"Billy Bones Billy Bones is a fictional character, in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel ""Treasure Island"". Billy Bones appears at the very outset of the story with a mysterious sea chest, looking for a wayside inn with a view of the sea but little. Bones decides upon the Admiral Benbow Inn where he asks to be addressed merely as ""Captain"". Though his down-payment for lodgings is adequate, even generous, he stays for many months and browbeats Jim Hawkins' father out of asking for more money even when his deposit has been spent. He does, however, pay Jim"
"Bloody Bones (novel) Bloody Bones is the fifth in the series of horror/mystery novels by Laurell K. Hamilton. ""Bloody Bones"" continues the adventures of Anita Blake. This time, Anita travels to Branson, Missouri and is quickly enmeshed in a series of supernatural murders and disappearances that she and her vampire would-be lover, Jean-Claude must resolve. As with its predecessors, ""Bloody Bones"" blends elements of supernatural, hardboiled and police procedural fiction. Within the book, ""Bloody Bones"" is the name of a restaurant that is operated by two of the principal characters in the novel, and Bouvier. Hamilton employed the practice of"
"Doll Bones Doll Bones is a 2013 Young Adult novel by author Holly Black with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler. ""Doll Bones"" won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in Children's Literature and was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 2014. ""Doll Bones"" is the story of Zachary ""Zach"" Barlow, Alice Magnaye, and Poppy Bell's quest to return a haunted doll to its proper grave site in another town. Zach, Alice, and Poppy play a role-playing game with Horrific action figures and metal cut-outs. Poppy runs the game which involves Zach's character ""William the Blade"" and Alice's character ""Lady Jaye"" on a quest"
"Them Bones (novel) Them Bones (1984) is the first solo novel by science fiction writer Howard Waldrop. It was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1984, but lost out to William Gibson's ""Neuromancer""; both novels were part of the third Ace Science Fiction Specials series edited by Terry Carr. The plot is built around three separate but interconnected stories woven through the novel. The first is set in 1929, where archaeologists in Louisiana excavating a mound of the Coles Creek culture encounter the skeleton of a horse, a seeming impossibility as the mound predates the re-introduction of the"
"Skinnybones Skinnybones is a 1982 children's novel written by Barbara Park. It is Park's most popular book, and has won numerous awards for children's literature. It was followed up by a sequel in 1988 called ""Almost Starring Skinnybones."" The story is narrated by the main character, Alex Frankovitch, a rather unpopular and awkward grade school boy. After writing a letter in a promotional contest for a cat food company, Alex goes on to describe key points in his young life, mainly having to do with little league baseball, occasionally going off on tangents or telling other stories from his life"
"A Bloom of Bones A Bloom of Bones: a novel is a 2016 novel by Allen Morris Jones. It follows the life of Eli Singer, a rancher and poet, in eastern Montana. A ""Library Journal review of ""A Bloom of Bones"" wrote ""The dry-as-bones Montana landscape perfectly captures the emotional state of the story's two central characters as they struggle toward something each wants but neither quite knows how to get."", while ""Missoula Independent"" called Jones ""a top-notch storyteller."" and, although being critical of Jones' portrayal of the relationship between Singer and Barnes, found the novel ""a compelling illustration of"
"Rule of the Bone Rule of the Bone is a 1995 novel by Russell Banks. It is a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story about the 14-year-old American narrator, Chappie, later dubbed Bone (named for a tattoo that he gets), who, after having dropped out of school, turns to the guidance of a Rastafarian Jamaican migrant worker. The novel is split into two halves: the first concerns his family struggles in America, and the second describes his experiences in Jamaica. Some critics, such as Michiko Kakutani for ""The New York Times"", describe the book as descending from other novels about rebellious teens,"
"the novel, adapted by Bryony Lavery and directed by Melly Still, made its world premiere at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton on 1 September 2018 before touring to Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, Northern Stage, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and New Wolsey Theatre. The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received critical praise"
