![]() ![]() Interwoven comics by Jordan further depict his experiences as a light-skinned Black boy, while parodic chapter title spreads offer levity. Yet they both suffer microaggressions at their predominantly white, upper-class private school in one scene, a non-Black student runs her hands through Drew's hair, despite his vocal discomfort, and in another, white students give Black classmates-excluding Jordan-"reparations" after watching an exploitative film called The Mean Streets of South Uptown. Drew and Jordan, who are both African American, face different struggles: Jordan, an aspiring cartoonist from Washington Heights, Manhattan, wishes he could attend art school instead, while Drew, an excellent basketball player from the Bronx, worries he'll fulfill a stereotype if he joins the school team. Publishers Weekly Review In this companion to Newbery winner New Kid, eighth grader Drew Ellis embarks on a turbulent second year at the prestigious Riverdale Academy Day School in the Bronx alongside best friends Jordan Banks and Liam Landers. ![]() Search Subscription Databases (E-Sources).Held: Your request is ready to be picked up! Shipping: Your item is on its way to the branch you selected for pickup. Pending: Your item is checked in at one of our locations and we’re working to fulfill your request as soon as possible. You’re on a waiting list and we’ll let you know when the item becomes available for you. ![]()
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![]() Written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano López, El eternauta tells the story of a 1963 alien invasion of Buenos Aires that begins with a deadly fluorescent snowfall and includes military combats in landmark Buenos Aires areas such as the River Plate stadium. Originally published as a weekly comic strip in the magazine “Hora Cero” in 1957, El eternauta (“The Eternaut”, a Spanish neologism that describes an astronaut of eternity) is one of the most popular comic books in the history of Argentine graphic novels. “It’s based on the original comic, but it’s a new version, and we’re all very excited and moved by it,” he said The Argentina, 1985 star told CNN Radio that the adaptation project is “huge and very complex” and will be “an updated version” of the story that aims to have “a wider reach, beyond the borders of our country.” Argentina’s most popular actor Ricardo Darin confirmed he will star in Netflix’s adaptation of the iconic comic book El eternauta, a 1957 story about an alien invasion in Buenos Aires that became a cultural classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() "In 1350, the people of Cambridge are struggling to overcome the effects of the Black Death - and with a high mortality rate among priests and monks, the townsfolk are vulnerable to sinister cults that have sprung up. But Matt is determined to get to the truth, leading him into a tangle of lies and intrigue that cause him to question the innocence of his closest friends - and even his family - just as the Black Death finally arrives."Īn Unholy Alliance Susanna Gregory Sphere / Warner But he is distracted by the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse - a death the University authorities do not want investigated. "Matthew Bartholomew, unorthodox but effective physician to Michaelhouse college in medieval Cambridge, is as worried as anyone about the pestilence that is ravaging Europe and seems to be approaching England. Susanna Gregory: Matthew Bartholomew novelsĪ Plague on Both Your Houses Susanna Gregory Sphere ![]() Susanna Gregory and Simon Beaufort also contribute to the Medieval Murderers series of collaborative novels. Susanna Gregory is the pen name used by Elizabeth Cruwys for her novels featuring Matthew Bartholomew and Thomas Chaloner.Ĭruwys, in collaboration with her husband Beau Riffenburgh, use the pen name Simon Beaufort for novels including a series about about the knight Sir Geoffrey Mappestone. ![]() This page lists novels and short story collections by Susanna Gregory. ![]() Crime Fiction ABC: Author: Susanna GregoryĬrime Fiction ABC: Authors, Books and Characters ![]() ![]() This story is about acceptance: Tammy and Lawrence’s Halloween marriage Anita and Nathaniel the Wicked Truth Richard realizing that he’s a hindrance Anita’s preferences in bed and Damian’s being accepted as a person with rights. Twelfth in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter erotic urban fantasy series revolving around Anita Blake, necromancer, vampire executioner, and middle-class American with middle-class values thrust into a “partnership” with a vampire descended from a long line of vampires using lust as their primary tool. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Hit List, Bloody Bones, Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Narcissus in Chains, Obsidian Butterfly, Bite, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin, Blood Noir, Skin Trade, Flirt, Bullet, Never After, Kiss the Dead, The First Death, Affliction, Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, "Shutdown", A Kiss of Shadows, Lunatic Café, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, Mistral’s Kiss, A Lick of Frost, Blue Moon, Dead Ice, Jason, Crimson Death, Serpentine, "Wounded", Fantastic Hope, Cerulean Sins, A Terrible Fall of Angels It is part of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #12 series and is a erotic romance, urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by Jove on Septemand has 722 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. ![]() ![]() Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes, and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology, that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. ![]() ![]() ![]() So Far From God by Ana Castillo takes you on each woman’s journey of self-discovery through themes of gender and spirituality. Read on to learn more about these books and the varied LGTBQ+ experiences they share. Flores explores sexuality through the kitchen. ![]() While each book is entirely different in composition, authors like Jaquira Díaz and Anna-Marie McLemore touch upon the traumatic reality of being queer, whereas Anel I. ![]() From poetry to fiction to memoirs, there are several important works amplifying LGTBQ+ stories. With few authors highlighting the intersectional identity of this lived experience, each read is filled with laughter, tears, and snippets of our Latinx culture while integrating the reality of being LGBTQ+. As we reach the last few days of pride month, we can’t help but think of the talented Latinx writers paving the way for the queer Latinx experience in literature. ![]() ![]() How privatization of wildlife saved entire species from extinction in Africa.How one company was granted the monopoly right to produce TSA baggage locks.Written in an Easy-to-Grasp Conversational StyleFeaturing examples from around the world on how government should and should not work - including cases on: Your time is limited - this is why I made all efforts to summarize everything you need to know about liberty in little more than 40 chapters and sub-chapters - readable in any order! "Roadmap to Liberty" has one of the highest "information densities" of any book out there - promised. ![]() Whether you are looking for a comprehensive guide on how to apply the principles of liberty to any life situation, an introduction to key libertarian concepts, or simply a repertoire of fact-based arguments ordered by issue - Roadmap to Liberty delivers. Every major economic, political and social issue is covered: ranging from our $22 trillion in welfare spending that has failed to lower poverty by even 1% point over the last 50 years, to our bloated military industrial complex that costs the average US taxpayer $5,000 per year. ![]() ROADMAP TO LIBERTY lays out how free markets have the power to solve the countless problems of big government. ![]() ![]() At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way around, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread. ![]() As the summer stretches before him, his exams have not gone well. Charlie is the kind of boy you don’t remember in the school photograph. Sweet Sorrow is the story of one life-changing summer for sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis. Included in the ticket price is an advance copy of the book, signed by the author, two days before its official release date. ![]() It’s five years since the journey of Us took him to the Man Booker Prize long-list.Īhead of the release of his much-anticipated new novel Sweet Sorrow, David will be interviewed live on stage at Storyhouse about his new novel. ![]() It’s ten years since his novel One Day became an international publishing phenomenon and the iconic love story for a generation. David Nicholls is one of Britain’s most successful writers with an incomparable talent for making us laugh, cry and wince with recognition. ![]() ![]() You won't forget it." -Theodore Sturgeon, "Amazing. ![]() The Strugatskys' deft and supple handling of loyalty and greed, of friendship and love, of despair and frustration and loneliness a truly superb tale. Certainly recommended." -The Complete Review , "Amazing. a Truly Superb Work of Science Fiction." -Infinity Plus, "No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. ![]() Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty," something goes wrong. ![]() ![]() His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wrote this a few years ago, back when I had just finished reading the book, but before I had died. Eggers walks a nice line between acknowledging that yes, it can be romantic and charming, and it can also be incredibly awkward and wrong. The idea of randomly handing money to people has a certain romantic charm, and Mr. ![]() Plus it really goes to the core of how it feels to be a relatively priviledged person today, who knows that he should be trying to help less fortunate people, but has absolutely no idea how to really go about doing that. And this book is a perfect summary and explanation of that feeling. This idea that every moment that you arent experiencing something new you are wasting your life.I know that isn't true, but I feel it too sometimes. I identified very strongly with these characters, and this blind desire to keep moving, and have only important, true, enlightening experiences. It's like a movie where you know they are trying to make you cry, and you do cry, and then feel bad about it because you know that they played you like a fiddle.īut as much as I'd like to resist it, I am a fiddle and this book played me. It just seems so blatantly directed at exactly who I am, a late 20's person confused about what direction to take in life. ![]() ![]() I'm a little torn here, because I feel like I was supposed to like this book, so part of me wants to pretend that I didn't like it. ![]() |