![]() The stunning national bestseller now features an illuminating discussion with Sister Souljah - her secret thoughts on creating the story that has sold more than one million copies worldwide and introduced readers everywhere to the real ghetto experience. ![]() Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn’t want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. ![]() “I came busting into the world during one of New York’s worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter.” ![]() Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel, which was first published in April of 1999. ![]() Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Considered by many to be one of the best urban fiction novels of it’ generation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She resides in the North Sea town of Florence, once a pleasure resort for the vampiric Nobility, before they were cast out a thousand years ago. Yet humanity too remains as quick as ever to prey upon itself, and where the law can’t bring safety or justice, the crescent blade of D will – assuming you meet the half-vampire wanderer’s price! A beautiful young woman, fatally wounded in a journey across the wastelands, entrusts a mission to D with her final breath – deliver the precious jewel she carries to her sister Su-In. ![]() A new omnibus collecting volumes seven, eight, and nine of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series! The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind’s nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. ![]() ![]() ![]() They married in 1947, aged twenty-one and twenty-six. Elizabeth and Philip met as cousins in the 1930s. ![]() The Queen's childhood was loving and secure, the Duke's was turbulent his grandfather assassinated, his father arrested, his family exiled, his parents separated when he was only ten. Philip and Elizabeth were both royal by birth, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, they were two very different people. ![]() It is also the portrait of a remarkable marriage that endured for more than seventy years. Who was he? What was he really like? What is the truth about those 'gaffes' and the rumours of affairs? This is the final portrait of an unexpected and often much-misunderstood figure. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once described as her 'constant strength and guide'. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. ![]() Elizabeth, their marriage and their dynasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chronologically, Heartstopper starts a year before Solitaire starts. ![]() You do not need to read them both, but if you’d like to read them both, it doesn’t matter which one you read first. The Heartstopper series and Solitaire feature some of the same characters, and operate within the same universe/timeline, but they are very different stories – Heartstopper is a happy, romantic, uplifting graphic novel series that focuses on Nick and Charlie, while Solitaire is a dark story about mental illness narrated by Charlie’s sister, Tori, and was written long before Heartstopper. This Winter and Nick and Charlie are spin-off novellas from Solitaire and Heartstopper, but can still be read and enjoyed even if you haven’t read those books. Start with the one that interests you the most from the blurb! ![]() Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless are all standalone novels about different characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It cuts through you as cruelly as the sound of an innocent child’s cry of pain. When he spoke again, he released a low rush of words: “Have you ever heard a horse scream, Jillian? It’s one of the most bloodcurdling sounds I’ve ever heard. “I did.” There was a pause, filled only with the rasp of bristles against horseflesh. Grimm returned his attention to the horse. “So who rescued him?” Jillian was determined not to rise to the bait. “You never stop with your questions, do you? And what are you doing here, anyway? Couldn’t you just be a good lass and wait at Caithness? No, I forgot, Jillian hates being left behind,” he said mockingly. “Was he injured?” The horse was magnificent, hands taller than most and a glossy, unmarked slate gray. “He doesn’t appear to have suffered for it.” Jillian traversed the courtyard, eyeing the stallion. Grimm allowed a brief glance over his shoulder, then started brushing the horse’s sleek flank. “Why don’t you ever pen Occam?” she asked brightly. She instantly assumed a mask of indifference and volleyed into questions to head off a potential verbal sully. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This whole Thunder Cake idea seemed quite intriguing. It was all very exciting and almost like a storm was descending on us as we read through the pages. My students loved counting along and then laughing when I read out Polacco’s different versions of thunder: The mention of ThunderCake gets some attention and Grandma is able to explain how to count seconds when you see lightning and stop counting when you hear the thunder to help figure out how far away the storm is. Grandma soothes her explaining that summer storms full of thunder and lightning are made for baking Thunder Cake. The little girl in this story is very afraid of thunderstorms – hide under the bed afraid. Her book Thunder Cake helped us continue our discussion about how to be courageous and how to manage our fears. I am a huge fan of author/illustrator Patricia Polacco. ![]() ![]() Conn learns to read with great speed and finds himself with the task of discovering his own locus magicalicus and the source of the waning magic in thirty days. There he meets Rowan, the non-magical daughter of the Duchess of Wellmet, Willa Forestal. Hoping to train him, Nevery insists that Conn attend school at the Academicos and learn to read runes - in which a secret message is written at the end of the diary entries of Nevery's that conclude each chapter. At the same time, Nevery is realizing that Conn has some natural talent, power actually, of his own when it comes to practicing magic. The Magisters, admitting Nevery back into their fold, search for answers to this dilemma. The magic in Wellmet, which keeps the werelights glowing and the factories running, among other things, has been dissipating. ![]() ![]() Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work - pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. ![]() and wars, are not normally distributed there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. ![]() Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.ĭisasters are inherently hard to predict. ![]() "All disasters are in some sense man-made." ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2010 the graphic novel was republished by New Zealand publisher Victoria University Press. Hicksville was republished by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly in 2001 and again in 2010. The collected edition, which featured much redrawn art, was released by Black Eye in 1998, shortly before the company went out of business. Much of Hicksville was serialized in Horrocks' ten-issue solo series Pickle, published by Black Eye from 1993 to 1996. The novel explores the machinations of the comic book industry, and contains a slightly fictionalized account of the history of mainstream American comics, with particular attention paid to the era of Image Comics. Hicksville is a graphic novel by Dylan Horrocks originally published by Black Eye Comics in 1998. ![]() Cover of the Drawn & Quarterly collected edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin, This may date me, but, yes, I read “Battle Cry of Freedom” all the way through when it came out. Part of why I resisted had to do with the mistaken assumption that Battle Cry is no more than a survey, heavy on narrative and short on analytical rigor. Of course, that did not stop me from recommending the book to others. On numerous occasions I committed myself to reading it only to be distracted by another book or even a shorter McPherson essay that summarized aspects of the larger study. I don’t mind admitting that I never really got around to reading it in its entirety until I took a graduate school class in historiography in 2004. ![]() At the time I was just beginning to explore the period and everyone recommended that I start with McPherson. At just under 900 pages it is quite demanding. While it is likely the single most popular Civil War book published in the past two decades I sometimes wonder how many people, who own it or who throw out the name in polite conversation, have actually read it in its entirety. As we all know it was a bestseller when it was first published in 1988 and remains the go to book for those looking for a reliable survey of the Civil War Era. ![]() This past week The Daily Beast did an interview with James McPherson to mark the 25th anniversary of the release of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. ![]() |