6/26/2023 0 Comments Talon of God by Wesley Snipes![]() ![]() The author hopes that his audience will be equally enthusiastic. Collaborating, crafting, creating this novel, Talon of God, was a new and exciting experience for me…and I can’t wait to see if this story finds life in other forms.” On the publication of his first novel, Wesley remarked, “My creativity has largely played out in film and television – but I’ve always had a desire to write a book. The novel’s leading role, Lauryn Jefferson, is a beautiful young doctor dragged into an apocalyptic battle between Heaven and Hell – and at her right hand is Talon Hunter, a spirit warrior and legendary man of God. ![]() Their novel, entitled Talon of God, is a non-stop contemporary fantasy adventure sure to please readers with its suspense and compelling drama. ![]() Announcing the publication of a work of fiction, a supernatural thriller, by international film and television action star Wesley Snipes, along with co-author Ray Norman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Andy lines up for their continually reducing water ration, he witnesses a public speech by the "Elders," older people forcibly retired from work. 30-year-old Police Detective Andy Rusch lives in half a room, sharing it with Sol, a retired engineer who has adapted a bicycle to generate power for an old television set and a refrigerator. Make Room! Make Room! is set in an overpopulated New York City in 1999 (33 years after the time of writing). The novel was the basis of the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green, although the film changed much of the plot and theme and introduced cannibalism as a solution to feeding people. The plot jumps from character to character, recounting the lives of people in various walks of life in New York City, population 35 million. ![]() ![]() Set in a future August 1999, the novel explores trends in the proportion of world resources used by the United States and other countries compared to population growth, depicting a world where the global population is seven billion people, plagued with overcrowding, resource shortages and a crumbling infrastructure. It was originally serialized in Impulse magazine. Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of both unchecked population growth on society and the hoarding of resources by a wealthy minority. Print (hardback & paperback) Electronic (Kindle) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is important to point out from the beginning that even though this book is at first glance simply the diary of a bird watcher, it is also a novel with characters, setting, plot and suspense, and therefore any liberties Baker takes with chronology, weather and sightings, are perfectly in order. The Peregrine, first published in 1967, reads as the diary he kept during that period but may include observations made over the course of the many other winters which Baker spent following the movements of these birds. Of course, my virtual walk was conducted from the comfort of my fireside and only lasted ten days whereas Baker was outdoors in all weathers in pursuit of his prey, and his walk lasted from October to March when the Peregrines migrate to Scandinavia for the summer months. ![]() I spent some time in December on a virtual walk across a ten-by-twenty-mile area, trailing J A Baker as he in turn trailed a couple of peregrine hawks over the fenlands and the estuaries of east Anglia. ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. ![]() Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. ![]() Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m right handed, my car has a dent in the passenger side door, and my blood type is A. I write and teach and talk about writing and other things. I do not have four children - they have me and we all know it. They all grew together and I still have them, together with all my organs except tonsils. I was born with very little hair and very little feet and hands. Renowned author Richard Scrimger draws on his powerful ability to tell a story that can truly make you laugh until you cry. Urban blight and rural beauty, Into the Ravine is a journey where the geography mirrors the contradictions of the human heart. By accident, they crash a funeral, and, by design, they crash a pool party - with tragic results. They are bombarded by bicycles, hoodwinked by hobos, and bewitched by bikinis. They rescue a diabolical dog, confront a hydrophobic gang, and survive a waterfall. On their way, the boys meet with a series of adventures that are funny at first glance but resonate deeply. After all, at thirteen they are old enough to take a day trip by themselves. When a tornado brings down a big maple tree, the boys make a raft of the branches and set off downstream. This familiar territory is by turns comforting and terrifying. Behind their backyards is a ravine through which flows a modest river. In the tar-melting heat of a suburban summer, everyboy Jules, athletic and handsome Chris, and oddball Corey (he laughs at gravel and anticipates zombie attacks) have lived side by side for most of their lives. