![]() ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE JANSON EQUATION will hit stores early in 2015.Ī former New York City criminal defense attorney, Douglas Corleone now resides in the Hawaiian Islands with his family, where he is currently at work on his next novel.Įveryone makes a “personal”rule, that they do NOT stray from following. Recently Douglas Corleone was selected by the Estate of Robert Ludlum, internationally bestselling author and creator of the Jason Bourne series, to continue Ludlum's series of thrillers featuring ex-Navy SEAL and former covert government agent Paul Janson. Marshal Simon Fisk, was hailed by the Huffington Post as a "heart-wrenching, adrenaline-producing adventure that.leaves the reader gasping for breath." The second book in the series, PAYOFF is due out in August 2014. ![]() Corleone's other novels in the Kevin Corvelli series include NIGHT ON FIRE and LAST LAWYER STANDING.ĭouglas Corleone's highly acclaimed international thriller, GOOD AS GONE, featuring former U.S. ![]() His debut novel, ONE MAN'S PARADISE, introducing hotshot defense attorney Kevin Corvelli was a finalist for the 2010 Shamus Award for Best First Novel and winner of the 2009 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award. Douglas Corleone is the highly acclaimed and award-winning author of contemporary thrillers. ![]()
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![]() When it comes to actual hours spent in the sun, I have probably had significantly less than a lot of people. ![]() Plus, my parents weren’t really beach or boat people, so our vacations didn’t revolve around fun in the sun. I grew up mostly in the Midwest where summers were short and winters were long, so there wasn’t a lot of opportunity for hanging out in the sun. Every UV ray that touches the skin adds up over time. Hands down, exposure to daylight and direct sunlight is the number one cause of premature skin aging. ![]() Growing Up in the Midwest, I Didn’t Get Much Sun as a Child When I reflect back, I can think of 12 main things that I believe have contributed to people thinking I look a bit younger than my age. This is because I don’t feel my age, nor do I always act it, so it’s nice to know that I don’t quite look it either. Many people think I’m in my mid-thirties, which is always a nice compliment to hear. ![]() Whenever I tell someone my age, there is often a look of disbelief. Back in 1996 when I started my company, I was following direct orders from my astrologist…something about all the stars being aligned were going to ensure my business was a success-and it worked!) ![]() (Yes! Both my business and personal birthday are on the same day. Not only did I turn fifty (it’s the halftime show of my life), but I’m also celebrating twenty-three years of my company, Renée Rouleau Skin Care. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’d taken photographs of Half Dome before. But he still hadn’t captured the sheer cliff face of Half Dome to his satisfaction-and that was what he set out to do that April day. As it turned out, Adams already had 11 of the 18 images he needed to complete the set. ![]() In 1926, his mentor Albert Bender, a patron of the arts in San Francisco, tasked him with producing a portfolio of large-format black-and-white photographs of mountains that he would finance and help the young artist sell. But it soon became clear to Adams that his level of talent would only garner him local fame, never national. He was an accomplished pianist, and had spent a winter in San Francisco teaching music lessons and performing as part of the Milanvi Trio. But this time, Adams was intent on capturing the perfect shot of Half Dome to add to his portfolio-a shot that would launch his career as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.įor most of his 25 years, Adams had considered himself a musician first and a photographer second. The aspiring photographer had made the trek before, once with an uncle and later with a painter acquaintance, who nearly broke his neck making the treacherous descent back down the narrow gully. Their destination on that chilly spring morning was Half Dome, the park’s iconic granite summit rising some 5,000 feet from the valley’s floor. On April 10, 1927, Ansel Adams clambered through Yosemite’s LeConte Gully trail with four of his friends in tow. ![]() ![]() Wants to take stock of all the 'good' in the world around them, aspires to reach specific goals, or hasn't yet figured out which path to take and aren't afraid to explore their options by freewriting in their journal. This companion journal is for anyone who has or hasn't read the book and wants more out of life. It inspires you to be grateful for all that's around you despite any setbacks, and to devise a new plan of actions and affirmations to get you where you want to be. Studies have shown that journaling is great way to work out your problems, brainstorm new ideas, reevaluate your goals and formulate a plan to help you hit your goals. By ensuring that you write daily positive manifestations, goals, thankfulness, affirmations and intentions, you aspire and prepare what you 'desire' to receive in your life. ![]() ![]() The subconscious doesn't recognize the difference between do or don't, right or wrong and good or bad. Writing your goals, gratitude and affirmations will soon become second nature to your subconscious mind. ![]() Inside, you'll find sections that ask you to explore your current intentions and strategize how you intend to manifest those goals with plenty of space to focus on positive affirmations, while practicing gratitude. As the title implies, this unique journal encourages you to approach the world with a positive outlook. ![]() Positive Thoughts, Positive Outcomes Journal aims to help you plan ahead with real-world ideas and real-life choices. To get ahead, you need to know where you're going. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future―outside the woods. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. Their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, appeared on the Stonewall Honor Books List, won a Firecracker Award, and was a finalist for Lambda Literary, Hurston/Wright Legacy, and Locus awards. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.īut even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees for the shelter of the woods. A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to writing the screenplay (based on his novel of the same name) Wood served as the film’s production manager and casting agent. While Ed didn’t direct it, it is still numbered among his films due to the extensive role he took in overseeing its production alongside director A.C. Orgy of the Dead has the distinction of being the final feature-length movie Ed Wood was involved in that saw wide distribution. (Now you know why that Johnny Depp movie ended where it did!) By the end of his career, however, Ed Wood had begun writing pornographic novels and working on exploitation films. Once upon a time, the infamous shlock director got funding from the First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills and made movies that dealt with the moral evils of pornography and juvenile delinquency. ![]() Wood Jr.’s career ended the way that it did. There is a certain degree of irony that Edward D. Today, Matt Morrison examines the 1965 exploitation film Orgy of the Dead. Stream This? is a feature devoted to exploring and reviewing some of the lesser known and often-times weirder films that can be found on various streaming services. ![]() ![]() With a mix of threats and promises, the man convinces Barrie and Cassie to cast a spell at midnight. Because more than treasure is buried there.Ī stranger filled with magic arrives at Watson’s Landing claiming that the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts-and the Colesworth curse-also lies beneath the mansion. The chaos turns dangerous as Cassie hires a team of archeologists to excavate beneath the mansion ruins. Ghost-hunters hope to glimpse the ancient spirit who sets the river on fire each night, and reporters chase rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold that may be hidden at Colesworth Place. Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation under siege. ![]() ![]() Beautiful Creatures meets Gone with the Wind in the spellbinding second novel in the Heirs of Watson Island trilogy that “skillfully blends rich magic and folklore with adventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure” ( Publishers Weekly, on Compulsion). ![]() ![]() Sybylla however is a wilful girl, “utterly different” to other girls her age and instead of viewing him as a highly attractive partner, she leads him a merry dance. But she reckons without the wealthy young landowner Harry Beecham. Not that any man would want someone “so very plain” and “as ugly” as her, she reasons. ![]() Marriage to her is a degradation, a result of social laws arranged so that it’s “a woman’s only sphere” in which she would have to suppress her inherent nature. Nor does she envisage a life shackled in marriage. Sybylla believes she is destined for “a brilliant career”, one that will offer more than a life rearing cattle and sheep. ![]() Hers is a passionate nature, a force that will not be suppressed or controlled and in whom ambition is ablaze. The boldness of the girl’s look combined with her wild, unkempt appearance also perfectly matched the character of Miles Franklin’s protagonist, Sybylla Melvyn. ![]() Maybe I’m making far too much of this but I certainly found the image mesmerising. Other times it seemed more that she was asking me a question, inviting a response. At times it felt as if she was glaring at me, almost daring me to judge her behaviour and her attitudes. Every time I picked up my copy of My Brilliant Career, instead of delving straight into the narrative, I found myself simply staring at the cover image. ![]() ![]() If you’ve never had the pleasure of reading SRB’s writing before, then you are in for a treat! SRB writes some of the most humourous lines and scenes that I have read. Gothic novels aren’t generally to my taste, and in many ways Unspoken can be seen as a” modern Gothic” novel I really enjoyed reading it. I really loved Sarah Rees Brennan’s (SRB) The Demon’s Lexicon Trilogy she has a way with words, so when I heard about this book I wanted to get my hands on it. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Īs life as she knows it begins to unravel, Kami is determined to get to the bottom of every mystery. Her life is just the way she likes it.īut all that changes when the mysterious Lynburn family returns to Kami’s village, along with teenagers, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Having an imaginary friend has made fitting in hard – but that’s never bothered Kami. a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met. Publisher: Simon and Schuster (13th September 2012) Genre: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult ![]() Title: Unspoken (Book One of The Lynburn Legacy) Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan, UK edition cover ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. 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