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The Terminator by Shaun Hutson7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Paul Harvey is a convicted murderer and his escape from prison places the Exham police force under a great deal of pressure. The trauma is such that the deranged but gentle Harold begins to neglect his duties. His new job as a hospital porter involves him in the burning of aborted foetuses - an act which brings back nightmare memories of the death by fire of his baby brother Gordon. Harold Pierce is released from a mental hospital where he has spent all of his adult life. and then to frantic terror when they discovered that it had come alive.įrom Shaun Hutson, author of the classic horror tale Slugs, comes Spawn - a psychologically complex terror thriller about two disturbed men and the unnatural consequences of their deeds. Their curiosity soon turned to fear when the bones grew a thin covering of grey flesh. It was too large to be human, but looked like no animal skull they had seen. When the hideous monster is complete, it rampages through a flood-stricken village in search for living flesh.Īnd those who survive its savage attacks confront a fate even more horrifying.īut, when Nick Regan discovered the skull on a construction site, he and his archeologist wife Chrissie were more puzzled than alarmed. First the bones grow a covering of grey flesh. waiting for just one drop of blood to restore it to life. It had been waiting for centuries, buried in a place they called the evil ground. ![]()
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Titanic by Alan Hustak7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Victim, found in a lifeboat a month after the disaster, was from New Of the young honeymooners Bert and Vera Dick of Calgary who started anĮnduring legend about the disaster. Scandalous behaviour of second class passenger Joseph Fynney and tells Persuaded by Toronto millionaire Arthur Peuchen to extend his stay inĮngland and sail home with him on the Titanic. Warning and Harry Markland Molson, the richest Canadian aboard who was Hockey player who risked all to smuggle his Belgian fiancée aboard, theįortune family from Winnipeg which failed to heed a clairvoyant's Than fiction, such as the tale of Quigg Baxter, the young Montreal Unearthed historic photographs and stories which contribute anotherĭimension to the familiar tale. Interviews across Canada with direct descendants and relatives ofĬanadians who sailed on the Titanic's maiden voyage. ![]() Research ten years before the blockbuster movie came out. This is the untold saga of the 130 passengers aboard the ill-fated Teena just finished reading Titanic, The Canadian Story, and recommended it to me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() They came from somewhere else, and they were proud of it. ![]() From the start, its people were aggressive and acquisitive, and its narrow streets were a hide-out for the riffraff of Italy. ![]() So Rome began with a murder and a mass rape. Romulus murdered Remus on the city’s first day, and then with his gang abducted a bunch of women from the Sabine Hills to provide mothers for their children. This shared ordeal engendered no brotherly love. How on earth did they do it? The Greek historian Polybius, writing in the second century B.C., was the first to ask the question: “Who could be so indifferent or so idle that they did not want to find out how, and under what kind of political organization, almost the whole of the inhabited world was conquered and fell under the sole power of the Romans in less than 53 years?” It was not as if Rome was a promising spot: a swampy piece of ground up a barely navigable river surrounded by scrubby hills, its few thousand inhabitants alternately flooded out and ravaged by malaria.Įven its founding myth suggested a bumpy ride ahead: Romulus and Remus, those twins born to a delinquent priestess, were abandoned on the banks of the Tiber, then rescued by an improbable she-wolf, who suckled them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Einstein Theory of Relativity (Hendrik A.Calculus and Mathematical Analysis (Real Analysis, Functional Analysis, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.In order to make a popular explanation of this far-reaching theory available, the present book is published. These lectures were published in 1909 under the. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pure physics and higher mathematics is able to fully understand them. In 1906, Lorentz traveled to America and delivered a series of lectures on relativistic electromagnetic theory. Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. What is Special Relativity: A Guide to Spacetime, Time Dilation and Length Contraction. ![]()
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Poison study series in order7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() She loves dogs, but is allergic, instead she has a big black tom cat named.Kitty (apparently naming cats isn't in her skill set either). ![]() She's been on the New York Times bestseller list, won a dozen awards, and has earned her Masters of Arts degree in Writing from Seton Hill University, where she is now a faculty member. Over twenty novels and numerous short stories later, Maria's learned a thing or three about writing. Bored at work and needing a creative outlet, she started writing fantasy and science fiction stories. Much to her chagrin, forecasting the weather wasn't in her skill set so she spent a number of years as an environmental meteorologist, which is not exciting.at all. ![]() Snyder was younger, she aspired to be a storm chaser in the American Midwest so she attended Pennsylvania State University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology. ![]()
