![]() ![]() However, his thickly accented English isn't really suited for a book about vampires in small-town South Carolina. I'd actually listen to another book narrated by Chiquito Crasto-he has a very pleasant voice and speaking style (although he doesn't vary that style at all, so scenes of intense action are read at the same measured pace). There also aren't any breaks between scenes, which can be momentarily confusing. There are a few instances of repeated sentences. The production is particularly amateurish-at times you can hear background noise, thumps, etc. By far the worst part of this audiobook is the production and narration. The small-town setting lent a certain isolated atmosphere to the story. The characters are recognizable, if not particularly well fleshed-out. ![]() There aren't any real surprises here, nor any deep scares, but the story kept my interest. It was a serviceable, if dated and undistinguished thriller, perfect for people who want a "Salem's Lot"-type book, but who have already read Robert McCammon's "They Thirst" and others of the like. "How Dear the Dawn" did exactly what I expected it to: it provided me a couple days' entertainment while I did household chores & yardwork. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. ![]() ![]() Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments A tramp abroad first edition![]() ![]() _DESCRIPTION: Bound in the publisher's full sheepskin binding, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, edges sprinkled brown, pale salmon endpapers, second state portrait frontispiece, second state illustrated frontispiece ("Titian's Moses"), tissue guard between author portrait frontispiece and illustrated frontispiece, illustrations throughout the text octavo size (8 7/8" by 6") pagination: -xvi, 17-631. ![]() Rife with typical Twain humor, the narrator "believe(s) that he understands all that he sees, but in reality understand(s) none of it" (n.b., above info from Wiki). "A Tramp Abroad" was published in 1880, about fifteen years after Twain's first published work, and is a mixture of autobiography and fictional events as the author and his companion (the Reverend Joseph Twichell, named Harris in the book) make their way across 19th-century Europe. Item #22110301 Mark Twain (1835-1910, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) truly needs no introduction his many stories have become part of American culture - in fact, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is often referred to as "the great american novel". First printing, second state double frontis (portrait and illustration), octavo size, 632 pp., in publisher's sheepskin binding. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Contents: * Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner * O Ugly Bird! * The Desrick on Yandro * Vandy, Vandy * One Other * Call Me From the Valley * The Little Black Train * Shiver in the Pines * Walk Like A Mountain * On the Hills and Everywhere * Old Devlins Was A-Waiting * Nine Yards of Other Cloth * Wonder As I Wander * Farther Down the Trail * Trill Coster's Burden * The Spring * Owls Hoot in the Daytime * Can These Bones Live? * Nobody Ever Goes There * Where Did She Wander? * Afterword by Gerald W. Devils Asteroid & the Golgotha DancersManly Wade Wellman. Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other Omens is the 5th and final volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume contains all of the John the Balladeer stories (sometimes better known as Silver John), Manly's most famous character. (Volume 5)Anonymous, Alexs Sacrifice The Wilton Park Grand Hotel 1 (Siren Publishing. Collects 101 stories from pulps with introductions by John Pelan, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, David Drake and Karl Edward Wagner, and afterwod in volume. Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other Omens is the 5th and final volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume contains all of the John the Balladeer stories (sometimes better known as Silver John), Manly's. ![]() ![]() Legacies of Love, his recently published study of same-sex couples throughout history, “Despite his excellent military training and record, Edward despised warfare and competition. ![]() The problem is that Edward II was no gay hero but a weak monarch whose self-indulgence led to his downfall. This impulse seems to be the driving force behind the current production of the play staged by Jesse Berger for the Red Bull Theater in New York. ![]() Wow, here’s the true story of an actual king of England who was gay and who caused high-level turmoil by neglecting his nobly born French wife and their children for his untitled boyfriend, Gaveston! That the playwright himself was gay adds another frisson of excitement for budding homo-theater scholars. When gay theater students go searching through classical dramatic literature looking for some trace of their own existence, inevitably they latch onto Christopher Marlowe’sĮdward II as a rare example of a famous playwright’s work whose main character is homosexual. EDWARD II * Written by Christopher Marlowe * Adapted by Garland Wright * Directed by Jesse Berger * Produced by Red Bull Theater at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York City, through January 13. