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![]() ![]() ![]() Yeah, just a typical day in the life of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. His spidey-sense is telling him there’s something not quite right here, and soon he finds himself in a fierce battle with an insidious…termite?! His unexpected foe is hiding a secret, one that could lead to the destruction of the world’s history-especially Black and Brown history-and only Miles can stop him. ![]() ![]() And the grand prize Miles gets for that is…īut what begins as a long boring day of in-school suspension is interrupted by a little bzzz in his mind. Oh! Except, just yesterday, he used his spidey superpowers to save the world (no biggie) from an evil mastermind called The Warden. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem to do much more than babble around his crush. Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the high-flying sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() What The Revelation does have going for it? An apocalyptic street preacher, an inspired but morbid conceit for an infernal threat, and an extended exorcism for a creative finale. ![]() It's obvious that Little's ambition is to write a sprawling story that encompasses the many lives of the place it is set in, but awkward chronology, more awkward marital flirting, some cartoonish violence and a slow first half show that some growth as an author is still needed. Secondary characters abound as locals are mangled and their stillborns shanghaied, but otherwise these natives add little more to the narrative other than incident and a body count. ![]() ![]() Our protagonists-an overwhelmed sheriff, a blue collar laborer with a baby on the way, an Episcopal priest with light ESP-though lacking much personality, are at least stalwart about performing their civic duty to sniff out and then snuff out the source of all this devilry. A first novel through and through, Little's The Revelation visits a small mill town in Arizona where the locals are besieged suddenly by diminutive, cackling fiends that want to paint all the churches with goat's blood before burning them down, gnaw on entire families and turn household pets into confetti. ![]() ![]() But much of what’s “known” of John Wayne depends on ignoring what’s on screen. When we say we “know” Humphrey Bogart or Greta Garbo, or George Clooney or Julia Roberts, we’re talking about the intimacy we feel from having watched them at work. When Joan Didion met John Wayne on the set of the 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder, she wrote of having the sense that his face was more familiar to her than her husband’s.Īnd yet Wayne, whose centenary occurred this past spring, remains in some ways the most undefined of iconic movie stars. ![]() Even the varied performances of the most versatile stars are often not strong enough to prevail against the overarching image we’ve formed of them. One of the great joys of the movies is their ability to convince us that we know the people on screen. ![]() ![]() The “Duke” and Democracy: On John Wayne Charles Taylor ▪ Fall 1984 ![]() ![]() The origin of the series is told by editor Mark Chiarello in his introduction to the first collection, in which he writes about a dinner table-discussion with "a few famous comic-book artists", at which they pondered the "desert island" question in terms of a single complete run of comics one would be happy to be stranded with. The series represents the first DC Comics work for future co-publisher Jim Lee, who drew the debut issue's cover, and the final DC work for Alex Toth, who drew the fourth issue's cover. 2 and 3 contain stories from the back-up feature of the Batman: Gotham Knights comic book. Volumes 1, 4 and 5 of the series feature all-new stories (published in 1996, 2013–14, and 2020–21, respectively), while Vol. ![]() ![]() Batman Black and White refers to the comic book limited series published by DC Comics featuring 8-page black and white Batman stories. ![]() ![]() In addition to the aformentioned, the series features a cast size befitting of its epic scope that ranges from the famed characters of Homer's The Iliad to characters of more humble stock created for this series. And Odysseus the ugly, but famed story-telling, King of Ithaka. ![]() Andromache the proud royal priestess of the isle of Thera fated to wed to Hektor, the crown prince of Troy. Helikaon, the troubled prince of Dardania and an ally of the golden city of Troy. ![]() Set in the late Bronze Age and in what is called in the time period "The Great Green" note The term used for the Mediterranean, the series primarily follows three main characters. ![]() The Troy Saga is a series of historical fantasy novels written by David Gemmell, detailing a reimagining of the Trojan War. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Phillip’s school closes down and he temporarily needs to attend the Autism support classes at the school Jordyn goes to, she panics and does everything she can to keep the fact that Phillip is her brother a secret. Jordyn loves her brother, but an incident with a friend when she was a child caused her to want to keep her home and school life separate – she doesn’t want to relive those moments again. Phillip has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and attends a special school that fits his needs. That part of her life is her brother, Phillip. She still has feelings for Alex, but she also doesn’t want to get too close, because there is a part of her life that she doesn’t want anyone to know about. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when school starts up again, and she finds out Alex has begun dating the field hockey captain and popular girl Leighton, she is pretty much heartbroken. Alex has been the object of Jordyn’s desire for quite some time now, and despite a moment together at a staff party at the summer camp where they both worked, Jordyn has decided to keep her distance and just think of Alex as a friend. She immediately runs into her friend (and crush), Alex. The story starts off with our main character, Jordyn, beginning another school year after summer vacation. It is a fantastic idea for a story, and it is absolutely heartwarming. The plot for this book grabbed my attention the very first time I heard about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite what he may yearn for in the darkest part of the night, Damien knows, deep down in that bruised and mealy part of his core, that he’s not good enough to be part of the Salgado family, their pack. First, just as friends and foster brothers in the Salgado house, and then into something heated and breathless when Damien joins Hakan at college. Over the years, Damien and Hakan grow closer. ![]() He meets creatures that look like monsters, but Damien knows that monsters have the same face as anybody else. Damien is suddenly introduced into a world that had only ever existed in his imagination, where there is magic in the forest and the moon. Damien has seen the Salgado children in his school: Koko, who is in his class, and Hakan, two years older and infinitely unreachable. Instead, he finds the Salgado pack, and the earth beneath his feet shifts. The night of a full moon, four years and seven foster homes later, Damien flees to the forest, desperate to escape everything. What should have been the worst moment of his life begins a journey shadowed by loneliness and pain. Damien is nine years old when his parents die. ![]() ![]() ![]() A former war correspondent for The Wall Street Journal who was stationed in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, Brooks was awarded the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement and in 2016 she was named an Officer of the Order of Australia. Her other internationally bestselling works of fiction and nonfiction include Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Caleb’s Crossing, Foreign Correspondence, The Secret Chord, and People of the Book. ![]() Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her novel March, an “honorable, elegant, and true” ( The Wall Street Journal) retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from the point of view of the titular family’s absent patriarch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their experiences have removed them from him and their concerns and fears to him seem sometimes overbearing. Told through Reuven’s eyes, The Promise unfolds the story of Reuven’s neighborhood as it fills with men and women who escaped from the concentration camps. As Danny struggles to save Michael, a teenage boy who suffers from a secret inner rage, he and Reuven may discover that they are not so very different from this boy. The way is still difficult, however, and the past can never truly be forgotten. Now that Reuven and Danny have grown, they are following their own paths. Perhaps it is no surprise then that he manages to follow The Chosen with a book just as sensitive and raw. Can Reuven and Danny help Michael escape? ReviewĬhaim Potok always writes a memorable story. ![]() Then his life becomes entwined with that of Michael, a teenage boy trapped by his own fear and rage. And Reuven is struggling in school to gain recognition for his abilities. His best friend Danny Saunders has chosen not to become a rabbi like his father but to pursue a career as a psychologist. The neighborhood is filled with men and women who escaped from the concentration camps. ![]() |