![]() ![]() At least, those do that haven’t already been cast out for being too weak. Leonidas’s army is made from young men, barely more than boys, but the Spartans spend their childhoods training to nobly sacrifice themselves in battle, ready for a life of war. Xerxes, king and self-proclaimed god of the Persians, is a towering tyrant, interested in nothing more than his expansionist regime, struggling to fathom how anyone could stand in his path or turn down his generous and forcibly applied offers of servitude. Leonidas, king of the Spartans, is depicted as a truly heroic figure, who Miller distils with an outlook on the world that is millennia ahead of his time. ![]() Miller builds an stunning vision of the ancient world and the larger-than-life characters who made it their own. In this beautifully illustrated book Miller retells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BC, when a relative handful of Spartans held off a vastly superior invading force of Persians using superior tactics, knowledge of local geography and an incredible reserve of bravery and strength. One of his crowning glories slotted amongst the superheroes and the noir of Sin City though, in the form of 300. Frank Miller’s work in comics has been nothing short of phenomenal: he made his name in superhero comics in the 80s, created Sin City in the 90s, and has successfully transferred his skills to movies in the last few years. ![]()
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![]() This time she’s going to stay out of trouble, make friends, and fit in. She’s a hardcore army brat and proud of it. Set well before Clark Kent donned the cape, Fallout starts off with Lois Lane arriving in Metropolis with her family for the very first time. You don’t see a whole lot of books getting five star ratings from me but this one absolutely earned all five. ![]() And that was an unfair assumption to make about Lois Lane: Fallout. After Marvel’s terrible chick lit books I guess I just figured that any trendy girl power novelization was going to be terrible. I did not expect to enjoy this book and really thought I would give up just a couple of chapters in… Instead, I read the book in one sitting from cover to cover. I’m going to admit something to you all up front here: I did not expect to like this book at all. ![]() Genre(s): Media Tie-In, Young Adult, Superheroes, Mystery ![]() ![]() Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. ![]() Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"? ![]() The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. ![]() It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom Congress is fed up with Indians. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. ![]() WASHINGTON POST, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF THE YEARīased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich'sgrandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily Lamprey is an an actress on a soap opera-esque show called Knightsbridge. It was the last straw when she seduced the vicar. I mean, it is one of the most awesome first lines I’ve read in ages. You hooked me from the first line (I don’t count the excerpt from the “article” from fictional gossip rag London Celebrity which precedes it). Now I am, of course, kicking myself about those two unread books because oh lordy, I loved Pretty Face hard. ![]() But trusted friends have told me I need to read both books like, yesterday so when I saw Pretty Face was available for review I snapped it up. I have your other book too – Artistic License written under the name Elle Pierson (I haven’t read that either – this is basically the story of my giant TBR of Doom). Although I own Act Like It in both ebook and audiobook formats, I haven’t yet read/listened to it. ![]() ![]() A rumored sex-scandal at the commune has ruined Concordia’s reputation, and she must hide her past at all costs. ![]() This makes Concordia determined and worldly. Concordia is the illegitimate daughter of two radical free-thinkers, and was raised in their community of like-minded intellectuals. ![]() And they soon discover they have much in common. Indeed, ever since Ambrose first spied her “charmingly rounded derriere” on horseback, the two have been practicing the fine art of flirtation. Meanwhile, Ambrose and Concordia act on their passion. ![]() Ambrose brings Concordia and the girls back to his stately London manse for safe keeping-the crime lord behind the auction will stop at nothing-nothing!