5/23/2023 0 Comments The devil rides out novel![]() ![]() Strange, James Bond, and Indiana Jones all rolled up into one charming, sophisticated package. ![]() They deduce, correctly, that the young man is wrapped up in some sort of macabre mysticism. Nicholas and his friend Rex Van Ryn ( Leon Greene of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) visit their friend Simon Aron ( Patrick Mower) whose house is replete with strange markings and symbols. Set in 1929, the film stars Christopher Lee ( Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, The Lord of the Rings) as Nicholas, Duc de Richleau, an aristocrat, adventurer, and occultist. Directed by Terence Fisher and written by the legendary Richard Matheson, the (oc)cult classic is now available on Blu-ray for the first time ever thanks to Scream Factory, with a new 2K scan of the 20th Century Fox interpositive and tons of special features. ![]() ![]() Cast: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Sarah Lawsonīased on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dennis Wheatley, 1968’s The Devil Rides Out (also known as The Devil’s Bride) is one of Hammer’s most accomplished productions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Occasionally, she entertains bakery customers by making her gingerbread men perform, but that’s about all she can do. Mona works in her aunt’s bakery and is perfectly content with her life, using her magical powers (which she considers pretty minor) to encourage her bread to rise and her pastries to turn out perfectly. This sweet fantasy story delivers an unlikely teen heroine, suspenseful action sequences, unusual magical powers, and some very bad cookies. I’d had my eye on this book for a while now, and finally decided to dive in. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries… An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. ![]() ![]() She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance.īut Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. ![]() ![]() “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ “I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.” ~ Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). “Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice ‘but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!” ~ Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). “It is better to be feared than loved.” ~ Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ~ Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). “Curiouser and curiouser!” ~ Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland). “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
5/22/2023 0 Comments Early light osamu dazai![]() Click."Īnd the final story is "Villon's Wife," a small masterpiece, which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. In the end, young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: "Goodbye," he hisses through his teeth, "Mount Fuji. "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," another autobiographical tale, is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views, the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche. ![]() Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up," "Yeah, they all burned up," she said, still smiling. ![]() ![]() "Everything's gone," the father explains to his daughter: "Mr. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer HumanĮarly Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me’ Stephen King For the first time ever in a single volume, this definitive collection gathers together in chronological order all of Lovecraft’s major stories and short novels, including the complete ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ cycle, just as they were originally published more than half a century ago. ![]() These astonishing tales blend elements of horror and science fiction and are as powerful today as they were when they initially appeared. Lovecraft’s tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s. Since his untimely death, Lovecraft has become acknowledged as a master of fantasy fiction and a mainstream American writer second only to Edgar Allan Poe, while his relatively small body of work has influenced countless imitators and formed the basis of a worldwide industry of books, games and movies based on his concepts. A lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island, many of his tales are set in the fear-haunted towns of an imaginary area of Massachusetts, or in the cosmic vistas that exist beyond space and time. Howard Phillips Lovecraft is probably the most important and influential author of supernatural fiction of the twentieth century. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The passage cronin![]() The first book of the series, The Passage, was released in June 2010. In July 2017, Variety reported that Fox 2000 had bought the screen rights to Cronin's vampire trilogy. He is a former professor of English at Rice University, and he lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas. He taught creative writing and was the "Author in-residence" at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1992 to 2003. īorn and raised in New England, Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and a Whiting Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has written five novels: Mary and O'Neil and The Summer Guest, as well as a vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve and City of Mirrors. Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Anna karenina vintage classic![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Set against the backdrop of Russian high society, this novel charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. In this extraordinary novel, Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it. Although she initially resists his charms, Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that leads to her downfall. Petersburg society until she leaves her husband for the handsome and charming military. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Enough already by peter walsh![]() ![]() ![]() With his wry humor, his constant encouragement, and the specific tips and practical advice he offers, Peter helps you prioritize what matters in your life. He then offers a step-by-step plan that helps you acknowledge and address the emotional and mental clutter that holds you back from living the richly fulfilling life you deserve.Peter knows that freeing up a cluttered life (and mind) can sometimes take even greater work and commitment than clearing out a cluttered home, but he is determined to help you change. This crazy imbalance and the resulting stress and unhappiness you feel are the clutter that Peter Walsh wants to help you tackle in "Enough Already!: Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You."Peter examines the six key areas of your life - Family, Relationships, Work, Health, Money, and Spirituality - and shows how these unique parts of your life are so interrelated that if just one is cluttered, that clutter will creep into the other areas and throw your life off balance. For many of us, life feels completely out of balance because we give one area of our lives too much attention and the other areas nowhere near enough. Does it seem like everything is moving so fast these days you can barely keep up? Do you sometimes feel that your life is spinning out of control? Most of us are so overwhelmed by the stuff in our daily lives - work, bills, family commitments, demands from our kids' schools - that we rush from person to person and place to place. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments These tangled vines a novel![]() Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage-and most importantly, the true meaning of family. Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew. These Tangled Vines - by Julianne MacLean (Paperback). From bacon and cream to fizzy drinks and ready. She went on to write approximately ninety novels, twenty-one of which appeared on the New York. ![]() While the mystery of her mother's affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. But beyond these categories, Dr Sarmed Sami, a consultant gastroenterologist who works in London, urges approaching some foods with extreme caution. She is the only person who knows about her late mother's affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way.until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance-along with two half siblings.įiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. If Fiona has learned anything in life, it's how to keep a secret-even from the father who raised her. ![]() From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman's journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany-and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Atlantis by Jennifer McKeithen![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
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