![]() ![]() ![]() The novel tracks, in often surprising detail-crucial context, the author assures us, and he’s right-the career of Heydrich and his steady, implacable rise. From there the novel backtracks, backtracks all the way to Heydrich’s family and birth, his upbringing and abortive naval career-cut short after he seduced the daughter of Admiral Raeder-and his entry into the world of Nazism and the SS. The author, French novelist Laurent Binet, begins with an image of one of the assassins, Slovak commando Jozef Gabčík, trying to sleep in his safehouse in Prague ahead of the assassination attempt. He is one of the most powerful and evil people who ever lived, and HHhH tells the story of his assassination by agents of the Czech resistance. The Heydrich in question is Reinhard Heydrich: disgraced naval officer violinist, champion fencer, and connoisseur of the arts model Aryan object of admiration from no less than Hitler himself head of the Gestapo, Criminal Police, and Security Service, and other powerful instruments of Nazi order and one of the architects of the Final Solution. An abbreviation of a German phrase purportedly current within the upper echelons of the Third Reich, HHhH stands for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich-Himmler’s Brain is called Heydrich. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Alicia Has a Bad Day by Lisa Jahn-Clough. She now teaches full-time at a university in New Jersey, but spends all the in-between time in her little, yellow house in Portland or on Monhegan Island. Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis. She regularly talks to children about the writing and creative process. ![]() She earned a BA from Hampshire College, an MFA from Emerson College, and has been publishing and teaching for the last twenty-five years. She has been writing and drawing since she was a young child and uses much of her childhood creative pieces in her current work. Lisa grew up in Brunswick with her artist mother and scientist father. Her work has won awards from Child Magazine, Parent's Choice, Bank Street, Entertainment Weekly, YALSA and has been featured in Maine’s Raising Readers program. Her first book, Alicia Has a Bad Day, was published in 1994, after she’d self-published and sold it all around the state of Maine. Lisa Jahn-Clough is an author and illustrator of over a dozen picture books, young adult novels, a series early-reader comic books, and her newest chapter book, The Kids of Cattywampus Street (called an “extraordinary book” by Lemony Snicket). ![]() ![]() ![]() He's purposely drawn more tired looking and unshaven though. I find it hard to keep on-model for characters, so Dylan ends up looking more like me by the end. Sean Phillips: How I draw every character slowly evolves throughout a book, some of it even intentionally. It was about taking that structure that all of us who grew up going to the shop every week on new comics day have imprinted in our brains, and using it to do something different and familiar at the same time. It became much more about Dylan's voice and his struggles and his history than I expected it to.īut the structure, at least at first, was very simple, a guy in a mask who has to go out once a month (monthly, see?) and be a vigilante. So was Kill or Be Killed always going to end at this point and in this way? What can you tell us about the structure of your story and how it's evolved?īrubaker: Yeah, I always intended it to end the way it's ending, but I didn't know how long it would take to tell the story, and it opened up and did some different things than I thought about at first. And a big difference between this book and monthly superhero comics from the major publishers is that they tend to keep going, while this is ending. You've mentioned in the past that that you wanted Kill or Be Killed to have some of the feel of monthly superhero comics, but also be completely different. I don't want to spoil it or reveal whether he actually did die, obviously. ![]() Ed Brubaker: It takes place after that and is the weirdest comic I've ever written, probably. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And both the imagination and the endurance have helped immensely in my writing career-especially the endurance. So, if it flooded there, we figured we'd build an ark! I probably got my endurance from that part of my life. ![]() We moved to the next small town over (my dad's old stomping grounds) and planted ourselves on top of a pretty big hill. There wasn't much to do, so I literally had to make up things to do! In 1993, my family and I lost our home in a flood and called it quits farming the river bottoms. And I'm pretty sure I got my imagination at this stage in my life. The population of the town was about 200, but I lived outside that town in the river bottoms. The population of the town was about 200, but I lived outside that town in the river …more Until I was ten, I lived in a tiny town along the Missouri River. Laura Miller Until I was ten, I lived in a tiny town along the Missouri River. ![]() ![]() 'Will make you laugh and make you cry, but will also reveal the truth of who you really are' Louise O'Neill ![]() 'Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily ExpressįAMOUS FANS AND WHY THEY LOVE MARIAN KEYES 'A warm and hilarious page turner' Good Housekeeping Love the Walsh sisters? Don't miss out on the eagerly awaited sequel to Rachel's Holiday: AGAIN, RACHEL. Will she forgive and forget? Or can she find the courage to take a chance on herself, and start a life of her own? So when James gets back in touch, eager to put things right, Claire faces a choice. Juggling her sisters' drama, her parents' pity and the demands of a baby, Claire desperately misses the way things were. and runs home to Mum and Dad.īut it's not the sanctuary she'd been hoping for. On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire's husband James tells her he's been having an affair, and that now's the right time to leave her.