![]() ![]() The sisters, aided by Phenomena’s Junior Forensics Kit and a chalkboard where they plot and record data, might be able to solve the mystery, but first they have to stop fighting with one another. Amid the chaos of family and Shenanigan’s quest for hidden treasure, Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, the matriarch of the Swift clan, is murdered. Cousin Erf, who is nonbinary and recently decided to choose their own preferred name, prompts Shenanigan to wonder if she must be a troublemaker just because the dictionary said so. Used to primarily interacting with her overbearing sisters, Phenomena and Felicity, she’s fascinated by her rude, more-than-slightly criminal cousins. ![]() When the family converges for a reunion and treasure hunt, Shenanigan meets most of her relatives for the first time. ![]() Shenanigan Swift, like the rest of the Swift family, is destined to grow up like the name randomly chosen for her from the dictionary. A treasure hunt and murder mystery with a family that’s rather eccentric (adjective: zany, whimsical, oddball). ![]()
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![]() ![]() The cry of Siaaaap (Attention!) rang out in the streets of the city in opposition not only to the Japanese occupiers but also the British who had replaced them, and the Dutch who waited in the wings to reclaim the island. In the 1940s, the workers and peasants of the city and its hinterland rose in struggle alongside the pemuda, the youth activists. Its tropical deco administrative buildings contrasted strongly with the shacks that housed its workforce, forming a cityscape of uneven hopes and aspirations. At one end, toward the west, sits the town of Bandung, the City of Flowers. The diverse island that is the heart of the Indonesia archipelago is home to a large number of coffee, tea, and quinine plantations-the main producers of wealth for the Dutch coffers. ![]() In 1955, the island of Java bore the marks not only of its three-hundred year colonial heritage but also its recent and victorious anticolonial struggle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The empress emerges from his book as a scheming and jealous busybody with an expensive wardrobe and acid tongue. The novelist Robert Graves drew on both their accounts when he wrote I, Claudius, his gripping novel about the family, told from the perspective of Livia's stuttering grandson, Emperor Claudius. Surely it was in his interest to draw on the material he had to hand rather than resort to mere fabrication. Or might their books contain elements of truth? Suetonius was head of the libraries in Rome and had access to the imperial archives. Was what this highly respected historian reported a fiction? He and his younger contemporary, Suetonius, were writing almost a century after Livia died, and other historians who described her were writing later still. Tacitus' account – and others like it – is so jaw-dropping that it's hard to know what to make of it. – The buried ship found on an English estate ![]() The first lady was even suspected of foul play when the emperor finally dropped dead in AD14 in his seventies. The ancient historian elaborated that Livia put her husband, Emperor Augustus, under her control, and banished or had killed every potential heir to the throne in order to promote her own son – Augustus's stepson – Tiberius, as his successor. That was Tacitus's damning assessment of Livia Drusilla, first empress of Rome. ![]() "Livia: a blight upon the nation as a mother, a blight upon the house of Caesar as a stepmother". ![]() ![]() Although, at her age I was a whole lot more boy crazy. ![]() I actually related to her in that I've also always been cautious, introverted and distant. What I did like about this book was Tilda's relationships losing a best friend, worrying over how much a new friend actually likes her, and trying to communicate with her little sister after years of being emotionally detached. First there wasn't enough action and instead a whole lot of sewing, then the actual role-playing wasn't all that exciting to follow. I found most of the LARP storyline to be somewhat uninteresting. ![]() Through most of it she's just building up the courage to meet new people and do new things, specifically getting into LARP with her new friend Jesper. It's a nice book but I also found it to be fairly boring. ![]() Natthimmel is about a fourteen year old girl, Tilda, and her teenage anxiety. ![]() ![]() ![]() They've strung her along and denied her desire to be reunited with Destiny for too long and now's she's ready to back up her threat to burn Krakoa to the ground. And it looks like the Marvel mutants will soon arrive that that moment.Īccording to Marvel, the series involves the promises both made and broken by the rulers of Krakoa to Mystique regarding her deceased wife Destiny and how the sometimes-hero/sometimes-villain isn't taking the broken parts sitting down. "There will be an island-not the first, but the last…" Those were Destiny's foreboding words she uttered to her wife Mystique at the beginning of Hickman's "age of Krakoa" revamp of the X-Men line. Inferno is a four-issue limited series written by Hickman with each 40-page issue illustrated by a rotating cast of artists beginning with Valerio Schiti (SWORD, Empyre), who the publisher describes being known for "masterfully depicting large-scale action alongside intense human drama." Marvel Comics has released a variant cover to Inferno #1 by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau (seen above and fully below) along with new information about the "heartbreaking saga" and what it's calling a "day of reckoning" to mankind's leaders and "shocking pay-off" to Hickman's overarching storyline. ![]() Jonathan Hickman's new X-Men series Inferno is coming into focus. Inferno teaser (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kirie is a teenage high schooler from a family of four and also in a relationship with Shoichi, a male high schooler who is