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The Moscow Ballet presents the Great Russian Nutcracker twice at the North Charleston (S.C.) Performing Arts Center next week.
I've seen it before. I didn't like it.
Not because it was performed poorly. This ensemble boasts world-class costumes and choreography. Its dancers are beautiful, graceful, poised, and powerful -- everything you'd expect from an esteemed Russian ballet.
What I didn't like was their interpretation.
After complaining to people who know a lot about dance, I was told to shut it. The Moscow Ballet's take is standard, up there with the best dance troupes in the world, like American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Theatre.
I guess I'm in the minority. So what's new? Bottom line: In this version, The Nutcracker is a political message.
In the traditional interpretation, a young girl named Clara, led by her toy Nutcracker, helps defeat the Rat King. Then she gets to romp through a world of fairies, toys, candy, and more.
In this re-telling, though, a child's whimsy is turned into a Utopian fantasy. Warring factions stop fighting. All is peace and harmony.
Moreover, Clara, whose name is now Masha, is not a girl. She is a nubile teenager bashfully coming of age. And Drosselmeyer, who is typically her godfather, turns into a kind of matchmaker. He doesn't give her a toy nutcracker to play with. He gives her a strapping young lad in tights to play with instead.
One can't help noticing the sexual implications of Masha's new man-doll.
Which isn't the problem. What I disliked was the mushy we-are-the-world pap of the work's second half.
See, the first half builds up to the second: the dances of coffee, of chocolate, of tea, and so on. Then the climax: The Nutcracker Prince dances with the Sugar Plum Fairy. Clara's a kid. Having her watch all the exotic dances, and the grown ups dancing, makes sense.
But turning her into a teenager obscures all that. The Sugar Plum Fairy doesn't get the guy. Masha does. Meanwhile, the exotic dances become a multicultural love-fest, with each country getting its own mascot (sheep representing France, if that makes any sense).
I know, I know. But I don't like my Christmas stories transformed, oddly, into a make-love-not-war manifesto. Peace on Earth was enough for Jesus. Me, too.
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I think you should first read the original story by Hoffman ( 1816 ) to find out which story has been transformed and by who.
Also, once you do that,please, understand that the name Marie in Russian is the equivalent to Masha... and so on...
here's a link you might find interesting to read about.
You should consider yourself lucky.
Once I had to sit through a "Nutcracker" where the war between the mice and the soldiers ended with a handshake and a peace offering of cheese.
This was because the artistic director thought the spectacle of toy soldiers killing mice sent a negative message to small children. Seriously.
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Our retreat was so memorable…the professors, sisters, brothers, and priest told us that we were the best ones among the 4th year because of what happened during our retreat. The feeling of our block being reunited…friends again with each other :) And since two of our blockmates, Cyril and Shiela, didn't make it on time..they didn't get to be with us in our retreat. So…another block picture with them! :))
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…and until now, we haven't finished the whole thing! The puzzle were trying to finish is a picture of a strange/rare map. How hard is that? And the picture reference in the box is too small/different/ripped. Haha!
Me and my younger sister thought that we could only buy this at Duty Free (since it was the only place we know that sells Fruity Pebbles!) Now…easy access, grocery near our place! Hello cubao :)
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(Still on vacation in Tagaytay) And so..I turned 19 last Saturday. I thought it would be the same day..an ordinary day. But my family welcomed my birthday at 12am.
Funny birthday moment #1: They searched the house for candles (web included! I don't know where they got the candles..it looks like those candles from horror movies. Haha!) and the Blueberry tart that I bought was the improvised cake. (No, the beer's not mine. It was my Dad's. I don't drink beer ;) ) And Dad's epic Cornetto dance was a laugh! While I was sitting on the chair..he stood up, got a flash light, bar lighting me and he was dancing saying "choogs choogs.." FAIL. Hahaha!
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Didn't expect that there will be tons of food…plus wine! (But no, I didn't drink.)
Funny birthday moment #3: Since we ate the cake in the afternoon…and it was too big for us to finish it all, there was a plate left of the cake. After numerous rounds of dinner…we all shared the last plate of Mango Bravo. This was sooo funny. The cake was gone in less than a minute! Hahaha :) (No violence included while 10-11 of us were all eating the last piece. Hahaha!)
