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![]() ![]() "The Amityville Horror" is one of those films, like "Poltergeist," that could almost be seen as a form of suburban folk horror, since it makes use of the cliche of the "ancient Indian burial ground." For anyone who finds that kind of thing hard to swallow in the 2020s - but who still might be interested in the true-crime aspect of the Amityville case - "The Making of a Haunting: The Amityville Murders" might be just what the doctor ordered. A fascinating and frightening book (Los Angeles Times)-the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena. I do remember Reynolds, the suburban father, having improbable washboard abs. ![]() I can't claim to be the biggest "Amityville" fan or expert, and if we're being honest, the last time I really invested any time in this franchise was back in 2005 when the remake of the original film - starring Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, and Philip Baker Hall - hit theaters. ![]() That movie had one of the worst opening weekends of all time, and since then, the "Amityville" franchise has been relegated to limited theatrical and direct-to-video releases. The last high-profile "Amityville" film to be released theatrically was "Amityville: The Awakening," which bowed in 2017. The movie was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starred James Brolin and Margot Kidder, and served as an adaptation of the 1977 novel of the same name by author Jay Anson. ![]()
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The Ex by Alafair Burke5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() īurke received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, completing the senior thesis "Emotion's effects on memory: spatial narrowing of attention." She went on to Stanford Law School in California, graduating as a member of Order of the Coif. She traces her fascination with crime to the hunt for the serial killer known as BTK, who was active in Wichita during the 1970s. ![]() Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.īurke was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and raised primarily in Wichita, Kansas, where her mother, Pearl Pai Chu, was a school librarian and her father, fellow crime novelist James Lee Burke, was a professor of English. She is a New York Times bestselling author of 18 crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, and The Better Sister, and two series-one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, and the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid. Burke (born October 1969) is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. Burke in 2013 at Bouchercon in Albany, New YorkĪlafair S. ![]()
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The unwanted wife anders natasha5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She sat up, naked, her body still trembling, and drew her knees to her chest. ![]() They were words that she could no longer swallow no matter how much it hurt her to say them. They were words that had been on the tip of her tongue for months and should have been spoken long before now. No, it was one that had been growing steadily since the very first time he’d said them.īut Theresa had her own five words. After eighteen months of the same, Theresa had finally accepted that it would never change. With those five words, he killed the afterglow, destroyed the intimacy of the moment, and relegated the act into nothing more than a biological imperative. His words, the ones he always said after his climax, still hovered in the air between them and still, after all these months, hurt more than they should have. Theresa turned on her side to lovingly trace his profile with her eyes, yearning to touch and caress the smooth and slightly tanned skin, but she knew her touch would be rebuffed. Her husband, Alessandro, had disentangled, detached, and distanced himself from her within seconds of their mutual orgasm and lay on his back beside her, his breathing heavy and ragged. Spasms of her powerful release still violently racked her slender frame. Theresa fell back onto the mattress, her body slick with perspiration and limp with pleasure. ![]()
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Landline a christmas love story5/21/2023 ![]() However, you’ll have to do some detective work to figure out whether something is to your reading taste, as one person’s definition of cheese is someone else’s definition of the perfect book, one person’s steamy romance is someone else’s version of tame, and so on. There are a few subcategories for the first two. We’ve separated this into three main categories: holiday fiction, holiday romance, and books set during the holidays but not about the holidays. But as the holiday fiction requests keep coming, I thought an easy-to-use, easy-to-reference reader-generated book list would be so helpful-and we’ve added even more titles to this year’s new list!Ī few notes. ![]() ![]() ![]() These past years I received numerous requests for holiday fiction recommendations for adults, ranging from “please no cheesy Hallmark stories” to “books set during this holiday but not specifically about it” to “give me all the holiday romance.” We put it up as a #WSIRNReaderRecs post and the responses flooded in. Readers, there’s nothing like a good long book list for the holidays, am I right? ![]()
