![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Whelan Phil Hale Ned Dameron Dave McKean Bernie ( Berni ) Wrightson Darrel Anderson Jae Lee / Cover Art By Steve Stone (illustrator). ![]() The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. This item is heavy and may require additional shipping costs for destinations outside Australia. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy ISBN: 0340633794. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road.And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. This is the first Trade edition of the book. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997. ![]()
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![]() Over the course of his career, Levithan has worked tirelessly to add LGBTQ stories to the genre of YA literature. On his website, Levithan writes that PUSH is “devoted to finding new voices and new authors in teen literature.” Levithan is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities, which includes true stories from LGBTQ writers under the age of 23. Several of Levithan’s novels have been adapted for TV and film.īeyond writing, Levithan is a publisher and editorial director at Scholastic, as well as the founder and editor of the PUSH imprint. Levithan is also a frequent collaborator of other popular YA novelists, writing Will Grayson, Will Graysonwith John Green, as well as Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List with Rachel Cohn. ![]() ![]() ![]() David Levithan is the acclaimed author of several popular Young Adult novels, including Every Day, Two Boys Kissing, and Boy Meets Boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() More than a memoir of friendship and first love My Soul Looks Back is a carefully crafted, intimately understood homage to a bygone era and the people that made it so remarkable. Harris was part of the 70s NYC circle that included Maya Angelou and James Baldwin. The book is framed by Harris' relationship with Sam Floyd, a fellow professor at Queens College, who introduced her to Baldwin. Harris describes her role as theater critic for the New York Amsterdam News and editor at then burgeoning Essence magazine star-studded parties in the South of France drinks at Mikell's, a hip West Side club and the simple joy these extraordinary people took in each other's company. ![]() Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Morrison relaxing at Baldwin's house in Provence. My Soul Looks Back is her paean to that fascinating social circle and the depth of their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day-luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. In the technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faulkner’s success as a writer was mixed during his lifetime. He married Estelle Oldham in 1929, the same year he began writing one of his most famous works, As I Lay Dying. He moved to New Orleans and published his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, in 1926. He attended the University of Mississippi but did not do well and dropped out after three semesters. (Indeed, Faulkner was actually born “Falkner,” but changed his name after a typesetter misspelled it and Faulkner decided to go along with it.) Faulkner began writing in his teens, although he at first found it difficult to get his work published. He was named after his grandfather, a Civil War hero named William Clark Falkner. He received a thorough education at home from both his mother and his nanny, Canny Barr, and was an excellent student at school. William Faulkner was one of four brothers who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Undeterred, he takes on the role of Charmaine's daddy dom in hopes of breaking down her defenses and healing her wounds. Though he's used to charging into burning buildings on a daily basis, Hunter knows taming Charmaine's wild ways may prove to be his greatest challenge yet. This girl needs to be corrected firmly and thoroughly dominated, and a part of Hunter demands that he be the one to take her in hand. ![]() Something about Charmaine arouses him deeply, and it isn't just her gorgeous looks. Forced to carry her to safety, he throws her over his shoulder, but not before correcting her behavior with a well-deserved spanking. When firefighter Hunter Baldwin saves Charmaine from a fire in her penthouse apartment - a blaze started by her own carelessness - he's appalled by her nonchalant attitude. Twenty-four-year-old Charmaine Bainbridge appears to have it all - beauty, fame, and tremendous wealth - yet behind all the glitz and glamor hides a sad little girl who has been abandoned by every man she's ever loved. Normandie Alleman is the best author of Daddy Dom/little girl romances around, and she always manages to make this slightly taboo BDSM kink sweetly. Poor Little Daddys Girl (The Daddys Girl Series, 3) by Normandie Alleman 4.7 eBook 4.99 eBook 4.99 Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In some early versions, the fire does not strike the tower from above, but is going the other way - ascending to heaven from the tower. In the Marseilles deck, this card is called La maison dieu, the house of God, and the part of the tower knocked off by the strike of lightning is clearly a crown, as if to say, false pretensions have been knocked off, or, the