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Mama's not feeling too well to eat a sushi buffet. So, YakiMix plan will just be set on my birthday. We decided on celebrating her birthday by having a lunch out at a Chinese restaurant (Why does our Chinese restaurants doesn't have fortune cookies huh? :|) Everyone inside are Chinese families. Talking Filipino-Chinese most of the time. Haha.
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This is our sort-of 'Freedom Board' in our rest house in Baguio. Too many memories. I can't help but laugh every time I read' the writings on this calendar.
The writings started last 2007. It was meant to list down the line in using the bathroom to take a bath, but then..we got bored waiting for who ever's in turn to take a bath. And so, every time someone came to either one of our vacation house here (in Baguio), we would write down the date and whoever came. Funny. According to this calendar, it was 4 years I haven't been to Baguio.
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Universal Partnerships & Licensing today announced it has entered into a representation agreement with Pretty Ugly, LLC, the creators of the popular Uglydoll brand, to expand the digital category of the imaginative Uglydoll world, or "Uglyverse." Universal will launch interactive and wireless content, such as apps, games, widgets and virtual goods. A feature film based on the Uglydoll characters is currently in development at Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures' main supplier of family and animated films. The film will be produced by Illumination founder Chris Meledandri (Despicable Me, Hop, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax), and distributed worldwide by Universal.
The husband and wife artist team of David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim created the Uglydoll characters in 2001, and since then, the franchise has become a worldwide success with an extensive line of licensed products and publishing. In collaboration with Pretty Ugly, Universal is taking the brand into the digital realm for the first time.
"Uglydoll is a beloved brand and a household name around the globe," said Stephanie Sperber, President, Universal Partnerships & Licensing. "The unique world in which these distinctive characters exist will translate perfectly across digital platforms and our goal will be to find digital creative partners committed to maintaining the Uglydoll voice and staying true to the Uglydoll's core independent spirit."
"We are exhilarated to work with Universal on this partnership and amuse our fans with exciting, fresh and hilarious content," said Alita Friedman, Chief Brand Officer, Pretty Ugly, LLC. "Uglydoll is sure to captivate a wide audience and bring new life to our jovial characters through groundbreaking new ways to play in the dynamic digital environment."
Since the inception of the first character, Wage, who David Drew on a love letter to Sun-Min, Uglydoll has grown into an entire universe of characters, stories, and products including toys, plush, apparel and accessories. Uglydoll Branded items are sold to retailers worldwide.
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The Best Hand Tools for Disaster Recovery
By Harry Sawyers
When trees are down and power is out, the most useful gadgets are the ones that never need a charge. The situation calls for shovels, rakes, knives—and a few rolls of duct tape don't hurt either.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Popular Mechanics posted a list of the 14 hand tools you need during disaster recovery. Here are a few highlights:
- Long-socket shovels to remove debris
- Bypass loppers to clear brush
- A bow saw or pruning saw to cut fallen branches
- Axes and hatchets to clean up messy limbs
- A bow rake to collect debris
- A heavy-duty wheelbarrow to haul away garbage
- Plastic tarps to transport materials or keep things dry
- Duct tape to help secure that plastic sheeting
- Utility knives to slice damaged drywall
- Safety glasses to shield yourself from flying debris
- A first-aid kit for any type of small injury
A few things we'd add to PM's already thorough list—rope and twine; contractor bags; and framing hammers or sledgehammers.
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This started off as a quick little perspective exercise of one of the Spelunky arrow traps and it turned out so well I decided to colour it. Hope you like it! -Dale
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I was so happy to see that Peach has been announced as a returning character to Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS that I decided to draw everyone's favorite sassy princess to celebrate. Spent a little longer on this than I should have but ooooh weeeeell.
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Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally.
Patrick Rothfuss narrates The Slow Regard of Silent Things, a companion novella to his bestselling Kingkiller Chronicle novels that shares an enchanting new perspective on the Four Corners realm. Renowned as a bastion of knowledge, the University draws the brightest minds to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences, such as artificing and alchemy. Yet deep below its bustling halls lies a complex web of abandoned rooms and ancient passageways.
