![]() ![]() Writers of various titles in The New 52 were given the option of writing a tie-in to the storyline, which would include their connections to Gotham City and first encounter with Batman. Initially conceptualized as a Batman storyline, it was announced that in November 2013, various titles would tie in directly to the "Zero Year" story line. The story does, however, incorporate several elements from Batman: Year One, such as Bruce Wayne's long absence from Gotham City and his first attempts at vigilantism. The story is intended to redefine the origin of Batman in The New 52, being a fresh story unconnected to other interpretations such as Batman: Year One. The series was written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV with artwork by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and Rafael Albuquerque. ![]() ![]() " Zero Year" was a yearlong comic book crossover event published by DC Comics that began in June 2013 and ended in July 2014, featuring the superhero Batman. Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, Red Hood Gang, Edward Nygma, Superman, Barbara Gordon, Luke Fox, Black Canary, Catwoman, James Gordon, Barry Allen, John Stewart, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Kate Kane ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Series science-fiction fans will enjoy this follow-up filled with unexpected revelations and a surprise finale.” - Booklist “Kick-ass, one-on-one robot action combines with mind-bending scientific and philosophical speculation. ![]() The greatest weapon humanity wields is knowledge in a do-or-die battle to inherit the Earth. They can turn the tide if they can unlock the last secrets of an advanced alien technology. But Rose and her team at the Earth Defense Corps refuse to surrender. Now humankind faces a nightmare invasion scenario made real, as more colossal machines touch down across the globe. But the truth is closer than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers-and even more perplexing questions. ![]() “ Sleeping Giants may have debuted his thrilling saga, but Waking Gods proves that Neuvel’s scope is more daring than readers could have imagined.”- PasteĪs a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel’s innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() Great for individuals, small groups, and mentoring. Young women will also realize the tremendous wisdom, guidance, and answers available in God's Word. Teens will discover checkpoints to use as guides for making decisions, and they will learn to take the long view when considering consequences. And with the rise of alcohol, drugs, sexual issues, and crime, they must make serious decisions daily.īible teacher Elizabeth George takes teens through the step-by-step process of making decisions that are life-affirming, godly, and wise in areas that include. Today's teens are bombarded with choices about attitudes, behaviors, friends, clothes, finances, and college. ![]() Elizabeth George, author of A Young Woman After God's Own Heart (more than 230,000 copies sold), offers another life-changing teen book- A Young Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jen Richards, an actor who has appeared in AMC’s “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” and FX’s “Better Things,” said she still feels a lot of jobs go to trans people in Hollywood to check off a diversity and inclusion mandate. This is a civil rights movement of our generation.” “We want to write those roles for those people. We have yet to even have truly a trans movie star,” Baloue said. ![]() “We don’t have a trans or non-binary ‘Will and Grace.’ We’re not in sitcoms. “Why are cisgender showrunners doing that to trans and nonbinary writers? We have the right to tell our own stories.”īaloue said it’s eye-opening to study the arenas where trans characters have been welcomed and where they haven’t. ![]() “You would never have a white showrunner create a Black show without Black writers and then hire a token Black person and say, ‘Hey, can you give us the greenlight on this Black story,’ ” Baloue said. Sydney Baloue, whose credits include the CW series “Tom Swift,” emphasized that representation matters when trans stories are told in mainstream media. “You have to commit to us as a community and show that you really care about our dignity, our lives and our economic vitality.” You can’t just put us in a few TV shows and then, when things get hard and when people are paying attention, stop greenlighting our projects,” Tobia said. If you want to stand with us, you need to stand with us. “Hollywood put us on a pedestal and then kind of abandoned us, frankly. The WGA’s Trans Takeover picket drew a crowd outside Netflix in Hollywood. ![]() ![]() ![]() I worried about a book that makes you jump a year at a time. They’re so real! I want to be their friend! ![]() Ben and Fallon are both so funny and easy to connect to. ![]() But what you get from the start is enough to love them instantly. They’re so complex and their layers are so slowly revealed, you’re constantly learning more – up until the very last minute they’re surprising you. How do you write a review of a book that is all about the FEELS and the surprises, without giving it all away? And then it was over and I had the task of writing this review. Before I knew it I was home, lying on the couch, all pretense of doing anything BUT listen gone. And when I got my nails done, I really struggled not to tell the nail techs – who usually never talk to me! – to shut up so I could focus. And when I went Christmas shopping (that tells you how long ago I read November 9 and wrote this review…) I struggled to focus on both gift buying and the story, because no way I was stopping. And I couldn’t stop when I got dressed for the day. Then I kept reading while I ate breakfast. And then I kept reading while I made breakfast. I started it in the morning when I took Buffy for a walk. I listened to November 9 in one day – literally non-stop. What can I say? I’ve been busy! Needless to say, I’m oh so grateful that it was selected, because otherwise who knows when I would have read it. November 9 wasn’t even on my radar until it was the book picked for Caffeinated Book Club. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m a sucker for a steamy college sports romance, and this one hit all of the spots I had and some I didn’t even know of. Maybe he’d realize that our tattered pieces matched.Ĭlearly I have been sleeping on Ashley Munoz, because after reading this book, I’m an insta fan. Then I’d just let him decide what to do with it. There wasn’t much left of my heart, but whatever there was I’d shove into his massive palm. ![]() Even if it broke me to let him in, even if it ruined me. With him holding all the cards for my future success, and in order to salvage what remained of my dream, I did the only thing I could. Undoubtedly, I was a sheep headed straight for the slaughter, which only proved true when he called my bluff. He lured me in, close enough to feel the press of his mouth against my skin and the heat of his hands on my body. That is until I was stopped and rendered totally speechless by a pair of mossy eyes. I would not get caught, definitely not seduced, and absolutely wouldn’t die. Their parties were impossible to get into unless you were handpicked, and I was not. They were RFU royalty, and completely untouchable. I decided right there in my room, lime-flavored tortilla chips in hand, that I would do whatever it took to write the story of the century.Īnd I had my target in sight-the undefeated Devil’s baseball team. One more misstep and I was going to lose my coveted internship. ![]() This was it…I could see it in my editor’s eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever the man would return from the battlefront on leave, the first thing he’d do was demand that his mother hand over the stipend that came with his mandatory service which he’d spend on booze while they were left hungry. His father was a bastard with a hair-trigger temper. As he grew older, he couldn’t wrap his head around why he’d feel something towards someone who was his father. When he was young, he couldn’t really wrap his head around the feeling. Probably both.Īllen hated his father to his very core. As his father liked to put it later, Allen’s birth was the “catalyst for misfortune.” Even now Allen wasn’t sure if the man had been referring to the war or the forced marriage that came following his conception. The Reservoir War broke across the country a week after Allen’s birth. Because at the time it hadn’t been so much of a ‘Family’ as it was a ‘family.’ Frankly, in Allen’s opinion, it hadn’t been much of a family either. The Foxman Family had its founding roots in an insignificant town in Aries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Extensive location shooting occurred along the United Kingdom's Jurassic Coast and in South West England. Extensive efforts were undertaken to keep the plot secret from the cast, crew, and public. Filming began in late May 2014 under the supervision of four directors. The return of series stars Olivia Colman and David Tennant and some of their returning co-stars was reported by the media in late 2013, although both returning and new cast members were not formally announced by ITV until May 2014. Writing occurred over most of the following year, with series creator and lead writer Chris Chibnall using a plot-development process he used for the first series. The series focuses on the effect of Joe Miller's trial on his wife, former DS Ellie Miller (now a uniformed police officer in Devon) the Latimer family's struggle to achieve a normal life during Joe's trial and new revelations that former DI Alec Hardy is protecting a witness in the failed Sandbrook child murder case.Īlthough Broadchurch was conceived as a trilogy, the second series was only announced on 22 April 2013 as series one ended. The eight-episode series focused on the continuing fallout of the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer in the fictional, close-knit coastal town of Broadchurch in Dorset, England. The second series of the British crime drama Broadchurch began airing on the ITV broadcast network in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.Ī Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness.Ĭupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.Īnd that’s when things got interesting. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”- Chicago Sun-Times ![]() The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old orphaned Tessa comes to London to join her brother but is imprisoned by the grotesque Dark Sisters. 12-15)Ī century before the events of Clare’s Mortal Instruments trilogy, another everyday heroine gets entangled with demon-slaying Shadowhunters. Fans of historical mysteries will find this a page-turner. Though magic plays a major part, the story, with references to historical people and events, is firmly grounded in reality. ![]() Is it truly his heart professing love, or is it the result of a magic potion? There are many many plot twists and turns, which the author successfully keeps from unraveling. Amidst all the pomp and glory, Persy struggles with her own tumultuous feelings for the dashing Lord Seton, whom she’s loved since they were children. Persy overhears a plot against the soon-to-be-crowned Queen, and the twins must match their magical abilities against those of a powerful wizard. When the two arrive in London, their beloved governess, Ally, goes missing and the sisters try to discover her whereabouts. ![]() Outgoing Pen is excited about the balls and parties, whereas bookish Persy is full of dread: She’d much rather continue to study magic and become a teacher. Penelope and Persephone Leland, 17-year-old twins, will be presented at court in London of 1837. In her debut, Doyle offers a heart-throbbing romance full of magic and royal-court intrigue. ![]() |