Rosemary Woodhouse and her actor husband Guy move into an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet come nosing around to welcome them, and despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the noises that she keeps hearing, Guy takes a special shine to them. Shortly after Guy lands a Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant, and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets' circle is not what it seems...
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially --- kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a deterioration in his genital health, a string of demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a murder to solve. Still it will mean overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition --- in the form of truth and ethical conscience --- from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus.
For years, the X-Men have fought to avert a nightmarish future where robotic Sentinels herd mutants into camps...or kill them on sight. But no matter what they do, that future seems to loom ever closer. Now, all the classic tales featuring this dystopian alternate timeline are collected in one oversized volume!
Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. TRACKS is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and transformation.
Richard Dane has killed a man. He cannot unhear the firing of the gun or unsee the blood on his living room wall. But everybody in the small town of LaBorde, Texas knows Dane acted in self defense. Everybody except Ben Russel, the ex-con father of the small-time criminal who invaded Dane's home. When Russel comes looking for revenge against Dane's family, the two are unexpectedly drawn into a conspiracy that conceals the vilest of crimes.
WHAT JACKIE TAUGHT US offers insights from the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis about how to live with poise, grace and zest, including wisdom about image and style, courage and vision, men, marriage and motherhood. This Commemorative Edition features contributions from notable individuals amplifying the ways in which Jackie’s life has influenced them --- and society at large --- over the past several decades.
James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.
Through her work as an artist’s model, Eliza meets the magnetic and irascible Devil --- a born showman whose dream is to run his own theater company. Devil’s righthand man is Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with an enormous talent for all things magic and illusion. And then there is Jasper Button, the enigmatic, unlikely final member of this fascinating cast of characters. Thrown together by a twist of fate, their lives are inextricably linked. As Eliza gets sucked into their seductive and dangerous world, she risks not only her heart, but also her life, which is soon thrown into peril.
Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two --- Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man.
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June's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "I Will Find You" on Netflix, "Cape Fear" on Apple TV, and "Every Year After" on Prime Video; the season premieres of HBO's "House of the Dragon," AMC's "The Vampire Lestat," and Netflix's "Sweet Magnolias"; the conclusion of "The Terror: Devil in Silver" on AMC+ and Shudder; the season finale of The CW's "Sullivan's Crossing"; the midseason finale of "Rivals" on Hulu; the films Supergirl, The Get Out, Underland and In the Hand of Dante; and the DVD/Blu-ray release of Crime 101.