"Title sums it up "SLOW regard of silent things""
This is Part One of Book 1 of the A Song of Ice and Fire Series. This first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE is unabridged and split into two parts. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.
"A truly brilliant fantasy novel"
When images of a lost civilization are 'dreamed' by a self-proclaimed prophet of the age, Nigel Sheldon, inventor of wormhole technology and creator of the Commonwealth society, is asked to investigate. Especially as the dreams seem to be coming from the Void - a mysterious area of living space monitored and controlled because of its hugely destructive capabilities.
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The vampire world is in crisis - their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to technologies undreamed of in previous centuries, they can communicate as never before. Roused from their earth-bound slumber, ancient ones are in thrall to the Voice: which commands that they burn fledgling vampires in cities from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to Kyoto and San Francisco. Immolations, huge massacres, have commenced all over the world. Who - or what - is the Voice?
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive-and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills-and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit-he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?"
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Alex Locke is a reformed ex-con forced into London's criminal underworld for one more job. He agrees to steal a priceless artefact - a human heart carved from the blackest obsidian - but when the burglary goes horribly wrong, Alex is plunged into the nightmarish world of the Wolves of London, unearthly assassins who will stop at nothing to reclaim the heart. As he races to unlock the secrets of the mysterious object, Alex must learn to wield its dark power - or be destroyed by it.
The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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This is Part Two of Book 1 of the A Song of Ice and Fire Series. This first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE is unabridged and split into two parts. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime.
"Excellent story, narrator still irks"
This is Part One of Book 2 of the A Song of Ice and Fire Series. George R. R. Martin's superb fantasy epic continues in consummate style as bloodshed and alchemy lay waste the Seven Kingdoms. This second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire is unabridged and split into two parts. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves.
We have fought battles that left more than a hundred corpses on the ground and not a word of it has ever been set down. The Order fights, but often it fights in shadow, without glory or reward. We have no banners. Vaelin Al Sorna is the Sixth Order's newest recruit. Under their brutal training regime, he learns how to forge a blade, survive the wilds and kill a man quickly and quietly - all in the name of protecting the Realm and the Faith. Now his skills will be put to the test.
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One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.
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Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headache... and a pair of horns growing from his temples. Once, Ig lived the life of the blessed. Ig had it all, and more - he had the love of Merrin Williams, a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic. Then beautiful, vivacious Merrin was gone - raped and murdered, under inexplicable circumstances - with Ig the only suspect.
"Satan's not all he seems"
George R.R. Martin's superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues with the third in the series A Storm of Swords. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Unabridged and split into two parts. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs.
"Time to say goodbye...."
"What happened to A Feast for Crows?"
In Stephen King's mesmerizing new masterpiece - his biggest, most riveting novel since The Stand - a Maine town and its inhabitants are isolated from the world by an invisible, impenetrable dome. Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters - some heroic, some diabolical - and a supernatural element as baffling and chilling as any he's ever conjured.
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Humanity is losing the war. The once-mighty space navies have been crippled, officers and crew have been stretched to the limit and Earth herself has come under heavy attack. The end cannot be long delayed. For Admiral Smith and the crew of HMS Ark Royal, the stakes have never been so high. The one hope is to make contact with alien factions that might oppose the war. But, as Ark Royal sets off on a desperate diplomatic mission, it rapidly becomes clear that there are both human and alien factions that wish to fight the war to the bitter end...
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Part One of The Name of The Wind (Unabridged).'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me'.
This is Part Two of Book 2 of the A Song of Ice and Fire Series. George R. R. Martin's superb fantasy epic continues in consummate style as bloodshed and alchemy lay waste the Seven Kingdoms. This second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire is unabridged and split into two parts. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves.
This is Part One of A Dance With Dragons. The fifth volume in the greatest epic work of the modern age, George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, this recording is unabridged and split into two parts. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, beset by enemies.
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A Feast for Crows brings to life dark magic, intrigue and terrible bloodshed as the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as any in its violent past. The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne, with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding, so called for the massacre of the guests, their screams unheard above the music of the feast.