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Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Written for Young Adults, this book will appeal to those who enjoy lengthy fantasy, or love mermaids and are looking for something different. The author switches between first-person and third-person points of view throughout, which makes it choppy. ![]() The plot occasionally lags and seems to get stuck for a while, so it might be a little much for readers who want a straightforward story. The prose is very descriptive, beautiful, and graphic, and often feels like you are reading poetry. Mermaid Moon (Unabridged) 2020 More ways to shop: Find an Apple Store or other retailer near you. Preview and download books by Susann Cokal. The head witch of their mermaid group casts a spell on all the land people to forget that Sanna ever existed and the rest of the story follows Sanna learning magic so that she can find her mother. Preview and download books by Susann Cokal, including Mermaid Moon, The Kingdom of Little Wounds and many more. The main character is a mermaid, Sanna, whose mother was a human. Published by Candlewick Press (MA) on March 3, 2020Īt 481 pages,”Mermaid Moon” by Susann Cokal is a bit of a tome. ![]()
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Night road by kristin hannah5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Then one moment one night changes them all forever. It is a summer of love, best friends, shared confidences and promises. The summer they graduated is a time they will always remember, and one they could never forget. Night Road Kristin Hannah Pan Macmillan, Fiction - 400 pages 175 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified In Kristen. Jude thought she'd never have to worry about her son, that he'd always sail through life easily achieving whatever he, and his family, wanted and expected - but then he fell in love. ![]() Mia's beloved, and incredibly good-looking, twin brother Zach, finds life much less complicated than his sister. ![]() Yet they recognize something in each other which sets them apart from the crowd, and Mia comes to rely heavily on Lexi's steadfast friendship. A rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who won the hearts of Depression-era. Different in so many ways - Lexi is an orphan and lives with her aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family, and a beautiful home. Book Summary West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. ![]() Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. As hearts are broken, loyalties challenged and hopes dashed, the time has come to leave childhood behind and learn to face the future. ![]()
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The colour out of space pages5/21/2023 ![]() Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. ![]() His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. ![]() Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. ![]()
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Christmas Obsession by Darcy Rose5/21/2023 ![]() Rose was born in Southwest Florida where she lived until she attained the age of 18. ![]() She now has more than thirty works to her name spread across several series of novels and single-standing titles not to mention contributions to series by other authors.Īside from her writing, she is active in the writing community and is a member of the Florida West Coast Writers. Kaci Rose penned “Texting Titan” her debut novel in 2020 and has since then become a very prolific author. The biggest problem that Kaci has is that she usually gets two or three more ideas in her head before she is done writing the first. She has been jotting down ideas for her romance novels ever since she was a student in high school. She first got introduced to serious writing in 2005 when she began freelancing and was paid $25 for her first article. She has been known to get so engrossed in her books that she can sometimes read or write as late as 3 am. Kaci Rose is a bestselling author of contemporary romance fiction who loves to call herself a bookworm, dog lover, and mom.Įven though traveling is something that she loves to do, she is also perfectly OK with curling up at home writing or reading a good book. Sweaty Summer Nights (By:Jennarose Milette) More Than Expected (By:Danyelle Scroggins) Owned By The Wounded Warrior (By:Imani Jay) Sealed With a Broken Kiss (By:Stella Andrews) ![]() All the Scars We Cannot See (By:Sadie King) ![]()
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Sweet potato soul jenne claiborne5/21/2023 ![]() Jenné revives the long tradition of using fresh, local ingredients creatively in dishes like Coconut Collard Salad and Fried Cauliflower Chicken. ![]() ![]() The result? Her first cookbook, SWEET POTATO SOUL, offering 100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with full-color photography. As a chef, she instead spent years tweaking and experimenting to infuse plant-based, life-giving, glow-worthy foods with the flavor and depth that feeds the soul. Jenné Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Food-fluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato pie-but thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. As a chef, she instead spent years tweaking and experimenting to inf. ![]()
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A call to arms hemingway5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Among the most famous are For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and To Have and Have Not. ![]() Hemingway published more than nine novels and collections of short stories in his lifetime, many of them examinations of war set in Europe. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, and he later took up notable residence at homes in Key West and Cuba. ![]() The legend came of age in 1920s Paris, a time where a salon gathering might attract such giants as F. But his life attracted almost as much attention as his work. His declarative writing style was innovative, getting to the truth of the matter in as few words as possible. More than anything, Hemingway’s external legacy is connected to his revolutionary writing. The two were not mutually exclusive, and in his work and his life, they often intersected. Ernest Hemingway had a version of himself that he wanted us to see-the avid fisher and outdoorsman, the hyper-masculine writer, the man whose friends called him “Papa.” Then, there was the hidden Hemingway-vulnerable, sensitive and longing for connection. ![]() |