The end result, Reckless, has proven to be a smashing success for the creators and its publisher, indie comics company, Image Comics-in terms of sales, acclaim, and general buzz. It’s a love letter to classic private eye fiction, steeped in Brubaker’s vision of a Los Angeles that no longer exists, with a flawed and complex protagonist, all masterfully illustrated by Phillips, with colors by his son, Jacob Phillips. Complete, done-in-one stories that present a complete adventure, but also serve as part of a bigger, ongoing series. Instead of releasing their stories via monthly, comic shop-focused “floppy” comic book installments that would later be bound and collected as trade paperbacks for the book trade, the creators have pivoted to doing a series of original graphic novels. Their latest collaboration, while still firmly entrenched in the dark corners of graphic novel crime, marks a departure of sorts.
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The use of vivid verbs while describing the setting and simple vocabulary while the battle scenes were in play made me feel as if the writer was taking me through the book, page by page, holding my hand. The narration was successful in keeping me engaged throughout the story by effectively explaining the relationships, nature, and history of the characters in the story. It’s not a half-cooked plot of battles and fights for the throne. A tale of disguised identities, fresh bonds, and revelations begin, as Sakhan fights for his mother’s and his life, weeding out traitors on the way. With the eldest brother injured in battle and the unruly exile of Sakhan with his mother, Neneh’s claim to the throne went unchallenged. His half-brother Neneh, an arrogant but seasoned warrior, detests Sakhan, and never truly considered him to be one of them. Sakhan, a 15-year-old prince of The Lion tribe who’s yet to hear all of his tribe's war stories, is suddenly faced with the brutality of the jungle when his friend Adah is killed under suspicious circumstances. The book takes you into the world of the tribals and their battles to safeguard their land, their lineage, and their honor. The Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6) would vet le Carré’s manuscripts while he worked with them, which means that the plots were certainly fictional. Le Carré, who was employed by the British Foreign Service in the 1950s as an intelligence officer to look after spies behind the Iron Curtain, drew from his own rich experience. But these words did more than add to the already highly codified lexicon of the intelligence apparatus they served to lift the veil, ever so slightly, on the inscrutable world of spy networks and diplomatic fronts for a post War World 2 reader, who knew that the war may have ended but maintaining peace was still a full time job. John le Carré’s novels made espionage terms - lamplighters and cousins, moles and scalp hunters - so popular that it is said that British agents began to use them too. This play covers 90 years and represents 90 Christmas dinners in the Takes place in a park with two women pushing baby buggies, and demonstrates their complete lack of understanding of the nature and needs of baby human beings Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder's The Seven Deadly Sins presents a series of short works depicting the complexity and consequences of human frailty $10.99 The Seven Deadly Sins - Seven One-act Plays "If God were to dabble in anthropology, and the recording angels to write with wry humor and infinite tolerance of human folly, this is how the holy books would read" ~ The New York Times In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the chil. $18.99 The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun His first published book of plays - The Angel that Troubled with Waters and This novel one act play without scenery shows a Pullman car in every possible lightTowns it passes through are personified as well as the eight passengers whose partial life stories are shown within the carĪre published for the first time in two volumes - this second volume collects He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely. A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. A black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion. A young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl Harbor, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war. An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese. Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire? Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. As he says himself, the real point about the conjunction of art and evil ‘is not that the megalomaniac is a failed artist but that the artist is a timid megalomaniac.’ It is a nice distinction. He is a middle-aged gourmand, scholar and monstre damné he is also a kind of artist, with an artist’s ambition, ruthlessness and greed for recognition. The narrator, Tarquin – real name Rodney – Winot, is a wonderful invention, at once appalling and appealing, if only for the pathos of his self-delusions, and lucidly, utterly, mad. Polished, assured, intricately plotted and immaculately written, it is a work any long-established novelist would be proud to claim. Hard to believe that, when it came out in 1996, it really was John Lanchester’s first book. The Debt to Pleasure is, among many other things, one of the most remarkable debut novels of recent decades. Several million copies have been sold, and it continues to appear on best-seller lists after more than sixty consecutive years in print. Selected as One of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, Autobiography of a Yogi has been translated into 20 languages, and is regarded worldwide as a classic of religious literature. His absorbing life story becomes the background for a penetrating and unforgettable look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life and the extraordinary events commonly termed miracles. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West. With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounter with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. We want the heart of our story to lift up the research of Emory University’s Professor Marshall P. Our writing team spent many months thinking about what kind of story we might create together, and we wrote many, many drafts. It is our great hope that when children across Atlanta are asked about Amari, we will hear a resounding “We know that girl!” as children recognize Amari and share how they heard of her adventures and the impact these adventures have on their own experiences. can take any credit for the beautiful illustrations in our newest Amari books, I and the Rollins Center staff are grateful to be part of crafting the story for all of Amari’s adventures, including her most recent, Amari’s Blue Ribbon. While only the illustrator John Floyd Jr. “You can draw?” she asked me in amazement. My husband let her know that my colleagues and I wrote the book together. “I know that girl!” she said enthusiastically as she pointed to the picture of Amari on the front cover. Last weekend, 10-year-old Dorcas visited my home with her three younger siblings and noticed a copy of Amari’s Shining Moment in our living room. While passion and prose push them closer in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right."- Provided by publisher. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Kept from sunlight, from nourishment, they never flourish. Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley 30,368 ratings, 3.65 average rating, 5,089 reviews Open Preview The Roughest Draft Quotes Showing 1-30 of 41. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. You’ll also want readers who can balance helpful feedback with grace and encouragement. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten books topping bestseller lists. Alpha-readers are going to see one of the roughest drafts of your book, so be sure they’re people you’re comfortable with. "They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. It has ranged across almost every battlefield in the most dramatic struggles for racial justicefrom Selma to Montgomery to Birmingham and beyond. It began in rural poverty but within the bosom of a loving and resilient family. In Walking with the Wind, John Lewis recounts his life with the fierce simplicity for which he is known, both in public and private. The ideals of nonviolence which guided that critical time of American history established him as one of the movement's most charismatic and courageous leaders. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. |