![]() ![]() ![]() Radiant Child is a heartfelt and vibrant picture book about the childhood and life of Puerto Rican-Haitian American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe’s vivid text and bold artwork that echoes Basquiat’s own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn’t always have to be neat or clean-and definitely not inside the lines-to be beautiful. ![]() But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Reviewed by Sujei Lugo and Lila Quintero WeaverĭESCRIPTION FROM THE BOOK JACKET: Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. ![]()
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![]() Indeed, the tendrils of Lovecrafts lore and themes spread through nearly every cultural touchstone, as the sheer breadth of subject matter covered in this work makes plain. The Lovecraft Anthology is a fitting primer." -Campus Circle. Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming opens with the premise that Lovecraft is everywhere, inextricably bound up with popular culture. "For the reader who wants to find out what Lovecraft is all about. "The Lovecraft Anthology is a wonderful adaptation and tribute to Lovecraft, and you can tell Lockwood is a fan of these stories." -Kirkus Reviews online I'm happy to say that the graphic novel compilation The Lovecraft Anthology, Vol. "When a graphic novel comes along representing some of Lovecraft's greatest tales, it has a lot to live up to. "It's a rich grab bag that brings the eerie and unspeakable to vivid graphic life, and both the newcomer and the seasoned Lovecraft fan will not be disappointed." -Publishers Weekly Praise for The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume I: ![]() ![]() From the insidious mutations of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" to the mindbending threat of "The Call of Cthulhu," this collection explores themes of insanity, inherited guilt, and arcane ritual to startling effect. ![]() ![]() A graphic anthology of tales featuring collaborations between established writers and artists and debut contributors, The Lovecraft Anthology showcases Lovecraft's talent for the macabre. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they debate about how easily a criminal could hide anywhere in the world, Fogg theorizes that it would take only eighty days to travel around the world. ![]() After Passepartout meets with Fogg's approval, Fogg plays whist at the club, and discusses the robbery with other members. Overhearing their conversation, the unemployed Passepartout, a jack-of-all-trades, offers his services and is hired on the spot to replace Foster. Foster complains to Roland Hesketh-Baggott, the recruiter, that working for a perfectionist like Fogg is torture. Elsewhere in London, Fogg's former valet Foster goes to the employment office and quits. When the fastidious Phileas Fogg arrives at the Reform Club, a private men's club, he complains that someone has already read his newspaper. In 1872 London, England, a newspaper headline reports the shocking news that the Bank of England has been robbed. ![]() ![]() How Elinor began her research with urgency into her lupus diagnosis and the history of medicine, expanding into other commonly misdiagnosed diseases in women. ![]() ![]() What brought Elinor to write the book after a lupus diagnosis that followed a very complicated pregnancy with her son.She is the author of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World, a book that I recommend highly to all our listeners. in 2012, she spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ruskin School, University of Oxford, where she worked on an interdisciplinary medical humanities project. Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist cultural historian, and her critical writing has been published in several academic journals. Join today’s conversation for deep insight and a message of hope.ĭr. We wonder why we feel unheard and dismissed, and the more we learn, the more enraged we should become about how modern western medicine has treated women with medical and mental health conditions. We, as women, have absorbed much history into ourselves over time regarding our bodies and our health. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nora is openly and confidently bisexual, and while Lee’s sexuality is ambiguous, she’s also had a significant same-sex relationship. Though Nora’s past drives the plot, her relationship with Iris dramatically shapes the present. Bracketed by present-day phone transcripts, Nora’s whip-smart, matter-of-fact narration unfolds in intricate, nonlinear layers to reveal just enough of her past for readers to understand exactly what she’s capable of and what she’s planning now. So when she’s taken hostage in an attempted bank robbery alongside her girlfriend, Iris, and her ex-boyfriend, Wes, who is also friends with Iris, she instinctively conjures up the girls she’s been to get them all out alive. It’s been 5 years (and many therapy sessions) since her half sister, Lee (not her real name, either), helped her escape their mom’s toxic clutches, but at 17, Nora still can’t quite settle into normal civilian life. Each false identity taught her something new: creativity, deceit, fear, sacrifice, cunning. When three friends find themselves in a hostage situation, they must share their biggest secrets in order to survive.īeginning at age 7, Nora (not her real name) molded herself into the perfect daughter personas her mother created for each of her high-stakes sweetheart cons. