![]() ![]() ![]() She clearly falls for him, and fast, offering him a lift back into town once they’re down on the campus. Henry Armitage (Ed Begley) – who is aware of the Whateley family’s past - makes it clear in no uncertain terms that the book cannot leave the campus library.Īs Wilbur goes about his business, he meets a pretty student named Nancy (Sandra Dee). When Wilbur arrives at Miskatonic University in search of The Necronomicon, Dr. His mother, Lavinia (Joanna Moore Jordan), was tossed into a mental hospital after he was born and his family has a strange relationship with the town’s past, especially his weird grandfather (Sam Jaffe). Wilbur Whateley (Dean Stockwell) is, in the eyes of the population of the titular town he calls home, from bad stock. Cast: Dean Stockwell, Joanna Moore Jordan, Sam Jaffe, Ed Begley, Sandra Deeĭirector Daniel Haller (who previously made Die Monster Die for AIP, taking on Lovecraft’s The Color Out Of Space) returns Lovecraftian lore with 1970’s atmospheric and creepy feature, The Dunwich Horror for AIP. ![]()
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![]() ![]() History: “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914” by Christopher Clark Graphic Novel/Comics: “Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life” by Ulli Lust ![]() If you haven’t read it, do so!īiography: “Bolivar: American Liberator” by Marie AranaĬurrent Interest: “Five Days at Memorial” by Sheri Finkįiction: “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth OzekiĪrt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: “We Need New Names” by NoViolet Bulawayo I would have been pleased with any of the winners, but Lust’s book was one of my favorites of the year and is truly a novel with a dense examination of youthful ignorance, gender roles, the limits of friendship and early punk culture viewed through an impromptu trip to Italy by two Austrian girls without money.
![]() ![]() “Go on, now,” he urges, his gruff voice cracking. ![]() He’s had it since he walked back from the pay phone. I’ve never seen that look on Daddy’s face before. Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable, and Trent is desperate to find a way into Kacey’s guarded heart-even if it means revealing an explosive secret that could shatter both their worlds. Trent Emerson has smoldering blue eyes and deep dimples, and perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. She can handle anything-anything but her mysterious neighbor in apartment 1D. They’re struggling to make ends meet at first, but Kacey’s not worried. Armed with two bus tickets, Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. ![]() Love them.įour years ago, Kacey Cleary’s life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. After a terrible car accident destroys her life as she knew it, twenty-year-old Kacey escapes to Florida, where she encounters an irresistible man determined to capture her wounded heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Siemann draws on previously unexamined archives to bring this multilayered and dazzling man to life. But short of compromising on his overarching goal Metternich aimed to accommodate liberalism and nationalism as much as possible. He was, as Henry Kissinger has observed, the father of realpolitik. That often required him, as the Austrian Empire’s foreign minister and chancellor, to back authority. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized.Ĭlemens von Metternich emerged from the horrors of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Siemann shows, committed above all to the preservation of peace. Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. ![]() A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() "An epistolary descent into a living nightmare. ![]() A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen-and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts.Įpisode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined.įade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. ![]() ![]() He could see the concern etched in his face. “Wolf! What do you think you’re doing?” Joris hollered as he strode toward him. Startled gazes shot toward him as they abruptly changed direction. ![]() One way or the other, he needed to find out if Aliyana still lived. He whirled the wheel all the way to the right, turning headlong into a favorable wind. But then again, h e’d seen impossible before in the guise of a lovely witch. For surely he wanted to believe so much that she didn’t perish in Cartagena- Wolf paused and for a moment, he reconsidered the impossible notion. His heart pounded against his chest as he mulled over a possible reason for the strange phenomena. Please don’t leave me…” a heart-wrenching sob followed the mournful wordsĬall him crazy, but those pitiful words sounded as if they drifted into his mind from the west. This time, he could hear her anguish and it matched his own. Those words echoed first inside his mind, and then resounded throughout his entire being. ![]() “Oh, Wolf! You promised you wouldn’t leave me… You promised…” ![]() He shook his head in despair, took in a deep breath of salty air, and slowly released it. Each time the experience renewed