5/24/2023 0 Comments The Nebulon Horror by Hugh B. Cave![]() It began with a child's brutal attack on her mother's lover. But something awful was growing in the youngest minds. Like a vintage horror movie, Murgunstrumm and Others is an experience to be savoured best on a stormy, lonely night. Nebulon, a sleepy little Florida town: It had never known trouble, never expected it from its smallest, most innocent residents - the children. These stories exemplify the gothic horror thrillers of the 1930s - no-holds-barred lurid chillers of violent action and scream-in-the-night terror. Murgunstrumm and Others abounds with haunted houses, ravenous vampires, slobbering monsters, fiends human and inhuman, nights dark and stormy, corpses fresh and rotting. Crawling forth from the Depression years - from the haunted pages of Strange Tales, Weird Tales, Ghost Stories, Spicy Mystery Stories, Black Book Detective Magazine, Thrilling Mysteries, and elsewhere.īe warned. ![]() ![]() Cave wrote some of the most grisly and chilling horror stories ever to appear in the pulps. Long before he became the author of polished romances for the slick magazines, of best-seller novels and firsthand-researched travel books - Hugh B. Winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award For Best Collection ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments None like him by jen wilkin![]() ![]() ![]() ❖ Don't forget to check out 'ESV Scripture Journals' and 'Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation'. In this episode, Jen Wilkin walks through the barriers we often face when studying the Bible, how to move past them, and why it is worth it. ❖ Follow us on social media to stay up to date: ❖ To get 30% off her books or any other Crossway releases create a Crossway+ account today. 'Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands' 'None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us (and Why That's a Good Thing)' 'In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character' ❖ This podcast is also releasing as a video podcast on YouTube here. As an advocate for biblical literacy, she has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts and authored several books, including the best seller 'Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds' on which this podcast is based. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. In this first episode, Jen Wilkin introduces the idea of Bible literacy and shares how studying the Bible has changed her life. Join Jen Wilkin over the next ten weeks as she walks through methods, tips, and encouragements to studying the Bible more deeply so we might know and love the God of the Bible better. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Assembly by natasha brown![]() ![]() We are thrown into the life of an unnamed, young black woman who works at high-pressure blue-chip company. It’s difficult to slot this book into one category it reads like a cross between poetry and memoir, but it’s listed as fiction (most likely with a dash of realism because I have no doubt Brown also experienced many of these things). But what if that mark of success isn’t what everyone is striving for, it’s simply what we are told to strive for? ![]() The life of this particular woman is marked with the challenges she faces as a black woman in a largely male, white sector of high finance, and the success she has achieved in the traditional sense of the word. Although Assembly by Natasha Brown doesn’t include Covid, the thoughts that cross the protagonist’s mind are certainly relatable as we all sit at home and ponder LIFE. It touches upon race, class, gender, and the existential dread that millennials in particular seem to dwell upon, (what does it all mean? etc.) made even worse by the pandemic. This slim little novel piqued my interest when I saw a short description of it in a catalogue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The course is both a general education course for UArizona undergraduates and open to lifelong learners from the public. Go the event page for details and to register. The seven-week Community Classroom course costs $300 and is offered by the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. “Whether you agree with Chomsky’s views or not, the course is a rare opportunity to discuss politics with one of the most influential thinkers of the past century,” says John Paul Jones III, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The politics course has a 90% approval rating (excellent or very good), and student comments have included, “These lectures were the intellectual highlights of my life” and “Imagine being able to say you took a class with Einstein. The revamped course, now named “ Consequences of Capitalism," is being offered online for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This spring, students from all over the world can take a class from Noam Chomsky from the comfort of their own homes. They were not alone in their determination to take a class from the world-renowned linguist and social critic. Lydia Griffith moved to Tucson from Ireland for the seven-week course, and Joe Coughlin made a 12-hour commute from Bakersfield, Calif., twice a week for the class, two years in a row. ![]() ![]() In 2018, Thomas Saupique and Aurelie Viotto moved from Lyon, France, to Tucson, Ariz., to take the course “What is Politics,” co-taught by Noam Chomsky at the University of Arizona. ![]() ![]() ![]() Evans came to prominence in 2000 as a key witness for the defense team in the David Irving trial in London, where he convincingly demonstrated the systematic distortions, adding up to Holocaust denial, in Irving’s work.