This Moment of the Storm (7.0) This was good, not super creative but poignant and interesting.Ī Rose for Ecclesiastes (7.5) Anyone else would have stopped with the basic plot but he gave it so much more Team climbs highest mountain ever and is haunted by computers trying to protect a woman dying in the mountain. The Keys to December (7.0) Forgot to add notes, but I remember liking it. The Great Slow Kings (9.0) Excellent, they're like ents only even slower. Lucifer (7.0) Not sure why it's called "Lucifer" but damn is it poignant. Trying to figure out if he's the devil, Prometheus or just man in general. Love is an Imaginary Number (6.5) Not bad. Finally reverses to before accident and stops accident from happening. Mad Max-ish, but totally original.ĭivine Madness (6.0) Man loses wife in car accident, now has siezures where everything happens in reverse. Pretty funny, very short like a jokeĪ Museum Piece (6.5) Short silly, sometimes witty, if you can't be an artist then be art.Ĭollector's Fever (6.0) Short, quirky, I guess it's a hard sci-fi joke.ĭevil Car (7.0) This was cool and fun. The Monster and the Maiden (7.0) Sacrifice a dragon to a human. Robot graveyard keeper gets together with life draining, angel/slut of death.
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In Salaam, Love, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi provide a space for American Muslim men to speak openly about their romantic lives, offering frank, funny, and insightful glimpses into their hearts-and bedrooms. The truth is, there are millions of Muslim men trying to figure out the complicated terrain of love, sex, and relationships just like any other American man. Muslim men are stereotyped as either oversexed Casanovas willing to die for seventy-two virgins in heaven or controlling, big-bearded husbands ready to rampage at the hint of dishonor. Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy Romance, dating, sex and – Muslims? In these groundbreaking collections, American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love and speak openly for the first time about love, relationships, and sex. Collects DC: THE NEW FRONTIER #1-6, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER SPECIAL #1 and material from ABSOLUTE DC: THE NEW FRONTIER. 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In the 1950s, Cold War paranoia has resulted in the mystery men of the Golden Age being outlaws. This ‘Simple Soul of Susan” was no simple romance. I read a lot and I was in awe that this was a debut book! Noel Branham can weave quite a tale. In the seasons to come, her future will be changed by two hospitalizations, two confessions of love, and one betrayal.Ĭompulsively readable, The Simple Soul of Susan is an engaging, soul-endearing romance and a mesmerizing debut. She was happy in those perfect moments, for her life at home was most imperfect. The challenging homestead she inhabited was also the favorite subject of local gossip.īut one autumn day she overhears two boys having a conversation. This occasion of accidental audience sets Susan’s life on an unforeseen path. They always enjoyed the short drive to school down the dusty streets of their small Texas town. The only problem was the other party still didn’t know he had been found.Įvery day Susan saw Calder Hurtz, her next door neighbor and childhood best friend. Susan Combs had long ago found the love of her life. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 0 Pin It Share 0 Email - Reddit 0 Filament.io 0 Flares × Turner was tried and hanged in the nearby town of Jerusalem. There, on Francis’s land, the slave preacher hid, having led a revolt of fellow-slaves that drew its inspiration from the Bible in question and ended in the deaths of at least fifty-five white residents of Southampton County, Virginia. Nathaniel Francis owned the property on which Nat Turner was captured, in October, 1831. And I said”-deeper this time, slower-“ ‘Mmm-hmmmm.’ ” So I said, ‘Mmm-hmm.’ But then she told a little bit about her history, and she mentioned Nathaniel Francis. “Well, there are a lot of folk who call and make all kinds of claims. Ellis smirked slightly and rolled his eyes. “To a young lady by the name of Wendy Porter.” She had e-mailed him, saying that she had Nat Turner’s Bible. He’d clearly told the story of the call before, but when I spoke with him this past spring, in his office on an upper floor of the glassy Capital Gallery Building, on Maryland Avenue, he repeated it for me with all the shock and wonder that it warranted. Ellis is a natural storyteller, with a voice that mixes congestion and control in a manner reminiscent of Jesse Jackson’s. A few years ago, Rex Ellis, the associate director of curatorial affairs for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which will open in September on the Mall in Washington, D.C., made a phone call. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 19th century, the work Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called “only an eye, but my God what an eye!” who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Monet: The Triumph of Impressionism quantity Add to cart Only years later, when Yun Ling finally pieces together his last message to her, can she reconcile her grief and guilt as the sole survivor of the slave camp. Aritomo is an enigmatic figure, steeped in art and wisdom, perhaps also a spy. Aritomo turns down Yun Ling’s request instead she becomes his apprentice, then lover. The sisters had spent four years in a horrific Japanese slave labor camp, sustained by memories of the gardens of Kyoto. So she returns to Yugiri, in the mountains, to record her memories of the place she visited 34 years earlier to persuade ex-Imperial Japanese gardener Aritomo to make a garden in memory of her sister. Chinese-Malayan Judge Teoh Yun Ling, who witnessed these events when younger, has been diagnosed with aphasia, which will shortly strip her of her mind and memory. The unexpected relationship between a war-scarred woman and an exiled gardener leads to a journey through remorse to a kind of peace.Īfter a notable debut, Eng ( The Gift of Rain, 2008) returns to the landscape of his origins with a poetic, compassionate, sorrowful novel set in the aftermath of World War II in Malaya, where the conflict was followed by a bloody guerilla war of independence. Now she spends time writing every single day. After some time, she returned to college and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maine.Lowry didn’t start writing professionally until she was in her mid-30s. She left school at 19, got married, and had four children before her 25th birthday. She still likes to travel.At the age of 17, Lowry attended Brown University and majored in writing. Army and his job entailed a lot of traveling. An author who is “fast becoming the Beverly Cleary for the upper middle grades” (The Horn Book Magazine), Lois Lowry has written more than 20 books for young adults and is a two-time Newbery Medal winner.Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended junior high school in Tokyo, Japan. Whether she’s writing comedy, adventure, or poignant, powerful drama–from Attaboy, Sam! and Anastasia Krupnik to Number the Stars and The Giver–Lois Lowry’s appeal is as broad as her subject matter and as deep as her desire to affect an eager generation of readers. Vader tracks a Jedi in hiding to the aquatic planet of Mon Cala. 3: The Burning SeasĬollects: Darth Vader (2017) #13-18, Darth Vader Annual (2015) #2 Star Wars: Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith Vol. More of Vader’s untold “Year One” as he faces off against the Jedi Temple’s librarian! 1: Imperial MachineĬontinuing directly from the end of Episode III, the secret origin of Darth Vader’s red lightsaber! Nonetheless, chronologically these comics are the closest look we have from Marvel at this formative time in Anakin’s training as a Jedi.Ĭollects: Star Wars: Age Of Republic – Anakin Skywalker (2019) #1, Star Wars: Age Of Republic – Obi-Wan Kenobi (2019) #1, Star Wars: Age Of Republic – Padme Amidala (2019) #1, Star Wars: Age Of Republic – Qui-Gon Jinn (2018) #1, Material from Star Wars: Age Of Republic Special (2019) #1ĭarth Vader appears as Anakin Skywalker in various stories set throughout the prequel era in this anthology collection! As with all things Star Wars, you certainly don’t need to start with Clone Wars era Anakin Skywalker to enjoy Darth Vader comics. There is more to the history of the Medusae-and their war with the Khoush-than first meets the eye. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey.īut everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University. |