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![]() The epic story Pullman tells is not only a spellbinding adventure featuring armoured polar bears, magical devices, witches and daemons, it is also an audacious and profound re-imagining of Milton’s Paradise Lost.Īn utterly entrancing blend of metaphysical speculation and bravura storytelling, HIS DARK MATERIALS is a monumental and enduring achievement. saves the life of Franz Joseph, the Emperor of Austria, by throwing him to the ground and getting a bullet in his own back for his efforts. As Lyra learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds and leads to a thrilling conclusion in The Amber Spyglass. In The Radetzky March, Joseph Trotta, a excellent Austrian infantryman of rural peasant background. In The Subtle Knife she is joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. ![]() Lyra’s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. ![]() ![]() Northern Lights introduces Lyra, an orphan, who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. In his award-winning fantasy trilogy, HIS DARK MATERIALS, Philip Pullman invents a richly detailed and marvellously imagined world that is complex and thought-provoking enough to enthral readers of all ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() A misaimed snowball hits one of the “reindeer,” which prompts the pair of babies to reconcile and care for the pup. ![]() Santa Baby is so angry at his friend’s greed that his beard turns into a “MAD GUY BEARD,” and he “saddle up the reindeer” (depicted as dachshunds) to pursue Baby Billy and recover the treats he’s stolen. His mustache transforms into a handlebar-style, or “BAD GUY MUSTACHE”-a somewhat fuller version of the one Snidely Whiplash sports in Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. ![]() Unfortunately, he likes his creations so much that he ends up hoarding them and earning a spot on the naughty list. This makes him “Santa’s #1 helper, Santa Baby!” Wanting to get in on the action, Baby Billy offers to help by making toys. In this fourth book about Mustache Baby (aka Baby Billy), his pal Baby Javier transforms into Santa Baby when his facial hair (he was born with a full beard) turns white. Silly Mustache Baby (and Santa Baby) holiday fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Waid's first comic book story "The Puzzle of the Purloined Fortress", an eight-page Superman story, was published in Action Comics #572 (Oct. Waid entered the comics field during the mid-1980s as an editor and writer on Fantagraphics Books' comic book fan magazine, Amazing Heroes. Waid has stated that the story is "a blueprint for everything I write." Career 1980s–1990s He has stated that his comics work was heavily influenced by Adventure Comics #369–370 (1968), the two-part " Legion of Super-Heroes" story by Jim Shooter and Mort Weisinger that introduced the villain Mordru. ![]() In October 2018, Waid joined Humanoids Publishing as Director of Creative Development before being promoted to Publisher in February 2020. Other comics publishers he has done work for include Fantagraphics, Event, Top Cow, Dynamite, and Archie Comics.įrom August 2007 to December 2010, Waid served as Editor-in-Chief and later Chief Creative Officer of Boom! Studios, where he also published his creator-owned series Irredeemable and Incorruptible. Mark Waid ( / w eɪ d/ born March 21, 1962) is an American comic book writer best known for his work on DC Comics titles The Flash, Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright as well as his work on Captain America, Fantastic Four and Daredevil for Marvel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, after a chance meeting with the handsome Englishman, Tessa's reserve begins to melt, and she starts to wonder if it's not too late for a fairytale ending? Read Moreīallerinas and exotic rogues abound in this charming and lyrical historical romance for fans of Amanda QuickFor nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton, life in 1912 Cambridge is as dry and dull as a biscuit. But when the dashing self-made millionaire Guy Farne arrives at the opera in search of suitable entertainment for his high society guests, Tessa realizes that there may be more to life-and love-than just music.