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Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods-and imprisoned just as quickly-Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods-and imprisoned just as quickly-Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a ...
"Twice a year, in summer and in winter, appointments to the Order of Canada are posted in newspapers across the country. The range of professions represented are often dizzying, but there are common themes in the choices: excellence, service to the nation, passion, innovation, co...
"Lawrence Anthony and Françoise Malby love animals so when they hear that a herd of wild African elephants needs a new home, they welcome the herd to their wildlife sanctuary,Thula Thula, with open arms. What follows in this beautifully illustrated true story is an extraordinary...
"There comes a point, for most writers, when the writing just isn't enough anymore. You want more. You want other people to read your words."--BOOK JACKET. "You want to be published."--BOOK JACKET. "Only problem is, you're unsure how and where to start."--BOOK JACKET. "In that ca...
This collection celebrates 'the classic sound of Hollywood' in two ways. The first disc restores some long-unavailable recordings made for the acclaimed Classic Film Scores series recorded in the early 1970s by conductor Charles Gerhardt. The second disc samples definitive moment...
Music exists in time. All musicians know this fundamental truth?but what does it actually mean? Thirteen scholars probe the temporality of music from a great variety of perspectives, in response to challenges that Christopher F. Hasty, Walter Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvar...
This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Ma...
"Before focusing on tales of justice via superheroes under the Marvel banner, the publisher covered ground-level crime across a range of comics titles and true-crime magazines. Under the Timely imprint from 1947, and Atlas from 1951, up to eleven graphic series including Justice ...
A lurid tale of sex and psychosis is among the wildest of the Gainsborough melodramas. Set in Italy, it begins as a comparatively sedate tale about a respectable, convent-raised woman who is haunted by the memory of being raped as a teenager. But when her grown daughter returns f...
"All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in 'Dangerous Women' include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors' bestselling continuities--including a new "Outlander" story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden's world by Jim...
"The Passionate Spies describes how Britain, in June 1916, attempted to end the slaughter of World War I by undermining Turkey (a German Ally). Three British spies, motivated by their aversion to the imperialism of the major powers and their own idealism, were able to spark a rev...
Some of the finest fantasy authors present original short stories in a collection that includes George R.R Martin's new novella Song of Fire and Ice.
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon hav...
A compassionate "comedy of values" probes the growing pains of seven college housemates from the 1960's who have drifted apart and have been reunited at the funeral of a friend.