Wolverine origin paul jenkins7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() He considered a good enough story would have the opposite effect. ![]() ![]() Jemas discovered an entrenched editorial opinion that relating an origin story would destroy the mystique of the character, and by extension undermine the X-Men franchise. Furthermore it would be an ideal project to capitalise on the recent release of the first X-Men film.Īt that point, despite his long career and numerous appearances, little was known of Logan’s past beyond his name, nature, longevity and his powers of a rapid healing factor and retractable claws. He considered any valid reason for concealment had long since passed, and continuing to maintain a mystery was depriving Marvel of the financial windfall that disclosure would bring. It was a matter that puzzled Bill Jemas when he was appointed Publisher of Marvel Comics in 2000. In over 25 years since his introduction Wolverine’s popularity had grown to a level where he was a major property, yet the full extent of his origin had never been revealed. ![]()
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Treasure hunters patterson7/7/2023 ![]() If they fail, their parents will be found guilty and thrown in prison. ![]() Book Synopsis With their parents in trouble once again, the Kidds must traverse the Australian Outback, recover a pair of stolen gems, and defeat treasure-hunting pirates to save them! The Kidd family is on their way to Australia to find Lasseters Gold when they are challenged by fellow treasure hunter Charlotte Badger, who challenges them to a race to the gold! But when the Kidds pull into port in Australia, their parents are suddenly arrested - theyve been framed! It turns out Charlotte Badger is a pirate, and shes planted a priceless stolen black opal on the Kidds ship, The Lost! Now Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have seven days to traverse the Australian Outback, find Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and bring back the evidence that will prove their parents innocent. About the Book Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals. ![]() ![]() She describes her worries about his epilepsy and how working too hard to get a break might have hurt him and how it was that no one, including herself, saw Ian's suicide coming. ![]() ![]() She would see every side of Ian Curtis but, like many, would believe that the depressing lyrics he wrote were just something he was writing, not something he was feeling.ĭeborah Curtis takes us through her own life as it intersects with Ian's and describes the loneliness of being his wife as he became more emotionally distant and as his work with Joy Division took him physically away from her. ![]() She knew him from when he was just schoolboy with big dreams and was with him during his rise to fame, through until his sad end. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana is perhaps the highest profile of these but more than a decade before he killed himself there was Ian Curtis of Joy Division.ĭeborah Curtis seems to be the person in the best position to talk about Ian Curtis' life, as she shared many years of it as his girlfriend and wife. Far fewer are those who have deliberately snuffed out their own spark. Others have died through no fault of their own, their deaths a tragedy. Many have lived the rock 'n roll lifestyle to excess and paid the ultimate price. The list of rock stars who have been taken from us early is a long one. Even after being married to him, Deborah Curtis proves that he didn't let her get any closer than anyone else and the biography is lacking. Summary: A biography of someone who kept everyone around him at a distance. ![]() The getting things done workbook7/6/2023 ![]() Each chapter identifies a challenge the reader may be facing - such as being overwhelmed by too many to-do lists, a messy desk or email overload - and explains the GTD concept to address. The workbook divides the process into small, manageable segments to allow for easier learning and doing. While Getting Things Done remains the definitive way to gain perspective over work and create the mental space for creativity and mindfulness, The Getting Things Done Workbook enhances the original by providing an accessible guide to the GTD methodology in workbook form. Around the world hundreds of certified trainers and coaches are engaged full time in teaching the process, supported by a grassroots movement of Meetup groups, LinkedIn groups, Facebook groups, podcasts, blogs and dozens of apps based on it. An accessible, practical, step-by-step guide that supplements Getting Things Done by providing the details, the how-to's and the practices to apply GTD more fully and easily in daily life The incredible popularity of Getting Things Done revealed people's need to take control of their own productivity with a system that reduces the stress of staying on top of it all. ![]() A Seditious Affair by K.J. Charles7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() But when Silas’s politics earn him a death sentence, desire clashes with duty, and Dominic finds himself doing everything he can to save the man who stole his heart. ![]() Their needs match, and they are united by sympathy for each other’s deepest vulnerabilities. In the bedroom, everything else falls away. By the light of day, he cannot fathom the intoxicating lust that drives him to meet with the Radical week after week. But unbeknownst to Silas, his closest friend is also his greatest enemy, with the power to see him hanged-or spare his life.