![]() ![]() ![]() Hornby has earned his own place on the London bestseller lists, and this on-the-edge tale of musical addiction just may climb the charts here. Rob takes comfort as well in the company of a touring singer, Marie La Salle, who is unpretentious and ``pretty in that nearly cross-eyed American way''-but life becomes more complicated when he encounters Laura again. Sometimes this can pall: readers may find that Rob's ruminations about listening to the Smiths and the Lemonheads-pop music helps him fall in love, he tells us-are more interesting than his list of five favorite episodes of Cheers. He takes comfort in the company of the clerks at the store, whose bantering compilations of top-five lists (e.g., top five Elvis Costello songs top-five films) typify the novel's ingratiating saturation in pop culture. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It has sold over a million copies1 and was later adapted into a feature film in 2000, a Broadway musical in 2006 and a TV series in 2020. After his girlfriend, Laura, leaves him for another man, he realizes that he pines not for sexual ecstasy (epitomized by a ``bonkus mirabilis'' in his past) but for the monogamy this cynic has come to think of as a crime. High Fidelity is a novel by British author Nick Hornby first published in 1995. The book dramatizes the romantic struggle of Rob Fleming, owner of a vintage record store in London. British journalist Hornby has fashioned a disarming, rueful and sometimes quite funny first novel that is not quite as hip as it wishes to be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Share his thoughts as glitches are overcome and accidents are survived. Through significant scenes, experience the dark journey into the mind of the man who believes that he controls everything yet controls nothing. ![]() How long can he deny what is right before him? Experience the rare opportunity to see this esteemed man's world change, from behind his eyes. Everything in his life is and has always been planned, executed, and predicted.until Claire. Anthony Rawlings has the perfect world: money, influence, and power. ![]() Not a total re-write, this companion explores the mind of the man who thought he set the rules and delivered the consequences. Book # 1.5 of the Consequences series: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated first companion to the suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences.What was Tony thinking?Control? Acquisition? Domination? Love? BEHIND HIS EYES CONSEQUENCES explores significant scenes as well as behind-the-scenes moments from the first book of the Consequences series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Musician Vivi finds herself back in London for a gig while model and fashion designer Grey is simultaneously in London doing a photoshoot. I never knew what to expect when I turned the page, and I was endeared by that.”īut the girls are being haunted by something much worse than the despairing death of a frightened father. He would stand at the foot of Iris’s bed, scaring her when she awoke. After the girls’ appearances changed, Gabe stopped trusting them. Grey and Vivi have both moved out, and their father, Gabe Hollow, took his own life after the girls reappeared. ![]() Now, Iris Hollow lives at home with just her mother, Cate. However, they didn’t remember any of the events leading up to this strange occurrence-at least according to Iris and Vivi. Their eyes were black and their hair white in contrast to their previous blue eyes and dark hair. Grey, Vivi, and Iris Hollow returned as different children than they once were. On New Year’s Eve, ten years prior to the beginning of this story, three young girls went missing only to reappear a month later, naked in the street, with identical half-moon scars at the bases of their throats. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland encompassed all that I wanted. It doesn’t matter if the book is mostly romance or adventure or drama I just love the witch vibes. Recently, I have found myself growing attached to books involving spooky, magical characters and fantastical surroundings. This story contains mentions of suicide and mildly graphic plot points. ![]() ![]() Sensitively played by a sterling cast at the top of their game, this underseen gem deserves a place on the shelf of any fan of classic horror. Released in the wake of The Exorcist and The Omen, Audrey Rose is an intelligent, heartfelt drama that approaches its subject with an open mind and seriousness of intent that caught many off guard but typifies Wise’s previous genre forays. and then by a mysterious stranger who stalks her every move, and claims that Ivy was in fact his daughter in another life. But their dreams turn to nightmares as Ivy is besieged first by terrifying ‘memories’ of events that never occurred. In 1977 he returned once more with the supernatural thriller Audrey Rose.Īll Bill and Jane Templeton wish for is a quiet, peaceful life with their 11-year-old daughter Ivy. In 1963 he returned to his Lewtonian roots with the classic ghost story The Haunting. His career would go on to include westerns, thrillers, science fiction and musicals, earning him two academy awards for Best Director. ![]() ![]() Master filmmaker Robert Wise began his career with horror classics The Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher for producer Val Lewton. See more details, packaging, or compare Synopsis ![]() ![]() ![]() It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute. ![]() Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on their tour of the continent. