![]() ![]() With the help of Summer McCraken, a fiesty girl with secrets of her own, the two narrow down their prime suspects. They want to see any trace of Henry’s death disappear like yesterday’s paper. Dealing with the zoo’s top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time. ![]() Even though it’s claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain’t the polar bear’s lunch. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. 12 year old Theodore Teddy Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. ![]()
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![]() Pray, thou, and we will pray that God may have mer- cy upon thee. Now will I make all the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure, stark naked before me and so by that means I shall see more than eer (5) I felt or saw yet. ![]() The Delphi Classics edition of Marlowe includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. And what noise soever you hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me. O, this is admirable here I ha stolen one of Doctor Faustus conjuring books, and, ifaith, I mean to search some circles for my own use. While slightly simplistic, this quotation does get at the heart of one of the play’s central themes: the clash between the medieval world and the world of the emerging Renaissance. ![]() ![]() Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Dawkins famously remarked that Doctor Faustus tells the story of a Renaissance man who had to pay the medieval price for being one. This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Doctor Faustus - a Text and B Text by Christopher Marlowe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe’. ![]() ![]() In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all…but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown – the shadow-haunted Outside – we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold.” To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and the local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. ![]() ![]() It is a sentiment frequently expressed in Lovecraft’s many letters: “Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests are emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. ![]() “Herein lies the basis of what Lovecraft called “cosmic horror” – the paradoxical realization of the world’s hiddenness as an absolute hiddenness. ![]() ![]() ![]() In August 2014, Kiera Cass announced she would be writing two more full length books in the series, which take place twenty years after the trilogy. ![]() Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself - and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined. It means leaving behind the love of her life, Aspen, and entering a strange new world where her every action is watched and judged. Except for The Selection: when the crown prince comes of age, thirty-five girls are picked in a random draw to compete for the chance at winning his heart and becoming Illea's future queen.įor America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. ![]() In the country of Illea (formerly America) your caste determines everything from your job to your quality of life, and there's little chance for moving upward. The four are collected in an anthology titled Happily Ever After, which includes bonus content. There are also four companion novellas, The Prince (told from Prince Maxon's point of view), The Guard (told from Aspen Leger's point of view), The Queen (told from Queen Amberly's point of view) and The Favorite (told from Marlee's point of view). The Selection is a Young Adult dystopian romance trilogy by Kiera Cass, consisting of The Selection, The Elite, and The One. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, after a group of Native Americans attacked some US soldiers, those troops decided to enact mob justice against Hokolesqua, despite him having no involvement with the attack. In 1777, Hokolesqua was living as a prisoner of the American military. He asserts that in the iconic bright yellow film poster for The Shining, the extra wide letter "T" in the title is actually the Mayan symbol "Ik." And speaking of yellow, McLeod also claims a repeating pattern in the carpet of the Gold Room, a cross within a squares, is actually the Mayan symbol " K'an," the symbol for "yellow." ![]() Internet film scholar Kevin McLeod, who did a commentary track for the home video release of Room 237, also claims that the film features a pair of hidden symbols from another group of indigenous Americans, the Maya. All throughout the hotel are depictions of Native Americans and Native American art motifs, such as the enormous sand painting on the wall of the Colorado Lounge Additionally, Jack uses the phrase " White Man's Burden," referring to the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling which valorizes the colonization of natives by white imperialists, and Wendy's use of the phrase "keep American clean" is a clear reference to the " Keep America Beautiful" campaign from 1971, which famously features a crying Native American. ![]() ![]() ![]() Young wrote The Shack, his first novel, as a gift for his children.įriends encouraged Young to get The Shack published, and after it was turned down by dozens of publishers, Young and three friends founded Windblown Media to publish the book. The couple had six children, and Christianity played a large role in the family. ![]() Young married Kim Warren and held a number of jobs in early adulthood including working for a church and owning businesses in insurance, construction, and more. Young attended bible college, and later received a BA in Religion from Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon. ![]() In recent years, Young has been open about the struggles he has dealt with as a TCK (Third Culture Kid) and survivor of childhood sexual abuse. ![]() The family moved back to Canada while Young was in school, and he attended thirteen different schools before graduating. Young was born in Alberta, Canada, but spent much of his early childhood in New Guinea (West Papua) with his missionary parents and three younger siblings. William Paul Young is a Canadian author of Christian fiction. ![]() ![]() The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory Book ReviewĪ public display of affection gone terribly awry. But when their glorified hookups start breaking the rules, one of them has to be smart enough to put on the brakes… Nik knows that in the wilds of LA, a handsome doctor like Carlos can’t be looking for anything serious, so she embarks on an epic rebound with him, filled with food, fun, and fantastic sex. He’s even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik’s social media blows up–in a bad way. ![]() The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans…Īt the game with his sister, Carlos Ibarra comes to Nik’s rescue and rushes her away from a camera crew. Saying no isn’t the hard part–they’ve only been dating for five months, and he can’t even spell her name correctly. When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. ![]() ![]() Goodreads The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() Wait, the conclusion comes when our man is on top and not after the fallout of his sure-to-be-doomed master plan? It's both unexpected yet completely gratifying. Rating: R (Language|Violence|Sexual Material)Īdarsh Gourav's Ramin Belram is such an unexpected protagonist to American audiences that it's almost surprising when The White Tiger ends when it does. Based on the New York Times bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel. ![]() On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. ![]() Society has trained Balram to be one thing - a servant - so he makes himself indispensable to his rich masters. Cunning and ambitious, our young hero jockeys his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America. Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) narrates his epic and darkly humorous rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she? The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.Īnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. ![]() The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new standalone… ![]() ![]() Shipstead, a sophisticated writer known for her strong character-building, vivid imagery and lyrical prose, tells a historically rich and fully immersive tale of the impulsive flyer Marian Graves and flighty actress Hadley Baxter. In bestselling author Maggie Shipstead’s third novel, Great Circle, the lives of these two strong female protagonists intersect in ways that so realistically reverberate over a hundred years of story that you feel they cannot possibly be fictional. ![]() In modern times, a disgraced Hollywood starlet looks to redeem her reputation by recreating the role of this high-flying daredevil in a bio-epic film. ![]() In 1950, a feisty female aviator disappeared on the last leg of her fateful attempt to circumnavigate the globe. ![]() |