Robin hardy the wicker man the final cut5/23/2023 ![]() This print was scanned and sent to London, where it was recently inspected by director Robin Hardy, who confirmed that it was the same cut he had put together for its American distributor in 1979, years after the film's UK bow. Some missing scenes were recovered from an obsolete one-inch broadcast tape, but over the years there were rumors of complete 35mm prints floating around.Įarlier this year, the search intensified when worldwide rights holder Studiocanal initiated a Facebook campaign to recover the missing 35mm material, resulting in the discovery of a 92-minute 35mm release print at the Harvard Film Archive. ![]() Butchered by its doomed UK distributor to fit on double bills, with its original camera negative apparently lost, The Wicker Man has gathered a devoted fan base over the past four decades. The Wicker Man is a quintessential 70s thriller, with the search for its full version one of cinema history's classic detective hunts. ![]()
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Well wished by franny billingsley5/23/2023 ![]() One child does come back-a girl named Catty Winter, who cannot walk. ![]() For Nuria's sake her grandfather wishes, giving the well carefully chosen words that he hopes will undo that spell. ![]() On such wish made all the children of the village vanish, leaving only Nuria-living up the hill from the village, she was outside that particular magic. ![]() Agnes, the Well's Guardian, was a mere shadow beside it, knitting as she rocked in the great stone chair, rocking and knitting just as each Guardian had done for as long as anyone could remember."Įleven year-old Nuria knows to distrust the magic of the well-the wishes it grants (one per customer) tend to be horribly twisted. But there was nothing blurred about the Wishing Well, which rose from the pale winter grass in a massive sweep of granite. "The trees stood black and sleek as skeletons, their crisp edges blurred to velvet by the failing light. ![]() So here are my thoughts on Well Wished, by Franny Billingsley (Atheneum, 1997). The nice thing about library books is that one can write about them late in the day on a Saturday in summer (a time when few readers are out and about) without any of the compunctions that one might feel when writing about a book received for review at such a time. ![]() The Edge of Farallon by Peter Skinner5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Pitting each against the other, The Edge of Farallon is a suspenseful, tightly woven tale of love and violence, transformation and disrepair, culminating in a stunning act of human kindness. ISSNĪn ISSN is a standardized international code which allows the identification of a serial publication.Īn ISSN consists of eight digits in two groups of four, separated by a hyphen. Against the foggy rugged coast of Central California, two brothers and their niece struggle over the fate of their family's land, the purpose of their lives, and the secrets they harbor. The twelfth digit is a check digit and usually appears at the bottom right of the symbol.Įnter all digits found on the item (e.g., 008817006925).The next ten digits encoded in the symbol are below the bars. ![]()
Many lives many masters by brian l weiss5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s had many patients just like her before, and he’s been able to come up with some sort of treatment for them. So, Weiss listens to all of this, and he’s sure he can help her. Not only that, but she was getting worse she wasn’t able to sleep that well, so her life was kind of in shambles. She was afraid of water, couldn’t take pills because she was afraid of choking, she was afraid of airplanes, the dark – sometimes she would just sleep in the closet. But when she started talking about her symptoms, she became noticeably tense and nervous. She was a middle child, raised in a conservative catholic family in Massachusetts and had an older brother and a younger sister. ![]() The patient, whom he calls Catherine for the sake of anonymity, seems like a pretty typical, albeit strikingly beautiful woman. ![]() The unlikely spy review5/22/2023 ![]() Dogged police work eventually puts counterespionage watchers on Catherine's trail but not before she beds a susceptible US Navy officer. Despite a discouraging lack of leads, Vicary sets about tracking down the hitherto unsuspected operative (a murderous young woman long established in London under the name Catherine Blake) and the Wehrmacht veteran parachuted in to give her a hand. While the bachelor academic employs captured German spies to transmit disinformation to Berlin, radio intercepts confirm that a sleeper agent has been activated to determine where the amphibious assault will come ashore. Recruited for the War Office's MI5 by his friend Winston Churchill, Alfred Vicary (a shrewd history professor who was badly wounded as a behind-the-lines courier during WW I) is assigned early in 1944 to a hush-hush effort to mislead Hitler's intelligence services concerning D-day's primary target. Television producer Silva delivers a fine, old-fashioned WW II debut thriller that pits an English don against Admiral Wilhelm Canaris's Abwehr-in a deadly contest of wits on the eve of the Allied invasion of occupied Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are: Serendipity, The Dream Tree, Wheedle on the Needle, and The Muffin Muncher. The first four books of the Serendipity Series were released in December of 1973. After receiving an offer to publish the books only in hardcover, Cosgrove created his own publishing company - Serendipity Press. ![]() After finding primarily large expensive books, Cosgrove teamed up with illustrator James to create low cost softcover books. The books are short stories with colorful illustrations that have a moral perspective.