![]() If you already don’t like them, you’ll probably think I knew it! If you like clowns, you might change your mind after this. The Pilo Family Circus is both completely creepy and absolutely fascinating. I almost hate to recommend this book because … what does that say about me? ![]() And JJ wants Jamie dead! Echoes of Lovecraft, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and early Stephen King resound through the pages of this magical, gleefully macabre work nominated as Best Novel by the International Horror Guild. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. Yet in this place – peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous – where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. Ain’t that the best news you ever got?” Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind’s greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. “You have two days to pass your audition. Themes: / horror / circus / psychotic clowns / ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Audible Studios for Underland Press ![]()
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![]() ![]() Utopia was not the first book to imagine a perfect society Plato's Republic, for example, does the same thing. Its title meant, in Greek, either "good place" or "no place," and the book described an ideal society in order to criticize More's own society. In 1516, Sir Thomas More published a book called Utopia. In 1947 a lung infection contracted in Burma worsened, and in 1950 Orwell succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 46. Both books were widely considered to be indictments of Communism under Joseph Stalin, but Orwell insisted that they were critiques of totalitarian ideas in general, and warned that the nightmarish conditions he depicted could take place anywhere. He is best known for his satires of totalitarian rule: Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Through his autobiographical work about poverty in London ( Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933), his experiences in colonial Burma ( Burmese Days, 1934) and in the Spanish Civil War ( Homage to Catalonia, 1938), and the plight of unemployed coal miners in England ( The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937), Blair (who wrote under the name George Orwell) exposed and critiqued the human tendency to oppress others politically, economically, and physically. ![]() From 1922-27 he served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. Eric Blair was born and spent his youth in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second season, which has no narrative connection to the first season, was co-created by Alexander Woo and Max Borenstein and is mostly set in an American-run Japanese internment camp during World War II. Harry Goodsir, and Ciarán Hinds as Franklin. Featured in the cast are Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier, Tobias Menzies as Commander James Fitzjames, Paul Ready as Dr. Kajganich and Soo Hugh serve as co- showrunners. The first season was developed by David Kajganich and is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic from 1845 to 1848. It premiered on March 25, 2018, with a second season, subtitled Infamy, premiering on August 12, 2019. The series is named after Dan Simmons's 2007 novel, which serves as the basis for the first season. The Terror is an American supernatural horror drama anthology television series developed for AMC. ![]() ![]() ![]() One by one, they tell their stories, which reveal Packer’s “great compassion for her characters, with their ancient injuries, their blundering desires. Years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence sets off a struggle over the family’s future. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her. In less than a decade they have four children. Struck by a vision of his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. ![]() The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. ![]() From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” ( Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades.īill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() They run the spectrum, my friends, and this book was honest about it.Īt least it was also clear about "pre-contact" and "post-contact" (with europeans) and how the weapons changed because of that. On the other hand, it didn't shy away from one big TRUTH others avoid: Some Native American Tribes were VERY warlike, and others downright pacifist/cowardly. it's all very confusing, and this book tried the whole 'noble savages who lived here before us' thing, and it didn't work. ![]() They're not even as related to one another as you'd think in many cases, while in others, some tribes are pretty much just the same people living differently. :Pįor one, it feeds on the one big LIE about "Native Americans". and then I had the gall to be annoyed that it wasn't a very good book, when it came to accuracy and political correctness. Okay, I admit, I grabbed this one because it was a quickie book that might help me with an RPG character creation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lotería uses the conceit of the Mexican card game to deliver over fifty miniature tales, each drawn from the deep well of Latin American folklore and beliefs. Sometimes you want a short, sharp hit of horror and magic. We’ll be here throughout the year to update the list of horror titles you mustn’t miss. It’s scary out there alone though, so let us be your guide. Whether you’re looking for a story that will chill your blood, darken your soul, or turn your stomach, this year’s macabre offerings will provide. ![]() There are major titles from huge names, nasty little gems from literary darlings, and, as ever, the small presses continue to push the genre in new, outrageous directions. That upward trajectory looks to reach new heights throughout the year, with horror creeping in to dominate the literary landscape from several directions at once. Whatever the reason, the genre is now more expansive, more inclusive, and more innovative than at any point in its history. Or maybe a whole generation raised on Stephen King has finally come of age and taken the reins. Maybe it’s because of the pandemic, as authors have had more time than ever to sit and mull over their darkest fantasies. (There, that’s the obligatorily gruesome metaphor checked off.) 2023 has already served up a fresh platter of bloody morsels and sweet, sickly delights to suit every morbid appetite. Straight from a 2022 that featured some of the best horror fiction in recent memory, we’ve hurtled into another banner year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it a coincidence – I asked, rather rhetorically – that radical feminists found themselves once again in cahoots with the religious Right?īut then, there I was, nodding. The rise of TERFism (trans-exclusionary radical feminism) in the past few years only solidified my conviction that radical feminism had run its course as a political and intellectual movement. MacKinnon’s ongoing commitment to law and law reform as well as her objections to ‘postmodernism’ that more than occasionally hinged on pedestrian anti-intellectualism ( ‘Nice neutral word, difference, and it has all that French credibility.’) did not help my relationship with radical feminism either. Soon thereafter, I discovered the ‘sex wars’, lesbian separatism, and – worst of all – Judith Butler, who took my thinking about gender toward a radically (?) different direction. ![]() Before I knew it, I was knee-deep in Catharine MacKinnon’s Toward a Feminist Theory of the State and I was…furiously nodding in approval? It had been almost a decade since my last semi-serious engagement with radical feminism, with which I became intensely, but very briefly, enamoured in the late 2000s. I decided to start with the basics, including a crash course on feminist legal theory for those of my students who were not familiar with it. In late 2020, I found myself teaching a course on gender, law and development. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we’ve become - or hope to win over. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Understand how to ’Choose the Right Victim’, ’Appear to Be an Object of Desire’ and ’Confuse Desire and Reality’. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. ’Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint? This book will show you which. Parent Company: Profile Books Ltd Read a Description of The Art of Seduction Book Description: List Price: $23.72 Format: Paperback, 496 pages ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. Paperback | 240 pages | Publication Date: June 20, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() She and her husband, Robert, have three children: Will (and Lindsay), Teddy (and Ali), Ellie (and Matthew), and four grandchildren. She has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Town School and vice chair of National Hillel, and is a graduate of the Wexner-Heritage Program.Ī proud native of Wichita, Kansas, Amy previously had a career at IBM in marketing. During that time, she founded the New York Young Couples Division and was honored with the Leadership Development Division’s Humanitarian Service Award.Īmy has held a number of leadership positions at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, including serving on its Executive Committee. ![]() Her earlier UJA involvement included being on the Executive Committee of Business and Professional Women and the National Women’s Young Leadership Cabinet. Most recently, before becoming President, she focused on Jewish identity and next-generation engagement, and was Chair of the Jewish Life Department. Amy has served in a number of positions at UJA during her longstanding involvement. Deeply committed to the Jewish people her entire life, Amy believes that taking an active role in shaping the Jewish future is both a responsibility and an opportunity. ![]() |