![]() ![]() ![]() 'The Midnight Folk' was Masefield's first children's fantasy novel. Abner has his witch friends and his dark magic to help him, but Kay has the very special Midnight Folk. Determined to recover the long lost family treasure, Kay finds himself in a race against the evil Abner Brown. Overall a vg++ copy of this scarce and enchanting book. Rather savagely price clipped with bottom quarter of front flap cut away, blue boards with gilt titling, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown (Harriet Holland), top of page block dyed blue as issued. Some edge wear and a couple of short closed tears to top and bottom of largely dark green jacket and spine, slight yellowing to back jacket, corners and folds slightly rubbed. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Covers are faded in spots but otherwise in sound condition. Moderate foxing front/rear pages, but body of book clean and unfoxed. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is faded/sunned. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. ![]() First Illustrated Edition, or first by this illustrator and in this format. ![]()
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![]() Things get messy and for that, God bless him and pass the brewskies. I am not a fan of sterile, "PG-13" violence and neither, it seems, is Westworth. Maybe not Joseph Rosenberger or David Alexander graphic, but it’s not kiddie stuff either. This story packs a lot of action into not a lot of pages (about 25 or so) and even better, it’s fairly graphic. ![]() Oh, and he rides a Harley Davidson, which instantly makes him jump up at least two notches on the coolness scale. JJ Stone is a character you can root for, despite the fact that he is a bit more ruthless than your typical "hero" (seriously, check out how coldly he executes some prisoners at the beginning). Instead, it sports all the ingredients action-thriller fans crave: a rough-and-tumble protagonist, plenty of action, brutal violence, crackling dialogue, and deftly-handled plot twists. Speaking of sugar, this short story doesn’t have much (if any). This was my first introduction to Stone-and his creator, Frank Westworth-but the chances of it being my last are about as slim as me having tea and crumpets with Queen Elizabeth this evening. ![]() ![]() “First Contract” is an origin story, chronicling the recruitment of protagonist JJ Stone into the bloody world of black ops and the details of his first assignment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sales Rank Publication Date Lowest New Price The Quartet continues with The Big Nowhere, L.A. He portrays the city in this period as a hotbed of political corruption and depravity. ![]() Quartet, a cycle of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. The Black Dahlia is the first book in Ellroy's L.A. This book is considered the one that gained Ellroy critical attention as a serious writer of literature, expanding his renown beyond the crime novels of his early career. ![]() James Ellroy dedicated The Black Dahlia, "To Geneva Hilliker Ellroy 1915-1958 Mother: Twenty-nine Years Later, This Valediction in Blood." The epigraph for The Black Dahlia is "Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, My first lost keeper, to love and look at later. While rooted in the facts of the Short murder and featuring many real-life people, places and events, Ellroy's novel blends facts and fiction, notably in solving Short's crime when in reality her murder was unsolved. The investigation ultimately led to a broad police corruption scandal. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California, which received wide attention because her corpse was horrifically mutilated and discarded in an empty residential lot. The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recognizing that there is no one childfree adult, the author guides the reader through the positive and negative aspects of childfree living, taking into consideration the different issues faced by men or women, couples or singles, whether gay or straight.Īs a woman who is childfree by choice, Walker draws upon her personal experience while also offering the reader numerous interviews with other childfree adults, revealing behind-the-scenes factors that influenced their personal journeys. Walker examines the often-ignored question of what it means to be childfree, by choice or by circumstance, in a family-focused society. ![]() In Complete Without Kids, Licensed Clinical Psychologist Ellen L. Walker, is a lifestyle planning self-help guide, free courtesy of publisher Greenleaf Book Group.Ĭurrently free from Amazon UK, may show up free at Amazon US (link for your pricedrop convenience) and elsewhere since other books by this publisher have been multistore freebies previously. Complete Without Kids: An Insider's Guide to Childfree Living by Choice or by Chance by Ellen L. ![]() ![]() When Warners decided to remake Captain Blood in 1935 with Errol Flynn, they would have owned the screen rights to the Sabatini novel which came as part of the Vitagraph buyout. In 1925, Warner Brothers was on the verge of taking over the historic Vitagraph Company. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate. ![]() Robert Bolder as Admiral van der KuylenĪ print restored by the Library of Congress was shown at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 2018. Captain Blood 1935 Directed by Michael Curtiz Synopsis A million dollars worth of adventure Dr. ![]() ![]() Roy has all sorts of unique ideas - especially for establishing environment and ambiance. Not many authors (especially of J- or YA-fic) can do that! ![]() They are quite distinctive and I particularly admire how Roy manages to write characters you aren't supposed to like and makes you spend time with them without feeling like you just want those parts of the book to be over. Roy's offerings as the other kids in the Gauntlet "exam" made me think a little bit of the bad kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but with significantly more sophistication. There is a very rich cast of supporting characters in this book. But I'll see what I can do to add some thoughts specifically pertaining to this book, or recap the major points if you are profoundly averse to link surfing. ) is nearly entirely applicable to book 2, The Glass Gauntlet. ![]() I don't feel like I really need to write a very long review here, because my review of book 1 in the series The Blood Guard (. This is a fast-paced, frequently exciting, action-filled book with a good bit of humor that is likely to appeal to a broad range of middle grade readers, and a nice handful of readers of any age who like adventure tales with young protagonists and a bit of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() And he must deal with the complicated feelings triggered by the officer in charge of the army’s own investigation, Captain Sara Brannon, a fiery young officer as formidable as she is attractive. To find Sammy Yazzi, Kerney must track clues that lead deep into the histories of the region-Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo-and, compellingly, into his own family’s ranching past. Ex-chief of detectives in the Santa Fe Police Department, shoved into early retirement by a shot-up leg, Kerney is fresher in body and mind than he realizes when Navajo Indian Terry Yazzi, his ex-partner and the man responsible for his injuries, asks him to locate his son, reported AWOL from the high-security White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Synopsis: Tularosa–“the place of reddish willows” in Spanish–holds the key to Kevin Kerney’s past and his future. ![]() Norton & Company, New YorkĬomments: Subtle stain on back cover. ![]() ![]() Even having her annoyed at the press doesn't help much.Ĭhapter two is where the rear-engine shit really hits the fan, though. I'd rank it low among opening chapters, because while it gives us a fleeting glance at Beatrice's relationship with her son, mostly it paints us a portrait of a rude, haughty and entitled woman. The first chapter introduces us to Beatrice, the intimidating actress entering her fifties and who just broke a leg while shooting some film. ![]() Secretly, though, this book is to the Volkswagen Type 2 van what The Love Bug is to the Beetle. The blurb is innocuous enough, making you think it'll just be a celebrity romance with a spot of vanlife for variety. ![]() If you are also a self-described slow dyke, enjoy whatever this is. Hi there, I'm aslowdyke and you're not, and frankly there's nothing that warns you about the automotive appreciation that goes on in Broken Beyond Repair. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Charlotte and Carlo learn that they and those they care for are in deadly peril as they attempt to attend Haydn's new opera and succeed at falling in love. The prince's court, however, is also full of alchemists studying dangerous, secret magic. One of the arts he supports is music: his chief household musician is Haydn, and the famous castrato singer Carlo Morelli arrives to visit shortly after Charlotte does. The year is 1779, and the prince, Sophie's lover, is a wealthy patron of the arts and sciences. Charlotte von Steinbeck, recently widowed, accepts her sister Sophie's invitation to visit Eszterh%C3%A1za, the grandiose palace of the Hungarian prince Nikolaus Esterh%C3%A1zy. Burgis (the Kat, Incorrigible series), trained as a music historian, does justice to an unusual choice of time period and subject matter in this enjoyable historical fantasy. ![]() ![]() This research paper is focused on how Willa Cather portrays the inner rebellion and the passion of a female character, Marian Forrester in her novel A Lost Lady. ![]() This research concludes that Cather’s Marian has dismantled the social hierarchy created by the male superiority or patriarchy in the novel. As a qualitative research, by using radical feminism as a tool of interpretation, the researcher collected textual evidenced from Cather’s novel and interpreted them to fulfill the objective of this research. ![]() Marian goes against male hegemony and to create her separate identity. At that time female were not allowed to enjoy their freedom like the males. Marian seems to transcend her husband’s order. ![]() down in her heart she is not happy with her husband. Though she is married and living happily with her husband, somewhere deep. She walks against the social norms and she is presented as a rigid character who dismantles the male created hierarchy woman as a subordinate being in the society. ![]() |