![]() ![]() " The Dire King challenges hatemongers and bullies. The epic fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling Jackaby series features wry humor and a cast of unforgettable characters facing off against their most dangerous, bone-chilling foe ever. But before the four can think about their own futures, they will have to defeat an evil that wants to destroy the future altogether. ![]() At the same time, the romance between Abigail and the shape-shifting police detective Charlie Cane deepens, and Jackaby's resistance to his feelings for the ghostly lady of 926 Augur Lane, Jenny Cavanaugh, begins to give way. Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they continue to solve mysteries in New Fiddleham, New England-like who's created the rend between the worlds, how to close it, and why the undead are appearing around town. An evil king is turning ancient tensions into modern strife, using a blend of magic and technology to push the earth and the otherworld into a mortal competition. ![]() Jackaby and his intrepid assistant, Abigail Rook. The fate of the world is in the hands of detective of the supernatural R. ![]() Jackaby, supernatural detective, and his indispensable assistant, Abigail Rook, are plunged into the heart of an apocalyptic war between magical worlds in the action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Jackaby series by William Ritter. ![]()
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I write odd things–I’m a latecomer to SF as a genre, and so only recently caught up to enough classics to have a decent genre background. ![]() This is one of the novelettes on the Hugo ballot this year, and deservedly so. In this story, scenes alternate between present and past, and the mix works well to show the intertwined lives of three friends. This is a world with Aztec religion and spells - and nanotechnology, maglevs, radios, and other SFnal concepts. This novelette is set in Greater Mexica (as is her novel, Servant of the Underworld, which I’ve just started reading and am enjoying very much - although it’s a different continuity). ![]() “The Jaguar House, in Shadow” by Aliette de Bodard ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heat is a marvelous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure, the story of Batali's amazing rise to culinary (and extra-culinary) fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. Of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria. and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters. In a fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from "kitchen bitch" to line cook. ![]() From one of our most interesting literary figures - former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at "The New Yorker," acclaimed author of Among the Thugs - a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.Įxpanding on his James Beard Award-winning "New Yorker" article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scatter plants may be placed at random to provide accents and add to the sense of spontenaiety. Primary plants provide the bulk of the visual impact, which may be enhanced with grouping. ![]() Matrix plants are low mounds, such as hardy geranium or Pennsylvania sedge ( Carex pennsylvanica), that provide a background or filler function. This is clear by the authors’ categories, for purposes of design, of “primary”, “matrix”, and “scatter” plants. I suspect this is the most powerful force behind this movement.Įven more than in the past, Oudolf emphasizes the structural roles of plants. This may be a result of the rapid disappearance of the world’s truly wild spaces. Increasingly, gardens that possess qualities we associate with nature appeal to our sense of beauty. Also, people want open spaces to serve ecological functions, from handling storm water to providing habitat for birds and insects. On the one hand there is a need in public spaces to reduce maintenance costs (some designs are intended to receive no maintenance beyond only one or two mowings per year). Oudolf and Kighsbury discuss both practical and aesthetic reasons for why this trend exists. Rather, it is a discussion of a general trend, a trend toward landscapes that minimize maintenance while creating a sense of nature in environments dominated by people. While it is full of ideas that home gardeners may want to borrow, it is not a how-to book about a specific approach to garden design. Planting is one of the most provocative and useful books about garden design that I have ever come across. ![]() ![]() ![]() Long-time horror fans might also remember the earlier Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (also known in some markets as The McPherson Tape). Earlier this month, Blumhouse acquired the rights to The Invasion, which will tell the story of a home invasion that happens during a wider alien attack on Earth.Īlien home invasion is hardly new to Hollywood the concept was famously touched upon in the M. ![]() If this news sound familiar, it might be because Intruders isn’t the only movie of this nature in the pipeline. Paramount production president Liz Raposo will oversee the project for the studio and it is hoped that it will lead to a franchise.