![]() ![]() Gaunt seems to know everything about the people of Castle Rock - in fact he seems to know more about these people than they know themselves. Gaunt, owner of the new shop in town - Needful Things. Slowly we get to know a lot of the good people of Castle Rock - we get to know their weaknesses. As usual King slowly builds up his characters and his milieu. The pranks that's just a bit to evil, to be really funny. Needful Things is about the dark side in us all (have you ever heard that one as a plot synopsis for a King story, before?), only this time it's the small things that get out and have a field day. The cover says The Last Castle Rock Story, and I guess that King will have a hard time topping this one - if the poor citizens of Castle Rock ever decide that it's worth the trouble to rebuilding their town. Needful Things is a horror story by Stephen King. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They are clear, easy to understand but have such a quality to their voices. It was just the refresh and mental exercise I needed. ![]() The twist and turns and unknowns are nonstop. Parts of this series actually had me talking out loud to myself willing the character to listen to what I had to say. I loved escaping from my mundane life to hear of luxury and power, suspense and passion. Some of the story line is a tad unrealistic and extravagant but it just stands to pull you further into the story. I actually bought my own credits to purchase the last book, that is how much I was in love with the story and needed to hear the ending. ![]() I was not disappointed and in fact binge listened to all 3 books in this series in 4 days. I read the mixed reviews on this book (and series as a whole) but was tired of scrolling books and decided to take my chances. FROM THE STORY LINE TO THE NARRATORS, A+++++++++++ ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Kate Walsh, one of my co-editors on that 2004 book, launched the National Council of Teacher Quality, which earned big headlines when it supersized his scrutiny. But this didn’t stop his career in education: David became the director of arts education at the National Endowment for the Arts, returned to academe as the dean of Hunter College’s school of ed., and then served as New York’s education commissioner. His reward for a pioneering analysis was to become a pariah in education school circles. I first got to know David two decades ago, when I talked him into writing a chapter that took a hard look at course syllabi in teacher preparation (for the 2004 book A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom? ). David Steiner, the executive director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University, has penned a new book, A Nation at Thought: Restoring Wisdom in America’s Schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2011 she wrote the Doctor Who tie-in novel Borrowed Time. She's written online games for Penguin, the BBC, and other clients. From 2004 to 2007 Naomi was lead writer on the alternate reality game Perplex City. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her prize-winning short fiction has appeared in Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 and in a number of anthologies. All of her novels have been chosen for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime slot. In October 2016, she published her fourth novel, The Power a science fiction novel about a world in which women develop the power to conduct electricity. ![]() Penguin published her second novel, The Lessons, in 2010 and her third novel, The Liars' Gospel, in August 2012. ![]() Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages and made into a film Disobedience (2017). In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers. She later returned to the UK and attained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. After attaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College at Oxford University, she spent several years working in New York. Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974 and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not, like many other boys, because of any rah-rah bandwagonism or sense of duty. It's 1916, and Tristan Sadler has lied about his age in order to sign up to play his part in the Great War. This novel will keep listeners on the edge of their seats until its most extraordinary and unexpected conclusion, and it will stay with them long after they've finished. The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. ![]() The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will - from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. ![]() But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. It is September 1919: Twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War. Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013 ![]() ![]() ![]() Marvin Wolfman was active in fandom before he began his professional comics career at DC Comics in 1968. He went on to New York's High School of Art and Design, in Manhattan, hoping to become a cartoonist. When Wolfman was 13, his family moved to Flushing, Queens, in New York City, where he attended junior high school. ![]() ![]() He has a sister, Harriet, 12 years older. Marv Wolfman was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of police officer Abe and housewife Fay. Among the many characters Wolfman created or co-created are Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Deathstroke, Tim Drake, Rose Wilson, Nova, Black Cat, Phobia, Bullseye, Vigilante (Adrian Chase) and the Omega Men. He worked on Marvel Comics's The Tomb of Dracula, for which he and artist Gene Colan created the vampire-slayer Blade, and DC Comics's The New Teen Titans and the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series with George Pérez. Marvin Arthur Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book and novelization writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Parish uses an evolutionary approach to shed light on the origins of human behavior. Parish has been studying the world’s captive population of bonobos for the last twenty years. His underwater videos of octopuses have been featured in National Geographic and New Scientist, and he has discussed them on National Public Radio and many cable TV channels.