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WHO, SIR? ME, SIR? - Bookworms 3
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WHO, SIR? ME, SIR? - Bookworms 3WHO, SIR? ME, SIR? - Bookworms 3Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team that he has chosen for the competition think Sam has gone crazy. 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?' says little Hoomey, his eyes round with horror. 'We'll never beat Greycoats,' the others cry. 'Never in a million years!' But you don't know what you can do - until you try...

 
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Tags: competition, Greycoats, crazy, round, Hoomey, Bookworms, horror
Foreign Agent - Brad Thor
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Foreign Agent - Brad Thor

Now, the CIA needs a very special kind of operative.Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He’s a former U.S. Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence company, he will provide the CIA, and more important, the President, with absolute deniability. But deep within the Russian Caucasus, Moscow also has its own special kind of operative. As a child, Sacha Baseyev endured an unimaginable horror. Today, he lives and breathes for only one reason—to kill. And he will kill as many Americans as it takes to accomplish his mission.
 
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Tags: special, operative, endured, unimaginable, horror
The Horror Plays of the English Restoration (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
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The Horror Plays of the English Restoration (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)

A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone-absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author's contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation.
 
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Tags: horror, stage, Restoration, tragedies, period
Writers Workshop of Horror
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Writers Workshop of Horror

Writers Workshop of Horror focuses solely on honing the craft of writing. It includes solid advice, from professionals of every publishing level, on how to improve one's writing skills. The volume edited by Michael Knost includes contributions by a dream-team of nationally known authors and storytellers, many Bram Stoker Award winners.
 
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Tags: Writers, writing, includes, Horror, Workshop
Horror and the Horror Film (New Perspectives on World Cinema)
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Horror and the Horror Film (New Perspectives on World Cinema)

Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. ‘Horror and the Horror Film’ conveys a mature appreciation for horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy and their cinematic power.
The volume covers the horror film and its subgenres – such as the vampire movie – from 1896 to the present. It covers the entire genre by considering every kind of monster in it, including the human.
 
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Tags: Horror, their, films, covers, human