Ĭlose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) News of the deal comes after the premier of Ready Player One, also produced by Farah. Simpson ( Armored, 2009), will be produced by Dan Farah and Roy Lee, whose studio has recently found success with IT. An alien invasion thriller in the vein of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1997) and the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter has been snatched up by Paramount. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() would invigorate the Union army, and further demoralize the South.” When William James invited his student W.E.B. At their first and only White House meeting, in April 1864, Abraham Lincoln asked Frederick Douglass to help organize “a band of black spies” to go into the Confederate states and bring back to the North “an infusion of newly liberated blacks. Contending that such relationships have the power to “shap democratic discourse and possibilities along racial lines,” he examines 10 pairings across 200 years of American history. Political scientist Ambar ( American Cicero) takes an informative look at interracial friendships among “political and cultural elites” in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, born Rosemary Loftus, was a pretty Irish-American girl, growing up in Southern California in the 1920s. Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 19, 1945. He served on the faculty at Syrcacuse University for 17 years before taking a professorship at Stanford in 1997. Wolff's writing career also includes such notable books as Old School and In Pharoah's Army. It was later made into a 1993 movie of the same name, much of it shot in Concrete, Washington, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the teenaged Wolff, Ellen Barkin as his beautiful, tragic, and spirited mother, and Robert DeNiro as his stepfather from hell. Thirty years after its 1989 publication, The New York Times included This Boy's Life on its list of the 50 best memoirs of the previous 50 years, describing it as "powerful and impeccably written" and "a classic of the genre." Critics have compared it to Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and J. Tobias Wolff is a writer and novelist best known for his memoir This Boy's Life, which tells the story of Wolff's adolescence in 1950s Washington State. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writer Gore Vidal suggested this disaster may have inspired the setting of Baum’s book. In 1893, a cyclone ripped through the state, killing 31 people and destroying two towns. He’d been to Kansas only once when he and Maud were touring with his melodrama " The Maid of Arran." He may have picked Kansas because of the tornado that sweeps Dorothy away. ![]() Baum never lived in Kansas.īaum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Chicago. The character Dorothy was Baum’s tribute to the lost baby girl. She died in November 1898, right as Baum was writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy Gale was named after a niece who died.ĭorothy Gale is based on Dorothy Gage, the infant niece of Baum’s wife, Maud. ![]() There were three drawers marked “A to G,” “H to N,” and “O to Z.” And so Oz was born. Then one day he found himself looking at the filing cabinet in his study. He got the name “Oz” from his filing cabinet.Īt first, Baum had trouble coming up with a name for the magical land Dorothy visits. On the attached paper he scrawled, “With this pencil I wrote the manuscript of The Emerald City.” 2. He must have been proud of his work, for he framed the pencil stub and hung it on the wall of his study. ![]() Frank Baum-former chicken rancher, traveling salesman, and theater manager-had already published two successful children’s books when he started The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1898. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In four years, 20 000 copies of each have been sold in France ( At the end of 2006, 148 000 copies for all the books ). It was a success.Īfter the publisher went bankrupt in 2000, EP publishers ( La Martinière group, Paris) published the comic books, the first one in October 2002 and the second one in February 2003. ![]() In 1995, with the novelist François Rivière, French Agatha Christie specialist, Miniac drew his first cartoon series, "Agatha Christie", published at Lefrancq publishing, in Edgar P. In 1994, Claude Lefrancq, a Belgian comic publisher, asked Rosalind Hicks to publish Hercule Poirot's comic book, showing her the Blake and Mortimer's comic book, Mortimer versus Mortimer. He was born in Paris born, February 17, 1967, and lives in France.Īfter a few drawing lessons taken at Hergé from 1976 to 1978, in 1987 he had a formal training in the visual arts at the Gobelins School of the Image in Paris. Jean-François Miniac (born 1967), better known under his pen name Solidor, is a French comic book creator (writer and artist). ![]() |