![]() Another young man, a blind piano tuner, also inhabits this castle from time to time, and one evening, hears the girl playing a beautiful song on the piano, and falls deeply in love with her. The teenage girl does not love him, yet this wealthy man takes her back to his castle and attempts to make her enact embarrassing sexual acts for his pleasure. The Bloody Chamber story, based on the legend of Bluebeard the pirate, is the tale of a teenage girl and talented pianist who marries an older French Marquis who was known to have wed many wives. ![]() Lyon, The Tiger’s Bride, Puss-in-Boots, The Erl-King, The Snow Child, The Lady of the House of Love, the Werewolf, The Company of Wolves and Wolf-Alice. The list of short stories available within this collection are as follows: The Bloody Chamber, The Courtship of Mr. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is a book containing the titular short story followed by a collection of nine other stories, all of which are darker and more adult renditions of common fairytales. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty. ![]() Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist. The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" in digital for the first time. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Clive Barkerįew authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stenn’s account is well-researched, and the book is full of quotes from interviews and notes which are well documented, something I appreciate. How she embraced her sexuality and had a sense of independence in her relationships, of which she had several at a time, is refreshing, but some of the reckless things she did invited scandal, and she became a pariah of sorts in Hollywood before retiring from films at age 28 and living the life of a recluse thereafter. Bow had little education or guidance, and was ill-equipped to handle the fame that grew from her earliest films at around 17, until she was a superstar at 22, in 1927. ![]() Mental illness ran in the family, and it’s hard to fathom traumatizing events of childhood like her mother locking her in a cupboard while she prostituted herself, her mother threatening to kill her when she began trying to get work in show business, or her father raping her when her mother was committed to an asylum. ![]() Such a sad life behind the animated face of the “It” girl, Clara Bow, and David Stenn does a good job telling her story, from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() Not only that, she wrote a truly humorous book about an obese man falling for his personal trainer. She wrote about it in such a brilliant and accurate way, that it never put the blame or tried to guilt anyone. So to write a book about this subject is, in my humble opinion, is very brave. Body image is also something I believe most, if not all, people have struggled with at one time or another during their lifetimes. It’s loaded with so many landmines you need a sniffer dog to even think about approaching or navigate through the subject. ![]() Looks and weight are very sensitive subjects for so many people in the world today. The love between them develops slowly as they spend more time together – at the gym and outside it. Right off the bat there is a genuine friendship between these two men, they just click, they make sense and they balance each other out. While questioning whether the elliptical machine violates the Geneva Convention and the purpose of kale you will get to know some amazing people and have a lot of fun doing it. Enter Reed, a personal trainer with the body of a Greek God and you have a set up for very clichéd story. ![]() ![]() Henry, freshly dumped for being boring and overweight, decides to join a gym to get his boyfriend back. They are you and me, they are the everyday people that you meet at the grocery store – or at the gym. Her characters are flawed and lovingly human. Walker’s books is that she writes about genuine people. I absolutely adored this book, from the first sentence to the last. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he’s called in for a mission to rescue a high-level intelligence officer who’s been kidnapped, he realizes the woman in question is his Olivia. After following numerous dead end leads, he gives up on ever finding the elusive woman who stole his heart nine months prior. Regret for letting her go gnaws at him until he decides to search for her. ![]() Despite Darryl’s decision to end his relationship with Olivia, he returns to his missions in Afghanistan unable to shake her from his heart. ![]() When she receives a surprise phone call from him nine months later, she dashes off to meet him in Italy. Olivia immerses herself into her Intelligence work with memories of Darryl never far from the surface. Because of their secretive careers, their love affair is destined to end. A one night stands leads to a blissful week traveling the Amalfi Coast. Amalfi Affair On a cycling tour through the Swiss Alps, CIA agent, Olivia Simpson, meets handsome Navy SEAL, Darryl Jennings. Includes all 4 books in the Navy SEALs of Valor series. ![]() ![]() RELIGION / ISLAM"This work is widely recognized as the most readable account of the life of the Prophet to date."-Times of London"For those interested in Islam in one way or another, it is mesmerizing."