Headcase by onley james7/6/2023 ![]() When an invitation to a boring fundraiser lands him not beside Thomas, as he had hoped, but Asa Mulvaney, they share an intensely passionate encounter that leaves Zane trapped in a cage of his own making. Zane Scott is a small-time crime blogger, but he dreams of a byline in a major paper and his suspicions surrounding Thomas Mulvaney are about to make that dream a reality. So, when an experiment separates Asa and his brother, Asa is forced to navigate the world on his own for the first time in his life. In the Mulvaney family, murder is the family business and business is good. He and his twin brother live together, party together.kill together. Īsa Mulvaney is half of a psychopathic whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() Asa Mulvaney is half of a psychopathic whole. ![]()
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The Danger Box by Blue Balliett7/6/2023 ![]() I pretend my heart is in the Danger Box, and has already exploded. Thump, whump, thump! My heart feels like a firecracker that’s about to go off. It’s dark in the shed, as speckly-dark as black pepper. It’s a man – I can tell by the weight of his steps. “Poor thing, I’m sorry you’re buried out here,” I whisper.Īs I’m about to slide the box back in its hiding place, I hear footsteps… I feel around, grab the nail on the edge of the toolshed door, and slowly pull the door closed. Yes! I feel the fabric and beneath it, a firm shape. Now I close my eyes and dig down into the mixture. I don’t need to see them I know the contents by touch. Inside are pieces of blown-up firecrackers and a few old shotgun shells. I open the box, a small cherry crate, and a tangy whiff of gunpowder drifts out. It’s a windy June night, and shadows from the kitchen light are bumping and chasing. I’m pulling the Danger Box out from the back of the toolshed. Explosive ideas surface in a very small, quiet town in Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had read only one Stephen King novel (Misery), and I could think of only a couple of others from the horror genre: Anne Rice’s classic Interview with the Vampire and Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs (which might not count anyway). W hen I was asked to write a novella for the Hammer imprint, my immediate reaction was that I didn’t know much about horror. ![]() Daddy long legs and dear enemy7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Also in 1915, Jean Webster married lawyer and Standard Oil Company heir Glenn Ford McKinney, some seven years after they began their affair (and a few months after his divorce was final). The novel’s sequel, Dear Enemy, appeared in 1915. It later became the basis for several movies. In 1912 Webster published Daddy-Long-Legs, the novel that brought her great popular acclaim as well as financial security when she adapted it into a stage play in 1914. Her first novel, When Patty Went to College, came out in 1903, and was followed by The Wheat Princess (1905), Jerry Junior (1907), The Four Pools Mystery (1908), Much Ado About Peter (1909), and Just Patty (1911). She published stories and articles in newspapers and in magazines, including McClure’s. Her interest in both continued after her graduation in 1901, especially when she moved to New York’s Greenwich Village. A grand-niece of Mark Twain, Webster attended Vassar College, where she developed an interest in orphanages and social welfare and began to pursue a literary career. JEAN WEBSTER was born Alice Jane Chandler Webster in 1876 and grew up in Fredonia, New York, and in New York City. ![]() THE LETTERS OF MISS JERUSHA ABBOTT to MR. ![]() Nightlife by Brian Hodge7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Justin Gray, a former small-time drug dealer in St. 35 from a fierce Venezuelan mountain people wreaks havoc on its abusers. The theft by a drug lord of a mysterious green powder called skullflushp. A marked man, with a new love and an unlikely ally from the heart of the rain forest, he's forced to learn the ways of the urban jungle, where everyone is both hunter and hunted. On the rebound from a life in ruins, Justin Gray is the sole witness who can connect the fearsome power of skullflush with the carnage left in its wake. ![]() ![]() The ancient rain forest chemistry warps bone, muscle, and sinew in their city-soft bodies, setting free the ferocious power of man’s basic nature. But generations of urbanized decadence have left them jaded, shallow, and weak … too weak to handle the drug’s mystic high. Tampa’s thrill-seekers are eager to sample the pale green powder. Until a rising drug lord ends up with a stolen six-kilo stash, and begins to peddle his prize in the nightclubs of Florida. Skullflush is pure psychic whiplash … an exhilarating gateway to an advanced consciousness beyond time and species.ĭeep in the Amazon, the primitive tribe has kept its secret safe from civilization. To the warrior-shamans of the Venezuelan forest people, the drug is a sacred substance: part pain, part pleasure, all power. From the primeval rain forest comes an uncontrolled substance never intended for consumption by the civilized mind… ![]() ![]() ![]() Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself. “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.”