![]() ![]() ![]() There was this slight dystopian impression from one of the sub-plots. I have no idea where that thought came from. **it just got real.” And I don’t even swear. How did she make Reth 100% creepy but totally sexy at the same time? A couple chapters into the book, conflict comes knocking down the door (plus the whole neighborhood, too, if I’m being honest). Kiersten even pulls off the love triangle. It’s one of the few YA books that is funny but has heart, too. I love even more that Kiersten White had a deeper reason for doing that besides just being funny. I love that none of her fantasies about them are true. ![]() Through the story Evie meets a lot of different paranormal characters and creatures. ![]() Endlessly inspires me to write better voice in my own writing. You get this great, sarcastic, funny teenager who is just full of personality. One of my favorite things about this whole series is that the voice is so amazing. Spoiler free even if you haven’t read the first two books in this series. And its fate rests solely in Evie's hands. The clock is ticking on the entire paranormal world. And supernatural creatures keep insisting that Evie is the only one who can save them from a mysterious, perilous fate. The Dark Faerie Queen is torturing humans in her poisonous realm. Genres: Humor, Paranormal Romance, Young AdultĮvie's paranormal past keeps coming back to haunt her. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing Jim could never return his forbidden feelings, Cal hoped time and an ocean between them would dull the yearning for his best friend.īut when Jim’s wife dies, Cal returns to help. Relieved to put the horrors of war behind him, Jim went home to his apple orchard and a quiet life with his wife and children. ![]() The battle for love has just begun.Īs Marines, Cal and Jim depended on each other to survive bloodshed and despair in the Pacific. So what about my Marines, Cal and Jim? What does happily ever after look like in 1948? Can two men have a life together and raise a family?īlurb: The war is over. They’d gotten carried away with a photographer they met. ![]() Goodness gracious, huh? When the photo came to light in the 1980s, one of the men pictured said that it was him and his boyfriend on leave in San Diego during WWII. This last picture is NSFW, so click here to see it. (Hmm, I guess the Village People were onto something!) Here are a few of the shots that made me swoon (and one that made me blush!) Interestingly enough, the vintage photos I’ve found of gay servicemen from the first half of the 20 th century have all been sailors. My new novel Semper Fi is about Marines who go from friends to lovers after WWII. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spider Gwen Vol 1 on hardback is a brilliant read. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() A forgotten, overlooked masterpiece of the sociopathic mind of a dog. Erotic ecohorror with that full '70s flavor. Terrific cover art as well, although it probably made some folks dismiss it. ![]() ![]() I know that sounds cheesy but really, this is a sensitive and thoughtful novel. A haunting historical love story about a forbidden love. Rouche as an unassuming, quiet and literate prose style that heightens the tale's believability (some boneheaded Amazon reviewers think thisīurningby Jane Chambers. Understated thriller about cats on the attack. Too bad more Zebra horror paperbacks weren't this outrageous.įeral by Berton Roeche. The intro essay, Campbell's account of his mother's mental illness, is essential reading. An all-too-convincing portrait of the murderer's mind. The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell. In no particular order I present my fave horror reads of the past year. I think that 2014 was the best year yet for Too Much Horror Fiction: the blog reached a million views, I wrote two series on horror fiction at Tor.com, and read some great books for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anything that connects or relates people to people, people to things, or things to each other can be called a medium. In his eyes, mediums seem to be everywhere. The first part of this book is a theoretical exposition of McLuhan’s main ideas, including the conclusions that “the medium is the message,” “cold and hot media,” and “the medium is an extension of the person.” The second part is a specific analysis that builds on the theories in the first part to analyse the 26 media of communication from ancient times to the present day. ” In 1965, the New York Herald Tribune described him as “the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and Pavlov…”. ![]() His ideas and words were so futuristic that people began to realise that “the media is no longer just a source of rumour and slander, no longer just a place to make sense, no longer just a super factory for profiteering, but the most creative form of culture in contemporary society, the most direct agent of change in our lives. ![]() Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian professor, made a splash in 1964 with his book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, which quickly catapulted him, a university professor of English and American literature, into a leading position in the media industry. ![]() ![]() Norton, 2003).