![]() McFarlane used to be co-owner of National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers but sold his shares to Daryl Katz. In September, 2006, it was announced that McFarlane will be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, founded by Curt Schilling. In recent years, McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio. ![]() Spawn was one of America's most popular heroes in the 1990's and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. ![]() Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book artist, writer, toy manufacturer/designer, and media entrepreneur who is best known as the creator of the epic occult fantasy series Spawn. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The novel subtly addresses issues of national identity, cultural and political ethos and renews Barnes’ concern with the indeterminacy of truth and the difficulty of ever knowing the past.ĭiritto e letterature al confronto. ![]() Arthur and George engages with some crucial tropes of the Victorian novel, notably the nexus between testimony, evidence, knowledge and truth, which sustains the thematic core of the novel, and the epistemological concern with knowledge and belief. A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Inspired by the shocking true case of the Great Wyrley Outrages, Arthur & George is adapted from Julian Barnes’s acclaimed novel of the same name, which was a finalist for the Man Booker. The novel is a biofiction on Arthur Conan Doyle’s commitment to campaigning in favour of George Edalij, an unjustly imprisoned young solicitor of Parsee origins, in a legal case that led to the institution of the Court of Appeal in 1907. The article considers Julian Barnes’ novel Arthur and George (2005) as an outstanding case study of the presence of justice and the law in contemporary neo-Victorian fiction. Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kennan: An American Life” (The Penguin Press $39.95), and the most peculiar thing about Kennan, a man not short on peculiarities, is that he had little love for, or even curiosity about, the country whose fortunes he devoted his life to safeguarding.īetween 1926, the year he began his Foreign Service career, in Geneva, and 1946, when he made a heroic return from Moscow as the author of the primal document of Cold War foreign policy, the Long Telegram, Kennan lived mostly abroad. ![]() The one puzzle in John Lewis Gaddis’s first-rate biography of the diplomat George Kennan, which Gaddis began in 1982, when his subject was seventy-eight, and waited nearly thirty years to complete, since Kennan lived to be a hundred and one, is the subtitle. Photograph from AKG Pressebild-ullstein bild / Granger Collection Five months later, he was declared persona non grata by Stalin. Kennan at Tempelhof airport, in Berlin, in 1952, en route to Moscow. ![]() ![]() ![]() One in which these giant terrorists held all the power.Įvery military institution across the globe was rendered to dust by these intelligent creatures. The season of the dragon began with fire and fury, and would end with a new world order. Leviathans, serpent kings, and dragons came forth from the bowels of the Earth, and they saw no reason to go back to their sleep after the humans tried to reemerge. Beasts hidden away for millennia ventured out of their buried caverns to investigate the sudden stillness. With all the humans in quarantine, quiet settled over the planet for months. ![]() It came in a wave of illness that swept the world with fear. It didn’t come with the deadly impact of a hurdling asteroid. The end of life as we knew it didn’t come with a nuclear blast of light. Everyone thought monsters were things of pure fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() With walk on parts by Dr Crippen and Dorothy L. ![]() Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime? Interweaving tales from Maud West's own casebook with social history and extensive original research, Stapleton investigates the stories Maud West told about herself in a quest to uncover the truth. And as Susannah Stapleton reveals she was a most unreliable witness to her own life. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class obsessed and male-dominated world. Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society's finest in 1905. Some edge wear, chipping and tiny closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised ('Grace' was not very careful with this book!), not price clipped (£20.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. ![]() ![]() SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Grace, with very best wishes Susie Stapleton ( with author's printed name crossed out)'. First edition, first impression with full number line. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wallow in distractions when I should be writing. When it does, rest assured more words and books about feisty and funny ice queens will issue forth in the future.įeel free to drop me a line. My spare time can also be spent looking thoughtfully at the horizon while frowning to incur writing inspiration to strike. In reality I can be found sleeping, weeding my garden with my partner, computer gaming and staring at my beloved bicycle, wondering what madness induced me to move to a suburb comprising 99.9 per cent hills, 0.1 per cent dales. ![]() Shattergirl is a brilliant but aloof black, alien superheroine, called a guardian, who can hurl and destroy large objects. In this moving, opposites-attract, science-fiction tale, a stubborn tracker is sent to bring her homeany way she can. Investigating which superfood is the most super. Description Earth’s first black, lesbian superheroine has had enough of humanity and disappeared. When not scribbling age gap and/or ice queen stories about lesbian cellist assassins, moody superheroes or investigative journalists, I wish I had some noble pursuits to list as my hobbies: Rescuing orphaned dogs. I come late to the game at penning novels, never suspecting my non-fiction brain could jump into fiction easily. ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Shattered (The Superheroine Collection Book 1). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Welcome! I’m a full-time writer and part-time editor who was formerly an award-winning journalist and sub-editor bouncing around Australia for almost thirty years. Shattered (The Superheroine Collection Book 1) - Kindle edition by Winter, Lee. Lesfic author, genre hopper, twistiest of plot twisters ![]() ![]() ![]() McReynolds is an associate professor in the Slavic Languages and Literature department at Northwestern University, with research interests in topics such as Russian and German literature and philosophy, nationalism, antisemitism, and Dostoevsky in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. ![]() Susan McReynolds for its latest installment in the Fall Colloquia “Dostoevsky at 200” series. On Monday, November 8, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies welcomed guest lecturer Dr. ![]() ![]() The book gives a dramatic account of the events leading up to the Sussexes' departure from royal life and offers new insights to Harry's falling out with William. Palace insiders have described the book as 'score settling' after Harry and Meghan left the Royal Family for a life in Los Angeles - after suddenly announcing their intentions in January in a move that left the Queen 'hurt'. ![]() 'I suspect they wanted to get their story and their feelings about how they were treated out into the public arena and have done so via friends who sound as though they were very well and carefully briefed.' 'If not, they would have kicked up a huge fuss about this book. 'What seems absolutely clear, however, is that they colluded. Penny, author of Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son, Husband, told MailOnline: 'The authors have some extraordinarily personal and private details about Harry and Meghan, but the couple have said they didn't speak to them directly and we have to take their word for it. She said the couple would have 'kicked up a fuss' about the book had they not been involved. The explosive new biography Finding Freedom was released yesterday ![]() ![]() This entire journey is covered in twenty simple short stories. You will finally experience the land of "Marifa" (gnosis), and catch a glimpse of the ultimate connection with the Divine. You will then come across "Haqiqa" (the truth), and find answers to some of the queries in your mind. After touching upon "Shariah" (the religious law), you will enter the land of "Tariqa" (the mystical path) to explore love, loving, and being loved. ![]() It begins by exploring the reason for our existence, and then it moves on to highlight the reasoning behind the five pillars of Islam. A Blessed Olive Tree is a series of short stories that will take you on a spiritual journey. ![]() Each story comes with a beautiful hand drawn illustration. Simple fables in easy language but with deep underlying morals. A book of short stories to enlighten the Muslim souls of all ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers can wonder about unsigned works that lie before us all. It's the beginning of a love affair with dots in many different colors, sizes and patterns - and a marvelous lesson about what art is. ![]() This small gem of a book tells the story of Vashti. Simplicity itself, like the dot in the title, this small book carries a big message.Ī fable about the creative spirit in every child. With art that seems perfectly suited to the mood and the message of the text, Reynolds inspires with a gentle and generous mantra: 'Just make a mark.' Reynolds pulls off exactly what his young heroine does, creating an impressive work from deceptively simple beginnings. In this engaging, inspiring tale, Reynolds (illustrator of the Judy Moody series) demonstrates the power of a little encouragement. ![]() |