of his existence, no one has ever affected him like Vasilisa. Afanasiv Belan is a Carpathian, an ancient one. But nothing seems real until the night she meets him in the flesh. She knows nothing about him except that he is hers. The prophecy that says a man will come to claim her as his mate, and that she will guard his soul. Every day she feels the weight of the legacy passed down through generations. A restlessness coupled with a sense of growing dread. There is a fire inside her that is building. ![]() She knows what is expected of her, but all she wants is to be out from under her familys watchful eyes. About the Book Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Casino royale folio society![]() However, under current copyright law of 1978, we won’t see James Bond enter the Public Domain for another 39 years. So if we were still under the copyright laws that were in effect at the time of Casino’s publication, the world’s most famous secret agent would have entered the public domain on January 1, 2010, even assuming that Fleming had renewed the copyright. Of course, Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953. Under those laws, works published in 1953 would be passing into the public domain on January 1, 2010. ![]() But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years (an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years). law extends copyright protections for 70 years from the date of the author’s death. copyright laws not been amended in 1976.Īn interesting article in Clarksville Online points out that current U.S. Well, it would have happened on New Years Day had U.S. ![]() Could the same thing happen to James Bond? Sherlock Holmes has been in the Public Domain since 1988, and what we have seen is an explosion in unlicensed novels that find Holmes battling Dracula, traveling through time, and even confronting the War of the Worlds martians. Imagine James Bond in the Public Domain (meaning under no copyright restrictions). ![]() |