![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books for Young Adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian ( The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of shape shifters pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes ( The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister "world-switching" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book ( Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear ( The Wyrd Museum series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast ( The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure ( The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the "nefarious intrigue" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. mostly steampunk but includes the radical idea that the solar system is a huge clockwork device I Deathscent by Robin Jarvis, in which Elizabethan. The first enstalment of an exciting NEW series from the author of The Wyrd Museum Trilogy and The Deptford Mice. ![]() Robin Jarvis is a British Young-Adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face - and eventually conquer - fear. Raina has tummy trouble, and it seems to coincide with her worries about food, school, family, and changing friendships. When they learn there are ghosts there, Maya wants to meet one, and Cat must put aside her fears for Maya's sake - and her own. can they figure out how to get along?Ĭatrina and her family move to a new town because her sister, Maya, is sick. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years. Amara is cute, but she's also cranky and mostly prefers to play by herself. The true story of how Raina severely injured her two front teeth when she was in the sixth grade, and the dental drama that followed!Ĭallie is the set designer for her middle school's spring musical, and is determined to create a set worthy of Broadway. ![]() ![]() A box set of Raina Telgemeier's bestselling, award-winning graphic novels about family, friendship, and the highs and lows of growing up! ![]() ![]() ![]() Considering that a frustrated Sonia Greene apparently once told Lovecraft “I do believe you’d take a cat to bed with you if you could!”, I can’t believe there’s no catgirl character in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. Meanwhile, Lovecraft was content to observe the neighborhood cats from afar… although he, too, would pet them and occasionally let them jump in his lap if the mood struck them. ( Dean Spanley isn’t an anomaly.) There’s a photo of him in his biography of him sitting with a huge hunting dog sprawled right across his lap. In form and content this is a very Dunsanian tale, although Lord Dunsany would never have written a story about cats: that dude was such a dog person. This is an 8-page story, and I’ll be posting pages twice a week, so it’ll run through most of March, after which, I hope to have something else exciting to post up here. But, I hope you like it anyway, in all its cartooniness. Surprise! I’m going to be putting up my adaptation of The Cats of Ulthar, originally drawn for the Couscous Collective Kitties anthology! The Cats of Ulthar was drawn for a smaller-scale book, and in limited time (in fact, I was CHALLENGED by my colleague Shaenon to finish a comic in time for the printing of the anthology), so it’s not as detailed as “The Doom that Came to Sarnath” and some of my other pieces. ![]() ![]() Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter-that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. While the family lived in crowded Detroit wartime housing, Harriette completed her novel Hunter’s Horn (Macmillan, 1949) and began her best known novel, The Dollmaker (Macmillan, 1954). But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. During World War II, Harold Arnow found work in Detroit, where his family moved to join him and where their son Thomas Louis Arnow was born in 1946. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. ![]() ![]() ![]() Description: In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. ![]() ![]() Originally conceived seven years prior for the Monument to Victor Hugo-in which the muse, perched above the French literary giant, whispers inspiration to him- La Muse tragique is presented here as a single figure, evoking a heightened pathos befitting its subject’s symbolic identity. Rilke venerated the sculptor’s ability to translate poetic sentiments into figuration, as exemplified by Rodin’s large bronze La Muse tragique (1896). Two decades earlier, Rilke had moved to Paris to write a monograph on Auguste Rodin, initiating a complex but lasting friendship between the two men. ![]() ![]() Concerned with the interplay of suffering and beauty in human existence, the Elegies also project a hopeful vision of a more peaceful world. There, while standing atop a cliff overlooking the Adriatic Sea, he claimed to hear the following line: “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?” Rilke eventually used these words to open the Duino Elegies, a 1923 collection of ten intensely religious metaphysical poems. In 1912, Rilke was invited to stay at Duino Castle-a fortress just north of Trieste, Italy-by the Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis. ![]() ![]() Gagosian is pleased to present Duino Elegies, a group exhibition that traces the resonance of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry through artworks spanning the past 150 years. The beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear,Īnd we revere it so, because it calmly disdains ![]() ![]() ![]() As medical treatment and technology continue to improve, especially in affluent developed countries, death is postponed longer and longer for more and more people, but this is a mixed blessing. The novel is about death – in itself a timeless subject – but specifically about death as variously perceived, feared, denied, and anticipated by the elderly. ![]() Formally the novel seems as fresh and original today as it did when it was first published, and thematically more relevant to the preoccupations and anxieties of the present century's first decade than to those of the 50s. Perhaps the only period-specific detail that would require annotation for younger readers is that cars parked in the streets at night in those days were obliged to have side and rear lights switched on. But it was not a typical 50s novel, and it has not dated. 'M emento Mori remains one of the great novels of the 1950s," Martin Stannard says in his excellent biography, Muriel Spark (2009), and indeed it does. ![]() ![]() ![]() But thanks to some help from her fellow Questioneers Iggy Peck and Ada Twist, Rosie gets the job done.Īnd, along with the Riveters, Rosie rediscovers the meaning of home. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job! After one flop. ![]() Rosie’s beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters-a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II-need help inventing something new. After all, engineering is all about perseverance! But this time, Rosie has a really important project to tackle-one that feels much bigger than herself. Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. This is a unique and exciting series of children’s chapter books for children, parents, and teachers who want to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fun. “ positive portrayal of diverse kids engaging in various arts and sciences.” ― Booklistįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts who createdĪda Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect comes a spirited story full of adventure, friendship, and science! “Plenty of affection, creativity, and raucous older ladies to make readers smile.” ― Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() And most important, it gave them a choice: accept their fate or rewrite their legacy.Įither way, this is a story that must be penned in blood. The book also granted them valuable information previous champions never had-insight into the other families’ strategies, secrets, and weaknesses. The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world-one thought long depleted.īut this year a scandalous tell-all book has exposed the tournament and thrust the seven new champions into the worldwide spotlight. The Tournament begins.Įvery generation, at the coming of the Blood Moon, seven families in the remote city of Ilvernath each name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death. Now Prepare to Meet the Villains of the Blood Veil. You Fell in Love with the Victors of the Hunger Games. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick. ![]() Now Prepare to Meet the Villains of the Blood Veil. The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. ![]() The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick. ![]() ![]() ![]() One especially intriguing letter was from a black man to his former white owner. He shared his meticulous research with a large audience using primary documents found in the Library of Congress. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, explained how their help proved essential to the British coastal raids, particularly the capture of Washington, D.C. Taylor, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and the Robert C. ![]() There, they were taken on board and employed with a promise of freedom when the war ended. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor previewed his latest book project called “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.” During the War of 1812, more than 3,000 enslaved men and women escaped captive servitude in Virginia and Maryland by stealing boats to reach British warships in Chesapeake Bay. The lectures were organized to commemorate the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. On September 6, the Jay Heritage Center offered its 3rd free program of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In recent years, it’s become bigger than ever thanks to its influence on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The series was a success, with massive sales, several sequels, and a storytelling format that influenced future Marvel crossovers. Strange, Adam Warlock, and various cosmic beings as well as members of the Avengers and the X-Men, all of whom team up to take on Thanos after he snaps away half the population of the universe. The Infinity Gauntlet was a massive crossover event featuring the Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Dr. The six-part miniseries, written by Jim Starlin and penciled by George Pérez and Ron Lim, released its first issue in July of 1991 after months of buildup in the pages of The Silver Surfer and The Thanos Quest, a two-part series that saw Thanos collect the Infinity Stones. ![]() |