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Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 2
by Roye OkupeSoon to be an animated series from HBO Max, Cartoon Network, and Lion Forge Animation!The orphan Iyanu is thrust into the wildlands beyond the safety of the walls of her home!She must quickly learn to work with an exile and the people of the Riverlands Settlement if she hopes to save her mentor. Meanwhile, Chancellor Nuro finalizes a diabolical plan that threatens to destroy the entirety of Yorubaland in his greedy hunt to capture Iyanu, also known now as the Chosen One! The YouNeek line at Dark Horse expands with this fantastic graphic novel series!
Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 3
by Roye OkupeSoon to be a Cartoon Network/Max/Lion Forge Animation animated series!Iyanu makes her way to the Source to save all of Yorubaland from an ancient curse.This time, however, she has help from her new friends: Biyi, a carefree adventurer; Toye, the bookworm; and Ekun, the magical and opinionated giant leopard! Together, all four—also known as Team Chosen—embark on an epic adventure full of twists, turns, and laughs that will change their lives forever!Dark Horse and YouNeek Studios continue stories in a shared universe of African fantasy and superhero stories—the YouNeek YouNiverse!
Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 4 (Iyanu: Child of Wonder)
by Roye OkupeSoon to be a Max/Cartoon Network animated series!Iyanu must face her destiny and save all of Yorubaland! She has help from her friends: Biyi, a carefree adventurer; Toye, the bookworm; and Ekun, the magical and opinionated giant leopard!Together, all four—also known as Team Chosen—embark on an epic adventure full of twists, turns, and laughs that will change their lives forever!Dark Horse and YouNeek Studios continue stories in a shared universe of African fantasy and superhero stories—the YouNeek YouNiverse!
Izzy the Indigo Fairy: The Rainbow Fairies Book 6 (Rainbow Magic #6)
by Daisy MeadowsGet ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. When Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island one summer holiday, they have no idea that such magical adventures with the fairies await them! In this sixth book in the series, Rachel and Kirsty enter a magical world in order to find Izzy the Indigo Fairy...'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.comIf you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' other series: Magic Animal Friends and Unicorn Magic!
J. F. K.: Join the Fauci's Killer
by Pier-Giorgio TomatisLe lieutenant de police de Chicago, Jonathan Perry, a mis la pandémie de Covid dans le collimateur de ses enquêtes. Pour découvrir les coupables il sera contraint de quitter les Etats-Unis pour se rendre en Chine, en Russie... et au Nigeria.
J. F. K.: Join the Fauci's Killer
by Pier-Giorgio TomatisDer Chicagoer Polizeileutnant Jonathan Perry hat die Covid-Pandemie ins Fadenkreuz seiner Ermittlungen gerückt. Um die Schuldigen zu finden, wird er gezwungen sein, die Vereinigten Staaten zu verlassen, um nach China, Russland ... und Nigeria zu gehen.
J. F. K.: Join the Fauci's Killer
by Pier-Giorgio TomatisEl teniente de policía de Chicago, Jonathan Perry, ha puesto la pandemia de Covid en el punto de mira de sus investigaciones. Para descubrir a los culpables se verá obligado a abandonar Estados Unidos para ir a China, Rusia... y Nigeria.
J. F. K.: Join to Fauci's Killer
by Pier-Giorgio TomatisChicago Police Lieutenant Jonathan Perry has put the Covid Pandemic in the crosshairs of his investigations. To discover the culprits he will be forced to leave the United States to go to China, Russia ... and Nigeria.
J. G. Ballard (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)
by D. Harlan WilsonProphetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.
J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions
by Jeannette Baxter Rowland WymerProviding an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event
by Derek AttridgeNobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics who have addressed his work have devoted themselves to rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and perplex his readers. Yet it is just these features, Derek Attridge argues, that give Coetzee's work its haunting power and offer its greatest rewards. Attridge does justice to this power and these rewards in a study that serves as an introduction for readers new to Coetzee and a stimulus for thought for those who know his work well. Without overlooking the South African dimension of his fiction, Attridge treats Coetzee as a writer who raises questions of central importance to current debates both within literary studies and more widely in the ethical arena. Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice to our ethical impulses and acts. Attridge follows Coetzee's lead in exploring a number of issues such as interpretation and literary judgment, responsibility to the other, trust and betrayal, artistic commitment, confession, and the problematic idea of truth to the self.
J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
by George Clark Daniel TimmonsThis book corrects a striking imbalance in Tolkien scholarship by placing his works within a larger literary context. The volume ranges over the entire history of English literature, including oral narrative tradition, Anglo-Saxon poetry, medieval romance, Renaissance poetics, 19th-century adventure stories, modern art, and contemporary fantasy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor who demonstrates Tolkien's relation to an earlier literary movement and examines the literary resonances of his works from a variety of informed perspectives. By grounding Tolkien's writings within the larger canon of literature, the book argues that his works actually fall within the mainstream literary tradition.
