![]() ![]() The adventure, which shifts from the hidden courts of Venice to the mysterious alleys of Hong Kong, from Shanghai to Manchuria and Mongolia to Siberia, also attracts regular and irregular armies, as well as revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. ![]() They aren't the only ones lusting after the treasure. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns-a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women-to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. ![]() Pratt has always been very meticulous about drawing military costumes with. Nominated for both the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Foreign Language Publication! With this book Pratt leaves behind the short story form he'd used for twenty-one interrelated tales and presents a truly epic graphic novel. Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese in Siberia Preliminary Original Art (Casterman, 1982). ![]()
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![]() Trillium received an Eisner Award nomination in 2014 for Best Limited Series. Trillium is his third title with Vertigo. Trillium is written and illustrated by Lemire, who is known for his creator owned graphic novels, Lost Dogs, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, and comic book series, Sweet Tooth. Clarke and Moebius, and contemporary comic series Saga, had a major influence on his story. Trillium is an 8-issue series that combines rich historical adventure and mind-bending science fiction into a sprawling, unconventional love story by Jeff. ![]() Separated by thousands of years, William and Nika's budding love threatens the fabric of the universe. The story is an inter-dimensional, time traveling love story between two explorers in two different time periods: William Pike, a World War I veteran on an expedition to the lost temples of the Incas in Peru in 1921, and Nika Temsmith, a botanist researching a strange flower on the outer-rim of colonized space in 3797. Lemire's Sweet Tooth collaborator José Villarrubia is the colorist. Trillium is a creator owned 8-issue comic series by Jeff Lemire, published by Vertigo Comics in 2013. ![]() ![]() Will He And Serenity Be Able To Work Things Out, Or Will He Lose His Heart?Liam Addler lost his wife to breast cancer three years ago. He Knows It's Against The Rules To Date His Au Pair.He Just Doesn't Care. This 20-page short story takes place before events in the full-length novel, POSSESSION, and provides insider information into the Resistance, as well as Vi and Zenn's stormy relationship. Ultimately Zenn has to choose: Violet or the Resistance. ![]() ![]() Zenn's met by Thane Meyers at the drop location, and he has an interesting proposal for Zenn. But things go wrong when Blaze breaks protocol and Zenn uses his voice to detain Blaze. He wants cocky leader of the Resistance Jag Barque to back off.Zenn runs a mission with Blaze, Jag's older brother, to Freedom. He yearns to tell Vi what he's doing in the middle of the night. ![]() He joined, putting his considerable talents to use: lying, flying, and voice control.He wishes life inside the Resistance could be easy. After he turned twelve, he learned his father was part of an underground revolution called the Resistance, a group of free-thinking citizens fighting against mind control. Ultimately Zenn has to choose: Violet or the Resistance.Zenn Bower has spent his life falling in love with Violet Schoenfeld. Zenn Bower runs a mission with Blaze, Jag's older brother, to Freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a PhD in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. ![]() Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists-Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. ![]() This Description may be from another edition of this product. ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to Wild Cat Island for their second summer holiday by the Lake, the Swallows find the Amazons and Captain Flint suffering from "native trouble". Expeditions to Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas had been much in the news while Ransome was writing the book. Ransome had often climbed Old Man of Coniston and in the book, this becomes the children's Kanchenjunga. Ransome was living in the Lake District and he drew on his experiences and memories of encounters over many years with the local farming community. It is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series preceded by Swallows and Amazons and followed by Peter Duck. The book features Walker siblings (Swallows) and Blackett sisters (Amazons) camping in the hills and moorland country around a lake with Maria Turner, the Blacketts' Great Aunt, acting as an antagonist. ![]() Swallowdale is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome and first published by Jonathan Cape in 1931. Godine, Publisher: paperback, 1986, 2010) ![]() ![]() ![]() Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts-first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill-Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decadesĮverything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Named an Indie Next Pick and a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BuzzFeed, The Washington Post, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, NYLON, Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & NobleĬhosen for the Book of the Month Club, Nylon Book Club, and Belletrist Book Club ![]() Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize Finalist ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Schlesinger is the world’s major repository for Gilman’s papers. That context is made possible by the Schlesinger Library, where Gilman’s papers reside and have recently been fully digitized. Gilman is still known more for “The Yellow Wallpaper” than any other work, but contemporary scholars are taking another look at her, this time in a context that includes all her writing. ![]() Her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” about a woman confined to her bedroom, hallucinating as she stares at the patterns on the wall, became especially popular, as did Herland (1915) and her other utopian novels. Then, when 1970s feminists discovered her, they tended to read her fiction more than her nonfiction. Internationally known during her lifetime (1860–1935) as a feminist, a socialist, and the author of Women and Economics (1898)-an instant classic-she was less well recognized for her prodigious literary output.Īfter her death, Gilman dropped out of the public consciousness for several decades. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of those writers whose reputations have changed over time, and she has sometimes dropped out of view entirely. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lark can accomplish a lot of character development quickly in her stories. ![]() I have very much each enjoyed of these books. This is the 3rd book I have read/listened to that was written by this author. This book is a stand-alone, and takes place in the same world as, and prior to the events of, Three of Hearts, with some character crossover.Ĭontent Warning: The book includes breeding behavior and mentions infertility. Stalked by the Kraken is a monster romance that features tentacles. She says that the most we can have are the three nights she promised me, but the dark part of myself isn’t going to let the woman who snared its attention go. I saw her and the creature inside me wanted. Matching doesn’t work for me I found that out the hard way. The problem is that he wants to be matched… with me. Welcome to the Love Bathhouse where desire and acceptance are in the water.Įspecially a matchmaker who works at the kind of paranormal bathhouse that would have grandmothers clutching their pearls.Ī worse look is a matchmaker experiencing a crisis of confidence.Īnd now a mysterious man walks into my office, offering me the exact solution I need. A matchmaking witch, an ancient sea creature, and the sex contract they make. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of all the conditions that can keep a story hidden, shame and the silence of oppression are among the most painful to bear, and the women in Rum’s novel bear both.Ī Woman Is No Man is Rum’s first novel, and was named among the most anticipated releases of 2019 by, Marie Claire, and The Millions. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” So runs the epigraph by Maya Angelou that introduces Etaf Rum’s bestselling novel A Woman is No Man. A Woman is No Man: A Novel, by Etaf Rum (Harper, 2019) ![]() |