īut while the attraction between them in undeniable, Guy's insufferable snob of a fiancée only solidifies Tessa's determination to keep her true identity a secret. Tessa, however, is thrilled with her situation, as it allows her to concentrate on her love of the arts-and no one in the Viennese opera company need know that their delightful and charming under-wardrobe mistress is really a princess. A sparkly and witty historical romance for fans of Georgette Heyer, Amanda Quick and Downton AbbeyBeing an heiress in 1920s Austria with nothing but a broken-down castle to your name and nary a penny in your purse could be frustrating for anyone but the Princess Theresa-Maria of Pfaffenstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() The endless wait for a rendezvous … for what, exactly? Time’s recurrence is marked by the moon and the sun. The present sits on the cusp of a hopeful future. Vladimir remembers, and Estragon forgets. Estragon’s shoes stink, while Vladimir adheres to a diet of garlic to ease the symptoms of his condition. These two are ill-starred but well-suited: Estragon’s feet are in constant pain, and Vladimir’s unspecified affliction induces frequent and painful urination. As they await their enigmatic patron, Godot, Estragon laments being beaten by nameless figures during the night, and Vladimir seeks to pass the time by stirring his companion into repartee. Each act begins with the pair reunited after spending the night apart. ![]() Two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait on the side of a country road. Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed it “a play in which nothing happens, twice.” Samuel Beckett originally subtitled his 1953 play Waiting for Godot “a tragicomedy in two acts”. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are well developed with their own mannerisms and personalities. Can Thomas win back the love of his wife or will he yield and give into her demands for an annulment? ![]() Meredith barely has time to sort out her feelings before she is packed up and taken on a journey to Thomas’ home. Luckily her guardians have other plans and force Thomas and Meredith to the church for a fast wedding. Unfortunately for him Lady Meredith wants nothing to do with him. Until one day he appears eager to see his wife. Furthering her sorrow, Sir Thomas is thought to be dead. Six long and difficult years pass for Lady Meredith who gives birth to a son thought to be a bastard. Sir Thomas is called away to participate in the Crusades before being able to marry Meredith in a public marriage ceremony. We first meet the two main protagonists when Lady Meredith agrees to marry Sir Thomas, a Templar knight, by performing a hand-fasting ritual in private and consider themselves husband and wife. The story takes place in the middle ages. How to Marry Your Wife by Stella Marie Alden is a romantic comedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gloria- a butcher that is amazed by the future and who is a Hystorian that helps the kids.Amancio brothers- cruel SQ members who betrayed their friends to overthrow Columbus.Hystorians- a group established by Aristotle that is devoted to fixing history.Riq- the sixteen-year old Hystorian who is serious and a prodigy of languages. ![]() SQ- the organization that intimidates the governments of the world and that causes trouble, according to Sera.Sera Froste- an eleven-year-old girl that is best friends with Dak and extremely knowledgeable in science.Dak Smyth- an eleven-year-old boy that is the best friend of Sera and extremely devoted to history.The book is followed by Divide and Conquer, in which the trio go to the year 885 in order to protect Paris from thousands of Viking warriors. It was written by James Dashner, and published on August 28, 2012. The first book introduces the trio and follows them as they try to prevent a revolt by the Amancio brothers. The series follows Riq, Dak, and Sera as they time-travel throughout history in order to fix history. A Mutiny in Time is the first book in the Infinity Ring series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. ![]() Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ![]() ![]() ![]() He studied me a second then looked beyond me.Īgain, he changed and he did it taking another step away from me, his face closing off so much, the cynicism and sly didn’t even come back. “And I’d like the courtesy of you not makin’ me do that,” I shot back. “Then I’d like the courtesy of you sharing why you wouldn’t.” “And if I don’t want there to be a pace?” I asked. Not with what happened to you, but you should understand, I wouldn’t do that even if that hadn’t happened to you. ![]() I don’t want to take this at a pace you aren’t comfortable with. With that smile, the cynicism and sly went right out of his eyes. He let that slide and told me, “I want to be clear. “Would you like me to explain why I don’t wish to give up?” he asked. You will be safe from anything you perceive might make you unsafe, including me. To my shock, he let me go, and not only that, he took a step back. ![]() |