6/29/2023 0 Comments Arkham asylum by grant morrison![]() Despite this horror, Arkham opens Arkham Asylum, and one of his first patients is Mad Dog, the killer who murdered his wife and child. While the changes are being made to the house, Arkham's wife and young daughter are murdered by a fugitive criminal lunatic Arkham had been treating. When his mother dies, supposedly by suicide, the grown Arkham, who is now a psychiatrist, decides to convert the house into a home for the criminally insane. Amadeus is trapped in Arkham house as a child, caring for his ill mother who loses her mind. After discovering that the administrator of Arkham Asylum unleashed the inhabitants in order to lure Batman to his death, Batman destroys the asylum with an ax and gets the madmen to release him.Īrkham Asylum begins with an excerpt from Amadeus Arkham's journal, and Arkham's story is interspersed with the modern-day story throughout. The story of Amadeus Arkham, founder of Arkham Asylum, unfolds as Batman faces his own inner demons as well as the insane inhabitants. ![]() Batman goes into the insane asylum in exchange for the innocent hostages. ![]() Arkham Asylum is a graphic novel featuring the super-hero Batman, that tells the story of Joker and other insane Batman villains taking over the Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane where they are incarcerated. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Home of the brave book kek![]() We can’t wait to read this with you, your children, or your grandchildren this month-and we are so excited to hear what you learn from this powerful piece of literature. Home of the Brave is written for young readers, but the story is something the entire family can learn from and enjoy. Opportunity International strengthens refugees’ financial and digital literacy so they can create stability for their families and find meaningful work during impossibly challenging situations. The UN Refugee Agency reports that globally, 1 in every 95 people has fled their home due to conflict or persecution ( UNHCR). This emotional story reminds us of just how critical Opportunity’s refugee-focused work is for this vulnerable population. Kek was separated from his mother in an African refugee camp, and he must make sense of both a new place and the trauma of his past while he waits to learn his mother’s fate. ![]() We join him as he navigates the challenges of a Minnesota winter and a new life in the United States alone. ![]() In Home of the Brave, Katherine Applegate introduces us to Kek, a young Sudanese refugee. The best children’s books resonate with us as adults, too-and that’s what makes our July Opportunity Book Club pick so special. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The maze of bones book![]() ![]() Check the 39 Clues website for further information about the series. The 39 Clues experience also includes trading cards and a huge on-line game which will allow you to become a member of the Cahill family and compete for amazing prizes! Each of the 39 Clues books will be written by a different author. The first, The Maze of Bones, is written by Rick Riordan, who also designed the story arc for the entire series. ![]() The 39 Clues will feature ten action-packed books. The first book in the 1 bestselling phenomenon sends readers around the world on the hunt for the 39 Clues Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed. Other teams will try to eliminate them by any means necessary, because in this treasure hunt only one team can win, and there are no rules. They will explore every continent, and delve into the strangest, darkest chapters of world history to find the secret origins of their family. Or you may take one million dollars in cash right now and walk away.Īmy and Dan take the challenge! Soon, they are catapulted into a dangerous round-the-world race for the thirty-nine clues. The first team to successfully put together the clues, which are scattered across the world, will discover the secret of Cahill power and become the richest, most important people in history. ![]() In Grace’s last will and testament, she issues this challenge:įor your inheritance, you may have the first of thirty-nine clues. Relatives arrive from all over the world by special invitation. Amy and Dan Cahill know their family is big, but they don’t realize how big until their grandmother Grace’s funeral. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Missing by Karin Alvtegen![]() ![]() Her novel Shadow was shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2009. Missing is an irresistible reading experience, which also explores deeper issues surrounding social pretension and all its ironies, and Sybilla is an intriguingly modern heroine. She won Swedens most prestigious crime award, the Glass Key, for Missing. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, she becomes the most wanted person in Sweden.Īlvtegen uses a stunningly direct prose, rich and insightful, in a plot which has tremendous pace and verve. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sybilla becomes the prime suspect. One night, in The Grand Hotel, she charms a susceptible businessman into paying for her dinner and room. She is always well-dressed and displays impeccable manners and charm. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all her possessions in her rucksack - apart from a knife and salami which she stores in a smart briefcase. This is a completely refreshing take on the crime novel from an enormous new talent. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments In the Dark, A Blaise Zabini/ Gellert Grindelwald Dark wizard... by blaisegellert![]() ![]() “Yes, but being cunning and sly does not mean needing to cheat,” Regulus pointed out. ![]() “You’re agreeing with him, but you’re a Slytherin,” Sortia exclaimed with a chuckle. “That’s what you get for cheating,” Wulfric said and Regulus nodded. “I meant his cloak was behind your broom,” Walburga lamented. “Ha, got you,” Loughness roared, as his cloak swept Hydra’s broom off the board. “Not behind you, behind you, but behind you on the…” Starting, Hydra whirled to look behind her and Walburga’s eyes widened in horror. They now both hovered over Hydra’s shoulder. No one had noticed the two ghosts floating into the library to watch the game. It was a matter of finding places on the board to hide in wait or outright stalking another person’s piece to take it down while hoping you weren’t taken down first. Conversation lagged as Regulus, Hydra and Loughness began to truly concentrate. The game now belonged to Regulus and his two children, with Kreacher, Wulfric and Sortia left to watch as their pieces were dead. It was at this moment that Loughness’s cloak of invisibility game piece covered Sortia’s Monster book of monsters, sweeping it off the board. