![]() ![]() Michael McDowell (1950-1999) is best known for his screenplays to the films Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, but he was also the author of several excellent and underrated Southern Gothic horror novels, of which The Amulet (1979) was the first. As the inexplicable murders continue, Sarah and her friend Becca Blair have no choice but to track down the amulet themselves, before it's too late. ![]() Sarah believes the amulet has something to do with the rising body count, but no one will believe her. ![]() Jo blames the entire town for her son's mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpselike husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah finds her dreary life in Pine Cone, Alabama made even worse. "McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington Post Obtain The Amulet by any means necessary." - Too Much Horror Fiction ![]() "One of the genre's most underrated writers. "ne of the best writers of horror in this or any other country." - Peter Straub ![]()
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![]() The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. Even though I didn't like it, I still enjoyed the book. I thought this would be a bit better as it was an original but to be honest it wasn't really perfect and it weren't better than the Disney version. Also I read the Disney version of The Jungle Book and it was amazing. I never really liked this book because there were lots and lots of old English language which you cant really understand. Natasha from Year 6, Saltersgate Junior School: I rate this amazingly funny original book a 9 out of ten. Paige from Year 10, Rossington All Saints School: On the other hand, I cannot blame this amazing author as in his day those words would have been used often.Īll in all I rate this fabulous book a 9 out of ten. this is a very exciting book - however - it uses so many old English words. ![]() Have you ever wanted to venture into the jungle? Well (if so) this is the book for you! The "Jungle Book" is the perfect book for anyone into animals, adventure and the amazing bond between man and animal. ![]() ![]() So far we have received 12 reviews of The Jungle Book.Ĭerys from Year 6, Saltersgate Junior School: ![]() ![]() What a shame! I would have really liked to see how Suchet and company could tackle this innovative novel. e: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a 1926 mystery novel by Agatha Christie.But this mystery has been twisted and contorted too much so that I can only faintly see Christie. Genre(s): Crime novel: Series: Hercule Poirot: Preceded by: Poirot Investigates: Followed by: The Big Four: First published: June 1926: v David Suchet makes the best Poirot and certainly the most faithful to the books. Why not have the narrator in the novel narrate? How bout that hokey ending with its proverbial "shootout" to get the audience's attention? And what about Poirot cracking the case in question? These major departures from the book greatly diminished my favor with this film. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd MYSTERY The Orson Welles radio dramatization of the Agatha Christie story. Allowances must be made, but the script from this adaptation meanders a good deal from much of the source material. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is easily one of the greatest mystery novels and particularly one of Christies best ever written. It is a great novel and is definitely a hard one to truly bring to the screen(small screen in this case)entirely faithful. ![]() The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is easily one of the greatest mystery novels and particularly one of Christie's best ever written. ![]() ![]() For those of you who have NOT read the novel by the same name by Agatha Christie, you may indeed think my criticism of this adaptation somewhat harsh. ![]() ![]() ![]() He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander and spent four yeas in the Shetland Islands, becoming second in command of the Shetland Naval base. After graduating from Cambridge University, he was a radio war correspondent for BBC at the start of the Second World War, joining the Navy after the fall of France. For his contributions to espionage operations against the German occupation of David Armine Howarth (1912 - 1991) was a British historian and author. He was involved in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), including the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway, which utilized fishing boats with crews of Norwegian volunteers to land agents and arms in occupied Norway. ![]() David Armine Howarth (1912 - 1991) was a British historian and author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy takes the train to the Castle Von Aux, and starts his adventure with a run-in with a couple of thieves who continually steal his pipe. In the story, a man is so enraged by his junior colleague’s advancement that he chops off three of his fingers. In a brief interlude, the narrator shares a tale of violence and envy that takes place a few villages away. Although he would have preferred to leave things on a high note, his plans are foiled when Marina shows up at the train station and catches him in a series of lies. He uses the chance to set off on an adventure in the hopes that something might happen.