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Batman, Green Arrow, and various others, however, have their own agenda and refuse to sign up. After a big battle, Magog nukes Kansas, so Wonder Woman persuades Superman to come out of retirement and re-form the Justice League of America. Norman McCay and takes him whirling through time and space to observe the state of the world somehow, you see, the Spectre needs Rev. The Spectre, here a sort of guardian angel, appears to the Rev. In 21st-century Metropolis, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are dead, Superman has been missing for ten years, and the city streets are cluttered with young troublemaking ``metahumans,'' some with genuine superpowers, led by the superpowered Magog and his sidekick, Alloy (the result when the Metal Men were all melted together). Based on a popular 1996 DC Comics series by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, and now novelized by Maggin, author of two previous Superman novels: a sort of Twilight of the Superheroes, with the expected action painstakingly, and painfully, eked out with psychologizing, religion, and meaningless flourishes.
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The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred5/22/2023 They see only the pale fibrous wood, easily warped, that surrounds the core. But its real value, one unrealized by most people, is its deep red heart, steady and strong. A sweet gum is the chameleon of wood, its corky exterior hiding its inner ability to imitate anything from cherry to mahogany. It wasn’t until I was a grown woman that I realized the true nature of the tree. And maybe to laugh when the Judge cursed each time he ran the lawn mower over the hard burs they produce, the tiny missiles banging against the house or car with a loud thunk and denting the mower blades he kept so carefully honed. Growing up in the Crowley Ridge area of Arkansas, I paid little attention to the sweet gum trees except to admire their brilliant colors during the fall.
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El arte de volar by Antonio Altarriba5/22/2023 This is an important book for Spanish graphic history and memoir, and for all comics history, evoking Maus, which is also focused on Art Spiegelman’s difficult father’s often difficult life especially in World War II, with close escapes from horrors. It's also told as if from the perspective of his father, which is an interesting move he makes in a kind of meta-fictional way: I am my father, and he is me I am now going to become my father and have him tell his tale. But it’s also a solid and engaging story by Altarriba, one with the historical scope of the twentieth century, with insights into Spanish politics and history, through the lens of an intimate portrait of his father. I speak much Spanish, to be clear I am just acknowledging that the language is often distinctively beautiful, for which I have to credit, in part, the translator. The Art of Flying is a much lauded Spanish graphic historical memoir that was published in 2009 thanks to Jonathan Cape it is now translated into English, and beautifully, by Adrian West.
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Ashley audrain the push review5/22/2023 I will say that the things that happen in this book are not for the lighthearted. But it was so frustrating to read through and really added a sense of vulnerability and suspense that I really loved. She’s the one with the bad childhood after all. No one took into consideration what she was saying or feeling, they all just swept it under the rug. A major theme when it came to the terrible and sinister and mind boggling moments was when no one believed Blythe at all. That whole multigenerational study was my favourite part of this book because it was so real.Īnd since this book is a thriller, I have to talk about the more chilling aspects of this book. This was a dark, twisted, heartbreaking novel about the hardships of motherhood and childhood and how our own experiences shape us. When strange and terrible instances start happening around her daughter, she starts to wonder if there’s really something wrong with the girl or if it’s all in her head. However, as soon as her first child is born, she gets the sense that something is wrong. If you haven’t heard of this very hyped debut, it’s about a new mother adjusting to motherhood and coming to terms with the histories of bad parenting in her own family tree. So much so I gave it my first five stars of 2021. Y’all……where do I even begin? I loved this. Trigger Warnings (highlight to see): Miscarriage, suicide, death, sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, self harm
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Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely neglected. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives. When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families–married couples and their children. You can read this before Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 PDF full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 written by Judith M. Brief Summary of Book: Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 by Judith M.