Ī loyal, well-born gentleman official, Dominic Frey is torn apart by his affair with Silas. Every week he meets anonymously with the same man, in whom Silas has discovered the ideal meld of intellectual companionship and absolute obedience to his sexual commands. He’s an overbearing idealist, a Radical bookseller and pamphleteer who lives for revolution. Silas Mason has no illusions about himself. ![]() Charles turns up the heat in her new Society of Gentlemen novel, as two lovers face off in a sensual duel that challenges their deepest beliefs. ![]() Felix ever7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() īooklist 's Kaitlin Connor noted, "Felix's hard-fought and dramatic journey toward self-discovery will resonate with teens looking for narratives about diverse LGBTQIA characters learning to love themselves." Amanda MacGregor, writing for the School Library Journal, praised the book's diverse cast of characters and the protagonist MacGregor calls "achingly relatable". The book was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. ![]() Time named Felix Ever After one of "The 100 Best YA Books of All Time" alongside Catcher in the Rye, The Outsiders, and others. The story is narrated by a Black trans teen as he grapples "with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time". Felix Ever After is a young adult novel written by Kacen Callender and published in 2020 by Balzer + Bray. ![]() Sanditon book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Sharon Stone Says Her Career Never Recovered After She Suffered a Stroke in 2001: "I've Been out for 20 Years" Stream It Or Skip It: 'To Leslie' on Netflix, in Which Andrea Riseborough Gives a Riveting Portrayal of a Woman in the Grip of Alcoholism Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Year I Started Masturbating' on Netflix, A Raucous Romp About Discovering Pleasure Stream It Or Skip It: 'Magic Mike’s Last Dance' on Max, Channing Tatum's Disappointing Return to the Grind Jason Segel Was "Really Unhappy" While Filming The Final Seasons Of 'How I Met Your Mother' Stream It Or Skip It: 'Missed Connections' on Netflix, a Floundering Filipino Rom-Com Starring Miles Ocampo Seth Rogen Slams Streaming Service Execs for Their "Secretiveness" and "Insane Salaries": "Thank God for These Labor Unions" Judge Throws out 'Romeo and Juliet' Underage Nude Scene Lawsuit, Says It Is Protected by the First Amendment ![]() Let’s Get Loud! 7 Movies to Stream on Netflix in Celebration of Pride Month 2023 ![]() Stream It or Skip It: 'Wedding Season' on Hallmark, Where Three Weddings Are Better than One ![]() The shop on blossom street7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Jacqueline Donovan is stuck in a marriage that has dwindled into an arrangement of separate rooms and separate lives. The first lesson: how to knit a baby blanket.įor owner Lydia Hoffman, the shop represents her dream of beginning a new life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. You go there to buy knitting supplies and patterns - and now it's offering a knitting class. There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. ![]() Diuna by Frank Herbert7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() More recently he’d spent a weird interlude in Washington as a speechwriter for a Republican senator. ![]() He’d had a relatively easy war, serving eight months as a naval photographer before receiving a medical discharge. After a hard childhood in a small coastal community near Tacoma, Washington, where his pleasures had been fishing and messing about in boats, he’d worked for various regional newspapers in the Pacific northwest and sold short stories to magazines. Above all he was intrigued by the idea that it might be possible to engineer an ecosystem, to green a hostile desert landscape.Ībout to turn 40, Herbert had been a working writer since the age of 19, and his fortunes had always been patchy. “These waves can be every bit as devastating as a tidal wave … they’ve even caused deaths,” he wrote in a pitch to his agent. Herbert hired a Cessna light aircraft to survey the scene from the air. Pushed by strong winds off the Pacific, the dunes moved eastwards, burying everything in their path. ![]() Frank Herbert, a freelance writer with a feeling for ecology, was researching a magazine story about a US Department of Agriculture programme to stabilise the shifting sands by introducing European beach grass. I n 1959, if you were walking the sand dunes near Florence, Oregon, you might have encountered a burly, bearded extrovert, striding about in Ray-Ban Aviators and practical army surplus clothing. ![]() Killing sarai novel7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() “Who is he?” my only friend, Lydia, asks as she pushes herself further into view. I was beginning to think Javier killed them all. ![]() Cover photo by Michelle Monique Photography Cover model: Nicole Whittaker Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CHAPTER THIRTY CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE CHAPTER FORTY CHAPTER FORTY-ONE CHAPTER FORTY-TWO CHAPTER ONE Somewhere in Mexico It’s been nine years since I saw the last American here. Redmerski All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part and in any form. Other names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, persons living or deceased, is entirely coincidental. ![]() ![]() Any references to real people, events, or locales are used fictitiously. REDMERSKI This book is a work of fiction. ![]() |