![]() ![]() Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. There's still powerful chemistry between them, so the chase should be interesting.and could also be extremely dangerous. Read reviews and buy One for the Money - (Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich (Hardcover) at Target. ![]() ![]() Morelli's the inamorato who charmed Stephanie out of her virginity at age sixteen. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, el-primo bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook. Out of work and out of money, Stephanie blackmails her bail-bondsman cousin Vinnie into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. She's a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. Discover where it all began- #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich's first "snappily written, fast-paced, and witty" ( USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who "comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air" ( The Washington Post). ![]()
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![]() I read the word “Control” so much it actually started to sound like a decent name. Van De Meer loves to give his main characters thought-provoking names. ![]() ![]() Rather than take place in the mysterious Area X, Authority deals with the Southern Reach, the government body in charge of Area X. One of the major reasons is that Authority is nowhere near as creepy as Annihilation. In many ways, I liked Authority better than Annihilation. In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Area X’s most disturbing questions are answered. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he’s pledged to serve. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. John Rodrigues (aka “Control”) is the Southern Reach’s newly appointed head. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray. ![]() ![]() After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X–a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization–has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. ![]() ![]() A pair of them had dismounted and were now soothing the four draft horses they’d cut loose from our carriage. “Now there’s a thing I never seen before,” he said.Īhead of us, twenty of the King’s Men waited, stunned, atop their warhorses. Their father, chewing absently on a piece of straw, considered the flames. ![]() “Oh, Christopher.”īehind us, a farmer, his wife, and two young daughters leaned against a wooden fence, cattle watching nervously from a distance. Sally stood next to him with her head bowed, palm covering her eyes, auburn curls falling across her face. The heat drove away the late winter’s chill, but I wouldn’t have felt it anyway. “I told you,” he said, staring at the slowly crumpling carriage, our boots sinking in the mud. ![]() ![]() The frame turned charcoal black, while inside, the stuffing in the seats gave bright flashing bursts as buttons popped off the upholstery. Fire raged across its body, the silk curtains fluttering through the windows in smoking tatters to the road. The carriage burned with a bright orange flame. ![]() ![]() ![]() We hear the narrator’s reflections as she travels through an endless succession of airports, which she considers a new human habitat. Flights combines essayistic reflections, fictional stories, and fictionalized histories, varying in length from thirty-odd pages to a paragraph or two, interwoven around two main themes: travel and the preservation of the human body. It is a fiendishly difficult book to describe. Tokarczuk describes the book as a constellation novel, in reference to its complex, nonlinear structure. ![]() ![]() This year’s publication in the United States of her extraordinary novel Flights, translated by Jennifer Croft, marks the beginning of what I hope will be Tokarczuk’s true, belated discovery by anglophone readers.įlights was first published in Poland in 2007. She has made her way into translation into numerous languages, but until now, English readers have only had access to two of her books: House of Day, House of Night (Northwestern, 2003) and Primeval and Other Times (Twisted Spoon, 2010), both in translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. There, Tokarczuk’s books are regular best-sellers, have been adapted into films, and set the national discussion in a way many writers can only dream of. Olga Tokarczuk (pronounced toh-kar-chook) is Poland’s greatest living novelist, an author of endless variety, as popular as she is controversial in her homeland. One of Europe’s most important and original voices finally, after many years, has a new book on the English-language market. ![]() ![]() In the meantime, let me tell you about the books. I came away with enough information for a second column about Lovelace’s Claremont years. I met Keppel, Diane Campbell and Krista Barrett, all members of the Society’s Southern California chapter, last week in Claremont. “And that it was Claremont, and that our book had just come out.” ![]() “We were really excited,” confided Peggy Keppel of my interest. And they came bearing news: They’d recently published a book about Lovelace’s years in Claremont. That this is an infrequent occurrence may be borne out by the swift response. Luckily, someone in the Minnesota-based Betsy-Tacy Society ( ) had set up a Google news alert for mentions of Lovelace and Betsy-Tacy online. 1, I found Christenson’s note and, what the heck, wrote an item requesting information from anyone who might have it. But in composing a desk-clearing column for Jan. I was doubtful, given that Lovelace died in 1980 and was a mystery to me. My schooling began with a note last year from Upland reader JoAnne Christenson, who suggested that Betsy-Tacy author Maud Hart Lovelace, who spent the last 26 years of her life in Claremont, might make a good column. My newfound knowledge comes courtesy of reading two of them, and reading about their author, and hearing from her fans, who are organized enough to have formed a club. (Such as that the last one was published almost 60 years ago.) ![]() Now I know all sorts of facts about them. Heavens to Betsy, until recently I’d never heard of the Betsy-Tacy books, the last one of which was published almost 60 years ago. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. These tales are the awe-inspiring crucible that created the Marvel Age of Comics!ĬOLLECTING: MATERIAL FROM STRANGE TALES (1951) 67-70, 72-86 JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) 51-70 WORLD OF FANTASY (1956) 15-19 STRANGE WORLDS (1958) 1, 3-5 TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) 1, 3-19 TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) 2-19 Before they created Marvel's super heroes, they concocted a host of iconic monster menaces! As if driven by atomic power, Lee and Kirby-aided by scripter Larry Lieber-turned out page after page of action-packed classics, many hinting at the famous Marvel heroes and villains to come: Thorr the Unbelievable a woolly, alien Hulk the eight-foot-tall Magneto. ![]() ![]() It is impossible to imagine comic books without Jack Kirby. He even made a few of them the tragic heroes of the story. ![]() From Groot to Fin Fang Foom, Marvel is proud to collect Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby's monster masterworks in two astonishing Omnibus volumes! Stan "The Man" Lee and Jack "The King" Kirby are known the world over as two of the most influential creative powerhouses of the 20th century. The 10 Coolest Monsters Jack Kirby Created By Derek Faraci Published Jack Kirby invented some of the most amazing monsters ever seen on the four-colored page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And from the citys first origins, Ackroyd shows how color is always to be found at the heart of Londons history, from the blazing reds of the Great Fire of London to the blackouts of the Blitz to the bold colors of royal celebrations and vibrant street life. The colors of London have inspired artists (Whistler, Van Gogh, Turner, Monet), designers (Harry Beck) and social reformers (Charles Booth). Colors of London shows us that color is everywhere in the city, and each one holds myriad links to its past. We associate green with royal parks and the District Line gold with royal carriages, the Golden Lane Estate, and the tops of monuments and cathedrals. Think of the colors of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone, and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Or the gradations of yellows, violets, and blues that shimmer on the Thames at sunset-reflecting the incandescent light of a city that never truly goes dark. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis Celebrated novelist, biographer, and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the worlds greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the citys many hues have come to shape its history and identity. About the Book In Colors of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of color-with specially commissioned colorised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In all honesty, I’m not so sure what I was scared of Haunted didn’t disappoint, not by a long shot, but I got the sense, before I started reading it on Sunday night, that I would need to prepare myself for the worst. I’m still not sure why I didn’t hunt for it to begin with. It’s difficult to describe exactly what drew me to it in the first place, other than a curiosity instilled by a friend who explained Guts to me before English class last year. I powered through Haunted in much the same way as I have powered through all the books I have bought and received in the past few days. The public readings peppered with two or three people fainting during each. If you’ve never heard of Guts, then you most likely won’t want to hear about it, and if you have heard of it, then you’ll know at least a little about its bizarre legacy. ![]() Haunted may very well be infamous, or at least, one of its short stories, Guts most assuredly is. ![]() ![]() During the same holiday, Lennon occupied himself by reading the books left on their private boat, including a complete set of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Harrison, Boyd and Cynthia contributed lines, with Lennon sometimes inquiring of them for words that would work better in a particular sentence. Beatles road manager Neil Aspinall recalled Lennon writing some of the book in Paris in January 1964 – predating the 23 March 1964 publication of In His Own Write – and band mate George Harrison recalled Lennon writing while the two holidayed with their partners, Pattie Boyd and Cynthia Lennon, in Tahiti in May 1964. While some of John Lennon's first book, In His Own Write, had been written years earlier, he mostly wrote A Spaniard in the Works over the course of 1964. – John Lennon on writing A Spaniard in the Works, 1965 Lennon," I could only loosen up to it with a bottle of Johnnie Walker, and I thought, "If it takes a bottle every night to get me to write. ![]() ![]() ![]() But once it became: "We want another book from you, Mr. ![]() They said, "You've got so many months to write a book in." I wrote In His Own Write – at least some of it – while I was still at school, and it came spontaneously. The second book was more disciplined because it was started from scratch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of the blue, our narrator received a postcard inviting him to a piano recital. Rather than concentrating on his studies, he was drawn toward reading novels. He wasn’t studying well and he wasn’t optimistic about the entrance exam. He had finished high school and been trying to study for the national university entrance exam. A narrator is telling a friend a story from his past, from when he was a young man of about eighteen years old. But this strategy only amplifies the strangeness of this story. ![]() We could, therefore, regard the story as an attempt at describing what is best in life. The story’s title hints at the French expression crème de la crème, which refers to the very best part or the very best instance of something. The short story “Creme” is the first in the recently published Haruki Murakami collection, First Personal Singular (Ichininshō Tansū), translated to English by Philip Gabriel. ![]() |