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![]() ![]() In the air, she was Captain Morgan Pentland, a senior pilot in the Border Watch fleet of Dash 8 aircraft. It gave her a view of the world that made all of life’s troubles seem insignificant. ![]() Her passion for flying was lodged deep in her soul. Back to work after a month’s holiday, back to the joy of being airborne, back to the buzz of piloting an aircraft, each machine as individual as the people who flew it. Morgan extended her stride, revelling in the morning and its promise. A scattering of stars glinted against a backdrop of deepest blue.Īs she ran onto the wet sand the cool of the water dropped the air temperature a degree and a light breeze wafted over her, raising a rash of goose bumps despite the heat. Its perfect roundness signalled the highest of the month’s tide, its presence in the sky at dawn a sign that summer was close. The moon, bright against the dark western sky was just disappearing behind Saddle Mountain. White sand, right up to the line of pig face and dune grass, was unblemished. ![]() Her footprints laid an even path across the smooth expanse of beach, swept clean by the night’s high tide. Click on the arrow above to listen to Helene’s reading. ![]() ![]() Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. She agrees to forge a painting-a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum-in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets the eye. On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. ![]() ![]() Razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger a rousing literary thriller spanning three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uncle Bené drops them off in their flying saucer at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, California, after which the siblings quickly become separated from each other. Tony and his sister Tia are in need of a vacation. In September 1978, the film was re-released to theaters on a double bill with Escape to Witch Mountain.Ī television film called Beyond Witch Mountain was made in 1982. ![]() It was the final film of actor Jack Soo, who died of cancer in January 1979. Victor Gannon, played by Christopher Lee. The two main villains are played by Bette Davis as Letha Wedge, a greedy woman using the last of her money to finance the scientific experiments of Dr. Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards, and Denver Pyle reprise their roles as Tony, Tia, and Uncle Bené- humanoid extraterrestrials with special powers including telepathy and telekinesis. ![]() It was written by Malcolm Marmorstein and is based on characters created by Alexander Key, who also wrote the novelization of the film for Disney. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions. Return from Witch Mountain is a 1978 American science fiction– adventure film and a sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and the second film in the Witch Mountain franchise. ![]() ![]() Stephen King said this in regards to the two endings: An open ended storyline let’s your mind wander to all the possibilities that could be. Yeah the movie ending is dark and bleak, but the “what ifs” of the original story are far more terrifying. Is there a place that is untouched by all of it? Or is it simply a place fortified to handle everything that is going down? In my opinion, leaving David Drayton and his crew lost in the mist with really no idea what is going on is such a better ending than killing everyone and finding out help is one the way. ![]() It’s very vague in what’s actually happening and how widespread the mist actually is. There are creatures running amok from another dimension wrecking havoc on everything. It leaves some form of hope that there is a sanctuary or a place that’s untouched by the mist. ![]() The book ending is less depressing obviously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First they’re worried about the worm-eating itself then, once they confirm with a doctor that eating fifteen worms isn’t going to pose any danger, they’re worried about the money. They are unsure whether to allow this bet to continue. There’s a second story going on behind this first story, and it takes place from Billy’s parents’ perspective. Billy and his friend Tom overcome all of these obstacles through friendship, perseverance, and… um… chewing. Alan and his friend Joe do their best to prevent Billy from eating the worms, including distracting Billy, making a fake worm out of beans, and writing a fake doctor’s note informing Billy’s mother that worms are poisonous. ![]() Will all of the parents involved let Billy and Alan do this?Ī brief recap: Alan bets Billy $50 that Billy won’t be able to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days.Will Billy be able to eat 15 worms in 15 days, thus winning the bet he made with Alan and earning $50?.Thomas Rockwell’s How to Eat Fried Worms, which a lot of us probably read in third grade-or, more appropriately, held the book in front of us as our classmates took turns reading pages aloud-is about two things: ![]() ![]() ![]() Dicker is the coeditor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003). The chapters cover: First-wave feminism, a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth and early twentieth century which focused primarily on gaining women’s suffrage second-wave feminism, which started in the ’60s and lasted through the ’80s and is best understood as emphasizing the connection between the personal and the political and third-wave feminism, which started in the early ’90s and arose in part from a backlash against the movements propagated by the second wave. Feminisms provides historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today. Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women’s studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. ![]() Feminisms provides historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today.Ī History of U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he’s gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him-but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. It’s incendiary stuff-and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. But Marcus Yarrow's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco-an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.Ī few years after a terrorist attack on San Francisco, California’s economy collapses. ![]() ![]() The unputdownable sequel to Little Brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our limited edition hardback is sold out. Maura McHugh’s “The Light at the Centre” was selected for Stephen Jones’s Best New Horror #28.These tales of the uncanny grapple with existential epiphanies of the modern day, and when otherwise familiar landscapes become sinister and something decidedly less than certain. These types of short stories were termed “strange tales” by Robert Aickman, called “tales of the unexpected” by Roald Dahl, and known to Shakespeare’s ill-fated Prince Mamillius as ‘winter’s tales’. ![]() Uncertainties is an anthology of new writing-featuring contributions from Irish, British, and American authors-each exploring the idea of increasingly fragmented senses of reality. “It may be my own imagining, or perhaps the cumulative effect of reading the entire book over a couple of evenings, but the contents appeared to grow darker as the pages turned.” – from the Foreword by John Connolly “Turn and face the strange.” – David Bowie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If those fourteen thousand miles were lined with bookshelves, a good number might be stocked with the many existing volumes related, in one way or another, to walking and walkers-narratives that meanderingly explore nature, the soul, philosophy, religion, history, love, mystery, addiction, grief, joy, aches and pains, vexing and dangerous interferences, and countless other dimensions of human experience. ![]() ![]() Why did you take that walk? Was it a spiritual pilgrimage? Did you do it for the sheer physical challenge, for a deep and thrilling sense of accomplishment? For the anticipation of discovering something new about the world, about yourself? Near the halfway point, you could eat one of your knapsack lunches at the Great Pyramid of Giza after the triumphant last step, you might write a book about your adventure. If you walked eight hours a day, the trip could be completed in five hundred days. It is not an officially recognized path like, for example, the Trans Canada Trail, a network of pathways that twist and turn across ten provinces and three territories, but rather an intercontinental route that can be traversed without the help of a car, train, or boat. Google Maps has confirmed this pedestrian possibility. The longest single walkable distance on Earth is a little more than fourteen thousand miles, between Cape Town, South Africa, and the Russian port city of Magadan on the Sea of Okhotsk. ![]() |