![]() ![]() ![]() a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs a playable game of Senet - ancient Egyptian checkers - including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems Here are just a few of EGYPTOLOGY's special features: But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, foldout maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt - and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition - a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the bodies of two other women turn up, Casey and her colleagues must find out if it’s an outsider behind the killings or if the answer is more complicated than that…before another victim goes missing.Ĭasey Duncan returns in another heart-racing thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Buy A Darkness Absolute Unabridged by Armstrong, Kelley, Plummer, Therese (ISBN: 9781427282613) from Amazons Book Store. Taking shelter in a cave, they discover a former resident who’s been held captive for over a year. Now, in A Darkness Absolute, Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff’s deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded in a blizzard. What she didn’t expect is that Rockton comes with its own set of secrets and dangers. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. Darkest Powers Trilogy Omnibus Author Armstrong, Kelley Language english Publisher Doubleday Canada Publication Name Doubleday Canada Publication Year 2010 Format Deckle Edge, International Edition Type Paperback Number of Pages 832 Item Length 6.31 inches Item Width 1.75 inches Item Height 9.19 inches Item Weight 2. ![]() The follow-up to #1 NYT bestseller Kelley Armstrong’s acclaimed City of the Lost, Rockton town detective Casey Duncan makes a terrible-and dangerous-discovery in the woods outside of town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Characters will often be tormented by supernatural forces or driven mad by a compulsion. ![]() Psychological horror is also prevalent throughout his work. It’s often this imagery that circulates online and has brought in readers. The result is all kinds of terrifying body contortions – as made famous in works such as Uzumaki and Shiver. Junji Ito blends different styles of horror together, often combing them with other genres.īody horror is what he’s most known for. This is handy for anyone who wants to start reading Junji Ito’s works or wants to track down a specific short story. It lists all his works available in English and gives a brief overview. This guide acts as a basic introduction to the horror master. If not, you’re simultaneously in for a shock and a treat. If you’re familiar with his name, then you’ve probably seen some of his art online and know what I’m talking about. While many horror creators are coming out of Japan, Junji Ito has risen to the top due to his imaginative scenarios and over-the-top imagery. Since 1987, he’s been disturbing readers with short and long-form stories that blend several subgenres, such as psychological and body horror. You can’t talk about horror manga without mentioning Junji Ito. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she was a child she had loved clambering up on the ship’s rails, her father gripping the back of her shirt in his fist, and scouring the horizon for the telltale spouts that she was almost always the first to see. She had gone on dozens of Captain Dave whale-watch adventures over the last seventeen years: her best friend’s father was Captain Dave Angeln himself, and her own dad-a researcher at Woods Hole-often used the trips to collect data and observe mammalian life in the bay. The ocean filled her with joy and longing, all at once. She shoved it behind her ears and closed her eyes for a second, taking a deep breath of sea air-faintly like salt, faintly like cucumbers. ![]() THE WIND WHIPPED Hester’s hair around her face. ![]() ![]() Soon Ember must decide: Should she retreat to fight another day…or start an all-out war? A reckoning is brewing and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly. With assassins after them and Ember’s own brother helping Talon with the hunt, the rogues find an unexpected ally in Garret and a new perspective on the underground battle between Talon and St. ![]() Determined to save Garret from execution, Ember must convince Cobalt to help her break into the Order’s headquarters. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he’d signed his own death warrant. But Ember can’t forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed her-Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. ![]() ![]() Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. ![]() ![]() The man may be lost but his ideas have never been more alive. “It is almost as though his ideas have become so manifest that the man behind them has disappeared.” Wulf’s book is as much a history of those ideas as it is of the man. “Alexander von Humboldt has been largely forgotten in the English-speaking world,” writes Andrea Wulf in her thrilling new biography. The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) is all around us. Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk, the Humboldt penguin, the Humboldt squid, and more than a hundred other animal species Humboldt’s Lily, Humboldt’s Schomburgkia, and three hundred other plant species the minerals Humboldtit, Humboldtilith, and Humboldtin Humboldt Limestone, Humboldt Oolite, the Humboldt Formation, the Humboldt Current Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt Mont Humboldt, Humboldt Mountain, Humboldt Peak, and Humboldt ranges in China, South Africa, and Antarctica Humboldt Falls, Humboldt Glacier, Humboldt Bay, the Humboldt River, the Humboldt Sink, the Humboldt Salt Marsh four Humboldt counties and thirteen Humboldt towns in North America alone, the Humboldt crater and Mare Humboldtianum on the moon, and asteroid 54 Alexandra, orbiting the sun. ![]() Museo de la Ciudad de México/Gianni Dagli Orti/Art Archive/Art Resource ![]() ![]() ![]() Numbers bring ease (could be numbers associated with patterns, calculations, lists, time and/or personification). ![]() Escapes through a relationship (imagined or real).Escapes by playing the same music over and over. ![]()
![]() They believed in bringing unity by bringing the world under a common rule. The western region was initially ruled by the greatest of the warriors. Millions of years ago on the continent of Pangea there were two major cultural dominions. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightīlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,Īnd you, my father, there on the sad height,Ĭurse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,Īnd learn, too late, they grieve it on its way, Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Though wise men at their end know dark is right,īecause their words had forked no lightning they Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Old age should burn and rave at close of day 4 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Poem Analysis / Summary Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – The Poem ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t imagine being a mother at fourteen worse, I don’t even want to imagine being twelve and being told that the only thing I have left to do in life is create a set number of babies, then retire.ĭespite its title, Son is really about a mother, Claire. The “young girl” is Claire, fourteen years old, assigned to be a Birthmother. From the very first line: “The young girl cringed when they buckled the eyeless leather mask around the upper half of her face and blinded her,” Son transported me right back into Lowry’s world, but a much darker, more frightening one than what I remember from The Giver. Son is a far more adult, far more sombre book than The Giver, or perhaps I have just grown up. I’ve grown up with these books, and reaching the end of this series feels, in many ways, like ending a chapter in my own life. So you can imagine the chill I got when, reading Son at 29, I realized that I must again be fairly close to the age of Jonas in this story. One of the reasons The Giver resonated so much with me is that I read it when I was fairly close to the age of its protagonist Jonas. Lois Lowry’s The Giver changed my life when I was 14 (see story here), and reading Son feels like coming full circle. I can’t even begin to explain how much this book means to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Essentially a grand associative monologue, a stand-up routine-raw, seemingly extemporaneous, filled with self-loathing, cruelty, horror and grief-this short novel is a gift of pain, passed on by an imagined comedian to an imagined audience he’s provoking with a sledgehammer, and from there to the reader who submits to the bargain. The Israeli writer David Grossman’s latest novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, is anchored in the same artistic tradition. His wit has been honed by suffering, and there’s wisdom to be gained from watching the antics. ![]() I was a small child looking at slapstick pantomime, but I understood the covenant at the center of great comedic performance: You have to let the comedian pass on the pain. ![]() You laughed, but you had to feel sorry for him. Left out of the spotlight, he carried a sledgehammer and ran after the other clowns who wouldn’t have anything to do with him. The earliest comedy I remember with any clarity was created by a famous tragic clown, a circus performer whose painted mouth was perpetually turned down in a frown. ![]() |