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The inheritance cycle eragon![]() ![]() “I can’t tell you how many conversations, meetings, and messages were needed in order to reach this point. “This has been a long time coming,” Paolini said in a statement posted on Twitter. The search is currently on for a showrunner. Salke is currently under an overall deal with Disney Television Studios, of which 20th TV is a part. Bert Salke will executive produce under his Co-Lab 21 banner, with 20th Television producing. ![]() Paolini will serve as co-writer and executive producer on the series. The series would be based on the Christopher Paolini young adult novel series “The Inheritance Cycle,” with “Eragon” being the first of the four books in that series. ![]() Updated: An “Eragon” live-action TV series is in early development at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But attitudes to sex in the seventies were a bigger threat. There is one story in the book of a dystopian future set in Great Britain. The country was beset with strikes, IRA bombings, political unrest, the ?Winter of Discontent? was just around the corner, the gaining popularity of the Conservative party, (The Thatcher era was only a year away), and women?s palpable fear of the Yorkshire Ripper. I believe the book reflects Great Britain during 19. However, it is almost impossible not to use the afore-mentioned adjectives as they perfectly describe two major aspects of the book. I tried so hard to not use the following adjectives to describe the book ?dark? and ?disturbing? as I am sure they have been used many times to describe this set of short stories. There is sex between a man and a mannequin between a woman and an ape and the wet dreams of a man that involve a pre-pubescent girl. But, it could be construed as pornographic simply due to whom and what is described as having the sex. What I mean by that is that most of the sex is suggested but not always described in great detail. ![]() However, it could also be looked upon as pornographic but without the titillation. The sexually activity is within the spectrum of kinky and depraved. The main theme that runs through the book is sex. ![]() This is a collection of seven short stories by Ian McEwan from 1978. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Freewater novel![]() His new friends from Freewater pledge to return with him. But what about his mama? Plagued by guilt about his mother’s capture, Homer decides to return to the plantation to rescue his mother and Anna. Slowly, Homer begins to appreciate living and working together to contribute to the thriving community. Lost and disoriented, they are rescued by Suleman, a mysterious and taciturn guide who leads them through the inhospitable swamp to Freewater, a settlement of escaped men, women, and children living in freedom. Homer and Ada run to nearby river and plunge into the raging waters that carry them into the Great Dismal Swamp. But Homer remembers his promise of freedom to his friend Anna his mother turns back for her but is caught. With their mother leading the way, Homer and his younger sister Ada try to escape their hellish lives of slavery on the Southerland Plantation. ![]() ![]() Gr 5-8–Sometimes, to be free, you have to make a life in a place where no one can find you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And there are a plethora of Cinderella versions to choose from. Rags to riches stories, whirlwind romance, and glamorous balls always seem to be in style. I know, I know, it’s the most cliché choice of all the tales, but there are so many reasons why Cinderella is timeless and beloved all over the world. ![]() Like any self-respecting fairy tales fan, I consider myself a connoisseur of Cinderella stories. I remember an old neighbor woman cackling as I rode by, astonished, in the prince’s carriage: “Now there’s one who will live happily ever after.” Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella And then everything had happened so fast-the prince seeking me for his bended-knee proposal, everyone making wedding plans, me returning to the castle to stay, for good. Just being at the ball was beyond my wildest dreams. This wasn’t what I’d imagined at the ball, the stars wheeling above me as I danced with the prince. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Fallen too far book series![]() ![]() ![]() It had been necessary though he was the only family I had left. Calling my father, after he had failed to come even once during the three years my mother had fought cancer, had been hard. All I had left was my clothes and the truck. I'd had to sell the small house that my grandmother had left us to pay off the last of mom's medical bills. If I didn't need somewhere to live, I wouldn't be here. He also hadn't shown up for my mother's funeral. Dad hadn't told me that he was having a party tonight. I pulled my mom's fifteen- year-old Ford truck over onto the sandy grass so that I wouldn't be blocking anyone in. This place had at least twenty of them covering up the long driveway. ![]() Trucks with mud on the tires were what I was used to seeing parked outside a house party. ![]() |