![]() ![]() ![]() Mistaking Melissa for the teacher, Frank kidnaps her and tosses her into the gang's wagon. Soon after, Frank and his gang ride through town and toward the schoolhouse. Melissa then continues on to the schoolhouse, where she helps the local teacher with the children. After loading their horses on board, the men enter the bordello car, equipped with an array of prostitutes of various nationalities. There Brandt meets his wealthy friends, Matthew Gunn, Watt Nelson, Sam Bayard and Buford King, to embark upon a two-week hunting trip. Meanwhile, Brandt Ruger, the cattle baron who owns and runs much of the town, and his beautiful, abused wife Melissa arrive at the Ruger train station. As outlaw Frank Calder and his gang near Ruger, Texas, the sheriff rides out to warn them against entering the town. ![]()
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![]() Adiga, who was born in India in 1974, writes forcefully about a corrupt culture unfortunately, his commentary on all things Indian comes at the expense of narrative suspense and character development. ![]() ![]() His business (coal trading) involves bribing government officials with huge sums of money, the sight of which proves irresistible to Balram and seals Ashok’s fate. Ashok is a gentleman, a decent employer, though Balram will eventually cut his throat (an early revelation). Ashok, lives with his Westernized wife, Pinky Madam. Balram is on his way, to Delhi in fact, where the Stork’s son, Mr. Soon after, he’s pulled out of school to work in a tea shop, then manages to get hired as a driver by the Stork, one of the village’s powerful landlords. But Balram is smart, as a school inspector notices, and he is given the moniker White Tiger. ![]() Like the huddled masses, he was born in the Darkness, in a village where his father, a rickshaw puller, died of tuberculosis. ![]() Balram sees India as two countries: the Light and the Darkness. China’s Premier is set to visit, and the novel’s frame is a series of Balram’s letters to the Premier, in which he tells his life story. What makes an entrepreneur in today’s India? Bribes and murder, says this fiercely satirical first novel.īalram Halwai is a thriving young entrepreneur in Bangalore, India’s high-tech capital. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then the Carolina Cold Fury makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Van has spent his entire life running from a secret that’s kept him from getting involved in relationships-or accepting lucrative deals with East Coast teams. He plays hard because it’s the only way to channel the rage boiling inside, and a reputation as an A-hole is better than everyone knowing the truth. Score one for the Carolina Cold Fury hockey team as a stone-cold badass melts for a woman who makes his blood run hot.Īs one of the league’s toughest enforcers, Van Turner is ruthless on the ice. Where you can find Van: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Marek – Book 11 (expected publication date: May 22nd, 2018) ![]() Reed – Book 10 (expected publication date: February 6th, 2018) Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, Loveswept ![]() ![]() Ellie uses her skills as a former health practitioner to keep her victimsĪlive but sedated in the walls and hidden compartments of her home, in a warped belief that her actions are providing Ellie and Sam's victims with a better life. She is horrified when she discovers that the couple have been paralysing their guests, sewing their eyes and ears off, and hiding them within the house. She begins to feel a connection with Ellie after experiencing delusions of bugs and continuing to see someone following her. Jenna bonds with a fellow guest named Gavin, and with her host, Ellie. She begins to suspect that someone is following her and takes refuge at a bed and breakfast run by older couple Ellie and Sam Austin. ![]() Unhappy at home, she decides to run away after becoming noncompliant with her medication. ![]() Jenna Branson is a college student suffering from mental illness. The film tells three stories, two of which are loose adaptations from the titular horror fiction anthology: "The Book of Blood" ("Miles") and "On Jerusalem Street" (a postscript) ("Bennett"). This was the final production by Touchstone Television before being folded into 20th Television. The film premiered at the 2020 Screamfest Horror Film Festival on October 6, 2020, and was released on Hulu the following day. It is based on Books of Blood by Clive Barker and is the second film adaptation after Book of Blood (2009). ![]() Books of Blood is a 2020 American anthology horror film directed by Brannon Braga and co-written by Braga and Adam Simon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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Champ talks about one of the books in particular ("The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena"). Zach and Champ come across Stine's books. Zach was supposed to stay with his aunt Lorraine but he snuck outside and called Champ to help him find Hannah. Zach was hearing "Shivers" and Hannah argue and Zach calls the cops to check out Stine's house. Zach then meets a new friend named Champ where he gives Zach his card to call him in case of Emergencies. Shivers", and Hannah Stine (His adopted daughter, and protagonist from "The Ghost Next Door"). Zach and his mother Gale were moving to Madison, Delaware. Now Zach, Stine, Hannah and Champ are going to get the monsters back. Stine who accidentally opens the books and releases The Monsters. ![]() He is the person who is the next door neighbor to R.