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hollywood beckoned and Emily landed high profile roles alongside A-listers including Bruce Willis and starred with Brad Pitt in Robert Redford's Oscar-winning epic" A River Runs Through It." Yet behind the corkscrew curls and cheeky grin that seduced Tinseltown, Emily was confronting a debilitating mental disorder that threatened to destroy her. Her stunning performance as precocious Lynda Mansell in David Leland's bitter-sweet comedy-drama "Wish You Were Here" thrust her into the spotlight, won her a BAFTA nomination, an Evening Standard Best Actress Award, and a National Society of Critics Award, and cemented the film's reputation as a British classic. When Emily Lloyd burst onto the movie scene as a teenager she was hailed as the next Marilyn Monroe. Biography & Autobiography | Rich & Famous ![]() Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions ![]() ![]() Includes historical notes, an author's note, and a bibliography. In this latest installment of her acclaimed Young Royals series, Carolyn Meyer reveals the dizzying rise and horrific downfall of the last queen of France. 'This novel about the ill-fated queen covers her life from age 13 when, as an Austrian princess, she prepares to marry the French dauphin to her death by guillotine in 1793. But as Marie-Antoinette's lifestyle gets ever-more recklessly extravagant, the peasants of France are suffering from increasing poverty-and becoming outraged. Creator of The wild queen : the days and nights of Mary, Queen of Scots Victoria rebels Where the broken heart still beats : the story of Cynthia Ann Parker. Desperate for affection and subjected to constant scrutiny, this spirited young woman can't help but want to let loose with elaborate parties, scandalous fashions, and unimaginable luxuries. ![]() She tried to please everyone-courtiers, her young husband, the king, the French people-but often fell short of their expectations. ![]() From the moment she was betrothed to the dauphin of France at age fourteen, perfection was demanded of Marie-Antoinette. ![]() The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette. Perhaps no other royal has been so maligned-and so misunderstood-as Marie-Antoinette. Carolyn Meyer is the author of more than forty books for middle school and young adult. History paints her as a shallow party girl, a spoiled fashionista, a callous ruler. ![]() ![]() My personal favorite is the final story in the collection as it brings the anthology to a firm conclusion. ![]() More than that, it shows in almost each story that it is the differences between the characters that really make the world lively and more importantly meaningful for the reader. While none of the stories are very deep or complex, the characters are instantly likable and each shine a light on the different ways the magical world of beasts operates and the problems that arise when you are just a little bit different from your peers. Ragning from wholesome to heartwarming each gay furry romance tale is a different take on the lives of the anthropomorphic characters that live in this world. ![]() Nagabe’s collection does that and more with a collection where the almost all the stories held within are supurb. ![]() It is rare that you will stumble across an anthology collection where more than half the stories within it are good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together Dane and Bas find a middle ground, supporting each other through the lows, dancing together during the highs. When Tommy calls, Bas can’t help but run to his side. His younger brother bullies him, and his parents are suing him for his gran’s inheritance. Having just lost the only person in his family to care for him, he is victim to the cruelty of the others. He begs his friend Sebastian “Bas” Axelrod to aid them through the emotional struggle.īas, an openly gay high school student who’s recently lost his grandmother, is trying to survive his last few months of school before escaping to Stanford. When depression causes him to lose ground, he calls for the only person he trusts-former bandmate Tommy. His fall through a glass table puts him in rehab and on the road to recovery. Amazon US Title: Unicorns and Rainbow Poopīlurb: Ex-boyband member Dane Karlson is struggling to overcome an eating disorder and a body dismorphic disorder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t find Ute all that aloof, though just a different kind of parent than I would be, maybe. So unless Ute knew how terrifyingly unstable he was before she left (and I didn’t get that feeling), no. No matter what happens, normal people do not react by kidnapping, isolating, and raping their child. No way, no blame on the mother from me! James alone is responsible for his disgusting, horrific behavior. He was lazy, should not have been a father, and had delusions about being a survivalist. Men are fools anyway, but YOUNG men?! They’re more immature to begin with and when you pile on marriage and fatherhood? Kaboom! I didn’t like him at all but probably for those reasons. Also, not to be forgotten-they got married when he was 17 and she was 25. Of course, there is the fact that being a concert pianist is ALL she knew. I agree about the mother- felt she was stereotypically Germanic-brusque, no affection. She’s so aloof-she basically leaves her daughter and husband without saying goodbye to go on tour-I’m not one to begrudge a woman her career, but I didn’t like her. But at the same time I think that Peggy’s mother deserves a little of the blame in what happened to her daughter. The knee-jerk reaction that I had was to write the dad off as a complete nut-job, also as a terrible person. ![]() |