![]() Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. ![]() This first pressing of the Expanded Edition has been issued as a large format hardcover.Ĭinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. To mark its 10th anniversary, Kier-La Janisse and FAB Press have reteamed to produce an expanded edition the book, featuring new writing on 100 more films – many of which were inspired in part by the book itself – and hundreds of new images. In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and a consideration of female madness, both onscreen and off. Kier-La Janisse’s HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films that examines hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. ![]() In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Pop Culture / Music / Humor / Biographies / Cookbooks Local Lore: Appalachia & WNC Myths, Ghosts, Witchcraft & More!Īctivity / Coloring / Pop-Up / Sticker Books ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. A med school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire to care for her father, dying from a mysterious brain disease. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. ![]() ![]() ![]() The secret is to work with your body, not against it.Įxploding the many diet myths on the market, Dr. But that doesn t mean you can t lose weight! Here at last is a science based diet that will give you the body you want. 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The next day, the discovery of his body with a vicious racist epithet carved into his chest leads to the quick arrest of two loathsome white supremacists. ![]() World renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he encounters a broken down pickup on the secluded country road to his home. ![]() The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth. The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime… A Good Samaritan passerby a Nobel Prize winning professor… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the same voice that I hear down the phone when I call Pollock at home in Ross County, Ohio – where Netflix film is set, and where the author has lived his whole life. ![]() These are Pollock’s words, but Antonio Campos’s critically acclaimed adaptation of his book has allowed us to hear them in his voice for the first time. “Four-hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957,” a voice rich in Appalachian husk explains over images of bare trees and secluded wooden buildings, “nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.” The opening lines of new Netflix crime thriller, The Devil All The Time, will be very familiar if you’ve read the Donald Ray Pollock novel it’s based on. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am glad the two of them found something they could do together, but I do not think that is the answer for everyone. It seems he just liked to hear himself read and she just liked to listen. There is very little discussion of the books they read. So Alice lets her father read to her every night from the age of 10 until she leaves for college at 18. ![]() There is an older sister, but she leaves as early as possible and never looks back. In fact, the father is so clueless that he only notices the mother left when he comes in expecting Thanksgiving turkey and finds it still frozen. There were some hints about a very troubled childhood, including a suicide attempt and abandonment by her mother. ![]() In spite of spending every night reading together, I never felt any warmth or affection between them. I found the language stilted and conversations unrealistic. I am amazed people thought it was well-written, because it felt like a little kid trying to write an adult book. I loved the concept but intensely disliked the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!. ![]() Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Supported by current scientific and medical research, Dr Caroline Leaf exposes the 'switch' in your brain that will enable you to live a happier, healthier, more enjoyable life where you achieve your goals, get your thoughts under control, and even become more intelligent. Your mind can be renewed, toxic thoughts and emotions can be swept away, and you really can Switch on your brain. ![]() Dr Caroline Leaf explains in everyday language how brain science lines up with Scripture. Thankfully, we are living in a time of scientific revolution. Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic thoughts that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for illness. Though a thought may seem harmless, if it becomes toxic, it can become physically, emotionally or spiritually dangerous. Do you ever feel like your brain has been 'switched off'? Have you ever felt discouraged, unfocused or overwhelmed? Are there unhealthy patterns in your life or your family that you just can't seem to break?Įvery time you have a thought, it is actively changing your brain and your body - for better or for worse. ![]() ![]() His biography is loosely re-created as fiction in Trust’s first act, “Bonds,” a thinly veiled novel written by one Harold Vanner, a hanger-on who chronicles the myth of Benjamin and Helen Rask, also a childless, affluent Manhattan couple: their opulent Fifth Avenue mansion, the shady deals that buoy them through the 1929 crash, and Helen’s fatal illness, which ends tragically in a Swiss sanatorium. ![]() A finance titan in the early 20th century, Bevel has built spectacularly on fortunes amassed by his forebears. Trust fulfills that book’s promise, and then some. Published in 2017, Diaz’s debut, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. ![]() As an American epic, Trust gives The Great Gatsby a run for its money. Free markets are never free, as he suggests our desire to punish often trumps our generous impulses. Each story talks to the others, and the conversation is both combative and revelatory. He structures Trust around a childless, affluent Manhattan couple, Andrew and Mildred Bevel, in a quartet of narratives that open up like Matryoshka dolls: a novel, a partial memoir, a memoir of that memoir, and a journal. He transports readers back to the Roaring Twenties and subsequent Depression, when our collective labors bore rotten fruit, seeding disparities that are still with us. ![]() ![]() Scott Fitzgerald was dead wrong when he quipped that there are no second acts in American lives as Hernan Diaz probes in Trust, his enthralling tour de force, there are at least four wildly disparate perspectives on the rich and infamous. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the individual love stories are completed each time, you still have that interconnectedness that comes with reoccurring characters and that warm fuzzy feeling that found family tropes give me. ![]() ![]() Set at Lovelight farms, a Christmas tree farm in a lovely small town, the series follows different characters on their journey to finding love. So, why not shine a light (no pun intended) on the Lovelight series? After a friend of mine posted their fancasting of some of the characters and there just happened to be an actor I really love mentioned for one of them, I could no longer resist and had to pick them up myself – no regrets! What is the Lovelight series about? While I talk about TV shows and movies aplenty on here, books sometimes take a backseat, although that was never intentional. It’s almost the end of March and I just figured I had to attempt at least one somewhat creative post. ![]() ![]() Remember to participate in the colouring, mask design and drawing competitions. We hope you enjoy the activities in this book as much as we have enjoyed writing it. ![]() You will pick up core literary skills, essay writing skills, creative writing skills and critical reading skills.Įvery genuine attempt you make with every exercise is a step closer to attaining literary greatness. In this Study Guide and Activity Book, you will dig deep into the text and learn many new literary terms. Take your time to draw, create, colour, respond, analyse and explore this treasure trove of stimulating language and literary activities over days and weeks. The novel revolves around how Mr Fox outsmarts and outwits the farmers to avoid getting killed.Ī wide range of exercises in the activity book is incorporated to help children apply the principles they have learnt.ĭo not complete this entire activity book in one sitting. These three farmers put their heads and resources together to catch Mr Fox as he has been stealing from them. Conflict between the three meanest farmers, and a cunning and clever fox. Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl is a fantastic book about conflict. ![]() |