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Young actor Jack Burton and dancer Robbie Slater fall in love and
their future seems bright until circumstances tear them apart. A
contemporary love story set against the glamour and excitement of
the New York theatre scene.
This is the story of Ashley Anderson, who became the first girl to
play for the Essex High School football team. Sixty-year-old coach
John Jankowski is not pleased with Ashley making the team because
he feels she'll be just a distraction to his team, which is loaded
with talent. But Ashley knows that if given the chance, she can
take care of the one weakness that Essex has. Ashley is the product
of a broken home, where her drunken stepfather physically abuses
her when he decides to make an appearance at home. Ashley realizes
that the Essex High football team is more than a team to her. It is
her family. Coach and his wife, Annie, take her in when her
situation at home becomes intolerable. This story is filled with
humor, especially the relationship between Coach and his players,
as the Essex High Red Demons march toward a championship with the
help of an unlikely source, Ashley Anderson. This is also a hard
hitting, unorthodox story about a high school team that has the
talent to attain what most other teams can only dream about-an
undefeated season and a number-one ranking in the all-important
newspaper polls. This book captures the desire, dedication and
sacrifice it takes to be champions.
"The Redemption of Professor Evelyn"The Redemption of Professor
Evelyn off ers both a discussion of the unseen spirit world and a
parable of the supernatural as it affects one individual, Professor
Horace Evelyn. Mankind, in all generations and cultures, has
debated the existence of spirits and angelic beings. We've wondered
if angels and demons actually are myth or reality.
A belief in evil spirits has always been inherent in the cultures
of man. For example, the exterior facades of cathedrals built
during medieval times incorporated gargoyles in their design in the
belief that the ugly, grotesque features of their carved faces
would scare away evil or unclean spirits. In contrast, angels are
good spirits. Th e Creator endowed them with innate, independent
life. They were given immortality. Spirits live forever, because
they don't have a body to wear down, sustain damage or injury, or
die.
Enter Professor Horace Evelyn, who is being treated for severe
schizophrenia. Professor Evelyn has not been able to fi nd a
medical cure, but he soon realizes that he does not need a
doctor-he needs an exorcist. His soul has become the site of a
cataclysmic struggle between the forces of good and evil. Th is
story is not about regaining his mental health; it's about the
salvation of his soul.
P.I. Bertrand McAbee, former classics professor, has a knack for
finding trouble in unlikely places. Baden College in Iowa is a
pretty famous center of higher education. But a problem haunts the
campus, a string of disappearances over many years. McAbee is hired
as a substitute classics professor and has one semester to find out
whether or not the disappearances are sinister in nature. What he
finds will bring him to the brink of death.
The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...
More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune.
He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.
But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall ...
An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection
by master of horror Junji Ito. Ryusuke returns to the town he once
lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves
after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his
own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to
capture the beautiful boy and close the case, but... Starting with
the strikingly bloody "Lovesickness," this volume collects ten
stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including
"The Strange Hikizuri Siblings" and "The Rib Woman."
Die Kameraadskap van die Ring is uiteengedryf. Party berei hulle
sonder hoop voor vir oorlog teen die oeroue boosheid van Sauron.
Ander kry te kampe met die verraderlikheid van die towenaar
Saruman. Slegs Frodo en Sam bly oor om die vervloekte Ring van Mag
na Mordor – die donker koninkryk waar Sauron heers – te neem en te
vernietig.
Hulle gids is Gollum, listig en hebsugtig, ’n slaaf van die ring
wat almal die verderf in lei. Só vervolg hierdie manjifieke
topverkoper, ’n verhaal vol avontuur wat met Die Kameraadskap van
die Ring begin het, en met ’n oorrompelende hoogtepunt in Die
Koning keer terug ten einde loop.
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The Devil's Land
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Add Galla Placida to the annals of the dominant, lustful women
rulers of empires Cleopatra, Elizabeth the I, and Catherine the
Great. These three have been historically exposed but are presented
at their mature state when they have achieved notoriety. Their
formative years have been all but neglected as irrelevant. In this
novel, Galla Placidia is taken from birth to her fate as regent
empress for her son Valentinian the third. We see her from
innocence through maturity where her beauty and Roman potency drew
suitors of position and means - but love and romance superceded all
and threw her into the arms of a barbarian.
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Severed 2
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Rob Ruediger
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Wei Wuxian was once one of the most powerful men of his generation,
a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts
and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of
war led him to seek more power through demonic cultivation, the
world's respect for his abilities turned to fear, and his death was
celebrated throughout the land. Years later, he awakens in the body
of an aggrieved young man who sacrifices his soul so that Wei
Wuxian can exact revenge on his behalf. Though granted a second
life, Wei Wuxian is not free from his first, nor the mysteries that
appear before him now. Yet this time, he'll face it all with the
righteous and esteemed Lan Wangji at his side, another powerful
cultivator whose unwavering dedication and shared memories of their
past will help shine a light on the dark truths that surround them.
This Chinese xianxia fantasy novel series built around the
romanticized love between two men (danmei) has been translated into
numerous languages and spawned a multimedia franchise that has
taken the globe by storm, including the massively popular
live-action series The Untamed available now on Netflix, YouTube,
and more. The Seven Seas English-language edition will include
exclusive, all-new covers from Jin Fang (jinzillaa), interior
illustrations from Marina Privalova (BaoshanKaro), and a
translation by Suika (yummysuika) with editor Pengie (pengiesama).
A young patrolman harbors secret feelings for a middle-aged shop owner
on his beat!
When a young patrolman gets assigned to a small town, he runs into an
old acquaintance, and a casual comment from the older man leads to a
fluttering heart and renewed feelings.
Shin and Seiji have been living together in domestic bliss for over a
year, but Seiji’s upcoming birthday is the first time Shin will get to
celebrate with him. Shin wants to make the day extra special for his
boyfriend, but his romantic idea is turning out to be a serious
challenge, especially since Seiji is terrible at providing a decent
wish list! With the odds stacked against him, Shin must rely on his
police training to help him on the most important mission of his
life—finding the perfect present for his boyfriend!
Eager to flee the parochialism of her French upbringing, and a
painful family past, the young and beautiful Marina falls in love
with a seductive Greek sea-captain she meets at the port of Rouen.
She follows him to the Aegean island of Syros to begin a new life
as a married woman in the home of her formidable mother-in-law.
Enchanted by the beauty of her surroundings, and fascinated by her
husbands erudite younger brother, she aspires to learn all she can
about contemporary Greek culture and live up to the ideals of her
classical education. But when disaster upends her husbands shipping
business and the comfortable stability of their life together,
Marinas world slides into a vicious circle of love, passion, and
death. Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, this is
an exquisite account of the inner life of the heroine, and the
collisions of different cultures and ways of being. In prose that
ranges from the lyrical to the tersely realist, Karagatsis weaves a
classic tale that is wide-ranging in its literary references, and
devastating in its psychological nuance. This modern Greek tragedy
has been made into a TV series and a highly acclaimed stage play,
enjoying three sold-out seasons in Athens, and an international
tour.
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