![]() ![]() A hopeful examination of grief and gender, and a good ghost story to boot." – School Library Journal, starred review Lukoff navigates Bug’s journey of identity and discovery with grace, welcoming. ★ "Lukoff’s three primary themes-gender identity, grief, and ghostly hauntings-work in elegant harmony despite the load. ★ “Equal parts unsettling, heartwarming, and satisfying…a nuanced and compelling exploration of gender, friendship, and family.” – Booklist, starred review ![]() Through Bug’s journey to self-realization and self-acceptance, and the wonderfully nuanced understanding of gender he comes to, Lukoff provides a tender rumination on grief, love, and identity." – Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ “This coming-of-age and coming-out story takes a needed departure from other stories about transgender youth.A chilling, suspenseful ghost story balances the intimate, introspective narrative style.… Haunting and healing.” – Kirkus, starred review “A tender portrayal of a kid who is just coming to understand who he is.” – TIME It will almost certainly be banned in many places, but your child almost certainly needs to read it." – The New York Times Book Review "This book is a gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding, full of everything any of us would wish for our children. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Abrams ("Lost," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens") and Bridget Carpenter ("Friday Night Lights," "Parenthood"), who developed the series, made the smart decision not to get bogged down in Oliver Stone-style, deep-conspiracy tangents. The creative team, including executive producer J.J. ![]() 15 (Presidents' Day, appropriately enough), is similarly focused on telling a great yarn. While that premise might sound somber, the first episodes of the Hulu series have a pop energy characteristic of King, who - bless him - doesn't take himself too seriously. 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. The book, and the eight-part miniseries, tell the story of Jake Epping (James Franco), a small-town Maine high school teacher who travels back in time to try to prevent the Nov. With his storyteller's instincts, King came up with an irresistible concept. If you had a chance to go back in time and change history, would you do it? And what would happen if you did? Those are the kinds of questions that can be endlessly fun to daydream about, and they're the juicy center of "11.22.63," the new Hulu streaming series based on Stephen King's bestselling novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There couldn’t have been an actual human that Prime is modeled on (be pretty scary if there was). Ultimately, this was the part of the offer that I felt I couldn’t turn down. Of course, I was busy with Batman at the time they approached me, but what cinched the deal for me were three things:ġ) I’d been on Batman for a long time and I was willing to try something new.Ģ) Malibu offered me a substantial signing fee just for coming on board.ģ) Malibu also promised to publish my creator-owned, -written, and -drawn title, whatever it might turn out to be (I hadn’t even a title in mind at that point, but I eventually settled on Metaphysique, which was published under Malibu’s Bravura umbrella). It was most certainly my high recognition factor after drawing Batman for about 6 years which made Malibu Comics want me as their big name artist on what ended up becoming, more or less, their flagship title. The truest answer for that is that I drew Batman first (lol). How did you land the job as the artist on Prime? You can keep up with him and check out his art on his web site. ![]() He’s also pretty well known for his work with Batman. ![]() I don’t think there were any better comics being done at that time. Norm Breyfogle’s art was a huge part of what made those books great, with dynamic action and interesting layouts. If you want a good place to start reading the Ultraverse, there’s no better jumping-on point than the first year of Prime. ![]() ![]() An incredible true story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe, A Very Dangerous Woman brings her extraordinary world vividly to life with dramatic resonances to rival the most sensational novel. Grippingly narrated, this is the first biography of Moura Budberg to use the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and documents. Through all this she clung to the hope that Lockhart would finally return to her. Wells, Moura later spied for Stalin and for Britain amidst the web of scandal surrounding the Cambridge spies. ![]() Fleeing to a life of exile in England and taking a string of new lovers, including Maxim Gorky and H. But when Lockhart’s plot unravelled, she would forsake everything in an attempt to protect him from Lenin’s secret police. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they began a passionate affair, even though Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks. When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain’s envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. Emma Goldman's life is a writer's dreamlong and sordid, inspiring and debased, full of sex, political courage, and international intrigue. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed. By JOSH LAMBERT A DANGEROUS WOMAN The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman By Sharon Rudahl 112 pages. ![]() Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century’s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. ![]() ![]() Jason Aaron’s legendary saga continues - with more Thors than ever before! In the last days of Midgard, the Thunder God fights to save his adopted home from Roxxon - and its monstrous boss! But when the Son of Odin is rendered unworthy to lift Mjolnir, a new hero rises - Thor, Goddess of Thunder! Who is the mystery woman who now commands the thunder and lightning? Wouldn’t Malekith, Odin and the Odinson himself love to know! Plus, Old King Thor battles Galactus at the end of time! Young Thor tries to prove himself worthy! The Girls of Thunder! The accursed origin of Malekith! The beginnings of the War of the Realms! And - when the Multiverse is shattered by SECRET WARS - an army of Thors police Battleworld! Collecting THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #19-25, THOR (2014) #1-8, THOR ANNUAL (2015) #1 and THORS #1-4. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then she has the nerve to call him a liar, and even resigns without notice, leaving his business in an uproar and his honor in question. ![]() Besides, he can't believe his proper secretary has the passion to write anything worth reading. Marlowe might be a rake with a preference for can-can dancers and an aversion to matrimony, but he is also the city's leading publisher, and Emma is convinced he's her best chance to see her work in print.until she discovers the lying scoundrel has been rejecting her manuscripts without ever reading a single page!Īs a publisher, Harry finds reading etiquette books akin to slow, painful torture. Supremely sensible Emmaline Dove wishes to share her etiquette expertise with London's readers, and as secretary to Viscount Marlowe, Emma knows she's in the perfect position to make her dream come true. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrews since shortly after she died from breast cancer in December 1986. Neiderman has been ghostwriting the novels of V.C. "I leaned over to the one who spoke English, and said, 'Can you tell me why she's been staring at me for the last half hour?'" The answer was due to a common mistake: She didn't understand why this hugely successful and beloved female author was, in fact, a 48-year-old man. ![]() ![]() "After a while it gets a little unnerving," said writer Andrew Neiderman over lunch at a restaurant in Palm Springs, recalling a 1989 meeting with three South Korean publishers, one of whom looked particularly perplexed. Andrews had been dead for years and no one seemed to notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s seen Arthur sitting there alone, and one afternoon she joins him-a gesture that begins a surprising friendship between two lonely souls. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life.Įighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who often comes to the cemetery to escape the other kids at school and a life of loss. It’s a quiet routine not entirely without its joys. Sometimes in the evening he’ll take a walk and stop to chat with his nosy neighbor, Lucille. An emotionally powerful novel about three people who each lose the one they love most, only to find second chances where they least expect them-from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Bergįor the past six months, Arthur Moses’s days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. ![]() |