![]() ![]() ![]() So, I’ve gone back a few years to a series that I still have to complete: The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle #2) by Peter V. Well, I had no shortage of action covers to fit this week’s theme – what I did have a shortage of was titles with more than one cover to compare. This week’s theme:Īction – a cover that depicts action of some sort ![]() I’ve also listed events that take place during the year, that I’m aware of, so you can link up your covers – if you’re aware of any events that you think I should include then give me a shout. Future week’s themes are listed below – if you have a cover in mind that you’re really wanting to share then feel free to leave a comment about a future suggested theme. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book (this doesn’t have to be a book that you’ve read), compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . ![]()
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![]() It is often cited as the best selling novel of all time. ![]() Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. 'Valley of the Dolls' took the world by storm when it was first published over 50 years ago. ![]() Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann (1918-74), held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high powered industrialists and the jet set. Some spotting and time staining to endpapers and page fore edges, otherwise internally clean and tight, not price clipped (30/-), small previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, overall a reading copy only. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top quarter of back jacket torn away, corners rubbed with loss, some overall yellowing and time staining. ![]() First edition, second impression, published later the same month. ![]() ![]() "You guys are the absolute pits of the world you know that?" I screamed. I threw my new racket and gave a scream that came straight from Queens - but that traveled very far in the years since. ![]() He also made famous the phrase "you cannot be serious", which years later became the title of McEnroe's autobiography, by shouting it after several umpires' calls during his matches.Īlthough this was to become one of my most famous matches, I'm positive almost nobody remembers who I played, and where I played it: Tom Gullikson, first round, Wimbledon, 1981. $1,500 and came close to being thrown out after he called umpire Ted James "the pits of the world" and then swore at tournament referee Fred Hoyles. Following his first-round match against Tom Gullikson, McEnroe was fined U.S. McEnroe remained controversial when he returned to Wimbledon in 1981. ![]() During his career, McEnroe won 77 ATP-listed singles titles and 71 in doubles. ![]() McEnroe also won a record eight season ending championships, comprising five WCT Finals titles and three Masters Grand Prix titles from twelve final appearances at those two events, a record he shares with Ivan Lendl. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open), nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. ![]() 1 professional tennis player from the United States. (born February 16, 1959) is a former World No. Tennis player John McEnroe spouted this bit of "Queens-ese" at Wimbledon in 1981. ![]() ![]() He has published more than seventy books for children, including the bestselling Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novels.ĭav's stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, empathy, and the triumph of the good-hearted. It was both a USA Today and New York Times bestseller. In 2002, Dav published his first full-length graphic novel for kids, called The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. Dav made many other books before being awarded the California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath (1994) and the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy (1996). He took her advice and created his first book, World War Won, which won a national competition in 1986. In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to write and illustrate for kids. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books - the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. ![]() ![]() When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I still enjoyed every single page of it, and I still devoured this book in one day.įrom the first chapter, this book is intense and captures your attention. Reading this book, while already knowing what the plot it, I thought I found find it boring. And her life, as well as the life of everyone living in Fell’s Church is in grave danger… Elena finds herself between two brothers – one who came for a new life, and the other, who came for revenge… But Stefan is hiding a deadly secret that Elena might now be ready for just yet. And when this new boy Stefan comes into town, all mysterious, Elena wants him. Boys want to be with her, girls hate her, or want to be her best friends. So there it is now – even thought the wheel didn’t choose it, I did, because it deserved the attention!Įlena Gilbert is a popular girl in high-school and she always gets what she wants. I recently noticed the Vampire Diaries books sitting on my shelf, forgotten, and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to read it in October, because of the whole spooky vibe. And once I had them, I never got to read them, because teenage logic… When I found out there are books as well, I begged my mum to buy them for me. It all started when I was in high-school, around 6 years ago, and I was in love with the Vampire Diaries TV Show. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I had The Awakening and the Struggle (the first and second books from the Vampire Diaries series) on my shelf for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A filmed version of the Broadway production was released in 2020 on Disney+. It received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. At the 70th Tony Awards, Hamilton received a record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Musical. It then transferred to the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015, where it received uniformly positive reviews and high box office sales. The musical won eight Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical. It premiered Off-Broadway on February 17, 2015, at the Public Theater in Lower Manhattan, with Miranda playing the role of Alexander Hamilton, where its several-month engagement was sold out. Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by America now." įrom its opening, Hamilton received near-universal acclaim. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. The show draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes. Composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, Miranda says Hamilton was originally a hip hop concept album in his head. The musical tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is a sung-and-rapped-through musical with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, based on the 2004 book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. ![]() ![]() L–R: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., and Christopher Jackson Cast members perform selections from the musical at the White House, 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() Action Dad: Ted Knoll, Maggie's father and a badass member of the military.A sequel, entitled If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe, was released October 18th, 2022. Black Humour and one Mind Screw after another ensue. The fate of all humanity may once again rest on John and Dave getting their shit together. The city of Undisclosed is beginning to flood after a month-long downpour refuses to let up, and Dave and John have been recruited to find a marine's missing daughter, believed kidnapped by a cosmic entity calling himself "Mister Nymph." But the deeper they dig into the case, the weirder it gets, as more children go missing and a simple abduction case begins to look like another extra-dimensional invasion. The third book in the John Dies at the End series, following the sequel, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, written by David Wong (the pen name and Author Avatar of Cracked editor Jason Pargin). ![]() ![]() ![]() All that remains is blinding rage, anger, bitterness, and hatred. Those thoughts become an unbearable weight, a sickening fog that suffocates me, a stench so bad it chokes all the beauty and joy out of life. Everywhere I look, I see betrayal, and I can’t get his duplicitousness out of my head. ![]() While my own memories are like a half-forgotten dream, those moments I imagine are all too vivid. Only vague images of our love and life together remain, but those spectral images are tainted. ![]() A pain that erases the joy and closeness we shared, pushing it further and further away, like a mirage-unreal. ![]() The love that once was so sure has been replaced by anguish. At least what I imagine the truth to be-those images run continuously through my mind. This unfathomable heartache snuffs out all of my urges toward forgiveness because now I know the truth. I never thought that anything associated with love could be so painful, but love betrayed definitely is. It hurts so badly-the half-truths, the deception, the words I never ever thought I’d use… it all hurts. Our history, our bond, our love, didn’t stop my best friend from lying to me all these years. What’s worse than him lying to me as my husband and the father of my child, my so-called soul mate, is that he lied to me as my friend. ![]() ![]() With the Gale Force weakened by recent attacks, and the power of four collapsing, Vane and Audra are forced to make a choice: keep trusting the failing winds, or turn to the people who’ve betrayed them before. She possesses the secret power her enemy craves, and protecting it might be more than she can handle-especially when she discovers Raiden’s newest weapon. And the farther she flees, the more danger she finds. While teenaged Vane discovers more of what it means to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges than they have ever known. Even from Vane, who she doesn’t believe she deserves. And as his enemies grow stronger, Vane doesn’t know how much longer he can last on his own.īut Audra’s still running. ![]() By the treacherous winds that slip into his mind, trying to trap him in his worst nightmares. By the lies he’s told to cover for her disappearance. By the lies hes told to cover for her disappearance. ![]() ![]() By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. Breathtaking action and romance continue in the sequel to the epic Let the Sky Fall, from the author of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Breathtaking action and romance continue in the sequel to the epic Let the Sky Fall, from the author of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is her mother truly in danger, or are Anna’s visions merely illusion? And could the great Houdini really be her father, or is it just another of Marguerite’s tricks?įrom Teri Brown comes a world bursting with magic, with romance, and the temptations of Jazz Age New York-and the story of a girl about to become the mistress of her own destiny. And when a mysterious young man named Cole moves into the flat downstairs, introducing Anna to a secret society that studies people with gifts like hers, she is forced to confront her past and rethink everything she’s ever known. Because while Marguerite's own powers may be a sham, Anna possesses a true ability to sense people’s feelings and foretell the future.īut as Anna’s powers intensify, she begins to experience frightening visions of her mother in peril, which leads her to explore the powers she’s tried so long to hide. The real trick is keeping her own gifts secret from her opportunistic mother. As the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini-or so Marguerite claims-sleight of hand illusions have never been a challenge for Anna. ![]() A gifted illusionist, Anna assists her mother, the renowned medium Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and séances, easily navigating the underground world of magicians, mediums, and mentalists in 1920s New York. ![]() |