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean's Eleven. Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic-known here as glamour-is real. ![]() ![]() ![]() On August 20, 2015, Kiera Cass announced that her originally self-published book The Siren would be rewritten and rereleased on January 26, 2016. Cass announced another book following The Heir, The Crown, which was released on. ![]() On August 14, 2014, Kiera Cass announced that The Selection series would be expanding into more books. ![]() The series was cancelled and Cass pursued other projects. In May 2013, Cass announced that she would be working on an as-yet untitled series she refers to as 238 on social media, to be published by HarperCollins. In April 2015, movie rights for The Selection trilogy, The Selection were acquired by Warner Bros. Television rights for the trilogy were optioned by the CW Television Network and two pilots were filmed, but neither were picked up for a full series. The first book in The Selection trilogy, The Selection, was published in 2012 by HarperTeen. She graduated from Radford with a degree in History. She attended Coastal Carolina University before transferring to Radford University. Career Ĭass was born and raised in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and graduated from Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach. Kiera Cass (born ) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s-among them disease, starvation, and an impending war-was indeed the safer choice for their family. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.īrianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. ![]() Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. ![]() Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. The past may seem the safest place to be. The author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale. ![]() ![]() Gifty is a PhD candidate at Stanford University who is conducting a study on the “neural circuits of reward-seeking behaviour” in mice by addicting them to a sugary energy drink and caging them in a behavioural testing chamber fitted with a lever that administers either the drink or a randomised electric shock. Yaa Gyasi, whose triumphant debut Homegoingwas published in 2016, demonstrates the marvellous truth of this in her new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, which shifts between clinical rigour and lyrical attentiveness as it tries “to make meaning” of one woman’s life. M arianne Moore once suggested that poets and scientists work analogously, not only because each is willing to “waste effort” but because each “is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision”. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plots are also different: there is no perky entry-level office foil in the novel, though there is a charming “Alex”, a slick boss, lots of people getting laid off, a kooky family heading for a wedding. ![]() Admirers of the movie’s warm, loving tone may be put off by Walter Kirn’s distinctive DeLillo-esque chill. Date-flick fans who appreciated George Clooney’s gentle, sad Ryan Bingham may be disappointed to meet the book’s jittery and insecure hero. The book is very different from the movie, of course. Hollywood has brought a literary novel to its intended audience. Like the hit film version directed by Jason Reitman and starring George Clooney, Kirn’s novel affectionately skewers the modern corporate mentality that thrives on airplanes, in airports or in airport “edge city” chain hotels. There’s something wonderfully circular about the fact that Walter Kirn’s novel Up In The Air, originally published in 2001, is now a $7.99 airport paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lady of Ashes is the first of a new historical mystery series by Christine Trent, the author of three historical fiction novels. But who could possibly want to hurt these people, and why? ![]() She begins to notice strange markings on some of the bodies she’s been called on to handle, and suspects foul play may be involved. In fact, Violet will soon have more than enough to worry about, and her housekeeping skills, or lack of, will be the least of her problems. He’s loathe to share details with Violet, but she’s so busy with the business that she has no time to worry about it, until his treatment of her begins to deteriorate. ![]() Soon, Graham becomes preoccupied with a business venture with his brother, and it seems to have something to do with his hate of America and a perceived slight that his grandfather suffered at the hands of Americans. Unfortunately for Graham, Violet isn’t much of a housewife and he’s begun to point out her shortcomings in the keeping of the house and the quality of their help. When she married her husband, Graham Morgan, eight years ago, he was thrilled that he’d met a woman, and a beautiful one at that, who was more than eager to learn the profession of undertaking, and Violet has since thrown herself into the business. ![]() Fortunately, Violet Morgan isn’t concerned with those sensibilities in the least. Ladies in 1861 London are expected to be the very picture of decorum, so the thought of a woman undertaker may offend a few delicate sensibilities. ![]() |