J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth
by Bradley J. BirzerPETER JACKSON'S FILM VERSION of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy-and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity-has played a unique role in the dissemination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T. S. Eliot, Dante and C. S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age. This meticulously researched work provides interesting reading for Tolkien fans and for students of literature, political science and theology.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Man Who Created The Lord of the Rings
by Michael CorenFrom the back cover: "J.R.R. TOLKIEN was an orphan, a scholar, a soldier, a professor, and the author of what is considered by many to be the finest book of the 20th Century--The Lord of the Rings. In this carefully researched and engagingly written biography, you'll come to know Tolkien, the friends and family members who shaped his life, and the colleagues and fellow writers who influenced his career. You'll follow Tolkien from his early childhood in South Africa to what he assumed would be the pinnacle of his career--a professorship at Oxford. Little did he know, it was just the beginning. For it was there that Tolkien would decide to write The Hobbit --the story which started it all." Many pictures are described. The bibliography, Index and photograph credits are included at the end of the text.
J.R. Silver Writes Her World
by Melissa DassoriJ.R.&’s struggles to navigate the torments of middle school and her secret power to write wishes into existence in this magical story about finding your voice, perfect for fans of From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Sixth grade is off to a difficult start for Josephine Rose Silver. Her best friend, Violet, returns from camp with a new best friend; her parents refuse to grant her more independence; and her homeroom teacher, Ms. Kline, is full of secrets. When Ms. Kline unveils a collection of old Gothamite magazines and tells her students to build their writing skills by crafting short stories inspired by the iconic covers, J.R. discovers a peculiar power: The stories she writes come true. Soon J.R. is getting a cell phone, scoring game-winning goals, and triggering school cancellations. But it's not long before she realizes that each new story creates as many conflicts as it does solutions. And when J.R. tries to write about her fallout with Violet, all of her problems converge. With a pinch of magic, mystery, art history, and language arts woven into a journey of growth and self-confidence, this promising debut is a heartfelt and satisfying tribute to the power of words.
J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
by J. R. WardThis digital collection features the first four novels in New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels--Dark Lover, Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened, and Lover Revealed.
J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8
by J. R. WardFour complete novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling vampire series featuring "the hottest collection of studs in romance"*...Includes Lover Unbound; Lover Enshrined; Lover Avenged; and Lover Mine!*Angela Knight
J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy (Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction)
by Janka KascakovaThis volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien’s oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today’s media-saturated culture.
J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy (Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction)
by Janka KascakovaThis volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation, and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien’s oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today’s media-saturated culture.
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
by Tom ShippeyThe definitive Tolkien companion—an indispensable guide to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and more, from the author of The Road to Middle-earth. This &“highly erudite celebration and exploration of Tolkien&’s works [is] enormous fun,&” declared the Houston Chronicle, and Tom Shippey, a prominent medievalist and scholar of fantasy, &“deepens your understanding&” without &“making you forget your initial, purely instinctive response to Middle-earth and hobbits.&” In a clear and accessible style, Shippey offers a new approach to Tolkien, to fantasy, and to the importance of language in literature. He breaks down The Lord of the Rings as a linguistic feast for the senses and as a response to the human instinct for myth. Elsewhere, he examines The Hobbit&’s counterintuitive relationship to the heroic world of Middle-earth; demonstrates the significance of The Silmarillion to Tolkien&’s canon; and takes an illuminating look at lesser-known works in connection with Tolkien&’s life. Furthermore, he ties all these strands together in a continuing tradition that traces its roots back through Grimms&’ Fairy Tales to Beowulf. &“Shippey&’s commentary is the best so far in elucidating Tolkien&’s lovely myth,&” wrote Harper&’s Magazine. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century is &“a triumph&” (Chicago Sun-Times) that not only gives readers a deeper understanding of Tolkien and his work, but also serves as an entertaining introduction to some of the most influential novels ever written.
