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![]() Going back and messing with a classic isn’t always a great idea, but sometimes it works out just fine. The re-edited version was released in 1998 to wide acclaim and is now considered the definitive cut of the movie. But he did famously specify a series of modifications to the 1958 studio cut of Touch of Evil, changes that weren’t enacted until after his death. Orson Welles never went back and added color to Citizen Kane. Everything that made From Hell great in black and white is still there, and the new elements add a lot more than they subtract. ![]() In the end, then, Campbell’s care and craft are succeeding, so far, in threading the needle. Note the eyebrows and hair in the “From Hell, Netley” panels above, or the details of the woman’s face and her slightly smaller hat in the “Not your brother” panels. ![]() ![]() In some panels the effect is strikingly new and effective, especially in close-ups of characters’ faces where features had been formerly delineated by masses of black lines. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There’s a real fear that without this book chain, the print business would be way off.” “It would be a disaster if they went out of business,” said Jane Dystel, a literary agent with clients including Colleen Hoover, who has four books on this week’s New York Times best-seller list. Its unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested in physical stores, makes it an essential anchor in a world upended by online sales and a much larger player: Amazon. Today, virtually the entire publishing industry is rooting for Barnes & Noble - including most independent booksellers. In the past, the book-selling empire, with 600 outposts across all 50 states, was seen by many readers, writers and book lovers as strong-arming publishers and gobbling up independent stores in its quest for market share. After years on the decline, Barnes & Noble’s sales are up, its costs are down - and the same people who for decades saw the superchain as a supervillain are celebrating its success. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having established the foundations for what appears to be a classic dystopian tale, Cronin then pulls the rug out from under his story, audaciously expanding its scope far beyond the hermetic parameters that have shaped Proctor’s account up to that point and pushing it into the realm of provocative conceptual science fiction. ![]() Now a dangerous fugitive on the run from his own forced iteration, Proctor enters an unlikely alliance with rebellious subversives inhabiting the Annex, the island that is home to Prospera’s disgruntled working class. Proctor discharges his duties with great professionalism-until the ferrying of his own father goes dramatically awry, exposing cracks in Prospera’s edenic veneer. Proctor Bennett, an elite resident of the socially regimented archipelago world of Prospera, works as a “ferryman,” assisting aging fellow Prosperans to transition peacefully to their next “iteration,” the reconstitution of their personalities in younger bodies. ![]() Bestseller Cronin’s first novel since his Passage trilogy is a fantastic extravaganza all its own, with a plot that hinges on unpredictable twists that run far ahead of reader expectations. ![]() ![]() Women’s training in self defense was both a reflection of and a response to the broader cultural issues of the time, including the women’s rights movement and the campaign for the vote. ![]() Some women were inspired to take up boxing and jiu-jitsu for very personal reasons that ranged from protecting themselves from attacks by strangers on the street to rejecting gendered notions about feminine weakness and empowering themselves as their own protectors. It is nearly impossible in today’s day and age to imagine a world without the concept of women’s self defense. However, few realize that the Progressive Era also witnessed the birth of the women’s self-defense movement. At the turn of the twentieth century, women famously organized to demand greater social and political freedoms like gaining the right to vote. ![]() The surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women’s empowerment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This decision mattered - and, today, still matters - for the way in which it blurred the lines between what we call poetry and what we label prose. Struck by their poetic sensibility, Yeats lifted them from the text, added line breaks, and declared them a seminal work of modern English poetry. Yeats came across these lines in a passage of Pater’s analytic prose. Well, because the poem wasn’t actually a poem. A relatively traditional poet, Yeats opened the anthology with a startling choice - a poem by Walter Pater, entitled “Mona Lisa.” With this inclusion, Yeats delivered a decisive statement on poetry. Yeats edited the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. ![]() ![]() He is a Shadow Man in love with Jenny who would like her to remain by his side for eternity, meaning that the group will be trapped until she accepts, they beat the game or they die. ![]() Julian, the owner of More Games, is waiting for them. When Jenny's friends open it at the party, they find a cardboard haunted house and detailed instructions to play, which includes writing down their deepest fears, reciting the Oath of the Game and using cards to guide their movements.īarely nine cards in, the group gets sucked into the haunted house. Running from a group of thugs, she hides in the mysterious shop More Games, where the owner coaxes her to buy a blank box. The first book, The Hunter, starts with Jenny Thornton, a goody-to-shoes teenager, who is planning her long-term boyfriend Tom's birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With every incident, however, the value of each individual becomes clear to the others, and they coalesce into a unified band. But few of them have been far from home, and their journey is perilous: They're attacked by rats in a barn, must cross a creek, and are lulled into a false sense of security in a warren whose rabbits turn out to be fed-and harvested-by a farmer. When Hazel's clairvoyant brother, Fiver, predicts a catastrophe, Hazel gathers other young rabbits willing to flee to establish a new warren of their own. Charismatic characters, nail-biting action, and an engrossing plot combine to produce a classic. Never mind that the characters in this long and complex but thrilling epic are rabbits-Beatrix Potter, this isn't. A band of young males, relegated to the fringes of society, set out to find a place where they can live free and proud. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a 150K word dark romance and may contain triggers for some due to sexual situations, language, and violence. J/P & OTT Hero (jealous/possessive & over the top) TW (Please see the author's note on the inside) But like all things, what started out as a game soon became a fight for survival. A way that the Lords manipulate you into doing what they want.Īfter being sucked into the dark, twisted world of the Lords, I embraced my new role and allowed Ryat to parade me around like the trophy I was to him. He made me believe that anyway, but it was just another lie. ![]() He offered me what no one else ever had-freedom. I never got the chance to do what I wanted until Ryat Alexander Archer came along and gave me an option for a better life. My entire life has been planned out for me. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it’s not. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. ![]() They are above all-the most powerful men in the world. An all-new dark standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Shantel Tessierīarrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Starring: Traci Lords, Marilyn Jess, Alain L'Yle, Alban Ceray, Andre Kay, Dominique St.Clair.ĭescription: Traci I Love You was Traci Lords final adult film and also interestingly enough the only legal film to be made while she was over the age of 18.In Traci I Love You, Traci Lords is still the reigning queen of good girl gone bad.A French film festival is the setting where Traci discovers true love and the ultimate sex adventure.It's the 70's and Traci is all big hair, big attitude, and tortured angst.This is a story of a glamour photographer's fixation with a beautiful model named Traci.He finds her image to be the very essence of sensuality.She finally agrees to pose for him and they begin a love affair, where he helps her to explore her sexuality through his underworld connections. ![]() |