"Worst one yet for continuity of accents"
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the apocalypse are revving up, and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not particularly looking forward to the coming rapture.
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Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of: a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre.
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A modern short story collection featuring the great detective.
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"Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, "We don't love you anymore." So began the Twitter Audio project, with a dazzling first line penned by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman. What followed was an epic tale of imaginary lands, magical objects, haunting melodies, plucky sidekicks, menacing villains, and much more
Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradually, he discovers he was brought back by his true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their child - a child who, if raised correctly, will play a crucial role in saving the universe.
Coraline has been made into an animated feature film directed by Henry Selick, director of Tim Burton?s The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a cast including Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Dakota Fanning.
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Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium, and Viriconium Nights. Back in print after a long absence, these singular tales of a timeless realm and its enigmatic inhabitants are now reborn and compiled to captivate a whole new generation.
"Strange but not satisfying"
Five thousand years out of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at a steakhouse. No longer a devourer of human flesh, the Minotaur is a socially inept, lonely creature with very human needs. But over a two-week period, as his life dissolves into chaos, this broken and alienated immortal awakens to the possibility for happiness and to the capacity for love.
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Thomas Abbey is a man stuck in a rut. To kick-start his life, he takes a sabbatical to work on a biography of his favorite writer, the mysterious Marshall France. Although Abbey has been warned that France's daughter, Anna, has blocked all previous attempts at her father's biography, he is surprised to find her the soul of small-town hospitality and quite excited about Abbey's proposal. Even stranger than Anna's behavior, though, is the town itself. The people seem to know what their future holds - freak accidents and all - down to the hour.
Considered Keith Roberts' masterwork, this novel consists of linked short stories (six measures and a coda) of a 20th century in which the Roman Catholic Church controls the Western world, and has done so since Queen Elizabeth of England was assassinated in 1588. The Protestant Reformation never happened, and the world is kept in a Dark Age of steam-power transportation, with no allowance for electrical power, by a tyrannical Rome.
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In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn' t yet exist - a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself.
"Something missing"
Meet Anita Thompson: she's young, she's lovely, she's clever, and she's a witch. A real one. Anita lives in two worlds: the modern world of supermarkets and sports cars, radio and rock-and-roll, where she is a thoroughly modern girl with a thoroughly modern interest in boys and fast living and her own independence. But she also lives in the ancient and rustic world of traditions, cauldrons, and familiars.
"Some things are better left as memories"
John Golden is a debugger: He goes inside the computer systems of his corporate clients to exterminate the gremlins, sprites, and other fairies that take up residence. But when he gets a frantic call from Serpentine Systems, a top-of-the-line anti-fairy security company, John finds out he's on much more than a simple smurf-punting expedition. With the help of his sarcastic little sister Sarah (currently incarnated in the form of a Dell Inspiron) and a paranoid system administrator, John tackles Serpentine's fairy problem.
>After his birth Jason was whisked off to foster home after foster home without knowing what it was like to be brought up in a happy home. Jason had been teased all through his school years about how slow he was, and couldn't keep up with the other classmates on any subject he took. Jason didn't have nice clothes like other students had. All he wanted was to be accepted, but all he got was heartaches.
Vandals: A Collection of Young Adult Horror-Suspense Tales includes four spine-tingling young adult tales of horror and suspense from the Vandals series by bests-selling author R. Barri Flowers. In each gripping story, teen vandals are left to deal with the frightening consequences of their actions.
With the help of her new companions, the path Kansas follows leads to more knowledge of the ever adapting famished. The team finds help in unlikely places, meeting more survivors, and discovers the possibility of a new beginning. When the team experiences a devastating loss, Kansas struggles to keep her humanity from fading and distorting like that of the surviving society around her. It begins with knowing who to trust and who to leave behind.
Bad things only happen to other people or do they? Legend has it that an old woman that lived in a cabin all alone in the woods that these girls are going into was accused of witchcraft, but was never proven by the townspeople over a hundred years ago. One of the daughters of the townspeople went missing in the woods and was found dead on the steps of the old lady's cabin.
