![]() ![]() The stolen things get stolen back by Padan Fain, who blackmails Rand for a meeting. While in Cairhien, all hell breaks loose, unintentionally caused by Rand. Rand and Loial manage to return the stolen things from the Darkfriends, and they go to Cairhien. The three chosen friends set off on the journey together with Loial and an army of soldiers led by Ingtar. Rand agrees to retrieve it because Mat’s dagger from Shadar Logoth is among the things stolen, and he needs to take it back to save Mat. Moiraine and the chief of the Aes Sedai demand a meeting with him, and they reveal that the Horn of Valere has been stolen. ![]() Rand sees a group of Aes Sedai coming to Tal Dara and panics, because he contemplated leaving, after Moiraine revealed to him that he is a male Aes Sedai, the one who can both save and destroy the world by wielding the One Power. Rand and the rest of the crew are still in Tal Dara after saving the world from the Dark One and the Forsaken. ![]() The second novel continues where the first one left off. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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![]() Thanos is usually portrayed as a villain, although many stories depict him as believing his actions to be justified. In creating Thanos, Starlin drew inspiration from Jack Kirby's New Gods series for DC Comics, particularly the character of Darkseid. He has clashed with many heroes including the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Eternals, and the X-Men. ![]() An Eternal– Deviant warlord from the moon Titan, Thanos is regarded as one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. Created by writer-artist Jim Starlin, the character first appeared in The Invincible Iron Man #55 ( cover date February 1973). Thanos is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Access to nearly all powerful mystical artifacts and weapons.Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and agility.The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973) ![]() ![]() Textless variant cover of Infinity #4 (October 2013) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, she was a publicist in publishing and continues to cultivate her love of books and reading by chatting with the best authors in the business as an event coordinator at an independent bookstore and as the co-host of the Fresh Fiction podcast. Number one on my bucket list: Release a book! -)Īnything else you'd like to add: Always make time to read books that make you happy!Īuthor Bio: Danielle Jackson is a contemporary romance author, avid reader, lackluster-yet-mighty crafter, and accomplished TV binge-watcher. But most days you can find me guzzling Earl Grey tea.įavorite artist: Georgia O'Keefe's florals and landscapes take my breath away. My signature drink: On special occasions, I love a cool, crisp glass of Sauvignon Blanc. Place I’d most like to travel: I'd love to go to the Mediterranean one day. If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: bookseller! I'm cheating a bit, because I do work at a bookstore (I'm an event coordinator at an independent bookstore in the Chicago suburbs), but every bookseller I know is so awesome and in another life, perhaps I'd be one, too!įavorite decade in fashion history: I love the glamour of the 1940s! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m glad I read it this way, and I recommend it. ![]() I wanted to savor them, to not allow one to eclipse another in my mind. I forced myself not to do that, instead trying to draw it out as long as possible by reading one a day over the course of a week. There are only a few essays in the collection, and you could read it in a single sitting. It’s also teeny and paperback - more like a pocket reader than a traditional book - and sells for just $10.95, making it perfect for guilt-free marginalia. Intimations sets a high bar for others, which is honestly good for all of us since there will surely be a flood.Īlso worth noting, if you haven’t heard: All of Smith’s royalties from this book will be donated to charity. What we didn’t dare even imagine was that Zadie Smith would be the first to enter the field. We knew the pandemic literature was coming. Who can admit, late in the day, during this strange and overwhelming season of death that collides, outside my window, with the emergence of dandelions, that spring sometimes rises in me, too, and the moon may occasionally tug at my moods, and if I hear a strange baby cry some part of me still leaps to attention - to submission.” ![]() ![]() Kirkus praises the book as adroitly told and illustrated “with a clever surprise twist ending, while its illustrations combine a historical-looking style with accurate historic details. ![]() Could there be such a thing as an adventure that is too exciting? Unbeknownst to her parents, she stows away on her father’s 19th-century merchant vessel. But look! The wind has picked up and the sky is darkening. During an annual “Girl’s Art Weekend” a few years ago, I giggled over his hilarious illustrations in PARDON ME, and SURF’S UP, both found in a beachy bookshop on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.ĭaniel’s newest book – out today – introduces us to brave, young Hope. I was honored when Daniel agreed to illustrate my COME NEXT SEASON (FSG) some years ago. I’m thrilled to interview Daniel Miyares about his new book, HOPE AT SEA (Anne Schwartz Books). ![]() ![]() As blustery winds send pecans plopping perilously around my head, November seems the perfect time to introduce a book where the elements play a big role in the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”-“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. ![]() Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Equal parts political call-to-arms, financial thriller, romance and sassy Southern women's novel, the book suffers from the contrived dialogue that plagues most of the love scenes and the sisterhood confabs. Faulk spices things up with Lauren's clever scheme to get back her stock holdings and severance pay, which the old boys at her firm are refusing to part with. The strike takes hold, but Lauren loses her job, sees her character trashed on TV and in magazines and receives death threats. So, although she's dying to jump into bed with Jake, Lauren makes a speech calling for American women to refuse sex until the Chief Justice is removed from office and sentenced. On the way, she meets hunky Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jake Ward and hears for the first time (improbably for a supposedly well-educated woman) the legend of Lysistrata, who convinced the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold sex from their husbands until they halted the Peloponnesian War. Smart, beautiful and nobody's fool, a successful single mother and managing partner of the Atlanta office of a prominent investment firm, Lauren Fontaine joins the march on Washington. ![]() When Congress votes not to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, whose abuse of his wife led to her suicide, the nation's enraged women threaten mayhem. Former financial analyst Faulk makes her debut with a sprawling, relentlessly upbeat variation on Aristophanes' Lysistrata. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. ![]() Description for The Long Good-bye Paperback. ![]() ![]() Hitching a ride on a plane to Europe, Mia sets out on a wild intercontinental quest in search of spiritual gratification, erotic revelation, and the thing she missed most of all: the holy fire of the creative experience. But first she will have to escape her team of medical keepers. ![]() The procedure is not without risk and her second chance at life will not come without a price. But first she must submit herself to a radical-and painful-experimental procedure which promises to make her young again. She has lived her life with such caution that it has been totally bereft of pleasure and adventure. But a deathbed visit with a long-ago ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress-designer brings Mia to an awful revelation. Mia Ziemann is a 94-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position. Meanwhile, the young live on the fringes of society, ekeing out a meagre survival on free, government-issued rations and a black market in stolen technological gadgetry from an earlier, less sophisticated age. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to the latest advancements in life-extension technology. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. ![]() The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. ![]() Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. 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This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” ( The New York Times Book Review).Įmpire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. ![]() *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* ![]() |