Batman black mirror5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "What an interesting education you must have had." - butler Alfred Pennyworth ![]() "Tonight I met the man who's been murdering Gotham's gang bosses. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]()
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![]() At the very least, it has continued to the Splatter Western series in the right direction, providing us another enjoyable ride through blood and guts (which there was more of here than in book one of the series). Luckily, the finale in Duncan makes up for those softer moments, providing us a healthy body count.ĭespite my complaints, I found this book to be a lot of damn fun. You don’t want that when the action and horror kick in, but it happens nevertheless here. ![]() Some scenes also felt a little rushed and lacking in detail. There was also a problem with Beck – the supposed hero – who you’d expect to have a stronger personality (or actual skills worth displaying), but instead blends in with the crowd. As a result, I sometimes forgot who was who for a page or two. There are numerous characters in this short novel, very few of which left any real impression with me. There’s also a town along the way – called Duncan – that is also ripe for slaughter, save for Karl Beck (a monster hunter) and his Sheriff friend set to leave town soon with his wife. ![]() ![]() Along the Chisholm Trail, a powerful creature lies in wait, hungry for the feast on display. ![]() A cattle drive from Texas to Kansas is about to have a bad time. ![]() Starsight goodreads5/10/2023 ![]() Humankind has always celebrated heros, but who defines what a hero is? Could humanity be the evil the galaxy needs to be protected from? Spensa is determined to find out, but each answer she discovers reveals a dozen new questions: about the war, about her enemies, and even, perhaps, about Spensa herself.īut Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself–and she’ll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to. ![]() ![]() Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars–and what they revealed to her was terrifying. And she’s sure that whatever happened to her father that day could happen to her. Spensa is sure that there’s more to the story. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. The rumors of her father’s cowardice are true–he deserted his Flight during battle against the Krell. ![]() She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned there were crushing. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity’s future.Īll her life, Spensa’s dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. ![]() Philip fracassi gothic5/10/2023 ![]() His stories have been printed in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Black Static, Cemetery Dance, and Nightmare Magazine. ![]() His new collection, BENEATH A PALE SKY, arrives June, 2021, and his debut novel, BOYS IN THE VALLEY, comes out on Halloween day, 2021. His debut collection of short horror, BEHOLD THE VOID, won "Story Collection of the Year" award from both This Is Horror and Strange Aeons Magazine. Fol Philip Fracassi is an award-winning author and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. His screenplays include the Lifetime thriller Girl Missing and Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups, from Disney. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, LOCUS Magazine, Rue Morgue and many others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip Fracassi is an award-winning author and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. ![]() Pan de knut hamsun5/10/2023 ![]() The second shock is how out of control, sexually out of control, are these 19th-century Norwegian Lutherans. Nature apprehended with a full if unstable sensorium: this is the first shock of Pan, Glahn’s tender, ecstatic, yet often amused response to the natural world. The madly bursting, insanely concentrated Arctic summer is upon him, and he fishes and hunts, reading meanings in the markings on the powdery wings of giant moths that come out in the undark nights. Thomas Glahn, is living alone in a forest hut on a wilderness island. ![]() ![]() A few weeks later, at sea, standing uncertainly on quivering legs, with many hours of little or nothing to do aboard-the steward had warned me to stay out of sight when not with a mop in my hands, and to work slower, by God, on this unionized ship-I find the paperback at the bottom of my duffel. One is Pan, by the Norwegian Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), someone heretofore unknown to me. ![]() It worked for Melville, for Richard Henry Dana, for Jack London … I get a berth on a ship out of Oakland, and in the two weeks before we sail I go the rounds of my scruffy friends, hinting at dangers to come for the daring young adventurer.Ī guy in a bookstore in Palo Alto recommends some books to take along. I’m living in Berkeley, my impersonation of a graduate student in history falling apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Born in Iowa on his grandfather’s farm, he spent his boyhood in Saskatchewan, Canada, and his youth in Salt Lake City. Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-93) was the founder and for twenty five years director of Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program. ![]() ![]() I am eternally grateful to him and still have the scrap of paper – menu on one side, ‘Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose’, on the other – which I stuffed into my tiny bag. My businessman, more interested in fiction than foreign exchange, tells me, the book junkie, of a wonderful American author of whom I am ignorant. Either he won’t read, ‘except on planes when I buy whatever I can find at the airport’, or his answer will be as revealing as if I had asked him to tell me his life story. At a loss, I ask what sort of books he enjoys. The conversation dries up after the soup. I am next to a businessman at a formal dinner. ![]() Bon jon jovi5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Bon Jovi was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009. He has also acted from time to time, with projects including the film U-571 and a 10-episode run on Ally McBeal. Launched into worldwide success in the 1980s, Bon Jovi has become one of the best-selling bands in history, and Jon Bon Jovi has branched out to release two solo albums. ![]() Bon Jovi formed his rock group three years later, with an acquaintance suggesting the band’s name. His cousin, Tony Bongiovi, owned a well-known recording studio in New York City and helped him to get his first recording gig in 1980 (a track for Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Album). Bon Jovi was already playing in local bands while still in high school. ![]() He graduated from Sayreville in 1980, where he participated in band. Joseph’s High School, in Metuchen, NJ, for two years before transferring to Sayreville War Memorial High School, in Parlin, NJ. (born March 2, 1962), known as Jon Bon Jovi, is a singer-songwriter and actor. ![]() Mister Miracle 1 by Varian Johnson5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() While all this is going on, Gaby is busily campaigning and rethinking her love life. Or even like.” During the week before the election, a delightful and diverse cast of middle school students with a wide range of backgrounds and interests concocts a series of elaborate schemes to make sure the Scantron-counted ballots will produce honest results. 3 of the Greene Code of Conduct: “Never con for love. And her twin brother, Charlie, Jackson’s best friend, is worried about her electoral chances. Trying to go straight, troublemaker Jackson Greene succumbs to the lure of the con when it appears Maplewood Middle School’s student-council election is being rigged against his friend Gaby de la Cruz.Īlthough Gaby’s been angry at Jackson for more than four months, the two could be more than just friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also editor of Little League Magazine For Kids, and is the author of a two-volume encyclopedia on the Baseball Hall of Fame as well as Breaking Barriers In Sports, In Life a character education program, based on the life of Jackie Robinson. ![]() Michael's sports series, Backyard Sports, is based on the best-selling video game of the same name. ![]() He has worked with all the major trade children's publishers, including Scholastic, Little, Brown, Dorling Kindersley, Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Disney, Reader's Digest, and HarperCollins. Michael Teitelbaum is the author of more 150 children's books including young adult and middle-grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on characters, movies, and television shows such as Spiderman, Superman, and Avatar. ![]() Rendezvous with rama first edition5/9/2023 ![]() A few odd spots to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good US 10.00 Convert currency US 4.95 Shipping Within U.S.A. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, resulting in a couple of small closed tears. Published by Ballantine Books, 1974 ISBN 10: 0345241754 ISBN 13: 9780345241757 Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, U.S.A. Very light fading to the head and tail of the spine. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Clarkes most important sci-fi novels, a thrilling adventure novel in a lovely dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Clarke, one of the most important and influential science fiction writers ever, best known for '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The exciting novel is told from the point of view of human explorers who try to uncover the mysteries of the starship.This was one of Clarke's most important works, winning both the Hugo and Nebula awards.By Arthur C. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.?'Rendezvous With Rama' is a popular science fiction novel set in the 2130s, involving a cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar system. Clarke's most important sci-fi novels, a thrilling adventure novel in a lovely dust wrapper. A beautiful first edition copy of one of Arthur C. ![]() |