![]() ![]() ![]() Alex Volchak is a great protagonist, world weary, lonely and bereaved, keen to see justice done but happy to bend the rules when it suits the common good and he’s blessed with an amusingly deadpan film noir style voice. He began his TV career as a writer on two seasons of Doctor Who, and wrote two novelizations of his stories under the pseudonym John Lydecker.įirst published in 1987, this is a winning combination of crime and horror, perhaps the perfect companion piece to the equally assured “Falling Angel”. Recent screen credits include an award-winning Silent Witness and Stan Lee's Lucky Man. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's Crusoe, creator of CBS Television's Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's The Forgotten. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James. His fifteen novels include Chimera, Oktober, Valley of Lights and Nightmare, with Angel. Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has a career both as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. ![]()
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![]() The meetings take place in one of these vast planes, with both men sitting at distant ends of a long, rectangular dining table, to eat and discuss their lives and work. The narrative of Zenith concerns two creatives, one a ceramicist and the other a glass blower, and their meetings within this Medemian landscape. ![]() There are certain key formal aspects to her style: a fine, clear-line for example, or a certain approach to colour and texture – but the unity of her style goes further than that: both her comics and commercial illustrations seem to occur in the same geographical place, a very distinct, ethereal location with vast mountainous planes and fluorescent, twilight colours stretching up in gradients in the sky. ![]() Maria Medem’s body of work seems to exist as a record of some alternative envisioned landscape. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had so much to live for, So much left yet to do, It seemed almost impossible, That I was leaving you. But as I turned to walk away, A tear fell from my eye For all my life, I’d always thought, I didn’t want to die. I know how much you love me, As much as I love you, And each time you think of me, I know you’ll miss me too But when tomorrow starts without me, Please try to understand, That an angel came and called my name, And took me by the hand, And said my place was ready, In heaven far above And that I’d have to leave behind All those I dearly love. ![]() “When tomorrow starts without me, And I’m not there to see, If the sun should rise and find your eyes All filled with tears for me I wish so much you wouldn’t cry The way you did today, While thinking of the many things, We didn’t get to say. ![]() ![]() Equally tough is Wallace’s valiant struggle and losing battle to overcome childhood trauma, together with his ongoing friction with individuals who rub him the wrong way or wear him down. Problems arise when tender feelings give way to violent outbursts. There is initial confusion - Miller believed himself to be straight, Wallace never envisaged a true friendship let alone a relationship - but soon both men embrace their newly forged connections and self-discoveries. One day, Wallace’s cares and woes are temporarily put on hold during a surprise passionate encounter with a fellow student. He yearns to break free of his cloistered realm of research and experiments, “to leap out of his life and into the vast, incalculable void of the world.” Surrounded by brilliant minds, he worries that his heart is no longer in his studies. “He always got stuck on the edges,” Taylor writes, “talking to whoever pitied him enough to throw him a bone of small talk.”Ĭompounding matters is Wallace’s flagging enthusiasm and ability. As a black, gay, introverted man from Alabama, he feels like a stranger in this Midwestern town and a peripheral hanger-on in his social circle. But Wallace is painfully aware of his outsider status. When not studying, he and his friends get together and make the most of the great outdoors. Wallace is in his fourth year of graduate school, pursuing a degree in biochemistry. ![]() “Real Life,” Brandon Taylor’s bravura first novel, revolves around a man who fits in but also stands out. ![]() ![]() Arnie, who used to accept this without question, suddenly begins a fierce battle against any decision of theirs that he dislikes. They are lifelong liberal activists, but have pretty much managed Arnie's entire life. Buying the car starts a fight with both his parents that runs the entire length of the novel, effectively creating open warfare in the formerly-uneventful Cunningham household.