Chaos agent by lee winter5/30/2023 This phase starts The Multiverse Saga, setting up Kang the Conqueror and his Variants as the main antagonists. We also see the development of many characters introduced in the past, like Sam Wilson and his struggle of taking on the mantle of Captain America, and Spider-Man, having to face villains from other universes which ultimately resulted in everyone forgetting who Peter Parker is, as he continues his heroic acts as Spider-Man. This phase also marks the return of Charlie Cox as Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin from Daredevil. Many new heroes are introduced such as Monica Rambeau, Yelena Belova, Shang-Chi, the Eternals, Kate Bishop, Moon Knight, America Chavez, Ms. Phase Four is set after the Battle of Earth, with all of the victims of Thanos' Snap being resurrected by the Avengers. 4.2 The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022).4 Marvel Studios' Special Presentations.3.2 The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2021).2.7 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).2.5 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).2.2 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
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Inside Oscar by Mason Wiley5/30/2023 It wasn’t until Damien and Mason’s exhaustively researched book was released in 1986 that we had something that told with living, breathing detail the Oscar story of each year from the release of the major contenders to the campaigns to the “big night” with all the juicy tidbits added for good measure. Eventually this changed and by the 1970s we had picture books of winners with nominees listed in the top five or six categories with winners in other categories noted. The first books on Academy history listed just the winners in the top three categories. Annual almanacs listed winners in the major categories, but that was it. Until the mid-1960s there were no reference books on Oscar nominees and winners. Most of all he was passionate about the movies and did something about it.īefore Inside Oscar, which he co-wrote with Columbia University classmate Mason Wiley, information on the Oscars was hard to come by. I’ve known Damien through his books for more than twenty-five years and personally for about half that time although I met him in person just once, almost ten years ago.ĭamien was passionate about many things, from the San Francisco Giants to the Broadway Theatre from liberal politics to good food. Denise giardina5/30/2023 Richmond and Western Railroad owned our land.” history, when the exploited miners clashed with the ruthless and corrupt coal companies. I’d never even heard of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, the largest labor uprising in U.S. This book opened my eyes to a period of time and a series of events that I’ve not previously given much thought to – the struggle of the coal miners and the labor disputes of the early 1900s in West Virginia. I simply can’t imagine what it would have been like to work in the coal mines or to watch a loved one, a father, a husband or a son, disappear into that gaping hole in the earth, wondering if he would return that evening or be lost forever. I felt the mountain hunkered over us, pressing down, and it was hard to breathe.” Here and there an arm swung free from the darkness and disappeared again. Ahead of us, lamps bobbed like monstrous lightning bugs. The smell was like the inside of our coal stove, but damp and decaying. “Now there was no movement of air except the unnatural breath of the trap doors opening and closing in the tunnels. But in all her searching of slave inventories, she couldn’t find anyone named Milton. His first enslaver was a planter in Alabama named Pickett.Ĭombing through records online, Karen established that Pickett had owned two cotton plantations, Cedar Grove and Forest Farm, both near Montgomery. As a girl, Karen heard stories about her great-grandfather, who told his children he was born in the 1850s to free people of color in Muscatine, Iowa, but that when he was a child he was kidnapped by slavers and taken with his family down the Mississippi River. Karen Orozco Gutierrez, of Davenport, Iowa, is the great-granddaughter of an enslaved man named Milton Howard, whose life she has long worked to document. These days, descendants of both slaves and slaveholders come to the archives seeking the truth about their past. We were an odd couple, Karen and I, when we first arrived at the Montgomery County Archives in Alabama. Sex Love Repeat by Alessandra Torre5/30/2023 Saw my two relationships, the love between us, and the moment that it all fell apart.