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Pd james pemberley7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Even Pulitzer Prize winning author, Michael Chabon understands the merits of derivative fiction. (Fan fiction writers write parodies all the time.)īut, hey, I’m a huge fan of fan fiction and so pointing it out isn’t meant as a criticism. Perhaps I am misinterpreting the definition of fan fiction, but to me when you borrow another writer’s characters and just give them a new plot – that’s fan fiction. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work’s owner, creator, or publisher also, they are almost never professionally published.” I would have agreed with that definition except for all the fan fiction that has found its way into bookstores recently ( Fifty Shades of Grey, for example, literally started its life as Twilight fanfiction Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Android Karenina are two examples from Quirk Classics). ![]() Because James is a crime writer, she wrote a mystery (although a relatively tame one, even by my standards.)įan fiction is (according to Wikipedia) “is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. That’s essentially what fan fiction is writers (albeit, generally amateur writers) find new ways to breathe life into familiar characters. James borrowed characters and settings made famous by Jane Austen and wrote them into a new story which takes place six years after Elizabeth and Darcy marry. ![]() Death Comes to Pemberley by famous British crime novelist P.D. ![]()
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Jade city fonda lee7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Hilo meets Zapunyo, who offers Hilo an opportunity to profit off his jade smuggling. ![]() ![]() Zapunyo is supported in part by barukan, who are Kekonese-Shotarian jade users. Hilo and Shae frame this as an opportunity for him to serve the clan, supporting their interests abroad without having to wear jade.Īt the same time, a cousin of the Kaul family is imprisoned in the Uwiwa Islands, only to be freed by Zapunyo, a crime lord who has gotten rich off jade smuggling during the clan war. Outside of Kekon, war is waged between Shotar and Ygutan over the disputed Oortoko region, with Kekon's ally, Espenia, supporting Shotar.Īnden, still refusing to wear jade after killing Gont Asch in Jade City, is given the opportunity to go to the Espenian city of Port Massy to study. Hilo struggles to maintain his power as the Pillar of the No Peak Clan, and enters an uneasy truce with the Mountain clan. Kaul Sen passes away shortly after the events of Jade City, and just before his funeral, thief Bero and his partner Mudt rob Kaul Lan's corpse of his jade. It is the second book in the Green Bone saga, followed by Jade Legacy which will be the final novel in the series. The story takes place over several years. It follows the island of Kekon as the jade-controlling clans are embroiled in an international war where jade is the centerpiece. ![]() Jade War is a 2019 fantasy novel by Fonda Lee published by Orbit and is the sequel to Jade City. ![]()
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Overdue by Richie Tankersley Cusick7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Someone leaves some books in the book drop that have to do with death, torture. Later that night Kathleen feels like she is being watched. One day Miss Finch leaves Kathleen in charge while she has to go to a seminar. She dislikes the bossy librarian Miss Finch and she thinks the library is old, cold, and damp. Kathleen (who is 17) works at Freemont Public library and she hates it. A lot of effort was spent on developing Kathleen and her close friends, but the whole mystery hinges on a sad trope that, while common, is never something I can get behind. 'Overdue' by Richie Tankersley Cusick starts off great, but loses its charms by the end. The messages then start to come true and have consequences for Kathleen and other youths of her acquaintance. Kathleen agrees, but starts getting creepy, threatening messages in mutilated books. Miss Finch then enlists her to work full time over the break as she's decided to go to an important library conference last minute. ![]() It's Spring Break, but Kathleen has no plans as her father's a workaholic and her mother hasn't forgiven her for staying with her father after the divorce. Kathleen has a work friend in Robin, the mute (and cute) 19-year-old boy who handles maintenance. The librarian, Miss Finch, is demanding and cold. The Freemont Public Library is inside a sprawling, damp mansion donated by a long-dead citizen. Despite having one of the best jobs one could have as a high school student, working at the public library, Kathleen hates her job. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Not much was changing for her - but everything, I had to believe, was possible for me. “She was the one who had come to this clinic every week for the last decade. Compared to mental illnesses like anxiety and depression, schizophrenia is still so stigmatized, so it is rare and beautiful to read a candid perspective like Wang's. “I was the one at the head of the table, visiting,” she writes, subtly implicating the reader who has made the same calculation. In The Collected Schizophrenias, Esm Weijun Wang writes about her experience with schizoaffective disorder and Lyme disease. She is hired to tell her story to patients at a clinic but flinches when one of them identifies too strongly. If I’m depressed, I skip everything but the lipstick.” These are survival skills, but also, she suggests, concessions to a noxious respectability politics, meant to distinguish her from others who share her diagnosis. I can dress and daub when psychotic and when not psychotic. . . In another essay, “High-Functioning,” she interprets “other signifiers”: “my wedding ring, a referent to the sixteen-year relationship I’ve managed to keep” a makeup routine that is “minimal and consistent. ![]() “ ‘I went to Yale’ is shorthand for I have schizoaffective disorder, but I’m not worthless,” she writes. Wang is a sharp critic of the ways we use badges and prizes to decide who is trusted to tell their own story. ![]()
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Wax and wayne series7/1/2023 ![]() The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Now, with The Bands of Mourning, Sanderson continues the story. With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. ![]() Ah, the beautiful agony that is waiting for books…įirst sentence: “Telsin!” Waxillium hissed as he crept out of the training hut. And now I have to wait first for the next book to come out and then for Graphic Audio to adapt it. Granted, it’s only one of his many book series and I still have a prequel-novella to read but novel-wise, I am up to date. I am actually all caught up on a Brandon Sanderson series. ![]() |