![]() ![]() This was the only Flashman novel made into a film, a rather disappointing one at that to fans of Flash Harry. ![]() Fraser's (1925-2008) comic "Flashman" series, based on a wisp of a character (the bully) in Thomas Hughes's (1822-96) 1857 novel of Rugby School, "Tom Brown's Schooldays," is a brilliant conceit, and not so bad a history lesson either. red cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover The second Flashman novel featuring the picaresque adventures of that Victorian "Ace of cads! Best of all bounders!" Harry Flashman, this time getting himself involved in European political intrigue. ![]()
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I have read a few romance novels by Alessandra Torre, but for the first time I read something about her in a different genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tapestry of an ancient, Japanese village in modern times and a future fraught with civil war, high-tech weaponry and characters fighting to stay alive with the Earth in peril of obliteration. The Definitive, Sci-Fi, Action/Adventure, Ninja Epic The year is 2101, global warming and a depleted ozone layer are destroying the Earth. Woman he loves and for the future of humankind? In Time Ninja, Andy Schoepp paints a vivid ![]() Will Ryu sacrifice his village for his friends, the Mind, body, soul and indeed his very being. But the raging civil war may consume Ryu’s Strange Trip to Your TankLisa Margonelli, Time NinjaAndy Schoepp, The Oil-Protein Diet CookbookJohanna Budwig, Michigan Biographies. Sword that can help him save his village from annihilation. 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If you haven't had a chance to read the series yet, or you have a friend who has a friend who has a friend who hasn't read it yet, now is your/their chance!Įvery Friday until OF NEPTUNE releases I'm giving away a signed set of OF POSEIDON and OF TRITON. ![]() Now there are 9 days left until the third installment of The Syrena Legacy trilogy, OF NEPTUNE, releases (people!). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sharon’s elder brother Mike started dealing cocaine, protecting himself with a variety of shotguns and a rottweiler called Saber.Įventually, the FBI arrested him on live television, and he was sent to prison for ten years. So the Family Stone were a far cry from the Brady Bunch. ‘This killing-oneself business is a very time-consuming situation and, I have found, somewhat boring… I guess that’s why my mom says, “People who threaten to kill themselves. But he failed to elicit any sympathy from young Sharon. Uncle Gene once held a gun to his head and threatened to shoot himself. ![]() ‘Her kitchen had hotel china from all over the place.’ Her Uncle Gene had the word SWEET tattooed over one nipple and SOUR over the other, and ‘of course there was a dirty word on his knuckles’. One of her grandmothers taught Sharon all she knew about pickpocketing. ‘We ate deer all winter, rabbit and turkey and trout in spring and fall.’ From an early age, little Sharon would make concrete and lay stone walls. She was brought up on a farm in Pennsylvania. ‘I kicked the c*** out of poor Arnold,’ she says. Sharon Stone on the set of the 1990 film Total Recall (above), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. ![]() |