![]() ![]() of course, a good dancer.Īfter his crazy ex-girlfriend tried to take Spencer from him, Brandon can't picture his life without falling asleep with Spencer each night and waking up each morning with her in his arms. ![]() She's smart, funny, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and. He can't picture his life without Spencer Marshall in it, because she's like his rock. Novel now includes Wanting Spencer from Brandon's POVīrandon Montgomery has found the girl that he has always wanted. Everything seems to be going as planned when someone from Brandon's past reappears.Ĭan Spencer and Brandon survive the coming days as they struggle to deal with ghosts from the past? Thankful for a fresh start and eager to move on with her life, Spencer focuses on helping her best friend, Ryan Kennedy, plan her wedding. After Spencer has a near-death experience she would rather forget, they do their best to move on with their lives, leaving their past behind them. įrom the moment she first saw him running on the treadmill next to her, Spencer Marshall fell head over heels in love with Brandon Montgomery. One look could be what you've always wanted. From USA Today Bestselling author Kimberly Knight, comes book two in her sexy and suspenseful USA Today bestselling Club 24 series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On the night the apocalypse began, he visited Charlie and was sat outdoors hanging out with him. Not much is known about James' life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that he was born in either 1991 or 1992, helped his father run a food truck, and had a boyfriend named Charlie. Nevertheless, he will make exceptions if he believes the cause to be just, but will never participate in the fighting himself, due to his convictions. He is very reluctant to use the walkers as weapons as a result of his code he doesn't want them to get killed, but isn't enthusiastic about causing the deaths of other survivors either. James even started gathering the dead in a barn to "protect" them. ![]() Instead, he used his Whisperer mask to camouflage himself from the dead and travel in herds for protection. Since his departure from the group, James became a pacifist to an extreme degree, refusing to kill even walkers. James soon came to be haunted by this decision, and after becoming disillusioned with their ways, decided to leave the Whisperers. When another Whisperer in the group expressed doubts over fighting with another group, James slit his throat without hesitation. It is later revealed that when James was with the Whisperers, he was a ruthless killer who was fully loyal to their ways. ![]() He is rather awkward around other people, due to spending so much time alone. Upon his introduction, James shows himself to be a solemn, quiet, but goodhearted young man, ready to help those in need. ![]() ![]() The less affluent people on the lower floors are too busy with their children to throw elaborate parties. Laing has an eye out for the ladies, and he often gets invited to cocktail parties usually hosted by the well-to-do childless couples on the upper floors. We see events in the building through the eyes of the recently divorced doctor Robert Laing who has an apartment on the twenty-fifth floor. Except to go to work, the residents find little reason to leave the building. ![]() We readers don’t even find out what city or country the high-rise is located in, because the building is pretty much self-contained with its own supermarket, swimming pools, high-speed elevators, exercise facilities, restaurants, and liquor stores. ![]() ‘High-Rise’ is a unique novel rescued from the 1970s which will soon be a major movie starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, and Sienna Miller.Ībout 2000 people live in the 40-floor high-rise luxury apartment building. ![]() ![]() Within two years it had sold 230,000 copies, given rise to a stage play, and caused a rumpus in literary London. Barrie and with the manuscript’s many spelling mistakes faithfully reproduced. The Young Visiters was published in 1919 but written in 1890, when its author was 9. of his unrequited love for the fair and flighty Ethel Monticue, of Bernard Clark’s dashing and successful wooing of Ethel, together with some very rich, costly pictures of High Socierty, a levie at Buckingham Palace, a description of the Compartments at the Crystale Palace occupied by Earls and Dukes, and a very surprising account of the goings on at the Gaierty Hotel.’Īs Ashford aficionados will know, this quotation is not symptomatic of eccentric proofreading. The novel was The Young Visiters, summarized by Mansfield thus: ‘This is the story of Mr Salteena’s plan to become a real gentleman. ![]() The reviewer was Katherine Mansfield the novelist was a 39-year-old secretary called Daisy Ashford. ![]() ![]() On, the Athenaeum published a review of a new novel. ![]() ![]() Interlaced with her responses to the travel journals of an eccentric 19th century female botanist and adventurer, Rosie elegantly describes how these pockets of nature amidst the urban sprawl provided just enough to mend her broken spirit. She found herself instinctively drawn to the local parks and scraps of communal green spaces in her local south east London neighbourhood, and to therapy via tending a hidden garden deep within the city. This is a memoir that will make you weep, then roll up your sleeves and plant the seeds of a new life. The Ballast Seed: by Rosie Kinchen a charming book about survival When Rosie Kinchen unexpectedly became pregnant, she felt numb until she discovered the joy of gardening Rose. Its a story of vulnerability, persistence and the will to live. Terrified at the prospect of adding another child into her already precariously balanced life, Rosie was compelled to find a new way of living. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and lush, full of dirt, darkness, sun light and soft new growth. The surprise of a second pregnancy, so soon after the birth of her first son, plunged Rosie into a despair that spiralled into deep depression. The Ballast Seed by Rosie Kinchen Buy Now: Kindle Apple Google Kobo See All ebook / ISBN-13: 9781474618199 Price: £18. This is a memoir that will make you weep, then roll up your sleeves and plant the seeds of a new life.’ Cal Flyn author of Islands of Abandonment It’s a story of vulnerability, persistence and the will to live. ![]() Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once – luminous and lush, full of dirt, darkness, sun light and soft new growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart-or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world. As the rest of society collapses all around them-and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them-the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. And, like Shana, there are other “shepherds” who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.įor on their journey, they will discover an America convulsed with terror and violence, where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. ![]() And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity that Harlan Coben calls “a suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking epic.” And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. ![]() ![]() ![]() Richmondĥ.1 DTS-HD MA and Original Uncompressed Stereo 2.0 AudioĮxclusive packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin As her research leads her into the bowels of Chicago’s deprived housing projects and deeper into the Candyman’s world, Helen learns that some legends are best left alone…Įxpertly directed by British filmmaker Bernard Rose and boasting an astounding score by composer Philip Glass, Candyman ingeniously reworks Clive Barker’s original short story “The Forbidden” (originally published as part of his Books of Blood collection) into a modern horror parable that remains as timely today as ever.īrand new 2K restoration from a new 4k scan of the original negative, supervised and approved by writer-director Bernard Rose and director of photography Anthony B. When grad student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) begins working on a thesis looking at urban legends, she encounters the tale of the Candyman – the vengeful spirit of a hook-handed slave, who, it is said, can be summoned by saying his name five times in the mirror. Dare you say his name five times? From the chilling imagination of horror master Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed), comes Candyman – arguably one of the greatest horror movies of the 1990s, now newly restored on Blu-ray. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he also details the peace he’s found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell-and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it-Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this memoir ![]() ![]() China, the USA and Russia are leading the way.įrom physical territory and resources to satellites, weaponry and strategic choke points, geopolitics is as important in the skies above us as it is down below. We’re heading up and out, and we’re taking our power struggles with us. Now, it is the latest arena for human exploration, exploitation – and, possibly, conquest. It is already central to communication, economics, military strategy and international relations on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Hand Signed by Tim Marshall to the Title Page The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall - Signed Edition Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Yilanè, having had millions of years of civilization, have a very advanced society primarily based on a mastery of the biological sciences, especially genetic engineering, so much so that almost every tool and artifact they use is a modified lifeform. By the time the novel begins, the humanoids have reached a late Stone Age level of technology and culture, with a number of societies having developed farming skills. Unlike humans, which evolved from African primates, the Tanu have evolved from a lineage of New World monkey. ![]() A human-like species, the Tanu, evolved to fill the niche in North America, but are only found on that continent. However, during the evolutionary process, the species became non-viable on the North American continent and Caribbean area, leaving them free of Yilanè for millions of years and opening an ecological niche for a top predator. The intelligent reptiloid species is called the Yilanè, and represents the dominant life form on most of the planet. ![]() Consequently, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs and other related reptiles never happened, leaving the way clear for an intelligent species to eventually evolve from mosasaurs, a family of Late Cretaceous marine lizards closely related to the modern monitor lizards. In the parallel universe of this novel, Earth was not struck by an asteroid 65 million years before the present. West of Eden is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison. ![]() |