A world on edge... The "Cyborg" team has kept one eye glued to the unrest inside the A.I. community for some time. Each member understands the ramifications of a revolt. If war is declared, they could find themselves on the opposite side of the law. One tiny detail changes Miles' stance. Solving the case he's worked since meeting Alexia could be the deciding factor. Left with no other choice, Miles orders his second in command to move to plan 'B' - Dr. Kiston Beck. A woman caught in the middle...
Danny is a struggling singer willing to do almost anything to get a little exposure and keep food on the table. So she doesn't think twice about traveling to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig. When she's stranded at an abandoned airport, however, she finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can provide.
A man investigates an ancient myth in the deep countryside. A myth that originates from reported hauntings that have taken place long ago. These hauntings, he does not believe happened and feels are nothing more than rumor and superstition. Although when he visits the location of this myth, his eyes are opened to the reality of what is really happening.
How does a witch stay safe if a killer can get through her protection spells? Witches like Ruby and Courtney can take care of themselves. So when Courtney is murdered, Ruby's world crashes to a halt. The only thing keeping her grounded is the return of Courtney's brother, Cooper. He seeks revenge, but Ruby wants to help other witches stay alive. To do that, she'll have to reunite with her old coven's High Priest, who also happens to be her cheating ex-boyfriend.
Simon Sinclair, who is institutionalized in 1929 for having prophetic visions, narrates from inside the Massachusetts Asylum for Feeble Minds and Lunatics. There he meets Elizabeth, a young woman with a shadow personality and a dark, secretive past. Someone Simon knows he is destined to love. As their lives become entwined, they grow so attached to each other that they each begin to believe they are the other's "cure".
Thief. Liar. Pervert. Sucker. Not Villains. Definitely not heroes. A serial novel about extraordinary abilities and how not to use them. In Episode One... Beaten. Burned. Broken. Capt. John Regent returns a paraplegic after escaping months of captivity and torture - except no one knows who took him or what he disclosed. When a government agent comes for answers, she discovers John's fantastical secret and sets him at war with his own country.
Werewolves are immune to every illness and can heal any wound. It should be impossible for one to become possessed by a demon. But that's exactly what Seth Wilder is facing: a werewolf gone insane from possession. He has no choice but to deliver her to the only exorcist in America, Elise Kavanagh, who also happens to be a powerful demon known as the Godslayer.
Clive Barrett is a fast learner. His first kills were amateurish, but Clive knows that practice makes perfect. Soon, he expects to be one of the most notorious serial killers in the UK. He expects to be number one. There is just one problem: one of Clive's victims simply won't stay dead.
Billy Ed and Dory Barnes left the honky-tonk in Tombley's Walk on a warm Texas night. They were looking for a little privacy. They never returned. Billy Ed's body was found soon after, ripped to pieces by a savage, wolf-like creature that walked on two legs. Dory survived the brutal attack. But she has been changed into something horribly, inexplicably... different.
The story of Billy, whose Grandmother left him the "voodoo handbag" in her will, after he had sold her soul to science. The tales it told Billy would change his life for ever - and the lives of other people too.
Nevada Baylor is faced with the most challenging case of her detective career - a suicide mission to bring in a suspect in a volatile situation. Nevada isn't sure she has the chops. Her quarry is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, who can set anyone and anything on fire. Then she's kidnapped by Connor "Mad" Rogan - a darkly tempting billionaire with equally devastating powers.
What could happen if a man's brain is exposed to a powerful magnetic pulse? A Strange Feeling of Déjà Vu, explores a strange and frightening possibility. It is a hot July night when John Robertson, a test engineer, arrives for work at the test laboratory to start his shift. John's boss calls him into his office to explain the details about the testing of a new military weapon and warns him that it is extremely dangerous and unpredictable. John begins testing the weapon and it suddenly shuts down. John tries to find the reason for the shutdown and makes a careless mistake causing a powerful current discharge that knocks him down to the floor. He slowly gets up off the floor and doesn't seem to be hurt. He decides to call it a night, leaves the test laboratory, and drives home. The next day he wakes up with an excruciating headache and is late for work. He quickly runs out of his apartment to the parking lot but can't find his car. A chill runs up his spine because he can't remember what happened after he left the test laboratory the previous night. He suddenly realizes that he had a blackout something that has never happened to him before. John goes to a doctor and gets a brain scan. The doctor doesn't find anything wrong with his brain. As John leaves the doctor's office, he wonders what is happening during his blackout but could never imagine in his wildest dreams what is actually happening during a blackout....
