Books with author J. Chapman

The James Bond epic is the most popular film series in silver screen history: it is estimated that a quarter of the world's population has seen a Bond feature. The saga of Britain's best-loved martini hound (who we all know prefers his favorite drink "shaken, not stirred") has adapted to changing times for four decades without ever abandoning its tried-and-true formula of diabolical international conspiracy, sexual intrigue, and incredible gadgetry.James Chapman expertly traces the annals of celluloid Bond from its inauguration with 1962's Dr. No through its progression beyond Ian Fleming's spy novels to the action-adventure spectaculars of GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. He argues that the enormous popularity of the series represents more than just the sum total of the films' box-office receipts and involves questions of film culture in a wider sense.Licence to Thrill chronicles how Bond, a representative of a British Empire that no longer existed in his generation, became a symbol of his nation's might in a Cold War world where Britain was no longer a primary actor. Chapman describes the protean nature of Bond villains in a volatile global political scene―from Soviet scoundrels and Chinese rogues in the 1960s to a brief flirtation with Latin American drug kingpins in the 1980s and back to the Chinese in the 1990s. The book explores how the movies struggle with changing societal ethics―notably, in the evolution in the portrayal of women, showing how Bond's encounters with the opposite sex have evolved into trysts with leading ladies as sexually liberated as Bond himself.The Bond formula has proved remarkably durable and consistently successful for roughly a third of cinema's history―half the period since the introduction of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Moreover, Licence to Thrill argues that, for the foreseeable future, the James Bond films are likely to go on being what they have always been, a unique and very special kind of popular cinema.

Plagues kill in more ways than one and Merliss soon discovers she has far more to fear than a disease.Merliss is no ordinary cat. She's a young girl's spirit trapped in a cat's body. While the magic that banished her has snatched away her human speech, it has given her a life spanning millennia. For centuries she has lived with the cunning folk, assisting their efforts to heal the sick and ward off malevolent creatures. Now a bleeding sickness has thrown the community into chaos.The cunning man and his apprentice are in danger from the disease. The life Merliss has worked so long to build is in jeopardy. Before she entered the cat, she had trained to be a shaman. Do her centuries of experience hold a secret to a cure? But disease isn't her only nemesis.A pair of malevolent creatures move into the neighborhood threatening more havoc. With disease and monsters ravaging the land, Merliss is up to her whiskers in trouble. It couldn't be worse, until a mob looking for a scapegoat turns its wrath on Merliss.The Great Contagion is the gripping first novel in the dark fantasy Merliss Tales series. If you like strong and dynamic characters, rich description, magic and intrigue, then you'll love Jeff Chapman's imaginative Merliss Tales.Buy The Great Contagion today to watch Merliss use her wits and magic to rescue her friends and herself.

The bodies are piling up in Myrtle Beach.Newspaper columnist Mike Pickens knows he's on a hot story.The police are looking at easy answers because nobody wants high-profile killings to spoil the tourist season.But Pick's source can connect the dots in the recent murders. If he's going to prove that an innocent man is being railroaded, then Pick will have to keep his source alive long enough to expose the true murderer.And if Pick is going to survive the attempts of a howling opioid-addict hitman, he's going to have to convince his ex-girlfriend, Myrtle Beach Police Officer Maggie Woodlawn, to ride in like the cavalry and save the day.The first book in the Pick & Greenwood Mystery series set on the sunny beaches of South Carolina is a riotous ride down Waccamaw Drive.If you love gritty crime novels with a touch of dark humor set against the backdrop of the Redneck Riviera, then the Pick & Greenwood Mysteries will be an instant favorite.So grab your notebook and pen, and you might need a gun, because the hoodlums get crazy in the South Carolina sun.Get it now!

Nancy has always been excited to see her wonderful Norwegian Nana whenever she comes to visit from Norway. This time however Nana has brought her brand new pet nightingale name Noah. Who is quite a nettlesome nin-com-poop. Now night after night he is being a non-stop nightmare for Nancy with his nonsense. Even though she is frazzled, sleep deprived and on the brink, she decides to take matters into her own hands. In the end will she be able to negotiate and neutralize her nemesis?

In this gamebook you -- the reader -- play the part of one of those rough and ready characters who survive on the geographical fringes of society: in this case, the desert and marginal lands of outback New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia. The territory is immense and your business, for the moment, is that of a travelling bush doctor and dentist – out here the distinction is blurred and your duties are dictated more by the demands of the moment than the dictums of the AMA.It is in this role that you arrive in the tiny sheep town of Cabralowie and find yourself confronted by an alien strangeness that explodes beyond control.Can you find the way through this hellish labyrinth and save not only yourself, but the world as well?

After tragic events cause her to lose the only love that she has known, Monica enters into a world of dark visions which threaten her survival and sanity, but she has learnt never to give up hope and eventually triumphs beyond her wildest dreams. The story line is drawn from Monica's many diary entries which depict a tale of courage, determination and the winning of a fight against all the odds. When you read this book you are witnessing events through Monica's eyes.

Six eerie moons float in the sky above the earth, each radiating a force that those on the planet below can call upon to perform incredible acts of magic. But when Brinn is discovered to have no magic of his own, the boy is condemned to die and flees. Pursued at turns by puritanical humans and twisted monsters bred on the moons themselves, Brinn must discover his own talent before he can at last confront his enemies and overcome their tremendous powers.