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Aliens in the Attic (DVD)
Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, Andy Richter, …
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Comic fantasy adventure for the family. When the Pearson family
goes to stay in a holiday house in rural Maine, the children
discover to their surprise that the house is already occupied - by
an alien. Before they know it they are under attack from an army of
knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions. Can they
save their parents and the rest of the world from annihilation
before bedtime?
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017
Profound and poignant, Perfume River is a masterful novel that
examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the
portrait of a single North Florida family. Profound and poignant,
Perfume River is a masterful novel that examines blood ties and the
legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North
Florida family. Robert Quinlan and his wife Darla teach at Florida
State University. Their marriage, forged in the fervour of
anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, with
the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee, solitary
jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks
remain below the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert's own
family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his
brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam
War intensified. William Quinlan, Robert and Jimmy's father and a
veteran of World War II, is coming to the end of his life, and
aftershocks of war ripple across all their lives once again when
Jimmy refuses to appear at his father's bedside. And a disturbed
homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam
veteran turns out to have a devastating impact not just on Robert,
but on his entire family.
Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve
essays investigating the history and development of writing about
lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national
character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were
lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446
African Americans and 1,297 European Americans. More than 73
percent of the lynchings in the Civil War period occurred in the
Southern states. The Lynchings increased dramatically in the
aftermath of the Reconstruction, after slavery had been abolished
and free men gained the right to vote. The peak of lynching
occurred in 1882, after Southern white Democrats had regained
control of the state legislators. This book is a collection of
historical and critical discussions of lynching in America that
reflects the shameful, unmoral policies, and explores the topic of
lynching within American history, literature, and journalism.
Nominated for the 2019 Hammett Prize Autumn 1915. The First World
War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out
of the trenches, although that hasn't stopped young men and women
from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher
Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb, a Chicago reporter and undercover agent for the
US government is in Paris when he meets an enigmatic nurse called
Louise. Officially in the city for a story about American ambulance
drivers, Cobb is grateful for the opportunity to get to know her.
Soon his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, extends his
mission and he is active again. Parisians are meeting 'death by
dynamite' in a new campaign of bombings, and the German-speaking
Kit seems just the man to discover who is behind this - possibly a
German operative who has infiltrated with the waves of refugees?
And so begins a pursuit that will test Kit Cobb, in all his roles,
to the very limits of his principles, wits and talents for
survival. Fleetly plotted and engaging with political and cultural
issues that resonate deeply today, Paris in the Dark is a
page-turning novel of unmistakable literary quality.
A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller It is 1915, and "Kit" Cobb is
working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a
suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is
working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel
Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous stage actress. Isabel's
offstage role is to keep tabs on Stockman, while Kit tries to
figure out his agenda. Following his mother and her escort from the
relative safety of Britain into the lion's den of Berlin, Kit must
remain in character, even under the very nose of the Kaiser.
The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a
half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion,
people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this,
Robert Olen Butler wrote Severance, sixty-two vignettes each
exactly 240 words in length, that capture the flow of thoughts that
go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. Here
are the imagined ultimate words of famous and invented figures -
Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a
chicken, beheaded for Sunday dinner. Following on from this, Butler
addressed the question of: what goes through the mind of a person
while having sex? Turning his daring imagination to the intimate,
Butler lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and feelings
of fifty, often surprising, couples in Intercourse.
'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an
intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral
tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting
meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent 'Frayn
has seized on a ral-life historical and scientific mystery. In 1941
the physicist Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the famous
Uncertainty Principle about the movement of particles, and was at
that time leading the Nazi's nuclear programme, went to visit his
old boss and mentor, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. What was the
purpose of his visit to Nazi-occupied Denmark? What did the two old
friends say to each other, particularly bearing in mind that Bohr
was both half-Jewish and a Danish patriot?...Frayn argues that just
as it is impossible to be certain of the precise location of an
electron, so it is impossible to be certain about the workings of
the human mind...What is certain is that Frayn makes ideas zing and
sing in this play' Daily Telegraph
A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller War correspondent Christopher
Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb arrives in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to cover the
country's civil war. A passionate believer in the power of a free
press and the moral superiority of the United States, Kit is no
mere observer. He assumes a false identity to pursue German
diplomat Friedrich von Mensinger en route to a meeting with
revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, and the correspondent soon finds
himself up to his neck in political intrigue. Along the way he's
nearly shot by a mysterious sniper, joins forces with a double
agent and falls in love with a headstrong young Mexican woman who
may be mixed up in the revolutionary plot.
The data that professional sport generates, which is almost
unparalleled in any other industry, provides a wealth of
information for the economist to analyse. Sport offers economists
the opportunity to study the behaviour, choices and outcomes of the
decisions of players, referees, regulators and governments.
