![]() ![]() He has received recent acclaim for his work on the DAREDEVIL and INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK series for Marvel in 2012-2013. Waid also served as Editor-in-Chief, and later, Chief Creative Officer of BOOM! Studios, where he wrote titles such as IRREDEEMABLE, INCORRUPTIBLE and THE TRAVELER. He is well known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title THE FLASH, as well as his scripting of the limited series KINGDOM COME and SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT, and his work on Marvel Comics' CAPTAIN AMERICA. If classic Archie is a Saturday morning cartoon, this new series is prime time! About the Author: MARK WAID is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer. The book will captures the bite and hilarious edge of Archie's original tales in a modern, forward-looking manner, while still retaining the character's all-ages appeal. /rebates/2f97816273879892fArchie-Vol-2-Waid-Mark-16273879862fplp&. The all-new ARCHIE adventure continues! Superstar writer Mark Waid teams up with the best and brightest artists in comics to bring a modern take to the legendary Riverdale cast of characters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His bride, Louise, had previously been married to a man who had become mad and tried to murder her, ending up in an insane asylum. The famed sportsman the Duc de Saligny is about to get married. Bencolin sets off into the Parisian night to unravel the dumbfounding mystery and track down the sadistic killer. ![]() Sure enough, the Inspector’s worst suspicions are realized when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. The British Library Crime Classics reprint also includes the short story ‘The Shadow of the Goat’ (1926). ![]() ![]() ![]() Discover how to: Choose the right supplies Set up your studio and care for your equipment Handle your materials safely Develop your design and composition skills Make practice sketches and studies Use broken stroke, dry brush, glazing, scraffito and other brush strokes Try out different compositions Mix any color you want Simplify tricky still-life subjects Paint landscapes and common objects out doors Paint portraits and the human form Complete with handy color chart, basic materials list, and a very useful viewing square, Oil Painting For Dummies is the fun and easy way to discover your inner artist! You'll also find everything you need to know about oil paints, solvents, and pigments brushes, palettes, and painting surfaces and how to keep costs down at the art supply store. ![]() You'll see how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create stunning compositions. Completely free of arty jargon, this full-color guide has all the hands-on instruction you need to master the basics. ![]() ![]() That's what you'll find in Oil Painting For Dummies. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach that starts you off on the right foot, helps you build your skills one at a time, and gives you plenty of exercises to develop your craft. Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Horizons are the official publishers of Bep. Last year Mr Grima, together with Justin Schembri, published a collection of short stories called Frekwenzi Hiemda, which has been converted to a screenplay and will be aired on national television as from April. ![]() His first work was called Celibacy, a story about a priest faced with the challenges of the vow of celibacy. The novel depicts gay life in the local social context, posing the difficulties and the dynamics that are part and parcel of a gay relationship.īep is the third work published by Tyrone Grima. In spite of the passionate love story that develops between these two men, their fears and issues still get in the way, leading to an unexpected finale.īep is one of the first gay-themed novels in Maltese literature, filling the gap of gay literature which is still absent in our country. Beppe encounters Nicky when he seeks help at the Centre in his coming out. Nicky is a librarian in a Centre that works against sexual discrimination and Beppe is a musician. Bep is a new novel in Maltese that relates the relationship that develops between two men. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’ll tackle large questions-such as, “Can I still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people?”-in a manner that can be both wise and refreshing everyone. He explores some of history’s most influential philosophical concepts and gives them various applications, from matters of conversation-starting to problem-solving.Īt INFORUM, Schur and Nick Offerman-best known for playing Ron Swanson in “Parks and Recreation”-will enlighten us with a new and relatable framework to learn about philosophy and ethics. They’ve all been written by Michael Schur, a television producer and character actor whose mind has made way for the creation of some of today’s most popular shows-including "The Good Place," "Parks and Recreation," and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." In his new book, How to Be Perfect, Schur shares yet another one of his masterful creations. What do "Parks and Recreation" and "The Office" have in common with books that explore philosophical theories like deontology, ubuntu, utilitarianism and more? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrated in both color and black-and-white in McPhail’s instantly recognizable style, In elevates the graphic novel genre it captures his trademark humor and compassion with a semi-autobiographical tale that is equal parts hilarious and heart-wrenching-uncannily appropriate for our isolated times. Illustrated in both color and black-and-white in McPhail’s instantly recognizable style, In elevates the graphic novel genre it captures his trademark humor and compassion with a semi-autobiographical tale that is equal parts hilarious and heart-wrenchinguncannily appropriate for our isolated times. Nick’s journey occurs alongside the beginnings of a relationship with Wren, a wry, spirited oncologist at a nearby hospital, whose work and life becomes painfully tangled with Nick’s. But it isn’t until he learns to speak from the heart that he begins to find authentic human connections and is let in-to the worlds of the people he meets. He haunts lookalike fussy, silly, coffee shops, listens to old Joni Mitchell albums too loudly, and stares at his navel in the hope that he will find it in there. Nick, a young illustrator, can’t shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. IN AN ERA WHEN alienation and anomie are daily topics, Will McPhail’s graphic novel In. A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's journey from performing his life to truly connecting with people In.: A Graphic Novel by Will McPhail FICTION Author: Will McPhail New York. ![]() ![]() For many years, she was Publishing Manager for Dictionaries and Literature at Oxford University Press, but left in 2018 and is now freelancing. Her first volume of poems, Fourth Child, (Modjaji Books, 2007) won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for 2008. She was born in 1972 and lives in Cape Town, and graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA Honours degree, following an undergraduate degree in English and Latin. Her first volume of poems Fourth Child (Modjaji Books, 2007) won the Ingrid Jonker. ![]() ![]() She is currently Publishing Manager at Oxford University. dbc:Year_of_birth_missing_(living_people) Her first volume of poems, Fourth Child, (Modjaji Books, 2007) won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for 2008. ![]() She was born in 1972 and lives in Cape Town, and graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BA Honours degree, following an undergraduate degree in English and Latin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cult of Brookner fans ranges from writers like Julian Barnes to academics like Ann Fisher-Wirth, who confesses to a love/hate relationship with Brookner’s novels. We discovered more complexity than we expected from the slim 184 pages, and the more I learned about Anita Brookner, the more surprised I felt that I’d missed her for so long. I first picked up the novel because my writing group-all of us MFAers who’ve met for ten years post-program-wanted to read a book none of us knew. It isn’t just that Edith charts a different course, maritally speaking it’s that the novel’s dramatic focus is women looking critically at other women-something that occurs because Brookner has consciously placed her characters in a “gyneceum.” Plenty to consider subversive in a context that must append the word “still” to the assertion of a single woman’s worth.Īll the attention critics give to Brookner’s unmarried heroines, though, obscures what’s truly subversive in Hotel du Lac. Thanks to the jacket copy, a generation of readers has been primed to read Anita Brookner’s 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac as “potently subversive.” Subversive how? The headline of Anne Tyler’s contemporaneous New York Times review offers one answer: “A Solitary Life is Still Worth Living.” Edith Hope, the novel’s heroine, jilts a fiancé, rejects a new proposal, and ends her affair with her married lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch-which is spark enough to ignite that glorious international pastime called "war." Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes thinks he should be leading his loyal watchmen, female watchdwarf, and lady werewolf into battle against local malefactors rather than against uncomfortably well-armed strangers in the Klatchian desert. It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea-just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. The twenty-first novel in the Discworld series from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavor." - Daily Mail "Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. ![]() ![]() ![]() In They Say We Are Infidels, she brings the stark reality of this escalating genocide to light, tracking the stories of real-life Christians who refuse to abandon their faith-even in the face of losing everything, including their lives.Īs Reading Lolita in Tehran did for Iran and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families did for Rwanda, They Say We Are Infidels shines light into the Middle East through the stories of everyday heroes and heroines who will not be silenced. How? Why? Where did the terrorists come from, and what can be done to stop them? For more than a decade, journalist Mindy Belz has reported on the ground from the Middle East, giving her unparalleled access to the story no one wants to believe. Sweeping from Syria into Iraq, Islamic State fighters (ISIS) have been brutalizing and annihilating Christians. Pay a penalty to stay, leave, or be killed." The message to these 'infidels': You have no place in Iraq. "Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. ![]() |