Vice Admiral Kris Longknife's honeymoon gets cancelled when she hears that the space raider's home world may have been discovered. Finding where the raiders came from could be the key to saving humanity. If only uncovering their secrets was that easy. As Kris returns home, she ends up tangling with a mutinous crew determined to take off on their own.
Corus is a world of humans, but also of strange animals and supernatural creatures. It is a world of magical powers and of a few people who are Talented enough to use them. Alucius, the hero of the story, is one such person. In Legacies we saw how he grew from a Talented child on a lonely Nightsheep ranch in the Iron Valleys to a proficient soldier who used his wits and his Talent to become the first to escape military enslavement in the neighboring country of Madrien.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living - or at least the undead - hell of that dreadful time.
"Good old fashioned gory fun"
It's the 21st century, and global warming is here to stay, so forget the way your country used to look. And get used to the free market, too - the companies possess all the best hardware, and they're calling the shots now. In a world like this, a man open to any offers can make out just fine. A man like Greg Mandel for instance, who's psi-boosted, wired into the latest sensory equipment, carrying state-of-the-art weaponry - and late of the English Army's Mindstar Battalion.
Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen - from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City - will fight for survival. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity.
"Long but worth the effort"
Seventy years ago, the interstellar supercarrier Ark Royal was the pride of the Royal Navy. But now, her weapons are outdated and her solid-state armour nothing more than a burden on her colossal hull. She floats in permanent orbit near Earth, a dumping ground for the officers and crew the Royal Navy wishes to keep out of the public eye. But when a deadly alien threat appears, the modern starships built by humanity are no match for the powerful alien weapons.
"A reasanbly good yarn, not very well read"
The Galactics arrived with their Battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder. In the third book in the series, James McGill is deployed on another alien world. His third interstellar tour is different in every way. Rather than meeting up with a primitive society, this time he's headed to an advanced world.
You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman's case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That's when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills-and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: an anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre.
"A great introduction to a variety of authors"
Day one: The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the Earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. Week Two: Civilization has crumbled. Year Twenty: A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and it threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild.
"Evocatively Portrayed End of the World..."
The terror begins. London is struck by an invasion. Women, children, old and young, none are safe from the deadly menace. The attacks are swift and sure, escape is impossible. A state of emergency is declared. Evacuation seems the only solution in the face of a growing panic and mounting death toll. War is declared on the public enemy number one. The Rats!
Ark Royal - the Royal Navy's outdated space carrier - has won a smashing victory against the enigmatic aliens, capturing one of their starships and returning to Earth. Now, Admiral Theodore Smith and his crew are assigned to command a fleet charged with making a deep-penetration raid into alien territory, a fleet made up of carriers from four different nations. But with a crewman who isn't what he seems, untested pilots and international friction - and a new and dangerous alien plan - can Ted and his crew survive their mission?
"Drags its anchor a little, but is worth a listen"
Julia Evans, billionairess owner of Event Horizon, has for 15 years been the power behind England's economic renaissance - but now she's in trouble. With her husband missing, and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously. But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any terrestrial DNA.
"Epic conclusion for Greg Mandel Trilogy"
President Gwen Iceni and General Artur Drakon have successfully liberated the Midway Star System - but the former rulers of the Syndicate Worlds won't surrender the region without a fight. The dictatorial regime has ordered the ex-Syndicate CEOs terminated with extreme prejudice and the system's citizens punished for their defiance.Outnumbered and led by junior officers hastily promoted in the wake of the uprising, Midway's warships are no match for the fleet massing and preparing to strike.
Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.
Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.
"Brilliantly written and developed story"
Dr Edward Kitchener, a brilliant researcher into quantum cosmology, lies dead with his lungs spread out on either side of his open chest. Only a mercenary or professional killer could have breached the premier-grade security system - but why would a professional waste time in ritual slaughter? Greg Mandel, psi-boosted ex-private eye, is enticed out of retirement to launch an investigation into a past which - according to Kitchener's theories - might never have happened.