-ParabolaMartin Lings's biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the Prophet. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources" was selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time. ![]() ![]() Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, "Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources" owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life.-Martin Lings' gift for narrative, and his adoption of a style which is extremely readable, allows both the simplicity and grandeur of the story to shine through. ![]() Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings' "Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources" is unlike any other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL17886378W Page_number_confidence 89.19 Pages 474 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210417103209 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 649 Scandate 20210408063432 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781250044655 Tts_version 4. the New York Times-bestselling author of the Lunar Chronicles dazzles us with a prequel to. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:08:27 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40089224 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() We already had him soften up a bit in the first but this goes further into him. So first, I really like the development for Duncan. ![]() This is good at first but like an addict, he goes back to the machine for more and this really creates complications. But ontop of that, this experiment in one class fries his brains, making him super smart. There are four new teachers this school year, and he must figure out which is the alien. One day while hiding in a dumpster (don't ask), Duncan finds a fake human hand that clues to the fact that aliens are still here even after Broxholm has left. After the ending of the last book, everyone is kind on edge as spoilers, Peter has vanished. With this going on, he tends to act up and such. His family is a mess with his brother being a bully to him and his parents being unattentive at best. He's still a bully but here we find more of his depth. ![]() This time we pull a Haunted Mask 2 as bully Duncan Doogal is our narrator. ![]() And it's also quite solid, better than the first in a lot of ways now that everything has been settled. Now we have the sequel where it's clear this was all a planned as a big saga. Previously on My Teacher is an Alien, it was a pretty solid read with some clever humor and commentary alongside mostly good characters, but it didn't explain everything and ended on a bit of a rushed note. I figured now was a good chance to read the next one, with plans to finish it off in the first half of the year. Well, a bit ago I started Bruce Coville's four part alien saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrey Yeryomenko, but, above all, Soviet civilians and soldiers, drawn from the working class and peasantry in Stalingrad. He portrays sections of the technical intelligentsia miners in Siberia working in war production children orphaned by the war historical figures such as Gen. Grossman offers a panoramic view of Soviet society at war. ![]() Many of the protagonists, especially the physicist Viktor Shtrum and the Shaposhnikov family, will be familiar to readers of Life and Fate. The plot of Stalingrad is too complex to be recounted in full. It is this same spirit that permeates Grossman’s novel. In a partial but significant manner, the spirit that animated the Red Army during its early years, after it was created by Leon Trotsky and the Bolsheviks to defend the revolution, was revived. Despite the Stalinist degeneration of the Soviet Union and the Great Terror of 1936-38, the Soviet masses rose up to defend the conquests of the October Revolution against the fascist invaders. By the end of the war, in 1945, at least 27 million Soviet citizens, including 1.5 million Soviet Jews, would be dead. Less than a year earlier, on June 22, 1941, the Nazis had invaded the Soviet Union, launching the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind. The novel begins with a meeting between fascist dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on April 29, 1942, in which they discuss the progress of the war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, the blizzards come out of nowhere and the whole village is snowed in. When Jude unexpectedly returns on Christmas Eve he is far from delighted to discover that Holly seems to be holding the very family party he had hoped to avoid. ![]() Meanwhile, Holly is finding that if she wants to avoid Christmas, she has come to the wrong place. However, he will have to return by the twelfth night of the festivities, when the hamlet of Little Mumming hold their historic festivities and all of his family are required to attend. Sculptor Jude Martland is determined that this year there will be no Christmas after his brother ran off with his fiancée. ![]() Christmas has always been a sad time for young widow Holly Brown, so when she's asked to look after a remote house on the Lancashire moors, the opportunity to hide herself away is irresistible – the perfect excuse to forget about the festivities. Available now at .uk - ISBN: 9781847563378 - Paperback - Avon - Condition: Very Good - The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. ![]() |