![]() ![]() The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance. It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The Running Man was very loosely based on a short story by Stephen King, who wrote it under the name Richard Bachman. A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this 1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman. With the help of some fellow "contestants," Richards is able to tap into government computers and prove his innocence. Toru Tanaka) and "Captain Freedom" (Jesse Ventura), each armed with unique weapons like razor-sharp hockey sticks and chainsaws. The object of the game for Richards and Mendez: obtain freedom by staying alive against a gauntlet of skillful assassins like "Subzero" (Prof. Richards is captured along with an innocent civilian, Amber Mendez (Maria Conchita Alonso), and they are forced to participate in a violent game show called "The Running Man," hosted by the unctuous Damon Killian (Richard Dawson). ![]() ![]() After escaping from jail, Richards tries to prove his innocence, but his efforts are thwarted at every turn by a regime in need of a scapegoat. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of 2019, framed for massacring rioting civilians during a famine. Editions of The Running Man by Richard Bachman Editions for The Running Man: 0451197968 (Paperback published in 1999), (Kindle Edition published in 2016), 8882744493 (Paperback published in 2003), (Pa. ![]()
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![]() Her aunties and mother won’t let Meddy’s wedding ceremony become a murder scene-over their dead bodies-and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family aren’t just like her own, they are The Family-actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. ![]() Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. Jesse Q Sutanto’s newest book, Four Aunties and a Wedding, is the sequel to dark comedy Dial A For Aunties. Sutantos hilariously over-the-top 2021-release, Dial A for Aunties. ![]() As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Four Aunties and a Wedding is the follow up to Jesse Q. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. 2013 Maturity Rating: 13+ 2h 4m Comedies. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe-even the mafia-in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. ![]() ![]() The Army was catering to the anxiety of settlers who called the conflict the Messiah War and were worried the Ghost Dance signified a potentially dangerous Sioux resurgence. The regiment was supported by a battery of four Hotchkiss mountain guns. Forsyth, arrived and surrounded the encampment. The remainder of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Colonel James W. Whitside approached Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them five miles (eight kilometers) westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp. ![]() 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. The previous day, a detachment of the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign, occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek ( Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, following a botched attempt to disarm the Lakota camp. ![]() The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. ![]() ![]() ![]() But is it possible to choose a future for herself? When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art. ![]() She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.Īmid the polluted landscape, Coral works desperately to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. ![]() Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. Dick Award, comes a resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we loveĪ few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. "This thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders." –Publishers Weekly starred reviewįrom the author of Road Out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K. ![]() ![]() Sobat completed Education and Arts degrees and a master's degree in English at the University of Alberta in Children's Literature, specializing in fantasy. She attended kindergarten at the Old Sun Residential School, and later in St. ![]() She spent her early years in Drumheller, then Shouldice, and on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, now Siksika Nation, near the hamlet of Gleichen. A striking Drumheller miner with socialist sympathies, her Ukrainian grandfather had been blacklisted by the RCMP in his youth her Depression-era parents maintained socialist leanings throughout their lives. Sobat was born in Calgary, Alberta of first-generation Ukrainian-Canadian and Serb-Canadian parents. She is also the founder of the Spoken Word Youth Choir in Edmonton. For 2015, Sobat was one of two writers in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. Her poetry and fiction, for adults and young adults, are known for her controversial themes. ![]() She is the founder and coordinator of YouthWrite, a writing camp for children, a non-profit and charitable society. Gail Sidonie Sobat (born January 3) is a Canadian writer, educator, singer and performer. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions-loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope-until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. ![]() A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. Deceptively laconic-these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour-it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. ![]() An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey ( Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes-literary, historical, psychological-that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.Ĭompleted in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. ![]() ![]() ![]() These men (Rechy and Merrick) I credit with saving my young gay boy life in the 70's when I didn't think I had anything to look forward to by way of happiness. One of them is fiction (Numbers) the other is more of a sexual documentary, John Rechy's - The Sexual Outlaw and Numbers - Two books that are gritty, brutally honest takes on urban gay life. Gordon Merrick's The Lord Won't Mind (which is part of a trilogy) (Actually ANYTHING by him is on my must read list).Ĭlassically (cause I am an older cat who was around back in the 70's when these books were quite the controversial releases in the day). Recently - TJ Klune's "Into this River I Drown" is at the top of my recent discovery list. ![]() ![]() New to this site (and am about to release my first full length (205K word) epic) and found this forum topic to be interesting enough to me to introduce and post: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This research also finds that estrogen tends to heighten women’s preference for the scent of men who possess testosterone markers and whose faces and bodies are symmetrical. In particular, this research finds that estrogen increases women’s preference for men whose faces, voices, and behaviors exhibit cues to the presence of relatively high levels of the male sex hormone, testosterone (we’re talking square jaws, deep voices, and swagger). ![]() Research conducted on heterosexual women finds that, as estrogen increases across the cycle, so too does women’s sexual desire and interest in cues of good genetic quality in men. And there’s a growing body of research in psychology that suggests that this is exactly what goes on. So, estrogen – in addition to all of the things that it does to make conception possible – may also have a hand in partner choice. However, there’s a piece of the puzzle you probably haven’t heard much about that is just as important to the process of reproduction as is the release of an egg: sex. A little follicle stimulation here and a little endometrial lining proliferation there. If you’ve ever had to suffer through an awkward middle school health class, there’s a good chance that you’ve probably heard about all the stuff that estrogen does from the neck down to promote reproduction. ![]() ![]() It’s a pretty big challenge for a teenager, but Miles doesn’t think of himself as an average high schooler. Though Miles enjoys spending time with Lara, it’s nothing compared to the feelings he has for Alaska.Ĭhallenge. Alaska has a boyfriend, however, so she encourages Miles to go out with their sweet Romanian classmate, Lara Buterskaya. Miles doesn’t have much experience in the love department, but he develops an instant crush on free-spirited, emotionally Alaska Young. It’s a bit of a weird hobby, but Miles loves learning what famous figures of history said on their deathbeds, even if that’s the only thing he knows about them. Hyde, which tend to put everyone else to sleeping. He even enjoys the lectures of his aging religion teacher Dr. Miles fits right in at the academically driven Culver Creek. The Colonel jokingly nicknames Miles “Pudge” because he’s so skinny and gangly. ![]() ![]() The boarding school isn’t exactly the paradise he imagined (for one thing, none of the dorm rooms have air conditioning!), but he soon makes a friend in his boisterous roommate, Chip “The Colonel” Martin. ![]() Hoping for a fresh start, Miles transfers to his dad’s alma mater at the start of his junior year. Florida-based Miles has a good relationship with his parents, but he’s always struggled to make friends at school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Decommissioned 29 October 1919, USS Leviathan (ID# 1326) was returned the same day to the U.S. After that date USS Leviathan (ID# 1326) reversed the flow of men as she transported the veterans back to the United States with nine westward crossings ending 8 September 1919. Operating between Hoboken and the European ports of Brest and Liverpool, she completed 10 round trips, carrying over 119,000 fighting men, before the armistice 11 November 1918. Renamed USS Leviathan (ID# 1326) 6 September 1917, the former liner completed a trial cruise to Cuba and then reported for duty with the Cruiser and Transport Force. Navy in June 1917 and commissioned July 1917, Capt. ![]() Shipping Board when the United States entered World War I, 6 April 1917 turned over to the custody of the U.S. ![]() Leviathan (SP-1326), ex SS Vaterland, built as Germany's largest passenger liner by Blohm und Voss, Hamburg, was launched 13 April 1913 seized at Hoboken, N.J., by the U.S. ![]() |