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5/13/2023 0 Comments DC Festival of Heroes by Minh Lê![]() ![]() The issue will also be anchored by a larger primary story by Yang, who will be collaborating with artist Bernard Chang ( Superman). Three notable entries include a story by Ram V ( Catwoman) that will focus on the backstory of Shoes, Catwoman’s protege, a story by Mariko Tamaki ( Future State: Dark Detective) for Cassandra Cain’s Batgirl and a story by Minh Lê ( Green Lantern: Legacy) for the Vietnamese American Green Lantern Tai Pham with art from Trung Le Nguyen ( The Magic Fish). The anthology, consisting of 96 pages, will feature numerous stories focusing on Asian characters, such as Katana, the Atom and Lady Shiva. Related: Shang-Chi Stops A Classic Wolverine Villain From Copying DC's Katanaīoth Yang and Gurihiru are returning for this new one-shot alongside many other remarkable writers and artists, including Greg Pak ( Batman/Superman), Alyssa Wong ( Sensational Wonder Woman) and Dustin Nguyen ( American Vampire). ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A time for mercy novel![]() There is a time to kill and a time for justice. The result is a richly rewarding novel that is both timely and timeless, full of wit, drama, and-most of all-heart.īursting with all the courthouse scheming, small-town intrigue, and stunning plot twists that have become the hallmarks of the master of the legal thriller, A Time for Mercy is John Grisham’s most powerful courtroom drama yet. A richly atmospheric thriller with a plucky heroine. ![]() ![]() In what may be the most personal and accomplished legal thriller of John Grisham’s storied career, we deepen our acquaintance with the iconic Southern town of Clanton and the vivid cast of characters that so many readers know and cherish. The novel’s characters are deftly sketched and its suspense is nicely tightened, though the plot finally loses itself somewhat in a tangle of strained connections. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. ![]() ![]() Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is "riveting" and "suspenseful."Ĭlanton, Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() This universe, therefore, is anything but arbitrary. ![]() For Hooker the universe is structured according to a hierarchy of laws, including the laws of reason, nature, and scripture crucially, ritual practice is embedded in these general laws and is part of the ordinary functioning of the universe. Rather than the tragedy Faustus locates in the paradoxical mixture of voluntarism and predestination, Midsummer is a comedy grounded in Hooker’s assumption of God’s rationality expressed as love and the enabling of creaturely virtue (Spinks 111-112). ![]() If Faustus dramatizes Calvinist cosmology, my first chapter treats A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a cosmology based on the theology of Richard Hooker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dawn started playing softball at age nine, and has coached, umpired and kept score over many years. Spending many a weekend at the softball fields with her daughters, the “Lady Tigers’ Series” was begging to be written. The enlarged blocks, detailed instructions, and improved functionality make this a must-have for coaches and scorekeepers. ![]() Her love of softball inspired her to create a Softball Scoresheet that outshines any others on the market. Dawn is able to pull from real life situations (and throw in a few murders) to come up with works of fiction that open the door to military life that most people are unaware of. Her “Jackie Austin Mysteries” have a female Air Force officer as the protagonist. In her spare time, after taking care of her two teenage daughters and visiting with her husband, Dawn has published five books, with three more in the works. Dawn Brotherton is a colonel in the United States Air Force serving as a legislative liaison to Congress for the Secretary of the Air Force. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson![]() "There Are Things I Want You To Know", Gabrielsson explains who Larsson was by explaining who she is - an architect, a collaborator and, apparently, an archetypical alpha-wife of a messy writer - and who they were together. It's more of the same, really, and she knows she was there. ![]() Gabrielsson writes, of a fictional crime, "Everything of this nature described in The Millennium Trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist, or policeman. ![]() ![]() What's ostensibly missing in the still-churning legend of Larsson, and revealed in his widowed partner Eva Gabrielsson's memoir-cum-treatise of their life and her legal battle (it was first released this winter in both Swedish and French) is the fact that such real-life dramatics have always