![]() Sorrentino added, “Tenement has it all, honestly. This shared horror universe includes The Passageway, Ten Thousand Black Feathers, Tenement, and more to be announced. ![]() Each title in The Bone Orchard Mythos tells its own unique, self-contained tale-some as stand-alone hardcover graphic novels, some as miniseries comics, and some as longer format maxiseries comics-but they will all be set within the same world and add to the overall horrors that await within the Bone Orchard mythology. The Bone Orchard Mythos is an ambitious expansion of the powerhouse creative team-Lemire and Sorrentino-and spans multiple books and across a variety of different storytelling formats. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!īest described as Dario Argento’s Inferno meets Rosemary’s Baby in a claustrophobic tale of terror, perfect for fans of atmospheric horror. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Told through the eyes of a young girl, the story chronicles a family's difficult and powerful journey to pack up what they can carry and to leave their world behind, traveling to a new and unknown place in a crowded boat. ![]() Inspired by actual events in the author's life, this is a narrative that is both timely and timeless. Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on one of the youngest members of the family. An arresting, poetic journey and a moving reflection on immigration, family, and home, from an acclaimed creative team. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pantley is like a best friend who’s been there and is full of caring advice to help you and your baby get a good night’s sleep. At last, there is a practical and effective third way, thanks to Elizabeth Pantley, a parent educator and mother of four. A breakthrough approach that offers hope to exhausted parents looking for gentle ways to help their baby sleep without the heart-wrenching tearsAre you suffering through sleepless nights and having to fend off a barrage of heartless advice about letting your baby “cry it out&wdquo ? The No-Cry Sleep Solution will show you how it is entirely possible and within your grasp to help your baby fall asleep peacefully-and stay asleep all night long.Until now the only two ways to deal with sleepless nights were to let your baby cry herself to sleep or to become a sleep-deprived martyr and tough it out from dusk until dawn. ![]() ![]() Over the years, both Roots and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America s past. ![]() ![]() It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. ![]() ![]() In the afternoon, he was a rock star to the fourth- and fifth-grade students at Gates Lane Elementary School, inspiring them just as he had been inspired by the teachers, librarians and a visit from a published author, Jack Gantos, when he was a student at Gates Lane in the 1980s. Early Jr.’s Central Massachusetts Opioid Task Force about living with addiction and ways that children affected by addiction can be supported. Krosoczka spoke at the AC Marriott Hotel downtown with members of District Attorney Joseph D. “Hey, Kiddo” was a National Book Award finalist in 2018 and received many other awards. He didn’t know his father until he was nearly an adult himself. Krosoczka, 41, was raised by his grandparents on Brookline Street, near Webster Square, while his mother was in and out of rehab and jail because of her heroin addiction. Krosoczka was back in Worcester Thursday, in a place that shaped him and, as he described in a video on his website, almost feels like another character in his 2018 book, “Hey, Kiddo,” a graphic memoir of growing up in a family grappling with addiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike his previous trilogy, these books focused not only on military topics, but on social, economic & political topics as well. Publication of Bruce Catton's trilogy highlighted this era. > The Centennial of the Civil War was memorialized from 1961 to 1965. Never Call Retreat 1965 (Book club edition & former library ) Terrible Swift Sword 1963 (First Edition - former library & some water damage) ![]() The Coming Fury 1961 (First Edition - dust jacket taped by a previous owner) ![]() (normal wear, some markings, visible edge-wear) *additional info listed for each volume below The Centennial History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton - The Coming Fury - Terrible Swift Sword - Never Call Retreat - Vintage 1961-65 - Original Dust Jacket - Maps ![]() ![]() What follows is one of the more bizarre episodes in the covert history of U.S. ![]() With new information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the authors reveal how the CIA became obsessed with LSD during the Cold War, fearing the Soviets had designs on it as well. Acid Dreams is a complete social history of the psychedelic counter-culture that burst into full view in the Sixties. ![]() In the intervening years the CIA had launched a massive covert research program in the hope that LSD would serve as an espionage weapon, psychiatric pioneers came to believe that acid would shed light on the perplexing problems of mental illness, and a new generation of writers and artists had given birth to the LSD sub-culture. And what a story it is, beginning with LSD’s discovery in 1943 as the most potent drug known to science until it spilled into public view some 20 years later to set the stage for one of the great ideological wars of the decade. ![]() This audiobook for the first time tells the full and astounding story - part of it hidden till now in secret Government files - of the role the mind-altering drug played in our recent turbulent history and the continuing influence it has on our time. Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It isn’t exactly successful although I can imagine that if I had read this book when it was first published in 1972 when I was 13 then I would have probably loved it. In 1968 Celia ends up in a catatonic state and it’s then that the story switches to Tudor times with many of the same characters from 1968. Celia Marsden is a young, rich American who has been married for her money really, her husband Richard’s family has lived in a Sussex manor house, Medfield Place since the Tudor times, and before that they had built a stone keep there in the 1200s. The two periods are 1968 when the book begins but after 80 odd pages the story turns back to Tudor times. Anya Seton‘s note at the beginning of this book states that The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay – the law of cause and effect, good and evil – for certain individual souls in two English periods. ![]() ![]() "Williams' use of language is as explosive and as techno-tinged as the world he describes. The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of this cyberpunk classic includes essays by the author devoted to the origin of the novel, the unexpected source of the term "panzerboy," and an amused guide through some of the oddities of the first German edition. It has all of my favorite things- blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well.īut now, if the criminal underworld and the guerilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power- in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hacker's in the world's neural interface.Īs Roger Zelazny said, "Hardwired" is a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars- glittering, nasty, and noble- and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hardwired, the acknowledged inspiration for the games Cyberpunk Red and Cyberpunk 2077, is now available in a deluxe edition for its thirtieth anniversary, with new content by the author.Įarth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth's Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. ![]() ![]() It picks up literally seconds where the second left off. Be ready because the moment you open this book. *virtual hug* Anyway, since I'm barely able to even function (I'm still a blubbering mess after finishing this book.) I'm just going to summarize a mess of words/statements below and hope it makes sense. I was in a wheelchair and I couldn't have gotten back to her signing - but she actually took time to come out to me. ![]() but she's so open and honest about the struggles of being a writer (not to mention hilarious) but then she pumps out something like this book. can we just focus on how freaking awesome Schwab is as a person? I don't know if you've seen her twitter. I pray to get even a sliver of Schwab or Bardugo's brilliance. let me just say that the narration was perfection. ![]() and now I'm trying to write a review for one of the greatest stories ever told. I am so completely overwhelmed with emotions and so far past blown away. ![]() |