already paranoid of his hometown and has always sensed something wrong with the area. In “Uzumaki,” Ito has readers see the town of Kurouzo-cho spiral into its downfall under the curse of the spiral through Kirie. After reading “Uzumaki,” Junji Ito is sure to intrigue readers to explore his other works. The scenarios Ito presents his readers are creative, mindboggling, grotesque, and are sure to stay embedded in the readers’ minds. ![]() While spirals may not necessarily inflict fear directly onto people, Junji Ito uses storytelling and illustrating to manifest fear from this inanimate object. In “Uzumaki,” Ito takes the town of Kurouzo-cho, a fictional city, and makes it become victim to a curse involving spirals along with its community. The three-volume series originally released in 1998 is an instant classic that should hold shelf-space in any horror or horror manga collector’s collection. To many, September is the start of “Spooky Season,” so what better way to get in the horror spirit than exploring the work of Japanese mangaka Junji Ito, and specifically focusing on the author’s second publication “Uzumaki.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The Phoenix and the Turtle, Q1-1601, Q2-1611 (in Robert Chester's Love's Martyr).The Rape of Lucrece, Q-1594 (with later editions in octavo).Venus and Adonis, Q1-1593, Q2-1594 (with later editions in octavo). ![]() Shakespeare's poems were also printed in quarto or octavo form: Popular plays like 1 Henry IV and Pericles were reprinted in their quarto editions even after the First Folio appeared, sometimes more than once. Pollard and other scholars associated with the New Bibliography. Six of the preceding were classified as " bad quartos" by Alfred W. In chronological order, these publications were: All of these were quarto editions, with two exceptions: The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, the first edition of Henry VI, Part 3, was printed in octavo form in 1595, as was the 1611 edition of The most lamentable tragedy of Titus Andronicus. Pericles (1609) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) also appeared separately before their inclusions in folio collections (the Shakespeare Third Folio and the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio, respectively). Main article: List of Shakespeare plays in quartoĮighteen of the 36 plays in the First Folio were printed in separate and individual editions prior to 1623. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urban has fled to a nearby world, to which Lezuri is bound as well. Silver follows directly on the heels of this conflict. The expedition back to Earth ran afoul of an unwelcome passenger: Lezuri, a godlike intelligence that attempted to take over the ship and was only expelled at the apparent cost of Urban himself. As with most trips, things got complicated quickly. ![]() It also means that as humanity spread itself into that emptiness, it became diffuse and attenuated and that the sharpest telescopes on the frontier give only clues but no answers about what has taken place in the intervening centuries on the cradle worlds of humanity.Įdges was the story of Urban’s ship and crew and what happened on their way home. This means distances and time spans are immense, and voyages are spread over centuries. In this science fiction universe, the laws of physics are firm, and no one has figured out a way around the universal speed limit of light itself or the constraints of relativistic travel. In Edges, some of the heroes from Nagata’s earlier series decide to head back in from the frontier of human expansion in the Milky Way to the galactic region of Earth and its immediate environs. Silver is the direct sequel to Edges, which is itself a continuation of Nagata’s Nanotech Successionseries. Silver by Linda Nagata (Mythic Island Press, Nov 2019). ![]() ![]() ![]() These images received extensive media attention, with the New York Times saying, “Mr. In 1862, Brady’s exhibit The Dead of Antietam showed the public the first ever photographs of a battlefield before the dead had been removed. ![]() One of these photographers on Brady’s team, Alexander Gardner, took all the photographs featured. Brady soon decided to document the war and, with permission from President Lincoln, he organized and self-financed a team of photographers who took thousands of photographs documenting camp life and battlefield scenes. Once the Civil War began, he began marketing cartes de visite (small photographs the size of a business card) to parents of departing soldiers so they could have images to keep of their sons while they were off at war. Morse and opened his own photography studios in New York and Washington DC, where he took photographs of prominent Americans of the time, including Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John James Audubon. Commonly referred to as the “father of photojournalism,” Brady studied under Samuel F. Mathew Brady was a New York photo journalist, best known for his collection of photography documenting the Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() text perfectly readable due to fitted font size almost 500 pages of finest 60g India paper complete and unabbreviated text of Nikola Tesla’s autobiography in English Richly decorated on the cover with several different processes of hot foil stamping, this book also comes with a matching slip case. We only use Cabra for the cover, which is a recycled leather and therefore environmentally friendly. Still perfectly readable, it is a great piece of art for your miniature books collection or makes as an awesome gift to show your own taste and style. ![]() ![]() In this autobiography you can read on almost 500 pages everything about his life and his inventions, packed into a handful of book in the size of only 1.50 x 2.09 inches! Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) was one of the greatest inventors, physicists and engineers of all time – so we decided to make a miniature book about him. ![]() |