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Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of The Cake Mix Doctor updates her beloved approach to creating show-stopping desserts, with 50 modernized classic recipes and 150 brand-new recipes, featuring simple variations for different diets and using today's most popular flavors. When Anne Byrn's The Cake Mix Doctor first appeared two decades ago, it amassed a cult following by delivering exactly what people wanted and needed: a shortcut for delicious and beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Witches Almanac covers the history, persecutions, conjurings, and magic of some of history's most consequential witches, sorcerers, wizards, and mavericks. The lives and times of 360 of history's most important witches are explored and explained,"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When we think of ancient Athens, the image invariably coming to mind is of the Classical city, with monuments beautifying everywhere; the Agora swarming with people conducting business and discussing political affairs; and a flourishing intellectual, artistic, and literary life, with life anchored in the ideals of freedom, autonomy, and democracy. But in 338 that forever changed when Philip II of Macedonia defeated a Greek army at Chaeronea to impose...
Publisher
ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" -- from publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative...
87) The shadow glass
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Corman is failing at life. Jobless, jaded and on the 'wrong' side of thirty, hess facing the threat of eviction from his London flat while reeling from the sudden death of his father, one-time film director Bob Corman. Back in the eighties, Bob poured his heart and soul into the creation of his 1986 puppet fantasy The Shadow Glass, a film Jack loved as a child, idolising its fox-like hero Dune. But The Shadow Glass flopped on release, deemed...
Author
Series
Night in with (Lucy Holliday) volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Unlucky in love, failed actress Libby Lomax has retreated into the world of classic movies, where the immortal lives of the screen goddesses offer so much more in the way of romance than her own life. After a terrible day on the set of a cult TV sci-fi series where she has proved herself to be the antithesis of feminine poise and embarrassed herself in front of heartthrob actor Dillon O{u2019}Hara, she plonks herself down in front of her trillionth...
89) Hideout
Author
Series
Alice Vega novels volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her"--Lee Child. A powerful new thriller from Louisa Luna. Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing for thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. In 1945, George Orwell created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corrupting even the noblest of causes. Today it is all too clear that Orwells masterpiece is still fiercely relevant wherever cults of personality thrive, truths are twisted by those in power, and freedom is under attack. Now the artist Odyr translates the world and message of Animal...
Author
Publisher
Ablaze Publising
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A classic of LGBTQ literature that has become a cult sensation! The heroes of this enchanting group have been enjoyed by millions of readers worldwide! Adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now in graphic novel form for the first time! San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb...
Series
Misfit City volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Batten down the hatches! Smothered by her backwater hometown and frustrated by its 1980s cult-movie fame (The Gloomies...have you seen it? It s a real classic, y know.), Wilder is pretty sure she s seen everything Cannon Cove has to offer. She s desperate to get away from home as soon as she can, and move on to bigger, better, and less annoying things&even if that might mean leaving her best friends behind. But when Wilder discovers a centuries-old...
94) Black Christmas
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.
Publisher
Talos Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Retrospective Collection of Classic Occult and Supernatural Detective Stories by Some of the Field's Greatest and Best-Known Weird Fiction Authors. Since the gaslit nights at the end of the nineteenth century, the occult detective has been a beloved and recurring archetype. Mixing the best aspects of the detective tale and weird or supernatural fiction, and capitalizing in part on the massive popularity of Sherlock Holmes, these stories portrayed...
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Clive Barker's Nightbreed has been controversial since the moment it was released in a version edited by the studio and roundly condemned by Barker, who wrote and directed the movie. A virtually instant cult film based on Barker's novella Cabal, it was nominated for three Saturn Awards and won several prizes at European film festivals. Midian Unmade tells the stories of the Nightbreed after the fall of their city, Midian. Driven from their homes,...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home--vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children of Osiris, led by the eccentric High Prophet, Eustace K. Mildmann. The cult is a seething hotbed of petty resentment, jealousy and dark secrets--which eventually lead to murder. The stage is set for one of Inspector Meredith's most bizarre and exacting cases."--Publisher...
98) Evil dead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the much-anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.
Author
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This book will engage your library's users through toy-centric events that riff on Everything Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids and more; Poodle Totes, Flannel Pillows, Flair Fun, Graffiti Art, and other DIY projects; video screenings such as I Want My MTV, Nostalgia Nickelodeon Night, Cult Movie Fest, and Marvel Madness; programs that incorporate yummy treats like cake pops, Chex mix, Classic Candies by the Decade, and popular microwaveable...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people across the United States, people who find inspiration in ancient deities, nature, myth, even science fiction. Contrary to stereotype, what Adler discovered was neither cults...
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