![]() ![]() Before an execution a sponge was soaked in brine to better conduct the charge of direct current electricity that ran through the wire, through the sponge and into the condemned man`s brain -> Usually King only wrote facts, but when he used expressions like, terrorized sweat, it makes you feel horrified and anxious. A cord ran from it and through a gasket - circled hole in the cinder block wall behind the chair. He has stout oak legs, broad oak legs, broad oak arms that had absorbed the terrorized sweat of scares of men in the last minutes of their live and a metal cap. ![]() ![]() Old Sparky is sitting upon a plank platform at the southeast corner of the storeroom. Wharton: evil, crazy, mad, he actually murdered the twins, he is a good actor (plays the quiet sick man and then he starts fighting, when they bring him to the E-Block) Percy: mean, brutal, evil, related to the governor Paul: narrator headscrew, married, had a urinary infection and so he found out that Coffey has a "gift of God" Coffey: caught for raping and murdering the Dett. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when strangers appear, the mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won't stop until they get it.įor more in this gritty world, join Lynn on an epic journey to find home in the companion novel, In a Handful of Dust. The first three chapters are in the body of this email, per your submission guidelines. I have been a YA librarian in the public school system for seven years, allowing me to spend forty hours a week with my target audience. ![]() ![]() Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. NOT A DROP TO DRINK (69,000 words) is a post-apoc survival YA. ![]() She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty-or doesn't leave at all. Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and most important, people looking for a drink. New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant says Not a Drop to Drink is a debut "not to be missed." With evocative, spare language and incredible drama, danger, and romance, Mindy McGinnis depicts one girl's journey in a frontierlike world not so different from our own. Fans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story where water is worth more than gold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in 1985 in the fictional town of Clanton, Miss., “A Time to Kill” described Jake’s defense of an undeniably guilty but very sympathetic client - a Black man on trial for killing the two white men who brutally raped his 10-year-old daughter. ![]() He first appeared more than 30 years ago in Grisham’s debut novel, “A Time to Kill” (1989), which began with a printing of 5,000 copies but became a runaway best seller (and a movie, starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock) after the explosive popularity of Grisham’s second novel, “The Firm” (1991), which didn’t feature Brigance. ![]() “A Time for Mercy” is the third John Grisham novel to feature Brigance, a small-town Mississippi lawyer specializing in unpopular, seemingly unwinnable cases. It’s reassuring to remember that not everyone is crazy and unpredictable, and that books, even books about crime and punishment, can help restore our equilibrium in this season of high anxiety. It’s nice to return to the courtroom with someone we trust. Hello again, Jake Brigance! You’ve come back at the right time. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was this space kick that made me leave Jim in the first place. ![]() People keep coming up to her from every direction asking her for books.I'm trapped. Anyway, the closer I get to this girl, the older she becomes, until she turns into a middle-aged spinster librarian. Actually I have it so often I've even given it a name. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one." I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I was terribly aware of it in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. Quotable: "It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really have lived that I never really will live-exist or whatever-in the sense that other people do. I don't know how I feel about this book the ending caught me unawares. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Last Unicorn" is remembered now for its stylish look of curved lines and pastel colors, but thinking about a live-action version of "The Last Unicorn" is making me scratch my chin a little bit. and responsible for more than a few nightmares.īeagle, who finally regained the rights to his literary work after a prolonged legal battle with his former manager which is still ongoing, was given the opportunity to write the screenplay for the animated version of his novel, so it's safe to assume he'll have input on the live-action film. The book is considered to be one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, and the animated feature film is a Gen X favorite. ![]() She sets out on a journey to discover what happened to the rest of her kind, encountering fantastical beings along the way, some who wish to help, and others who wish to exploit the last unicorn for their own nefarious means. First published in 1968, "The Last Unicorn" tells the story of the supposed last unicorn after the malevolent Red Bull herded unicorns to the ends of the Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect is the ratings boost his show desperately needs. As a non-Jewish single dad, Chris doesn’t check any of Dara’s boxes. Until her beloved bubbe shares Dara’s checklist for “The Perfect Jewish Husband” on