![]() ![]() With a storm raging outside, the teens are cut off from the outside world. But what starts out as fun turns twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine. Best friends Meg and Minnie are looking forward to two days of boys, booze, and fun-filled luxury. It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives-an exclusive house party on Henry Island. About the Book In this pulse-pounding horror novel inspired by Agatha Christie's murder-mystery classic "And Then There Were None, " 10 teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast only to be picked off by a killer one by one.Ī smart and terrifying teen horror novel inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, from Get Even author Gretchen McNeil -now a Lifetime Original Movie! ![]()
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![]() ![]() At the Dark End of the Street presents a deep civil rights movement with women at the center, a narrative as poignant, painful and complicated as our own lives. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received her Ph.D. Danielle McGuire discussed her book at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. MCGUIRE was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet. McGuire also explores the sexual abuse that black women faced by white men during the Jim Crow era and how their resistance added in fueling the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. At the Dark End of the Street audiobook, by Danielle L. According to the author the incident solidified Rosa Parks' activism long before her refusal to move from her seat aboard a Montgomery bus in 1955. ![]() McGuire recalls Rosa Parks' involvement as an NAACP organizer who in 1944 investigated the rape of Recy Taylor, a black sharecropper, who was attacked by seven white men on her way home from church. T21:08:36-04:00 Danielle McGuire, assistant history professor at Wayne State University, recounts the politically active life of Rosa Parks, a side of the civil rights figure that the author contends has been under reported. ![]() ![]() ![]() At an early age, she is exposed to various tragedies. ![]() Raised in a loving and devoutly religious family, Kristin develops a sensitive but wilful character, defying her family in small and large ways. Kristin Lavransdatter is the daughter of Lavrans, a charismatic, respected nobleman in a rural area of Norway, and his wife Ragnfrid, who suffers from depression after the loss of three infant sons and the crippling of her younger daughter Ulvhild in an accident. She experiences a number of conflicts in her relationships with her parents, and her husband, in medieval Norway. Kristin grows up in Sel in the Gudbrand Valley, the daughter of a well-respected and affluent farmer. The cycle follows the life of Kristin Lavransdatter, a fictitious Norwegian woman living in the 14th century. ![]() Her work is much admired for its historical and ethnological accuracy. This work formed the basis of Undset receiving the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded to her "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages". Kransen and Husfrue were translated from the original Norwegian as The Bridal Wreath and The Mistress of Husaby, respectively, in the first English translation by Charles Archer and J. The individual novels are Kransen ( The Wreath), first published in 1920, Husfrue ( The Wife), published in 1921, and Korset ( The Cross), published in 1922. Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of historical novels written by Sigrid Undset. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’ll go to any length to dispossess Horton of his clover-and his sense of responsibility toward the Whos. Her disbelief fuels a vendetta against Horton, whom she accuses of poisoning the minds of the jungle children with lies about creatures who don’t exist. Enter a grumpy kangaroo-the self-appointed queen of the jungle-who doesn’t believe in Whos. If he succeeds, the peace of Whoville will be restored. But they’ve found their salvation in Horton, who takes on the responsibility of carrying the speck-pillowed atop a clover-to a sheltered spot high on Mount Nool. The fact that their speck has been dislodged from a secure resting place could spell disaster for their tiny world. They’re not accustomed to floating through the jungle. Theirs is a peaceful world where no news but good news has ever been heard. And Horton is awakened to the fact that a whole community of very small folks called Whos live on that speck. It’s a tiny scream, but a scream nonetheless. Horton is a friendly talking elephant whose afternoon swim is interrupted by a speck of dust that floats by and … screams. ![]() Seuss’ classic book-that’s where this story begins. “On the fifteenth of May in the jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,” and right smack in the middle of page one of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alien Kudzu: "Where The Summer Ends" has a supernatural example that also happens to be actual Kudzu.Other works by Karl Edward Wagner provide examples of: The Kane Series of dark Heroic Fantasy stories.Works by Karl Edward Wagner that have their own trope pages: His most popular works are the long-running stories of Kane, the Mystic Swordsman, and his often-anthologized short story "Sticks". Other editing work included fourteen volumes of the long-running anthology series The Year's Best Horror Stories and several collections of the work of Manly Wade Wellman. ![]() Howard, he edited a three-volume set of the Conan the Barbarian stories that restored them to Howard's form as written he also did a number of pastiches featuring Conan and Bran Mak Morn. ![]() Karl Edward Wagner (4 December 1945 – 13 October 1994) was a American writer of Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Poetry as well as a publisher and editor. ![]() |