crown chakra is forcibly opened. Whether or not this is experienced as "spiritual emergency" - a crisis, in classical tarot terms - seems to depend firstly upon the individual, and secondly upon the understanding and support of the people around them. ![]() The card of The Tower I feel stands for ego death. The card seems to me a literal depiction of the baptism of fire, the tower being the central nervous system. ![]() It took me 2 years to complete a first reading. In this masterpiece, the author reviews the major arcana as spiritual exercises and magical formulae. In this regard, I cannot recommend highly enough the book Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, written anonymously but believed to be the work of Valentin Tomberg. I have more resonance with the theory that Tarot originated as a set of spiritual exercises amongst the Cathars in the 12th - 13th centuries. ![]() ![]() His problem with series is that often, the main character becomes so powerful that he is no longer believable. My best friend and I have had an ongoing discussion about series, which came up again as i was telling him about this read. As the others in the series have been, it was a pleasure to read: pure, light entertainment. Then, two days ago, I finally got to it after school ,work, kids, family, and all the other distractions in life. I look tiny next to Larry Correia!īut then, as much as I was looking forward to it, I came home and put the book on my to be read pile. It was a fine fan-girl moment with a gracious author, who I hope will return to New England sometime despite it. ![]() I picked it up when Larry Correia had actually come to New Hampshire, so of course I had to go down and meet him and get it the book signed. I bought the book months ago, and got distracted with life… That is the only way to explain why I waited so long to read Monster Hunter Legion. When I am eating I always save the best until last. ![]() ![]() On her way home, Hilda befriends a lonely wooden man, and narrowly avoids getting squashed by a lost giant. By the time she wakes up, the troll has totally disappeared and, even worse, Hilda is lost in a snowstorm. As the blue-haired explorer sits and sketches, she slowly starts to nod off. While on an expedition to illustrate the magical creatures of the mountains around her home, Hilda spots a mountain troll. The magic and folklore of the wild, windswept North come alive in this book about an adventurous little girl and her habit of befriending anything, no matter how curious it might seem. ![]() Hildas now a troll living in dark caves under the mountain, and the troll baby has taken human form and is now living in Hildas home with her mom ( Daisy Haggard ). She can't resist exploring her enchanting world-a place where trolls walk, crows speak, and mountains move. Whats the Story In HILDA AND THE MOUNTAIN KING, Hilda ( Bella Ramsey) has been magically switched with a troll baby. ![]() ![]() Hilda can never sit still for long without setting off on another adventure. This brand new paperback edition of Hilda and the Troll offers a fresh chance to read the very first outing in Luke Pearson's ever-popular series of magical Hilda adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() The listen-hear experience exceeds the 'look-see-coupling' by far. ![]() Key figure 'Cau No' disappears in a vortex of hypnotic overtones. Possibilities and confusion about one's own point of view is the theme, dreamed technological achievements like the 'Cortical Current' and the time confusions they produce are recreated with sequencers. This sounds in a title like 'Counterfeit World', the fake world. The 'busybodies' Leander Reininghaus, Bernhard Wöstheinrich and Andreas von Garnier pack their 2020's equipment to go back to the 1970s and dream of an exciting future that seemed possible at the time - Buckminster Fuller was on board the spaceship Earth at the time - which is obviously different from the one that has come. ![]() In the music of TaboTago, which is influenced by and pays tribute to the band Tangerine Dream, the distinction between original and copy, model and image, reality and imagination is impossible - a mirror image without an original. Galouye of the same name, and even more inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Welt am Draht - World on a Wire", which also goes back to the novel. ![]() Simulacron, the new album released by TaboTago is program music to the book by Daniel F. Mark the topic unread :: View previous topic :: View next topic Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Chat Room FAQ Calendar Search Memberlist Usergroups Links ![]() ![]() In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Orwell relates what he believes to be a close association between bad prose and oppressive ideology: Orwell encourages concreteness and clarity instead of vagueness, and individuality over political conformity. ![]() ![]() This unclear prose was a "contagion" which had spread to those who did not intend to hide the truth, and it concealed a writer's thoughts from himself and others. Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it. The essay focused on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind". " Politics and the English Language" (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. ![]() |