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Brighton rock greene6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Knowing in her gut that things are not right, Ida sets out to uncover the truth. ![]() Ida, who, when Hale disappeared, assumed she had been passed over, only learns of his death, reported in the local news as a result of a health condition, a few days later. Pinkie, a scrawny but sociopathically cold seventeen-year-old, is the (ironically) Bonapartean leader of the gang, and he doesn’t flinch as his crew murder Hale. But Ida Arnold cannot save him, and soon the gang catch up with Hale. ![]() Latching on to a buxom, good-time girl down from London, Hale hopes to escape the gang’s clutches. Later known by his real name, Hale, he has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and a quiet day by the sea soon turns into a race against death as a local gang pursue him. Kolley Kibber, or Fred, is a newspaper man visiting Brighton for work. Brighton Rock (1938) is one of Graham Greene’s most famous works, and one of his ‘Catholic novels’. ![]()
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Star wars aftermath series6/5/2023 ![]() Sergeant Hunter uses his vibroblade to take out droids while Tech plants devices on droids which short-circuits them. The Bad Batch takes advantage of this distraction to ambush the battle droids. Just then, a large boulder rolls down the hill, crushing and scattering a column of battle droids. Grey believes they are doomed but the young Jedi reassures him that these clones are different. When Grey and Billaba press him for more information, Dume tells them that they have five reinforcements. When his Master asks where the reinforcements are, her apprentice reassures her that they are right behind him. Caleb Dume soon arrives after traveling through the snow. He expresses pessimism about the commander, but Billaba reassures him that her Padawan will be back. Clone Captain Grey takes shelter with Jedi Master Depa Billaba. On Kaller, clone troopers and AT-TE walkers are locked in combat against advancing B1-series battle droids and Armored Assault Tanks. Mounts a desperate and brutal counterattack The evil droid general Grievous retreatedīattle droids severely depleted, Grievous ![]() The clones of The Bad Batch find themselves in a changing galaxy after The Clone Wars.Īn attempt to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine, ![]()
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The Ultimate Alphabet by Mike Wilks6/5/2023 ![]() On the heels of Britain’s armchair treasure hunt craze, spurred by Kit Williams wildly successful 1979 book Masquerade, 2 The intricate detail and the almost Bosch or Dali sense of surrealism are what made the book something of a cult classicĪnd are characteristic of all of Wilks’ work: With a single exception, all of the 32 illustrations were done in pen and ink, which Wilks felt was his most accomplished medium. His first major commission was for Brian Aldiss’ epic poem Pile – Petals From Saint Klaed’s Computer, published in 1979. 1947) began art school on scholarship at age 13 and after studying for seven years he began a careerĪs a graphic designer, founding the London design agency TWD. To suggest that the picture repays careful study is someting of an understatement. Wilks included 1234 nouns, verbs and adjectives that began with S. ![]() ![]() This is the majority of the letter S – the most complicated image from Mike Wilks’ The Ultimate Alphabet. ![]()
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Charlaine harris dead to the world6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Less coincidentally, but more ominously, a coven of witches (who also happen to be shape-shifters and vampire blood addicts) comes rolling into the nearest big city, looking for trouble. Coincidentally, Sookie's brother Jason goes missing. In his place, Sookie is stuck with Eric, Bill's boss (and head vamp for the district), who appears out of thin air buck naked with no memory of who he is or what he does. Sookie's love interest, Bill the vampire, runs off to Peru to do research. ), Sookie finds that her bad luck has taken a new turn for the worse. In this fourth quirky installment in this hitherto mass-market series (after 2003's Club Dead Fans of Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake looking for a lighter version of the vampire huntress should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic Louisiana gal who really wants to be normal, but suffers from a huge self-confidence problem, a case of permanent bad luck, difficult relatives and a penchant for attracting unsavory characters of the not-quite-human kind. ![]()
