Siren by tricia rayburn6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Vanessa's parents want to work through the tragedy by returning to their everyday lives back in Boston, but Vanessa can't help feeling that her sister's death was more than an accident. ![]() That is, until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family's vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on shore the next day. Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything - the dark, heights, the ocean - but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Remi is the author of The Disasters (2018), Spellhacker (2020), and other forthcoming novels under the name M. They probably love Star Wars more than you do. ![]() In between marathon writing sessions, Remi can be found drowning in fandom, rolling critical hits at the gaming table, digging in the garden, or feeding their video game addiction. These days, they call rural Virginia home, where there are many more cows but a tragic lack of rockets. England (they/them) grew up on the Space Coast of Florida watching shuttle launches from the backyard. England's The One True Me and You is a *witness me* celebration of standing up for, and being, yourself. OMP's Amanda Quain will be live for a fun chat with them on Saturday, March 12 at 4pm ET.īe sure to follow us on Instagram: big-hearted, joyful romance and a love letter to all things geek, Remi K. England will join us on Instagram to celebrate their new novel, THE ONE TRUE ME AND YOU. ![]() Beastly flinn6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. And I'll stay this way forever-ruined-unless I can break the spell. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. ![]() Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright-a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. Find out what it was like for the beast in Alex Flinn’s contemporary retelling of the classic tale.Ī beast. Summary With a new Beauty and the Beast movie hitting theaters in spring 2017, it’s time to catch up on all things Beastly. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Beastly Alex Flinn We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() Scarlett still wore the barbecue dress, but now sported a black choker. For whatever reason, that idea is abandoned and Vivien Leigh continues to wear the barbecue dress.įor the second filming of this scene, George Reeves and Fred Crane showed up with a slightly different shade of hair color and a new 'do. There's also a second memo dated January 30, in which Selznick thinks it would be better to use the white prayer dress for Scarlett's opening scene. David felt that she was playing it as though it were the first act of a dress rehearsal. George had Vivien on too high a key, way up there. Ray Klune, the production manager, recalled the following: Everybody was nervous and it showed in the next day's rushes. The first scene filmed on January 26, 1939. Plunkett for me to see them again in their next costumes and with their hair re-dressed before they work. ![]() Westmore to redress their hair and I would have him arrange with Mr. In a memo dated January 30, 1939, David Selznick wrote the following to George Cukor: I feel very strongly that the hairdress we used on the twins makes them look grotesquely like a pair of Harpo Marx comics.because of the color of their hair. He didn't like the twins' hair color or style. ![]() After viewing the first attempt at this scene, producer David O. ![]() The big friendly giant story6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() She is discovered by the mysterious person, who carries her to his homeland of Giant Country. One night, Sophie sees a large, cloaked person blowing something via a trumpet-like object into a bedroom window down the street. ![]() The story is about a young orphaned girl named Sophie, living in a girl’s orphanage run by the cantankerous and abusive Mrs. ![]() Let’s start our own adventure as we get to know more about the BFG, the other giants in Giant Country and many more adventures in Roahl Dahl’s stories. After the BFG kidsnatches Sophies straight from her orphanage and takes her with him to Giant Country they embark on an exciting adventure as they got to know each other. The BFG is a Big Friendly Giant who is blowing good dreams into the windows of sleeping boys and girls. That’s just what happens to Sophie in Roald Dahl’s book The BFG. How would you feel if a giant hand reached into your bedroom window and snatched you away? ![]() Of Legend and Lore by Heather Hayden6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes: a miser is in danger of losing everything one cold night a struggling mirrorsmith meets an invisible recluse a boy must relive the fairy tale based on his ancestor's life a child is rejected because of his love of drawing cats and an evil witch is sealed in a glass coffin.īe transported to new worlds and enjoy fresh twists on old favorites. Mythical creatures can be friend or foe: three brothers face a depressed dragon with a legendary treasure an ancient crow brings a child's wishes to life and one young girl discovers dragons aren't always the enemy. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 10.60. ![]() Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Buy Of Legend and Lore: A Collection of Fairy Tale Retellings by Heather Hayden, Heidi Hayden (Illustrator) online at Alibris. Royalty faces magical challenges: a prince uses his powers on a rescue mission and reveals a terrible secret about his people a king takes drastic measures to save his daughters from a troublesome curse and a princess befriends an unusual frog. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Of Legend and Lore: A Collection of Fairy Tale Retellings (4) at. New life is given to eleven old stories in this second collection of irresistible fairy tale retellings. Chennai, the capital city of the state of Tamil Nadu, is adored by millions across the world for its culture, diversity, love for cricket and landscapes, and Grace Hayden, the daughter of Australian and CSK legend Matthew Hayden, discovered one such experience on her latest travels to the Southern. ![]() The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. ![]() The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. ![]() Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. A young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present.ĭrifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. ![]() The ruin of gorlan6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On a purely technical note, this was one of the few books I’ve read that uses third-person omniscient point-of-view and actually pulls it off. The novel was a bit long on the explanations for my taste - a lot of telling about the characters especially at the beginning when showing would have sufficed - but that did not stop me from enjoying the book. The relationship between Will and his Battleschool rival is particularly well portrayed, and Will’s training as a ranger makes for great reading. In Flanagan’s world, young wards of the state have to choose professions, and Will is reluctantly recruited to become a ranger. ![]() It was a believable, well-grounded alternate medieval earth. In fact, it had no sorcery at all, which was kind of refreshing. It’s been a while since I read a classic sword and sorcery fantasy novel, but I enjoyed this one a lot. ![]() Recall movie arnold schwarzenegger6/25/2023 ![]() His wife, doting blonde Lori (Sharon Stone), doesn't want to go to the Red Planet, so Quaid decides to pay a company called Rekall for a medically implanted fake adventure tourism package. ![]() Doug Quaid is an Earth-bound construction worker oddly obsessed with distant Mars. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." It's set in a near-future with glitchy, self-driving cabs, ubiquitous television sets, and space colonies on Mars and Saturn. Total Recall is very loosely based on Philip K. That's why his film is so full of intelligence, invention, and love of the genre. Thirty years after Total Recall's release, Paul Verhoeven still understands the emptiness of action movies better than just about any other director. More often than not, they're dumb dreams - shallow, flickering empowerment fantasies without convincing histories or motivations. Action heroes on the screen aren't real people. ![]() Cohaagan is talking to musclebound do-gooding action hero Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), and he's right, of course. "You’re nothing! You’re nobody! You’re a stupid dream!" the villainous governor of Mars, Vilos Cohaagen ( Ronny Cox), shouts in 1990's Total Recall. ![]() Solitary practitioner6/25/2023 ![]() He shows how experimentation is important. ![]() The book doesn't tell you what to learn, it shows you how to learn. But what I really like about this book is that Scott doesn't tell you what to think as a Wiccan, but shows you how to think as a Wiccan. You'll discover the power of Wiccan prayers throughout the day and how you can use them to make yourself aware that the God and Goddess are everywhere. You'll learn the meanings of over 120 Wiccan symbols and how you can magically use them. In this book you'll learn about magical tools, how to cast a circle, and how to raise magical power. Now - with the help of Living Wicca, one of the vital books for solitary Pagans - Wicca can fill your life too. For Scott, it was something that filled his life. ![]() ![]() Is that you? Are you working on your own? For many solitary Wiccans, the Craft is something they do for magic or for celebrations. Several of the books he wrote were aimed at solitary practitioners. One of the things author Scott Cunningham realized was that if Wicca was going to continue to expand, it needed to reach people who could not find groups to join. ![]() |