![]() “I hope loyal Superman fans stay away from it in droves. He wrote a long, angry screed placing a curse on Donner's movie and sent copies to every news organisation he could think of. Six months later, with Richard Donner's 1978 Superman movie on the horizon but still no pension from DC, Siegel decided it was time for desperate measures. Siegel wrote a long, angry screed placing a curse on Richard Donner's Superman movie Both in their sixties by then, suffering from poor health, and struggling for cash, they wearily agreed. That case dragged on till 1975, producing another defeat for the two men and hints from DC that it might give them a pension if they dropped plans for a Supreme Court appeal. ![]() The Superman wars broke out again in 1966, when his initial 28-year copyright term came to an end, and Siegel and Shuster filed notice to terminate. ![]() DC retained ownership of all the characters Kirby had created there, and still uses them to this day. Kirby invented, wrote and drew a handful of unconnected books for DC after that, including The Demon, Kamandi and Omac, but returned to Marvel in 1976. Citing poor sales, DC closed New Gods and The Forever People after just 11 issues each, and Mister Miracle after only 18. ![]() Kirby's original hope had been to give his Fourth World story a proper ending, close the comics themselves down, and then collect the whole saga into a series of what we'd now call graphic novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But Wallach presents Green's charitable self, a woman who could be wise and witty, warm as well." -New York Daily News "An enjoyable account. Green, who was notoriously frugal and never shied away from a fight, earned a reputation as the mean, crazy lady of Wall Street. ![]() Incredibly, it was money she earned through savvy and aggressive investing. Wallach brings a warm empathy to her account." -The Daily Beast "Hetty Green was a talented investor who had the bad luck to be born in an era when a guild, the guild of Victorian men, shut out a whole class of minds-women's." -The Wall Street Journal "Wallach does an admirable job putting together a more complete picture of the fascinating and ground-breaking Green beyond her 'Witch of Wall Street' reputation." -USA Today "It's always fun to return to the story of Green, who died in 1916 with a fortune of $100 million. In telling Green's story, Wallach also tells the story of America's repeated busts and booms in a way that seems very relevant right now." -The Washington Post "A lively book that whisks readers through five decades of Green's wheeling and dealing. Filled with colorful historical details of an economic time that eerily parallels our own." - San Francisco Chronicle "Aspiring investors might want to memorize Hetty Green's words as they do Warren Buffett's. "An enthusiastic portrait of an investment pioneer who matched her male counterparts in ambition and guile, and never backed down from a fight. ![]() ![]() ![]() But one thing she did have in common with her – though a cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right." Mellowing with appearances (if not with age) Miss Marple graced twelve novels and twenty short stories during her career as an amateur detective, never paid and not always thanked. ![]() ![]() While Agatha Christie acknowledged that her grandmother had been a huge influence on the character, she writes that Miss Marple was "far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was. Christie never expected Miss Marple to rival Poirot in the public’s affections but since the publication of The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, Marple's first full length novel, readers were hooked. It was first published in the December 1927 issue of Royal Magazine. Miss Marple first came into being in 1927 in The Tuesday Night Club, a short story pulled together into the collection The Thirteen Problems. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Milkman is a uniquely meandering and mesmerizing, wonderful and enigmatic work about borders and barriers, both physical and spiritual, and the cost of survival.” -Booklist, starred review This is an unforgettable novel.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review The narrator of this claustrophobic yet strangely buoyant tale undergoes an unsentimental education in sexual politics. ![]() Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.” -The Guardian (UK) ![]() “Milkman vibrates with the anxieties of our own era, from terrorism to sexual harassment to the blinding divisions that make reconciliation feel impossible … It’s as though the intense pressure of this place has compressed the elements of comedy and horror to produce some new alloy.” -The Washington Post “Seething with black humor and adolescent anger at the adult world and its brutal absurdities … For a novel about life under multifarious forms of totalitarian control-political, gendered, sectarian, communal-Milkman can be charmingly wry.” - The New Yorker “Bursting with energy, with tiny apertures of kindness, and a youthful kind of joy … A triumph of resistance.” - The Boston Globe ![]() ![]() Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was not an easy childhood for a painfully shy girl. Sylvie Fontaine grew up in a family of wealthy, overachieving, Creole women. ![]() That book was so great that I had to track down Luc and Sylvie's story, The Love Potion. I recently read Tall, Dark and Cajun, which was the first time I'd read Sandra Hill. Hill updates (sort of) William Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when a sexy scientist inadvertently casts a love spell on the last man she’d ever want to fall in love with. Speaking of New York Times and USA Today bestseller Sandra Hill, Romantic Times BOOKclub declares that, “humor and Hill are a winning team.” Whether she’s entangling handsome Viking warriors in outrageously hot and funny romantic adventures-in the distant past or, remarkably, in the modern day-or creating contemporary love stories as hilarious as they are scorchingly hot, Hill is a master. The marvelously hysterical The Love Potion is the first in her Cajun Men series, and introduces readers to the amazing Tante Lulu. “Always fresh, romantic, inventive, and hilarious.”-New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the ability to make a big difference in her community, she’s forced to take a much closer look at her views on colorism, police brutality, and masculinity while respecting her mother’s memory as a police officer.įairy ‘Fro is a work of fiction that takes a deeper look at the underlying currents that form social injustices and how to establish the proper balance between the police and minority communities. But with power comes responsibility, and Tianna needs to find her balance as a superhero. ![]() How could she know that act of service would change her life forever? Approached by a mysterious hairstylist, she’s granted certain superpowers. One night, after leaving a civil protest she inadvertently saves a hair salon from catching fire. Losing her mother at a young age – a police officer on duty – gives her a different perspective, but ultimately challenges her beliefs. As a minority, she’s no stranger to hardships and the social discrimination that comes with the color of her skin. Tianna is a charming, strong-willed young woman. Can she take this moment to make a change and stand up for her community? ![]() A chance encounter with a mystifying hairstylist leaves her with unimaginable powers. ![]() ![]() Little Wars included rules for artillery (a match-stick firing cannon), rate of movement, and several game variations. This book contained the rules for a tabletop (or floor) war game using lead soldiers and improvised battlefields. ![]() Gamers might take a special interest in Wells’ 1913 work, Little Wars. His books are still read today and have been popularized by movies and television shows, served as the basis for several games, and been adapted into radio dramas-including Orson Welles’ famous 1938 Panic Broadcast. Indeed, even his fiction works often contained social commentary. In addition to being a noted science fiction pioneer, Wells also wrote on social issues. ![]() ![]() Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a English author of scientific romances including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Levine of counsel), for respondent.Īppeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Mott, J.), entered Octoin Albany County, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent denying his request to participate in the family reunion program. Underwood, Attorney General, Albany (Allyson B. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION, Respondent.īefore: McCarthy, J.P., Egan Jr., Mulvey, Aarons andĮvan Marshall, Dannemora, appellant pro se.īarbara D. In the Matter of EVAN MARSHALL, Appellant, ![]() This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports. Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. Matter of Marshall v New York State Dept. ![]() ![]() While this means he will never fully understand romantic or familial love, it also gives him a more objective viewpoint on what's going on around him. Nathan has also taken a vow of celibacy, the better to devote himself to serving King David. This is, in part, because every prophecy Nathan has made comes true. Only King David keeps him close and listens to anything Nathan says. People are frightened by his prophecies, and therefore avoid him. For one thing, he's a loner and an outsider. It does take a while to become accustomed to Nathan's style of narration, but when one does, Nathan is a good narrator for a number of reasons. ![]() Nathan was the author of one of the lost books of the Bible, the Book of Nathan the Prophet (also known as the History of Nathan the Prophet). The narrator of this tale is the King's faithful servant, the Prophet Nathan (a.k.a. So I was fascinated by this look at the life of the legendary Old Testament ruler of Israel, King David. This novel gave me a look at an historical period about which I've read little (outside of my weekend Hebrew school lessons as a child). ![]() Fascinating Account of King David's Life, Through the Eyes of the Prophet NathanĪ Period of History about which I've Read Little ![]() |