![]() ![]() ![]() Some of you already know what the story was about since it was done a lot of times and I have no time to waste, so time for my opinion. The Rider appears and tries to destroy the Light and in order to defeat him, Will must find and guard the six signs of the Light and only them can they win the battle against the Dark. It tells the story about Will Stanton, a 14-year old typical kid, who learns that he is the last of the Old Ones called the Light who spent many years trying to defend themselves from the Dark. ![]() Some of them grossed $100 million dollars at first, but only one of them flopped and is why we get 20th Century Fox and Walden Media's The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, based on a 5-book masterpiece by Susan Cooper. After seeing such great fantasy adaptations like Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia, other fantasy novels were trying to be successful. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() In My Ántonia, Cather’s heroine nearly achieves the status of a goddess, or at least earth mother. Willa Cather, the author most often cited by scholars of the American West, offers an immigrant female version of the pioneer prototype we have come to expect: that is, physically and emotionally strong Anglo women living through hardship and grief but ultimately emerging triumphant. 1 The extent of their challenge, moreover, is not often as great as might be hoped for. Female-authored narratives of the West sometimes challenge the hierarchies of conventional westerns but are typically less ambitious in scope. ![]() Conventional western narratives, including western dime novels, Louis L’Amour novels, and classic western films, inscribe an Anglo-Saxon, U.S. Toni Morrison’s 1998 novel Paradise is unique among narratives of the American West. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the most frightening villain in any of Koontz’s novels. Ahriman, the name of the Zoroastrian devil). Koontz clearly wished to portray him as a modern Satan (and he signals that at the outset by naming him Dr. fiction was as much of a principle as it was a preference. Koontz’s psychiatrist is an utterly evil character with no sympathetic qualities whatsoever. Neither Dusty nor Martie had read it, because they preferred to read fiction. This was Ahriman’s current best-seller, a work of psychological nonfiction about learning to love yourself. ![]() Puzzled, Dusty took the book from her, and Valet stretched his head up, flared his nostrils, sniffing. She withdrew a brightly jacketed hardback book. ![]() Martie tore the envelope, and the noise excited Valet, probably because it sounded like a bag of treats being opened. On the table, Ned had also left a note taped to a padded mailing envelope: Dusty, found this propped against your front door. ![]() They hadn’t remembered to tell Ned Motherwell to switch lights on for Valet, but Ned did indeed mother well, leaving the kitchen brightly lit. “Instead, he was all golden, grinning, wagging forgiveness, snuggling in for a cuddle, then bounding away in pure delight because the masters were home, seizing a plush yellow Booda duck and biting it to produce a cacophony of quacks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author interweaves research on everything from epidemiology to economics into a lucid historical panorama that's studded with entertaining studies of Chinese pirate fleets, courtly tobacco rituals, and the bloody feud between Jamestown colonists and the Indians who fed and fought them, to name a few. Mann traces the subtle, epochal influences of the intercontinental "Columbian Exchange" of flora, fauna, commodities, and peoples, showing how European honeybees and earthworms remade New World landscapes how New World corn, potatoes, and fertilizer ignited Eurasian population booms how Old World diseases prompted an eruption of slavery in the Western Hemisphere (the influx of Africans, not Europeans, to the Americas, Mann notes, was the main demographic result of the Contact) how Latin American silver undermined China's Ming Dynasty and how the decimation of Indian peoples changed the world's climate. Having resurrected the isolated splendors of the pre-Columbian Americas in his bestselling 1491, Mann explores the global convergences-and upheavals-inaugurated by their discovery in this fascinating survey of the "Homogenocene" era. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, she's a newcomer in town, with a reputation for being jumpy and jittery-maybe even a little fragile. ![]() Not even a tire track.Īnd no one in Angel's Fist seems to believe her. When authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they find nothing. But by the time Reece reaches him and brings him to the scene, the pair has vanished. Įnjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail is a gruff loner named Brody. And suddenly, the man was on top of the woman, his hands around her throat. ![]() Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank. It was glorious, she thought, as she peered through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below. And now she's hiked this mountain all by herself. Reece settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming-temporarily, at least-and takes a job at a local diner. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. ![]() ![]() But she underestimates his determination and charm and soon they find themselves embroiled in an intense, passionate affair.