![]() The ghost wanted revenge on Jude for causing Anna's death, as he saw it. Jude finds out that the ghost was the father of a groupie, Florida (it is later revealed that her real name is Anna), whom he dated for a few months and who had later committed suicide. He leaves Jude's service, but not before contacting the woman who sent the suit. His assistant, Danny Wooten, realizes that the ghost of the suit will try to kill everyone around Jude. ![]() ![]() Various odd occurrences alert Judas to the fact that the ghost is dangerous and is out to kill him and those around him. The suit soon arrives in a heart-shaped box. The ghost will go wherever it does and so buying this suit would effectively be buying a poltergeist Judas cannot pass up this opportunity. ![]() He is told, by the daughter (whom he does not know at the time), that the old man's spirit is attached to this funeral suit. Aging rock star Judas Coyne spends his retirement collecting morbid memorabillia such as a witch's confession, a real snuff film and, after being sent an e-mail directly about the item online, a dead man's suit. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It was Maidenhead where Nick Hornby learned to write and it is where his passion for literature arose. Hornby's solution to this was taking "solace in the public library, throwing himself at first into the Jennings football series and Richmal Crompton's Just William stories" as he recalls in an interview in 2009. ![]() Hornby's mother had a day job, this meant that much of his childhood Hornby was alone. As a boy, Derick Hornby was a "bright lad who benefited from a government scheme to send able boys from poor homes to public school". His father, Sir Derek, was a self-made man who ended up as chairman of Rank Xerox. Shortly after birth, Hornby's family moved to the riverside town of Maidenhead in Berkshire because of his father, Sir Derick Hornby's, work. Nick Hornby was born on 17 April 1957 in the town of Red Hill, Surrey. Who would have thought the square mile around Arsenal's stadium could be a suitable surrogate for the whole wide world?' 'Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury. ![]() ![]() If you would like more information about potentially triggering content or have questions about the above trigger warnings, please send me a message via the “Contact Me” page or DM me on one of my social media accounts and I will provide more information and details. ![]() Racism, discrimination, a few uses of the n-word, death (hangings, executions, drowning, shootings), sword fights, injuries, bloodshed, torture, mentions of kidnapping, self-harm (a person tries to remove the stone plague from their shoulder), magic, drunkenness, and kissing (not described in detail). Huge props to Nadine for handling these difficult topics with such care and gentleness. It deals with a lot of horrible and terrible things, but it does so in a way that felt authentic and true to the story. It has a lot of important life lessons tucked into it’s magical pages, and I think more people need to read this book because of those threads, specifically. It’s probably not a novel that I’ll reread much, but I’m definitely glad that I read it once. “With his mask and my sword, we could subdue even the shadows.” ![]() ![]() Homesick for her family and demoralized by the rigors of pioneering, Mama slips into one of her ""spells,"" and these become more frequent and more severe as the cataclysmic summer unfolds. For Mem, whose family moved from Connecticut the year before, the day is even more momentous: during the sudden blizzard her Mama gives birth to a baby girl then slides into a terrible depression. ![]() As 12-year-old Mem, the narrator, recounts, June 6, 1816, is a date ""nobody in the Genesee Country of New York will ever forget."" The day brings the first of a number of freak snowstorms and late-season frosts that kill the crops and threaten survival. ![]() ![]() Even better than its predecessor, Journey to Nowhere, this sequel gets its title and some of its exceptional historical color from the dire weather conditions that afflicted New England and New York in the summer of 1816. ![]() ![]() ![]() Solidly based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them, the book is rich in the history of the period. Redcoat is the story of the British soldier from c.1760 until c.1860 – surely one of the most enduring and magnetic subjects of the British past. ![]() It is not just a work of history – but one of enthusiasm and unparalleled knowledge.' BERNARD CORNWELL Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical analysis. Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain’s best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. ![]() ![]() Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. ![]() Those with the means and the privilege have left the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. "Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.” -Leigh Bardugo ![]() ![]() In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi brings us a sweeping sci-fi epic in the vein of Samuel R. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is still bent on escape, but now understands the cost and has better knowledge of the school. Since the story is from Benson’s POV, pieces of the plot are not given away ahead of time only as he slowly learns new things about Maxfield.īenson’s character is further developed and he is realistically affected by the events that occurred at the end of the previous book. ![]() It is action – packed, unsettling and shocking. Well let’s just say that I’m even more paranoid now.įeedback is a sequel that does not disappoint and retained all the elements I loved about the first book. I read Variant last year and was unable to forget it because of how creepy it was and how paranoid it made me. As he searches for answers, Benson discovers that Maxfield Academy’s plans are more sinister than anything he imagined-and they may be impossible to stop. They are all pawns in the school’s twisted experiment, held captive and controlled by an unseen force. Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy’s deadly rules and brutal gangs.īut now Benson is trapped in a different kind of prison: a town filled with hauntingly familiar faces. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In "The Colour Out of Space", Lovecraft succeeds in the very difficult task of presenting something that is so alien, so unlike anything we know, that it's hard to visualize and yet it's a convincing threat. Lovecraft's own stories often featured this effect I thought Wilbur Whately would have been scarier if his gruesome carcass was not described in such exact detail in "The Dunwich Horror." Even the typical alien from deep space you met in most science fiction is recognizably a person or beast from our own world with some attributes cranked up or distorted (tentacles, slime, antennae, you know). Most literary monsters are basically people or animals with (symbolic) scary masks on. "The Colour Out of Space" (AMAZING STORIES, September 1927) was from all accounts Lovecraft's personal favorite of his stories, the one that best conveyed his attempts at presenting a horror from The Beyond that is literally incomprehensible. It doesn't have a lot of heavy plotting or characterization, but the mood and atmosphere is so dense that you'll get some on your hands and have to wipe the pages. Even for Lovecraft, this is an odd story. ![]() ![]() Dare has the ability to look inside a young man's mind and heart so we can grow and change along with him. This was the second book I've read by Hanna Dare and so far my favorite!Ms. Concerned at Hanna's grief-like state, Sophie persuades her to attend a school party. Sophie is housing Hanna in the family caravan in a nearby garage. Still reeling from her revelations about Erik, Hanna hides out in suburban London with Sophie who is keeping her new friend secret from her parents. With Esme Creed-Miles, Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Claudia Toth. Life in a Nowhere Town (Sing Out, #1) by Hanna Dare (Goodreads Author) avg rating - ratings - published - 3 editions. First kiss, first heartbreak, first love, first. "Life in a Nowhere Town is a gentle and endearing novel I think fans of young adult contemporary gay romances will be satisfied by the first book in Dare's Sing Out series. ![]() ![]() Life in a Nowhere Town: Sing Out 1 (English Edition) eBook: Dare, Hanna: Foreign Language Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if the noise in Brighton Beach keeps on at a dull roar long into the late hours, there’s a certain sense in the air that in this little corner of New York, the gears of the city are taking a rest.Īnd these special hours give me my hunting grounds. Inever feel out of place in the unique stillness that the streets of this city maintains at night. I'm going to make her want me just as bad as I want her.Īnd at night, when my new princess is slumbering, I'm going to make every one of those pimps pay in blood. But when she submits to me, I'm going to be the man that deserves it, not just the one she owes it to. What the hell do I do with a sweet, subservient woman who's been trained to obey her husband? I can think of some things my baser instincts want me to do. I outbid those pieces of trash and bought myself a bride. ![]() I'm not used to this white knight sh*t, but I did what I had to do. Pure as a lily, dressed in skimpy lingerie, and being auctioned off to the foulest men in Brighton Beach. I could have kept my cool, done my job, but then I saw her. ![]() When the Bratva hired me as security for the night, I didn't know it was a flesh trade. ![]() I'm no saint, but apparently even killers have limits. ![]() |