![]() ![]() ![]() A page turn reveals further slumberous silliness from Piggie: “And WHY is my head a TURNIP?” (“Good question,” agrees Knuffle Bunny). When Gerald throws a fit about not being able to sleep and declares, “I am NOT enjoying my nap, Piggie! I am NOT napping!”, she counters with “But, if you are not napping, how can I be floating?” as Gerald’s dream takes a wacky turn. Her “special buddy” for napping is a stuffed elephant (which Gerald finds endearing), and soon both pals are off to dreamland-until Piggie’s snores keep Gerald from sleeping. In his subsequent dream, Piggie disturbs his nap, and Gerald’s grouchy response to her interruption makes her so cranky that she, too, wants to take a restorative rest. Tired, cranky Gerald wisely recognizes that a nap is just what he needs to feel good again, and he quickly settles into sleep with his blankie and Knuffle Bunny (from Knuffle Bunny, BCCB 10/04). ![]()
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![]() I kicked myself when I adored it and couldn’t believe it took me so long, and yet the wait for the second would be painful. So I read Vicious last year, having already read a lot of Schwab and naming her one of my all-time favourite authors. If there can be life after death-will there be calm after vengeance, or will chaos rule? Now, a trio hides in the shadows, while another takes advantages of post-death life to take over the city of Merit. Or so he thought-but Sydney Clarke felt otherwise, and used her own superpower to tip the scales. They were dead, then alive, and then-Eli killed Victor, once and for all. ![]() ![]() They were best friends, and rivals, and then enemies. Eli Ever and Victor Vale were only medical students when their mutual discovery that near-death experiences can, under the right conditions, manifest extraordinary abilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then the second guest spot, Robert Shaw, was truncated because, Blatty noted, he may have been a bit tipsy. Blatty doesn’t recall what exactly happened with the first guest, but he remembers that he was gone after the first commercial. “I got into makeup and went into the green room.”Īs he waited for his brief appearance scheduled for the final minutes of the show, that “divine hand” intervened further. “I threw down my napkin and ran all the way,” he said, recalling the twist of fate. It seems a guest had suddenly dropped out of that night’s show and he was desperately needed. “She said to me, ‘Can you get over to the show, like, within minutes?’” Sometime after his dispiriting interview for the Cavett show, Blatty was having lunch at the Four Seasons with a woman from Harper & Row when she got a phone call. “I always believe that there is a divine hand everywhere,” said Blatty, who prior to “The Exorcist” had co-written such Blake Edwards comedies as 1964’s “A Shot in the Dark” and penned the screenplays to several films, including the 1965 adaptation of his novel “John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!” After doing a pre-interview for a possible guest appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” the interviewer told him not to hold his breath about getting a slot on the popular talk show because the host wasn’t keen on paranormal stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() I creep along the edge of his tenement hallway. Muted explosions from outside, bombs maybe. Motes of dust float in the manufactured light. ![]() ![]() When the act of remembering becomes illegal, the artifacts that remain tell the stories our unconscious wants to submerge. ‘Pugs’ originally published in Colored Chalk, Issue #5. ‘The Mourning is the Dawn of our Love’ originally published in Gold Dust, Issue #14. ‘List #2’ originally published in Everyday Genius. ‘The Reindeer Incident’ originally published on Do Some Damage. ‘Cobwebs and Dead Skin’ is an excerpt of the novella By the Nails of the Warpriest (OW Press, September 2011) and was originally published in Dirty Noir. Thank you to all of the editors for believing in them (or letting me dupe them into believing.) Thank you to you, for reading this collection. ![]() There’s also an excerpt of the upcoming novella that spawned all of these giveaways. None have explicit connections to Old Ghosts, but feel like they should. I like them all and wanted to give them a chance to be seen, to be read. Some are from very early in my writing, and though I’d approach them differently now, I think it’s important to see progression. Some of these stories were published long ago (relatively speaking) and some in publications that evaporated into smoke. ![]() ![]() In the series' first instalment we are introduced to the various groups that the series revolves around and to the familiar yet fundamentally different world which children must now learn to survive in. ![]() ![]() With intertwining narratives, plenty of likeable(and despicable) characters and most importantly heaps of bloody gore Higson creates a sprawling apocalyptic teen-masterpiece of a horror series.