The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.ĭriven by revenge, curiosity, and a thirst for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.įor McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. “Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.” Dean Baquet, The New York Times Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.
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Flawed human beings who just want to love and live. Devney Perry has a voice that resonates so deeply inside her vibrant characters. This series has touched my heart and climbed right to the tip top of my favorites list. Because his only chance at a future with her is by burying his past. Maybe if he can disguise the lies and hide the deceit, he can keep her from learning the truth. The promise of the good she could bring into his life is too hard to resist. He shouldn’t have tried to find her but he never was good at rejecting temptation. But years later, he’s back in Montana and unable to keep his distance. He took one look at her and ran in the opposite direction. Hunter was a different man when he first saw Maisy Holt from afar. She made that mistake before with another man. None of those feelings can be trusted, though. But when a handsome stranger walks into the lobby of her motel, her simple life is swept up in a wave of affection for his gentle heart. Her child is thriving, her business is growing, and her family is as close as they’ve ever been. Maisy is happily content with the life she’s built for herself and her young son in small-town Prescott, Montana. Worked variously as a guitarist in rock bands, as a factory worker, as a truck driver, and as a shipping clerk. Illustrator, beginning 1967 author, beginning 1971. ADDRESSES:Īuthor and illustrator of books for children. (in sales) and Rachel (a secretary) McPhail married Janis Lazarian, J(divorced) married second wife's name Mickey children: (first marriage) Tristian, Joshua, Gabrian (second marriage) Jaime three stepchildren. Born June 30, 1940, in Newburyport, MA son of Bernard E. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are more moral than you are. On marriage: “But there is a natural hostility between the married and the unmarried. “The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.” The author tells us in an aside that few authors write about the experience of being in love and that is mainly what the story is about. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.” It’s about falling in love with the emphasis on “falling.” It happens to this 58-year-old man instantaneously over dinner one night with a woman barely 20 years old a daughter of long-time friends of his. On love: Iris Murdoch made this famous quote: “Every artist is an unhappy lover. I’d say there are three main themes: love – the experience of falling in love and being in love the pros and cons of marriage, and art. And just like The Sea, we have a murder, an attempted murder and a suicide. These include his ex- and he assumes she wants to get back with him, which may or may not be true. He has always ‘used’ women and treated them callously old flames return making theatrical appearances at his door at inopportune times. The similarities with The Sea: we have a just-retired divorced man who has rented an ocean-front cottage. For fans of the author’s The Sea, The Sea, here’s a great book that has a similar tone and structure. “If we’re going to die anyway, I want to die with you. Mullin knows where he’s going with the story and if the second book was this good, I can only imagine how amazing the third one will be! I’m so looking forward to the third book in the trilogy, specially because I know that Mr. You cannot do stupid shit all the time and expect it to work out! He’s still a bit too naive and good-natured for his own good though so I was glad to see him pay dearly for his impulsiveness. I don’t think this is a good as Ashfall because Alex’ character is settled and he’s far away from the self-centered young man we met at the beginning of the first book. You cannot doubt that if something like that were to happen, the human race would devolve to its most base instincts. The societal breakdown and the lawlessness are so frightening because their portrayal is so real. In the road they learn how far some people are willing to go to survive. If you read the previous book and know how it ended, you wouldn’t be surprised that in this one Alex and Darla go back to Iowa to look for his parents. Mullin really knew where he was going because this book was so exciting and action packed that I had my heart in my mouth for like 20 chapters straight. This is the best second book in a trilogy I’ve ever read. So when her estranged, wealthy family reaches out with an offer that will allow her to better serve the community, she’s unable to say no. It’s hard for immigration attorney Gretchen not to feel a little Scrooge-ish about the excess of Christmas when her clients are scrambling to afford their rent. If it weren’t about to be the most magical time of year and the support of the Bromance Book Club, he’d be wallowing in self-pity. A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. 