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OL4447466W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.10 Pages 438 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0879979798 Armor By: John Steakley Narrated by: Tom Weiner Length: 13 hrs. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. He wrote two major novels, Armor (1984) and Vampire (1991), the. Under Construction Were updating our theme, so. John Steakley, born 1951 in Cleburne, Texas was best known for his science fiction writing. John Steakley Armor Paperback Decemby John Steakley (Author) 2,657 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 18.00 11 Used from 7.00 8 New from 13.64 1 Collectible from 45. Urn:lcp:armor00john:lcpdf:5bc9bd11-654c-4112-9f41-4befc7c2d792 Browse John Steakley’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. We have reviewed 8057 fantasy, science fiction, and horror books, audiobooks, magazines, comics, and films. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:51:56 Boxid IA174101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw DecemDonorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Reissue. The rent party with Nikki Giovanni is a key highlight of the Mary Baldwin College for Women’s inaugural Women’s Empowerment Week. Nikki Giovanni mingles as a guest of honor. All while internationally revered African American poet, writer, and activist Dr. Elders from the local Black community will teach and host card games. Josephine Baker will offer how-tos on popular dance moves like the Charleston. Authors like Zora Neale Hurston will talk poetry and give readings. Theatre students in historical garb inspired by period-correct Black fashion will portray those artists - and a cast of other prominent figures from one of the 20th century’s most important cultural movements.Ī jazz band will perform swing and blues tunes as Ella Fitzgerald and Ma Rainey take turns on the mic. Walls will be hung with large, cloth paintings from MBU art students rendered in the style of female era-icons like Augusta Savage and Selma Burke. Soul food and speakeasy style drinks will be served. on March 17, they’ll find themselves transported to a 1920s New York brownstone rent party at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. When students, faculty, staff, and community members enter the Student Activities Center at 6 p.m. I do not even reply to snail mail from my mom. However, please note that I do not reply to snail mail. Box is number 30152 in Indianapolis, IN 46230. If you wish to send me something in the actual mail because you want to support the good employees of the United States Postal Service, you are welcome to do so care of my publisher, Dutton Books for Young Readers, at 1745 Broadway, 17th Floor in the great city of New York, NY, zip code 10019. There is sometimes a waiting list, but they are the best option. Email and let them know the titles in which you are interested. If you would like to purchase signed copies of my books, you can do so through the first great bookstore love of my life, The Book Cellar in Chicago. I don't do visits or speaking engagements. Her email address is and speaking engagements Questions about movie rights and other things that involve money should go to my agent, the lovely and tenacious Jodi Reamer at Writers House. Questions about press and publicity should be directed to Elyse Marshall, whose email address is except obviously without the parentheses. The best way to contact me depends upon the nature of your inquiry. She might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the netgoing to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygenand a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. That connection is a djinnia smart device implanted right in a persons head. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. This book is just plain awesome.James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze RunnerFrom Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. He spent much of his life reflecting openly about his existential dread. This is Ward's close friend and relative, who was a brooding person convinced that his fate was to die young and tragically. In other words, Ward believes that Cook is a martyr for his testimony. He was scheduled to testify against a local drug dealer, but Ward believes that the shooting was actually the dealer's gang, preventing his testimony. Demond CookĬook was shot and killed while walking into his house. The autopsy revealed that he had combined a handful of prescription medicine with a high dose of cocaine. He stayed dead for four days until someone found his body. Roger Eric Daniels III was only 23 when a drug overdose stopped his heart. She often reflects on the nature of trauma, tragedy, horror, suffering, and pain. She tells of five deaths which all happened in the early 2000's, who were all friends or family, who were all men, and whose deaths affected her horrifically. The author appears as the narrator of these stories which are nonfictional in nature. Written by Alison Dry and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense magical power and accompanying her is the Queen's Guard, a cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. The Tear is just as easy to get sucked into as Westeros or Hogwarts or Panem." - USA Today Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother's throne, learn to be a ruler-and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her. Erika Johansen's debut novel is a genre mashup: medieval fantasy meets dystopian future. He’s eager to reconnect with his teenage son, Xander, who's visiting from Brisbane, and he has a complicated history with Ilse. Cam had been acting strangely in the weeks before his death, too. Everyone seems to assume that Cam took his own life, but Nathan isn’t so sure, and there’s a strange dynamic in Cam's home that he can’t put his finger on. They’re pragmatic folks, though, and there’s a funeral to be planned, plus Christmas is just around the corner. What was Cam doing by the grave, and what was his Land Cruiser doing nine kilometers away, still fully stocked with supplies, with the keys left neatly on the front seat? The Brights' mother, Liz, is devastated, and Cam has also left behind his wife, Ilse, and two young daughters, Sophie and Lo. Cam’s older brother, Nathan, and their baby brother, Bub, are as perplexed as the cop who’s come all the way from Brisbane to investigate. His body is eventually spotted, via helicopter, curled up by the stockman’s grave, the source of plentiful, and persistent, local ghost stories. When 40-year-old Cameron sets out on his own, ostensibly to fix a repeater mast, he never comes home. It’s a vast, unforgiving environment, and no one ever goes far without a full complement of supplies. The three Bright brothers are the overseers of 3,500 square kilometers of land in Queensland, with hours between each of their homes. A timely novel set in the furthest reaches of Australia by the author of The Dry (2017) and Force of Nature (2018). Soon, his son's brain becomes transformed by the experimental procedure, losing key attributes that make him human and define his personality. (Note: Certainly not in Los Angeles, where this film opened on November 19, 1958, as the bottom half of a double bill - top half was From the Earth to the Moon.)įollowing an accident, Jeremy Spensser's brain is transplanted by his scientist father into the huge body of an unattractive, frightening cyborg, to save his brilliant son's mind so that it can continue to serve mankind. Paramount Pictures theatrically released Colossus in June 1958 as a double feature with The Space Children. Fulton handled the special photographic effects, and Wally Westmore handled the makeup. The film's storyline is credited to Willis Goldbeck, while John P. The screenplay was written by Thelma Schnee, the maiden name of Thelma Moss, who later became a famous parapsychologist. The Colossus of New York is a 1958 science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced by William Alland, directed by Eugène Lourié, that stars Ross Martin, Otto Kruger, John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Robert Hutton, and Charles Herbert. The premise owes a big unacknowledged debt to the classic Twilight Zone episode ""It's a Good Life"" echoes of earlier Kings resound often as well-the psychic boy (The Shining), a writer-hero (Misery, The Dark Half), etc. The story rarely flags after that, evoking powerful tension and, at times, emotion. The long opening scene, in which characters and vehicles from the TV show Motokops 2200 (think Power Rangers) sweep down the street, spewing death by firearm, is a paragon of action-horror. The theme is the horror of TV, played out through the terrors visited upon quiet Poplar Street in the postcard-perfect suburban town of Wentworth, Ohio, when a discorporeal psychic vampire settles inside an autistic boy obsessed with TV westerns and kiddie action shows and brings screen images to demented, lethal life. This devilishly entertaining yarn of occult mayhem married to mordant social commentary is pure King and resembles little the four nonsupernatural (if science-fictional) pre-Thinner Bachmans. Why revive the Bachman byline more than a decade after Stephen King was found lurking behind it? Not for thematic reasons. |