― Michael A. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer Book Summary Without further notice, here are some of the primary vital takeaways and essential passages from the book-The Untethered Soul by Michael, a Singer. During his doctoral work, he awakened profoundly and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation.Īlong with his more than four decades of spiritual teaching, Michael has made significant contributions to education, healthcare, and environmental protection, to name a few. Singer received a master’s degree in economics from the University of Florida in 1971. Singer is the New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul. ![]() ![]() After twenty-eight years on the job, he retired and realized how much the experience had changed him.Ride along as he. Fortunately, other moments were funny or heartwarming, but tragedy always lurked just around the corner. Bloody domestic battery calls, gruesome train accidents, and an aviation disaster all grabbed him by the heart. His memoir made me feel the weight, excitement, and adrenaline of his service from recruit to his reflections on the responsibilities of police officers in the community.?-Bill Riley, Award winning author of Baghdaddy.What would you be willing to endure to keep society safe?Out of a deep desire to help others, Neil Loewe joined his hometown police department and internalized everything he experienced. Along the X axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions published. ![]() Publishing History This is a chart to show the when this publisher published books. ![]() There are strong similarities between military and police operations, the former attack and defend, the latter investigate and protect, but we both serve. Loewe, Neil Publisher - 1 work / 0 ebooks What I Couldnt Leave Behind Neil Loewe Not in Library. ![]() ?A powerful, engaging narrative with poignant moments that made me feel like Neil?s partner on patrol. Download Or Read PDF What I Couldn't Leave Behind: MY CAREER AS A COP Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook. ![]() Zelda by Nancy Milford7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() There was no noise allowed– no talking, and there were no phones, so that wasn’t a problem. ![]() It was an old, funky space filled with used bankers’ desks and flimsy partitions. Laurie Colwin’s husband, Juris Jurijevics, brought me into the Writers Room in 1987, at the corner where we used to say, Waverly meets Waverly. ![]() Also, Nancy hung out a lot in the smokers’ room - yes there was a smokers’ room! - into which I did not venture. This was a time before cell phones and the internet. ![]() Can you imagine? She loved to gossip, and here I was, a gossip columnist working sort of on a novel. Vincent Millay but she was a terrible procrastinator. She was supposed to be working on her biography of Edna St. Nancy had already famously published her biography of Zelda Fitzgerald when I met her. She was such a bright light with an uncommon sense of humor and wisdom, I will never forget her. Nancy and I really were very close friends in the late 80s and early 90s at the Writers Room on Waverly Place, and even though friendships change, they never end. It is with deep sorrow that I have to say goodbye to Nancy Milford, my friend, the great writer and presence in the New York literary world. ![]() ![]() Sendak often spoke of dark moments in his childhood such as his poor health, the death of his best friend in a car accident, and his struggle with losing a portion of his extended family in the Holocaust. As a young child, sickness often confined Sendak to his bed, where he first discovered his love for drawing. ![]() ![]() Maurice Sendak was born on June 10, 1928, to a Jewish family of Polish immigrants living in Brooklyn, New York. While Sendak’s readership spanned all over the world, the beloved children’s book author and illustrator spent most of his adult life living in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His quirky characters and dark, nightmarish plots delighted children and challenged the status quo. ![]() Authoring and illustrating dozens of books, such as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak redefined children’s literature throughout the 20th century. ![]() Faulkner by Robert Penn Warren7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a highly readable biography that is thematic and episodic rather than chronological in its organization.īuilding on specific documents in the collection, Brodsky opens new windows on the parallel development of Faulkner's literary career and personal life. ![]() Indeed, the Brodsky Collection, now owned by Southeast Missouri State University, has been characterized by Robert Penn Warren as "stupendous." In William Faulkner, Life Glimpses, Brodsky mines this storehouse of previously unpublished material, using interviews, letters, speeches, movie scripts, and notes to enrich our understanding of this well-known Southern writer. During thirty years of literary collecting, Louis Daniel Brodsky has acquired some of the most important source materials on the life and work of William Faulkner anywhere available. ![]() |