-to get the girls back. In a MacGyver-like move, Concordia blows up the castle and she and the girls escape, with the unexpected help of Ambrose Wells, a private inquiry agent brought to the castle for his own investigations. ![]() Hired to teach four orphans at a remote castle, Concordia soon discovers the mysterious benefactor’s nefarious plan: to auction off the young ladies to the highest bidder. In this Victorian-era mystery, freethinking governess Concordia Gale rescues her charges from certain ruin. And so goes another historical romance from the remarkably prolific Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz), author of equally numerous contemporary thrillers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Selected Honors: Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1984), Nebula Award for Best Novelette (1984), Locus Award for Best Novelette (1985), Hugo Award for Best Novelette (1985), Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette (1985 1988), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1999), Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2010).I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” Notable Quote: “I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open.Education: Pasadena City College, California State University, University of California at Los Angeles.Died: Februin Lake Forest Park, Washington. ![]() ![]() Parents: Octavia Margaret Guy and Laurice James Butler.Known For: Black American science fiction author. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Headstrong and intelligent, deeply moral but incredibly enticing, Constance turns what was supposed to be a marriage of convenience into something most inconvenient, indeed. What kind of a wife is that? Drew's Christian forbearance is in for some testing. She hasn't the foggiest notion how to cook, dares to argue with her poor husband, and spends more time working on mathematical equations than housework. And she wants to go straight back to England as soon as she can. ![]() ![]() What he ends up with is a wife-a feisty redhead who claims she is Lady Constance Morrow, daughter of an Earl, brought to America against her will. ![]() Still broken-hearted from the loss of his beloved, he only wants a maid to tend his house and care for his young sister. The "tobacco brides" would be on board-eligible women seeking a better life in America, bartered for with barrels of tobacco from the fields.ĭrew O'Connor isn't stirred by news of a ship full of brides. Any ship arriving from England means good news for Virginia colony farmers. ![]() ![]() ![]() It looks fine on David Aja's cover, but within the comic only serves to distract ever so slightly from the narrative. case with Inhuman implications and what he's going to find will terrify you. The use of a classic CMYK printing effect leaving sections of panel stippled with dots fails to connect on an artistic or thematic level though. Phil Coulson goes to Karnak to help with a S.H.I.E.L.D. His earthen tones that enhances the base humanity that belie Karnak's supposed enlightenment and make the violence of his actions and cruelty of his words even louder. All of the muddied backgrounds and roughly drawn characters surrounding Karnak only serve to further emphasize his own mastery of his body and actions.ĭan Brown's dirty colors serve both Zaffino's inky action and glaring static panels well. The juxtaposition of fluid action and brutal reaction creates a potent recognition of the power found in each fiber of Karnak's being. ![]() Karnak uses the smallest of movements to great physical effect, exploding walls and bodies with simple gestures. There is an understanding within the artwork of what made this Jack Kirby creation visually appealing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped between divided loyalties, she must summon the courage to confront a destiny that could tear her apart. Now Elanna has no choice but to lead a rebellion against the kingdom to which she once gave her allegiance. But an all-too-human threat is drawing near, determined to exact vengeance. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition-powers that suddenly stir within her. Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder-and must flee for her life. Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. ![]() ![]() In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik's award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates-whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. ![]() ![]() ![]() In any event, nothing shapely or persuasive emerges from this mass of squirming, mismatched parts.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. Too fractured to succeed as metaphor neither does it connect as allegory: Tepper can't decide whether to warn against a gathering spiritual darkness, lament the collapse of an aesthetic ideal, or thunder against global eco-disaster. Beginning in 14th-century England, Beauty's various adventures (including a trip to the 21st century, where magic has vanished altogether) give rise to several well-known fairy tales but in her long efforts to evade the Dark Lord, Beauty loses her fairy-given immortality her fairy mother cares nothing for her and only in the far future, after life as we know it has been extinguished, will Mother Earth (the glowing object is an embodiment of all Earthly life) be reborn. As part of the plan, they conceal within the body of half-fairy, half-human Beauty a mysterious glowing object. Most of the inhabitants of Faery care nothing for the evil Dark Lord only the good fairies Caraboose and Israfel make long- range plans to defeat him. ![]() ![]() From the author of Raising the Stones (1990), etc., a Faery- inspired meditation on a dying Earth. ![]() |