![]() ![]() Six black-and-white illustrations by award winning artist Allen Williams.Please note that Artist Gift editions are not numbered. The fine press limited edition of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist Gift editions. The novel and Richard Matheson are often credited for creating the zombie-vampire genre. In 2012, the Horror Writers Association gave I Am Legend the special Vampire Novel of the Century Award. Robert must hunt by day, hide by night, and most importantly, survive. ![]() I Am Legend is the story of Robert Neville, who appears to be the sole survivor of a pandemic that has turned the human race into a crossbreed of zombies and vampires. Originally published in 1954, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend ushered in a different kind of novel, defying and transcending genre to combine elements of horror and science fiction within a post-apocalyptic frame. This quote from mystery writer William Campbell Gault graced the first edition cover of what would become one of the most influential and adapted works of the 20th century. “This may be the most terrifying novel you will ever read.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() From a Casanova male, to an unconventional married couple, and a condescending singing master, she takes on a colorful cast of characters to transform the boarding house into a home while racing to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world.Īs challenges mount, her ambitions become threatened from an unexpected quarter: her own heart. Though excited to be an independent "New Woman" when most of the fair sex stayed home, she quickly finds the world less welcoming than anticipated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiffany Girl is the heartwarming story of the impetuous Flossie Jayne, a beautiful, budding artist handpicked by Louis to help complete the Tiffany chapel. : It Happened at the Fair: A Novel (9781451692372) by Gist, Deeanne and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Eager for adventure, the young women pick up their skirts, move to boarding houses, take up steel cutters, and assume new identities as the “Tiffany Girls.” About the Book A transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor, his struggle with loss, and the attractive teacher who changes his life. But when Louis’s dream is threatened by a glassworkers’ strike months before the Fair opens, he turns to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at the New York School of Applied Design. It Happened at the Fair: A Novel by Deeanne Gist 3.9 (41) Paperback (Original) 15.99 Paperback 15.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, he could have just left it on his doorstep or something…so that was definitely a…choice. He finds the old iPhone he had given Harrigan and decides to take it back before returning it during the funeral by placing it in his coffin. ![]() Sometime later, Craig visits him only to find that the old man has now passed away. In the trailer, we see that they’re using the much older models, with the gift to Harrigan being what appears to be the original iPhone (so we can probably guess that the adaptation is set somewhere in the early to mid-’00s).Īnyway, Harrigan is initially hesitant to use the phone but eventually relents. The two form a bond, with Craig often asking the older man for advice, and later on, after he wins a nice sum of money from a lottery scratch card Harrigan gives him and Craig gifts him with an iPhone. Harrigan (Donald Sutherland), after working jobs for him at his estate. Harrigan’s Phone follows a young boy, Craig (Martell), who befriends their neighborhood’s reclusive billionaire, Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moore’s place among legendary authors of sword and sorcery like Robert E. Her legendary debut, Black God’s Kiss, begins as her castle, Joiry, is overrun by invaders, but knowing that this is one battle she cannot fight, she summons her courage and cunning and descends into the castle’s hidden reaches, where she crosses through a doorway into Hell itself…Jirel of Joiry collects the classic tales of blood and vengeance that secured C.L. ![]() With her red hair flowing, her yellow eyes glinting like embers, and her face streaked with blood, Jirel is strong, fearless, and driven by honor. Moore, one of the pioneering women writers of speculative fiction, and the appearance of fantasy’s landmark female hero: Jirel of Joiry. Summary For fans of Red Sonja and Xena the Warrior Princess, a collection of five fantasy stories starring a mighty and powerful female warrior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thoughts: I’m always on board for new CL, and I was completely in love with this plot when I read the blurb. Published by Gallery Books on May 18, 2021Īlso by this author: My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, Love and Other Words, The Unhoneymooners, Twice in a Blue Moon The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. ![]() Verdict: The major aspect of this book is actually a huge spoiler and it is 100% better to experience it firsthand, so, I’m going to do my part and not even try to allude to it. The rest of the book was so amazing that I was able to overlook the issues I had with that. It was really off-putting and happened frequently in the first several hundred pages. He’d be doing something on the spaceship, have some memory, and realize oh! That’s because I was a science teacher, or whatever. Rather than being provided a backstory, we’d suddenly get these bursts of memory, but they were written kind of sloppily I felt. I was a bit apprehensive at first: the plot centers around an astronaut that wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of where he is, or even who he is. Thoughts: I don’t give out five stars too often, but this one was one spectacular book. ![]() Published by Ballantine Books on May 4, 2021Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | AudibleĪlso by this author: The Martian, Artemis ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() to find his former spy chief and kill him. