![]() ![]() Stephan King dedicated his 1981 horror retrospective Danse Macabre to Wellman along with horror masters Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Wandrei, and Frank Belknap Long. Wellman’s nonfiction Civil War history, Rebel Boast: First at Bethel, Last at Appomattox was nominated for the He won for his story, “A Star for a Warrior,” which famously beat out Williamįaulkner’s “An Error in Chemistry.” Faulkner was furious about losing and made Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award, two World Fantasy Awards, The Britishįantasy Award, and the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award (1946) which Among his numerous accolades are the Mystery Published over three hundred stories and essays and dozens of books in a career ![]() Wellman’s named is spelled “Manley” instead of Manly, a mistake the authorĮncountered often throughout his career. Tales in August of 1939 and later in his career retrospective Worse Things Waiting (Carcosa Press, 1973), which won the World FantasyĪward for Best Collection at the inaugural World Fantasy Convention, held in the fall of 1975 in Providence, Rhode Island, home of influential Weird Tales writer H.P. Still,” which originally appeared in Weird Teleplay is an adaptation of Manly Wade Wellman’s story, “The Valley Was ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sometimes it’s better just to be yourself…ĭetermined to help Megan get on with life after a recent motorcycle accident has left her confined to a wheelchair, her family rents the lake cottage where they’ve always vacationed. ![]() Desperate, she tries to dream up something really spectacular to help her career, only to discover that sometimes spectacular isn’t the way to go. Then beautiful, sexy, twelve-year-old Tammy turns up in front of the photographer’s camera, and suddenly Sylvia is wondering if she’s all washed up. Yes, Sylvia’s got it all – looks, fame, even a boy who’s crazy about her. She’s a brat and she knows it, but she’s also sitting on top of the world, so she really doesn’t care. ![]() WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL HER THAT THE BIGGEST DANGER FOR A TEEN MODEL WAS GROWING UP?Īt fourteen, Sylvia Eisenstein’s beautiful long auburn hair and gorgeous eyes have earned her a place as a highly paid model, seen in countless magazine ads as the Miss Nature Coconut Creme Rinse Shampoo and Conditioner girl. Publisher – New American Library – a.k.a Signet – date : 1984 – Kooky tale about a pair of soap opera loving best friends who decided to intervene on their favorite soap via kidnapping an actress when they don’t like the new plot twists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the title and the cover this is a long long way from your usual commercial fantasy fare. It’s the story of an odd little assortment of people who are thrown together – including a sorcerer, a female doctor, and an artilleryman afflicted with vampirism. It involves historical figures like Lorenzo de Medici and Richard III of England, and the fun lies in the way Ford has changed history in subtle ways, subtle ways which sometimes have spectacular results. And there’s magic, although not an enormous amount of it. ![]() Is there a dragon? Well there’s the anticipation of one. The story takes place in northern Italy and in Britain. In this world Byzantium is still immensely powerful. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting is an alternate history with some fantasy elements, set in a fifteenth century that is in some ways very like our own and in other ways quite different. ![]() Another early review of mine, previously posted in fantasywithbite. ![]() ![]() ![]() The funny illustrations show that the puppy is a lot of work and quite a handful! In Little Critter eyes it's all worth it! Little Critter is proud of the job he's doing, happily feeding, walking, training and loving his new friend. ![]() His parents agree to let him keep it as long as he takes care of it himself. Little Critter has brought home an adorable puppy. The amusing illustrations, however, show a slightly different story! Little Critter proudly tells how he keeps a watchful eye on his Grandpa throughout the day. The day is filled with exciting events for the adventurous Little Critter and his loving (and patient!) Grandpa. In this sweet and sentimental story, Little Critter and his Grandpa go on a shopping expedition for a new suit. Little Critter omBooks are available for iPhone ®, iPad ®, iPod touch ®, Android ™, NOOK Tablets ™, Kindle Fire ™ and HP TouchPad ™ devices. Plus, go on your very own Easter egg hunt to find 100 eggs hidden throughout this charming story. It's Easter and Little Critter is ready to celebrate! Join Little Critter and his family as they enjoy traditional Easter activities. *RECORD YOUR OWN VOICE AND OTHER NEW FEATURES! ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. ![]() 'Stepping nimbly among the liminal spaces and eerie real-world haunts of our heroine’s cipher-sister, this haunting modern fairytale will wrap you up like a glittering fog, before going for your throat.’ Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood I’ll put it like this – I am obsessed with House of Hollow.’ Louise O'Neill, author of Printz Honor Book, Asking For It ![]() 'This dark, deliciously twisted novel has everything you could hope for as a reader – a brilliant concept, glamorous characters with secrets to hide, immersive world-building, and some of the finest writing I’ve seen in YA fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() Innovative in form and language, her work explores the influence of these figures on the lives of women and imagines new, more liberating possibilities in the recuperation of their agency, self-determination, and independence. As part of a larger Chicana feminist intellectual critique of gender roles within Latino/a culture, Cisneros’s fiction and poetry examine the social roles for women in marriage and motherhood and identify the archetypal figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona as sources of oppression within discourse and practice. Drawing on her experience as an only daughter in a large Mexican American family, Cisneros challenges patriarchal hierarchies in Latino/a culture in her work, as well as those grounded in race, class, and gender in US culture more generally. Beginning with her first chapbook publication in 1980, the poetry collection Bad Boys, Cisneros has written and published fiction, poetry, and essays with a distinct Chicana feminist consciousness. ![]() ![]() Sandra Cisneros is one of the best-known and most influential Chicana authors in American literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. A stirring mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York: The Novel gloriously captures the search for freedom and opportunity at the heart of our nation's history. From this intimate perspective we see New York's humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants, the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the 1990s, and the attack on the World Trade Center. Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and "Required Reading" by the New York PostĮdward Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant-a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city's fortunes. ![]() Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost-and he knows that he must return. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Details Select delivery location Used: Good Details Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. Details Or fastest delivery March 10 - 14. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. An Atlas of Impossible Longing: Anuradha Roy: 9781847244772: : Books Buy used: 11.66 FREE delivery March 16 - 22. From Amazon: "“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim. ![]() ![]() I have a like/hate relationship with this novel. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head-and under her skin. What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides-especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. ![]() That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. ![]() |