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Vampires in the lemon grove characters5/19/2023 ![]() In "The New Veterans," a massage therapist working with a tattooed war veteran discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the images on his body. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis"-stories of children left to fend for themselves in dire predicaments-find Russell veering into more sinister territory, and ultimately crossing the line into full-scale horror. ![]() In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979," a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best. ![]()
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The Force by Don Winslow5/19/2023 ![]() My first Winslow was The Winter of Frankie Machine, about an old wiseguy who just wants to surf but gets pulled back into the life by a mobster’s kid who wants to make a name for himself. He said his chapters were short in the early days because he wrote on the train to and from work: a 21-minute ride. That sometimes it’s not the spoken lie but the unspoken truth that opens the door to betrayal.ĭon Winslow has a unique voice, one that’s partly shaped by public transit. ![]() ![]() His old priests might have told him that there are sins of commission and sins of omission, that it’s not always the things you do, but the things you don’t that cost you your soul. The Force by Don Winslow is a haunting and heartbreaking story of greed and violence, inequality and race, crime and injustice, retribution and redemption that reveals the seemingly insurmountable tensions between the police and the diverse citizens they serve. ![]()
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The maidens alex michaelides5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Especially when she learns that he leads a group of female students known as the Maidens, which seems like a cult of some sorts. ![]() ![]() All the students are huge fans of Fosca but Mariana doesn’t trust him. Mariana becomes convinced that the murderer is the charming Greek Tragedy professor Fosca. Mariana immediately goes to her when she finds out that one of Zoe’s friends was murdered at Cambridge where they’re studying. The story’s protagonist is Mariana, a woman who has lost many people in her life-most recently her husband in a tragic accident. I do keep these spoiler-free so I won’t reveal what happens but I will give my thoughts on my overall impression of this read. I thought it was SO well-written, engaging and I was interested in the mystery. And that’s such a bummer because I really enjoyed this one right up until the big reveal. I can’t say that’s exactly why the ending of The Maidens did not work. ![]()
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Out of Africa by Karen Blixen5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Out of Africa is considered her masterpiece. She wrote poems, plays, and stories from an early age, including Seven Gothic Tales, Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass and Ehrengard. Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) was born Karen Christence Dinesen in Rungsted, Denmark. ![]() I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century." She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. ![]() Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. ![]()
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Jedi twilight5/19/2023 ![]() After the events of Empire Strikes Back, Qi’ra would send her agents to steal the carbonite slab of Han Solo from Boba Fett. Qi’ra would eventually ascend as its leader and slowly make plans to have the organization surpass its former glory. Photo: .Įventually, after Maul’s death at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Crimson Dawn would fade into obscurity and become dormant. However, the two would part again after she killed Dryden and was told to return to Dathomir to report to Maul, the former Sith Lord and apprentice to Palpatine.Įmilia Clarke as Qi’Ra in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Years later, she would eventually reunite with Han and would witness the future hero of the Rebel Alliance make the Kessel Run under 12 parsecs. Dryden Vos (played by Paul Bettany), the man who would eventually become her mentor, trained Qi’ra as his enforcer and right-hand woman. While Han was able to escape the White Worms, Qi’ra was never able to and was sold to Crimson Dawn. ![]() ![]() She would eventually fall in love with Han and the two would have dreams of getting out of one day escaping Corellia and living free from servitude to Lady Proxima and her White Worms. The character of Qi’ra, portrayed by Emilia Clarke in Solo: A Star Wars Story, is a very interesting character.īorn a scumrat on the streets of Corellia, Qi’ra grew up with fellow Corellian Han Solo (portrayed by both Harrison Ford in the original trilogy and Alden Ehrenreich in Solo: A Star Wars Story. ![]()
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![]() īut are these wishes-come-true a blessing or a curse? And is there such a thing as too much foreplay? Suddenly the bad hair days stop a handsome American answers her ad for a housemate and she starts seeing James - The Perfect Man who sends her flowers, excels in the bedroom, and isn t afraid to say I love you. Until one day she buys some heather from a gypsy. I could meet a man whose hobbies include washing up and monogamy.' I hadn t eaten that entire bag of Maltesers. Suddenly the bad hair days stop a handsome A. With her luck, she knows they ll never come true. Not just big stuff - like world peace or for a date with Brad Pitt - but little, everyday wishes, made without thinking. Heather Hamilton is always wishing for things. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Christine delphy close to home5/18/2023 ![]() In the documentary “Je ne suis pas feministe, mais …” Delphy describes her early feminist conscience by attending to her parents: both worked in the pharmacy but on her return home her father put his feet up to rest and read the newspaper While her mother made the midday meal and then returned home. 2 Nowadays it maintains its feminist activism and its opinions on the war, the Islamic veil, the situation of the Muslim population in France generate controversy. ![]() ![]() Pioneer in France in the analyzes on the articulation of the inequalities provoked by the sexism, the classism and the racism, their contributions are similar to the post-colonial studies, being also close to the symbolic interactionism. She is recognized as one of the main architects of contemporary feminist thinking, founder of the theoretical current of materialist feminism. She was co -founder of the Women ‘s Liberation Movement in 1970 and the Questions Feministes (1977-80) and Nouvelles questions feministes (1980-present) New feminist questions) with Simone de Beauvoir.ĭelphy is a researcher and feminist activist, pioneer of the second wave of the feminist movement in France and author of important analyzes on gender inequalities. ![]() ![]() Paris 1941 ) is a feminist, writer and theoretical sociologist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted and in decay. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed in the giddy race for land and empire. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is the searing account of their travels. They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit. Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. ![]()
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Kirby new gods5/18/2023 ![]() Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Reading Order Fourth World Reading Order: The Omnibus CollectionĬollects Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #133–139 and #141–148, The Forever People #1–11, The New Gods #1–11, Mister Miracle #1–18, New Gods vol. ![]() In the end, will he defeat Darkseid and thwart his quest for the Anti-Life Equation–or will he forsake his vow and seize the ultimate power for himself? But the bottomless rage and thirst for combat that course through his veins cannot be extinguished. Here is the story: Raised in exile as a living instrument of peace between Apokolips and New Genesis, Orion swore to uphold the life-affirming values of his adopted world. The story is basically about the battle between good and evil as represented by the worlds of New Genesis and Apokolips. The three other original titles in which the saga developed were The Forever People, Mister Miracle, and The New Gods. When he joined DC Comics, Jack Kirby took over Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen and, with issue #133 (Oct. In fact, DC would not be what it is today without it. Even if, in the end, The King was not treated better by DC than he was at Marvel, his work there was still heavily influential. During that time, he created the Fourth World Saga. ![]() ![]() Jack Kirby’s name is mostly associated with Marvel, but he left to join DC Comics from 1970 to 1973. ![]()
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Death in the Pot by Charles W. Doughty5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children's paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. ![]() We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. Please do not call the stores to place orders for Abe Books sales. Items on Abe are not necessarily in stock at our retail locations. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. ![]() |