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![]() ![]() Warning: Choking Hazard - Small parts may be generated. Stock images from the manufacturer are used in this listing. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Playskool Heroes Transformers Bumblebee Raptor Collectible Figure Toy at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products. ![]() ![]() In robot mode, Bumblebee stands around 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) tall.Kids can imagine racing to the rescue with this toy, inspired by the Transformers Rescue Bots Academy animated TV show.Little heroes can enjoy twice the fun with 2 modes of play, converting this action figure from rock crawler off-road buggy to robot and back again.Little heroes ages 3 and up can imagine going on daring missions with one of their favourite Transformers Rescue Bots Academy characters! Designed with Easy 2 Do conversion and sized right for small hands, the toy converts from robot mode to vehicle mode and back again in 1 simple step! Imagine helping Bumblebee save the day! As a rock crawler, Bumblebee is ready to conquer tough terrain to race to the rescue! Kids ages 3 and up can pretend there is a dangerous situation unfolding and convert the brave 4.5-inch Bumblebee action figure from a robot to a vehicle they can imagine charging to the scene for a courageous rescue. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Our relationship with them is brand new, so we'll have to see. ![]() If we can get it off the ground, if we can actually get it going, I'm not ruling out Amazon's involvement down the line,” he said. At the time of writing, The Dark Tower series has not yet been picked up by any streamers. According to the synopsis, the story will chronicle the life of Charles Krantz in reverse, "beginning with his death from a brain tumor at age of 39, and ending with his childhood in a supposedly haunted house." Mike Flanagan’s Dream Stephen King Projectīesides the upcoming movie, Flanagan is also currently working on adapting King’s famous The Dark Tower series into a five-season streaming series, which he has been describing as his "dream project" for a long time now. ![]() The project has been in development for several months now, with the script already written before the Writers Guild of America began its current strike. ![]() The film adaptation will be directed, written, and produced by Flanagan, who previously helmed another one of King’s stories in the form of 2019’s The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep. The Life of Chucky is based on one of the four short stories from King’s 2020 novella If It Bleeds. RELATED: Tom Hiddleston's The Night Manager Returns After a Seven-Year Hiatus ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, let me take you on the rollercoaster-esque mental journey I experienced while reading The Princess in Black: A child (Princess Magnolia) dupes the clueless adult (Duchess Wigtower), thus giving child readers a sense of power.Princess Magnolia’s horse spends his days disguised as a unicorn by the name of Frimplepants, ‘nough said.As far as all the technicalities of an easy reader/chapter book go, this is a success: simple (but not simplistic) and accessible sentences, the story is engaging and full of action, and, overall, I find it nicely suited to it’s 5-8 year old target audience.To start, here is a list of my Undisputed Likes: Thus commences my first ever Book Wars post without any kind of truly conclusive opinion. Here comes the “however,” though: however, now that I’ve read it, I find myself a little conflicted. Needless to say, I was very excited about The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale (2014). For anyone who remembers my series on Princess Picture Books (or just anyone who knows me IRL/at all) you know that reimagined and/or feminist princess stories are kinda my thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() But this year, Jake doesnt show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Coopers old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But shes starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her-and hes still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. ![]() Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabins shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. And thats exactly the way Cooper wants it, because hes got a lot to hide. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. ![]() Book Synopsis A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grants These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. About the Book A father and daughter living in isolation in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in this mesmerizing novel of suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, since most of Sam’s original readers-or some of their family members-actually lived through the Civil War, much of the context for the narrative was common knowledge. It is this reason that excerpts were featured frequently in Ken Burns’s documentary on the Civil War. ![]() The humor and depth of writing at times rises to a level resembling Mark Twain thus, twenty-first-century readers can still discover the everlasting treasures of Private Sam Watkins’s story just as it was. Watkins’s memoir was written in the winter of 1882–83. ![]() He was one of only seven of the original members of Company H when it surrendered in April 1865. Remarkably, he survived some of the most intense battles of the war, including Shiloh, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and Franklin. According to Margaret Mitchell, “a better book there never was.” Sam Watkins served in Company H of the First Tennessee Infantry for the duration of the Civil War. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show is perhaps the finest memoir of an ordinary Confederate soldier. “Company H,” the Classic Civil War Memoir in a New Edition, Completely Annotated for the First Time and Illustrated with Twenty-Four MapsĬo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin Gore was admittedly inspired to write the song after reading ‘ Elvis and Me‘ (1985) that Priscilla wrote with the little help of her ghostwriter Sandra Harmon. ![]() According to Johnny Cash a ‘gospel’ and “ the most evangelical song I have ever recorded”, it remains to this day the perfect song Nick Cave still wishes to write and re-enacts on his TV-preacher-style concert shows.īut Personal Jesus is not about said one from the Bible, it is a song about being a Jesus for somebody else in a love relationship, and it is even inspired by a prominent real life couple: Elvis and Priscilla Presley. ![]() It is on Depeche Mode‘s smoldering masterpiece Violator (1990) where you find Personal Jesus, released as the album’s lead-single and becoming the biggest-selling 12-inch single in Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short story) S = selected again for the compilation of the year givenĬhaddeleys and Flemings I: The ConnectionĬhaddeleys and Flemings II: The Stone in the Field Selected Stories (Vintage, London)į = first published in a collection (most likely a journal publication came later) s11 = New Selected Stories – 2011, published in 2014 as Lying under the Apple Tree.s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006 both with an introduction by Margaret Atwood.01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001.78 = Who Do You Think You Are? – 1978 also published as The Beggar Maid. ![]() 74 = Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You – 1974.Some of the data in the list below are still needed in this spreadsheet, e.g., which journal a story was published in. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published, "The Dimensions of a Shadow" (1950), and other stories having appeared elsewhere. There are a list of short stories written by Alice Munro. ![]() ![]() Focusing on female beauty standards and contradictions, sex and female sexuality, and women’s roles as workers, wives and mothers, Janega reflects on what this study of women in the middle ages means now: ![]() Janega explores medieval gender norms to consider the ways that women’s roles have – and haven’t – changed. In her lively exploration of medieval women’s social roles, Janega shows how beauty “was a key to power”, crucially connected to wealth, privilege, youth and maidenhood – to create “a ‘perfect’ sort of femininity”. Such cultural associations are addressed by Eleanor Janega in her book The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society. But in medieval culture, such pressures were doubly weighted, since beauty was closely aligned with morality: beauty was associated with goodness and ugliness with evil. In her 1991 book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf argued that the standards of western female beauty were used as a weapon to stagnate the progress of women. ![]() ![]() It’s no wonder that instances of anxiety, depression, eating disorders and dysmorphia can all be connected to modern – and indeed, pre-modern – people’s experience of beauty standards. The association of beauty with health, and ugliness with disease, has been taken up in more recent feminist debate over the modern cultural obsession with women’s appearance as an epidemic. ![]() ![]() A good breeder will spend hours of their time with the cats and kittens … thousands of dollars in health and food costs … give them a wage and they’ll be lucky if they even break even! So why do we breed - because we too love animals and seeing the joy that is experienced when someone gets one of these adorable purebreds. You know you adopt don’t shop people are for the most part self righteous individuals who really don’t care about the animals. Upvotes Follow Unfollow 1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 ![]() |