closely surrounded the trilogy. Or, so goes the luridly thrilling story of the now famously dead and famously wronged author, who never officially married his long-time partner, which led to the profits and, more crucially, the rights of his Millennium Trilogy going to his estranged brother and father instead. ![]() When Stieg Larsson died in 2004 at the age of 50 in Sweden, he left behind a puzzle almost as dark and just as convoluted as those found in his novels ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Time Machine by H.G. Wells![]() ![]() ![]() All other animals are apparently extinct, and the vegetarian Eloi have every need mysteriously provided for. He first encounters the Eloi, a race of pretty, vacuous beings descended from humans. The England of the distant future is a beautiful place, almost a Utopia, but civilization is in majestic ruin. The narratorial voice switches to that of the Traveler himself, and he tells them that he went to the year 802701 A.D. After he has cleaned up and has eaten, he begins to tell them of his trip in time. The Time Traveler enters the room in terrible shape. ![]() Wells‘ novel opens with the Time Traveler explaining his plans to travel in time to a group of his Victorian peers (most only named by an occupational label.) The next scene is a dinner party a week later with the narrator and a few of the Time Traveler’s previous guests. Plot Summary (Spoilers Inevitably Follow) ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Embassytown by china miéville![]() ![]() She became an Immer - a navigator needed to guide ships jumping through space - with demi-star status that has accorded her plenty of money, adventures and lovers. ![]() Brought up by minders in the ghetto of Embassytown, Cho, through a combination of luck and talent, got out. In what we would consider her mid-30s, Avice Benner Cho, part of the far-flung human diaspora, has returned to the planet where she was born. The barrage of terms and mysterious references is a command to hop to: Intellectual challenges lie ahead. ![]() China Miéville, one of today’s most exciting fabulist writers, starts off his science fiction novel “Embassytown” in mid-story and races forward, not slowing down for explanations. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Amulet books 1 8![]() Meanwhile, Emily’s brother, Navin, travels to Lighthouse One, a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces that would drain planet Alledia of all its resources. The premise: From the back cover, “When all seems lost…Emily has lost control of her Amulet and is imprisoned in the Void, where she must find a way to escape the influence of the Voice. The characters demonstrate the science fiction and fantasy elements in an extremely exciting visual. ![]() This cover properly shows the big players in this penultimate installment in this series. Below that is Emily Hayes who wields immense power that’s coming out of the necklace around her neck. In the middle of the book is the series title and author Kazu Kibuishi’s name. Topmost, Navin Hayes and Aly Hunter are geared up to ride motorbikes to an unknown location. The cover: On a bright yellow and orange background that features a ship next to a space station at the top and fiery waters at the bottom, three characters inhabit this frontpiece. Note: I received an advanced copy, so anything may have changed by publication. Published by Scholastic on September 25, 2018. ![]() Amulet: Book Eight–Supernova by Kazu Kibuishi ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Jenny diski the vanishing princess![]() ![]() "Bathtime" tells the story of a woman's life through her attempts to build the perfect bathtub, chasing an elusive moment of peace. In a Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale turned on its head, a miller's daughter rises to power and wealth to rule over her kingdom and outwit the title villain. ![]() ![]() The stories in The Vanishing Princess showcase a rarely seen side of this beloved writer, channeling both the piercing social examination of her nonfiction and the vivid, dreamlike landscapes of her novels. In a cool and unflinching tone that came to define her singular voice, she explored the subjects of sex, power, domesticity, femininity, hysteria, and loneliness with humor and honesty, When she died of cancer in April 2016, after chronicling her illness in strikingly honest essays in the London Review of Books, readers, admirers, and critics around the world mourned the loss. Jenny Diski's prose is as sharp and steely as her imagination is wild and wondrous. "Mordant and talon-sharp." -Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Jenny Diski The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski-darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time ![]() |