![]() ![]() Jimmy Rabbitte: Then what are you doing here? Failed Drug Buyer: Well, I saw everyone else lining up, so, uh. Jimmy Rabbitte: What do you play? Failed Drug Buyer: I used to play football in school. Are you trying to tell me you can't get a job? Jimmy Rabbitte: We're a third world country - what can you do? Rabbitte, you've been collecting unemployment benefit for two years. Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: Are you doing what I told you? Are you thinking of that reed as a woman's nipple?ĭialogue Unemployment Official: Mr.Natalie Murphy: What do you think, Jimmy, they'll be eatin' chips out of our knickers?.Steve Clifford: And there's these three girls with the band, I've had lustful thoughts about all of them.Is this the band then? Betcha U2 are shittin' themselves.Finally, on drums, Mickah "Don't Fuck With Me" Wallace. On lead guitar, Outspan "Fender bender" Foster. Our gorgeous chanteuses are Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie. ![]() On piano, Steven "Soul Surgeon" Clifford. ![]() I'd like to introduce you to the hardest-workin' band in the world.It grabs you by the balls and lifts you above the shite. Sure there's a lot of different music you can get off on but soul is more than that. It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart. But it's something else 'cause, 'cause, 'cause it's honest, that's it. So say it once and say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. ![]() And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "Narrator Lucy Paterson's smart pacing and subtle applications of intensity and tone guide listeners through Icelandic author Sigurdardottir's two seemingly unconnected plots and characters. ![]() When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered. Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. ![]() Something wants them to leave, and it's making its presence felt. But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. In I Remember You, Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardottir will stun listeners once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering. This intriguing mix of understated horror and mystery offers listeners a unique audio experience." - AudioFile Magazine " Narrator Lucy Paterson's smart pacing and subtle applications of intensity and tone guide listeners through Icelandic author Sigurdardottir's two seemingly unconnected plots and characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Archeologists ignored them while museums locked them away out of public eyes. Embarrassed clergymen pried them out of church walls. When these bizarre carvings first came to scientific attention some two centuries ago, they were considered too vulgar, lewd, and repulsive for serious study. Their origin and significance remain a mystery.Ī sheela-na-gig at the Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck. These figures usually occur in isolation, unattached and freed from any background that could establish their provenance. ![]() But a sizable number of them have also been found in castles, holy wells, bridges, culverts, and pillars. They are not something you would expect to see in a church. What makes these figures so puzzling is the fact that they occur predominantly in medieval religious buildings, such as churches and monastic sites. She is shown using her hands to pull open and proudly display her exaggerated genitals. Sheela-na-gigs are medieval stone figures of a naked woman spreading her legs. ![]() But the most extraordinary of all is that of a sheela-na-gig. The Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire is famous for its Norman carvings of writhing snakes and mysterious beasts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. ![]() ![]() Rowling's complete and unabridged text is accompanied by full-color illustrations on nearly every page and eight exclusive, interactive paper craft elements: Readers will open Harry's Hogwarts letter, reveal the magical entryway to Diagon Alley, make a sumptuous feast appear in the Great Hall, and more.Designed and illustrated by award-winning design studio MinaLima - best known for establishing the visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films - this edition is sure to be a keepsake for Harry Potter fans, a beautiful addition to any collector's bookshelf, and an enchanting way to introduce the first book in this beloved series to a new generation of readers. In this stunning new edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, experience the story as never before. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, fully illustrated in brilliant color and featuring exclusive interactive paper craft elements, including a foldout Hogwarts letter and more! ![]() ![]() “When everything was burning up right in front of you, you could imagine parts of yourself burning along with it-all your disappointments, all the things you’d done that you wished you hadn’t, even all the bad memories.” I was fearlessly provoked by how real and bare this book appeared to me. We All Looked Up is a very gripping and raw masterpiece that holds so much power. Publication: March 24th 2015 by Simon & Schuster As these four seniors-along with the rest of the planet-wait to see what damage an asteroid will cause, they must abandon all thoughts of the future and decide how they’re going to spend what remains of the present. Or can it? Because it turns out the future is hurtling through space with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. Andy, for his part, doesn’t understand all the fuss about college and career-the future can wait. ![]() Meanwhile Eliza can’t wait to escape Seattle-and her reputation-and perfect-on-paper Anita wonders if admission to Princeton is worth the price of abandoning her real dreams. Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they” might actually be right. They always say that high school is the best time of your life. ![]() Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in Tommy Wallach’s New York Times bestselling “stunning debut” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). ![]() ![]() Clemens, who found it morbid) and caption on page 443 reading “The St. First state, with tailpiece illustration of Twain’s head in flames on page 441 (removed in later states at the request of Mrs. “One of Mark Twain’s most important books… It usefully supplements fictional works about the river and includes much else of value” (LeMaster & Wilson, 467). His regard for it is attested to by the fact that it is the only book that he attempted to rewrite after publication” (Rasmussen, 283, 291-2). ![]() ![]() Its early chapters especially are unrivaled in evoking the excitement of their time… According to Howells, Mark Twain regarded Life on the Mississippi as his greatest book. ![]() Housed in a custom slipcase.įirst American edition, first state, with hundreds of illustrations, many by Edmund Henry Garrett.ĭuring an 1872 visit to the Midwest, the author “was struck by the great diminution of steamboat traffic on the Ohio River and became anxious to document the steamboat era before it vanished altogether… widely regarded as both one of Mark Twain’s major works and a classic on the Mississippi itself. Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, all edges gilt. “ONE OF MARK TWAIN’S MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS”: LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Campbell Award, and has won two Parsec Awards for his podcast Writing Excuses. It has been released in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Taiwan. ![]() Wells is best known as the author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, a horror novel published in the United States by Tor Books. He been writing books and short stories for years, with varying degrees of success, but when he sat down to write about John Cleaver, a teenage sociopath, he knew he had finally found what he wanted to do. ![]() Wells finished his first serious novel when he was 22. He followed up with several novellas, a serial and a series of comic books when he was in high school. They include titles such as: I Dont Want to Kill You, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Partials, Fragments, Ruins, Full of Holes, Mr. Wells wrote his first stories, based on the Choose Your Own Adventure series, when he was in second grade. ![]() He is the author of the Partials series and the John Cleaver series. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University, with a bachelor degree in English, emphasizing writing and editing. VJ Books Presents Author Dan Wells! Dan Wells (born March 4, 1977) writes in a variety of genres, from dark humor to science fiction to supernatural thriller. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Wells, Dan ![]() ![]() ![]() She remained a client through the 1980s to the 1990s. In fact, Diana did go to Harrods and bought the blue suit she wore for her engagement interview at Buckingham Palace from there.ĭavid Sassoon was one of the first designers that Diana ever went to for bespoke clothing. Sassoon said later the saleswoman he hired at the time didn't think much of the naive 19-year-old and told her she might be better off "going to Harrods." When Lady Diana Spencer (later Princess Diana) got engaged she went into Bellville Sassoon's salon and asked to see some outfits. The house was known for its comfortable couture looks for aristocratic women. David Sassoonĭavid Sassoon was chief designer at the London fashion house of Bellville Sassoon, founded in 1953 by business partner Belinda Bellville. Here, Newsweek gives you just a few of the people that helped the princess look so stunning, and begin so many close a friendships. Over many years, sometimes decades, of working relationships, these key fashion figures became her devoted friends. One of the keys to Diana's successful sartorial endeavors was the personal relationships she formed with many of her designers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gonick does more than put historical facts into graphic novel form, however. " Larry Gonick's cartoon history…is one of the most amusing, provocative surveys of the planet's progress ever made.…" In a dozen books written over a span of thirty years, Gonick has proven that the graphic novel form is uniquely suited to nonfiction. In books like The Cartoon History of the Universe, Larry Gonick breathes new life into those topics that you have to study in school-history, chemistry, physics-by joining fast-paced narrative with sometimes crude but always humorous drawings. Gonick's treatments of history and science take readers on a madcap dash through a funhouse of ideas, a whirlwind tour led by a merry band of characters offering essential insights and funny asides along the way. Many school textbooks read like a slow stroll through a musty museum, a tour led by a graying scholar determined not to miss the complexities of the topic, but not those by author/illustrator Larry Gonick. ![]() ![]() She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. ![]() Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). ![]() |