"the Bones. Manfred and Ezekiel die in a freak accident, and Dr. Bloor moves away, (presumably to Paris, where his wife lives), along with all the evil people in the city. Bloor's becomes Bone Academy, and is proclaimed the happiest school in the city. Billy is adopted by Lyell and Amy, Paton and Julia marry, and they move together to the bookstore. The book (and series) ends when Billy whispers to Charlie at the Pet's Cafe, ""Tancred and Emma are holding hands."" Charlie Bone is the protagonist of the series. Through his father, he is descended from the Red King"
"written by Sniegoski and drawn by ""Usagi Yojimbo"" creator Stan Sakai. The series was yet again reprinted in the collection ""Tall Tales"", released in August 2010. In the principal story, the Bones' culture hero, 'Big Johnson' Bone, has suffered the death of compatriot 'Gertie' Bone, and is traveling with 'Mr. Pip': a cantankerous capuchin monkey. ""En route"", Jonson and Pip are blown by a tornado into the valley of the earlier ""Bone"" comics, where they learn that the antagonist 'Rat Creatures' are attacking every other inhabitant thereof. Accompanied by some local animals, and the miniature dragon 'Stillman', Jonson invades the"
"Billie Morgan Billie Morgan is a 2005 novel by English writer, poet and tattooist Joolz Denby (also known simply as Joolz). It was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. The central character, Billie, is a 46-year-old woman who runs a new age shop in Bradford, England. However, she keeps a dark secret, that when younger and part of a biker gang, she murdered Terry, an unpleasant drug addict and the father of her godson Natty, and covered it up with the aid of her lover Mickey. The novel takes the form of a confession written by Billie when"
"The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received critical praise and became an instant bestseller. A film adaptation, directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights, was released in 2009. The novel's title is taken from a quotation at the story's conclusion, when Susie ponders her friends' and family's"
"Bones (Kellerman novel) Bones is a mystery novel by American author Jonathan Kellerman. The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but when a young woman’s body turns up in Los Angeles’s Bird Marsh preserve no one’s laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city’s under siege to an insidious killer. Milo’s first move is calling in psychologist Alex Delaware. The murdered women are prostitutes–except"
"ripe for turning into a movie. Billie Morgan Billie Morgan is a 2005 novel by English writer, poet and tattooist Joolz Denby (also known simply as Joolz). It was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. The central character, Billie, is a 46-year-old woman who runs a new age shop in Bradford, England. However, she keeps a dark secret, that when younger and part of a biker gang, she murdered Terry, an unpleasant drug addict and the father of her godson Natty, and covered it up with the aid of her lover Mickey. The novel takes the form of"
"The Bones of Avalon The Bones of Avalon is a novel in first-person narrative mode by Phil Rickman. It is about John Dee who investigates undercover on Her Majesty's Service. It was followed by ""The Heresy of Dr Dee"". John Dee gets visited by Elizabeth I of England in Mortlake. She implies she wants to do some research on ""our royal ancestor"" King Arthur. Subsequently, her Secretary of State Sir William Cecil assigns him to seize King Arthur's bones. This would finally refute the still popular myth of King Arthur's messianic return. Sir William Cecil wants to have Arthur's bones"
"his father. Billy Bones - A self described bandit, he insists on singing a ballad about himself while robbing his victims. Quick to club people to death with the butt of his pistol or cut with the blade of his knife, he leaves a path of death. He adopts Jasper Copeland as his ""protege"" and then forces the boy to remain with him long after Copeland realizes Bones is psychotic and repeatedly tries to escape. In Glens Falls, Bones kills ""Luke the Duke"", the self-styled head of the town, and Angel, a transvestite Bones frequents. While attempting to rape Barbara"
"Mister Bones Mister Bones (Robert Todd) is a fictional character in the , created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, and Todd McFarlane, in ""Infinity, Inc."" #16 (July 1985). A former low-level supervillain, he reformed and joined the Infinity Inc. team, then later the (fictional) Department of Extranormal Operations (a government agency which regulates superhero activity) as a bureaucrat, eventually rising to the rank of Regional Director for the Eastern Seaboard. Thus, he now wears a suit and tie instead of a costume, and is also known as Director Bones. A chain-smoker, he had a habit of speaking in rhyme in"
