![]() And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. ![]() Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. ![]() Please read FAQ to be advised of shipping estimates. This is a Special Order title, meaning it's not kept on hand and needs to be ordered from our supplier. ![]()
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The idea that something else might be responsible for our ruin, for once? ![]() Gritty, darkly lit, with text grimly informing us that this was the city of Los Angeles in 2029, it showed us tank treads crushing human skulls beneath a machine-dominated gray skyline, with lasers and explosions marking humanity’s struggle against a cruel external force. In some ways, the opening scene of The Terminator (1984) had to have come as a relief to its first audiences. Amazon's take on The Peripheral is an easy viewing experience that lacks the express messiness of the future depicted in Gibson's source text-and with it, the point Reading Time: 6 minutes ![]() ![]() And another, until I can no longer feel the weight of need drowning me. The second I reach the hall, I inhale a deep lungful of air. I can only imagine what his warm breath must feel like as it dances across his skin.įorcefully, I whip my head forward and stride out of the room. Cody is leaning close to the Dom, whispering in his ear. As I reach the threshold, I take one last look over my shoulder. I manage to peel my eyes away from the scene and turn toward the open doorway. I’m not the only one surrendering to the erotic atmosphere being built between their heated looks and soft words of praise. It’s all too easy to imagine Cody’s fingers dancing across my skin rather than the sub in front of him.Įven though the touches from Cody aren’t sexual, the intimacy and love between the Dom and his partner kneeling on the floor are floating through this room like smoke. No, the only enlightenment I’m receiving is how badly I want Cody for myself, how fucking stupid I am for it, and how close I am to coming with hardly any effort. Please join me in giving a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt ![]() has come to talk to us about a new release, Just Enough (Enough Series #2). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “For a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. That aforementioned episode of The Twilight Zone cast Burgess Meredith in the lead role, an excellent choice for a meek and modest chap, though he could also flip that around and play the pugnacious little man. That would be interesting, he would read all of it.' Henry smiled to himself and carefully folded the sheet of paper into fourths. On a back page was a brief article entitled, "Prehistoric Artifacts Unearthed In Yucatan". "Solon Predicts War Only Days Away." He flipped through the pages faster, reading brief snatches here and there, afraid to spend too much time on any one item. "Collapse Of Conference Imminent." He didn't have time to read the article. 'He had glanced at the headlines of the first page. This passage gives you a good hint about both the event and the man himself: Not that he wants to do anything heroic with his time. Something happens and he suddenly has all the time in the world. Henry Bemis is a downtrodden drudge who only wanted to find time o read something - Shakespeare, the paper, a magazine - but between the twin demands of his boss and his wife he never could. Melancholic sci-fi story made famous by a fan favourite episode of The Twilight Zone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Against this backdrop, in a hacienda called Yaxaktun, Doctor Moreau, along with his daughter Carlota, continues his experiments on animal/human hybrids with the capacity to talk, walk upright, and manipulate tools. The bulk of the action takes place in 1877 during the decades-long “Caste War” between the Maya people and the Mexican Government. Instead of an unnamed island somewhere between Peru and Chile, Moreno-Garcia situates The Daughter of Doctor Moreau amongst the tropical rainforests and jungles of the Yucatán. Thankfully, Moreno-Garcia goes in a different direction, one that aligns with her undertaking to infuse traditional genre tropes – whether it be vampires, the Gothic, or Regency romances – with Mexican culture and history. The inclination would be to update the story for the 21st century, to reframe the Doctor as a fringe scientist illegally experimenting with animal and human DNA. And like all good reboots, Moreno-Garcia takes the key ingredients – Moreau’s “study of the plasticity of living forms,” his alcoholic assistant Montgomery, an isolated environment, and, most importantly, the “Beast People” – and reimagines them in a notably different manner but in keeping with the source material. Wells’s classic short novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. ![]() Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is not a prequel or sequel to H.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īs of 2008, Twilight had been translated into 37 different languages. The book was the biggest-selling of 2008 in 2009, it was the second-biggest selling, losing only to its sequel New Moon. ![]() The film adaptation, released in 2008, was a commercial success, grossing more than $392 million worldwide and making an additional $157 million in North American DVD sales as of July 2009. The novel was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2005. It reached number five on the New York Times bestseller list within a month of its release and eventually reached first place. Others criticized Meyer's prose and argued the story was lacking in character development. Some praised the novel's tone and its portrayal of common teenage emotions such as alienation and rebellion. ![]() Additional novels in the series are New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a 103-year-old vampire frozen in his 17-year-old body. It is the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. Twilight (stylized as twilight) is a 2005 young adult vampire- romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea that this entire business exists to save one person every year is pretty amazing. There isn’t a flat character between these covers.