![]() ![]() This one comes at you as fast as Steve McQueen in a souped-up Mustang and as hard as Charles Bronson with a baseball bat. I love this book." - Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO's Watchmen) ""Reckless is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. ![]() No one does crime fic like Brubaker and Phillips and their collaboration has never felt more new. ![]() in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break. The next book in the red-hot Reckless series is here Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are back with another new original. "Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. In a bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them - a good guy. Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring us yet another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless. ![]() And the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. "Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles. (W) Ed Brubaker (A) Jacob Phillips (A/CA) Sean Phillips ![]()
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![]() ![]() Strobel opens with a short anecdote from his time in the legal system, then spends the overwhelming majority of the chapter in conversation with his chosen expert. Each chapter in this section-and throughout the entirely of the book-follows a specific structure. The first part, which contains Chapters 1 through 6, is titled “Examining the Record.” In these chapters, he interviews academics who have a variety of backgrounds, but they all comment on one thing: whether the Bible is a verifiable text. To do this, he splits the book into three major sections. In order to do this, Strobel decides to interview a dozen experts in Christian theology to better understand the Bible, its teachings, the life of Christ, and whether any of those things are believable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Farr at Ticonderoga for providing me with this wonderful opportunity.Īll rights reserved. ![]() Last but not least, my gratitude to Russell B. Thanks to Satima Flavell and Fiona Leonard for their perceptive editorial advice. Over the years of writing development represented by this collection, they’ve helped me more than they realise. Her introduction really enhances the collection.Ī big thank-you to my four adult children for always being ready to brainstorm and for giving honest feedback. Thanks to Pia Ravenari for her meticulous and beautiful cover art, which so sensitively interprets the title story and to the inimitable Sophie Masson, whose wisdom I greatly esteem. ![]() ![]() You can find it on Amazon and the authors website still. Paperback: 186 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 1 edition (December 1, 2015) Language: English I had purchased the book on ARe, but it has since been removed from that site. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Wendy reviews Quillons Covert by Joseph Lance Tonelt. He's considered himself a writer ever since. ![]() He’d even experimented with shirts made of different materials in an effort to keep his. It must be a Quillon trait, having incredibly sensitive nipples Marty had barely been able to touch his own since puberty without getting hard. Although the book wouldn’t be published until 2011, with the now defunct Silver Publishing, he found the experience entirely liberating. Authors: Joseph Lance Tonlet,Louis Stevens. He wrote his first story, A Better Life, longhand in a 197 page spiral notebook, on his bed every night with a pillow curled under his chin. However, when he discovered gay romance and erotica in 2007, at the age of seventeen, his mind and world opened up. He was a shy outcast who had few friends in school generally feeling excluded and on the fringe of society. LOUIS STEVENS is a gay romance author born and raised in South Africa. ![]() He writes to bring the characters he dreams about to life. ![]() He loves the laid-back lifestyle of San Diego and considers himself lucky to live where people dream of vacationing.Ī lifelong reader of m/m fiction, he began his writing career one night sitting at his MacBook and has never looked back. ![]() JOSEPH LANCE TONLET is a born and raised Southern Californian-with a twenty-year stint of living in the Midwest. ![]() ![]() Lahiri's father, a university librarian, opted to relocate to the United States for work, eventually settling in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, when she was still a small child. Nilanjana Sudheshna Lahiri was born on July 11, 1967, in London, England, to mother Tapati and father Amar, a Bengali couple who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Calcutta, India. Lahiri's 2013 novel, The Lowland, was partially inspired by real-world political events. ![]() 1 New York Times best-seller Unaccustomed Earth. ![]() She followed up in 2003 with her first novel, The Namesake, and returned to short stories with the No. ![]() Author Jhumpa Lahiri published her debut in 1999, Interpreter of Maladies, winning the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Moss himself derides much of this social outrage as "tragedy porn," trendy stories to be forgotten in time like his father's death, the book doesn't manage to effectively differentiate itself from just this approach in its extensive account of countless tragedies turned to peaceful protests turned to war zones, washed and repeated again. Yet when the boy Moss is dating gets murdered during a walk out at the high school, the real-life issues at hand, the novel struggles to balance the ironic juxtaposition between the Bay Area's progressive reputation and Oakland's longstanding legacy of combatting injustice with the sheer emotional labor of it all. As Moss and his friends shift from depressed resignation to anger, Oshiro's novel asks both its characters and its readers what to do next. All of this becomes impossible as events at school-supposedly random locker searches turn violent, newly installed metal detectors injure a friend-reveal how hyper-policing has become endemic to Oakland's citizens of color. He starts his junior year at West Oakland High just wanting to heal, to see what'll come from the cute boy he met on the train, and maybe to start considering college. suffers from panic attacks whenever he's reminded of his father's murder at the hands of police officers six years ago. In Oakland, California, sixteen-year-old Morris "Moss" Jeffries Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. ![]() The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys-best friends-are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. Audiobook Length: 27 hours and 19 minutes ![]() ![]() ![]() It was one of the highest-rated Australian programs of the 20th century. “It was 13 hours made on a princely budget of about $75,000 per hour, so we had to scrimp and save and do all sorts of clever things to make it work. ![]() “This was one of the first mini-series in the world,” Crawford says. His first major, truly groundbreaking achievement, however, came with the 1978 historical mini-series, Against The Wind, starring the late John English. I ended up producing over 500 hours for them.” One of the most vital figures in Australian television, Henry Crawford has over 600 hours of local TV on his bulging resume, including seminal series such as Homicide, Matlock Police, and The Sullivans. “I was there ten years, and – because I was distant family – they put me through every part of the company: from assistant director to editing, all sorts of things, you name it. “I had worked for Crawford Productions, who were the pioneers of Australian television,” says Henry Crawford. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I asked him why, he turned his light gray eyes my way and said, “Because I want to watch it die.” The first time I met Heathan James he was picking the wings off a butterfly. Contains explicit sexual situations, violence, disturbingly sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language and very mature topics. With malice in their hearts and vengeance in their veins, they will seek out the ones who hurt and destroyed them.ĭark Contemporary Romance. Time has made Ellis a shell of her former self, a little girl lost in the vastness of her pain.Īs Heathan pulls Ellis out of her mental prison, reviving the essence of who she once was, down the rabbit hole they will go. Time has made Heathan’s soul darker, polluted with hatred and the thirst for blood. Back to seek revenge on those who wronged them. ![]() ![]() Back from a place from which he thought there was no return. Until they were ripped apart by the sick cruelty of others, separated for years, both locked in a perpetual hell.Įleven years later, Heathan is back for his girl. The pair forged an unlikely friendship, unique and strange. Heathan was dark and brooding, and obsessed with watching things die. 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