"man with two fingers missing from his hand. There is a noisy argument between the two, which turns into a lively sword fight and the Captain drives off a wounded Black Dog. As soon as the unwelcome visitor is gone, the Captain suffers a stroke. He is tended to by Dr. Livesey, who discovers the real name of the Captain to be Billy Bones when his arm is bared as a prelude to a surgical bloodletting and the name is found tattooed there. The doctor saves Bones' life and tells him to lay off the alcohol, but Bones does not"
"England. ""Bloody bones gon' get you"" is repeated as the outro in Yelawolf's 2017 song 'Shadows' (ft Josh Hadley, on the Trial By Fire album); sung by Nashville-based gospel quartet, the McCrary Sisters. In Laurell K. Hamilton's 1996 novel, Bloody Bones, Magnus Bouvier explains to Anita Blake how his family captured and imprisoned Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones in order to feed off of its magical blood and increase their own power. In Susanna Clarke's 2004 novel, Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell, the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair refers to ""raw head and bloody bones"" as one of a number of shapes he might"
"Bloodbones Bloodbones is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jonathan Green and illustrated by Tony Hough. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's ""Fighting Fantasy"" series. The book was notorious for being the ""lost"" ""Fighting Fantasy"" gamebook, written during the books' original run but not published until 2006. It would have been 60th in the series in the original Puffin series had it been published at the time, and is 26th in the modern Wizard series. For a long time ""Bloodbones"" was considered to be the ""lost"" ""Fighting Fantasy"" book; however, little was known regarding ""Bloodbones"" prior to"
"The Bone Collector (novel) The Bone Collector is a 1997 novel by Jeffery Deaver. The book introduces the character of Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic criminalist. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1999. The novel begins with two colleagues catching a cab at a New York City airport. Unfortunately for T.J. (Tammie Jean) Colfax and John Ulbrecht, they unknowingly climb into the Bone Collector's cab. After a brief ride through New York, they find themselves in an abandoned warehouse district. The next day NYPD Patrol Officer Amelia Sachs is called to a possible homicide near"
"Cross Bones (novel) Cross Bones is the eighth novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. The story begins in Montreal, Canada, with the body of Avram Faris, who is an antiques dealer and an orthodox Jew. Brennan continues the investigation in Israel, where she and sometime lover Detective Andrew Ryan, and her friend, archeologist Jake Drum, are threatened by radical orthodox sects and other, unknown, parties. Reichs explains the C14 dating of remains as well as ground-penetrating radar in this book. The protagonist Jake Drum is modeled after Reich's colleague and Biblical archaeologist James Tabor; in the afterword"
"merit in the book. As Cynthia Ritter of ""Horn Book Magazine"" writes, ""The narrative is uneven: while the doll is believably creepy, the horror elements and the ghost story remain under-developed, as do Poppy and Alice's characters, and the resolution is rather abrupt. But through Zach's complex perspective, author Black poignantly and realistically captures how adolescence inherently brings change; how growing up affects the ways children play; and the inevitable tests friendships face"". Doll Bones Doll Bones is a 2013 Young Adult novel by author Holly Black with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler. ""Doll Bones"" won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in"
"uses a ""Time"" score to record the passing of time, but is not used after a certain point in the book. The book also uses codewords to record certain events that happen in the course of the book. Bloodbones Bloodbones is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jonathan Green and illustrated by Tony Hough. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's ""Fighting Fantasy"" series. The book was notorious for being the ""lost"" ""Fighting Fantasy"" gamebook, written during the books' original run but not published until 2006. It would have been 60th in the series in the original Puffin"
"Bare Bones (novel) Bare Bones is the sixth novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. In the Charlotte summer heat, Brennan is hoping to get away for a few days at the beach with her would-be lover, Detective Andrew Ryan. First she has to identify the skeleton of a newborn baby found in a wood stove; the baby was probably born to the missing daughter of a former work colleague. Then a small plane flies into a rock face; the occupants may have been drug running. A picnic at Cowans Ford with Brennan's daughter Katy turns sour when"
