Uncle Al explains that he has been the subject of a government test. All of the missing campers and Billy's parents emerge from the woods. However, Uncle Al laughs and says that Billy passed. When Uncle Al leaps at him, Billy fires his rifle at him. He says that two campers have escaped from the girls' camp, and the boys will have to hunt them. Uncle Al provides the boys with tranquilizer rifles. Larry guides Billy into the woods, and they find a group of boys and Uncle Al, the camp's leader. One night, Billy is awoken by Larry unexpectedly. Over time, many campers start disappearing. Larry, Billy's bunk counselor, seriously injures one of the campers during a game of scratchball. Mike, one of the campers, is bitten by a snake and is told that there is no nurse at the camp. As soon as the campers arrive, they are almost attacked by wolf-like creatures. When Billy gets there, a lot of scary things start to happen. Billy's parents, two scientists, have sent him to spend a portion of his summer at Camp Nightmoon.
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She knows she must produce a male heir without fail. Unwilling to marry but terrified to resist Henry's advances for fear she might share Anne's fate, and propelled by her family, Jane becomes queen of England a mere 10 days after Anne's execution. So Jane is appalled when King Henry shunts Katherine aside in his lustful pursuit of Anne Boleyn, but even more so when he takes Anne's life in his rush to wed - Jane herself! But her ambitious father has forced her to live at court as lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon, a fellow Catholic whom she soon comes to love and admire. Twenty-five-year-old Jane Seymour wants nothing more than to become a nun. In this third book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed historian and best-selling author brings new insight to this dramatic story, showing how pure fear for her life determined Jane Seymour's actions. A novel of the devout young woman who became the unwilling object of King Henry VIII's ardor - and the mother of his only son. This leaves the film with something of a tricky proposition, which it sadly fails to navigate all that well. All told, it’s not a great book the nature of King’s story means that it’s quite repetitive and there aren’t a whole lot of characters to root for. It is, however, one of the first King books that I read as a young ‘un and as such, I have a soft spot for it, despite its considerable flaws. Reviews were not kind to the first book that he wrote after his rehabilitation. It contains his truly go for broke endings that work better than in some of his others (not for Castle Rock or its residents, mind). A satire on greed culture, small town politics, and mob mentalities, Needful Things is one of Stephen King’s more cynical works with a streak of dark humour a mile wide. Kafka was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in August 1917. His works include The Metamorphosis, The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika. Instead the friend arranged for publication Kafka's longer stories, which have since brought him worldwide fame and have influenced many contemporary writers. At his death he asked a close friend to burn his remaining manuscripts, but the friend refused the request. He wrote very slowly and deliberately, publishing very little in his lifetime. Always neurotic, insecure, and filled with a sense of inadequacy, his writing is a search for personal fulfillment and understanding. After performing an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts, he obtained a position in the workman's compensation division of the Austrian government. He received a law degree at the University of Prague. Franz Kafka - JJFranz Kafka was born to middle-class Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1883. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. “Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet.” - Paste (Most Anticipated Horror Novels of 2023)Īlejandra no longer knows who she is. story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” ( Library Journal, starred review). RELEASE DATE: (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)Ī woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive. The first lesson is to make yourself strong.Īfter the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie.
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