![]() What do you think makes your book (or any book) a “project book”? Synopsis: Two black boys who are childhood friends struggle to escape from Kansas: one through death, the other through comic books and superheroes, and neither works perfectly. ![]() ![]() Missing You, Metropolis, Graywolf Press, 2010 He’s also published in Shattered: The Asian-American Comics Anthology, and currently teaches as an Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC and at the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Tin House, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. ![]() Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, GARY JACKSON is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Was America a booming nation whose rapidly growing industries were creating wealth on an unprecedented scale? Or was it a place of misery for working people who labored in horrific conditions that would never voluntarily be improved by the capitalist class and the politicians who served it? It was both, and Miller's narrative whipsaws between those realities as it chronicles the years leading to President William McKinley's assassination in 1901 by self-proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz.ĭecried by anarchists as a stooge of the plutocrats, McKinley was a well-loved public figure noted for his easy affability with the common man and woman. ![]() ![]() Veteran journalist Scott Miller has done something very interesting in his first book: He has conjoined two kinds of histories to create a portrait of the United States at the turn of the 20th century as a country divided between worldviews so radically dissimilar that they hardly seemed to be describing the same reality. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century ![]() ![]() ![]() When he told me there was an entire series, the idea of this for Christmas became a no brainer. He quickly finished the first book and then broght home the second. When I asked him about the book his eyes lit up and he excitedly recited the story to me. Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket, 9780060562250, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. When he brought home the first chapter of the series of Lemony Snicket books we found him sitting in his room and completely engulfed in his reading. My eleven year old boy is very involved in athletics and watches sports all of the time, so when he reads it is usually the sports section of the newspaper or the sports illustrated. ![]() ![]() I purchased this set of books because it the first time my son came home from school truly excited about reading a set of story books. First of all, I should begin by saying that this set of books is not for me and I am not the one reading them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way they pick up a whole lot of queer friends. ![]() When Billy tries to bring Teddy’s mom back from the dead, he accidentally lets a dimension-hopping virus in that brings versions of all their parents back from the dead, and sends them on a dimension-skipping journey of epic proportions. ![]() But Hulkling has been sneaking off at night and using his shapeshifting powers to pretend to be other heroes to fight crime. ![]() Billy aka Wiccan and Teddy aka Hulkling have sworn off crime-fighting for a normal teenage life. Instead you get a sharp and sassy superhero story that centers almost entirely on queer characters. There isn’t a single wasted panel or meandering sub-plot which is fairly impressive. Rather than getting bogged down in endless events, reboots, and convoluted crossovers, Young Avengers was tight in the way that the best superhero comics are. Young Avengers was one of my absolute favorite titles to come from Marvel in recent years. Ugh, I could punch someone with my Hulk rage right now. I’m going to start this review with a bit of a rant: Seriously Marvel? SERIOUSLY? One of the best series about young heroes you’ve put out since Ultimate Spiderman and you blow the marketing then send it to the woodshed? I didn’t even find out about how awesome Young Avengers was until it was right on the edge of cancellation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Picolo has developed projects for clients such as Blizzard, BOOM! Studios, Harper Collins, and DeviantART. His work has become known for its strong storytelling and atmospheric colors. Gabriel Picolo is a Brazilian comic artist and illustrator based in Sao Paulo. Kami is a cofounder of YALLFest, the biggest teen book festival in the country. She was a teacher for 17 years and co-authored her first novel on a dare from seven of her students. Both books in her Legion series were nominated for Bram Stoker Awards. She is also the bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures novels. Kami Garcia is the author of the smash hit Teen Titans: Raven with illustrations by Gabriel Picolo. In this high-octane graphic novel with art by Gabriel Picolo, one young man must ask himself what he really values and who his true friends are. As he accepts constantly-escalating dares from his new friends, his life begins sliding out of control-especially when he realizes the extent of his physical changes. ![]() He grows six inches overnight, his voice drops, and he’s stronger and faster than he’s ever been. When a wild dare finally gets the attention of the school’s elite, his social status changes instantly. Even with a green streak in his hair, Garfield Logan cannot get noticed at Bull Creek High in Eden, Georgia. ![]() ![]() “Crusie charms with her brisk, edgy style.a romantic comedy that adds luster to the genre, this effervescent tale will please readers.” All hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble.and in love. ![]() They both get more than they bargained for when Sophie’s video causes an uproar and the proper citizens of Temptation set out to shut them down.Īs events spiral out of control, Sophie and Phin find themselves caught in a web of gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, and really excellent sex. All Phin wants to do is play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous.Īll Sophie wants to do is film the video and head home. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. ![]() Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You know, if you find the right partner and you grow together, I think that would be my advice really, is growing together is wise. ![]() “I don’t know if age matters,” Bon Jovi responded. “When your almost 21-year-old says, “I’m getting engaged,” do you worry for them that they’re too young or because you were so young when you were with Dorothea, you weren’t engaged that young, but do you worry as a dad about how old or how young they are?” Cohen asked. “I got three of my four.”Ĭohen pointed out that Bon Jovi and his wife of 34 years, Dorothea, were high school sweethearts. ![]() The rocker’s 20-year-old son, Jake Bongiovi, is engaged to 19-year-old actress, Millie Bobby Brown.ĭuring a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live,” Bon Jovi shared that more than one of his children are heading to the altar. Jon Bon Jovi is standing up for young love. ![]() ![]() They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten 'relocation centers', hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. ![]() George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself - in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. ![]() ![]() Abstract:"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been with him in the checkout line at Old Saybrook’s Stop ‘n’ Shop and have seen a woman sidle up and hand him a slip of paper, whispering, “Call me this is a case you should check out!” And the same thing happens at all the best cocktail parties and dinners. WHEREVER one goes with Dominick Dunne, people approach him as they did the Bourbon kings. She once quipped, “Madonna says I influenced her a lot. Blondie’s lead singer, Debbie Harry, was the original platinum-haired pop goddess. This hot package arrives in stores March 7, one week before the band is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. To accompany a new CD “Blondie: Greatest Hits, Sound and Vision” there’s a DVD with 16 videos - 1977 to ’82. ![]() ![]() What a woman, what a cop, what a wardrobe!…And here’s a double-dose of brilliance. THERE’S NO end to the great stuff coming out on DVD! A sparkling new edition of “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” in which Audrey Hepburn manages to survive the sweetening of Truman Capote’s original tale of a Manhattan hooker, and the absurd casting of Mickey Rooney as a Japanese neighbor…The fourth season of “Dallas” (ah, the good old days of nighttime soaps, when great women like Linda Gray could do so much with a line like, “Joan of Arc would have been a drunk if she’d been married to you.”)…Angie Dickinson’s “Police Woman” - the first season. ![]() ![]() The humor here is nonstop, one maniac moment after another until you can’t quite tell which way is up. Here he is in pure farce mode, something that will enchant young readers even as they can’t read because they are giggling too much. Gaiman is a chameleon of an author, keeping us guessing what his next book will be like because one never knows what style he will try next. It involved time travel, a brilliant dinosaur, pirates who don’t have a plank to walk, wumpires with long teeth, and lots and lots of silliness. ![]() But when he came back he had quite a story about why he was late. So when the family woke to dry cereal and no milk for tea, Dad headed out to get the milk. One item on the list was getting milk, but that didn’t happen. When Mum left to give a presentation on lizards, she made sure that Dad knew just what he had to do. Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Skottie Young ![]() |