"A Quantum Murder"
Jane Yellowrock is a vampire killer for hire - but other creatures of the night still need to watch their backs....When the Master of the city of New Orleans asks Jane to improve security for a future visit from a delegation of European vampires, she names an exorbitant price - and Leo is willing to pay. That's because the European vamps want Leo's territory, and he knows that he needs Jane to prevent a total bloodbath.
"Brilliant as Always"
Narrator Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
"Powerful and moving"
A big, brilliant, spooky collection of classic and contemporary ghost stories that will make you hesitate before turning off that light.
There are some odd things about Nate's new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn't perfect, it's livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don't nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela's apartment. And Tim's. And Veek's.
"Un-expected pleasure."


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Browse Items (12 total) for Iowa State University Library Cookbook Collection
Cemetery Association Cook Book
Alternate title on cover: L.C.A. Cook Book. Cemetery Association cook book / a publication compiled by the Ladies Cemetery Association of Elgin, Iowa. Publisher: Elgin, Iowa : Elgin Echo.
Cook Book
Alternate title on cover: Tested Recipes. Cook book / Chapter M., P.E.O. ; executive committee, Dickie Cornell Gebhardt, Maude Gilson Mentzer. Knoxville, Iowa : Curtis & Gilson Printers
Cook Book : Choice and Tested Recipes Furnished by the Ladies of Redfield, Iowa
Alternate title on cover: Redfield Cook Book. Cook book : choice and tested recipes furnished by the ladies of Redfield, Iowa / arranged by the Ladies of the Redfield Women's Club. Publisher: Adel, Iowa : Sweeley the Printer.
Flint Hills Cook Book
Flint Hills cook book / compiled by women [of] Christ Church Parish, Burlington, Iowa. Conrad Lutz Printing, Binding
Friends' Cook Book
Friends' cook book / a publication compiled by the Women of the Friends' Building Association of the Friends' Church Oskaloosa, Iowa. Publisher: Oskaloosa, Iowa : Saturday Globe
Honey Cook Book
Recipes containing honey.
Indian Corn as Human Food
Publisher: Nevada, Ia., Representative office, Payne & Son
Mrs. Welch's Cook Book
Mary B. Welch, Instructor, Domestic Economy, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames, Iowa. Other contributors are also professors from Iowa State College including Professor of Pathology and Histology Dr. D. S. Fairchild; Professor…
Pella's Choicest Cooking Recipes
Pella's choicest cooking recipes : a collection of the favorite recipes of Pella's famous cooks / compiled and published by the Ladies' Auxiliary of Central College. Publisher: Pella, Iowa : Pella Press
Sinclair's Fidelity Meats
""The following recipes, compiled by Janet McKenzie Hill, Editor The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, Boston, are given as few simple ways in which some of the Sinclair's Fidelity products may be prepared.""


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I wish there was like friends with benefits but with cuddling
all I need is a good cuddle
and for someone to pet my hair
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April 22, 2014
As part of city budget cuts, Tulsa Transit is being pushed to raise its fares and slash bus routes. The city is asking the transit system to cut about $1 million from what it has allotted in its budget this year.
March 12, 2013
Board of directors voted to increase fares for all vanpool users by $2 instead of its initial plan to cut 40 vanpools that start and end outside the agency's service area.
October 24, 2012
Although ridership is at a 23-year high, SEPTA's budget is at a 15-year low, so it cannot replace the 231 Silverliner IVs which are 36 to 38 years old.
August 29, 2012
Will extend night service on light rail and nine major bus routes and increase frequency on highly-utilized bus routes. Along with the Green Line light rail extension, which opened in June, these improvements represent the first time RT added service since budget cuts forced major service reductions in June 2010.
April 30, 2012
Prompted by a $64 million deficit projected for the Fiscal Year 2013 operating budget. The fare increase would go into effect on July 1 and the service reduction would go into effect September 2. About 46 routes would be eliminated with service scaled back on all remaining routes. The ACCESS paratransit program would see deep cuts.