Ĭlearly, Evans has little patience for arguments tending to relativize Nazi crimes, whether advanced by revisionist historians or by slippery German politicians. The time is therefore opportune for someone once again to set the record straight about Nazi Germany This, indeed, appears to have been the aim of Richard Evans, a professor of history at Cambridge who has just released the first of three projected volumes on the Third Reich. ![]() ![]() Pushed along by sensational books on subjects like the postwar expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe, this unattractive revisionism burst into the open during the lead-up to the Iraq war, when some German intellectuals and political figures began conflating their opposition to Bush-administration policy with the supposed victimization of their own country by Allied bombing during World War II. In the last several years, a new version of 20th-century history has been gathering momentum in Germany one in which Germans at last receive their own share of the contemporary world’s most precious moral commodity: victimhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A celebration of the natural world and rallying cry for positive action for Planet Earth Great opportunities to share life science concepts and amazing facts about the environment with children This beautiful and innovative ode to our natural world will appeal to readers of Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, The Poet's Dog, and Thank You, Earth. ![]() Interactive format and kid-friendly art will engage both toddlers and young readers. Its enticing die-cut pages encourage exploration as its poetic text celebrates everything Earth does for us, all the while reminding us to be a good friend in return. Readers of all ages will pore over the pages of this spectacular book. She sprinkles whisper-white snow and protects the tiny seeds waiting for spring. She pours down summer rain and autumn leaves. Our friend Earth does so many wonderful things! She tends to animals large and small. Celebrate Earth Day with this valentine to our wonderful planet from the Newbery Award-winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments A tale of two cities 1980![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lodging you wish to see is on the second floor, if you will come with me. Will you be able to leave with me on the packet boat tomorrow?ĭid you have to frighten the child to death? It is in this house above a wine shop that we can find him. He's been taken to the house of an old servant of his, in Paris. He left you enough to live comfortably, as we both know. You were too young to remember, of course, your father being thrown into prison.Īt that time, any French nobleman could imprison any French citizen with no questions asked. The letter said it was of the utmost importance.Īlthough, I must confess it's such an astounding revelation that I. I'm looking for a young lady, Miss Lucie Manette. Well, philosopher and vendor of wine, pick up that. It is better for the poor little one to die so than to live in times such as these. How do I know what injury you may have done to my horses? Really, it is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves. I'm sorry, Monsieur, we have struck a child, I believe. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The choirboys joseph wambaugh![]() ![]() For soon-to-be-ex-cop Lynn Cutter, sweating out a disability pension, it could become a point of no return.Īs a rule, Cutter wouldn’t give a private investigator the time of day, but Breda Burrows is the exception to every rule. ![]() For other, it’s a city of last chances, a paradise on the edge of the desert. Playground for the rich, arena for the powerful, graveyard for the unlucky-welcome to Palm Springs!įor some, it’s the pleasure capital of the world. In his long-awaited new novel, best-selling author Joseph Wambaugh combines harrowing suspense, scathing humor, and a moving portrait of a man on the brink of self-destruction. where death and chicanery flourish amidst ranches, mansions, and yachting parties. And Winnie Farlowe is a man willing to follow wherever she leads-straight into the juicy pulp of the Golden Orange, a world where money is everything, but nothing adds up. The coroner called it suicide, but to Tess it means the fear of her own fate. Nearly a year ago Tess Binder's father washed up on the beach with a bullet in his ear. She's a stunningly beautiful, sexually spirited three-time divorcee from Newport Beach-capital of California's Golden Orange, where wallets are fat, bikinis are skimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to a billionaire's bank account. Never before has he come up against anyone like Tess Binder. Ever since, he's been fighting a bad back, fighting the bottle, fighting his conscience. ![]() ![]() When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost his shield, he lost the only protection he had. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Clive barker's the forbidden![]() ![]() Helen finds herself fascinated by the anti-social aesthetics, and her obsession brings her into contact with an estate resident, a young mother, Ann-Marie, who tells her of further spray-painted attractions in some of the empty derelict flats. Alas, like every tragic heroine, her decision to enter the estate is the first step on a journey that will ultimately consign her to a terrible fate. She’s a photographer who’s studying the subject for a dissertation. The estate is awash with graffiti. Indeed, it’s the graffiti that attracts Helen to this urban abomination. It’s a place where ‘… lamps had been shattered and back-yard fences overthrown cars whose wheels and engines had been removed and chassis then burned…’ Barker sets the tone by describing at length an architectural dream that through neglect and lawlessness, has slowly turned into a nightmare. It’s set, not in Chicago, but in a bleak inner-city housing estate in the UK (the equivalent of ‘the Projects’ in the US). Yet there are many differences with its big-screen sibling. ![]() It’s the story that eventually morphed into celluloid slasher Candyman. The Forbidden is one of the stand-out tales from Barker’s acclaimed Books of Blood series: a genre-redefining collection that prompted the horror high-priest Stephen King to proclaim breathlessly that ‘Clive Barker is so good I am almost literally tongue-tied.’ (For any horror fan not to have read these gory, otherworldly fables is a like a church-goer eschewing the New Testament.) ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Naoise dolan exciting times review![]() ![]() A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. When Julian’s job takes him back to London, she stays put, unsure where their relationship stands.Įnter Edith. Ignoring her feminist leanings and her better instincts, Ava finds herself moving into Julian’s apartment, letting him buy her clothes, and, eventually, striking up a sexual relationship with him. When Ava befriends Julian, a witty British banker, he offers a shortcut into a lavish life her meager salary could never allow. Since she left Dublin, she’s been spending her days teaching English to rich children-she’s been assigned the grammar classes because she lacks warmth-and her nights avoiding petulant roommates in her cramped apartment. An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyerĪva moved to Hong Kong to find happiness, but so far, it isn’t working out. ![]() |
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