![]() ![]() ![]() Who can stop him, or at least try to? Pretty much every actor who's ever cashed a Marvel Cinematic Universe paycheck, is who. With a capital T, and that rhymes with C, and that stands for cosmic genocide. Thanos is here at last - an alchemical blend made up of state-of-the-art CGI, an oddly wistful performance from actor Josh Brolin, and Violet Beauregarde's post-gum skin tone - and he's fixin' to cause Trouble. We nerdlings familiar with the 1991 Marvel Comics mini-series Infinity Gauntlet (written by Jim Starlin with art by George Perez and Ron Lim) have been waiting patiently for a certain big bald Marvel villain to come along and collect/hoard those sparklies like some kind of purple, cosmically powered space-tyrant/magpie. ![]() Over the course of many years and many more Marvel Universe films - including some that proved to be hugely successful ( Guardians of the Galaxy) and some that proved to be Thor: The Dark World - the proprietors of that universe have been nesting glowy magical gemstones inside their heroes' stories. Hirsute hero Captain America (Chris Evans) is takin' care of bushiness in Avengers: Infinity War.Īvengers: Infinity War is - and truly feels like - the culmination of something. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 Anita Blake Series in Order of Publication Louis, Missouri with her family, which is also the setting for her Anita Blake series. Hamilton was born in rural Arkansas, but moved to northern Indiana where she grew up and was raised by her grandmother. She has sold more than 20 million copies of her books that have been translated into over 16 languages. Hamilton has said she is influenced by the likes of Robert E. Both the Anita and Merry series follow female protagonists as they gain power and confront the dangerous realities of living in a world where creatures of legends roam. As well, she has written other works including the Merry Gentry books, another supernatural series. Hamilton is the author of the Anita Blake series. Hamilton?Īs previously mentioned, Laurell K. If vampires, werewolves, romance, and mystery intrigue you, then you’ll want to read the Anita Blake series in order. Before Buffy, Sookie Stackhouse, or Bella Swan entered the scene, Anita Blake was navigating her own complicated relationship with vampires and the supernatural. ![]() ![]() INFIDELITY, LIES, BETRAYAL.who can you trust?įirst of all let me say thanks to Net Galley for allowing me to early review this book. Lee suspects that not everyone is telling the truth about what they know - or they have yet to reveal all the lies they’ve hidden from the strangers they married. The lives of the two couples are converging in unpredictable ways, and the picture is unsettling. She must.īut as Adam’s paranoia about his missing wife escalates, Lee puts together the pieces of a puzzle. For Adam, at least there’s comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. Unfortunately, beyond what they’ve heard in the news, they’re in the dark when it comes to Sophie’s disappearance. In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. ![]() A hundred yards from shore, Adam can’t save her. But on Adam’s first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the perfect getaway to unplug - and to calm an uneasy marriage. No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing.Īdam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. She is the author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and A World on Fire her new study, The World Made by Women: A History of Womankind from the Age of Cleopatra to the Era of Hillary Clinton, is forthcoming in 2016. ![]() In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin’s disease.Īmanda Foreman was born in London in 1968 and educated at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970)-all available as NYRB classics. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, about the foibles of the English upper class. Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. ![]() ![]() A brave new world of colour : Mars colours Zinc white Titanium white Synthetic chemistry of the modern world The explosion of colours : Prussian blue Lead chromates Emerald green Cobalt Potter's pink Ultramarine Cadmium Cerulean blue Manganese Mysterious colours : Indian yellow Gamboge Mummy Brown Dyes, lakes + pinkes : Arzica Brazilwood Logwood Stil De Grain Madder lake Cochineal The farmers of cochineal Writing inks : Gall ink : Bistre Sepia Walnut Medieval colours : Lac Vine black Kermes Dragon's blood Lapis lazuli Peach black Lead tin yellow Vermilion Smalt Saffron Blue Verditer Graphite Naples Yellow ![]() Colour + the classical world : Lead white Tyrian purple Indigo Malachite Azurite Red lead Verdigris Chrysocolla ![]() Colour in the time of the ancients : Egyptian blue Orpiment Realgar Woad The first colours : Ochres Chalk white Lamp black Bone white Bone black ![]() ![]() John’s friend and colleague Sebastian ( Grey’s Anatomy’s Eric Dane) takes increasingly dangerous assignments and always growing glory, and spends his free time romancing beautiful ladies. The puppy, as it turns out, is a loving but untrainable force of nature. ![]() John, completely besotted with his wife, but worried that she wants a baby and not ready to take that step himself, gets her a puppy. They are both reporters, working at newspapers in