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Rascal the raccoon book![]() It's not that today's 12-year-old wouldn't understand what they were reading in this book. The writing is beautiful in a poetic way. It is also more of a paean to nature and an old fashioned rustic way of life than it is a story. Read moreĪlthough excellent, this one seemed an odd selection for a Newbery Honor. ![]() My only reservation with the book is the manner in which Sterling acquires Rascal but the ending compensates. I think I actually preferred listening to this one rather than reading it, although it's been many years since I first read it. Jim Weiss has a rich, warm voice and narrates the story beautifully. I listened to the audio of this book with my eight-year-old daughter, and she immediately began trying to tame a crow (raccoons being verboten near our chickens). From the unfinished canoe in the living room to the fenced off Christmas tree, life in the North household is unconventional, but warm and radiating that sense of childhood innocence in nature that often feels absent in today's less rural world. Sterling relates the tales of his and Rascal's misadventures over the course of a year. ![]() His inseparable best friend, though, is Rascal, a young raccoon. ![]() ![]() An avid naturalist, Sterling raises a variety of unusual pets: Poe, the crow, two skunks, a drooling St. Things are pretty quiet in rural Wisconsin in 1917, unless, that is, you are eleven-year-old Sterling North. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments There is a god by antony flew![]() Anyone, of course, who reads this book from Antony Flew will quickly recognize that the claim of incipient senility is mere sour grapes by his present opponents who were his former comrades. His change of mind in his latter years has been greeted by jeers, hoots, and hollers from the atheistic community, claiming that the once brilliant philosopher has suddenly grown senile in order to acquiesce to claims of the reality of God. ![]() In this book, Antony Flew traces his lifelong pilgrimage from hardcore atheism to what he calls rational theism. With the publication of his book, There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, the British philosopher Antony Flew dropped a bomb on the playground of Western atheists. ![]() There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Damaged Goods by Lainey Reese![]() ![]() I actually felt sorry for Taryn and the way she was manipulated and used by Brice and his best friend. The sex is punishing, while the relationship between the h/h is all talk, with no real emotion, no chemistry. I don't watch moves or read books with that kind of violence and I never expected to find it in an erotica novel. The murders were savage - and I regret that I now have those images in my head. This book is the equivalent of slasher porn, if there is such a thing. I especially liked that although there was some menace, it was handled efficiently and wasn't a major plot point. The chemistry between the characters was soulful, and it was a brilliant fantasy. ![]() I LOVED the first book in this series - it was sensual, tender, and sweet, while still being very hot. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Lexi ryan these hollow vows![]() The thing is, it just didn’t work for me. The blurb promised so much, especially a love triangle and I was sold. The disappointment for this knows no bounds. ![]() As Brie spends time with their mysterious leader, Finn, she struggles to resist his seductive charm.Ĭaught between two dangerous courts, Brie must decide who to trust with her loyalty. Unwilling to let her heart distract her, she accepts help from a band of Unseelie misfits with their own secret agenda. Brie’s only choice is to pose as a potential bride for Prince Ronan, and she soon finds herself falling for him. Gaining unfettered access to the Seelie court is easier said than done. ![]() But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she’ll do whatever it takes to get her back-including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. ![]() “ From New York Times best-selling author Lexi Ryan, Cruel Prince meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this sexy, action-packed fantasy about a girl who is caught between two treacherous faerie courts and their dangerously seductive princes.īrie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for an earc to read in exchange for a review! ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments 20th century ghosts![]() ![]() “An inventive collection… brave and astute.” - New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)įrom New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill comes this award-winning collection of short fiction that launched him into the bright lights of the literary world’s big stage fifteen years ago. *Limited to just 1,750 copies produced in a one-time printing, never to be reprinted! *Custom-made slipcase wrapped with a woven cloth and stamped with hot foil *Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill and Christopher Golden Comprar el libro 20th Century Ghosts de Joe Hill, William Morrow Paperbacks (9780061147982) con ENVÍO GRATIS desde 18 en nuestra librería online Ver opiniones, resumen, sinopsis. *High-quality, four-color faux marbled endpapers *Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume *Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding *Hot foil stamping and “blind” heat burnishing on the front cover and spine *Printed on an acid-free specialty paper stock *The original introduction by Christopher Golden “The Importance of Wearing Glasses,” a new introduction by Christopher Golden *Sixteen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy, plus one piece of spot art (fans of the book will know where to find it!) ![]() This special edition includes a brand-new introduction by Christopher Golden, new story notes by Joe Hill, and sixteen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy, plus a clever piece of spot artwork. ![]() |