"Icebones Icebones is a 2001 novel by British writer Stephen Baxter. It is the third book in the Mammoth Trilogy. An omnibus edition, incorporating all three novels of this series, was published as Behemoth (2004). The novel is set in 3000 AD. After colonizing Mars some time ago and planning to populate the terraformed planet with ancient animals from Earth, humans had disappeared. One of the animals now left to fend for themselves is Icebones, daughter of Silverhair, who as the only adult mammoth taken to Mars also has responsibility for the herd. Kirkus Reviews said in their review that"
"Beat Not the Bones Beat Not the Bones is a 1952 suspense novel (and psychological thriller) by Charlotte Jay (pseudonym of Geraldine Halls) which won the inaugural Edgar award for best novel. The novel follows the actions of a sheltered young women who arrives in New Guinea from Australia, determined to find out what really happened to her husband, the Chief Anthropologist in the colonial administration. His death has been ascribed to suicide but she has reason to believe it was murder. The novel was praised for its buildup of suspense and for its novel setting. The novel was reissued"
"Eric Lane Barnes, was also produced at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica, California in 2010. The Amazing Bone The Amazing Bone is a 32-page picture book by William Steig from 1976. It was nominated for the Caldecott Medal in 1977; however, Leo & Diane Dillon's """" won, so ""The Amazing Bone"" only received the Caldecott Honor Award. It was the first of Steig's few books in which the main character is a female. The story is about how Pearl the pig is walking home from school, and finds a magic bone on the ground, which has the ability to"
"The Bone Season The Bone Season is a supernatural dystopian novel by British writer Samantha Shannon and is her debut novel. The novel was published on 20 August 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing and is the first of a seven book series. Film rights to ""Bone Season"" have been sold to Andy Serkis's Imaginarium Studios. ""The Bone Season"" was also named the first book in NBC's ""Today"" show's monthly book club. Of the novel, Shannon stated that she wondered what would happen if ""dystopia dealt with the supernatural"" and if there were a second Salem Witch Trials. The year is 2059."
"the Bones"", won the Bram Stoker Award for first novel. Other novels include ""The Silent Strength of Stones"" (a sequel to ""Thread""), ""A Fistful of Sky,"" and ""A Stir of Bones"". Her best known works are set in the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, and involve people (often entire families) with magical talents. The stories have invited comparison to Zenna Henderson and Ray Bradbury's stories on similar themes. She has been shortlisted, awarded and finalist for awards for novella, novelette, novel, fantasy novel, adult literature, work for younger readers, young adult books, and children's literature for the Nebula, Locus, World"
"Hairy Maclary's Bone Hairy Maclary's Bone, first published in 1984, is the second of the series of books by New Zealand author Lynley Dodd featuring Hairy Maclary. His adventures are usually in the company of his other animal friends who include the dachshund Schnitzel von Krumm, and belligerent solid grey tabby Scarface Claw. Written for pre-school children, with rhythmic, rhyming text, it has become a best-selling bedtime storybook in New Zealand and Australia. In this book, he is given a tasty bone from town butcher Samuel Stone and must get back to Donaldson's Dairy with it while fending off his"
"the time the crime was committed. It is also mentioned frequently in Stephen King's 1998 novel ""Bag of Bones"" and in passing in his 2015 novel ""Finders Keepers"". Ray Noble's 1932 dance band hit ""We've Got the Moon and Sixpence"", sung by Al Bowlly, takes its name from the book and Jack Kerouac mentions the book in his 1958 novella ""The Subterraneans"". Mario Vargas Llosa's 2003 novel ""The Way to Paradise"" is also based on Paul Gauguin's life. The Moon and Sixpence The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told"
"Shatter the Bones Shatter the Bones is the seventh book in the bestselling Logan McRae detective series set in Aberdeenshire by Stuart MacBride. Alison and Jenny McGregor have been kidnapped and are being ransomed for a very large sum of money. Because they have been appearing on the TV series """"Britain's Next Big Star"""", the outpouring of grief is immense and public donations swell the ransom coffers to beyond £6 million. Elsewhere, McRae is trying to track down a drug dealer and his flat is subject to an arson attack. Whilst McRae and his girlfriend, Samantha, are escaping from the"