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The return of the native novel5/22/2023 Hardy wants you to understand that this is the most beautiful green place in all the beautiful green places in England-and unlike the rest of England, in Wessex it only rains when Hardy needs pathetic fallacy. The novel opens with an exhaustive description of the picturesque Egdon Heath and its bucolic pre–Industrial Revolution furze-cutters and reddlemen. The Return of the Native is firmly in the middle of Hardy’s career as a novelist, and it shows. If I was worried I’ve been ploughing through Hardy’s novels too fast, I shouldn’t be: my last review was over a year ago! Time to rectify that! It’s also a nice break from the YA/SF-heavy binge I’ve been on (and to which I will likely return shortly!). Does anyone know what love is? Haddaway has been zero help, by the way. I’m not sure Thomas Hardy knows what love is.
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A Marvelous Net by Mark Miller5/22/2023 Our friendly sales staff will make sure the new car you choose will provide you with everything you expect from it. Whether it's the Outback, Legacy, Forester, Impreza, WRX, BRZ or Crosstrek, we know you'll be happy with your purchase from Larry H. We have most of the new Subaru models in stock. With a large selection of new 2023 Subaru cars for Boise area residents to choose from, we're sure you'll find the right new vehicle at our Idaho new and used car dealership. We have served customers from as far away as Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage, Alaska! For directions from Caldwell, Meridian, Nampa or Mountain Home or anywhere in the greater Boise area, use our interactive map. Set up a test drive by contacting our friendly sales staff at the number above, or by submitting a short form on our inventory details pages. We are the greater Boise Subaru dealer with the inventory and price to get you into your dream car today. We are committed to your satisfaction and strive to exceed our customers' expectations. Miller Subaru Boise you will experience the world class service of a knowledgeable and experienced staff.
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Happy go lucky sedaris review5/22/2023 In Calypso (2018), he memorably likened the two of them to "a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other's hands and missing every time." Sedaris has long been frank about his lifelong disconnect with his father, but he has reflected more openly - and movingly - about it since his father reached his nineties. He may have milked the material for laughs, but these stories were not like the inherently playful, fond ribbing he has given his sisters Amy, Lisa, and Gretchen, or his longtime partner, Hugh. Unlike his tender essays about his mother, who died in 1991, Sedaris' bitter-edged portraits of Lou Sedaris, an ultra-conservative crank who undercut him at every turn, are not flattering. The money was a comfort, but better yet was the roar of live audiences as they laughed at how petty and arrogant he was." Then I started to write about it, to actually profit from it. "As long as my father had power, he used it to hurt me," he writes in in his latest collection, Happy-Go-Lucky. For many, the gloves come off, relieved to finally have the last word.ĭavid Sedaris' situation is different, because he's been writing about his father for years. It's always interesting to see how a writer's work changes after their parents are gone.
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Annotated memoirs of ulysses s grant5/22/2023 Grant provides essential insight into how rigorously these events tested America's democratic institutions and the cohesion of its social order. Grant Association's Presidential Library, this definitive edition enriches our understanding of the pre-war years, the war with Mexico, and the Civil War. With annotations compiled by the editors of the Ulysses S. This is the first comprehensively annotated edition of Grant's memoirs, clarifying the great military leader's thoughts on his life and times through the end of the Civil War and offering his invaluable perspective on battlefield decision making. Mark Twain and Henry James hailed them as great literature, and countless presidents credit Grant with influencing their own writing. Grant's memoirs, sold door-to-door by former Union soldiers, were once as ubiquitous in American households as the Bible. Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a unique glimpse of someone who found that the habit of reflection could serve as a force multiplier for leadership." "Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else. "Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."
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Zadie smith white teeth 20005/21/2023 These things happen sometimes, these freak events in publishing. But in the end, you just have to forget about it otherwise you'd never write a word. It did make my life a bit ridiculous really - it made me scared that I wasn't going to be able to finish the book, or that it wasn't going to be any good. And I had moments of fear, of not being able to write anything.' Because of the advance? She laughs diffidently she has already refused to confirm the sum involved, but admits that it was big. 'I didn't think the book would take two years to write,' she says, 'but I was quite lazy. She confesses that she has found the whole publicity whirl quite daunting. Smith takes me to a caff in Willesden, north-west London, not unlike the one in which her two main characters, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, spend much of their time philosophising. |