![]() ![]() The series was sadly cut short after just twenty-five issues, but it has long remained a bright spot in the memories of Spider-Man fans, finally collected in its entirety in this omnibus. ![]() Whereas the Spider-Man books of the mid-90s were centered on Ben Reilly and trying to introduce an all-new supporting cast for him, this series instead focused on the classic Spider-Man supporting cast, and even added a few new characters into the mix, to keep things all the more interesting. Busiek, no stranger to continuity, used the series to tell new stories set in Spider-Man’s first few years in the costume, set in and around the classic Stan Lee/Steve Ditko issues of Amazing Spider-Man. The series was clearly a blast for creators Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe, a book which had a very timeless feel to it, while at the same time being deeply rooted in the Silver Age era of Spider-Man. The series was a rarity for the time, as it was an extremely well-written book set in Spider-Man’s past, long before clones were part of a Spider-Man fan’s lexicon. In the mid-nineties, shortly after Ben Reilly was revealed to be the “one and true Spider-Man”, Marvel published a relatively short-lived comic called Untold Tales of Spider-Man. ![]()
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![]() Whether you are in America, the UK, or anywhere across the globe, this powerful collection of stories will remind you of our shared humanity. Featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling American black authors writing for teens today, Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black. There are countless ways to be BLACK ENOUGH. ![]() ![]() Black is mixed-race, Black is immigrants, Black is more. "A powerful collection that opens the reader's eyes to the breadth and diversity of contemporary experience in America" June Sarpong, author of DIVERSIFY Black is male, Black is female, Black is straight, Black is gay, Black is urban, Black is rural, Black is rich. Read Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi,Tracey Baptiste,Coe Booth,Dhonielle Clayton,Brandy Colbert,Jay Coles,Lamar Giles,Leah Henderson,Justina Ireland,Varian. ![]() Summary: Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black. Black Enough is a star-studded anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi that will delve into the closeted thoughts, hidden experiences, and daily struggles of black teens across the country. ![]() ![]() Her characters are complex, and her settings are stunning and vivid, but what sets this novel apart from others in the genre is her focus on the possibility of platonic meaningful friendships. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. International Edition, Paperback, 418 pages. ![]() ![]() Perry brings the Victorian era sharply into focus for us with its slow crawl toward enlightenment and discusses issues still facing us today: homelessness, medical breakthroughs, and autism. The Essex Serpent (Paperback) Published April 20th 2017 by Serpents Tail. Readers will be delighted to find this work reminiscent of writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Kate Chopin. Cora and William form an unlikely friendship and spend much time having many discussions pitting her science against his faith. Shortly after arriving, Cora is introduced to the local vicar, Reverend William Ransome, and his lovely family. Cora is convinced that it is an ichthyosaur and is determined to discover proof. Being a student of paleontology, she packs up her autistic son, Francis, and her companion, Martha, and heads to Aldwinter, where reports have been circulating that the Essex Serpent may be on the loose again. ![]() Cora Seaborne, having recently buried her abusive husband, decides that a change of scenery is just what she needs. Sarah Perry, in her novel The Essex Serpent brings us the story of a young widow’s awakening and an unlikely friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of Julia’s compassion and the fact that she’s an artist, Ivan knows that Julia is the only person with even a chance of understanding the mural he paints to try to free Ruby. ![]() Julia, for instance, begs George to ask Mack about calling a vet out to see Stella about her infected foot, and she’s extremely disturbed when she witnesses Mack threaten Ruby with the claw-stick. A caring and kind person, Julia takes issue with Mack’s occasional cruelty and neglect of his animals. Ivan also admires Julia’s artwork, since Julia draws and paints fantastical things out of her imagination, things that Ivan doesn’t believe he’s capable of drawing. She always compliments his drawings and tries to figure out what he’s drawn-and she’s usually able to identify what it is that he’s depicted. Julia, in fact, was the one who got Ivan started with drawing by passing him a crayon one day. Julia has long dark hair and a big smile-and though Ivan isn’t the biggest fan of human children, he and Julia have a special bond because they’re both artists. ![]() She accompanies him to the mall every night and either does homework or draws while he cleans. ![]() ![]() Loved this so much that I was mad I had to go to sleep and stop reading it!!!! Quinton and Oakley have my whole heart and I have no complaints. Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.* *Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.īut athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.īesides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right? The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top. We’re as completely opposite as two people can be the golden boy and the black sheep.