Ĭosgrove wrote the books after searching for an easy to read book with a message to read to his then three-year-old daughter. The books were written by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James. ![]() Serendipity is a series of children's books about animals and other creatures. ![]() The epidemic suzanne young5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() I feel like it deals with so many intense topics, but without shoving it in your face. Imagine soul mates, destiny, “meant to be”, love that knows no bounds. ![]() I think I expected more of a sci-fi than a romance, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out otherwise! This love story completely rocks. Wowie, The Program book was awesome! Even though the synopsis hints at a love story, I didn’t expect it to dominate the book the way it did. But despite the promises they made to each other, it's getting harder to hide the truth. He's promised to keep them both safe and out of treatment, and Sloane knows their love is strong enough to withstand anything. The only person Sloane can be herself with is James. ![]() Under constant surveillance at home and at school, Sloane puts on a brave face and keeps her feelings buried as deep as she can. Because their depression is gone-but so are their memories. She also knows that everyone who's been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Sloane's parents have already lost one child Sloane knows they'll do anything to keep her alive. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. In Sloane's world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Published by: Simon Pulse on April 30, 2013 ![]() The heart principle book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Dedicated to all the caregivers out there: those who care because they want to, those who care because they have no choice, and especially the medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, every single one.”Īnna Sun is a Chinese American violinist who is catapulted to success after a YouTube video of her performing goes viral, only the piece she was performing was intended for someone else, someone who was in a car accident and unable to play. The Heart Principle’s dedication sets the tone for the entire book and reads as follows: ![]() At its core, however, The Heart Principle is a story about identities rebuilt after loss, mental health, neurodivergency, the burden of caretaking (both of oneself, and of the ones we love), culture and family. When they find themselves on a dating app and then find each other, their unlikely paths collide and the weight of their individual burdens feel less heavy. On the surface, it is a love story about two people, Anna and Quan, both struggling under the weight of their experiences and expectations. ![]() Hoang’s third novel is part-fiction, part-memoir. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Helen Hoang has given fans of her work something to hold onto in moments of darkness: The Heart Principal. ![]() Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, her dad drops a bombshell: not only does he now have a girlfriend, but he’s also been seeing her for six months and they‘ve recently got engaged. The one bright spot is the arrival of Rani, a new girl on her swim team who quickly becomes Dalia’s new BFF. This summer is hard for Dalia because not only is she dealing with her parents’ fairly recent divorce and the total absence of her mother, but her best friend Abby has started hanging out with the popular girls at school and no longer wants to hang out with her. It’s summer for thirteen-year-old Dalia and that means spending her days at swim practice, her evenings watching rollercoaster POV videos online, and trying to work up the courage to ask her dad to finally take her to an amusement park so she can ride one of her beloved coasters for real. ![]() Please note: This post contains affiliate links.Īlmost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow is a contemporary middle grade centered around theme parks and rollercoasters, making it an ideal summer read. Today’s book review is Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow. Follow the Pride Month tag to find all the content in one space (including LGBTQ content from previous years) and keep checking back for more throughout the month. Throughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her story is both a very dark fairy tale and a gripping thriller. The King's marriage to Anne of Cleves has failed, his closest adviser Thomas Cromwell is to be executed for treason and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly irascible, unpredictable monarch. ![]() ![]() It is a stunning achievement' Tracy Borman, Sunday Times During one of the hottest summers on record the court of Henry VIII is embroiled, once again, in political scandal. basing his account on exhaustive research into her household, he provides a portrayal that is fresh and compelling. Gareth Russell's book is scholarly yet highly readable. `A stunning reappraisal of Henry VIII's fifth wife. Print Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard ![]() |