![]() ![]() Still, if the circle represents a setting sun and the shooters’ outstretched arms are a horizontal cloud, who else could it be? It looks like a Robert McGinnis effort to me, but nossir, I will not make wild and spurious claims without some anonymous internet user to back me up. ![]() ![]() Thanks to Jim Gardner for providing this Soft Touch cover that I had never seen before. Perhaps a reader who still has functioning synapses could remind us all. There are at least four versions of this particular cover, but even all that repetition can’t make me think of a scene from the book that involves a birthday cake, let alone one that is dripping blood. ![]() Update (): Yikes! Steve Scott was … um … how do I say this? … wrong. Steve Scott says that Shine says this was done by Robert McGinnis. Update (): I never would have thought it. Many of these “double” covers were drawn by William Schmidt, but I can’t confirm this one. Lazy artist? Editor’s goof? Intentional pattern breaking? Alas, we shall never know. This cover is obviously a member of the Travis McGee “double” series, where a reasonably large main illustration at the bottom is paired with a smaller related companion illustration in the upper left, like this one, but in this case there is no companion illustration. Cover Artist: Robert McGinnis William SchmidtĬurious. ![]()
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![]() In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. ![]() Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds Collectibles, Pocket Money & Party Bag Toys ![]() ![]() ![]() The Haters are high-functioning, thinking human beings who just happen to have a deep-seated need to viciously murder anyone they encounter who are not infected with the virus known as the Hate. These books, though they may riff a bit on the zombie theme, are in reality much different. But there is an exception to that rule and it’s the works of David Moody, in particular, the “Haters” and “The Final War” series. Almost 100% of the time, if you offer me this type of story for review, or even just to read, I’m going to reject it hands down. So I’m an extremely hard sell when it comes to the trope. ![]() It’s true that a thing can be done to death-or undeath-and the worst of all is the walking dead. More and more it seems like there’s nothing new or unique to be found and I don’t find the themes to be even remotely entertaining anymore. When it comes to zombies and most other end-of-the-world scenarios, I’ve become jaded and pretty much completely burnt. ![]() ![]() ![]() On a more personal level, I consider the black company series to be the type of novel which has not been touched by any other reviewers yet it should have been. ![]() ![]() It is equally worth noting that in addition to the above, there is one spin off novel dubbed the sliver spike which is mainly focused on events concerning former members of the company including one of its adversaries. Glittering Stone which unravel Company achievements and victory over its employer’s enemies, and its move towards its destiny. The Books of South follow centered around the Company on its journey back to its roots in KhatovarĬ. The Books of North recount which are focused on the Company’s dealings with the Empire of Ladyī. These can be grouped into three sections:Ī. ![]() The series chronology of events spans over nine distinct novels. The author, Cook does a very impressive job in mixing the fantasy alongside military fiction in gritty and down to earth portrayals of the company’s chief personalities including its own struggles. The series follows the operations of an elite mercenary unit which is last of the free companies of Khatovar all through forty years of its estimated four hundred year history. This series is slightly different from those by other authors in the sense that it closely follows an elite mercenary unit dubbed “the black company” through a mere forty years of its approximated four hundred year history. The Black Company simply refers to a series of black novels by renowned author Glen Cook. ![]() ![]() ![]() Death waits for every living thing, no matter how vital or brilliant its accomplishment death waits for people and for their best and worst efforts as well.politics is a living thing, and living things die. Political movements, liberation movements, revolutions, are as subject to time, decline, mortality, tragedy, as any human enterprise, or any human being. Failure awaits any political movement, even a spectacularly successful movement such as the one Larry Kramer helped to spark and organise. How else to dramatise revolution accurately, truthfully, politically, than by showing it to be tragic as well as triumphant? And on the other hand, if the medical, biological, political, and familial failures of "Destiny" produce, by the play's end, despair again if we are plunged back into night, it cannot be different from the night with which "Normal Heart" began, rife with despair and terror, and pregnant with an offstage potential for transformation, for hope. ![]() Larry Kramer isn't Sophocles and he isn't Shakespeare we don't have Sophocleses or Shakespeares, not these days, but we do have, on rare occasion, remarkable accomplishment, and Kramer's is remarkable, invaluable, and rare. “Where else in dramatic literature is there such a treatment of the life-and-death cycle of people and political change? One needs to reach back to the chronicles of Shakespeare, back to the Greeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kids cry, ‘Not so fast, Mom!’ With the wind of a tornado, Rae, Marc, and baby Jane, along with everything else, follow behind her.” hmmm,’ Agatha starts, but an idea hit her. They see their mom peer around the corner. They are both pretending to be a superhero called Flash. ![]() Suddenly, Timothy and Rae begin running past their mom, their steps pounding and echoing through the house. ![]() The kids love her as she is, but she does not feel like she does enough. Jane enjoys hugs and kisses while being tossed in the air. Timothy thinks she is great at helping him with homework. Rae thinks her mother is an excellent cook and cleaner. The Steeles share, “Meet Timothy, Rae, Marc, and Jane’s mother, Mrs. JeriLynn Steele, a US military vet turned full-time mom, and her husband, Alan Steele, a current active US military man working for a bachelor’s in public administration, together with raising their five energetic children, have completed their new book, “Agatha Cyprus: Not So Fast, Mom!”: a hilarious story of a mom who tries to rush through her to-do list double-speed, only to miss the point. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more I read, the more I was drawn into a world that I had no idea existed. I’ll admit, I was expecting a different kind of book. It takes a village but as the tagline sums up so perfectly, The Fox Hunt is “four strangers, three faiths and one extraordinary escape to freedom.” In a region where religious affiliations and cultural divide are prominent and tumultuous, anyone who risks their life by trying to stand up and fight for interfaith relationships is worth talking about. For those who try to bridge the gap between cultures for a better world, we never hear about them. What’s sad is not everyone is bad or has hate in their heart. When conversations arise about the Middle East, I’m sure for many, stereotypes surface and presumptions about the people are spoken generally. It is one of many silence voices that deserves to be heard. ![]() It is relevant, especially considering what is happening right now. I don’t even know where to begin with a book like this. ![]() ![]() ![]() Applying the Scientific Method - Pillbug Experiment.Problem Set Week1 - Week One Assignment.Shadow health Heent interview questions.Lesson 4 Modern Evidence of Shifting Continents.Weight Mass Student - Answers for gizmo wieght and mass description.Medical Case 03 Vincent Brody GRQ Edited.Business Core Capstone: An Integrated Application (D083).Comparative Programming Languages (CS 4402). ![]()
![]() ![]() The arena is still there, still going strong after more than 50 years.These days, it sits beside an even more impressive contribution to the region, the Charles M. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate ![]() ( You can rent the property where he worked before the arena was built, in Sebastopol, on Airbnb.) ![]() A lifelong sports enthusiast, he played hockey there until shortly before his death in 2000 at 77. Schulz, who was known by his nickname “Sparky,” had his studio at the arena and would eat breakfast and lunch at the rink’s cafe, the Warm Puppy, most days. The rink, Schulz’s tongue-in-cheek temple to ice hockey, was built in a redwood grove at the far end of town - near the then-new, now delightfully dated Coddingtown Mall - and modeled off of a Swiss chalet. Instead, in 1969, he funded the construction of the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, aka “Snoopy's Home Ice,” aka the “Coolest Place in Santa Rosa.”Īn illustrated timeline of Charles Schulz's life. Unlike a lot of artists, he didn’t hole up in a studio somewhere, a creative hermit. Though he was born and largely raised in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Schulz settled in Sonoma County in the 1960s and became a fixture of Santa Rosa’s civic life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I reside in Central Florida with the wife and children. It was a time that I have largely forgotten. Being an infant Human, I was completely reliant on the responsible actions of others. I'll admit, at the time, I had no idea what I was doing or where I was. ![]() After exiting my mother's portal, the doctor slapped me around until I started breathing the oxygen. I came to this planet sixty some odd years ago. For those who remain alive, the term survival-of-the-fittest will take on an entirely new meaning. A sinister species waits in the heavens above. Little do they know, their fellow Man is not their true enemy. This first book in the HADRON series follows one group of citizens as they make every effort to overcome the madness that ensues. Without communications and order, national governments cease to exist. Militaries, without clear orders from the top, take stand within their bases while only looking to defend themselves and their families. ![]() Thousands of skirmishes take place on a daily basis in cities across the globe. Survivors will be those who are willing and able to protect and feed themselves. Civilization quickly falls into chaos as both food and freshwater supplies run short. Globally, power systems fail and modern communications cease to function. Within days of this momentous accomplishment, Earth is inundated with wave after wave of intense electromagnetic radiation. Science fiction fans, it's time to take up arms!Įxperiments using the Large Hadron Collider produce the verifiable discovery of dark matter. ![]() |