Įxhausted, tearful and a tiny bit furious, Claire doesn't know what to do. ![]() ![]() 'Reading a novel by Marian Keyes is like sitting at the kitchen table with your nicest, most confiding friend' Daily Mail 'A modern fairy tale, full of Keyes's self-deprecating wit' Sunday Mirror ![]() Discover the riotously funny, tender and touching debut from the No. ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone, or some other faction, is bent on destroying her people. When hundreds of young girls from the Celestra faction are snatched up by the magistrate as witches, Ezrina realizes that the Nephilim are in grave danger. 1692 Salem, Massachusetts Heathcliff O’Hare has always had a heart for Ezrina MacHatter. SEASON OF THE WITCH (A Celestra Companion)Įzrina's Story. ![]() Logan fights to keep his new relationship with Skyla, but destiny alters his plans and he must make a decision that might cost him Skyla forever. The battle lines are drawn as both Olivers vie for her attention while danger lurks around every corner, and they must work together to keep Skyla safe. Logan believes she is the Celestra destined to grow to a ripe old age with him, and Gage believes she’s the girl prophesized to be his. ![]() Logan and Gage Oliver are captivated by Paragon’s newest resident, Skyla Messenger. The battle for power between angelic factions intensifies when a new girl moves to Paragon Island. Angels still roam the earth through Nephilim bloodlines. Based on the popular Celestra Series novels by Addison Moore.Įthereal Knights is Ethereal (Celestra Series Book 1) rewritten through Logan and Gage’s perspective. Three complete novels! Angels are among us-explore the lives of five Factions of angels inĮTHERAL KNIGHTS (Celestra Series )***SEASON OF THE WITCH (A Celestra Companion)*** EPHEMERAL (The Countenance Trilogy 1). ![]() ![]() ![]() When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. With unprecedented access to war archives in the U.S. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the Front’s presence, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. Within hours the entire city was in their hands save for two small military outposts. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. full of emotion and color.”-Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() L-R: Zhan Zheng Xi, Jian Yi, He Tian, and Mo Guan Shan Each chapter will only make you fall in love with the manhua as you laugh and cry while reading it. As one starts reading this manhua, it is difficult for them to come across a bad chapter. It is a story about four boys who enjoy their everyday life because of each other’s company. 19 Days is a story about friendship and love sprinkled with bits of action from time to time. This manhua has gained many fans for not only being quick and easy to read but mostly because it is really funny. This manhua is one of the comics out there that is loved by many. It was first released on September 1, 2013, and is currently ongoing with 377 chapters so far. ![]() Among these fans, the manhua 19 Days is pretty well-known, and fans are left to wonder if there will be an anime adaptation for the same.ġ9 Days is a manhua created by Old Xian. Some of these give off an intense vibe, while some bless us with cute vibes. ![]() From the anime adaptation of the manga “Given” to the classic one like “Banana Fish,” we have been blessed with some cute romantic, and sappy anime that only makes us want more. ![]() ![]() Not only this, but most of these have been getting their own animation. Lately, there have been many BL manga, manhwa, and/or manhua coming out. ![]() ![]() ![]() A large reward is offered for the capture of Robin Hood, the Sheriff of Nottingham is keen to claim that reward. Robin soon becomes the leader of a band of outlaws known as the Merry Men. It follows the life story of Robin Hood from the time he becomes an outlaw, as a young man during the reign of King Henry II, through to his death in the year 1247. The novel takes place in England in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, mostly in and around Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire and in neighboring counties. ![]() ![]() Pyle weaves material from those various sources together to form a coherent narrative, albeit a highly episodic one. It is based on earlier English folktales about the legendary outlaw Ronin Hood and on the ballads "A Gest of Robyn Hode", "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar", "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne", "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow", "Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham", "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford" and "Robin Hood and Queen Katharine" that date from between the 15th and 18th centuries. It was written and illustrated by the American artist and author Howard Pyle and first published in 1883. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is a children's historical adventure novel of twenty-two chapters. Front cover of a 1946 edition of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rustle's Christmas Adventure was first devised for them. Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Brøderbund.Īnd once he and Terry had their two sons, Alex and Eric, he naturally told them stories. Other projects he owned (Scorpio Rose™, The Djinn™) were mixed with company series (Green Lantern, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four). But he still liked comics, so he created Coyote™, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series. He did, but he also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the "definitive" version) that later became Warner Brothers' first Batman film (the good one).Īfter that he left comics for a time, traveled in Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man™), and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). He was finally hired away from Marvel by DC Comics, to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). Midway through that period he moved to California (where he remains), and met and married his wife Terry. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. ![]() After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. Steve Englehart went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. ![]() |