Īnother element that hooked me from the beginning was the whole concept for Project Scrooge. The characters she encounters, like Steph and Ethan, are intricate as well. As the book goes on, we can see her character grow piece by piece through the fantastic flow of the tale. Holly has such a unique personality as a narrator-she is an awful human being! Seeing this world through her eyes turns the table a little bit since as readers, we are not rooting for an average hero. I think what makes this book so incredible is the characters. I highly recommend it if you are still looking for a little dose of holiday cheer, or if you want to put it on the list to read next December. It was everything I hoped for and more in a Christmas tale and got me into a festive mood just in time for the holidays. This Christmas, I decided to spread my holiday cheer to my current read with The Afterlife of Holly Chase, and I am so glad that I did. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Courting Morrow Little is an exceptional story and narrator Laura Jennings delivers an excellent performance. I loved the story so much that I had to switch over to ebook towards the end of the story to truly soak it in (visual is my default). ![]() My first experience with this book was listening to the audiobook version. Or borrow through the Kindle Unlimited or Audible Escape programs ![]() Special note: this title is currently out of print but it is available to purchase in ebook or audiobook This sweeping tale of romance and forgiveness will envelop readers as it takes them from a Kentucky fort through the vast wilderness to the west in search of true love. Several men-ranging from the undesired to the unthinkable-vie for her attentions, but she finds herself inexplicably drawn to a forbidden love that both terrifies and intrigues her.Ĭan she betray the memory of her lost loved ones-and garner suspicion from her friends-by pursuing a life with him? Or should she seal her own misery by marrying a man she doesn’t love? Now that she is nearly a grown woman and her father is ailing, she must make difficult choices about the future. Morrow Little is haunted by the memory of the day her family was torn apart by raiding Shawnee warriors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zola’s sordid novel of adultery and murder occasionally turns up as a curious required-reading assignment in some 19th-century literature classes, but it’s high time it was permanently put to rest. Knightley’s appearance in the title role. Translated numerous times from the original French in plays, films, television soaps and even a real opera-never with any commercial success-this old warhorse doesn’t make a very solid argument for the risky revival currently onstage at Studio 54 as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 50th New York season, and I’m sorry to add that nothing remotely beneficial has been added by Ms. Instead, she has chosen to make her Broadway stage debut in a perversely stagnant and relentlessly boring stage version of the ossified 1867 Émile Zola melodrama Thérèse Raquin. Movie actress Keira Knightley, best known for her roles in film adaptations of stodgy costume epics ( Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina), was such a breath of fresh air when she helped crack the Nazis’ secret World War II Enigma code in the terrific Imitation Game that I was hoping for more contemporary roles. ![]() ![]() Keira Knightley, left, with Judith Light. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Does God love gold? ” “Time never stops, but does it end? ” “What lives beside us passing for air? ” “What happens when the body goes slack? ” etc.). Many of the poems contain rhetorical questions (e.g. Throughout Life on Mars, the poems continually doubt the usefulness of human knowledge. Seeing us, they’ll know exactly what we mean. How marvelous you’ve come! We won’t flinchĪt the pinprick mouths, the nubbin limbs. Look: postcardsĪnd panties, bottles with lipstick on the rim, Perhaps the best example is in the poem titled “The Universe is a House Party.” Hypothetical aliens visit with parental condescension an overenthusiastic universe. So much for the flags we bored.” The message to the reader is humbling: human’s greatest preoccupations are ephemeral and of little ultimate consequence. In “The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” the narrator states “So much for us. In “The Museum of Obsolescence,” human concepts of “Love” and “Disease” are installations in a futuristic museum. These poems use distance of time and space to question the importance of human existence. The language is accessible and creatively used, with strong use of alliteration and internal rhyme. The poetry speculates on the smallness of humankind, the incapacity of human intellectuality, and the irrationality of human emotions. The poetry in Tracy K Smith’s book, Life on Mars, examines the limitedness of the human species. ![]() |