How can Cap and Buck fight something that's already dead? And just what does the mysterious Baron Mordo-sitting in his castle atop nearby Wundagore Mountain-have to do with this?Īward-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz merges the worlds of historical fiction and super hero comics in this one-of-a-kind graphic novel that is sure to be met with major enthusiasm from fans of all ages. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen - a Ghost Army. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee, Ground Zero) comes an all-new. By Alan Gratz, Brent Schoonover (Illustrated by)įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee, Ground Zero) comes an all-new, original Captain America graphic novel! Captain America fans wont want to miss this blockbuster read.
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When Edward dies, Lord and Lady Dorset maneuver the throne for their 16-year-old daughter, risking her life as well as increased violence between Protestants and Catholics. Not even the beheadings of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard deter parental ambition. Jane relishes lessons in music, theology, philosophy and literature, but struggles to master courtly manners as her mother demands. As Weir tells it, Jane's parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Dorset, groom her from infancy to be the perfect consort for Henry's son, Prince Edward, entrusting their daughter to a nurse's care while they attend to affairs at court. Weir's heroine is Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), whose ascension to the English throne was briefly and unluckily promoted by opponents of Henry's Catholic heir, Mary. , etc.) makes her historical fiction debut with this coming-of-age novel set in the time of Henry VIII. Popular biographer Weir ( Eleanor of Aquitaine Chiaverini’s novel is a wonderful blend of history and fiction, poetry and math. In Enchantress of Numbers, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a. Period fans will delight in the details of gowns, suitors, and rivals that fill the pages until Ada’s rapid romance with and then marriage to William, Lord King, who will eventually become the first Earl of Lovelace. Though Ada’s keen interest in mathematics is clear from almost the beginning, it is only her association with Charles Babbage that leads to her now-famous creation of the first ever computer program. Despite his absence, Ada credits the great poet with casting a shadow across her life, and her mother constantly searches for signs of Byron’s mania in her. Shortly after the birth of their only child, Augusta Ada Byron, in 1815, the pair split and Byron left England, never to return or see his daughter again. The couple had three children in quick succession, causing Lovelace to temporarily halt her studies. But in 1835, shortly after the two began working together, Lovelace met and married a baron named William King. The novel opens with a lengthy prologue imagining the courtship and brief marriage of the rather odious George Gordon Lord Byron, the sixth Baron Byron, and the restrained Anne Isabella Milbanke, eleventh Baroness Wentworth. Soon Lovelace became Babbage's protg it was Babbage who would eventually nickname her the Enchantress of Numbers. This intricate fictional memoir of Ada Lovelace, considered the first computer programmer, by Chiaverini ( Fates and Traitors) combines biography with the style of a novel of manners. Yuuen, however, believes Emba has only fallen for him because he thinks he's a girl. I'm not entirely clear on the details of this "plan." Anyway, it seems to work, and the two young men fall for each other. He instructs Yuuen to dress and act like a girl, seduce Emba, and, er, somehow use this to the clan's advantage. Knowing that something must be done, Yuuen's father comes up with a plan. Both clans have been warring for some time, and Yuuen's clan keeps losing game to Emba's clan. Yuuen is the heir to one clan, while Emba is the heir to another. This manga is set in prehistoric times and is composed of three stories. I did a bit of searching, and it looks like there's an extra, involving a slightly older Nava, that was never included in Blu's release of Wild Rock. The back of this manga indicates that it is rated "Mature." In case you're not familiar with Blu, it was the imprint under which Tokyopop published BL manga (or boys' love, yaoi, or whatever the most commonly used fan term is now - trying to look up the proper terminology just made me more confused). "If our whole lives had not been spent in the midst of it, it would astound us. "The fantastic seeds skipping and hopping and flying about the woods and valleys brought with them an amazing adaptability," Eiseley writes. Unlike the static, towering green vegetation of the dinosaurs' world, this new plant life managed to encase its genetic imprint in suddenly mobile casings called angiosperm (or "encased seeds").īorne on the wind or attached to animal hides, the new plant life blanketed the world, and mutated its way into countless new settings. At the heart of the explosion was a new kind of flora. In his essay "How Flowers Changed the World," the American naturalist Loren Eiseley describes what he calls "a soundless, violent explosion" of seed-born plant life millions of years ago, just as the Age of Reptiles started to draw toward its own apparently violent close in the late Cretaceous Era. This summer, NPR.org talks with authors about their favorite buttonhole books in the weekly series "You Must Read This." All readers have them - and so do writers. Browse Our Critics' Picks, Plus Get ExcerptsĬall them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. The men continued their murder spree, probably with the knowledge of their wives. A little over two months later, when Hare was concerned that a lodger with a fever would deter others from staying in the house, he and Burke murdered her and sold the body to Knox. They received what was, for them, the generous sum of £7 10s. When a lodger in Hare's house died, he turned to his friend Burke for advice and they decided to sell the body to Knox. Measures to ensure graves were left undisturbed-such as the use of mortsafes-exacerbated the shortage. The shortage of corpses led to an increase in body snatching by what were known as "resurrection men". Scottish law required that corpses used for medical research should only come from those who had died in prison, suicide victims, or from foundlings and orphans. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.Įdinburgh was a leading European centre of anatomical study in the early 19th century, in a time when the demand for cadavers led to a shortfall in legal supply. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital-and lawyers are the keepers of the code. In this revealing book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively "codes" certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this little-known fact is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else. A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthĬapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. Zyla, a cynic about love, met Kai, a hopeless romantic, while working together at an amusement park the previous summer, and they couldn't have been more different.Īlternating between the past and present, we see the love story unfold from Zyla and Kai's perspectives: how they first became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer, how they fell in love during the school year, and why they ultimately broke up. As far as everyone knows, they've been broken up for months.Īnd honestly? Their break-up hadn't surprised anyone. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and she can often be found rearranging her bookshelf. Her novels include I Wanna Be Where You Are, Now That I’ve Found You, Zyla & Kai and The Neighbor Favor. While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains, Zyla and Kai run away together, leaving their friends and family confused. Kristina Forest is an author of romance books for young adults. Zyla & Kai follows two teens - one a hopeless romantic and the other a cynic - who, over the course of a year, fall in love, break up, then mysteriously run away together.Ī fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won't they - but why can't they? That "heart of a human" line seemed weird from my perspective in the show.I guess because while showing a character disappearing is fine for animation (and easier), when it comes to illustrations for kids, there needs to be a clearer way of demonstrating what is going on. Zoisite teleporting away in a portal is reminiscent of Zoycite doing the same in that North American Sailor Moon Play-A-Sound picture book.It would have been funny on a meta-level if Tuxedo Mask had been there, too. I guess this is to not confuse kids as to why Sailor Moon was alone when she had already encountered her friends. It's remarkable felt they need to make sure Mercury and Mars were present for this battle.There are a couple of things about this latest page that caught my attention. But the stakes change dramatically when a mysterious death at the club brings a sinister note to the investigation. And the thief is planning to steal a hoard of jewels hidden there under the cover of a dance contest.Īs mutual pal Lady Hardcastle has suggested, Skins and Dunn are perfectly placed to be Sunderland's eyes and ears-and Skins's wife Ellie soon lends a hand with a bit of light snooping. Superintendent Sunderland has had word that a deserter who stole a fortune in diamonds as he fled the war is a member of the Aristippus private members' club in Mayfair-where the Dizzy Heights have a residency. With their band the Dizzy Heights, jazz musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a surprising turn. |