A year later, he lures the vampire responsible for his mother's death to the family farm and manages to kill it with a homemade stake. Lincoln vows in his diary to kill as many vampires as he can. Young Abraham is also shocked to learn that his beloved mother, Nancy, succumbed not to milk sickness but rather to being given a "fool's dose" of vampire blood, the result of Thomas's failure to repay a debt. Thomas explains to his son that a vampire killed Abraham's grandfather (also named Abraham Lincoln) in 1786. When Abraham Lincoln is only eleven years old, he learns from his father Thomas that vampires are, in fact, real. Years later, the manuscript is found in a five-and-dime store in the town of Rhinebeck, New York (a reference to Smith's wife's hometown). The journal-style book is written as a partial "secret" diary of Abraham Lincoln, kept by the 16th President of the United States and given to the author by a vampire named Henry Sturges. March 2, 2010, Grand Central Publishing, New YorkĪbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a biographical action horror mashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010, through New York–based publishing company Grand Central Publishing. Comic novel, horror, historical, thriller
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But she reluctantly extends her stay when she learns that, before her death, her estranged aunt had promised an up-and-coming producer he could record a tribute album to her late uncle at the property’s studio. Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and returns to the iconic estate for a short visit to ready it for sale. As musicians, artists, and free spirits gathered at The Sandcastle for the season in pursuit of inspiration and communal living, Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach and in the wild woods… until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA.įor Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle’s sprawling estate on the California coast. Hey, these actors are incredibility good. Edit 3/24/22 - I see a lot of criticism about Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas. Well, a part of me loved when Don Wilson drove off the cliff in his Subaru Wagon. My one problem is there doesn't seem to be a point to the murders. I still remember Gone Girl (2014), that was a really great film by Ben Affleck too. Affleck is particularly good at these psychological crime dramas. The film is extremely well acted by both Ana de Armas and Affleck. The more Vic inflicts his rage, on the younger men, the more sexually attractive Melinda becomes to Vic and the more she is disposed to him. With some victims, Vic makes some careless mistakes while other murders are discreet. The film keeps you riveted to find out the motivations. Does she measure Vics love for her by how far he will go to dispose of her casual suitors? What does Vic get in return? Apex male standing? Or is this just a sick and twisted game that both Melinda and Vic play to serial murder many young men. Melinda childishly provokes jealously and hostility in Vic and for a not understandable reason, Vic put up with it. Melinda enjoys the company of many other younger men she brings home with her while legally married to Vic - Husband. We find ourselves watching a volatile marriage on the edge. They take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened. Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the centre of the turmoil, resulting in a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink. At the highest level of the US military, secret action was taken to prevent Trump from possibly starting a war. The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 revealed the transition from President Trump to President Biden to be one of the most dangerous periods in American history, with the result of the election called into question by the sitting president.īut, as internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. The powerful economic rebound that followed the end of lockdown measures across most of the globe helped prompt the divergence between spending on clean energy and fossil fuels. The Covid-19 pandemic appears to have marked a turning point for global energy spending, the IEA’s data shows. They are often financially unable to dole out large sums on subsidies and state backing, as the U.S., European Union and China have done. Developing nations have been slower to embrace renewable-energy sources, put off by the high upfront price tag of emerging technologies and a shortage of affordable financing. Ninety percent of the growth in clean-energy spending occurs in the developed world and China, the IEA said. While investments in clean energy have been strong, they haven’t been evenly split. For every $1 spent on fossil-fuel energy this year, $1.70 will be invested into clean-energy technologies compared with five years ago when the spending between the two was broadly equal, the IEA said. The figure marks a sharp increase from previous years and highlights the growing divergence between clean-energy spending and traditional fossil-fuel industries such as oil, gas and coal. “There has been a substantial increase in a short period of time-I would consider this to be a dramatic shift.”Ī total of $2.8 trillion will be invested in global energy supplies this year, of which $1.7 trillion, or more than 60% will go toward clean-energy projects. “A new clean global energy economy is emerging,” Birol told The Wall Street Journal. |