![]() ![]() The illustrations, which look like linoleum cuts, use a pleasing palette and energetic lines to depict ants with highly individual characters. Their frantic reorganization takes so long that the picnic is gone by the time they arrive. To travel faster, one ant suggests dividing into two lines of fifty, then four lines of twenty-five, and finally ten lines of ten. The unexpected pairing of sophisticated art and light-hearted text lends this book particular distinction., A rhyming text describes the progress of one hundred ants marching toward a picnic. ![]() The illustrations, which look like linoleum cuts, use a pleasing palette and energetic lines to depict ants with highly individual characters., A first-time author and illustrator are off to an impressive start in this spirited story. A rhyming text describes the progress of one hundred ants marching toward a picnic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A chill ran through her at the thought of what went on inside the sanctuary as another screech, more urgent that the last filled the air. A screeching moan came from inside as Alyssa pulled Samantha toward the far end of the building. ![]() A sound that whispered how deeply the elders were into their worship ceremony. A low unearthly hum came from within that sucked all hope out of the air. Alyssa grabbed her six-year-old daughter Samantha’s hand and moved slowly past the tallest building in the compound known as the gathering hall. Lifeless shadows filled the empty spaces between the white frame buildings of the compound. But will he be strong enough to protect her from the approaching evil? Yet Alyssa can't bring herself to warn Gabe of the demon horde that's fast on their heels.Gabe's gentle kindness sends ripples of emotion throughout Alyssa's petite form. Suddenly she dares to believe she might succeed. Keeping a few steps ahead of the elders, Alyssa crosses paths with a truck driver named Gabe. He died trying to save her from the cult when she was a child. Alyssa grabs her six-year-old daughter and escapes into the forest outside the compound. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The New York fragrance was celebrity-driven. Split between the twin capitals of fashion, and therefore of the perfume industry, Burríëæs account tracks the development of two new scents, each a high-stakes crapshoot. Itíëæs this mixture of hard-nosed business writing and flights of olfactory fancy that makes the text improbably exhilarating. While Burr (The Emperor of Scent, 2003, etc.) approaches his beat with healthy skepticism, heíëæs also capable of flowery language, describing a perfume as smelling like early evening on an island where it is always summer. The New York Times perfume critic, yes, you read that right follows the creation of two industry-defining perfumes. ![]() ![]() and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. When one of Erebus's wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess. The Nile on eBay Line War by Neal Asher, Ric Jerrom The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. But Erebus's attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself. ![]() Item: 155457831011 Line War by Neal Asher (English). ![]() ![]() ![]() The only real problem is that it’s apparent that Chbosky is a far more talented writer than he is a director.Ĭoming off a particularly rough year that saw him institutionalized for a brief period, Charlie (Logan Lerman) sets out on his first day of his Freshman year of high school still shell shocked, socially awkward, and nearly friendless. Those with fond memories of Chbosky’s high school set tale of music, depression, friendship, and alienation (like myself) will be more than happy to know that thematically and structurally the film stays true to the source material. It took well over a decade for Stephen Chbosky’s seminal 1990s set young adult novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower to come to life on the big screen, and having the book’s author write and direct the finished version works quite well on an emotional level, but not entirely in terms of filmmaking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when one is delivered a few years later, Evered rejects him out of hand. Humans need other people and their experience to flourish, even to survive.Įarly on, Evered asks the bookkeeper on The Hope, the supply ship which comes twice a year to buy fish and sell supplies, to provide him with a helper. So we have a book about in-breeding, not just biological in-breeding, but mainly social and cultural. The kids are doomed and would have died if not for occasional incursions from the outside world. A rusted, broken old flintlock sits by the door, unused for years because the children’s father’s eyesight was too poor to shoot even a stationary target. Evered, 11, has rudimentary knowledge of seal-hunting and fishing, but far less about preparing the fish for sale. Ada, nine at the start of the story, can start a fire, cook and pick berries. The pair are ill-equipped to survive the brutal weather. ![]() The orphans have never seen a man other than their father and the only woman other than their mother they have encountered is the midwife who delivered their sister. Instead of moving to the closest village, Evered and Ada Best decide to stick it out in the lonely cove which is the only place they have ever known. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The best part of Ken Burns’ Civil War series is the use of the actual words of the people of the war. So many people will get their understanding of the Civil War Era from watching that program, or even TV entertainment programs like North & South. With all due respect Kevin, maybe you should. “I think Foote functioned more as a personality than as serious scholar… I have no problem with that given that the documentary is not a work of scholarship.” I think the objection to a typical ‘Disney’ brand adventure is justified, but I think Foote is arguing that any experience like this could have played a powerful hand in pricking the collective conscience of the world so that the lessons learned in blood are not lost to time. ![]() They need this clear and fresh so they do not fall into the same traps themselves. ![]() They need to know that this is how we once thought, and felt, and acted, and they desperately need to know how that thinking changed. The tone of the thing is of paramount importance, and even Disney can get that tone right.Ī Museum of this kind is essential in order to teach rising generations the lessons of our forefathers. Coming to this late, but if the objection is the name ‘ Disney’ being attributed to it, with all that name normally entails, and with the commercialization of it, that doesn’t necessarily pinpoint the true intent Disney sought to realize, or the potential impact it could have had. ![]() ![]() and Mistress / Their Million-Dollar Night ( 2006) (with Heidi Betts) Rock Me All Night / Her Royal Bed ( 2005) (with Laura Wright) The Night Before Christmas ( 2005) (with Kylie Adams, Lori Foster, Kathy Love, Erin McCarthy and Jill Shalvis) ![]() Sin City Wedding / Scandal Between the Sheets ( 2005) (with Brenda Jackson)ĭesert Warrior / Mistress Minded ( 2005) (with Nalini Singh) Storm of Seduction / Mistress Minded ( 2004) (with Cindy Gerard)īillionaire Boss / In Bed with Beauty ( 2004) (with Meagan McKinney)Ĭhristmas Bonus, Strings Attached / Cinderella's Christmas Affair ( 2004) (with Susan Crosby)Ī Passionate Proposal / Let It Ride ( 2005) (with Emilie Rose) Tycoon for Auction / Sleeping with the Playboy ( 2004) (with Julianne MacLean)Ĭinderella's Millionaire / The Librarian's Passionate Knight ( 2004) (with Cindy Gerard) Kiss Me, Cowboy! / The Tycoon's Lady ( 2004) (with Maureen Child)Ĭherokee Stranger / Let it Ride ( 2004) (with Sheri Whitefeather) ![]() The Secret Baby Bond / Cinderella's Convenient Husband ( 2003) (with Cindy Gerard) ![]() The Tycoon's Temptation / Dr.Destiny ( 2003) (with Kristi Gold) ![]() When Jayne Met Erik / Some Kind of Incredible ( 2002) (with Elizabeth Bevarly) ![]() ![]() I thought it was a great way to show the original work since the story is pretty much the same while also getting an idea of the mindset and disposition of the current strange we are introduced to. Written over the flashback is narration of the current Doctor Strange speaking about his life. The beginning of the comic introduces his backstory in a really cool throwback to the original, while maintaining its own uniqueness by showing literal clips of the original comic’s origin story faded in a lower opacity as to show its a flashback. The comic is written by Jason Aaron and that excited me because I had just finished reading his work on Thor which I really enjoyed. ![]() Other than these two references all I knew about Doctor Strange was that he was Sorcerer Supreme in charge of defending earth from magical extra dimensional creatures and villains. Prior to reading this my only exposure to Doctor Strange was the cinematic movies and seeing him in Hickman’s secret wars. ![]() This was my first time reading a Doctor Strange comic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fred Schwarz’s Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, or the presidential boomlet for William Warren Scranton?), Nixonland tackles the most obsessed-over era in recent American history. It labors under handicaps his first book didn’t have: whereas Before the Storm dealt with a circumscribed and neglected moment (who remembers Dr. If Before the Storm was a near-masterpiece, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, which covers the turbulent years from Goldwater’s defeat to Nixon’s 1972 landslide victory, is merely a great success. ![]() The result was Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, a richly detailed narrative of the 1964 election, and a dense and dizzying account of a moment when America was teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown but didn’t know it yet. Seven years ago, Rick Perlstein, a young and decidedly left-wing historian, accomplished a daring feat: he imagined his way into the hearts and minds of the right-wing idealists who made Goldwaterite conservatism one of the most successful mass movements of the 1960s. ![]() |