ĭennis reflects that Arnie's parents are nowhere near as open-minded or fair as they pride themselves to be. ![]() LeBay brushes Dennis off and Arnie soon negotiates his buying Christine for $250. When Roland LeBay comes outside to see what the two boys are up to, Arnie immediately declares his intent to buy the car. The shy and myopic teenager eagerly goes to examine the decaying Plymouth up close, ignoring Dennis' obvious dismay at the appallingly-poor state of the car. LeBay's unkempt yard, Arnie calls the car "her." Dennis rightly recognizes that it was love at first sight for Arnie. From the very first time he speaks of the 1958 Plymouth Fury for sale in Roland D. The novel opens with a line of dialogue from Arnie, pleading with his best (and essentially only) friend, Dennis Guilder, to back up so Arnie can see the yard they just passed. ![]() ![]() Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think. ![]() This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. ![]() This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. ![]() As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never Ever Getting Back Togetherby Sophie Gonzales.Bad Things Happen Hereby Rebecca Barrow.The Grimoire of Grave Fatesby Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen.Venom & Vowby Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore.Ander & Santi Were Hereby Jonny Garza Villa.Godless Heathensand Merciless Saviorsby H.E.The Spirit Bares its Teethby Andrew Joseph White – T.This Day Changes Everythingby Edward Underhill – T. ![]() ![]() Teach the Torches to Burnby Caleb Roehrig.Only This Beautiful Momentby Abdi Nazemian.Venom & Vowby Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore – T.The Forest Demands its Dueby Kosoko Jackson.Time Outby Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, and Carlyn Greenwald.The Alchemy of Moonlightby David Ferraro.Wren Martin Ruins it Allby Amanda DeWitt – A.Daughter of the Bone Forestby Jasmine Skye.Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girlby Brianna R.Everyone’s Thinking Itby Aleema Omotoni.Something Like Possibleby Miel Moreland.Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburghby Rachael Lippincott.Just Happy to Be Hereby Naomi Kanakia – T.The Dos and Donuts of Loveby Adiba Jaigirdar.The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Existby Sophie Gonzales.Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson.The Last Girls Standingby Jennifer Dugan.You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonightby Kalynn Bayron.*These are new titles, which means their eBooks and Audiobooks are eligible as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Screen pay has decreased by 14% over the last 5 years. The WGA released a document describing what they proposed and what was or wasn't agreed to. ![]() While the AMPTP felt like they were offering generous compensation to the writers, the WGA strongly disagreed as many of their requests for a livable job were not met. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) met with the WGA to discuss what would be entailed in their new contract after their past three-year contract expired. But what caused them to strike and feel as if the writers are facing a crisis of disagreement between the studios? ![]() This strike was voted unanimously after they couldn't come to agreement with Hollywood studios about the terms of their TV and film contract that was expiring on Monday. The board of directors, which consists of both the East and West Coast councils, called for an immediate strike. On Tuesday, May 2, more than 11,000 writers of the Writer's Guild Association (WGA) went on strike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After wandering around alone, Ivy is attacked by two fae. Ivy is feeling lost and torn after her escape from Prince Drake. Tink is up to his usual shenanigans (which we all love). Ivy, Ren, and Tink are staying at hotel "good fae." Ren, along with Faye, is trying to find the crystal that will transport and trap the Winter Prince back in the Otherworld. Ivy knows she must be more than just brave to save those she loves-and, ultimately, to save herself.īecause behind every evil fae Prince, there’s a Queen …īrave picks up right where Torn left us. War is coming, and it soon becomes clear that what Ivy and Ren thought they knew about the Order, themselves, and even their enemies, has been nothing but a cluster of dangerous, deadly lies. If Ivy is going to have any hope of surviving this, she must put aside the hurt and betrayal she feels, and work with not only those she loves, but with an enemy she would rather kill than ever trust. ![]() ![]() But when he makes a life altering choice for her, the fallout of his act has far reaching consequences that threaten to tear their lives apart. and it’s coming between her and the man she’s fallen deeply in love with, elite Order member Ren Owens. Something dark and insidious is spreading throughout Ivy, more powerful than she could ever imagine. After all, being held captive by a psychotic fae prince hell-bent on permanently opening the gates to the Otherworld is bound to leave some mental scars. Ivy Morgan hasn't been feeling like herself lately. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An independent Mars but not a peaceful one Blue Mars, blue skies, a great stormy, huge Martian North Sea of the same color turning salty, fish swimming below, birds flying above animals roaming around the land, majestic trees growing on beautiful lush hills, sparkling rivers gently flowing by, magnificent green vegetation everywhere on shore, dark clouds that cause showers to pour down, howling winds over 150 miles a hour, making powerful waves crash on pretty little fishing villages and resorts, gorgeous beaches full of Martians playing, boats tossed high in the breathable air, dazzling islands in the Sun the mythical great canal built here, towering mountains twice the size of Everest, though a large luminous moon is missed, curious tourists from distant Earth arrive yes a paradise if no people lived on the 4th planet. ![]() |