Īmy Parish is a biological anthropologist, primatologist, and Darwinian feminist who has taught at University of Southern California in the gender studies, arts and letters,anthropology, and preventive medicine programs and departments since 1999. He is the author of Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness and four scholarly books, including Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science and Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award for an outstanding work on the philosophy of science. ![]() Peter Godfrey-Smith is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Avery is a regular guy who loves vampire movies, books, and TV shows and has always wished that he could be cool and mysterious and powerful (not to mention sexy) like the vampires in his favorite movies and shows. A fast-paced thriller that both re-imagines and pays tribute to the traditional vampire, Ancient Blood is a story of love, ambition, sacrifice, and betrayal that is frighteningly human.Īncient Blood is the story of Avery Doyle getting what he’s always wanted most: to be a vampire. Sebastian, however, has a plan that will change The Order forever and shatter human civilization. In order to survive, Caroline and Avery take their place as servants in Sebastian’s household during a gathering of the most powerful vampires on Earth, the Hegemony, and soon find themselves involved in the myriad schemes, plots, and revenges that form the night-to-night existence of The Order. ![]() ![]() Avery Doyle loves vampires when his first one-night-stand, Caroline, turns out to be a true vampire on the run, he jumps at the chance to leave his ordinary life and join her as a “child of the night.” The honeymoon ends, however, when Caroline’s brutal Creator Sebastian enslaves them on his island estate and Avery must confront the dehumanizing reality behind his dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its a dense and deep story, not recommended for those who. Two of his previous Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, were loose adaptations. And where on Earth are these kids getting bottles of wine every night?) Who knows, maybe too much eye-rolling made me miss all those jump-scares, but after five episodes, I'm passing on the rest. One of the best written series Ive ever seen Being based on several books, it is very well adapted. The Midnight Club is Flanagan’s third book-to-horror-series project. A hospice where a teen is left to die in a deserted ward completely alone. At the moment, Pike is hard at work on a new YA series. Presently, The Season of Passage is being adapted as a feature film by Universal Studios while Chain Letterone of Pike all-time bestselling booksis also being adapted by Hollywood. And while their personal stories and issues lend themselves to some touching moments, the series is held back by its highly implausible premise and plot holes (terminally ill kids spending their last months living in a dorm where parents only show up once-a-whatever on Family Day, a grand total of two adults in the entire hospice, neither of whom apparently supervising or checking in on these medically fragile teens at night. The Midnight Club also draws from a half dozen of Pike’s earlier works. ![]() my first legitimate jump wasn't until episode 3 or 4, and even that was mild.) Some of the stories the characters tell at their club meetings are good enough. Not a bad series, some creepy "ghost" moments, but don't buy its boast of "most jump scares in a single episode" (that being the first episode, where I actually found myself saying, "oh, enough already". ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also reputed to be made of solid gold. ![]() The demons built it in about an hour, but it far surpassed all human palaces or dwellings it was probably quite small, however, as its spacious hall is described as being very crowded with the thronging swarm of demons, who were taller than any human man, until at a signal they were shrunk from their titanic size to less than "smallest dwarfs". (In Roman times, Mulciber was another name for the Roman god Vulcan.) Book II begins with the debate among the " Stygian Council" in the council-chamber of Pandæmonium. It was designed by the architect Mulciber, who had been the designer of palaces in Heaven before his fall. John Milton invented the name for the capital of Hell, "the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers," built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost (1667). Pandæmonium thus roughly translates as "All Demons"-but can also be interpreted as Pandemoneios (Παν-δαιμον-ειον), or 'all-demon-place'. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. ![]() The name stems from the Greek pan (παν), meaning 'all' or 'every', and daimónion (δαιμόνιον), a diminutive form meaning 'little spirit', 'little angel', or, as Christians interpreted it, 'little daemon', and later, ' demon'. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. Pandæmonium (or Pandemonium in some versions of English) is the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. ![]() |