The Great Lakes Horror Company presents this collection of 19 new and previously published horror stories from some of the best writers lurking on the chilling shores of the wild and wicked north. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and two children. Still Dark is his debut novel, and his second book, a short collection titled Handmade Monsters, arrives in 2017. He’s been featured in multiple horror anthologies, both in print and online. Gillespie has been writing dark fiction in one form or another since he was old enough to hold a pencil. Kobo | Barnes & Noble (Digital or Print) | iTunes | SmashwordsĪBOUT THE AUTHOR - D.W. Locked in a fight for their lives, Jim and his family must uncover the truth behind Apex, and stop the creature from wreaking a horrifying fate upon the rest of the world!Īmazon Digital and Print: US | UK | Canada | Australia | Germany | France | Spain | Italy | Japan | Mexico| Brazil | India | The Netherlands Reading the minds of those around it, Apex brings the terrifying fears hidden in the human psyche to life with a singular purpose: to kill any that stand in its way. The creature calls itself Apex, and it’s a traveler. Jim, along with his wife Laura and son, Sam, are cut off from the outside world, but they soon realize the true nightmare is just beginning…ĭeep in the snow-covered woods, something is waiting. When a thunderous explosion rocks an idyllic cabin resort in the Great Smoky Mountains, animals and humans alike begin to act strange. STILL DARK BLOG TOUR – JANUARY 19 TO 27 Still Dark
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These men, the founding fathers and brothers, established a system of government that, after much struggle, and the terrible violence of the Civil War, and the civil rights movement led by black Americans, did lead to legal freedom for all Americans and movement toward equality. They failed to rise above their time and place, though Washington (but not Jefferson) freed his slaves. There are others who believe that some of these men are unworthy of our attention because they owned slaves, Washington, Jefferson, Clark among them, but not Adams. Americans in great numbers are rediscovering their founding fathers in such best-selling books as Joseph Ellis’ Founding Brothers, David McCullough’s John Adams and my own Undaunted Courage, about Lewis and Clark. Hawaii, the Outer Banks, a tropical island – it really doesn’t matter as long as there is sand, sun, and a beautiful beach that I can imagine myself on.Ī great beach read for me is also an epic love story that just captures my heart, maybe tears it up a bit, and sews it back together with a perfect happy ending. Preferences on what makes a great beach read probably differ from person to person but for me, a great beach read is one that whisks me away to a beautiful summer destination. I want to lounge on a comfy chair, dig my feet in the sand or surf and settle in with a book that is absolutely perfect for reading on the beach. These beach reads are what summer is all about and what I want to experience each and every year. If I start to second guess whether I should plan a trip to the beach in the summer, I just have to take a look at this book list and remember that yes, yes I do! (Sat Sanga, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust US access only) Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952: The science of religion. Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952: The science of religion, (Yogoda and Sat Sanga headquarters, 1926), also by swami Dhirananda (page images at HathiTrust).Help with reading books - Report a bad link - Suggest a new listingĪdditional books from the extended shelves: Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952: Autobiography of a Yogi (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML).Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952: Autobiography of a Yogi (first edition, 1946) (HTML at ).Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article. Online Books by Paramahansa Yogananda (Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952) Paramahansa Yogananda (Yogananda, Paramahansa, 1893-1952) | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page What else can I say?’Īsked whether her book could be classed as science fiction, Atwood replied: ‘Science fiction has monsters and spaceships speculative fiction could really happen.’ First published in 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale was inspired by contemporary Western fears about falling birth-rates, as well as by religious fundamentalism both in the West and East. Both fascinated and repelled by the Japanese women’s ‘Westernized’ clothing, Offred replies that they are very happy. Forbidden to take pictures, the tourists ask, through an interpreter, if the women are happy. Atwood skilfully dramatises the contrast between the grotesque strangeness of Gilead and ‘ordinary’ life going on elsewhere, as when Offred and a companion encounter a group of tourists from Japan. Offred makes frequent references to the world she once knew and the freedom she took for granted – having her own bank account, wearing her hair uncovered, even something as simple as using nail varnish. The Handmaid’s Tale portrays a chilling dystopia, with its military hierarchy of Angels, Guardians and Eyes, and its Birthmobiles, Econowives, Prayvaganzas and Salvagings (executions). Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans-everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. Torn between the man her heart has never quite forgotten and the man she's engaged to, Lanie can only pray that love will truly be better the second time around. Give them three months to try to mend the marriage his father tore apart, or he'll fight her tooth and nail for custody of their son. Now she's ready to move on with her life, and has even agreed to marry the local veterinarian until Quinn gives her an ultimatum. It's taken Lanie McAllister five years to get over losing the man she loved with every fiber of her being. Now he's going back to Wyoming to claim what's his, and nothing can stop him.not his father, and certainly not his wife's fiance. He's tempted to give his wife the quick divorce she wants until he finds out about the son he didn't know existed. Now he's discovered that his divorce was bogus, and his whole world is spinning out of control. While he lay in a coma from injuries sustained during an auto accident, the woman he loved divorced him. Five years ago Quinn McAllister's life was almost destroyed. What I was not expecting to read in The Storyteller, but what I especially appreciated, were Dave’s sweet, touching stories about his daughters. Dave Grohl has enjoyed a lifetime of incredible encounters, and I’m grateful for his willingness to share about them. The Storyteller was interesting for all the reasons I hoped it would be: Autobiography about a popular musician, crazy backstage accounts (like breaking his leg in the middle of a concert, or almost getting jumped after a Nirvana concert), Nirvana and Foo Fighter stories (I had no idea that all the instrumental parts on the first Foo Fighters album were performed by Dave), as well as several incredible interactions with some of rock’s most popular names (like having Paul McCartney over for dinner, or Joan Jett reading his daughter bedtime stories). I found him charming, funny, and winsome to the point that when I learned he had published a memoir-style book I thought, “Sure! I’ll give it a try.” What convinced me to give it a read was Dave Grohl’s “Hot Ones” interview on YouTube ( ). I am too young to have appreciated Nirvana at their peak (although I jam to Smells Like Teen Spirit like anyone else), and I am only casually interested in Foo Fighters (I almost exclusively listen to them while working out). The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave GrohlĪt one level, this is a strange book selection for me. The style of writing and beautiful prose is enthralling, the author at times dances with description in a compelling fashion that demands your full attention. The relationship between mother and daughter, and that of Rob and her sister as they transition from children to adults. The plot then pivots between the past and present. On arrival at Sundial we are first shown the puppy farm and the atmosphere of the desert provides the perfect setting for this dark disturbing tale to unfold. The mess of adult life, where you’ve both dug in so deep, where blame is a tapestry so tightly woven that it cannot ever be unpicked. The characters are complex, fascinating and intriguingly flawed.Īfter continued arguments between the marital couple, a trip to Rob's childhood home of Sundial becomes essential if only to separate the kids, get away from Irving and engage with Callie away from the influence of her father. Irving is set up perfectly as the ultimate twat of a husband but the story revolves around Rob and the perceived darkness within daughter Callie. The story is told from several first person perspectives with the main character being Rob, mother of two girls and wife to Irving. Sundial was my first read by Catriona Ward and I absolutely loved it, I was immediately drawn in by the characters as the plot began to twist and unravel. Their analysis of what went wrong and how to correct it, so forcefully and clearly expressed in this book, is vital to America's future economic health. This book was highly successful, becoming the best-selling nonfiction book of 1980, and presented their agenda for reform. Milton and Rose Friedman assert our free society is in danger. If you have ever wondered why you are paying someone else's old-age pension instead of saving for your own old age, why the Federal Reserve doesn't control inflation and recessions as it was set up to do, why some industries and some workers get a better shake than the rest of us, whether equal opportunity for all also has to mean that everyone gets the same income regardless of productivity, this book is for you. They discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of The Power of the Market, part of volume one of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. And then they tell us what to do if we want to expand our freedom and promote prosperity. Free to Choose (1980) is a great companion to Friedmans ten. They show us how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government is the middleman. In this powerful and persuasive book two distinguished economists, Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, unravel the mysteries of economics for the man or woman in the street (Wall Street or Main Street). But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she wold have to add: the fact that there was no justice. Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she'd turn the page and a woman would get to the husband store. After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids. His brother, Sean, who was in love with Roza, thinks perhaps she's left him, given that he's been left before. Finn O'Sullivan knows she was kidnapped but can't prove it and beings to doubt himself. So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. Parents need to know that Laura Ruby's Bone Gap is about a missing girl named Roza and the aftermath of her disappearance. It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. Summary: Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying. “When she was little, someone gave her some weird book called The Wife Store. |