Creep, Shadow, Creep by A. Merritt6/28/2023 Bleiler calls this "a sequel of sorts to Burn Witch Burn!" though more in mood and title echo (the 1935 London / Methuen edition nodded more directly with the title Creep, Shadow, Creep!). Boards lightly shelfworn with some nudging at spine ends. Jacket restored by prior owner with full backing in archival tissue and color fills / touch-ups along edges and at a few spots down spine and folds evidence under light of prior shallow chips and tears along edges, occasionally touching now hand-restored text, with some current toning and smudging to surface. over green cloth with black lettering and illustration to spine. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact bound in dark navy / nearly-black cloth with green lettering and illustration to spine. New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934.
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The missing page cat sebastian6/27/2023 Gathering all the beneficiaries together seems like it is the perfect setting for some trouble when money comes into play. As Leo learns where James is and why, he can’t help but worry. When Leo returns from his latest assignment, all he wants is to curl up and fall into bed with James, but he finds he has just missed the man. Prior to that, James spent many summers at Blackthorn, but after Rose’s death, he was sent back to Wychcomb St. It all seems kind of absurdly dramatic, but James hasn’t seen his family in 20 years, ever since the fateful summer of 1927 when his cousin, Rose, disappeared, presumed dead by drowning. Now, James has been called to the home of his late uncle in Cornwall, as the family has all been gathered together for the reading of the will. And Leo loves the sense of home he has with James, but still doesn’t quite feel worthy of the growing affection between them. Honestly, James just considers himself lucky every time Leo walks through the door, still wanting to be with him. James would love to have Leo with him all the time, but he doesn’t want to pressure Leo into leaving his espionage work. James is the local doctor and Leo lives with him as his “lodger” when he is in between assignments. James Sommers and Leo Page have settled into a life together in Wychcomb St. Henry t blackaby books6/27/2023 Tambien hay capitulos nuevos sobre liderazgo en el cambio y liderazgo de equipos. En Liderazgo espiritual, los Blackaby nos hablan sobre los aspectos clave en la vida de liderazgo, como las dificultades, los rasgos del caracter, la influencia, las tecnicas para la toma de decisiones, etc., y se concentran simultaneamente en las maneras en que los lideres descubren y fomentan la vision de Dios para su organizacion e incentivan a las personas a alinearse con los planes de Dios. o, Barna Group (una empresa cristiana de encuestas) informa que los pastores incluyen el mencionado libro entre las obras actualmente mas influyentes sobre el tema de como Dios desarrolla, orienta y faculta a los lideres espirituales. Liderazgo espiritual: Como movilizar a las personas hacia el proposito de Dios (Trade Paperback / Paperback, Abridged edition)ĭespues del clasico Mi experiencia con Dios, Liderazgo espiritual es uno de los libros de Henry y Richard Blackaby mas prestigiosos y vendidos a esta fecha, e incentiva tanto a lideres de empresas como de iglesias a seguir el diseno biblico de Dios para alcanzar el exito. Neon gods book6/27/2023 It's not a sophisticated thought, but a thought that I gathered from some college reading material or something. However, this site cites Simon as saying this in an interview with NPR: I haven't found any direct quotes on the meaning other than Garfunkel's above, so you're just going to have to take what you can get. It seems the song is about people's inability to communicate with all of the television watching and stuff people who don't have any kind of original thought. Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other." Many interpretations I've found have said it represented advertising and TV.