national television and charming news anchor Chris Steadfast proposes they turn Dara’s search into must-see TV. When it comes to her own love life, she’s been idling indefinitely. ![]() A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor) Baggage-free (no previous marriages, no children) And of course-he must be Jewish As the creator and CEO of the popular Jewish dating app J-Mate, matchmaker Dara Rabinowitz knows the formula for lasting love-at least, for everyone else. ![]() From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the natives, Shar-Lon, discovered the Repository some years before and used its "Gifts" (advanced technology) to end planetary wars that were leading to a possible nuclear holocaust. ![]() ![]() Once there, they are mistaken for "the Builders", those who the planet's native populace, a culture similar to late-20th-century Earth, believe are the creators of the derelict, which they call the "Repository of the Gifts". While investigating an alien derelict, Geordi La Forge and Data are sent to a solar system several light-years away by a transporter with interstellar range, to a similar derelict orbiting an Earth-like planet. The novel takes place in the 24th century of the Star Trek science fiction universe, based on the then new television's shows' characters. It is set at an undetermined point during the series' first season. The Peacekeepers is a 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel by Gene DeWeese. ![]() ![]() Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the “other kind of mom” is flipped upside down-along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives. ![]() ![]() After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up-um, what?-in each other’s bodies. Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They’re about to find out thanks to one freaky week. Especially to Celeste, who plays her superior parenting against Wendy whenever she can. She even spends at least one waking hour a day with her kids. On a minute-by-minute schedule, she makes the working-mom hustle look easy. Wendy Charles is a celebrated productivity consultant, columnist, and speaker. The only thing that ruins it all is her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, who makes no secret of what she thinks of Celeste’s life choices every chance she gets. Despite her all-organic, SunButter-loving, free-range kids, her immaculate home, and her volunteering awards, she still has time to relax with a nice glass of pinot at the end of the day. What a difference a week makes in a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud novel by the Washington Post bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler.Ĭeleste Mason is the Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers’ nightmares. ![]() Two moms as opposite as a Happy Meal and a quinoa bowl. ![]() ![]() Many reviewers dislike Vincent’s banshees because they are hysterical women who can only be calmed by a man. I just didn’t expect all of the comments about the gender politics to be completely opposite of my own observations. I expected comments about the gender politics. I expected remarks about the social satire and thinly veiled barbs aimed at Disney, which are particularly well-timed given the public meltdown of Lindsay Lohan. I expected more comments about the dark ending. For My Soul to Save, it was the latter situation. Sometimes it sharpens my focus, other times it confuses me. What has been less documented is the fact that sometimes I read other people’s reviews before I write my own. ![]() My changing feelings about Rachel Vincent’s novels have been well documented on the internet. Young adult urban fantasy released by Harlequin Teen 29 Dec 09 ![]() Liviania’s review of My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers, Book 2) by Rachel Vincent ![]() ![]() ![]() You will not be dissatisfied with this work, adventure drama fiction at its finest. Early books emit excellence unlike any from modern times. A true book of worth, a classic that lives in an era of timeless distinction. ![]() Praised by Charles Dickens as "delightful, and touched with the most tender and delicate manner," the novel remains a favorite with students and aficionados of nineteenth-century literature. Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a book by an England woman first published in 1853 United Kingdom. Gaskell, the author preferred Cranford to all her other works, which include a popular biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë. Tales of the heroism and self-sacrifice of Captain Brown, the surprisingly betrothal of Lady Glenmire, and the future for pretty but poor Miss Jessie support a web of subtle but serious themes that include the movement from aristocratic to middle-class values, the separate spheres and diverse experiences of men and women, and the curious coexistence of customs old and new in a changing society. Author Elizabeth Gaskell situated her stories in a hamlet very like the one in which she grew up, and her affectionate but unsentimental portraits of the residents of Cranford offer a realistic view of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s.Ĭranford recounts the events and activities in the loves of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. ![]() A sensitive and moving portrait of a Victorian town, captured at a transitional period in English society, Cranford first appeared serially in Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words from 1851 to 1853, and in book form in 1853. ![]() |