![]() Last year I reviewed Aru Shah and the End of Time, the first title to be published by this imprint, and, while I found it well written and entertaining, and I loved learning about Hindu mythology, I also found it very similar to Riordan's writing with the fast paced action and black and white, good and evil themes. While the number of middle grade novels featuring people of color is slowly rising, I find most of the titles fall into the genre of realistic fiction and historical fiction and it's great to see people of color in all genres. To this I want to add that I especially value this imprint's focus on the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Despite this, I have great appreciation for his Rick Riordan Presents imprint - for his willingness to lend his name to a series of books that he does not benefit from financially and his recognition that these are stories (and authors) from underrepresented cultures and backgrounds that need to be told. ![]() I am not a fan of Rick Riordan's style of writing, which I would categorize (somewhat unfairly and too briskly) as big on action and light on reflection. I have to confess, I was predisposed not to like it. ![]() I absolutely LOVE and cannot stop thinking about this beautiful, rich, warm, generous gift of a book Carlos Hernandez has written. ![]()
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Alan moore swamp thing vol 15/12/2023 ![]() Comprising three deluxe hardcover volumes, ABSOLUTE SWAMP THING BY ALAN MOORE debuts completely new coloring for every page, crafted exclusively for this definitive collector's edition by legendary color artist Steve Oliff (Akira, Miracleman). Now DC Comics and Vertigo are proud to present an all-new vision of this landmark achievement. By the time they'd finished their work four years later, SWAMP THING by Alan Moore, Stephen R, Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch was universally recognized as one of the handful of titles that defined a new era of complexity and depth in modern graphic storytelling, and their run on the series remains one of the medium's most enduring masterpieces. In 1983, a revolutionary English writer joined a trio of trailblazing American artists to revitalize a longstanding comic book icon. Moore's classic, critically acclaimed Swamp Thing stories are now collected with brand-new coloring in Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. ![]() ![]() comic book market with the revitalization of the horror comic book Swamp Thing. About the Book "Swamp Thing created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson".īook Synopsis Before the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. ![]() A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Only the intercession of his mentor and protector, van Niekerk, saves him from immediate arrest. Then Cooper's landlady and her maid are found murdered in a similar fashion. He works in the shipyards as a manual laborer, having been stripped of his badge and his designation as "white," a serious change in circumstance in an extremely stratified, color-coded world in which anything other than white means something less than human.Ĭooper accidentally stumbles across the body of a young white boy, a street hustler from the poor side of town. At the start of Let the Dead Lie, Cooper has moved to Durban from Johannesburg. The time is the early 1950s, soon after apartheid has become the law. He had also sacrificed what other people had, people whom he had come to respect, including a black police constable, Shabalala, and a Jewish refugee doctor, Zweigman. At the end of A Beautiful Place, Cooper had given up everything he had accomplished in order to stand by his principles. ![]() ![]() Let the Dead Lie gives us the next great chapter in Cooper's roller coaster of a life. It introduced white police detective Emmanuel Cooper. If you haven't read A Beautiful Place to Die, Malla Nunn's first book in her series set in South Africa, don't read this review. ![]() ![]() She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of. ![]() She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Café. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, Jamila Woods foreword by Patricia Smith. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. Black girl magic : BreakBeat poets volume 2 / edited by Mahogany L. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago. ![]() ![]() Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys' club and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. ![]() " one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years." (Latino Rebels) Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. ![]() The hunger games the ballad5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The film is currently in post-production, with Francis Lawrence, who helmed Catching Fire and both Mockingjay installments, having returned to direct. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is scheduled to hit screens on November 17, 2023. Here’s everything you need to know about the project, starting with that trailer: And though the franchise’s most beloved characters don’t appear in the narrative (those pesky logistics!), The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes introduces a sprawling cast that contains references to-and echoes of-some that may surprise you. Snow, at this age, is far from the cutthroat political titan we know he’ll one day become. For context, the Games that Katniss volunteers for in the first novel and film are the 74th. ![]() The novel is set decades before we ever meet Katniss Everdeen, and primarily follows a young Coriolanus Snow (the tyrannical president previously portrayed by Donald Sutherland) during and after the 10th annual Hunger Games. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the 2020 novel that serves as a prequel to Suzanne Collins’s original trilogy, is hitting the big screen soon. Over a decade after The Hunger Games first hit shelves, a cinematic return to its brutal world of survival, betrayal, and Capitol folly is upon us-and getting closer than ever, now that we have an official trailer. ![]() Shawn sarles books5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kenny escapes his dilemma by shooting Willinghast he returns to the present confused, disturbed, and still haunted, this time by the memory of his own act of violence. ![]() Kenny is given the same choice as his predecessors: kill Caleb or stay trapped in the past.Īs always, Avi weaves accurate historical detail into his story and builds up tension expertly. He also receives a dreadful shock: Willinghast is there, waiting for him – it seems that Caleb has brought back others before, but Willinghast is absolutely determined that Caleb should die. Caleb appears repeatedly, claiming that he will never rest until his killer is discovered he cajoles a reluctant Kenny into promising help, then takes him back to that fateful night in 1800 – whereupon, in effect, Kenny becomes the ghost. Naturally prompted to do some research in the local historical-society library, Kenny meets the crabbed, sinister Pardon Willinghast, who seems to know more about Kenny’s house than he’ll tell. Young Kenny Huldorf’s room in an 18th-century Providence house comes complete with bloodstained floor and the ghost of Caleb, a slave murdered nearly 200 years ago. A suspenseful tale of multiple hauntings, time travel, and murder in old Rhode Island. ![]() Midnight kiss by robyn carr5/11/2023 ![]() Or maybe you’ve already seen the TV series and are looking to now read the book series too! Either way we have everything you need to know about the Virgin River books series. There is also a fourth season hotly anticipated to arrive in 2022 (there is no official release date as yet!). So once you have finished the books then you can catch up on the TV series where there are three seasons currently streaming on Netflix. The Virgin River book series has also been adapted into a popular Netflix TV series. And since the books follow different characters in the town, it will keep you engaged all the way to the end. ![]() ![]() The series is set in the small town of Virgin River in Northern California. The series with an impressive 22 books will keep you occupied for a while. Obviously, there’s not just marines – there’s pilots, reverends, doctors and so much more too. The series is written by author Robyn Carr (who also wrote the wonderful Thunder Point series and The Grace Valley Trilogy). If you love a good story about marines or widow(er)s or sometimes both meeting their match, then the Virgin River series books are perfect for you. ![]() The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The Socs badly injure and threaten to kill Ponyboy however, some of his gang happen upon the scene and run the Socs off. The story opens with Pony walking home alone from a movie he is stopped by a gang of Socs who proceed to beat him up. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids." The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. Ponyboy and his two brothers - Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 - have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. ![]() The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. ![]() The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. ![]() Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She taught me the importance of stories and laughter. ![]() My grandmother, who I called Nana, had the biggest influence on me creatively. That, and the fact that I was overweight and very tall, all made me feel quite different when I was growing up-a bit like a musk ox at a tea party. But I had a mother with a great comic sense (she was a high school English teacher) and a grandmother who had been a funny professional storyteller, so I figured the right genes were in there somewhere, although I didn't always laugh at what my friends laughed at and they rarely giggled at my jokes. This, however, was a difficult concept to get across in first grade. While my friends made their career plans, declaring they would become doctors, nurses, and lawyers, inwardly I knew that I wanted to be involved somehow in comedy. I thought that people who could make other people laugh were terribly fortunate. I've always believed in comic entrances.Īs I grew up in River Forest, Illinois, in the 1950's, I seem to remember an early fascination with things that were funny. JI was born at eleven A.M., a most reasonable time, my mother often said, and when the nurse put me in my mother's arms for the first time I had both a nasty case of the hiccups and no discernible forehead (it's since grown in). ![]() The diviners libba bray series5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() A mysterious power that could help catch the killer - if he doesn't catch her first. And the New York City police can't solve them alone.Įvie wasn't just escaping the stifling life of Ohio, she was running from the knowledge of what she could do. The King of Crows (The Diviners 4) by Libba Bray Fantasy Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners 3) by Libba Bray. They bear a strange resemblance to an obscure group of tarot cards. Young women are being murdered across the city. But far from being exile, this is exactly what she's always wanted: the chance to show how thoroughly modern and incredibly daring she can be.īut New York City isn't about just jazz babies and follies girls. ![]() She's never fit in in small town Ohio and when she causes yet another scandal, she's shipped off to stay with an uncle in the big city. ![]() And for certain group of bright young things it's the opportunity to party like never before.įor Evie O'Neill, it's escape. It's after the war but before the depression. ![]() |