J.S. Cook's Greatest Hits (Dreamspinner Press Bundles #20)
by J. S. CookEnjoy J.S. Cook's best mysteries, with a side of lust and romance, in this collection. In But Not for Me, gangster boss Nino Moretti rescues beautiful mob accountant Stanley Zadwadzki from a rival, but the consequences may cost them any chance at a relationship. In A Little Night Murder, insurance investigator Frank Boyle may have escaped from danger once with help from detective Sam Lipinski, but a new investigation is turning up trouble once again. In Come to Dust, Inspector Philemon Raft is set adrift among the deceitful ton of turn-of-the-century London, trying to locate the kidnapped Miriam Dewberry. In The Lovely Beast, Jacob van Willingen is on a mission to exterminate the evil Caleb Donnithorn, but things aren't quite what they seem to be at this Romanian castle. In Skid Row Serenade, novelist and war hero Tony Leonard visits his estranged wife only to find her beaten to death. On the run, he decides to fake his own death, with a little help from private investigator Edwin Malloy.See excerpt for individual blurbs.But Not for Me previously published by Dreamspinner Press, March 2013Cover Art by Aaron Anderson aaronbydesign55@gmail.comA Little Night Murder previously published by Dreamspinner Press, September 2013Cover Art by Catt FordCome to Dust previously published by Dreamspinner Press, November 2013Cover Art by Maria FanningThe Lovely Beast previously published by Dreamspinner Press, July 2014Cover Art by L.C. Chase http://www.lcchase.comSkid Row Serenade previously published by Dreamspinner Press, August 2015Cover Art by Aaron Anderson aaronbydesign55@gmail.com
J: A Novel
by Howard JacobsonFinalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize"J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris." --Independent (UK) Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson's brilliant and profound new novel, J, "invites comparison with George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World" (Sunday Times, London). Set in a world where collective memory has vanished and the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a boldly inventive love story, both tender and terrifying. Kevern Cohen doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. It wasn't then, and isn't now, the time or place to be asking questions. When the extravagantly beautiful Ailinn Solomons arrives in his village by a sea that laps no other shore, Kevern is instantly drawn to her. Although mistrustful by nature, the two become linked as if they were meant for each other. Together, they form a refuge from the commonplace brutality that is the legacy of a historic catastrophe shrouded in suspicion, denial, and apology, simply referred to as WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED. To Ailinn's guardian, Esme Nussbaum, Ailinn and Kevern are fragile shoots of hopefulness. As this unusual pair's actions draw them into ever-increasing danger, Esme is determined to keep them together--whatever the cost. In this stunning, evocative, and terribly heartbreaking work, where one couple's love affair could have shattering consequences for the human race, Howard Jacobson gathers his prodigious gifts for the crowning achievement of a remarkable career.From the Hardcover edition.
JUSTICE in God's Hands
by Steve MatthewsIn the fight for justice, no secret stays buried forever.Diane Spencer is embracing her new life as founder of the Social Injustice Centre, a groundbreaking project aimed at freeing the innocent and exposing corruption. But as Diane champions justice for others, the ghosts of her own past resurface with a vengeance. When the daughter of Judge Lucy Prior—known for her lenient sentences—vanishes, Sydney erupts in a media storm. Chief Superintendent Bruce Spencer, Diane&’s brother, leads the investigation, but the list of suspects is tangled in a web of power, crime, and revenge. Is the culprit Sarah Bancroft&’s vengeful brother, disgraced aristocrat Winston Stevens, or her son Henry, a wannabe gangster out of his depth in Sydney&’s criminal underworld? Meanwhile, the SIC team races to prove the innocence of an Aboriginal woman wrongly imprisoned for murder. As the case grows more complex, Diane&’s newly recruited intern, Emma, becomes a victim herself, drawing the team into the dark, dangerous world of Henry Bancroft. While lives hang in the balance, Diane confronts the man who shattered her own. As buried secrets come to light, the boundaries between justice and vengeance blur. With the stakes rising, Diane and Bruce find themselves on a collision course—both seeking resolution, but in ways that could destroy everything they&’ve fought for. A gripping tale of betrayal, redemption, and resilience, Book 2 of' The Spencer Investigations' series delivers shocking twists and a finale that will leave you questioning how far you would go for justice.&‘What a great read. move over James Patterson you have a competitor… such a brilliant read. Highly recommend this book!&’- Narelle Sutcliffe&‘Perversion of Justice is a gripping read that will keep you turning pages long after the decorations are packed away. It&’s an honour to read and review such powerful storytelling.&’ - One Hundred Acre of Books
Jabberwocky: A Nonsense Coloring Book (Visions In Poetry Ser. #1)
by Lewis CarrollGet lost in this magical world full of beasts -- both familiar and fantastical -- with your children while reading and re-reading Jabberwocky year after year.'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mom raths outgrabe.Lewis Carroll's most iconic seemingly nonsensical poem is brought to life like never before with award-winning illustrator Charles Santore's stunning renditions of a brave warrior who is on a mission to slay the dastardly Jabberwock. Get lost in this magical world full of beasts (both familiar and fantastical) with your children while reading and re-reading Jabberwocky year after year.
Jacinda the Peace Fairy (Rainbow Magic #1083)
by Daisy MeadowsJoin Rachel and Kirsty as they meet a brand-new fairy!Jacinda the Peace Fairy helps to maintain peace and harmony in Fairyland and the real world. But when her special magnifying glass goes missing, people lose the ability to see things from each other's point of view, and everyone starts to argue. Can Rachel, Kirsty and Jacinda find the missing magical object and restore peace to the world?'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.comIf you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' other series: Magic Animal Friends and Unicorn Magic!