6/28/2023 0 Comments Dark places book cover![]() ![]() ![]() 111 Dark Places in England That You Shouldn’t Miss will help shine light on dark tourism and inherent complex issues associated with commemorating our dead. Each site is challenged by its history and its political discourse and questions are raised as to how we remember our tragic past.Įach site also has ethical issues that need to be addressed and confronted and visiting these sites are often fraught with moral dilemmas. This book explores infamous acts as well as obscure dark tourism sites lost to memory. We remember the dead or acts of suffering through ‘heritage that hurts’. This first-ever travel guide to dark tourism in England offers a thought-provoking compendium of difficult heritage. Our significant dead and mortality moments are remembered at dark tourism sites, where complex issues of politics, history and ethics are exposed. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Locas by Jaime Hernández![]() ![]() Back then, with Marvel and DC practically the only games in town, the brothers’ ambitions to break into comics might have all ended there, if Gilbert hadn’t dared to mail a review copy to The Comics Journal, published by Fantagraphics. Hawking their debut title at the June 1981 Creation Convention in Washington D.C., reactions and sales were mediocre. Our own comics with our own ideas our own mistakes and our own accomplishments.” Their accomplishments would prove to be remarkable and help trigger a wave of alternative, subversive American comics in the Eighties. But now editor (and future contributor) Mario decided upon himself that it was time to do it ourselves. Inside, they introduced themselves: “We, the brothers (Jaime, ‘Bert, and Mario) Hernandez, have tried to get into the comics jungle for a few years now, but could never seem to make the right connections. Instead of the usual Comics Code Authority Seal on the front cover, they drew a stamp stating ‘Fair Warning: This Comic Contains Raw Language, Violence and Nudity’. ![]() spirit of punk and with some cash from their younger sibling Ismael, Los Bros Hernandez, three twenty-something Latino brothers from Oxnard in Southern California, self-published their 32-page black-and-white comic priced one dollar. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Senlin ascends subterranean press![]() ![]() For a moment Osborne finds himself speechless. Her eyes are wide and dark and shaped like some exotic nut. Her skin has a lustrous walnut sheen that goes perfectly with her jet hair. Osborne slides onto the stool next to her it is inexplicably unoccupied on this noisy, crowded night. Silky black hair flows over her shapely neck and shoulders with the grace of a waterfall, concealing what her scanty red summer dress would otherwise reveal. She’s sitting on a tall stool at the end of the bar, with one long, impossibly shapely leg extended toward the floor, like a dancer doing a pirouette. The girl catches Michael Osborne’s eye as he comes out of the men’s room. This story is not particularly gory, but I’ve always considered it one of the most creepy and unsettling things I ever wrote. “Underground with the Mouthless Girl” appeared in “The Earwig Flesh Factory” from Eraserhead Press in the summer of 2000. “Underground with the Mouthless Girl” is about a rather nasty ghost from India called a churel, which is the restless spirit of a woman who died in childbirth. (This was before we could just hop on the Internets and pull information out of the worldwide series of tubes.) One of my favorite reference books was The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, which listed literally hundreds of ghouls and beasties from around the world. Back when I wrote mostly horror, I accumulated quite a collection of reference books of ghosts, spirits, and various and sundry monsters. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Death at pemberley book![]() ![]() What about the characters of Death Comes to Pemberley? Has James maintained their essential natures and personalities.or changed them in some way? How consistent are they with Austen's originals? Consider Elizabeth and Darcy, the Bingleys, the Wickhams, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh.Ĥ. Can you point to some echoes of the original language from Pride and Prejudice in the descriptions and/or dialogue of James's sequel? Start, perhaps, with the first lines of both books.ģ. Are the two similar? Different? In what ways does James expand on Austen's version of the several years following Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage?Ģ. Compare the "Prologue" of Death Comes to Pemberley with the "Epilogue" of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. ![]() ![]() Also, there are a few spoiler questions at the end. ( Dear Reader: Some questions, though not all, assume a knowledge of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)Īlso consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Death Comes to Pemberley:.Generic Discussion Questions-Fiction and Nonfiction.How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips).Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources they can help with discussions for any book: ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The adventure of hugo cabret book![]() ![]() ![]() There his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until young Leontes Marvel abandons the stage and runs away.Ī century later, Joseph Jervis, another runaway, seeks refuge with an uncle in London. He survives a devastating shipwreck and later finds work in a London theatre. The journey begins on a ship at sea, with a boy named Billy Marvel. ![]() In this masterful reimagining of the form he originated, two stand-alone stories-the first in pictures, the second in prose-together create a beguiling narrative puzzle. From the Caldecott Award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck comes a breathtaking voyage of the mind and heart. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Linus torvalds book![]() ![]() But he was still proud of what he started, so he put it out in the world to see if anyone else found it interesting. “It wasn’t initially about open source for me,” explained Torvalds. “Did you have any idea what you were unleashing?” Gelsinger asked. That’s when he actively began developing his own operating system – the one that would evolve into the open source Linux OS. “If I took this to the next step, I realized that I actually could use this – not just teaching myself how the system worked, but also use it as a daily driver,” Torvalds said. “It was all the PC peripheral components around it too.” ![]() The book helped Torvalds learn his new machine and start writing low-level code. ![]() “I really wanted to learn how it worked, and that’s where your book comes in,” he told Gelsinger. At the time, Torvalds read Gelsinger’s book, “Programming the 80386.” Their wide-ranging conversation during the September developer-focused event covered the beginning of Linux, Torvalds’ advice for Intel and why he chose a penguin as the Linux mascot.Ī highlight of the conversation took the two back more than three decades to the introduction of the Intel 386 microprocessor. At Intel Innovation 2022, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the “godfather of open source” who created the Linux operating system. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sophie is pregnant with their first child, and does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband embarks upon the journey of a lifetime. ![]() The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy.įor Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even more difficult, as he is only recently married to Sophie, the wife he had perhaps never expected to find. Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret.Ĭolonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Ruthless people book online![]() THE UNTOUCHABLES (#2) "One Secret, Multiple Casualties."ĪMERICAN SAVAGES (#3) "Villains by Choice."Ī BLOODY KINGDOM (#4) “After the battle, sharpen your knives.”ĭECLAN + CORALINE(prequel novella that takes place 2 years before Ruthless People)Īnd look for the Ruthless People spinoff, Children of Vice-out 5.17.17 “From the Ruthless, Vice shall Rise. ![]() RUTHLESS PEOPLE #1 "One Marriage + Two Bosses = 3X the Chaos." Only a fool would try to stop them now.Ĭheck out more thrilling titles in the Ruthless People series: ![]() Their reach is limitless their power endless.but is it possible to have too much power? Can Liam and Melody raise a family, a city, and an empire? The Mafia of the past is evolving, and with rival bosses gunning for them, Melody and Liam will have to figure out how to work as one to take down those who stand in their way, all while keeping up appearances. Melody is now the Governor and public face of the family, while Liam rises as the Ceann na Conairte of both the Irish and Italians. It has been eight years since the Callahans defeated Avian Doers and conquered Chicago. ![]() ![]() BR with my buddy bitch, the sexy Sasha Elle a.k.a Mrs. Ruthless People (Ruthless People, 1) by J.J. The fourth book in the Ruthless People Series is here. ARC kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Assimilate by S. 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A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance.Īfter a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from international bestselling author and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy.Ĭollege junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. ![]() |