Ĭharlie Higson is the master-mind behind the bestselling Young Bond series of novels for young adults which have made him a household name among teen book lovers, however, what could be argued to be his greater body of work is The Enemy series for its expertly written blend of horror and action. When a plague hits the world contaminating anyone older than fourteen, turning them into blood-thirsty undead horrors children are left to fend for themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() He couldn’t plan, but just reacted to what was happening. ![]() How could life go so terribly wrong in just a few hours? He had had no time to think. Suddenly, there was horror everywhere and nothing was what it appeared to be. His safe, little world had shifted out of its comfortable orbit the moment his parents were kidnapped, propelling him to places he never dreamed imaginable. Michael was so terrified he couldn’t breathe. The brothers must outwit and outrun Herrington, the FBI, and even fellow Americans in a harrowing cross-country chase, because whoever gets to Danny first will have the power to control the fate of every person on earth. Michael discovers Danny has a powerful gift-he knows what happens after a person dies-and now others want to know, too. Seventeen year old Michael Anderson and his deaf kid brother, Danny, find themselves in mortal danger after their parents are kidnapped by ruthless biophysicist, Samuel Herrington. ![]() A deaf little boy knows what happens to you when you die and now people are after him. ![]() ![]() It is a process recognizable from her earlier work. She gathers it together in small fragments, seldom more than a fraction of a page long, that appear randomly organized. Their masses having been greatly diminished since settlers grasped that they grew in soil good for farming.” Perhaps it was that sense of loss that sent her out searching for different kinds of beech trees, that sent her rooting around in the old books collecting lore and the attempts at early science, that forced her to learn everything she could about these trees.Īt first glance, Casting Deep Shade is a commonplace book of all this information. She tells us early on that the “American beech … is not the priority here, only because it is rarely among the beeches I see daily where I live in southern New England. In the years before her sudden and unexpected death in 2016, Wright was fascinated with the American beech ( Fagus grandifolia) and the members of its family. That is all most of us learn, and sometimes it used to feel like enough. We hear them called autograph trees, because they hold the wounds made by solipsistic children (or by the poets visiting Lady Gregory at Coole Park) who cut their initials into that smooth gray skin. We hear the trunks of beech trees described as pillars that look like the legs of elephants. ![]() ![]() It’s not uncommon to hear fans of Blume’s work say that reading her books felt as though she was speaking directly to them through the pages. ![]() Since the publication of her breakthrough novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” in 1970, while she was a young housewife in suburban New Jersey, Blume has maintained a fiercely devoted audience that has found enlightenment and understanding through her preteen and teenage characters. The film, streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting Friday, features the 85-year-old writer narrating the major milestones of her life and career, cut together with interviews of famous Blume acolytes such as the writer and director Lena Dunham, the comedian Samantha Bee, the writer Jacqueline Woodson and Anna Konkle, the co-creator of “PEN15.” That’s the argument of “Judy Blume Forever,” a new documentary from Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok that pays unwavering tribute to Blume and her imprint on young adult literature. ![]() There are few living children’s authors who have connected as deeply to their readers as Judy Blume. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has noted that the Chinese Cubans have. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Garcia shot into fame with her debut novel Dreaming in Cuban, which was nominated for the National Book Award. With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.” - The Denver Post ![]() “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.” - The Washington Post evocative and lush.” - San Francisco Chronicle an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” ( The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Cristina García’s story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”- TimeĬristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, this past June, a former journalist named Jack Stuef came forward claiming to have found it. More than 400,000 searched for it, including five people who died. The documentary’s official logline reads: “‘Treasure Hunters’ follows the true story of Forrest Fenn, an art collector, who buried a $2 million treasure in 2010 filled with rare gold coins in an unknown location with 24 cryptic verses offering the only hint to its whereabouts. ![]() The lengthy read captures an epic 10-year “sometimes maddening, occasionally deadly, brainscrambling” search for gold in the Rockies. Netflix will distribute the documentary, with Vox Media Studios and Nomadica Films set to produce.īenjamin Wallace wrote the article that inspired the non-fiction film, which was published in November of 2020. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). ![]() fiction science fiction thriller dark medium-paced. The Treasure Hunters by Warren Dean, Jennifer Blaine, Oct 18, 2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform edition, paperback. 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