![]() ![]() ![]() Night Film, the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.ĭriven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.įor McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. ![]() Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. ![]() On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĪ page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist who becomes obsessed with the mysterious death of a troubled prodigy-the daughter of an iconic, reclusive filmmaker. ![]()
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In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. “Captivating, suspenseful…tantalizing.” - People Magazine “ Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints.The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down. Winner of Goodreads Choice Award for Best FictionĮntertainment Weekly's “ Best Beach Bet ”Ī USA Today Hot Books for Summer Selection THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, now an HBO series. ![]() ![]() Swanson has degrees in history from the University of Chicago, where he was a student of John Hope Franklin, and in law from the University of California, Los Angeles. James Swanson is the Edgar Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. Born on Lincoln's birthday, he has studied and collected books, documents, photographs, art, and artifacts from Abraham Lincoln's life-and death-since he was ten years old. Swanson serves on the advisory council of the Ford's Theatre Society. He has held a number of government and think-tank posts in Washington, D.C., including at the United States Department of Justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. ![]() He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.īlackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. ![]() ![]() The town of Wausau, Wisconsin is the epicenter of a very strange events. One is the HBO show " The Leftovers" and the other is the Kirkman show "Outcast". Revival brings to mind two different tv shows. Thank the gods I bought both of the large deluxe editions because I just didn't want to stop reading.Īnd then I was like.OH MY FUCKING SHIT!!Ī damn fine comic. 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Will it be Bach I shall hear or just a Cole Porter song? ![]() ![]() To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: What reading level is Fear of Flying book? ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
![]() ![]() As where ' Julio’s Day' began to sprawl across decades and family lines, ' Marble Season' focuses on simply a few months worth of childhood memories. ![]() Similar to his other recent release, ' Marble Season' uses pastiche, abandoning traditional narrative to tell the story of life. Having the narrative split between three boys, aged (approximately) 4, 8, and 12, Gilbert is able to relay experiences from three distinct periods in growing up which allows the narrative to simultaneously touch on the feeling of being left out because of your age, boyhood obsessions with card games, and the evolving relationship with girls over this period of time. This gives the book a depth that text and pictures alone could never create. ![]() ' Marble Season', shifting between memories from childhood to post-puberty, creates a narrative of moments that are so intimate that they begin to relate to everyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McKnight knows the risks such stylistic pyrotechnics can incur, and for the most part he is able to balance his love for words with his commitment to the less showy aspects of storytelling. Each monologue in "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas" is verbal music, music whose orchestration is so compelling that it threatens to overwhelm the events and characters meant to be served by the energy of the language.īut Mr. This is a writer who hears the complex symphony of daily talk, who functions as a kind of medium for his varied narrators' manic confessions, lyric incantations, heartbroken appeals and indictments. IN this memorable collection of stories, which follows the novel "I Get on the Bus" and an earlier collection, "Moustapha's Eclipse," Reginald McKnight dazzles us again with his gift for capturing voices. ![]() |