My Life in Three Acts by Helen Hayes6/29/2023 ![]() She won all four major American performance awards - Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Oscar - and in 1986 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Preferring the stage and radio, Hayes worked infrequently in the movies during the '40s and '50s, and by the 1960s modern audiences knew her mostly for her TV and movie roles as mothers or little old ladies (she won another Oscar for her supporting role in 1969's Airport). Though loved in the American theater, she was less successful in the movies, with some exceptions, including The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931, written by her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur), for which she won her first Oscar. Her reputation was established on Broadway, and she is mostly known for her work on the stage, including plays such as Happy Birthday, Time Remembered and especially as Queen Victoria in Victoria Regina. ![]() ![]() Helen Hayes had a career on the stage that spanned nearly the entire 20th century, from her New York debut at the age of 9 to TV appearances when she was in her eighties. ![]()
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Breaking Bad by David Thomson6/29/2023 ![]() Saukamappee described the Piikani’s encounter with smallpox, which killed hundreds. He spent a magical winter in the tent of an 80-year-old elder named Saukamappee, who told him stories about the Plains Indigenous peoples as the fireīurned to keep them warm. When he was 17, Thompson left Churchill to walk and paddle across the prairies to the Alberta foothills where thousands of Piikani people Travels and Encounter with Indigenous Peoples He remained a devout Christian throughout his life. Whichever it was, the experience changed him. My eyes were open it was broad daylight, I looked around, all was silence and solitude, was it a dream or was it reality? I could not decide.” Hair…” They played and the devil lost every game. Me, when the devil sat down opposite to me, his features and colour were those of a Spaniard, he had two short black horns on his forehead which pointed forwards his head and body down to his waist (I saw no more) was covered with glossy black curling ![]() “I was sitting at a small table with the chequer board before In his journal, he describes how the devil came into his room and started playing checkers with him. ![]() In that northern wilderness Thompson had a remarkable experience that changed him forever. To what is now Churchill, Manitoba, to work as an apprentice in the fur-trading business. ![]() He was recruited by the Hudson’s Bay Company when he was 14 and in 1784 he sailed Thompson attended the Grey Coat Hospital in London, a school for the poor and orphaned. ![]() The Incredible Hulk by Greg Pak6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Channeling the power of the earth itself puts her on equal footing with the Green Scar Hulk in combat. Taking it further the Old Power the Saakaran shadow peoples sacred ability enables her total control over the tectonic and geographical structure of her planet's or any planetary biosphere within reach. ![]() Dishing Out Dirt: Possess the ability to turn her own body into stone, making her superhumanly strong and resilient.Chainmail Bikini: Uses metal armor that doesn't cover her entirely. ![]() Braids of Action: Has her hair in a very long ponytail that's braided.She can give the Hulk himself a run for his money in a one-on-one fight through a combination of raw power and fighting skill. Action Girl / Dark Action Girl: Starts out as the latter, then becomes the former. ![]() She eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn, falls in love with the Hulk and marries him, giving birth to Skaar and Hiro-Kala. 2, #92 Affiliations: WarboundA female alien met by the Hulk on Sakaar during Planet Hulk, and originally the Red King's Dragon. Alter Ego: Caiera the Oldstrong First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk Vol. ![]() The secret garden unabridged6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() It seems as though no one cares for Mary, and that Mary will never care for anyone-until she steps into the secret garden, and her life begins to change. When cholera breaks out killing her parents and most of the servants, Mary is sent to live with a mostly absent uncle in England. Unwanted by her parents, Mary Lennox, a spoiled, selfish young girl is raised in India by servants. The classic children’s story, now available in a new package!Ī classic piece of children’s literature first published as a novel in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is a story of transformation and renewal. ![]() Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Last Chance Saloon Marian Keyes Last Chance Saloon British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022 Paperback Shop Now Summary CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022 Discover the gorgeously funny and heartwarming bestseller about final chances from the No 1. ![]() Skeleton stephen king6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" will knock your socks off. Todd's Shortcut" to paradise.Ī boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of "Gramma". The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man "Mrs. There are some things in attics that are better left alone - things like "The Monkey". Touch "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands", and say your prayers. In "The Mist", a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth. The master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy - tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time! Hall, Paul Giamatti, Will Patton, Norbert Leo Butz, Lois Smith, Dylan Baker, Kyle Beltran, Dana Ivey, Robert Petkoff, David Morse, and Frances Sternhagen. Narrated by Stephen King, Matthew Broderick, Michael C. ![]() Oliver stone chasing the light review6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface.īefore the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. ![]() Bone White by Ronald Malfi6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Cables, an eerie novella that hits shelves on November 6, 2020. ![]() He manages to write horror that isn’t just scary for scary’s sake, but explores troubling themes like trauma, repression, and conflicted identity, all contained within a rich atmospheric volume that would send any icy chill down anyone’s spine. In the years since, Malfi has earned a reputation as a writer of dark literary horror that gets deep under your skin. The following year, Malfi’s horror novel Snow was released to critical acclaim, and he followed that up with 2011’s Floating Staircase, a Bram Stoker Award finalist. ![]() Though he began publishing novels as early as 2004, Shamrock Alley was Malfi’s first major success, earning him a Silver Independent Publisher Book Awards medal (IPPY) in the suspense category. His father’s thrilling real-life exploits proved a major source of inspiration for Malfi the author based his 2009 novel Shamrock Alley on his father’s role in infiltrating The Westies, a notorious Irish gang based in Manhattan. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Malfi graduated high school in Severna Park, Maryland, where his family relocated for the sake of his father’s career as a Secret Service agent. However, he is first and foremost known as a horror author, specifically making waves in “art house” (literary) horror. Ronald Malfi is a man of many talents-not only is he the bestselling author of novels in genres as varied as thrillers and literary fiction, he’s also a musician and a member of the alternative rock band, Veer. ![]() Keith thomas magic6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Alan Macfarlane of King’s College, Cambridge, assesses. Paul Slack of Exeter College, Oxford, discusses the book’s importance to the historian. ![]() This year, the publishers, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, are re-issuing it in its fourth impression. However Augustine says wrong to demand answers. In this detailed, scholarly and immensely fascinating book, Sir Keith Thomas has analysed the thoughts and practices of an age when the supernatural was. Magic tapping into Gods power unacceptable, cannot be constrained to act but can be asked. In this fascinating and detailed book, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for misfortune and a means of redress in. ![]() Magic displaced by science Or growing out of what could be seen as magic The witch craze. A pioneer in the field of social history and an advocate of the need for historians to keep abreast of developments in the social sciences, Thomas was particularly associated with the use of the techniques of social anthropology. Ten years ago, Keith Thomas’s book Religion and the Decline of Magic was published. Keith Thomas, magic of Catholicism disappears during Reformation. ![]() Potent Pleasures by Eloisa James6/28/2023 ![]() Nonetheless, he is smitten with the new Charlotte in her trend-setting French gowns, and since Alex requires a mother for Pippa, Charlotte is his choice. ![]() Charlotte Calverstill, the unmarried Lady Daicheston, can't believe he is impotent-after all, he ""ruined"" her in a garden three years ago before leaving for Italy-but Alex doesn't seem to remember their tryst. ![]() Alexander Foakes, earl of Sheffield and Downes, allowed his Italian wife, Maria, to divorce him on grounds that he was impotent, but now he turns up with a baby daughter he claims is his child by Maria, who kept Pippa's birth a secret until she was dying. Is he or isn't he? That's the question on London society's collective mind in this slow-starting but ultimately satisfying Regency romance. ![]() |