īeasley stood out for the strength of her writing and for her personal tenacity. Larry McMurtry, the author of another Texas classic, Lonesome Dove (Simon and Schuster, 1985), spearheaded a 1989 limited-edition reissue of My First Thirty Years literary critic Don Graham excerpted the memoir’s first several pages in Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology (W. Among Texas writers in the know, her name circulated long after she disappeared from the public eye. Still, the few copies that survived were enough to keep Beasley’s (AM 1918) literary legacy alive. ![]() ![]() The book was banned in Britain, destroyed by US Customs, and hunted down by the Texas Rangers. Mencken called it “sharp and tremendously effective”-but it also attracted powerful enemies. Beasley’s memoir of her often-abusive Texas childhood earned praise from the era’s literati-H. ![]() She left behind only one book, My First Thirty Years (Contact Editions, 1925). In 1928 a young writer named Gertrude Beasley sailed from London to New York and was never heard from again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poetry uses images that touch one's soul without apparent cause or observable fact. Bachelard decides to study the subjectivity of the soul expressed in poetic imagery. Science studies objective phenomena, i.e., observable facts or events. During this change, he recognizes his acquired knowledge in science is inadequate to understand the poetic imagination. ![]() At the twilight of his career, he decides to take a new approach by reflecting on literature and poetry and using imagination to explore a reality that is not subject to reasoning. Bachelard spends a majority of his career as a scientist and university instructor following specific scientific methods of observation, experimentation, analysis and reasoning. The author is known as a modest, unusual man, who matures from a young man working in public administration to become the chairman in philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he is loved and admired by students. He is considered one of the leading philosophers of Europe and the author of many other books. Gaston Bachelard is a French philosopher and the author of "The Poetics of Space." Bachelard lived from 1884 to 1962. ![]() ![]() When Empress Elizabeth died, Peter inherited the throne. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers and his well dressed rat whom he deemed in charge of the brigade. Traveling 40 days from Prussia to Russia in the bitter cold, Catherine and her mother found the court filled with political intrigue wherein Elizabeth reigned through fear.Ī mismatch from the beginning, marrying scrawny, ugly, immature, whiny Peter was challenging. Her incredibly cruel, vicious, cold and abusive mother had royal blood.Īt the age of 12, Catherine was betrothed to Peter III, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth, the Monarch of Russia. Her father was a Prussian general who was not of nobility. With he intended audience of younger readers, these books are a wonderful way to learn history without pedantic, boring lists of dates and times.Ĭatherine was a Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst Prussia. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book caught my eye when I visited the library yesterday. The Royal Diaries series is something I stumbled upon a few days ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing about her latest objective suggests the secret it conceals will turn her life- not to mention the entire galaxy-upside down. But she seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars. Earth struggles to retain authority over far-flung planets and free-wheeling corporations while an uneasy armistice with a breakaway federation hangs by a thread as the former rebels rise in wealth and power.Īlexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty, her father a fallen war hero and her mother an influential military leader. Though thriving as never before, they have discovered neither alien life nor the key to utopia. ![]() Humanity has expanded into the stars, inhabiting over 100 worlds across a third of the galaxy. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them. SPACE IS VAST AND UNTAMED, AND IT HOLDS MANY SECRETS. ![]() ![]() ![]() He eventually met Rick Hautala and was asked to illustrate his short story collection Bedbugs. He wrote, illustrated, and self-published a few comics called ChillVille and Farmer Fiend's Horror Harvest in the early 1990s. He won a contest that called for artists to submit something Stephen King related. His first published work was in the late 1980s for the Stephen King related newsletter called Castle Rock. He also attended the University of Maine at Augusta, as well as the University of Southern Maine. Glenn Chadbourne attended Lincoln Academy before continuing his education at The Portland School of Art. Chadbourne is known for his sense of humour and down to earth manner, as well as the stark honesty of his work. He is best known for his work in the horror and fantasy genres, having created covers and illustrated books and magazines for publishers such as Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, and Earthling Publications. A Collectible Limited ONE TIME PRINTING featuring an afterword by Stewart O'Nan, two full-color paintings by Mark Stutzman, TWENTY pieces of interior artwork by Chris Odgers, and TWO BONUS STORIES that have never appeared in any edition anywhere in the world! About the artist Glenn Chadbourne is an American artist. Night Shift: The Deluxe Special Limited Gift Edition. Only 1 remarque is remaining, displayed in the photos. ![]() Personally Signed & Remarqued by the Artist, Glenn Chadbourne. ![]() |