Įverything else hangs in the balance. She sat in the background and waited, tried to figure me out. I should have paid more attention, should have looked around and noticed the woman who watched it all. I know there is an expiration date on the easy perfection of our lives. I don’t expect it to be a long-term situation. So we exist, two parallel relationships, each running their own course, with no need for intersection or conflict. And because my sexual appetite is such that one man has trouble keeping up. Paul, because he loves me too much to tell me no. Stewart, because his life is too busy for the sort of obligations that are required in a relationship. They don’t need to know a name they don’t need to know anything, but that they are not alone in my heart. That is all they need to know, that is all I let them know. I am in a relationship with them both, and they are both aware there is another. Killing Time by Elisa Paige5/30/2023 However, if I wanted to live I’d be appreciative like Evie, too. I thought it was kind of stalkerish the way James watched Evie for 8 months travel from one doctor appointment to another in search of a cure for pancreatic cancer. The story focuses on Evie’s transition from human to vampire and introducing her to the vampire lifestyle, but the key to the story is Evie and James relationship. Stealing Time by Elisa Paige is a vampire romance where the strongest vampire takes all. And when he focuses his hatred on Evie, the immortal lovers find themselves swept up in a deadly supernatural war… Just as James and Evie begin to define eternity together, a zealot breaks an ancient treaty, threatening a peace between humans and vampires that has stood for a thousand years. Though initially shocked by the change, Evie quickly embraces her second chance at life, and love. She’s the woman he’s been waiting over 150 years for. When artist James Wesley realizes Evie Reed is dying, he is so moved by the beautiful reporter’s determination to live that he makes her immortal-a vampire, like him. It wasn’t that she wanted to live forever. My breath bubbled in my throat as I labored to breathe.” (p. It felt like glass splinters impaled every square inch of my skin and the slightest movement generated agony. The opposite of always is5/30/2023 I don't remember their being an explanation as to why jack kept going back. because its true for me it was just okay. If anything, i just went into goodreads and changed it from 3 stars to 2. bit of a spoiler BUT maybe i would have liked it more if Kate never made it and idk, Jack realized that life is life and no matter what you try to do, it's life.i don't know.Īccording to good reads, it wasn't until i was 70% into the book that Jack finally said something that seemed like it was the right thing to say.Īnd this book is full of some beautiful quotable moments but even then, even now almost 4 months h. how many times did Kate have to die in order for jack to finally be happy? life isn't always getting the happy ending that you "deserve". There's also homeboy ignoring his friends, family, changing a timeline to where he dates another friend, to another timeline where the friendship ends to another timeline where all these actions lead to the death of someone else, to all. Obviously, this story is about a lot more like the emotions and sacrifices and everything that goes into the decisions that were made but it still didn't do anything for me. The idea of time travel to continue to save someone who is on the path of dying.well, aren't you just being a little selfish? you're trying to elongate their life (and pain?) just to be happy for a little bit longer. The panels range from gently clever to surprisingly profound to laugh-out-loud. “This playful, self-aware collection of strips and gags on the joys and frustrations of reading and writing is equal parts lighthearted and sincere. Abrams ComicArts, 16. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf is the perfect gift for bookworms of all ages. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf Grant Snider. In this lighthearted collection of one- and two-page comics, writer-artist Grant Snider explores bookishness in all its forms, and the love of writing and reading, building on the beloved literary comics featured on his website, Incidental Comics. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them, and treat our books as sacred objects. But some of us surround ourselves with books. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. It’s no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator and creator of Incidental Comics. John soluri banana cultures5/29/2023 marketplace, Soluri examines the tensions between the small-scale growers, who dominated the trade in the early years, and the shippers. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central America? In this lively, interdisciplinary study, John Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, political economy, and history to trace the symbiotic growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States.īeginning in the 1870s when bananas first appeared in the U.S. Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores-everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. Dancing wu5/29/2023 I finally purchased this 380 page soft cover book from Amazon for a bargain price and I just finished reading this very interesting and scientifically informative volume. McQueen - forthcoming - In Shan Gao (ed.), Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics. 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