his pain. More than once, he fancied he heard the sound of her voice in the billowing breeze. ![]() The fierce wind they’d battled during the storm finally abated. Wolf stood at the helm, his gaze fixed, but not seeing. Wolf must bridge both space and time to claim the ![]() ![]() ![]() Mythology-based fantasy: Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series set the trend – and now series like The Kane Chronicles, Lost Heroes of Olympus and Goddess Girls are capitalizing.The year of dystopian fiction: With best-selling series like The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner, readers can’t seem to get enough of fiction that suggests the future may be worse than the present.The expanding Young Adult (YA) audience: More and more adults are reading YA books, as the audience for these stories expands.“We’ve seen some exciting innovation in children’s publishing in 2010, including new formats and platforms for storytelling that are helping more and more kids become book lovers,” said Judy Newman, President of Scholastic Book Clubs. The list was compiled by editors from Scholastic, including children’s literature experts from Scholastic Book Clubs and Scholastic Book Fairs, divisions of Scholastic that distribute books from all publishers through schools nationwide. ![]() ![]() Scholastic, the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, today released a list of 10 Trends in Children’s Books from 2010. Scholastic Experts Issue List of ‘Ten Trends in Children’s Books from 2010’ ![]() ![]() ![]() His first published science fiction story was The High Purpose, which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. During most of his adult life, he held a captain's commission in the Free Lithuanian Army.īudrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. His family was sent to the United States by the Lithuanian government in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old. He was the son of the consul general of the Lithuanian government, (the pre-World War II government still recognized after the war by the United States, even though the Soviet-sponsored government was in power throughout most of Budrys's life). Sentry", "William Scarff", "Paul Janvier", and "Sam & Janet Argo".Ĭalled "AJ" by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A. Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his time, the fighting between the two groups became fierce. ![]() Dante, as a Guelph, was a supporter of the imperial authority because he passionately wanted Italy united into one central state. ![]() In time, the original alliances and allegiances became confused in strange ways. The rivalry between the two parties not only set one city against another, but also divided individual cities and families into factions. The Ghibellines fought hard in this struggle for the nobility to retain its feudal powers over the land and the peopleIn contrast, the Guelphs, of which Dante was a member, were mainly supported by the rising middle class, represented by rich merchants, bankers, and new landowners.0 They supported the cause of the papacy in opposition to the Holy Roman Emperor. Originally, the Ghibellines represented the medieval aristocracy, which wished to retain the power of the Holy Roman Emperor in Italy, as well as in other parts of Europe. In Dante's time, there were two major political factions, the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. In contrast, the HRE maintained that the papacy had claim only to religious matters, not to temporal matters. The cause of this struggle was the papal claim that it also had authority over temporal matters, that is, the ruling of the government and other secular matters. Each claimed to be of divine origin and to be indispensable to the welfare of mankind. Throughout the Middle Ages, politics was dominated by the struggle between the two greatest powers of that age: the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire (HRE). ![]() ![]() And what did they study? They studied everything. ![]() ![]() It was the first true research institute in the history of the world. On its dark side, super bolts of lightning illuminate the clouds as first revealed by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979. The largest planet in our solar system is Jupiter. ![]() A mere one and a half billion kilometers. We are now only 80 light minutes from home. Saturn’s majestic rings are made of trillions of orbiting snowballs. If it has a solid surface, it must lie far below the clouds we see. There are new worlds to chart even this close to home. The rings of Uranus were first detected in 1977. Its moon, Charon, remained undiscovered until 1978. Only a century ago, we were ignorant even of the existence of the planet Pluto. Even in the outskirts of our own solar system, we humans have barely begun our explorations. Only four light hours from Earth is the planet Neptune and its giant satellite, Triton. We are approaching a single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets: the family of the sun. ![]() Each system is isolated from its neighbors by the light years. Most stars belong to systems of two or three or many suns bound together by gravity. ![]() |