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Furland® by Tullio Avoledo6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If the tale didn’t go down like this, it should have.” – Silvia Moreno-García, author of Gods of Jade and Shadow and Mexican Gothic “Tidhar turns King Arthur’s court into a gangster’s paradise, full of wheelings and dealings, and true grit. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts and The Unwritten ![]() “Drawing on everything from wushu movies to The Wire by way of Tarkovsky and Tarantino, By Force Alone is wild, surprising and entertaining, and a hugely immersive read.” – M.R. This is the story - viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane - of a Dark Age myth that shaped a nation. This is the story of a legend forged from a pack of self-serving, turd-gilding, weasel-worded lies told to justify foul deeds and ill-gotten gains. An eldritch isle of deep forest and dark fell haunted by swaithes and tod-lowries, Robin-Goodfellows and Jenny Greenteeths, boggarts and predators of rarer appetite yet. This is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant. Unlike the others, we remember him as King Arthur. While their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with swords pick over civilisation’s carcass, slaughtering and being slaughtered in turn. British Fantasy Award 2021 Nominee The Financial Times Best Summer Books 2020 Selection The Spectator’s Unmissable Summer Books 2020 Selection Locus Recommended Reading List 2020 Selection ![]()
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Eragon series6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, a feature film adapting the first novel was released starring Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Ed Speleers, and Djimon Hounsou. To date, over 41 million copies of the series have been sold worldwide. The novels came out across 2003 through to 2011, though the series' debut entry-simply titled Eragon-was self-published in 2002 before becoming a surprise success and republished by Knopf. The Inheritance Cycle is a series of four young-adult high fantasy novels focusing on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, as they struggle to overthrow the evil king Galbatorix. ![]() Representatives for Disney and Paolini did not issue a comment. Bert Salke will produce as part of his overall deal with Disney Television Studios. According to Variety, the upcoming Eragon series will adapt the popular fantasy novels, The Inheritance Cycle, by author Christopher Paolini.Ĭiting unnamed sources, Variety further reports that Paolini will serve as co-writer on the series. An Eragon live-action TV show is currently in development for Disney+. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You can see why Hadingue couldn’t just be plonked on as a last-minute press night replacement. The implication is that Hunter will return later this week (and I suspect the show will return), but for the rescheduled press performance her understudy Amanda Hadingue took on the lead role.Īnd what a monumental role it is. Nonetheless, cruel reality caught up with the company on the press night for its adaptation of Nobel-winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’: lead actor Kathryn Hunter was taken ill shortly before curtain-up, causing the show to be cancelled. Wizards of the theatre, shamans of the stage and undoubtedly one of the greatest theatre companies to have ever existed, anywhere, Simon McBurney’s Complicité stage the unstageable with supernatural panache. ![]()
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Last chance saloon book6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tara, a computer analyst, lives with Thomas, a bitter and miserly high school geography teacher. This time, the protagonists are two London women who grew up together in the small, repressive Irish town of Knockavoy. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly nImagine Bridget Jones in a Jacobean revenge drama, a sort of 'Tis a Pity She's Single that's the flavor of this entry in the urban unmarried female angst sweepstakes. Near fine condition.Michael Joseph,1999.First paperback edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Paperback(a couple of creases & nicks on the edges of the cover and spine)in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages as new with a two ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,small pencil mark impression on the first page of the book.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear.596pp. A Guide To Collecting Harry Potter Books.Arts, Architecture & Photography / Painting.Arts, Architecture & Photography / Art History.Art, Architecture & Photography & Painting & Drawing. ![]()
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Nefando by Mónica Ojeda6/3/2023 ![]() ![]()
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Fighting Instinct by Mary Calmes6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() After Roman is in an accident that leaves him physically scarred and emotionally distant, Quade is the only one who can get through to him. When jackal shifter Quade Danas was banished from his pack for being gay, he spent years in the military escaping his father's prejudice before returning to civilian life as a bodyguard for Roman Howell, the teenage son of a very rich man. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one-namely, displaced in time from the 1970s-she thinks maybe it’s time to start believing.Ĭasey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. ![]() The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won’t quite let her go. ![]() The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. Beautiful, impossible Jane.Īll hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. ![]() And she certainly doesn’t believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that.īut then, there’s Jane. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. ![]() |