![]() ![]() ![]() Rice Channon, called the Ratcatcher by local law enforcement, is a police reporter who’s helped authorities find killers before. A beautiful atheist activist is savagely murdered in her home. His obsession with the woman he has been seeking for years is finally resolved.Īnd if the world ends along the way, well, that’s the way it’s supposed to be. In the exciting conclusion to the Debunker trilogy, Francis Trecy learns who he really is. He gets help from an old friend and an unlikely new one. It offers a unique solution to Francis’s problem. Depends who you ask.Īnd then there’s the secret of the blue barn. A strange boy with a remarkable past leads him on a journey to the compound of a teacher. Marshals Service is after him along with an army of assorted supernatural ghoulies who believe his rightful place is locked inside a Wisconsin prison for the rest of his life. No one seems to be buying into his claim that the woman he murdered was really a vindictive succubus trying to frame him for luring away her girlfriend. The star of the hit reality show, The Skeptic, faces a lifetime in prison after his arrest for murder. ![]()
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![]() The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper. ![]() Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. ![]() The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. But good luck doesn’t rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. ~ Diana Rico The Nobodiesįleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them–will rain down in buckets. ![]() Below is the English translation by Galeano’s longtime translator, Cedric Belfrage, followed by the original Spanish. Here is a video by Caleb González of a poem from “The Book of Embraces,” with music by the great Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia. ![]() These days I am swooning over “The Book of Embraces” by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano (whose “Memory of Fire,” a trilogy poetically chronicling the history of Latin America, I earlier swallowed in great, swift gulps). ![]() ![]() ![]() Author's agent: Karen Grencik, Red Fox Literary. A closing section shares additional information about the water cycle, rounding out a story as enchanting as it is informative. As usual, Chin (Gravity) blends naturalistic detail with a glint of whimsy (in one spread, patchy clouds form the shape of a dragon in a wagon), evoking the seasons through shifts of light and changing foliage. In winter, the children and their friends skate on the frozen pond, and spring's return brings the story full circle. Swirl./ Watch it curl by./ Steam is steam unless./ it cools high." From there, Paul (One Plastic Bag) moves through the seasons as clouds become fog, which transitions to rain that gathers in puddles. ![]() Sip./ Pour me a cup./ Water is water unless./ it heats up./ Whirl. ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. First seen exploring a pond behind their idyllic home, the boy and girl are driven indoors by a rainstorm and warm up with steaming mugs of cocoa on their front porch: "Drip. Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle - Kindle edition by Paul, Miranda, Chin, Jason. Two siblings from a mixed-race family engage in water-related activities throughout the year in a poetic exploration of the forms that water takes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “His Face All Red,” a comic released in 2010, is one of Carroll’s most well-known works. ![]() If you’re already familiar with Carroll’s comics, then you’ll know that the Ontario-based artist is admired for her uncanny artwork that unleashes monstrosities and fairytale-esque creatures into the lives of seemingly ordinary characters. The genre’s most famous stories are Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” and Jane Austen’s parody of the genre, “Northanger Abbey.” The elements of gothic literature are quite simple: there must be some sort of supernatural being, a gloomy setting, heroes, damsels and, of course, a tinge of romance. Gothic fans rejoice, Emily Carroll has returned with yet another hauntingly stunning graphic novel, “When I Arrived at the Castle.” It’s the lesbian and vampiric erotic horror story you didn’t know you needed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() William Lackland is the pseudonym of the anonymous translator, used by the New York publisher for this 1869 edition, as archived at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, cf. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Ferguson and done into English by "William Lackland."ĭr. Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne’s celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne’s works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels. Publisher's note: "Compiled in French by Jules Verne, from the original notes of Dr. Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen ![]() ![]() ![]() While Cooney’s writing is backed by twenty years as a professional Egyptologist, emotion drives her narrative. ![]() Still, hoping to preserve her father’s dynasty, she took on regency alongside the infant son of a rival wife. No one expected her to be king there was no precedent for her actions. She later became the king herself-yes, the king, not queen, as the ancient Egyptian tongue contained no word for a female monarch. A princess of sorts, she was the daughter of her father, the king, the sister and wife of her brother, the king. Kara Cooney uses the mortar of experience and imagination to repair the fragmented story of one of ancient Egypt’s few female monarchs in The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt. Still they speak, despite abuses from tomb robbers, image-erasing successive kings, and ravages of time. A thousand fractured monuments litter Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. ![]() Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” ( Entertainment Weekly). An ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. ![]() ![]() Bearing False Witness is one more gift to history from Rodney Stark. Why have we held these wrongheaded religious ideas so strongly and for so long? And if our beliefs are wrong, what, in fact, is the truth? In each chapter, Stark takes on a well-established anti-Catholic myth, gives a fascinating history of how each myth became the conventional wisdom, and presents a startling picture of the real truth.Ī majestically argued, gorgeously written, and essential book by one of the truly indispensable minds of our time. In this stunning, powerful, and nearly persuasive book, Rodney Stark, one of the most highly regarded sociologists of religion and the bestselling author of The Rise of Christianity, attempts to argue that some of our most firmly held ideas about history, ideas that paint the Catholic Church in the least positive light are, in fact, fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() As we all know and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called “Hitler’s Pope,” the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment, and the religious Crusades were an early example of the rapacious Western thirst for riches and power. ![]() ![]() When she graduated from Johnson High School in 1959, Moody received a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College. After Elmira and Fred divorced, Anne took part-time domestic jobs to help her mother financially. She later discovered that her name had been recorded as Annie on her birth certificate, and she began to use that name instead. ![]() Her parents, Elmira Williams and Fred Moody Sr., who were sharecroppers, named her Essie Mae. ![]() In the early 1960s, while a student at Tougaloo College, she worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).Īnne Moody was born on September 15, 1940, in Centreville, Mississippi. Anne Moody was a writer and civil rights activist best known for her memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). ![]() ![]() ![]() While many of Lovecraft’s stories take place in his shadowy mirror of New England, he also found inspiration in locations farther afield, but no less steeped in hidden history. Lovecraft, “The Rats in the Walls” (1924) Those which retained their collocation as skeletons showed attitudes of panic fear, and over all were the marks of rodent gnawing.”- H.P. “…sprawling on a flight of stone steps so prodigiously worn that it was little more than an inclined plane at the centre, was a ghastly array of human or semi-human bones. Patrick’s Purgatory LOUGH DERG, IRELAND St. Turn out the lights, pray to your dead gods, and join us while we dare insanity to bring you a list of the real world locations both horrible and mundane, that inspired some of Lovecraft’s most famous works. Lovecraft’s prose placed a distinct emphasis on the power and mystery of location, taking time in each of his stories to create a rich sense of place where his otherworldly gods and tentacled horrors could thrive, sending both his characters and his readers into madness. Born in 1890, Lovecraft took inspiration from his historic New England surroundings and beyond to create tales of otherworldly standing stones, hidden cities older than time, and simple homes that exude unknowable evil. ![]() ![]() Such was the outlook of horror fiction trailblazer Howard Phillips Lovecraft. ![]() |