'Tis the season for a Bromance Book Club matchmaking mission! This time, they're pulling out the mistletoe for everyone's favorite country music star, Colton, and his second chance at love.Ĭountry music’s golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop. While Landon is a charismatic, good-looking chap and the student body president, Jamie is religious by nature, carrying a Bible with her at all times and adorned in an over-sized, dull sweater.īut when the contrasting worlds of these two people collide, new experiences and perspectives surface. Reclusive by nature, Landon still manages to rise up the hierarchy and establish his popularity at the top.Ī reluctant dance date with Jamie Sullivan, an oddball by Landon’s perspective, steers the story to unanticipated territory. Although he’s a popular kid and is best friends with Eric Hunter, one of the most popular kids in school, Landon is aided by issues at home, most noticeably the absence of his father in his life. Set in the 1950’s, the story revolves around Landon Carter, a 17-year-old high school senior. In such rigid confines where interaction is rare, how would it look like if one popular kid starts to fall in love with the unpopular kid? These two categories remain so far-fetched from each other that a mere interaction between them could spark monumental conversations. The hierarchy may differ circumstantially but essentially, they share one common element: the extremely popular and the extremely unpopular kids. However, it isn’t so contemporary at all, as this embedded hierarchy has existed for decades now. Contemporary high school is inherently hierarchical in nature. Scot Victore is the partner Jamie deserves in so many ways, he would never deny him, never force him to do anything. Shall he continue on with his beloved beautiful Valerio and try to work through their issues? If so what side of Valerio will prevail? The beautiful trusting, innocent side, or the controlling dominant jealous side. But Jamie has a decision to make, he has shared his life with two men for too long, it’s time to choose. And the idea of just walking away from both of them and forgetting love altogether, forgetting everything seems the easy way out. Neither are what he deserves, neither can provide him with everything he needs. Realising he has become a different person forces Jamie to rethink his relationship with both Scot and Valerio. His past and the truths hidden in it are no hidden no more. Two months of solitude have given Jamie the time to work through everything that he has hidden within himself and now he sees his life as it truly is. He is locked in a prison, but it’s not the hospital in which he is living in, it’s a prison of his own making, his mind. Jamie has remembered his powerful hidden love of Scot and what the loss of it drove him to do is too much for the unstable Jamie to cope with. Come to find out, the tarot deck is on many ways the cast of every great story- of life in fact. I had always shrouded the idea of the tarot deck in a mystical ignorance. I was so surprised to dig into each of the archetypes/characters of the Major Arcana. Detail became the dominant feature of this budding series. I also started to let myself doodle some in the creation of whimsical patterns. I found myself using everything from contour line to stipling to cross-hatching to delineate depth, shape, light and shadow, texture and tonal value. I had never limited myself to black ink on white paper most of my work has been in vivid color. I spent lots of of time developing this illustration because it was my only submission to this book cover “audition.” I developed many new techniques through this piece. Illustration I, The Fool, was my first of these illustrations. I began this series in a sort of audition for a book cover that I did not get. This series illustrates many things for me (pun intended). Do we agree that Alfred was great? But not modest. For which he became known as Alfred the Great. However, his defining moment of greatest was when he translated books from Latin, which only a few people could understand, into English, so more people could read them.īeginning a new age of literacy and knowledge. Over time Alfred brought the English kingdoms together and his coins call him the King of the English. So far, Alfred the not so great.īut eventually Alfred regrouped and raised an Anglo-Saxon army that defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington.Īlfred and Guthrum agreed to peace and to divide up the country.Īlfred kept Wessex in the southwest, Guthrum took the Viking lands in the North East, known as the Danelaw. However, he had to immediately defend his throne from Guthrum, a Viking warlord.Īlfred flees and hid in the Somerset Levels. Despite suffering from illness all his life, he outlived all his brothers and takes the throne in 871. What do we think now, great or not?Īlfred learned to read after his mother challenged her sons in recite a poem by heart from her favourite book.Įxcellent, we are on our way to greatness. Plus meet the man himself, Alfred, born in 849 and the youngest of five brothers. This is a great-o-meter to help you keep score. Did you know that is the statue of Alfred the Great? Ever wondered why he was so great? Well, let’s start at the beginning. |