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again.A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send assassination squads to the U.S. The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a young woman who finds herself in the unfortunate position of being an abandoned war orphan. For fans of epic fantasy, this book is a must when it comes to getting yourself a copy! In it, readers will come across the main character of Veronyka. ![]() It shares the same name as the series and is a fun read if you love fantasy, interesting premises, or want a unique story to occupy your time! The sequel would be published for reader consumption just a year later in 2020.Ĭrown of Feathers is the first novel to come out in the series by the same name. ![]() Crown of Feathers first kicked off in 2019 with the publication of the debut book. Nicki Pau Preto is the accomplished author of a youth fiction fantasy series. She also thinks that cereal brands such as Froot Loops can technically be considered suitable options when it comes to replacing meals. She has always enjoyed the types of stories that are able to transport her somewhere new, when there are characters to love, and when there are entire worlds that she can lose herself in.Ī self-described starving artist, Preto says that she likes to shop for bargains, considering the process to be something close to a competitive sport. She lives outside of the city of Toronto. She holds a master’s degree in Art History. Nicki Pau Preto is a published author of fiction and graphic designer from Canada. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the “world spirit” to blow more freely, Hegel argued, world history had to travel from East to West.Īssyrian history shows that Hegel’s assessment of the East is flawed. This “orientalist” view, still widely held, goes back to Hegel, who considered the East a region characterized, from the earliest times onwards by stagnation and autocratic rule. Middle Eastern history is often perceived as an endless sequence of despotic regimes. Middle Eastern history is not unchangeable. Listen to the audio version-read by Eckart himself-in the Next Big Idea App. ![]() He has worked on cuneiform tablets in the British Museum in London, the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, and a few other collections.īelow, Eckart shares five key insights from his new book, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire. Previously, Frahm was a research assistant and Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Heidelberg. Eckart Frahm is a professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale. ![]() ![]() ![]() We consider this book as being part of the second creative paradigm of the authorřs work, the one that includes the experimental creations. The writer belives that the value of a book is found in its expressive character therefore his work is based on real events and persons, allowing documents, letters and pages of the diary to replace a fictional plot. Summary/Abstract: ŗUn burgtheater provincialŗ is the first novel of Livius Ciocârlie and it is unique in the Romanian literature area, first of all because it was written as a nonfictional book according to a personal formula. Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI Keywords: Livius Ciocârlie experimental literature inovation nonfiction postmodernism ![]() Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts LIVIUS CIOCÂRLIE’S FIRST ’’INTERLOCK’’, A NOVELTY IN THE ROMANIAN LITERARY SPACE Author(s): Elena Mateiu LIVIUS CIOCÂRLIE’S FIRST ’’INTERLOCK’’, A NOVELTY IN THE ROMANIAN LITERARY SPACE ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, in Lord Byron's verse version the name rhymes with ruin and true one, suggesting the name was pronounced with three syllables, possibly / ˌ d ɒ n ˈ ʒ uː ən/ or / ˌ d ɒ n ˈ dʒ uː ən/, in England at the time. The usual English pronunciation is / ˌ d ɒ n ˈ w ɑː n/, with two syllables and a silent " J", but today, as more English-speakers are becoming influenced by Spanish, the pronunciation / ˌ d ɒ n ˈ h w ɑː n/ is becoming more common. ![]() ![]() Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra ( The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina, a 1787 opera, Don Giovanni, with music by Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, and a satirical, epic poem, Don Juan, by Lord Byron.īy linguistic extension, from the name of the character, "Don Juan" has become a generic expression for a womanizer, and stemming from this, Don Juanism is a non-clinical psychiatric descriptor. Portrait of Wilhelm Troszel as Don Juan, by Józef Simmler, 1846ĭon Juan ( Spanish: ), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. ![]() |