![]() Great artwork by Clay Mann and Laura Martin What were your thoughts when they first told you they’d give you the helm of rebooting Poison Ivy? * Check out this example I found of library/comic store synergy at Pikes Peak Library District out in Colorado You’re on Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death right now, which is receiving rave reviews (congrats!). Libraries are also a good gateway, so long as the librarians put some attention into curating a good collection. The smart retailers have figured this out and have made their environment more friendly to a wider range of customers. Word of mouth worked very well with SAGA - it’s not like they had a planned media campaign, it was just a good and refreshing story that became a top seller, beating out Batman in many cases and bringing many new costumers in to comic book stores. I would encourage everyone to spotlight API books on your blogs, websites, Amazon lists, anywhere where you can call more attention to our work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thank goodness for Gene Luen Yang! He is on Superman and a great example. Well, we need to get more readers into comics. Kenan Kong, the new Chinese Superman by Gene Luen Yang ![]()
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![]() ![]() College is her chance to start with a clean slate. ![]() If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn’t worth sticking around for. ![]() It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. When the truth comes to light in a shocking way, they may learn they were just playing parts for each other, too. Together, they’re real and genuine apart, they’re just actors playing their parts for everyone else. Maise and Evan resolve to keep their hands off each other, but the attraction is too much to bear. That someone turns out to be her new film class teacher, Mr. Someone who sees beyond her bravado to the scared but strong girl inside. It can be an unexpected connection with someone who truly understands her. He’s taught her that a hookup can be something more. But afterward, she can’t get Evan out of her head. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings. When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, screw up her own future.īut life has a way of throwing her plans into free-fall. ![]() Maise O’Malley just turned eighteen, but she’s felt like a grown-up her entire life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he asks for one night together so he can show me what it’s like to be with a man, I can’t say no. West’s the only person who knows all the parts of me, just like I know his. Though my identity doesn’t stay a secret from him for long.īetween texts and late-night phone calls, we get to know each other. At least he doesn’t know who I am-the best tight end in the NFL, playing for the Atlanta Lightning. No one has ever guessed my secret until the gorgeous man at a bar in DC. Pretending isn’t easy, but it means I can keep playing football. I’ve always known I’m gay, but never acted on it. So, when I’m in DC and see a beautiful guy at the hotel bar, I don’t hesitate to proposition him…right before he runs out on me, leaving his sunglasses behind like my very own Cinderfella. From college, to law school, to the United States Senate representing California, I’ve done it all as an out gay man. ![]() When I left home, I swore I’d never hide anything about myself again. ![]() ![]() She does embarrassing stuff all the time, but is never embarrassed. ![]() I wish I could be more like my best friend Twig. When was the last time you felt embarrassed? Well, except that some rules need breaking. But my parents love him, and anytime they play his songs we all start dancing. Which I know is weird because he’s, like, super old. Did you know my mom wrote a book? It’s a science book, about this really cool flower that’s kinda magical. I’d love that! Let’s make it when we’re done chatting. I’m pretty sure I’m doing the assignments wrong, but don’t tell anyone.Īre you hungry right now? Can we fix you anything to eat? Maybe we could make you your favorite dish? Will you tell us what you keep inside of it? ![]() ![]() I’m sorry your mom is having a hard time. I’m trying to be understanding but I also don’t get it and I just want to drag her out of bed and…sorry, I got sidetracked. She’s sick, or something, but it’s been hard. My mom’s been having a hard time getting out of bed some days. It’s just…well, that’s kind of a touchy question in my family right now. The Children’s Book Review: What gets you out of bed in the morning? ![]() The Children’s Book Review | MaA heart-to-heart with Natalie from Tae Keller’s The Science of Breakable Things-an emotionally-charged new classic about the science of hope, love, and miracles! ![]() ![]() ![]() Aunt Kate asks Gabriel to keep an eye on Freddy, as he is known to show up intoxicated. Freddy Malins arrives and the conversation dissolves. Gretta tells Kate and Julia of Gabriel’s strange preference for galoshes, and he explains that they’re very popular on the continent. Gretta and Gabriel’s aunts come out of the dressing room and greet Gabriel, who is their favorite nephew. ![]() ![]() As he joins the party, Gabriel glances at the notes for the speech he is to make later on that night, wondering whether quoting Robert Browning will be too obscure and