![]() ![]() Seller Rating: Contact seller BookFirst EditionSigned Used - SoftcoverCondition: Fine US 499. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. With Creepshow, these two titans of terror combined their powers to create a super-fun horror comedy that doesnt just prey on your fears, it also aims for your funny bone. Stephen Kings Creepshow King, Stephen Published byPlume, New York, U.S.A., 1982 ISBN 10: 0452253802ISBN 13: 9780452253803 Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, U.S.A. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. Writer: Stephen King Release Date (Theaters): original Release Date (Streaming): Runtime: 1h 57m Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Vdeo Production Co: Warner. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. ![]() Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). ![]() Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. ![]()
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![]() They killed Snyder’s husband by hitting him with a weight from a window sash, stuffing chloroform-soaked cotton up his nose and strangling him with picture frame wire. Police also discovered that just before her husband’s murder, Snyder forged a double-indemnity insurance policy in his name for nearly $100,000 in the event of his accidental death.īesides the failed insurance fraud, one of the most notable aspects of the crime was how ineptly Snyder and Gray committed it. When the police got to Gray, he confessed but accused Snyder of seducing him and planning the murder of her husband, an art editor at Motorboat magazine. Within a few hours, she gave up the name of the married corset salesman she was sleeping with-Henry Judd Gray-and pinned the murder on him. They also found her “stolen” jewelry stuffed under her mattress. ![]() ![]() ![]() Police were immediately suspicious because Snyder didn’t look like she’d been knocked out. Corset salesman and murderer, Henry Judd Gray (1892 - 1928). ![]() ![]() ![]() They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.Įngland is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. ![]() ![]() Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. This New York Times bestseller from “one of the great storytellers of our time” ( San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. ![]() ![]() The other actors (except for Keanu Reeves, completely outcast and unable to act) are all good choices. Winona Ryder is so sweet and adorable that I forgive the fact she hasn't been the best choice to play Mina. Definitely the best character of his career until now (let's see how he portrays Churchill in the Darkest Hour). ![]() Gary Oldman is absolutely fantastic, lavish, romantic,chilling, in particular as he plays an old Dracula in the beginning of the movie. Personally, I loved the way Coppola reviewed the classic tale, giving Dracula a reason to be what he became after the loss of his wife e to search in England the reincarnation of his lost love. It's a movie you can love or hate, there is no midway, as all comments prove. ![]() So, I can understand, but not agree, with all critics about important differences to Bram Stoker's masterpiece. In fact it is a very personal read of the original script. Anyway, I loved this movie, even if I agree that the title should have been F.F.Coppola's Dracula. ![]() First of all, sorry for my English: I'm Italian and I don't know if I am able to express not in my language my thoughts with the proper terms. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film is told in a flashback format with Gage, now living in the United States, returning to his native Greece to solve the mystery of his mother's death when he was a child. We have dispatched from our book depository items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. Directed by Peter Yates with a screenplay by Steve Tesich, the film stars John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt and Glenne Headly. Simply Brit Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. In addition to being very informative about this period in global history, Eleni is absolutely heartbreaking even though you know how it will end right from the start. Eleni is the 1985 film adaptation of the memoir Eleni by Greek-American journalist Nicholas Gage. In Nicholas Gage’s memoir Eleni, a Communist guerrilla captain also announced that the residents of the small Greek village of Lia would be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those unfamiliar will appreciate the fluid, expressive cast, rendered in playfully shifting manga styles, and the intricately sketched scenery. Those familiar with Asian culture will recognize how richly the narrative is steeped, including manga and manhwa onomatopoeia, nods to food, Asian pop culture, the konbini franchise Lawson, and more. ![]() ![]() The process of language learning, the way language can define identity, and multilingual experiences are lovingly illuminated in mostly translated Japanese, Korean, and English, with smudges denoting words lost in translation characters’ accents are respectfully rendered phonetically. As Nao reassimilates, she is relieved to discover that Hyejung and Tina speak English (Tina’s Singlish is “like English but deluxe flavor”). Shinichi and standoffish, curly-haired Masaki. ![]() Soon, Nao meets her housemates: Hyejung, a studious college-age Korean woman Tina, a buoyant 25-year-old Chinese Singaporean and two Japanese brothers, personable, bespectacled Recent high school graduate Nao, 19, who is half-Japanese, Japan-born, and Midwest-raised, decides to spend a gap year at Tokyo-based sharehouse Himawari House to reconnect with her roots. ![]() ![]() But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects-and sees a killer in everyone around him. The killer is out there, watching his every move-a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. ![]() She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list. Macdonald’s The Drowner, and Donna Tartt’s A Secret History.īut no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. Milne’s Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox’s Malice Aforethought, James M. ![]() ![]() Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack-which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”-chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s A. ![]() ![]() In pops the goblins, a group of Fae, who offer an alliance with the werewolves going forward. When Wulfe goes missing, bodies begin appearing, a Reaper on the loose, and there is a threat that Adam’s werewolf pack will be blamed for it, there is a lot at stake for Mercy to get to the bottom of the mystery. I need to figure out what’s going on before the next body on the ground is mine.” The farther I follow Wulfe’s trail, the more twisted-and darker-the path becomes. Has the Harvester returned to the Tri-Cities, reaping souls with his cursed sickle? Or is he just a character from a B horror movie and our enemy is someone else? ![]() As alive as a vampire can be, anyway.īut Wulfe isn’t the only one who has disappeared. But, warned that his disappearance might bring down the carefully constructed alliances that keep our pack safe, my mate and I must find Wulfe-and hope he’s still alive. ![]() Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of “fun” is stalking me, some may see it as no great loss. ![]() ![]() Books are mostly listed in alphabetical order by title. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() I love the quote from Ralph Erskine that Gehl closed with. City design can have a tangible effect on local climate (p. People will almost always use ramps over stairs when all other factors are equal (p. Many old city centers conform to this standard (p. One kilometer is the generally acceptable distance for city walking. The fifth floor is the height limit for human/street connectivity (p. More roads will always lead to more traffic (p. Some interesting points to consider that I pulled from the reading: If I had to sum up this book in one phrase, it would be, "Cars, bad. ![]() The main argument brought forward supports pedestrianism as the key to designing cities that are lively, safe, sustainable, and healthy. He gives persuasive evidence for how modern architecture has departed from the essence of livability that had dictated city design for prior centuries. Jan Gehl presents his perspective on how to properly develop cities on a human scale. ![]() |