![]() ![]() Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her. What’s more, this safe haven is not what it appears-as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. ![]() But nothing is easy when you’re a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. “Savvy, enlightening, and harrowing” Buzzfeed on Dread Nation After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Erisman, and began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. He eventually became an editor of their pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories ( cover-dated Nov. Ī month after graduation, Keyes joined publisher Martin Goodman's magazine company, Magazine Management. Afterward he returned to New York and in 1950 received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College. He attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers. Keyes was born in New York City, New York. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. Daniel Keyes (Aug– June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon. ![]() ![]() ![]() His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix. About the Author: Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. The epic begins here: Welcome to Lovecraft. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill ( The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box) has created a gripping story of dark fantasy and wonder-with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez-that, like the doors of Keyhouse, will transform all who open it. ![]() Locke & Key tells a sprawling tale of magic and family, legacy and grief, good and evil. ![]() Volume 1 features the first two story arcs, Welcome to Lovecraft and Headgames, with all-new cover art and design by co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez. Club, the crticially-acclaimed series Locke & Key takes on new life in a reformatted hardcover collection. Now a Netflix Original Series! Named a modern masterpiece by The A.V. ![]() ![]() ![]() The producers were also extremely lucky in finding their fours leads, each of which went on to become stars in their own right. What appears to be your run-of-the-mill teen chick flick (complete with attractive leads, gorgeous scenery, holiday romance and family drama) is in fact an affecting, earnest little film about friendship and growing up. It was the film that first brought me to the books - and i'm still a fan. This resulted in plenty of tears on my part, and a lasting affection for the 'sisterhood' themselves that outweighs mine for many more admirable literary characters. ![]() The characters are engaging and like-able, their emotions easily felt and understood. Admittedly it sounds like the worst kind of teen chic-lit (and I think they should have been allowed to wash the pants - surely they'd stink after four years?) but in my opinion the Sisterhood series (excluding the unmentionable fifth book) displays some of the best and most moving writing of its genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those strengths with character and world-building shine through in each of these stories wherein he introduces new characters and myths of Mouse history.Įach story is evocative in its own way, dealing with the grief of losing a parent, or the selfishness of putting friends at risk for personal gain. His meticulously detailed designs and the story's scope gave the world a sense of history. From the first pages of the original Mouse Guard, it was hard not to fall in love with his characters, their sense of duty, and their connection to their community. Petersen's talents as a storyteller and artist are impeccable. RELATED: Mamo #1 Weaves a Fascinating Fairy Tale ![]() In The Owlhen Caregiver, Petersen steps away from epic tales of battle to deliver three stories that reflect on life, community, and the harsh reality of losing those we love. For this reason, the mice formed the Mouse Guard - highly skilled warriors that act as protectors for common mice who journey across the harsh land. Being the smallest of beasts, Mice safety is a precarious thing, and freedom requires bravery. In the world of Mouse Guard, mice struggle to live safely amid harsh conditions and the ever-present threat of predators of all sizes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first experience with writing an actual novel was in high school during algebra class. ![]() Upon completing the series she decided she wanted to leave the same impact on her future readers. The book series that remained close to her heart was The Forbidden Games, with the final novel bringing her to tears. Smith, such as The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle Series, The Forbidden Games Series, and myriad others. She was inspired to become a writer after reading the works of L.J. Armentrout was born on June 11 in West Virginia. Her current publishers include Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Publishing, Harlequin Teen, Disney/Hyperion, and HarperCollins. She is considered a "hybrid" author, having successfully self-published while maintaining active contracts with small independent presses, and traditional publishers. Several of her works have made The New York Times Best Seller list. Lynn, is an American writer of contemporary romance, new adult and fantasy. Jennifer Lynn Armentrout (born June 11, 1980), also known by the pseudonym J. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is filled with a lot of charm, a lot of clever concepts, some metafiction, and a lot of jokes. Summer is a good protagonist, the daughter of a single mother who sometimes feels oppressed by her mother who ends up travelling to another world and meeting a variety of travelling companions, including a werehouse (a wolf that transforms into a house) and, my favorite, Reginald, a bird who is a bit of a fop if you imagine him being voiced by Hugh Laurie in his Wooster mode, it works perfectly. Still, that's picking too much at something that's basically a whim of preference. Orcus is more a collection of mythologies, which I don't like quite as much. ![]() Like, I like those fantasy lands where one draws maps of kingdoms and continents, like Oz and Middle-earth, or at least could do so, like Narnia. ![]() This isn't quite my flavor: Orcus feels more like a mythology and less like a place, if that makes any sense. I grew up reading portal-quest fantasy, and I love the stuff. Show More audience, namely herself and her Patreon backers.īut anyway, it's the story of Summer, who's sent into a fantasy world called Orcus by Baba Yaga and ends up going on a quest, meeting a number of distinct and vivid characters on the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() When our bands were winding down, we realized that we both wanted to be in a fast, hard, tight punk band. Sal and I are both east-coast guys and have some similar influences, so it was easy for us to talk music. ![]() We were all practicing at the same place, and would always run into one another between songs. Give ‘Em Hell started when my band Revenge and Regret broke up around the same time Sal’s band No Division called it quits. ‘Give ’em hell, kid.’ This is what happens when a few friends get together and play the music they love.” – Give ‘Em Hell (Myspace) Getting out that aggression, doing something, getting involved, expressing yourself and finding those who feel the same way you do. It’s having fun and holding on to what you believe in. This is a community and at it’s best, a family. This is more than a ‘scene’ and it’s more than whatever labels people feel the need to slap onto themselves. ![]() What’s punk rock, what’s hardcore and what’s not. Today we’re bringing you a previously unreleased demo from punk band Give ‘Em Hell, who were active in Vegas from 2005-2009.įor more information about the band and these songs, read the oral history as told by former Give ‘Em Hell members Pete Aponte, Tony Batz, Chris Duggan, Sal Giordano and Matt King. ![]() Welcome to Vegas Archive, a feature where we re-release music from local bands that are gone, but certainly not forgotten. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant’s autobiography is devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier: his years at West Point, his service in the peacetime army, and his education in war during conflicts foreign and domestic. Washburne, provide a fascinating contemporary perspective on the events that would later figure in the Memoirs. Many of them are to his wife, Julia, and offer an intimate view of their affectionate and enduring marriage others, addressed to fellow generals, government officials, and his congressional patron Elihu B. This Library of America volume also includes 174 letters written by Grant from 1839 to 1865. ![]() Acclaimed by readers as diverse as Mark Twain, Matthew Arnold, Gertrude Stein, and Edmund Wilson, the Personal Memoirs demonstrates the intelligence, intense determination, and laconic modesty that made Grant the Union’s foremost commander. ![]() Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure their future, and in doing so won for himself a unique place in American letters. Stricken by cancer as his family faced financial ruin, Ulysses S. Twenty years after Appomattox, the Civil War’s greatest general fought his last campaign against death and time. Buy the Grant and Sherman volumes in a boxed set and save $20. ![]() ![]() ![]() The impact of dramatic transformations happened between the last decade of socialist period and the first two decades of post-soviet Moldova history still constitutes a disputable topic among specialists from different fields, as well as the emerging public history discourses on memory, identity and nation-building. A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich will be of great interest for a large audience of people from the lovers of photography, museums, history or Moldova‘s cultural life to the consecrated scholars studying visual arts, philosophy, ethnography, museology or memory and identity through the investigation of complex interrelationship between ‗gaze, diaspora, trauma‘ (p. ![]() |