![]() ![]() ![]() Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One thing's for certain, the two media magnets can't deny their explosive chemistry, but will life in the spotlight ultimately bring Trace and Taryn together or force them apart? ***This contemporary romance new adult novel is for mature audiences. The sparks fly and ignite a fire that blazes hotter with every minute they spend together-for better or worse. Known as "America's Sweetheart," the reigning country music princess and world-renowned superstar knows exactly who Trace is.or does she? Their worlds collide when the musicians whose paths were never destined to cross are forced by their joint record label to collaborate on a song. Taryn Starr is not the girl-next-door who unknowingly meets a celebrity. ![]() Trace is the hottest ticket in the music industry right now, regardless of which definition of 'hot' you choose. This is not your typical rock star romance. ![]() ![]() His sculptures are created with a similar aesthetic, destroying the image of the body to elicit feelings of unease. By disturbing the human form, Samori disturbs the human mind. Faces are painted over or ripped apart, exposing an abstraction of bloody insides torsos hover omniously in the darkness, their flesh melting away into nothing. Working in a style influenced by Baroque portraiture-for example, the rich colors and heavy shadows-Samori intensifies the emotion and drama by mutilating his subjects. ![]() In some cases, the paint is thinned so as to obscure the figure’s details behind a haze. His Renaissance figures, first painted against classically dark backgrounds and bathed in chiaroscuro lighting, are then marred with smears of paint layered over their faces or with paint and material scratched away. Nicola Samorì is Baroque-style paintings simultaneously evoke a sense of romance and violence. Nicola Samorì’s paintings and sculptures are inspired by the work of the old masters but with the addition of scary motives to achieve this dark mood. Nowadays, the artist lives and works in Bagnacavallo. ![]() Italian artist Nicola Samorì was born in 1977 in Forlì. ![]() The Disturbingly Dark Paintings by Nicola Samorì ![]() ![]() ![]() Later on, a 2008 animated film from Blue Sky Studios was released that changes and expands on a lot of aspects of the book. The book was eventually adapted into a 1970 animated special by MGM Animation/Visual Arts. In fact, Seuss intended for the story to serve as a metaphor for the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II. It was dedicated to a Japanese friend of the author, Mitsugi Nakamura. Rare for Seuss, the book is a sequel to his 1940 Breakthrough Hit Horton Hatches the Egg. Though the entire Jungle of Nool derides him for it, he holds on to his belief and must protect the speck with the town of Whoville, facing against a Sour Kangaroo and her friends trying to rid of it. ![]() Seuss that tells the tale of how Horton the Elephant will protect a speck at all costs, believing that a whole city of people exists on it. Horton Hears a Who! is a 1954 children's book by Dr. ![]() "A person's a person, no matter how small." ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe the next forty of it will bring some of em out from under the ether. and National Book Award-winner, McCarthys reputation has been extended further with the. : No Country for Old Men (9780330511216) by McCarthy, Cormac and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. But my feelin about that is that anybody that cant tell the difference between rapin and murderin people and chewin gum has got a whole lot bigger of a problem than what I've got. View Image 1 of 8 for NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Inventory 44612. Because a lot of the time when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old. So they got one of them forms that was blank and printed up a bunch of em and sent em back out to the same schools. ![]() And the biggest problems they could name was things like talkin in class and runnin in the hallways. And they come across these forms, they'd been filled out and sent in from around the country answerin these questions. ![]() Had this questionnaire about what was the problems with teachin in the schools. “I read in the papers here a while back some teachers came across a survey that was sent out back in the thirties to a number of schools around the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a little bit of romance, but no more than there is in, for example, my own Wolf’s Head. Jamaica Inn is no bustling drinking den in a busy city, as I expected – it’s a run-down old place, with a murderous landlord whose only patrons are the occasional smugglers who eventually turn out to be much worse than our hero Mary-Ellen suspects. This is a dark book, even darker than Rebecca and, rather than a cast of dozens, only a handful of characters are ever seen. Well, it’s nothing like that (thankfully)! Those could, I suppose, be classed as “romance” novels of a sort, so I expected Jamaica Inn would be much the same – perhaps some young barmaid’s ribald adventures in the titular tavern, fending off drunken oafs and jealous older women before finding love in some unlikely place. ![]() I bought this without even reading the synopsis because it was in a sale on Audible and I had really enjoyed this author’s other books Rebecca ( my review) and My Cousin Rachel ( review). ![]() ![]() ![]() Ohtani has hit 100 homers to match his 500 strikeouts. Yet despite this, Ohtani continued his frightening strikeout form this season, notching the magic number needed to reach 500. ‘Shotime’ was not at his best though when reaching the feat during Wednesday’s outing, giving away five hits and four runs during his time on the mound. ![]() Per MLB.com, the stats across various websites which have him down with 488 career K’s are inaccurate with the Elias Sports Bureau’s stat of 501 strikeouts the correct figure. ![]() To match his homers, Ruth threw 501 strikeouts in his career. The baseball legend hit a staggering 714 home runs during his time in the game – ranking him third on the all-time leaders list behind Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron. This means that the 28-year-old has now joined Hall of Famer Ruth as one of two players in MLB history to total 100+ home runs and 500 or more strikeouts.Īt just 28, Ohtani has plenty of time to keep notching strikeouts and homers, but it will take a heroic effort to get anywhere near Ruth’s hitting success. Louis Cardinals, Ohtani recorded 13 K’s across five innings pitched taking him to the 500 strikeout mark. In the Los Angeles Angels’ 6-4 win against the St. When it comes to baseball records, there is no better company to be alongside than the great Babe Ruth and, after notching his 500th MLB strikeout on Wednesday, Shohei Ohtani joined a prestigious club. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pair have been immersed in the academic world since meeting, and their frequent chasing of their academic dreams often led to the ire of their two children. She and her husband, Iano, have both lost their jobs and relocated from Virginia so Iano can take a teaching job nearby. The novel begins with Willa Knox receiving the unfortunate news that her house is damaged enough following Hurricane Sandy that the simplest option would be to demolish it. ![]() ![]() In the twenty-first century story, Willa imagines saving her home, while in the nineteenth century, Thatcher dreams of delving deeper into his education. The novel alternates between the twenty-first and nineteenth century stories, using the last words of one chapter as the title of the next one. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Kingsolver, Barbara. ![]() ![]() ![]() This design approach to Scholastic’s 25th-anniversary editions is similar to that of Bloomsbury’s 25th-anniversary Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, released last year, which also features the original cover art with just a few design changes. Both the outside of the box and the image across the books’ spines depict Harry, Hermione, and Ron on dragonback. These new paperback editions will be released individually on May 1, and a box set will be available in September. ![]() To mark 25 years since the first Harry Potter book was published in the United States in 1998, Scholastic is releasing “refreshed” versions of the original covers illustrated by Mary GrandPré. The classic cover art will feature gold-colored borders with designs that incorporate magical objects from the series, such as the Golden Snitch and the Triwizard Cup. ![]() ![]() This book is a serious page turner.Ī veteran of the genre, Schrefer flawlessly constructs all the pillars of YA. ![]() I probably should have noticed this title when it was released in 2012, or at the very least when it earned recognition from the ALA, NPR, or became a National Book Award finalist, so it was with some chagrin that I checked it out and sat down to read. ![]() Other than two genre novels, this was the only hit and it felt, well, a little too obvious. I stumbled on Elliot Schrefer’s young adult novel Endangered while searching my library’s catalog for fiction about endangered species. ![]() |