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![]() ![]() Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her away from Seattle-and from Seth? Georgina is one of Hell's most valuable assets, but if there's any way out of the succubus business she plans to take it-no matter how much roadkill she leaves behind. The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus, but Georgina's allies are suspicious. In fact, she's being forced to transfer operations.to Las Vegas. Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can't just hang up her killer heels and settle down to domestic bliss. ![]() The man has risked his soul to become Georgina's boyfriend. Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. But with a shot at love, and maybe even redemption, is the ultimate seductress finally going soft? Like hell she is. ![]() In Georgina Kincaid, succubus and she-demon, #1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead has created one of her most enticing characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ma rides a good concept when she finds one. The title and Ma’s name are ruffled too, as if the author herself were shrink-wrapping delicious pleasure into a denatured product. On the cover of “Bliss Montage,” clear plastic clings to the nubbled curves of oranges, suffocating all that sunshine-y zing. Ma tells us what it looks like because she knows it matters. It’s a story collection “with a vaguely Chinese cover image of persimmons in a Ming dynasty bowl.” The image implies tradition and delicacy, pretty stories of domestic imbalance and clichéd Eastern promises of good fortune. In “Peking Duck,” one of the standout stories in Ling Ma’s collection, “ Bliss Montage,” a young writer presents an early copy of her new book to her mother. One of my former editors once told me not to mention a book’s cover in a review - that it cheapened the words inside by tying them to the work of the publicity and marketing buzzards. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Running from 'Saga of the Swamp Thing #37-50' and brushing up against the massive 'Crisis on Infinite Earths', this arc finds Swamp Thing being led from adventure to adventure by a mysterious new figure, one who seems to know more about his increasingly powerful plant body than he is saying. ![]() While Swamp Thing himself has grown into a cult icon in comics, he was also responsible for the introduction of another one John Constantine, con man magician. The blocky, but expressive artwork of Phil Hester and Kim DeMulder also harkened back to the gothic inspired artwork of Wrightson and Veitch, giving Swampy his first hit under the Vertigo banner. Though Morrison wasn’t on the title very long, his trippy plotting coupled with Millar’s pitch black humor made for a fun return to the “roots” of Swamp Thing. Collins took a more traditional approach to the title, ushering it from the DC imprint to the newly launched Vertigo Comics stamp, British imports Grant Morrison and Mark Millar brought psychedelic horror back to the title with Swamp Thing #140-144, collected under the title 'The Root of All Evil'.įinding himself separated from his plant body, which is going on a murderous rampage throughout the Bayou, Alec Holland must go on a drug induced “vision quest” to reunite his mind with his Elemental body - that is if the villainous “Parliament of Stones” doesn’t kill them both first. ![]() ![]() Appropriately, Dale Keown creates a wonderful homage to Jack Kirby’s cover image for the original INCREDIBLE HULK #1 (also used as the cover to this trade paperback). ![]() ![]() Once again, a milestone for the Hulk is reached: issue #393 marks the series’ 30th Anniversary and returns him to his origins and to a man largely responsible for his creation: the former spy known as Igor, whom the Hulk torments in true Frankensteinian fashion. This is a story that encourages contemplation of the blurry lines between right and wrong, as well as those between justice and revenge, the conclusions to which the readers must draw for themselves. David brings up several valid points of debate, but inevitably shows that there are no easy answers, if any answers are to be found at all. The Pantheon and X-Factor, and more specifically the Hulk and Havok, represent the extremes of two opposing sides, both believing they are acting in the best interests of the nation of Trans-Sabal, yet each having completely different ideas as to how those best interests are to be attained. Volume 8 kicks off with WAR AND PIECES, one of the most controversial of Peter David’s Hulk stories owing to its use of parallels to the real-life war against Iraq, and the questions that are raised from them. ![]() ![]() She introduced pathologist Nora Gavin in one of the most lauded mystery debuts of 2003: HAUNTED GROUND (2003), was a Booksense 76 pick, won the Friends of American Writers award and Romantic Times' Best First Mystery, was shortlisted for Anthony and Agatha awards, and translated into ten foreign languages. Hailed for her multiple award-winning debut novel Haunted Ground, Erin Hart melds Irish history, archeology, and modern forensics in her eloquent, suspense-charged thrillers.