![]() ![]() ![]() While Freddy became more and more comedic as his films went on - that is until Wes Craven sought to make him scary again with New Nightmare - fans never truly lost sight of the fact that even when dropping one-liners, Freddy is one bad dude. Freddy is to the 1980s and 1990s what Dracula and Frankenstein were to the 1930s, a defining movie monster that still strikes fear into audiences today. A child murderer - and implied molester - turned dream prowler, Freddy is well-known even to those who don't follow horror films, and would rather get a root canal than take in a slasher flick. ![]() A Nightmare on Elm Street villain Freddy Krueger is iconic, as is his red and green sweater, and it turns out that color combo was no accident. ![]()
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Orphaned book-lover Elizabeth Somers lives with her horrible Aunt Purdy and Uncle Burlap, who make it clear that she’s a burden, even though they don’t really take care of her. ![]() We’re having our first snow of the season today – a perfect time to review a wintery book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two days of frustration with Indonesian red tape later, Adams, Carwardine, and BBC producer Gaynor Shutte fly to Labuan Bajo, where Kiri. Carwardine explains that tourists are examples of "convergent evolution," the process whereby unrelated species develop similar structures under identical conditions-like the aye-aye and long-fingered possum of New Guinea ![]() ![]() Learning from a noted Australian venom expert that it is best not to be bitten, they head to Bali, advertised as the most beautiful place on earth but fully spoiled by and for tourists. Three years later, Adams and Carwardine meet in Australia, where Carwardine tells of ancient Chinese stories about scaly, fiery breathed, man-eating monsters and Western sailors who mark on maps "Here be dragons." The first modern Westerner to meet a dragon lizard crash lands on tiny Komodo Island, the expedition's next destination. Douglas Adams Mark Carwardine Last Chance to See Kindle Edition by Douglas Adams (Author), Mark Carwardine (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,647 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 4.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 34.30 38 Used from 2.41 3 New from 12.95 10 Collectible from 24. ![]() ![]() His writing is dominated by detailed characterization and moral issues. Other works demonstrating his versatility include the novelization of the James Cameron film The Abyss, the alternate histories The Tales of Alvin Maker and Pastwatch, and Robota, a collaboration with Star Wars artist Doug Chiang. He has since branched out into contemporary fiction, such as Lost Boys, Treasure Box and Enchantment. Both Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead were awarded both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, making Card the first author to win both of sci-fi's top prizes in consecutive years. ![]() He remains best known for the seminal Ender's Game, which has been among the most popular sci-fi novels ever since its publication in 1985. ![]() Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is a prolific and best-selling author of numerous genres.Ĭard's launch in the publishing industry was with science fiction (Hot Sleep and Capitol) and later fantasy (Songmaster). ![]() ![]() ![]() Formerly an architect by trade, he lived in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration of the commonplace wonders that define childhood, expressed as a joyful fusion of text with evocative and exuberant art that garnered the highest honor in children's book illustration in 2006.Ībout the Author Norton Juster was the author of a number of children's books, including the contemporary classic The Phantom Tollbooth, illustrated by Jules Feiffer, as well as the sequel to The Hello, Goodbye Window and also illustrated by Chris Raschka, Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie. The world for this little girl will soon grow larger and more complex, but never more enchanting or deeply felt. Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy's house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis A Caldecott Medal Winner This award-winning tale by the author of the classic book The Phantom Tolbooth is a love song to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What if,” she writes, in “The Vulture & the Body,” “instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?” Pivoting around the poet’s effort to bear a child, her next collection, The Carrying, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2018), showed the suppleness of her free-form lyrics, equally capable of revealing nuances of feeling and dramatic epiphanies. Whether her poems express mourning, longing, or wonder, readers might feel as if they are having a conversation with Limón, albeit one delivered through sinuous, rhythmic syntax, in diction that’s at once informal and exact. In it, the future US Poet Laureate found a distinctive personal voice, one flexible enough to address topics as wide-ranging as coming of age, finding solace in nature, and witnessing the death of a close relative. Critically acclaimed poet Ada Limón’s fourth book, Bright Dead Things (2015), broke through to a relatively large audience-and for good reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alongside gorgeous photos, they discuss their beginnings, their influences and offer advice to the women coming up behind them. “Nearly 100 women share priceless lessons learned through experience. Grace Atwood, The Stripe, My Favorite Books to Give as Gifts The book is packed with wisdom, life lessons, and inspiration.” Grace Bonney profiles over a hundred incredible trailblazing women… all over the age of 50. Tina Roth Eisenberg, the Swiss Miss Newsletter for Everyone a richly diverse group of trailblazing women over 50. Her latest book, Collective Wisdom, celebrates. “Grace Bonney is a force, she did it again. It was Bonney’s intention to spotlight women who may not ordinarily enjoy the spotlight and celebrate their life’s achievements, endurance, and pride.” “While it shares a similar layout and open spirit as In the Company of Women, this book enjoys a more expansive look at social engagement, shared responsibility, and the capacity for joy from the perspective of age and a diversity of backgrounds and experience. Over one hundred women from 27 states (urban, rural, Native reservations) were interviewed for the book. ![]() ![]() But this cliched plot is not, of course, what one reads a McCarthy novel for. Grady falls in love with the owner's beautiful daughter-a disaster that leads in succession to arrest and Mexican jail and murder in self-defense. Along the way, they pick up an urchin named Blevins and arrive finally at a hacienda, where they're hired to break horses. Here, John Cole Grady is a 1930's East Texas teenager, abandoned by his parents' troubles, who sets out with his pal Rawlins to ride across the border to Mexico. More recently, ever since McCarthy turned into a high-class cowboy novelist, the fatality is, understandably, more spread out-punctured by boredom and ennui and long, lonesome plains. ![]() In his more gothic early works, this fatality had a hanging-moss quality that seemed to brush your face invisibly but chillingly as you worked your way through his books. ![]() McCarthy's work (Blood Meridian, 1985, etc.) is essentially about fatality: grotesque human acts that lack self-direction, that seem to be playing out a design otherwise established. ![]() |