![]() “Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson’s fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented postmodern world.Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author’s trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson’s best.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Part thriller, part spy novel, part speculative fiction, Gibson’s provocative work is like nothing you have ever read before.”- Library Journal “A fitful, fast-forward spy tale.It’s to Gibson’s credit that he weaves his strands of disparate narrators, protagonists and foils, and his panoply of far-forward technology, into a vivid, suspenseful and ultimately coherent tale.”- USA Today “Although wearing the trappings of a thriller, Spook Country is essentially a comedy, albeit a dry, dark, and disturbing one.”- San Francisco Chronicle ![]() “ dazed, mournful quality… evocation of post-9/11 displacement, the sense of a world in which nothing seems fixed or reassuring…one of our vital novelists.”- Newsday “Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world.”- Details “Arguably the first example of the post-post-9/11 novel, whose characters are tired of being pushed around by forces larger than they are-bureaucracy, history and, always, technology-and are at long last ready to start pushing back.”- The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() “A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.”- Los Angeles Times ![]()
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![]() Indeed, even after turning 60, he churned out 20 books and a collection of his best essays, sometimes producing multiple books in a single year. ![]() While Barzun's dour view, as Atlantic magazine blogger David Wagner puts it, was that western civilization "has been declining steadily since the Renaissance," his own productivity as a writer didn't waver as he got older. ![]() Jacques Barzun was one of the great thinkers of the past century - a scholar who, in a remarkable eight-decades-long career, wrote dozens of books and analyzed subjects ranging from classical music to detective fiction, and from Jonathan Swift to baseball.īarzun, who died yesterday in San Antonio at age 104, is best remembered for a book that, amazingly, he published in 2000 at age 92: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life From 1500 to the Present, a sprawling 877-page opus that ambitiously sought to cover the ideas hatched by every great mind in European and American culture, from Martin Luther and Molière to comedian Bill Murray. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.Īfter a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics-all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons. Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.īeth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. ![]() Representation: Sapphic trans woman MC, bi/pansexual trans woman MC, Indigenous American trans man MC, brown bi/pansexual fat MC with chronic pain, queer cis woman MC Genres: Horror, Queer Protagonists, Sci Fi ![]() ![]() ![]() Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, by his wife Jean, and his kids. Schulz’s own words guide visitors to explore the themes of friendship, connectedness, unrequited love, and insecurity that made the strip resonate with so many fans.Ĭelebrating Sparky is curated by Lucy Shelton Caswell and mounted in partnership with the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is a museum dedicated to the works of Charles M. ![]() This exhibition celebrates the centennial of Schulz’s birth and highlights the lasting legacy of his life and work. Why do so many people love vintage Peanuts stickers sheets Youd be astounded at the enthusiasm of Peanuts collectors, said cartoonist Charles Schulz in. All seven of the strips, in familiar four-panel format and drawn in pencil on blank Peanuts templates from the mid-1950s, appear in Adults by Schulz, an exhibition at the Charles M Schulz Museum. Its impact can be seen on everything from space travel and classical music to the Broadway stage, merchandising, and even the English language. Peanuts became a worldwide cultural phenomenon in the second half of the twentieth century. At the time of Schulz’s retirement in 1999, his creation ran in more than 2,600 newspapers, was translated into twenty-one languages in seventy-five countries, and had a daily readership estimated to be 355 million. Schulz, known as Sparky to his family and friends, single-handedly created 17,897 Peanuts comic strips during a span of almost fifty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was very aware of trespassing on the sacred ground of American legend so was scrupulously careful to keep to the facts (even the story about General Washington and Sir William Howe’s dog is true). The Redcoat is Sam Gilpin, a country boy who reluctantly left England to protect his weaker twin, brother Nate, who swallowed the ancient lies of a. ![]() OL23310W Page_number_confidence 94.79 Pages 426 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0747400822 Redcoat is the story of the Valley Forge winter during the American Revolution told from the redcoat’s point of view. Cornwell's (Sharpe's Siege, Sharpe's Regiment) solid characters, historical accuracy, and rich detailing bring the Revolutionary War into clear focus in this entertaining look at the divided loyalties of Philadelphia under British Occupation. Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st American ed. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:20:18 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1125320 Boxid_2 CH121511 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y. ![]() ![]() According to Ashmole, who may have derived his information from the lady herself, Nell Gwyn was born on Saturday, 2 February 1650, at six o'clock in the morning. We owe this piece of good fortune to the antiquarian and astrologer Elias Ashmole, who cast the horoscope bearing her name now preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Remarkably for one of her upbringing and lowly early station in life, we not only have an exact date of birth for Nell Gwyn, but a time too. ![]() In Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, Beauclerk explains how Gwyn's upbringing - learning how to entertain and charm the men around her while serving rum to customers - helped her later woo the king. Albans, when Gwyn started out as a child of the streets and the daughter of a madame. Beauclerk has written the story of their 17-year affair, and how it came to be that their son became the duke of St. Licentiousness triumphed over repression, and freethinking and cynicism over faith.Ĭharles Beauclerk is a direct descendent of Charles II –- and one of history's most famous mistresses, Nell Gwyn. ![]() The return of Charles II in 1660 upended the cramped, rigidly controlled world of Oliver Cromwell and his Puritans. England's Restoration did more than simply restore a king to his throne. ![]() ![]() ![]() He will soon realize what Harry has never guessed: She is to become Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and carry the Blue Sword, Gonturan, which no woman has wielded since the legendary Lady Aerin, generations past. When Corlath, the Hillfolk King, sees her for the first time, he is shaken-for he can tell that she is something more than she appears to be. Read this modern classic of young adult fantasy from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Robin McKinley Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the Homelanders and the secretive, magical Free Hillfolk. ![]() ![]() Narrated by Steve West, this is the first in The Iron Covenant series. ![]() ![]() What more can I say? Iron and Magic began as an April Fool’s tease, and lordy am I glad it came to fruition. Both are infamous for betraying their allies, so how can they create a believable alliance to meet the challenge of their enemies?Īs the prophet says: “It is better to marry than to burn.” Desperate to shield her people and their simple way of life, she would accept help from the devil himself-and Hugh d’Ambray might qualify. Tasked with their protection, she's trapped between the magical heavyweights about to collide and plunge the state of Kentucky into a war that humans have no power to stop. Her enemies call her Abomination her people call her White Lady. Fast.Įlara Harper is a creature who should not exist. Hugh knows he must carve a new place for himself and his people, but they have no money, no shelter, and no food, and the necromancers are coming. Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers who would follow him anywhere, are being hunted down and murdered, he must make a choice: to fade away or to be the leader he was born to be. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside. Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy…But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work. ![]() ![]() But with each challenge she faces, from pregnancy, to delivery and beyond - Elliot reveals himself a better man than she ever guessed. Dani always saw her next-door neighbour and friend, divorce attorney Elliot Gilmore, as a charming, handsome, playboy-type. Buried (book 1, Twisted Cedars Mysteries Trilogy) In the coastal town of Twisted Cedars, Oregon an ugly secret from the past has been festering for over thirty years when five librarians were targeted by a serial killer. ![]() She felt so inadequate then, but is she any more prepared to be a mother now? Support comes from an unlikely source. Series contributed to Family Man Jessies Father ( 1999) Men in Uniform Same Place, Same Time ( 1999) Nine Months Later The Fourth Child ( 2000) Her Best Friend's Baby ( 2001) For a Baby ( 2004) Family Matters A Daughter's Place ( 2000) Twins 6. The last time she felt this alone and scared was when she was 16 and her mother died, leaving Dani to raise her younger sisters with precious little help from her distant and disapproving rancher father. ![]() ![]() ![]() It would help if the baby's father would pop the question, but widowed father Adrian seems more interested in protecting his six-year-old daughter than committing to his new relationship with Dani. Dani Carrigan has always relied on logic when making important life decisions, but when she discovers she's pregnant - and that there's a chance her baby may be born "not perfect" - logic lets her down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or is he Steven Grant? Jake Lockley? As always with Moon Knight, the voices inside his head can be as destructive as the lunatics trying to kill him! Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz hit full stride in a super hero comic like no other! Collecting MOON KNIGHT (1980) #5-23. But the old foes are the worst: enemies like Midnight Man and Bushman, who have returned to plague Marc Spector. Then there’s Morpheus, who’s guaranteed to give you sleepless nights. ![]() The Jester is no joke, for either Moon Knight or Daredevil. Rated T+ NOTE: Book 2 of the Moon Knight. 9 Inches (D) Weight: 1. Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz hit full stride in a super-hero comic like no other Softcover, 512 pages, full color. Ghosts, werewolves and things that go crazy in the night! Marvel’s multiple-personality midnight marauder takes the fight to the strangest rogues’ gallery in all of comics - from Arsenal, the one-man army, to the nun with a crossbow known as Stained Glass Scarlet. Moon Knight Epic Collection: Bad Moon Rising - by Doug Moench & David Anthony Kraft (Paperback) 29.99When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall): 10.1 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W) x. ![]() |