Īccording to Garfunkel (this quote is from Wikipedia, but it's directly quoted from a book on Paul Simon's life): What the sign represents, though, is harder to answer. In praying and bowing to the sign, they made it into a god. The sign is a god because people made it a god ("the neon god they made"). The "neon god" is obviously the sign pictured earlier in the song. Cathedral by David Macaulay6/27/2023 In 1985, a cataclysmic disaster occurred. This book is perfect for keeping around the house as a gradual introduction to biology and anatomy elementary students may be intrigued by the illustrations (though the text is advanced), while middle school and high school students should be able to gain a fantastic introduction to the subject. Using the biologically correct terms found in high school or college textbooks, students will receive an understanding of the human body in short, easy to digest segments accentuated by his trademark visual explanations. This detailed-oriented book by David Macaulay could practically serve as a biology-textbook! Moving from cells, atoms and molecules all the way to birth, The Way We Work is a whirlwind tour through the most amazing machine of all-You! Often humorous colored-pencil illustrations provide an uncannily clear portrait of how ATP works, why muscles move, how molecules are formed, the systems of the body, and more. Matt haig to be a cat6/26/2023 Simultaneously predictable and quirky, this will likely appeal to the author’s fans but may not attract new readers. Characterization is brisk but generally effective, with familiar types occupying the background: the quirky best friend with supportive, artsy parents, the vicious bully who turns out to have a surprising weak spot, the harried mum trying hard to carry on in the face of domestic difficulties. The plot offers some surprises but also feels repetitious in spots. Haig’s writing has somewhat Snicket-ian overtones with occasional coy authorial asides and plenty of pain, suffering, danger and despair. While they eventually understand his outlandish predicament and do their best to help, it’s Barney’s (mysteriously) absent father who provides the information needed to return to his former life. Pursued by Miss Whipmire, the school principal who encouraged his metamorphosis for reasons of her own, Barney seeks protection from his best friend Rissa and his mother. After magically switching bodies with a small cat named Maurice, Barney must discover how to regain his humanity. Depressed by his parents’ divorce and tormented by a schoolmate, Barney is manipulated by a cruel adult into wishing his life away-literally. Ultimately, Barney Willow’s sad and odd story drags on a bit too long. This offbeat tale offers an uneasy mix of magical transformation, violence and bullying, and the dreary misery of family dysfunction. White hot kiss book series6/26/2023 Then she meets Roth - a demon who claims to know her secrets. And even though Zayne is a Warden, part of the race of gargoyles tasked with keeping humanity safe, Layla's kiss will kill anything with a soul-including him. 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The nix novel6/26/2023 "I've enjoyed as much creative freedom as I've had with any other book, coupled with lots of valuable editorial input," Nix said in an interview. Scholastic and Lucasfilm gave Nix a general list of "influences and ideas" to base the series on and he was then given creative freedom to expand upon it. It tells the story of Tal, a boy who lives in a world with eternal darkness, whose attempt to steal a Sunstone causes him to fall into the unknown world outside of the mysterious castle he grew up in.Īfter the success of Nix's Sabriel, a Scholastic editor emailed Nix to say that he'd love to work with Nix on something and a few months later, the editor informed Nix that Scholastic was partnering with LucasFilm to create a new fantasy series and asked Nix if he would be interested in writing it. The Fall is the first book in Garth Nix's The Seventh Tower series, published in 2000 by Scholastic in partnership with Lucasfilm under the imprint LucasBooks. The history of totalitarianism6/26/2023 The concept entered the public consciousness still more fully with the opening of the Cold War, as Truman used the rhetoric of totalitarianism to sell the Truman Doctrine to Congress. The idea of totalitarianism came to possess novelists such as Arthur Koestler ( Darkness at Noon) and George Orwell (whose Nineteen Eighty-Four was interpreted by conservatives as an attack on socialism in general, and subsequently suffered criticism from left-leaning critics). Gleason's account takes us through the debates of the early postwar years, as academics in turnĪdopted the term-most notably Hannah Arendt. He follows the growth and expansion of the concept as it was picked up in the West and applied to Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union. Created by Mussolini's enemies, the word was appropriated by the Fascists themselves to describe their program in what turned out to be one of the less totalitarian of the European dictatorships. Interweaving the story of intellectual debates with the international history of the twentieth century, Gleason traces the birth of the term to Italy in the first years of Mussolini's rule. Totalitarianism offers a penetrating chronicle of the central concept of our era-an era shaped by our conflict first with fascism and then with communism. |