" You will be blown away. With appearances by Superman, Batman and numerous other villains, this Absolute edition showcases the amazing art of Lee Bermejo. Told through the eyes of his loyal (but naive) henchman Jonny Frost, JOKER is a true noir crime novel: a harrowing journey into a city of rain-soaked streets, dirty sheets and nothing but bad choices. The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none too happy about what's happened to his Gotham City rackets while he's been "away." What follows is a harrowing night of revenge, murder and manic crime as only The Joker can deliver it, as he brutally takes back his stolen assets from The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face, Killer Croc and, of course, The Batman, and heaven help them all. This original graphic novel tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City. From the Award-Winning Author of 100 Bulletsīrian Azzarello brings to THE JOKER all the visceral intensity and criminal insight that has made his Vertigo graphic novel series 100 BULLETS one of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning series of all time.
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His interest in mythology began at age seven when he saw the Indians in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Madison Square Garden. This heritage led to an earnest immersion in the rituals and symbols of the church, including becoming an altar boy. His childhood was strongly Irish Catholic. Joseph Campbell was born in 1904 in a suburb of New York City. It is a vision of a rich inner life available to anyone willing to go on the initiatory adventures. It is more than a presentation of fascinating stories from all over the world. The dialog between Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers that became The Power of Mythwas an event that changed many lives. His lifetime of scholarship was nothing less than the search for the Holy Grail of radiant living. For Joseph Campbell, the study of myth was the exploration of the possibilities of consciousness. Though Last Letter is meant to be a final book, it is often more cantankerous than elegiac. These connections are important and meaningful for those who have read Inland, but they are hardly an explication of authorial intent. His discussion of his 1988 novel Inland turns from Murnane’s love for the sonorities of the Hungarian language (which he taught himself) to a discussion of Proust. They ruminate instead on unexpected connections between books, ideas and the specific life experiences that informed his writing. The essays in Last Letter are neither literary criticism nor memoir. He reveals that he published a still-unknown book of poetry under a pseudonym before he began writing novels. He also “sometimes regrets” the title The Plains, which his publishers suggested over his preferred Landscape with Darkness and Mirage. His most celebrated work, 1982’s The Plains, started as “a sort of florid descant accompanying a conventional narrative” in a much longer work, entitled The Only Adam. He often discusses differences between the manuscripts he wrote and the books that resulted from them. While this might seem strange, Murnane notes that he had “previously read none of my books in its published form”. The idea for the book came to Murnane during lockdown in the small Victorian town of Goroke in 2020, when he decided to read his books “in the order of their publication” and write a “report of my experience as a reader of each book”. Now, Murnane has published another final book, Last Letter to a Reader. Thanks to information on Ancestry's website and her husband's research skills, she is watching a YouTube video of a stranger with her features, her coloring, her gestures only 36 hours after that mind-blowing email arrived. Shapiro writes vividly about her immediate sense of shock and dislocation, and she also recounts the head-spinning speed with which she tracks down her biological father. It's a cautionary tale about a brave new world of technology that erases privacy, and a story about one of the oldest themes of human narrative: finding oneself. What happened after that discovery is the compelling story Shapiro tells in her fifth memoir, Inheritance. "By the time I went to bed that night," she writes, "my entire history - the life I had lived - had crumbled beneath me, like the buried ruins of an ancient forgotten city." The man Shapiro thought was her father was not. The half sister had done a DNA test, too, and when the two sent their results in for comparison, the numbers changed everything: They were "no kind of sisters," as Shapiro's husband said upon reading the email. Shapiro was an only child whose parents had both died, but she had an older half sister from her father's first marriage, whom she had never much gotten along with. Given what she knew about her parents' backgrounds, the Ashkenazi percentage should have been much higher, but she shrugged it off. Her results were puzzling: 52 percent Ashkenazi Jewish from Eastern Europe, the rest a mix of French, Irish, English and German. Alden and her object lesson of how she could cripple him with just a finger’s poke. Fortunately, the ache at his side had dulled, no thanks to Mrs. The swelling at his brow and lip had gone down, but the cuts were still painful to the touch. His arms and legs moved less like immobile lead now and more like wobbly wooden beams. Rubbing his hands over his face, he felt better than he had the last time he woke. Something told him he wouldn’t be the first man to fall at her feet. Yet it was a decided improvement over the last time he rose from bed, when he’d confronted Grace Alden and nearly ended up on the floor. He stood steadier on his feet now, although his legs still trembled beneath him. Ross winced at the pounding headache behind his eyes as he shoved himself out of bed with a soft groan. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson's lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the ocean's denizens, the individual lives of sanderling, mackerel, and eel dramatically intertwined in the enduring ebb and flow of the tides. Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Silent Spring, but she was first and foremost a "poet of the sea" and the three books collected in this deluxe Library of America volume are classics of American science and nature writing. Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth's oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing. Whether you’re picking up an original Morrison like We3 or his transcendent superhero work on All Star Superman, it's obvious that his writing never loses its edge. Since then, he has continued his success by creating new properties and reinventing older characters. After putting out titles like Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth and the newly-rebooted Animal Man, Morrison quickly became the hottest writer in the industry. When he hit the mainstream in the late ‘80s over at DC, Morrison was part of a writer revolution that saw a dramatic shift in the tone and style of American superhero comics. No other comic book writer in recent memory has been as prolific or successful as Grant Morrison. "Haunting and dreamlike, the intrigue and romance of Mara Dyer will inescapably draw you in." -Cassandra Clare, author of the New York Times bestselling Moral Instruments series This fast-paced psychological-or is it paranormal?-thriller will leave you breathless for its sequel, The Evolution of Mara Dyer. At school, there’s Noah, a devastatingly handsome charmer who seems determined to help Mara piece together what’s real, what’s imagined-and what’s very, very dangerous. But that fresh start is quickly filled with hallucinations-or are they premonitions?-and then corpses, and the boundary between reality and nightmare is wavering. She lost her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s sister, and as if that weren’t enough to cope with, her family moves to a new state in order to give her a fresh start. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.Īfter Mara survives the traumatizing accident at the old asylum, it makes sense that she has issues. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. Mara Dyer doesn’t know if she is crazy or haunted-all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful and “strong, inventive tale” ( Kirkus Reviews). Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.] by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley5/21/2023 Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, discovers the secret to endowing inanimate flesh with life. Dreamed up when the author was only 18 while on holiday in Switzerland with her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poet Lord Byron, Frankenstein is the result of a challenge from Byron to each write their own "ghost story." The result was a tale that would become synonymous with horror, that would be the first novel to ask the question, Are there some things man was not meant to know? This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein includes all 65 hauntingly beautiful, moody, and subtly erotic woodcut illustrations by Lynd Ward from his 1934 edition the unabridged 1831 text of the popular revised edition by Mary Shelley a helpful introduction and a detailed author bio.įrankenstein by Mary Shelley is the foundational text of both the horror and science fiction genres, a classic that has been read, discussed, and adapted in every medium for more than 200 years. I didn't love this latest installment in the series. As a result, she doesn't feel her parents or siblings love her, and she's needy in her friendships. Hale's parents are portrayed as physically present but emotionally absent, and when she expresses any sadness, her family makes it clear that they believe sensitivity is a choice. Life at home didn’t help soften what happened at school. It's not pretty, especially because Hale had low self-esteem and watched everyone around her pair up while she got ignored and occasionally mocked. In eighth grade, most of her misery stems from observing her peers’ obsession with romantic relationships and appearance and feeling unsure about her own feelings and status. Although this isn't uncommon for a story taking place during middle school, Hale has a way of depicting her experiences as uniquely miserable and horrendous. I felt about Friends Forever much like I felt about book two in this series: that it's intensely focused on pain and angst. Inside, Hale feels depressed and anxious and doesn't know why. As a member of the drama club, she’s also finally found a caring group of friends. She’s now in eighth grade and enjoying being in the oldest grade at her middle school. Shannon Hale's friend drama continues in Friends Forever, the third graphic novel in her autobiographical "Friends" series. |