![]() ![]() The second third is X-Men and features some of the first art (for Marvel at least) by Mark Silvestri. The sory and plot isn't bad, but I can't quite get into Walt Simonson's art. This is the first major comics crossover I ever read as a kid. Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). ![]() ![]() This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman. Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.Ĭlaremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When she lands a lucrative contract painting illustrations of Yosemite National Park for a travel magazine including its nightly one-of-a-kind Firefall event, she hopes the money will lift Olivia and her sisters out of poverty.Īfter false accusations cost him everything, former minister Clark Johnson has found purpose as a backcountry guide in this natural cathedral of granite and trees. ![]() Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford fashioned her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region’s wealthy art-collectors. Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as “pervaded with divine light.” Where You Can Buy It: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, Life Way, and Christian Book Genres: Historical Fiction, Christian, Romance Where the Fire Falls (Vintage National Parks #2) ![]() ![]() Nimbus, whose outlier status in the sometimes " too empty" sky corresponds to Kelp's underwater backstory, has pursued a falling star to an island in hopes that wishing on it will bring about "someone to keep her company." Kelp, whom Nimbus discovers standing sweetly in a meadow surrounded by butterflies and flowers, can't find the star either. In Sima's version of a crossover episode, Nimbus, the titular pegasus-who has purply blue wings and an aviator's cap to match-meets Kelp, the unicorn protagonist of 2017's Not Quite Narwhal. ![]() By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() While this is an alternative history, many of the events and people were real. I will warn readers not to look up too much about the history while you are reading. ![]() Most readers will already know what Vlad Dracul was most famous for, and that history will help pull in readers. Supporting characters–Mehmed, Vlad Dracul, Lada’s mother, Bogdan, Nicholae, Kumal, and Huma–are also multi-layered with interesting histories of their own. Radu is sweet and pensive, whiny and weak as a child, but strong and intentional as he grows older. ![]() She reminded me a bit of Elphaba in Wicked in that she is incredibly complex and nothing like the women of her time. From childhood, Lada is tough and clever, but she’s also mean and spiteful. I loved both and a few times, hated them as well. They were all incredibly complex, particularly Radu and Lada. ![]() When their father uses Lada and Radu as bargaining chips to save himself, the royal siblings must fend for themselves in their gilded prison in the Ottoman Empire. Lada is everything her brother Radu is not: ruthless, bold, and tough. As the only daughter of Vlad Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, Lada grows up trying hard to make her father proud. ![]() ![]() ![]() and a hard rain fell is a gripping and visceral account of one young man's struggle to make sense of his place in a world gone mad. and a hard rain fell back into print in a newly updated edition, with a new introduction by the author and eight pages of never-before-published photographs.įrom the country roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam, and finally to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. AND A HARD Rain Fell: a GIs True Story of the War in Vietnam by Ketwig, John - 4.33. Now, over 15 years after its initial publication, Sourcebooks is proud to bring. Enlisting to avoid the draft in 1966, Ketwig ended up a platoon sergeant in Thailand, 'in charge of 43 Americans and numerous Thais. And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam, first published in 1985. ![]() and a hard rain fell began as Ketwigs attempt. Another recovered war memoir this one with a first printing of 15,000 is John Ketwig's. ![]() Thus begins John Ketwig's powerful memoir of the Vietnam War. A good question, and one, which Ketwig comes back to in various forms. I needed to get Vietnam out into the open, but I couldn't talk about it. I'd never written more than an occasional letter to the editor in my life. It was 1982, fourteen years after I had last set foot in Vietnam, and thirteen years after I returned to The World. And a Hard Rain Fell:A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet an unshakable intuition tells him that Victor lives-and is at work again. Deucalion-Victor's first, haunted creation-saw his maker die in New Orleans two years earlier. ![]() Before the sun rises, the town will be under full assault, the opening objective in the new Victor Frankenstein's trajectory of ultimate destruction. ![]() every local institution, assuming the identities and the lives of those they have been engineered to replace. The stranger is in the vanguard of a wave of intruders who will invade other homes. In the dead hours of the night, a stranger enters the home of the mayor of Rainbow Falls, Montana. #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz raises the stakes-and the suspense-taking his Frankenstein saga to a dynamic new level with the riveting story of a small town under siege, where good and evil, destruction and creation, converge as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. ![]() ![]() ![]() In spite of the family’s money problems, she was kept by the nuns in their convent for a year, and attended school up through the first year of junior high. Malnutrition and handling the fungicides used on the plantations frequently caused the workers to grow ill.