ĮRIN HART'S archaeological crime novels are set in the mysterious boglands of Ireland. ![]() Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork - and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archeologist Cormac Maguire, the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site, and a determined killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death. But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found - this one sporting a wristwatch. As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains, and his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of the ancient pagan sacrifice known as the triple death. ![]() ![]() BURIED EVIDENCE.Īmerican pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed by peat workers at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Take an unforgettable journey with the man George Bernard Shaw called "the only genius to come out of the movie industry" as he moves from his impoverished South London childhood to the heights of Hollywood wealth and fame from the McCarthy-era investigations to his founding of United Artists to his "reverse migration" back to Europe.Ĭharlie Chaplin's heartfelt and hilarious autobiography-one of the very first celebrity memoirs-tells the story of his life, showcasing all the charms, peculiarities and deeply-held beliefs that made him such an endearing and lasting character. The life of the silent film and comedy icon, in his own words-"the best autobiography every ever written by an actor. Michael was a huge fan of Charlie Chaplin, who wrote the music. Matthew Solomon, The Gold Rush (London: British Film Institute, 2015), 10. (BTW THIS IS ALMOST LIKE A SEQUEL TO MY OTHER BOOK Super Sexy Michael Jackson Stories). My Autobiography offers dedicated Chaplin fans and casual admirers alike an astonishing glimpse into the heart and the mind of Hollywood's original genius maverick. Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography (London: Simon & Schuster, 1964), 344. ![]() ![]() Of course, because of the onslaught of covers, this isn’t anywhere close to a complete collection, and that the exact dates of particular editions are not always easy to track down, and in some cases are approximate. ![]() ![]() (The current Wordsworth Classics, for instance, are truly awful.) So below, I’ve dug up some of the most interesting, or at least representative. Sometimes her books get they covers they deserve-and sometimes they don’t. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own, etc., but even the deep backlist. Woolf’s writing has been essential reading for so long that there have been countless editions and reprints, redesigns and rebrandings, of all of her books-and not just the most famous ones, Mrs. I’d wager that, if you’re reading this space, you knew that already. ![]() It almost seems silly to write that her books are wonderful, or world-changing-but they are. Virginia Woolf was born 136 years ago today. ![]() ![]() ![]() She took a break from writing, returning to it in 2010 her subsequent novels were published under her married name. Through her second marriage, she also had three stepchildren, Olivia, William and Max. From 2000 until her death, she was married to Stephen Riley, with whom she also had two children, Leonora and Kit. įrom 1988 to 1998, she was married to actor Owen Whittaker, with whom she had two children, Harry and Bella. ![]() ![]() This caused her to turn to writing, and her first novel Lovers and Players was published in 1992. Her acting career was interrupted by a long bout of mononucleosis. She remained a working actress for the next seven years. At 16, she got her first major television role in the BBC adaptation of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, followed shortly afterwards by a guest role in Auf Wiedersehen Pet. At age 14, she enrolled in the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London to study theatre and ballet. ![]() Lucinda Edmonds was born in Lisburn and spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. Lucinda Kate Riley ( née Edmonds 16 February 1965 – 11 June 2021) was a Northern Irish author of popular historical fiction, originally an actress. ![]() ![]() It is a species that is thought to have had tremendous impact on some of today’s cultures for at least four thousand years, and has been thought by some to be at the root of the origin of some of today’s religions. However, it is more than just a “pretty mushroom”. There has even been a great deal made of its connections with Christmas, but probably too much has been made of that connection and different interpretations of this theory are available. ![]() Its image can be seen in Christmas and greeting cards, children’s stories, science fiction and fantasy illustrations, and in mushroom models. In recent times, it is the mushroom that has been adopted as the “prototype” mushroom in western cultures. ![]() Yet the picture on the left of this mushroom will probably be familiar to the reader. Amanita muscaria, or the Fly Agaric, is not a well-known mushroom based on its scientific name or common name. ![]() |