Ĭonstantly at odds or at each other’s throats. ![]() My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.Ĭlawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Videssos cycle: One of Julius Caesar's legions is transported to a world that resembles the then-future Byzantine Empire but with magic.The series is set in a world analogous to the real-life Byzantine Empire. This historical fiction series is about two cousins who are traveling merchants in the 4th-century BC Mediterranean. Tale of the Fox (2000, collects King of the North and Fox and Empire) (as by Harry Turtledove). ![]() Wisdom of the Fox (1999, collects the revised Werenight and Prince of the North) (as by Harry Turtledove).Fox and Empire (1998) (as by Harry Turtledove).King of the North (1996) (as by Harry Turtledove).Prince of the North (1994) (as by Harry Turtledove). ![]() ![]() ![]() “The authors demonstrate that the dinosaur extinction was also a massive reset event for neotropical ecosystems, putting their evolution on an entirely new path leading directly to the extraordinary, diverse, spectacular and gravely threatened rain forests in the region today.” The new study, published on Thursday in Science, analyzed tens of thousands of plant fossils and represents “a fundamental advance in knowledge,” says Peter Wilf, a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the research. Yet the Amazon’s bounty of tropical species and habitats now face their own existential threat because of unprecedented destruction from human activity, including land clearing for agriculture. A new study shows how those casualties, in turn, led to another particularly profound evolutionary outcome: the emergence of the Amazon rain forest of South America, the most spectacularly diverse environment on the planet. But it is often overlooked that the impact also wiped out entire ecosystems. ![]() Dinosaur and fossil aficionados are intimately familiar with the meteorite strike that drove Tyrannosaurus rex and all nonavian dinosaurs to extinction around 66 million years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cat and its quarry come from “Soichi’s Beloved Pet” one of Smashed’s offerings, albeit one of its weakest. For the innocent encountering Ito for the first time as accoutrement, the horror is as plain as the many eye stalks and appendages of … Jesus. Some of that objectivity gets lost in the deliberate transgressive nature of Ito's art: call it ‘gross Ito.’ It's why the discerning disruptor can stroll into Hot Topic and buy licensed Ito merch without thought or care about where these images originated like some kind of horror misappropriation. Smashed says damn subjectivity and makes a case Ito’s brand of horror is objective as hell. Horror breeds believers like a soggy sponge harbors mold and is as subjective as any art. It’s an instinctual image that says, ‘hide this from impressionable children and nosy co-workers.’ Viz knows their American audience. Look no further than the mess on the cover, a woman’s head with a stylized gash across her face, a trepan for an unwelcome spirit perhaps, set in a miasma of red and taupe, an upside down face with chiclet-style teeth appearing like a smear in the offal. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's in ‘disturbing’ and ‘disgusting’ where Ito makes his bones. Junji Ito's Smashed stretches from body and psychological horror to the out-and-out disturbing and absolute disgusting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds them all.Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this book takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the m�tis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find themselves investigating strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. 2011 A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace.The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. ![]() 1986 The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. Two young women go missing decades apart. ![]() *************************************************************īook Descriptions: A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this brilliant, sweeping epic that swaps spirits and sheds time like snakeskin (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song). ![]() If you want to get : Build Your House Around My Body ![]() ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. New introduction copyright © 1999 by Paul AlexanderĪll rights reserved. Paul Roazen, author of Freud and His Followers Rough Magic is well-written and carefully paced, and makes an engrossing read.” Alexander has done a fine job of describing her family background and her youth. Alexander was able to interview several key figures not interviewed by other biographers, and he gives us information not available elsewhere.” observes more pointedly than other biographers that Plath didn’t simply self-destruct. “Challenging former assumptions, Alexander offers a well-substantiated analysis of her life. Kenneth Silverman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ![]() Instead, he pays tribute by an artful restraint that allows the harrowing circumstances of Sylvia Plath s life to speak for themselves, producing a narrative of uncommon intensity.” ![]() ![]() “Alexander is one of those rare biographers who do not stand in the way of their subjects. “Of the Plath biographies to date, Alexanders is definitely the deepest and most balanced. tells us more than we have heard before about the marriage between Plath and Ted Hughes, at least from her side of the relationship.” “ worthy addition to the Plath oeuvre.” -Choice “ exciting and satisfying book.”-Mademoiselle ![]() |