5/29/2023 0 Comments Monkey Grip by Helen Garner![]() ![]() I hadn’t reckoned with the grit, nor with what would be required of me, nor with what readiness I would give it… People like Javo need people like me, steadier, to circle round for a while and from my centre, held there by children’s needs, I stare longingly outwards at his rootlessness. He was twenty-three then and maybe, I ignorantly surmised, wouldn’t get much older, because of the junk and dangerous idleness in the bloodstream. The story is told from Nora’s perspective as she manages her six-year-old daughter, Gracie their life in various share-houses and her intimate relationships. I was comforted by Javo’s gentleness but I knew the gentleness of the departing to the one left behind. ![]() Neither stop and that is essentially the beginning and end of the story. As frequently as Javo says he is giving up drugs, Nora says she’s done with Javo. It’s predominantly a story of addiction – Javo has a drug habit and Nora has a ‘Javo-habit’. ![]() ![]() Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip unpicks the relationship between Nora and Javo. As teenagers, that sort of relationship drama seems to be part of the adolescent experience, but once you’re in your twenties and thirties the debriefings and speculation over what has been said and done wears thin. We’ve all known a couple that breaks up and gets back together over and over again. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments GRIMM FAIRY TALES #0 by Joe Brusha![]() ![]() TFW: Mad Hatter Vs Queen Of Hearts #1 (2010 Fan Expo Canada Variant) Grimm Fairy Tales: Halloween Special 2009 (Cover C Exclusive/500) ![]() Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland #2 (Philadelphia Exclusive) Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland #2 (Incentive Variant) Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland #2 (Cover C Exclusive) Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland #1 (Cover C Exclusive) Grimm Fairy Tales #46 (C2E2 Gangster Variant) Grimm Fairy Tales #45 (Cinderella Variant/500) Grimm Fairy Tales #43 (Cover C Unicorn Variant/500) Grimm Fairy Tales #42 (Cover C Sketch Variant/500) GFT: April Fools Special 2010 (Hangover Variant/500) Other products in the category Back Issues / Other Publishers BackIssues / Zenescope BackIssues / Grimm Fairy Tales BackIssues: ![]() One who reveals the origins of Death's powers and the reason behind his allegiance with the Dark Horde. Trapped in the fairy tale realm Myst, Sela continues her quest to free her true love's soul from Death himself. Grimm Fairy Tales presents - The Fairy and the Dwarf. GRIMM FAIRY TALES #53 (COVER A) (Back Issues / Other Publishers BackIssues / Zenescope BackIssues / Grimm Fairy Tales BackIssues) ![]() ![]() ![]() Polar Bear: Held On The Tips of Fingers (Babel) The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World is exclusively available in print and includes new in-depth editorial on each album from Jazzwise's acclaimed team of writers, plus in-depth features on the making of the top three albums, a look at the albums that almost made the cut and a guide to buying the featured titles on LP and CD. ![]() ![]() We have now taken the concept much further with a new publication – The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World – a 100-page definitive guide to the most important and influential jazz albums that have gone on to change and shape the course of the music from the 1920s to the present day. The list featured below was originally published in the August 2006 issue of Jazzwise magazine and quickly established itself as a key reference for anyone interested in exploring the rich history of jazz on record. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alpha Productions released a single Maze Agency story in the anthology comic, The Detectives #1 in 1993, as well as a prose story in Noir #1 in 1994. Shortly before Comico ceased operations, the title moved to Innovation Comics for another 16 issues (8-23), plus an annual and a special, running until 1991. A full series, initially with art by Adam Hughes and Rick Magyar, was published by Comico Comics for 7 issues in 1988-1989. The Maze Agency was first published privately by Barr with art by Alan Davis. The Maze Agency was a 1989 nominee for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best New Series. ![]() It revolves around a pair of detectives ( Jennifer Mays and Gabriel Webb) and their adventures solving puzzling murders. Barr and first professionally published in 1988. The Maze Agency is an American mystery comic book series created by Mike W. The cover to The Maze Agency #1 (December 1988), art by Adam Hughes. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Orca by Erich Hoyt![]() With over 1, titles in print and more than 80 new titles a year, Orca prides itself on publishing Canadian authors and bringing them to a. Founded in, Orca Book Publishers is an independently owned Canadian children’s book publisher of award-winning, bestselling books in a number of genres. Blake Educational BookLife Publishing Caboodle Books Cherrytree Books Clean Slate Press Duckbill Orca Book Services. Maverick Arts Macmillan Marketing Services. Koren Books Maggid Menorah Ofeg Institute Steinsaltz The Toby Press. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance - across seas, across time, across all obstacles. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge.
5/28/2023 0 Comments Sapiens by David Vandermeulen![]() ![]() With guest appearances by Thomas Jefferson, Scarlet O’Hara and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Īnd there’s plenty more genre-bending to enjoy in this book. ![]() ![]() The cunning Mephisto shows them how to entrap humans, King Hammurabi lays down the law, and Confucius explains harmonious society. Fiction – are all back to travel the length and breadth of human history. Saraswati, Cindy and Bill (turned farmers), Detective Lopez, and Dr. Sound sombre? Not with this cast of entertaining characters, returning from Volume I to explore the Agricultural Revolution. Volume II of Sapiens: A Graphic History tells the story of how we took over the world how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. Twelve thousand years ago, we humans fell into a trap. Volume two of Sapiens: A Graphic History: the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Good thinking david robert grimes![]() Just how much can we trust our memories and perceptions? What are conspiracy theories so popular, and what do conspiracy theorists consistently get wrong? If one in 10,000 suffer from an illness, and the test is 99.99 per cent accurate – what are the odds that a positive result means one has the disease? Pope Formosus’s silence during a trial condemned him – why did he not speak out in his defence? 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The first ( Swamp Thing) began publication in 1972, not long after the characters first appearance. Comprising three deluxe hardcover volumes, ABSOLUTE SWAMP THING BY ALAN MOORE debuts completely new colouring for every page, crafted exclusively for this definitive collector's edition by legendary colour artist Steve Oliff (Akira, Miracleman). Now DC Comics and Vertigo are proud to present an all-new vision of this landmark achievement. 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In the start of an all-new series, the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death – until one girl begins to rewrite its rules. ![]() Blurb : From the leading talent in fantasy, a magical coming-of-age trilogy with a hilarious female anti-hero – a darker more intelligent Harry Potter for adults. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Books like luster![]() ![]() His face in the mirror, stern with quiet scrutiny. The dirty tile and the soft recession of steam. His profile pictures are candid and loose-a grainy photo of him asleep in the sand, a photo of him shaving, taken from behind. In his first message, he points out a few typos in my online profile and tells me he has an open marriage. The idea that someone in the office, with that sweet, post-lunch-break optimism, might come across the thread and see how tenderly Eric and I have built this private world. The thrill of a third pair of unseen eyes. Of course I worry about IT remoting into my computer, or my internet history warranting yet another disciplinary meeting with HR. The empty text field is full of possibilities. He is fond of words like taste and spread. His messages come with impeccable punctuation. He tells me what he ate for lunch and asks if I can manage to take off my underwear in my cubicle without anyone noticing. He is uptown processing a new bundle of microfiche and I am downtown handling corrections for a new Labrador detective manuscript. The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light. ![]() |