Īlthough Rigoberta’s parents could not read or write, Rigoberta was lucky enough to receive education when some Belgian nuns found her to be bright and promising. The intense heat of the coast frequently made the highland Indians sick. ![]() Many Indians, like Rigoberta’s family, had to spend half the year working on coastal plantations that typically exported coffee and cotton. ![]() Her father organized a peasant group, the United Peasant Committee (CUC), and worked to hold on to his land. Her mother and father were both leaders in her community. Rigoberta was born into a large peasant family. But her story can still be read as a description of the common experiences of many Indians who led lives of exploitation, deep discrimination and fear of Guatemala’s brutal military dictatorships. Some of the facts that Rigoberta shares about her life have been questioned. Rigoberta Menchú’s powerful autobiography begins with these simple words: “This is my testimony. I’d like to stress that it’s not only my life, it’s also the testimony of my people. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The song could have been about James Dean, it could have been about Montgomery Clift, it could have been about Jim Morrison ….how we glamorize death, how we immortalize people.”Įlton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' w/ 'Candle in the Wind'. ![]() John and Taupin’s “Candle in the Wind” aptly captures some of the tragedy and mystique that was Marilyn Monroe, and the long-standing public fascination with her life.īut as Taupin would later remark, the song is about “the idea of fame or youth or somebody being cut short in the prime of their life. The song’s opening line, “Goodbye Norma Jean” refers Monroe’s real first name, and the lyrics chronicle her troubled life as a film star and international celebrity. In Monroe’s case, too, the phrase was especially appropriate, given her tumultuous life and untimely death. Taupin had been inspired by the phrase “candle in the wind” when he heard someone use it to describe Janis Joplin, the blues-rock singer who died of a heroin overdose in 1970. The song was originally written as a tribute to Hollywood movie star Marilyn Monroe who died at the age of 36 in August 1962. ![]() “Candle in the Wind” is a name of a song performed by Elton John and written by he and collaborator Bernie Taupin in 1972. Marilyn Monroe in a troubled, far-away moment, captured by Richard Avedon, NY, May 1957. ![]() ![]() ![]() What readers are saying about The Time Bubble. Four spin-off novels are also available: Happy New Year, My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday, Midlife Crisis and Rock Bottom A fifth volume, Class of '92, was released in December 2018. This story is the first part of a series which continues with Global Cooling, Man Out Of Time and Splinters in Time. Set in a small market town in Southern England in the early 21st century, this light-hearted time travel novel has plenty to delight readers of all ages. How can he explain where she is? Will anyone believe him? When a teenage girl goes missing, and the police become involved, suspicion falls on Charlie. Soon things take a more serious turn as the leaps in time increase in duration. It starts as a bit of fun, jumping a few seconds into the future. That was until the day they discovered the Time Bubble. If you are looking for the proverbial 'page turner' then this is for you".Ĭharlie and Josh's interests were the same as most other teenagers: drinking, parties and girls. "This book has everything you'd expect from a rollicking good read - adventure, mystery, science fiction and even romance. ![]() Fans of time travel stories will love this unique new slant on the genre - the first of a series by bestselling author Jason Ayres. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ideas Podcast: “Bambi” isn’t about what you think it’s about Bambi: The lonely destiny of outsiders With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story. Jack Zipes’s introduction traces the history of the book’s reception and explores the tensions that Salten experienced in his own life-as a hunter who also loved animals, and as an Austrian Jew who sought acceptance in Viennese society even as he faced persecution. Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious, and Bambi learns important lessons about survival as he grows to become a strong, heroic stag. ![]() Originally published in 1923, Salten’s story is more somber than the adaptations that followed it. This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator. For decades, readers’ images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film-an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature’s innocence-which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. Most of us think we know the story of Bambi -but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. ![]() |