April 12, 2012
To close its $12 million to $17 million shortfall, plans to move from fare zones to a flat fare system, eliminate its free rail zone, sell ads on its website, and reconfigure bus routes.
March 14, 2012
Targeted $12 million in cuts and changes, which will take effect in September 2012. Changes include enacting internal efficiencies, providing $1.2 million in savings. The original proposal from February called for $500,000 in savings.
February 16, 2012
Part of a plan to eliminate approximately $11 million in costs. The city reports that .5% of DDOT's daily riders use bus service between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. and make up 6% of its daily costs.
February 8, 2012
The agency is working to bring the union contract in line with revenue growth and make it financially sustainable. It is also proposing to increase fares and change the overall fare structure, eliminating the Free Rail Zone, and cut service. Any changes to fares and service would take effect in September 2012.
July 21, 2011
The state Republican House and Senate agreed to provide $78 million for regional transit in the next two years, about halfway between the $129 million approved for the previous two years and the $20 million they originally approved.
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text: Dearest Ailikn of the Barony of the Eldern Hills, Fimo is this premixed colored hardish clay-like stuff that you can buy at craft stores everywhere for a few bucks. Its really popular with the 'retro' adolescent crowd because you can slice it, poke a whole in the center, and the layered colors make a cool design---then you can string it on a neclace or something. > The stuff is really neat, and we used it for our clients in the OT department in Stroke Recovery to work on fine motor skills (as you work with it and it gets warmer, it gets easier to use) Go pick up some and play! In Service, (and by the way, your questions are intelligent, too!) Allysyn Kranidious ============================================================================ To be removed from the Ansteorra mailing list, please send a message to Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe ansteorra".


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Submitted by CalamityJon on October 20, 2009 - 16:47
Hey there, I want to spread the word on something drewgilbert is doing:
The short story is this: With a child on the way, I have decided that before being a father takes up all of my free time, I need to try running in this one insane race I have wanted to do for years now. To keep me on this path, I am doing it for the non profit arts program Free Arts NYC.
To convince you to give me money for this charity, I am offering to do a portrait of you or a loved one for donations of $35, or two portraits for $50. If you would like to get some slick, professional art for yourself (or as a gift to someone you love) on the cheap, now is a great time for you and me to make that happen :)
Click here to see samples of what I have done, and to read more about the whole shebang
The Tough Guy race is a ridiculous eight-country-mile obstacle course(obstacle course is honestly not at all coming close to describing the race, but it's the only phrase that really fits. Go here to see what the people who do it go through). I am in absolutely no shape whatsoever to run in this race yet. I hope people will be entertained by my training progress videos, the first one of which I posted on my youtube page earlier this week. Another one should go up tomorrow.
Free Arts NYC helps create arts programs for underprivileged kids and underfunded school systems in the New York City area. I would have preferred to find a nationwide program that does the same thing, but could not find one that was as comprehensive as this, and I hope by showing some love to this one, it might help other places realize the value in doing these types of works. My life has been pretty great, in part because I was able to discover art in grade school, so I chose this charity to give other kids who like me, were not great at academics, to be able to find something that can enrich their lives.
I have never been the best at being charitable, so if you are unable or unwilling to donate for this, I certainly won't hold it against you at all, but if you would like to see me go through hell trying to reach my goal here (I really do promise to make this process as hellish on me as possible and as entertaining as possible for you who might be watching me do it), then it would be AMAZING if you could pass this email, or my website and goal around to friends and family. I look at raising this money much like a high school dance - if you only ask a few girls, you might not get anyone to dance with you. It's a numbers game, so I need to get as many people seeing this message as I can, so like I said, if you can't donate enough for a portrait, it would still be great to get a dollar or two. Again though, I won't hold a lack of donation against anyone, but if you could please pass it around to
someone who might be able to do so, I would really appreciate it.
I am documenting the whole journey, training, portraits, etc collectively on my website,
With training videos on Youtube
You can also follow me on twitter:
View my portrait drawings on Ustream:
and see final images on Flickr:
If you made it this far in the email, thank you! I knew there was a reason I liked you enough to bother you this badly :)
Thanks again!