Florida. The film, opening Christmas Day, begins when Jen and John set off for their first real jobs as newlyweds. You get to see the ins and outs of a relationship and see over 15 years and have it be funny because life is funny and dramatic.” “The reason I wanted to be in this movie,” said Aniston at a press event for the movie, “is it wasn’t the girl trying to get the guy or the guy trying to get the girl, and the chase, and then you end the movie when they ride off into the sunset. The film is based on the best-selling book of the same name, and modeled after the adventures of the real-life Grogan family. ![]() Although the dog adds joy and laughter, as dogs do, the heart of the movie is a lifelong love affair between a man, John Grogan ( Owen Wilson), and his wife, Jen ( Jennifer Aniston) as they repeatedly choose to face life’s disappointments and excitements together. It’s the story of a beautiful and loving marriage, told through the span of a dog’s life. If you believe the ads and promotional campaign, you’ll think Marley & Me is a movie about a cute and incorrigible golden lab puppy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The common population is often violent and cruel. The nobility is being portrayed as lazy and often stupid. Satire about a fox who kills and bullies, and gets away with his deeds. ![]() He freely adapted and developed the original source, doing so "so deftly and with so much freedom and originality that his adaptation is universally conceded to be the best specimen of the genre in any language." Content ![]() Willem was reliant for the story of Van den vos Reinaerde on the French epic poem Le Plaid, the first story of a larger collection of fox tales known as the Roman de Renard - written by Perrout de Saint Cloude in 1160. It is considered a major work of Middle Dutch literature and has been called "the pinnacle of Gothic literature in the Netherlands." Sources Van den vos Reinaerde ( English title: Of Reynaert the Fox) is the Middle Dutch version of the story of Reynard, as written by Willem die Madoc maecte. First lines of Van den vos Reynaerde in the 14th-century Dyckse manuscript ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book (and series) is a fun and wonderfully diverse with a great look at how friendships change when secrets are involved. A band of uncertain teens taking on a corrupt agency while trying to keep their own friendships together? Double check. I thought it’d be fun to look at some of my favorite YA books that tackle coming of age, hardships, humor, and romance, but also my favorite topic: “How much do our friendships help shape people we become?” The only thing he can fall back on is his friendships. He’s in his last year of high school, faced with the choices of what lies next for his future, and trying to navigate a troublesome re-connection with his ex-best friend, Emir. In Running With Lions, the main character Sebastian has two things he believes he’ll never survive without: soccer and his friends. I’m delighted to once again have on the site Julian Winters, author of the upcoming bi YA sports romance Running With Lions! In case you missed his last post, Julian interviewed webcomic creator TJ Ryan, and today, he’s back to do some book recommending! ![]() ![]() And when she discovers what she must do to be released from limbo into the afterlife, Leiyin realizes that the time for making amends is shorter than she thought. Her punishment for disobedience leads to exile, an unwanted marriage, a pregnancy, and, ultimately, her death. ![]() When Leiyin defies her father to pursue Hanchin, she learns the harsh truth-that she is powerless over her fate. ![]() At a party, she meets Hanchin, a captivating left-wing poet and translator, and instantly falls in love with him. She must, they tell her, make amends.Īs Leiyin delves back in time with the three souls to review her life, she sees the spoiled and privileged teenager she once was, a girl who is concerned with her own desires while China is fractured by civil war and social upheaval. ![]() Beside her are three souls-stern and scholarly yang impulsive, romantic yin and wise, shining hun-who will guide her toward understanding. So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral from above and wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. We have three souls, or so I'd been told. An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love ![]() ![]() ![]() If not, she must figure out how to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all-Callie, herself. With the help of her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn’t spoken to in five years, she escapes the hellish prison.īut on the run from her future, as well as the government, Callie sets in motion a chain of events that she hopes will change her fate. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in Limbo-a prison for those destined to break the law. In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. ![]() It’s Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she’s eagerly awaiting her vision-a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they’re meant to be. ![]() Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…by your future self. Goodreads │ Amazon │ Barnes & Noble │ Koboīook Depository │ iTunes │ Powell’s │ Books-A-Million Publication Date: Novemby Entangled: Teen ![]() |