5/23/2023 0 Comments Cursed frank miller book 2![]() ![]() She struggles to unite her people, avenge her family, and discover the truth about her destiny.īut perhaps the one thing that can change Destiny itself is found at the edge of a blade. She wields a sword meant for the one true king, battling paladins and the armies of a corrupt king. Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else. Now an original series starring Katherine Langford on Netflix The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller (300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City). Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people's only hope. That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue's fate is forever altered. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave. Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King.īut what if the Sword has chosen a Queen? The Lady of the Lake finds her voice in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Tom Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller ( 300, Batman: The Dark Night Returns, Sin City). ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Feliks salten![]() ![]() He wrote film scripts and librettos for operettas. He also wrote for nearly all the major newspapers of Vienna. ![]() He was soon publishing, on an average, one book a year, of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. In 1900 he published his first collection of short stories. In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. There is more than one author with this Name.įelix Salten was an Austrian writer. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Skunk by Alyce Miller![]() Readers will also learn about the characterization of skunks in literature, film, music, and folklore, from the Warner Brothers cartoon character Pepe Le Pew to Native American beliefs of skunk spirituality. ![]() She reveals that skunks have a long history of persecution killed off as smelly nuisances, they have also been hunted both for their fur and their unique musk, for use in perfume. Skunk provides the first cultural and natural history of this misfit creature, from their importance in agriculture and the ecosystem to their distinct role in popular culture and myth.As growing urban wildlife populations bring skunks and humans closer together, Alyce Miller offers a new understanding of an animal that is quickly becoming our new neighbour. ![]() Although the skunk generally waddles through life in a peaceful and solitary way, the animal is feared by humans due to the pungent odor it emits when threatened, and has been both demonized and venerated throughout history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The daughter a boatman born with webbed feet, Villanelle cross-dresses for a living at the casino. Meanwhile in Venice, androgynous beauty Villanelle falls in love with a mysterious woman she meets at a casino. ![]() Now 20 years old, Henri rings in the New Year of 1805 riddled with guilt over the mass deaths and questioning his faith. In 1804, after 2,000 men are killed in an avoidable accident, Henri begins to doubt Napoleon’s motives. While camped at Boulogne, Henri befriends a horse keeper, Domino, and Patrick, a defrocked priest removed from the church for spying on naked women. Looking back, Henri notes the rising support of Napoleon and how he symbolized France’s ambition for itself. Enthralled by Napoleon’s charisma, Henri ignores Napoleon’s despotic behavior. Henri becomes responsible for quelling Napoleon’s great appetite for chicken. ![]() After coming to the rescue when the head cook is too drunk to perform his duties, Napoleon commends Henri’s skill and demands that Henri wait on him personally. The Passion begins in Henri’s voice he’s a young, bright-eyed soldier in Napoleon’s army who dreamed of being a drummer but is assigned to cook instead. ![]() ![]() * "This strong debut middle grade novel by the acclaimed picture book author/illustrator is a first purchase for most middle grade collections."- School Library Journal, starred review Thought-provoking and charming."- Kirkus, starred review * "While the end to Roz's benign and wildlife is startling and violent, Brown leaves Roz and her companions-and readers-with hope. Expect readers to go wild for his robot-themed novel."- Booklist, starred review * " Brown's picture books are consistent bestsellers and critically acclaimed. ![]() "Roz may not feel emotions, but young readers certainly will as this tender, captivating tale unfolds."- The Washington Post ![]() "Brown has written a lively tale that is sure to engage young readers."- The New York Times ![]() ![]() A New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Year Top Pick An IndieBound Bestseller An ALA Notable Book for Children New York Public Library Best Books for Kids Pick Kirkus Best Children's of the Year Pick School Library Journal Best of the Year Pick Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year Pick Sunshine State Young Readers Award List Pick ![]() ![]() ![]() Holleran’s groundbreaking first novel, Dancer from the Dance, is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC, filled with handsome young men, to the lonely facades of rural Florida. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. This program is read by award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award-nominee David Pittu.Īndrew Holleran’s unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire-the first novel in thirteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Night gate by isobelle carmody![]() ![]() Her partner is Jan Stolba, a Czech musician and poet. She was Guest of Honour at the 2007 Australian National Science Fiction Convention, Convergence 2, held in Melbourne in June 2007. The seventh and final book, The Red Queen, was released in November 2015. The Sending, book six of that series, was officially released on 31 October 2011. The Stone Key, book five of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, was released in February 2008. ![]() ![]() She continued to work on them while completing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in literature and philosophy she worked in public relations and journalism. This was soon after the death of her father in a traffic accident. She began work on Obernewtyn Chronicles at the age of fourteen. Isobelle Carmody was born in Wangaratta on 16 June 1958, the eldest of eight children. She is recipient of the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction. Isobelle Jane Carmody (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Jeff vandermeer the strange bird![]() ![]() □ The 101 best action movies of all-timeĬast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie □ The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time □ The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix As a result, it’s a list that crisscrosses the sci-fi universe, from Tatooine to Arrakis, Metropolis to Los Angeles circa, uh, 2019. To that end, in order to put together our list of the 100 best sci-fi movies ever made, we asked a wide-ranging panel of experts, from Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, to Oscar-decorated film director Guillermo del Toro, to Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin, along with a few regular old Time Out writers. They deal with relatable issues and themes, not just the geeks writing novel-length theoretical treatises on fan forums. ![]() ![]() Science-fiction films might frequently create entirely new worlds, but the best of them do what any good movie should do and tell us about the world we actually live in. But the reality is that sci-fi was never meant to appeal only to a small niche. In fact, that’s been true long enough that for a certain generation, it probably seems bizarre that the genre wasn’t always so popular. ![]() Science fiction isn’t just for nerds anymore. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Torn by Billy Wood-Smith![]() Compare the word "disaster," which has the etymology "away without" ("dis") + "star planet" ("aster"). ![]() destiny or the heavens) have ruled against them, or "crossed" their plan. It means just the opposite - the stars (i.e. In modern times, the term "star-crossed" is often unknowingly misused to mean lovers who are meant to be together. ![]() William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the most famous example (and the Trope Namer), but the archetype dates at least as far back as Mesopotamian Mythology and Egyptian Mythology, making it Older Than Dirt. Often, the two can only be Together in Death. It may be Fate, or fatally- Feuding Families, or it may be something as mundane as a few hundred miles' separation, but something will always be in their way. ![]() Two lovers-often but not always teenagers-doomed to be kept apart no matter how hard they struggle to be together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. ![]() In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty Winter of the World: Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. President Woodrow Wilson and with two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. ![]()
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