Īn affair Nadia knows must come to an end before their feelings grow any deeper and he discovers her secrets. When Henry finally realizes the truth, and decides to make amends, Nadia wants nothing to do with him. Ever since, Alexa has worked to turn her life in a. Instead she’s faced with an insulting and defensive villain who misjudges her at every turn. Hero by Samantha YoungRomancebestaudiobooks SamanthaYoungbestaudiobooks The emotional and unforgettable new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the On Dublin Street series. Alexa Holland’s father was her herountil her shocking discovery that she and her mother weren't his only family. ![]() But she doesn’t encounter the dashing high society gentleman Henry is purported to be. Soon Nadia is thrown into the path of Caine’s best friend: sexy, wealthy bachelor Henry Lexington. He wants her to be part of uncovering the city’s biggest scandal – a secret billionaire Caine Carraway is hiding. ![]() However, when her new boss discovers her secret he blackmails her, intent on using Nadia’s popularity to make them the number one morning show in Massachusetts. Successful and independent, she’s put a past she’s ashamed of behind her and is forging a future she can be proud of. ![]() She’s Boston’s morning television It Girl. Nadia Ray is not just a broadcast meteorologist. ![]() The sexy and emotional companion novella to the New York Times bestselling romance HERO. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tao Te Ching (or more appropriately translated into English as Dao De Jing) is one of the classic Chinese texts. I shared with him my interest in reading the world's scriptures and canonical texts. In his words: he discovered the book during college it had a powerful impact on him and he found himself returning to it more and more as time went on. ![]() I decided to read the Tao Te Ching because a friend recommended it. ![]() (UPDATE January 2015: Added the Tao Te Ching.) Every reading is helping me go a bit deeper and wider into man's search for God and, through that, meaning in this life. After that The Bhagavad Gita and the Analects of Confucius. I also wanted to get a better understanding of the world's major religions so that I could be more in tune with people, their language and their culture, and current events. I started with my own, reading the Bible in two different translations-first the Hebrew-Greek Word Study Bible by Spiros Zodhiates, and then the KJV-to gain a better grasp on my spirituality and to think critically about why and what I believed. (Background: Over a couple of decades' time I planned to read the scriptures of the world's great religions/philosophies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With plenty of gadgets and larger than life villains threatening the world. This was an enjoyable series with its pulp ’30s feel. Then using hypnotism would block the knowledge and implant a desire to commit suicide. ![]() The final issue was typical in having a rogue Hollywood producer who developed the Octo-brain a machine that could copy the knowledge of people. Marvel decided to pursue other projects which is a shame because this was an enjoyable series. So this is the final issue of the black and white line of Doc Savage. Now Doc and his Amazing Five are next on the list. They then battle some stuntmen who are using some sort of paralyzing gas to knock out their victims and steal their minds. Some malevolent being is responsible for stealing the knowledge from the great minds of the world.ĭoc dispatches his men to London and Paris to intercept possible kidnapping while he goes off to Hollywood to rescue two of his men. He is rescued by a cop from committing suicide. Later another notable scientist is found with a similar affliction in New York. Later a large brain with tentacles comes and kills him. A friend of his was found wandering the streets babbling about his mind being stolen. Writers: J Warner J Whitmore & Doug Moenchĭoc comes back from Acapulco with some disturbing news. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Except, just like Norma Desmond, the show hadn’t taken its final bow quite yet. For Stapley and Hughes, the chapter on the Sunset Boulevard musical could have officially been closed forever. With Swanson riding off into the sunset as only a Hollywood icon can, Hughes continued to compose, while Stapley, ever chasing his star, set off to Europe to act in spaghetti westerns. Also complicating matters was the fact that Gloria set her sights on handsome Richard, resulting in a classic love triangle. But after several failed attempts to bring the musical to fruition, the three entertainers eventually declared the project a wash and parted ways. Years before Andrew Lloyd Webber would bring his own adaptation of Sunset Boulevard to Broadway, Stapley and Hughes completed their own musical vision of Norma’s story. Life imitates art when Gloria falls for Richard, and the men find themselves living a real-life version of the classic film. Seeing in Norma a portal back to the stardom she once commanded as a silent screen superstar, Swanson began to envision a musical stage adaptation of the film.ĭickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, find themselves caught in movie star Gloria Swanson’s web when she hires them to write a musical version of Sunset Boulevard. ![]() Boulevard: A Hollywood Story, tells the real-life tale of Gloria Swanson, the iconic star of Sunset Boulevard, which both the movie and her character of Norma Desmond provided a renewed spotlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grizzard was such a composed and accomplished criminal that when police searched his premises regarding an earlier diamond heist, he welcomed them with a smile despite entertaining guests at the time - a collection of potential buyers for those very diamonds. ![]() “The Great Pearl Heist” tells the story of criminal mastermind Joseph Grizzard and his gang, and the Sherlock Holmes figure tasked with catching him, elite Scotland Yard detective Alfred Ward. ![]() In 1913, a criminal mastermind engineered the theft of the world’s most expensive strand of pearls - a prize worth around $18 million in today’s dollars.īut by modern standards, the most shocking aspect of the crime was not that it happened, but that the pearls were able to be stolen because they were sent by regular mail. And Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace ![]() |