īefore leaving home, Lucy also says goodbye to his ex-girlfriend, Marina. Having nearly died from pneumonia, Lucy has been given a second chance at life by a mysterious stranger. Lucy says goodbye to his mother and sets out for the Castle Von Aux as the book begins. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: DeWitt, Patrick. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's Eve's doing, this exile: As a young woman, Eve had ventured out into the world only to get rather viciously knocked about, and she's determined not to let the same thing happen to Liza. Liza knows no science, math or current events, has "never been on a bus or in a train, never bought anything in a shop herself, scarcely been in one, never made a phone call and, most important of all, never had any sort of relationship with a contemporary." and give you a thoroughly good precis of at least four Shakespeare plays"), there are others which remain distressingly untouched. She's been educated in isolation by her mother, Eve, who's treated her as a tabula rasa, and while there are areas in which Liza certainly outdistances her more traditionally schooled contemporaries (by the time she's 11, she "can read, write, and talk French. SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Liza has lived nearly all her life at Shrove House, a secluded English manor, virtually cut off from human contact. ![]() ![]() ![]() If anything of Warner’s is still read, it’s the lyrical essays of “My Summer in a Garden” with its quotable (and over-quoted) lines (“politics makes strange bed-fellows”). Some contemporaries compared him with essayist Charles Lamb, the quieter member of the circle of Wordsworth and Coleridge. ![]() His personality and writing style radiated a genteel whimsicality that is no longer in favor and has not survived alongside the tougher, funnier stuff of Mark Twain’s. If anything, they considered Stowe an interesting figure of the past but Warner a modern man. National magazine writers of the 1870s assigned to visit Hartford described the homes and careers of all three. When he lived on Hawthorn Street in Hartford, and later on Forest Street in the heart of Nook Farm, he was considered on a par with his great neighbors, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The shelf of Charles Dudley Warner’s books stands at 15 volumes, but like many works by the triple-named writers of the Victorian era, they are largely unread today. ![]() ![]() ![]() 180–275 and Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. He is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. A fellow and trustee of the American Numismatic Society, Professor Harl is well known for his studies of ancient coinage. Professor Harl has also published a wide variety of articles and books, including his current work on coins unearthed in an excavation of Gordion, Turkey, and a new book on Rome and her Iranian foes. An expert on classical Anatolia, he has taken students with him into the field on excursions and to assist in excavations of Hellenistic and Roman sites in Turkey. Jones Visiting Professor in History at Wofford College. He has earned Tulane's annual Student Body Award for Excellence in Teaching nine times and is the recipient of Baylor University's nationwide Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers. Recognized as an outstanding lecturer, Professor Harl has received numerous teaching awards at Tulane, including the coveted Sheldon H. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader history. Sparta, Athens, and the Western Greeksĭr. Imperial CrisisThe Chalcidice and MytileneĢ9. Economy and Society of Imperial Athensġ9. ![]() Athens or SpartaA Question of Leadershipġ4. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Student Lamees Subeir observed that there are “very few issues about Black struggle in the curriculum outside of slavery.” “Please do not remove this book from the curriculum because it might be sensitive,” Subeir urged the board. At the beginning of the unit in which Thomas’s novel was taught, parents received communication regarding the novel’s themes, situations, and language, as well as the school’s “commitment to addressing the content of the book in a professional and appropriate way.” Families had the option to opt out and read another book, but none did so, according to Brandi Smith, the public relations and communications specialist for the district. 2022īanned and challenged for profanity, violence, and it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agendaĪfter parents announced their plans to protest The Hate U Give at a March North Allegheny High School (PA) school board meeting, a large number of students and parents came out in force to defend the teaching of Thomas’s acclaimed novel. ![]() ![]() Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() He explores innovative treatments-from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga-that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. ![]() Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat one in five Americans has been molested one in four grew up with alcoholics one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. “Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” -Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress StudiesĪ pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller ![]() |