Advances in Sports Economics is a collection of newly commissioned
essays that examine a wide range of different sports, including
baseball, basketball, cricket, football, horse racing, rugby,
tennis and Gaelic games. The contributors consider economic issues
such as incentives, rule changes, labour markets, competition
structure, gambling, gender equality, match official behaviour,
superstar players, funding and sports infrastructure as well as
interogating the methods and theories used in sports economics. The
essays showcase how the application of economic analysis can
provide us with a better understanding of the mechanics of
professional sport.
A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller It is 1915 and Germany has
allied itself with the Ottoman empire, persuading the caliphs of
Turkey to declare a jihad on the British empire, as President
Woodrow Wilson hesitates to enter the fray. War correspondent
Christopher Marlowe Cobb has been tasked to follow Brauer, a German
intellectual and possible secret service agent suspected of holding
information vital to the war effort. As they travel on the
Lusitania's fateful voyage, Cobb becomes smitten with famed actress
Selene Bourgani. Cobb soon realizes that this simple actress is
anything but, as she harbours secrets that could add fuel to the
already raging conflict. Surviving the night of the infamous German
U-Boat attack, Cobb follows Selene and Brauer into the darkest
alleyways of London and on to the powder keg that is Istanbul. He
must use all the cunning he possesses to uncover Selene's true
motives, only to realize her hidden agenda could bring down some of
the world's most powerful leaders.
Timeless Echoes: the Life and Art of Robert Butler, a full color
autobiography of 400 pages, features over 200 photos of Robert
Butler art, as well as another 65 of art by each of his nine
children, who became talented artists in their own right. Over 100
photos of Butler's life round out this most fascinating book of
historic proportion. Through talent, a fierce work ethic, and a
winning personality, Butler moved from a turpentine still in
Baxley, Georgia, to international fame as an artist, being named as
one of the 26 original Florida Highwaymen. Butler's journey led him
around the world and into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. This
book reveals the "heart behind the art" of Robert Butler. The one
thing that rings clear throughout this book is that the hand of
destiny was upon this man from very early childhood. As an African
American artist struggling to survive midst the Civil Rights era of
our country and facing myriads of conflicts, and even though Robert
attempted to escape those conflicts, it was those very conflicts
which served him well by honing his natural ability to paint and
outfitting him with an eye to see the rapidly diminishing
landscapes of a wild Florida. It pushed him to put those landscapes
to canvas before they completely disappeared. Destiny had in mind
to see to it that this artist would be the only artist attributed
to having painted every ecosystem in wild Florida, something which
will never be repeated in history, as many of these ecosystems no
longer exist, having succumbed to "progress." Butler paintings are
distinctive in their dramatically lit, romanticized portrayals of
his beloved wild Florida. His paintings are known to be finely
detailed, while exuding an ethereal light in them, giving them an
almost sacred quality, the music of his heart. He managed in his
autobiography, just as he did in his art, to strike a balance in
celebrating wild Florida, while at the same time grieving at her
passing. In reading this book, one cannot help but grow their love
and admiration for the swamps, palmetto flats, hardwood forests,
rivers, lakes, pine flats, and wildlife of wild Florida. The reader
will come to understand not only the art of Robert Butler, but also
the very heart of Robert Butler and his love for wild Florida. As
one reviewer of the book said, "This book is one of the best,
recently written books on personal development." Another reviewer
stated, "Butler's story will indicate that he . . . found (his
life's) purpose and defined it. Along the way, he discovered
universal laws that he used to give generously back to the world.
And you thought this book was about art " Just as he realized his
dream of seeing his life story in print, Robert Butler laid down
his paintbrush for the last time and departed this life on March
19, 2014. However, Florida, as well as the whole world, will
forever know that "the Butler was here."
How did religion rise? Why did it survive from prehistory up into
the modern age? What will happen in the world now that it has begun
to decline in every educated country in the world? Where are we
going to be as a nation filled with the faithless, with closed
churches and the faithful barely existing beyond isolated pockets
around the nation? Answers exist for all questions, they need only
be sought, herein lie the answers of one author who has researched
the issue from multiple angles, written for all so that they might
find understanding, and ease their fears, and find hope in a future
without faith.
In this excerpt from his autobiography, Timeless Echoes: The Life
and Art of Robert Butler, Robert depicts the heritage of Florida
ranches by sharing his experiences with Florida ranchers while
archiving their way of life on canvas. The 57 ranch paintings
included in the book reveal a way of life that is quickly
disappearing from the fabric of Florida, succumbing to "progress."
Butler paintings are distinctive in their dramatically lit,
romanticized portrayals of his beloved wild Florida. His paintings
are known to be finely detailed, while exuding an ethereal light in
them, giving them an almost sacred quality, the music of his heart.
In addition to his story and paintings, Robert gives a separate
tribute to the Cracker Cowman, as well as one to the Cracker
Cowgirl.
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