Ante Mortem – pre-death. That space between drawing the first breath, and the last… otherwise known as life.Eleven stories for the eleventh hour. Snuggle in tight, have a glass of wine, light a candle. These stories have been given new life, and a new home; they’ve almost travelled this road before. Something always held them back, but now together, they’ve broken free.You may want to lock your doors, you never know when a starving doll, a wicked college student, a zombie horde or ghostly children will come to visit… Don’t get too comfortable, though, there’s always someone waiting to replace you. And definitely, absolutely, watch out for the pretty fish in the sewer…Relax. The light at the end of the tunnel will wait. We here in the morgue like having people stop by, and you really didn’t think we’d let you go so easily. Did you?Stories by Aaron Polson, David Dunwoody, Natalie L. Sin, Gina Ranalli, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, KV Taylor, Myrrym Davies, David Chrisom, John Grover, Kelly M. Hudson, & Jeff Parish Views: 69
Gems fascinate me... the way women do. Like women, each gem is different. Each has its own individual coloring and shape. It can be a glittering thing, full of fire—or it can be cold and forbidding.Mike Sloan, most-wanted jewel thief and respectable jeweler on the side, was an expert with both gems and women. He could always get a beautiful woman to front for him. But tonight was his biggest and most dangerous job—and it would take more than a beautiful woman to keep Mike Sloan warm... and alive! He's a tough-guy with elegance, style and a romantic weakness for dolls. Gems and dames—a deadly combination!About Vintage Paperback Pulp Fiction:A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in America—a paperback revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute books and the reading public would consume them. In 1939 a new publishing company—Pocket Books—stormed onto the scene with the... Views: 69
The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, foreverIt's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies and blockbuster musicals-Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music-dominate the box office. The Hollywood studio system, with its cartels of talent and its production code, is hanging strong, or so it would seem. Meanwhile, Warren Beatty wonders why his career isn't blooming after the success of his debut in Splendor in the Grass; Mike Nichols wonders if he still has a career after breaking up with Elaine May; and even though Sidney Poitier has just made history by becoming the first black Best Actor winner, he's still feeling completely cut off from opportunities other than the same "noble black man" role. And a young actor named... Views: 69
Peter never believed in the Green Man. He told himself the story was just his mother’s way of making sense of tragedy. An educated man with little faith in anything, Peter had no patience for supposed premonitions. That day—the day of the flight—was different. With his mother’s latest warning ringing in his ears, the plane began to falter. Peter’s world was about to change. Views: 69
Think a rice cooker is just for rice? Think again! While it's true that a rice cooker can save time when cooking rice, you can also cook hundreds of dishes in a rice cooker—and author and food blogger Hui Leng Tay can show you how. Inside you'll discover how to cook 300 delicious and versatile meals in your rice cooker, including:Mini Indonesian Potato CakesCoconut Chicken SoupSeafood CongeeSpicy Italian Sausage PastaGarlic-Infused Glass Noodles with Tiger ShrimpSweet Corn PancakesToasted Pita PizzaFrom breakfast porridges to noodle entrees, this cookbook has it all. Whether you're looking for new ways to utilize your trusty ol' rice cooker or experiencing this resourceful appliance for the first time, you will delight in these recipes for Asian favorites, American comfort food, and more! Views: 68
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk. But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult in your child's everyday life, that child never gets a chance to grow up. We parents have to realize that the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters choice or independence. Views: 68
The police don't show
up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los
Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the
cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a
precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the
ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his
detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal
death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best
friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets
of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind.. Views: 68
From one of the world's foremost popular historians, a detailed and intricate portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history. The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists, and filmmakers ever since. Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading up to Anne's arrest and imprisonment in May 1536. Was it Henry VIII who, estranged from Anne, instructed Master Secretary Thomas Cromwell to fabricate evidence to get rid of her so that he could marry Jane Seymour? Or did Cromwell, for reasons of his own, construct a case against Anne and her faction, and then present compelling evidence before the King? Following the coronation of her daughter Elizabeth I as queen, Anne was venerated as a martyr and heroine. Over the centuries, she has inspired many artistic and cultural works and has remained ever-present in England's, and the world's, popular memory. Alison Weir draws on her unsurpassed expertise in the Tudor Period to chronicle the downfall and dramatic final days of this influential and fascinating woman. Views: 68