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second half of this book is better than the first. ![]() ![]() I guess I prefer more gutsy and cheerful heroines. I sense that the author may have a better-than-average grasp at making her a convincing teenager with relatable problems, but I thought she had more negative traits than positive ones. She just comes off as angsty and glum so much of the time, however justified it may be by the plot. It’s clear early on that there are mysterious plot points that will reveal why he is so fixated on getting to know her. He’s got some spark and good humor, even as Mara is less than friendly toward him at first. Also liked Noah well enough, perhaps more than most YA love interests. Mara’s parents, especially her mother, are quite involved in the storyline which is somewhat unusual for YA. The two main characters (and couple) are Mara and Noah, and there are various side characters like Mara’s parents, classmates, friends, ex-boyfriend, etc. Unfortunately, I would not categorize this as a page turner until some more exciting scenes near the last 3/4s of the book. Solid overall, but no frills or really extraordinary facets. ![]() The writing style is very simple and easy to follow, a kind of standard YA first person perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My 5 Bookmark review of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Interested in Tom Franklin’s books? Click here to read The Titled World (2013) – co-written with his wife, Beth Ann FennellyĬheck out these links for more information: If I try to write against the dark, it feels false.Īwards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger Award. I’m interested in the shadowy part of humans. I’m a very happy person and very lucky with my life, my wife and my children, but when I’m writing I find conflict interesting and it goes to dark places for me. When asked about his writing, Franklin responded, He also worked in a morgue, a job that was unpopular, but one he enjoyed because of the stories he heard. To pay for school, he worked in a wide range of places: in a warehouse, at a plant that made sandblasting grit and at a chemical plant where he cleaned up hazardous waste. They met at the University of Arkansas MFA program.įranklin put himself through college at University of South Alabama, after his father cut off his tuition because of bad grades. She also works at Ole Miss and is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Franklin’s wife, Beth Ann Fennelly, is an American poet and prose writer. ![]() He is considered a diverse Southern writer of several genres, including crime fiction, mystery and literary fiction. He is currently an associate professor in the MFA program at University of Mississippi. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a. Tom Franklin is a best-selling, award-winning American writer from Dickinson, Alabama. In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly furious that the reservation school is so poorly funded that it must use old and outdated books, Junior throws the textbook across the room-accidentally hitting Mr. P, passes out textbooks, Junior realizes that the books are at least thirty years old. On his first day of high school at Wellpinit (the school on the reservation), Junior is particularly excited for geometry class. Rowdy always protects Junior, though, and the two boys share a special bond, telling each other their secrets and dreams. ![]() He also loves spending time with his best friend, Rowdy, whose violent temper makes the other kids afraid of him. He loves to draw, and thinks his cartoons pose his best chance of getting off the reservation and out of the poverty that has held his family and his tribe back for generations. As a result, Junior has spent a lot of his time alone, reading or drawing cartoons. This condition gave him a stutter, seizures, and a number of physical differences, such as a large head, that make him a frequent target for bullies on the reservation where he lives. ![]() Fourteen-year-old Junior, a Spokane Indian boy, was “born with water on the brain” or hydrocephalus. ![]() ![]() Riot Brother Rule Number One: Make something exciting happen every day. ![]() Does someone have a mysterious vendetta against Albert? Or does their first opponent, the ruthless team from Planet Tev, want to guarantee that they win? Action-packed, yet filled with humor and heart, Game On! is the first book in a series that features thrilling play-by-play soccer scenes and an intergalactic plot with far-reaching consequences for the Zeenods-and Earth. ![]() Yet just as he is introduced to the specifics of their game and all their high-tech gear, he faces a series of direct threats to his life. And so, Albert jumps at the chance to join the Zeenods. Astonishingly the Zeenods, don't want to harm Albert, they want him to play soccer. The day that aliens abducted 13-year-old Albert Kinney was the day he was hoping to make the school soccer team.But that's the way life works sometimes, especially for Albert. Cut from the soccer team, Albert's dreams of playing soccer are over on Earth, that is! Join him and his alien teammates dribble, cross, and score in this interstellar adventure. ![]() |