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 2014, Deborah has now revisited and significantly expanded her story, and the result is greater insight into her quest to discover herself and the true meaning of home. And in Exodus, Revisited she delves into what happened next-taking the reader on a journey that starts with her beginning life anew as a single mother, a religious refugee, and an independent woman in search of a place and a community where she can belong. She was determined to find a better life for herself, away from the oppression and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. ![]() The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series) -now updated with more than 50 percent new material-the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Young blood matt gallagher![]() ![]() ![]() He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia and has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Boston Review, among others.First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED/DATED/PLACED, in my presence, to full title page.No inscription full signature + 2.11.16 in NYC only.Youngblood was published on February 2, 2016.From an event featuring Matt Gallagher and Lynn Steger Strong in New York City on February 11, 2016.BONUSES: Copies of two different event fliers + a copy of four book reviews are included.Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end.All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box.Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.95 (includes USPS Tracking )Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $6.95 (includes USPS Tracking )Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $36.95I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books.100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". ![]() Army captain and the author of the acclaimed Iraq War memoir Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War, based on the popular and controversial blog he kept while he was deployed. Signed+Dated+NYC, Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $26YoungbloodbyMatt GallagherGallagher is a former U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is all of eight years old - and wholly unaware of the great price she and her family will pay for this dream. One day, she decides with uncompromising surety, she too will become Salim's wife. In that instant, even as a royal gala swirls around her in celebration of the future emperor's first marriage, Mehrunnisa foresees the path of her own destiny. Mehrunnisa first encounters young Prince Salim on his wedding day. Growing up on the fringes of Emperor Akbar's opulent palace grounds, Mehrunnisa blossoms into a sapphire-eyed child blessed with a precocious intelligence, luminous beauty, and a powerful ambition far surpassing the bounds of her family's station. She is called Mehrunnisa, the Sun of Women. ![]() As the daughter of starving refugees fleeing violent persecution in Persia, her fateful birth in a roadside tent sparked a miraculous reversal of family fortune, culminating in her father's introduction to the court of Emperor Akbar. She came into the world in the year 1577, to the howling accompaniment of a ferocious winter storm. ![]() An enchanting seventeenth-century epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most legendary and controversial empresses - a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped the course of the Mughal empire. ![]() ![]() Esta edición incluye una introducción que contextualiza la obra, un aparato de notas, una cronología y una bibliografía esencial, así como también varias propuestas de discusión y debate en torno a la lectura. Fernando de Rojas es capaz de contarnos esta historia con una habilidad insospechada, que ata al lector a un texto poderoso y magnífico y que obra el milagro de llenar de pasión la lectura misma. El «loco amor» de Calisto y Melibea, enhebrado con los hilos de una «bruja», Celestina, culmina fatalmente con la muerte de ambos. ![]() Los mejores libros jamás escritos Edición de Santiago López-Ríos, profesor de Literatura Española en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid La emoción, la belleza, el sentido trágico y al mismo tiempo grotesco de las grandes pasiones humanas hallan en La Celestina una de sus más intensas expresiones. ![]() ![]() I have to be honest, the appeal of having someone read aloud to you is pretty strong. Who wouldn't want to listen to a book read by James Earl Jones, Hector Elizondo, or Betty White? One of my favorite sites in that precious folder is Storyline Online.įounded by the Screen Actor's Guild, Storyline offers videos of books being read aloud by celebrities both adults and kids love. That way, I would never be stuck without a book again. I've searched through all of my teacher bags, my classroom library, scoured our building library, and asked every teacher in between - and the one book I need is nowhere to be found.Īfter that happened to me a few years ago, I started bookmarking every site I could find that had free, digital versions of children's books. Even though I'm incredibly organized and always (ok, 99% of the time) planned well in advance, there have been occasions when the kids are set to arrive in ten minutes and I'm scrambling to find the book I'm using in my lesson that day. I'm sure this never happened to you, but it's happened to me more than once. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ever need a book right away and you just can't lay your hands on it? ![]() |