Book Summary: "1408" is
the second in the audio book collection titled
Blood and Smoke,
by Stephen King, released in 1999. In 2002, it was reprinted in written
form as the twelfth story in the compilation
Everything's Eventual:
14 Dark Tales. In the introduction to the story, King says that
"1408" is his version of what he calls the "Ghostly Room at the Inn",
his term for the theme of haunted hotel or motel rooms in horror
fiction. He originally wrote the first few pages as part of an appendix
for his non-fiction book,…..
Book Summary:
30 Days of Night
was a three-issue miniseries that jump-started the careers of writer Steve
Niles and artist Ben Templesmith. Vampires flock to Barrow, Alaska where the
sun sets for about 30 days, allowing them to feed without the burden of
sleep to avoid lethal sunlight. When the vampire elder Vicente learns of
this plan, he travels to Barrow to end the feeding, in order to preserve the
secrecy of vampires. Because of the cold, the vampires' senses are weakened
and a few of the town's residents are able to hide........
Book Author: Steve Niles
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men to fight the upcoming Persian invasion. In what is likely a suicide
mission, they and their allies plan to stop King Xerxes's invasion of Greece
at the narrow cliffs of the "Hot Gates" (Thermopylae). The terrain prevents
the Greeks from being overwhelmed by Xerxes' superior numbers...
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coward by those around him. He has grown up idolizing the outlaw Jesse
James. He finds James in Missouri and joins his gang, taking part in a train
robbery. Gradually, he forms a complex love/hate relationship with
James,....
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naive aspiring writer Briony Tallis, aged 13, has written a play for her
brother Leon, with the characters to be played by her cousins, 15-year old
Lola and 9-year old twins Jackson and Pierrot.Briony's sister, 23-year old
Cecilia Tallis, has returned home from university and is confronting her
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Book Summary:As told in the surviving epic poem, Beowulf was the son of Ecgþeow, a
warrior of the Swedish Wægmundings. Ecgþeow had slain Heaðolaf, a man from
another clan named the Wulfings (according to Scandinavian sources, they
were the ruling dynasty of the Geatish petty kingdom of Östergötland).
Apparently, because the victim was from a prominent family the weregild
was set too high, and so Ecgþeow was banished and had to seek refuge among
the Danes.....
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starts out with a description from the main character Vivian, a sixteen year
old loup-garoux. She explains about her father, the old leader of the pack,
and the group called the Five. The Five consist of Rafe, Finn, Willem, Ulf,
and Gregory. They are the only pack members of Vivian's age and their group
used to include another boy called Axel......
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novel follows David Webb, alias Jason Bourne, as he works to find his old
enemy, Carlos the Jackal, who is trying to kill him. As the Jackal enters
old age and his infamy fades, he decides that he will do two things before
he dies: kill Webb/Bourne, and destroy the KGB facility of Novgorod, where
the Jackal was trained and later turned away. Carlos the Jackal uses a
diverse collective of aged men devoted to his handiwork known ....
Book Summary:
How a fast-living Texas
congressman secretly funneled billions of dollars to Afghanistan to fight
the Soviets.Texas
does very well in fostering colorful, interesting politicians. Charlie
Wilson, who served in the US Congress,....
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story begins when Lyra Belacqua (later Lyra Silvertongue)— a supposedly
orphaned, eleven-year-old girl residing at Jordan College, Oxford—secretly
enters and hides in the Retiring Room, despite resistance from her dæmon,
Pantalaimon — an animal-formed, shape-shifting manifestation of her soul.
Inside the room.....
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Jesse Aarons Jr., the
only boy in a family of five children, is a middle child, living in rural
southwest Virginia. His mother favors his sisters Brenda, Ellie, May Belle,
and Joyce Ann, while his father works in Washington D.C. and therefore spends