7/8/2023 0 Comments Kate mosse labyrinth series![]() ![]() The basic premise is that A) it takes place in both the 13th- and 21st-centuries B) it deals with two women who “share a link between past and present” and C) it was filmed on location at Carcassonne, the beautiful medieval walled castle-city in southern France that was a major stronghold of the Cathars.īrief history lesson if you’re not familiar with the Cathars, since it is never really explained in the plot of this film … They were a Christian sect that was active for a brief period in the southern region of France between the 12th- and 14th-centuries. Kendra usually handles that department, being the resident historical novel enthusiast around here. ![]() ![]() It’s one of those time-hopping historical novels turned historical film fluff, so maybe that’s why I missed it. What is this? Did someone make a new medieval flick, and I somehow didn’t get the memo?Īs the resident “other times that aren’t 16th-century through 19th-century” “expert” (yes, that is a lot of friendly quotes), I was kind of surprised that I hadn’t heard about Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth, which apparently came out in 2012 (and aired in the US on the CW in 2014). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a killer wields dangerous magic to thwart Reina's investigation, she must tap into the strength of her own power and faith to solve a mystery that threatens to destroy her entire way of life. Get 50 off this audiobook at the AudiobooksNow online audio book store and download or. Reina resolves to find the real killer and defend the Vodou practice and customs, but the motives behind the murder are deeper and darker than she imagines.Īs Reina delves into the city's shadows, she untangles more than just the truth behind a devious crime. Download or stream The Quarter Storm: A Novel by Veronica G. ![]() Detective Roman Frost, Reina's ex-boyfriend - a fierce nonbeliever - is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Reina knows that to save her community, and ultimately herself, she must prove that Salimah is innocent and discover the identity of the real killer. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors.Īfter a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. A city ruled by water, and a priestess who wields it to uncover a murderer in the French Quarter. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Books of blood volume 1![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve also been told that Haunted Reels: Volume 2 is in the works. The newest anthology in the ‘Dark Matter Presents’ series, Bloody Disgusting is excited to announce that Dark Matter Presents: Haunted Reels is now available for pre-order.Įxclusively check out the cover art below, the work of artist Olly Jeavons!ĭark Matter Presents: Haunted Reels will be published on July 25. You can grab your copy for just $17 from Amazon today.Ī deluxe new edition of the full Books of Blood collection is being released in Brazil. This Volume includes: “ The Book of Blood” Here then are the stories written on the Book of Blood. As beautiful as they are terrible, the pages of this volume are stained with unsettling imagery, macabre humor, and visceral dread. In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker combines the extraordinary with the ordinary, bringing to life our darkest nightmares with stories that both seduce and devour. “Rediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hellraiser series.” The book collects together all of Barker’s original “Volume One” tales, and features the film’s poster art on the cover. Ahead of the premiere of Hulu’s Books of Blood film adaptation on October 7, Berkley has just re-released Clive Barker‘s Books of Blood: Volume One this week, a 304-page book whipped up as a tie-in edition with the upcoming Hulu movie. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Book home before dark![]() ![]() Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself-a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity-and skepticism. ![]() They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Here’s a more detailed rundown on the book via Amazon: Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound-and dangerous-secrets hidden within its walls? RELATED: FINAL GIRLS BOOK REVIEW – GONE GIRL MEETS SCREAM ![]() ![]() In Sager’s new thriller, a woman returns to the home made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to some Texas Library Association surveys, the Hank the Cowdog books are the most popular selections in many libraries' children's sections. Teachers, librarians, and students alike love Hank. ![]() When teachers began inviting Erickson to their schools, Hank found his most eager fans. So in 1983, he self-published 2,000 copies of The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, and they sold out in 6 weeks. Hank the Cowdog made his debut in the pages of The Cattleman, a magazine for adults, and when Erickson started getting "Dear Hank" letters, he knew he was onto something. Publishers Weekly calls Hank a "grassroots publishing phenomena," and USA Today says this is "the best family entertainment in years." This series of books and tapes is in school libraries across the country, has sold more than 7.6 million copies, is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and is the winner of the 1993 Audie for Outstanding Children's Series from the Audio Publisher's Association. Through the eyes of Hank the Cowdog, a smelly, smart-aleck Head of Ranch Security, Erickson gives readers a glimpse of daily life on a ranch in the West Texas Panhandle. ![]() Erickson, a former cowboy and ranch manager, is gifted with a storyteller's knack for spinning a yarn. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Big hoom![]() ![]() “Pynchon, Paranoia, and Literature,” in Thomas Pynchon, Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers.Ĭoale, S. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural theory. There is an intense focus on how important tenets like fragmentation, non-linearity, intertextuality, and playfulness are inherent in the novel.ĭavid Paul, Vellore Institute of Technologyīarry, P. ![]() The Psyche of the postmodern characters as presented by the author in his psychological fiction is profoundly probed in the paper. ![]() ![]() Taking into account all of the significant shifts from Modernism to Postmodernism, the study explicates Postmodernism as a movement, the Postmodern era along with the postmodern condition, and the postmodern tenets. It denotes the status of contemporary society, the revolutions, modifications, and shifts in science, literature, and arts. Postmodernism is an outgrowth of Modernism. The complex, medical, psychoanalytic, and psychiatric history of the characters’ psyche is traced out in the novel. This paper investigates and problematizes the postmodern condition in Jerry Pinto's novel, Em and the Big Hoom. Postmodernism, postmodern condition, paranoia, problematizing, psyche Abstract ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Muhammad the world changer![]() ![]() A strong relationship formed between the Prophet and Banu al-Najjar. Not only that, some Islamic history books have even described the al-Najjar family as “uncles of the Prophet” quite a number of times. According to Sahih al-Bukhari, the Prophet said to the people one day: “The best of the Ansar families are those of Banu al-Najjar.” That is why the Prophet honored them as soon as he entered Yathrib (Madinah). The Prophet bought the land from them and established a mosque on it.Ī strong relationship had formed between the Prophet and Banu al-Najjar before his arrival in Medina. This line in particular comes from the story of the Prophet’s camel, which was said to have blessed a plot of land (the location where the she-camel first rested when they arrived in Madinah) owned by two orphan boys from the Banu al-Najjar family. ![]() As soon as the Prophet walked through the city gates, its elders hurried to welcome him and offer their homes for him to stay in, but he told them: “I will stay with Banu al-Najjar, the maternal uncles of Abd al-Muttalib, out of respect.” ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Borges and me parini![]() ![]() As Borges gave Parini a weird tour of his fiction, so Panini gives the reader a tour of the Borges fictive universe: libraries, encyclopedias, riddles, labyrinths and mirrors. Parini calls his book an act of language, and echoes Borges, who said anything that passes through memory is fiction. ![]() Seventy-one-year-old Jorge Luis Borges as seen through the eyes of twenty-one-year-old Jay Parini in “Borges and Me: An Encounter.” If you can believe it: Parini was unfamiliar with Borges upon meeting him! In this book a great literary figure is a thrillingly unusual and crazy old man-Parini says the book flew out of his thoughts and memories and dreams from the fifty years since the events transpired. The book is, essentially a road trip memoir of a trip from fifty years ago. Today I heard Michael Silverblatt interview Jay Parini about his book Borges and Me on the Bookworm radio show from KCRW. On my walk this morning, as I often do, I listened to a podcast or two. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Beauty book robin mckinley![]() ![]() Full Book Name: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast.Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?” Robin McKinley’s beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.īeauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley – eBook Detailsīefore you start Complete Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast PDF EPUB by Robin McKinley Download, you can read below technical ebook details: When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. She is thin and awkward it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. You can read this before Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī strange imprisonment… Beauty has never liked her nickname. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast written by Robin McKinley which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The wife upstairs novel![]() Why do you think Eddie developed such an interest in Jane? Do you think the chemistry was natural or was there another reason he pursued her? Was it a need for power?Ĩ. Why do you think the author portrays Jane as tough, capable of violence, and manipulative? Contrast this to the timid, soft-spoken Jane in the original classicĦ. Were you surprised when Jane continues stealing even after she has wealth? Why do you think she steals? Do you think this trait was necessary?ĥ. Do you think she was purely motivated by a desire for money?Ĥ. Talk about Jane's motivations for her actions. ![]() Did the story have the Southern charm as mentioned in the book summary?ģ. How do you think this story compared to the original Jane Eyre? Is the story unique? Original? Did the author capture the right ambiance?Ģ. ![]() |