complicated for his audience. She awkwardly thanks him as he heads upstairs to the party, still brooding over her bitter retort. Gabriel offers her a tip, which he insists she accept in the Christmas spirit. When Lily takes Gabriel’s coat, he notices that she has matured into an attractive young woman and remarks that she is approaching the age for marriage, but Lily snaps at his remark. It is already after ten o’clock when Gabriel-the protagonist and nephew of Julia and Kate-and his wife Gretta finally arrive. Lily is taking the men’s coats, while Julia and Kate are attending to the female party guests. The story begins with Lily, Julia, Mary Jane, and Kate welcoming guests to their annual Christmas party in Dublin. ![]() ![]() As of 2007, the book sells about 800,000 copies annually and by 2017 had cumulatively sold an estimated 48 million copies. Annual sales grew from about 1,500 copies in 1953 to almost 20,000 in 1970 by 1990, the total number of copies sold exceeded 4 million. During the post-World War II Baby Boom years, it slowly became a bestseller. The NYPL and other libraries did not acquire it at first. ![]() Anne Carroll Moore, the influential children's librarian at the New York Public Library (NYPL), regarded it as "overly sentimental". Goodnight Moon had poor initial sales: only 6,000 copies were sold upon initial release in fall 1947. Illustrator Clement Hurd said in 1983 that initially the book was to be published using the pseudonym "Memory Ambrose" for Brown, with his illustrations credited to "Hurricane Jones". The three books have been published together as a collection titled Over the Moon. This book is the second in Brown and Hurd's "classic series", which also includes The Runaway Bunny and My World. ![]() It was published on September 3, 1947, and is a highly acclaimed bedtime story. Goodnight Moon is an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. ![]() ![]() One of these must be incomplete or even wrong in some way. In fact, this isn't a full-blown paradox at all, just a flat contradiction between what, on the one hand, we believe to be the way the Universe works (its laws of nature, science as a rationale, reason itself for that matter) and, on the other, the Universe we seem to be living in. ![]() This has become known as the Fermi Paradox - in Fermi's own words, 'Where is everybody?' - and the more we learn, the more mystifying it becomes: the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence programme has been running for decades now, without detecting even a single stray signal, while at the same time the latest space probes are discovering new planets by the truck-load. Worse, our solar system may be more than four billion years old, but the Universe itself is more than thirteen billion - so there should have been Earths out there with their versions of us for aeons already. ![]() It struck physicist Enrico Fermi as very odd: if the laws of nature are universal, working in the same way all over the galaxy, and have produced the Earth, life (and us) here, then they should have produced Earths (and 'us') everywhere. ![]() Point a decent-sized radio antenna at any part of the sky, or just look up at it all on a cloudless night: not a trace of aliens - doesn't that strike you as odd? ![]() ![]() ![]() His new book "Wildland" reports on three different places that he's lived in. His first book, "Age Of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, And Faith In The New China," won a 2014 National Book Award. He was the magazine's China correspondent from 2008 to 2013. He covers politics and foreign affairs for The New Yorker, where he's a staff writer. ![]() How did America become so divided? Why is there so much rage and fear? How did the gap grow so large between the wealthiest and everyone else? And why did we come so close to overturning the results of a presidential election? These are some of the questions my guest, Evan Osnos, grapples with in his new book "Wildland: The Making Of America's Fury." Osnos is also the author of a book about Joe Biden. ![]() ![]() And so the two former friends begin working together to open a wormhole in the fabric of the universe. ![]() In spite of herself, Cora wants to believe. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever-and stop him. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. ![]() An extraordinary new novel from Jasmine Warga, Newbery Honor–winning author of Other Words for Home, about loss and healing-and how friendship can be magical.Ĭora hasn't spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.ĭespite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. ![]() ![]() he genius of Fever Dream is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker By the time I finished the book, I couldn't bring myself to look out the windows. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. ![]() "I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. "Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." - Vanity Fair Schweblin's book is suffused with haunting images and big questions." - New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() "To call Schweblin's novella eerie and hallucinatory is only to gesture at its compact power the fantastical here simply dilates a reality we begin to accept as terrifying and true. ![]() |
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