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Wolven (Paperback) $7.91 The madcap debut adventure of a boy and his pet werewolf!Snaggly teeth, patchy white fur, glowing orange eyes: Woody is a far "cry" from cute. Yet Nat is strangely drawn to the rough mutt that howls at the moon. And before long, Nat learns that Woody`s not a dog at all — he`s a WOLVEN: the last of a noble breed of lycan, a shape-shifter that changes from beast to boy without much warning! But Nat`s not the only one wise to Woody`s secret: Rogue government agents have picked up his scent. They`re on the hunt to trap him and turn him into a hairy new breed of bioweapon! To battle a mad scientist and his mutant werewolf goons, Nat and Woody have to use their brains…and their brawn! |
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The Torrent - $24.99 The Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel Entre Naranjos served as the inspiration for Greta Garbo’s first American film, The Torrent. Garbo plays Leonora, a full-bodied Spanish peasant girl who falls in love with her landlord’s son Don Rafael Bull (Ricardo Cortez). To prevent his son from marrying beneath his station, Don Rafael’s father banishes Leonora from his property. She relocates in Paris, where she achieves fame and fortune as an opera singer, while back at home Don Rafael becomes a prominent politician. When Leonora returns home, she spurns his offers of marriage, even during a raging flood in which her life is in Don Rafael’s hands. After this spectacular sequence, the film’s surprisingly unhappy ending seems anticlimactic. Garbo’s lover-mentor Mauritz Stiller had originally been slated to direct The Torrent, but at the last minute MGM opted for house director Monta Bell. Whether or not Stiller could have compensated for the script’s more ludicrous passages is open to conjecture: Suffice to say that, without Garbo’s presence, The Torrent would have been just so much Spanish applesauce. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
