![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This is the first title in DC's new line of original graphic novels for middle grade and young adult readers. ![]() Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is at once a tale of the classic Harley readers know and love, and a heartfelt story about the choices teenagers make and how they can define-or destroy-their lives. When Harleen decides to turn her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join Ivy, who's campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or join The Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time. When the cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that's taking over the neighborhood, Harleen gets mad. Ever since Harleen's parents split, MAMA has been her only family. Harleen is a tough, outspoken, rebellious kid who lives in a ramshackle apartment above a karaoke cabaret owned by a drag queen named MAMA. From Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki ( This One Summer, Supergirl: Being Super). ![]() ![]() Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, justice, fairness and progress and how a weird kid from Gotham's poorest part of town goes about defining her world for herself. ![]()
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But it would be impossible to write about Lauren Markham's The Far Away Brothers without writing about our political moment - or, if not impossible, both cowardly and pointless, since the project of The Far Away Brothers is a political one. Most of the time, it's not my job to write about politics. Lily Meyer works at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Far Away Brothers Subtitle Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life Author Lauren Markham ![]() ![]() ![]() Liquid colour begins to flow from all of the wild flowers in the valley. The Rainbow suddenly disappears and the lassoes snap back and ensnare them. But as they approach and take out their lassoes, something unexpected happens. ![]() The Goblins set off to activate their plan. The sun is shining, flowers blooming, leaves glistening, and the rainbow has appeared, a magical arch spanning the valley. 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All of these books are generalist studies that apply the latest (1960s for the earlier ones, and 1990s for Narby) scientific information about biology and evolution to problems that include the nature of consciousness and the alienation of humanity. I read Jeremy Narby’s The Cosmic Serpent in a sequence that I began with Bateson’s Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity and continued with Koestler’s The Ghost in the Machine. Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby. ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. This is a story of one small group of patriots fighting the good fight. 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From its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it. Khosrova details its surprisingly vital role in history, politics, economics, nutrition, even spirituality and art. From the ancient butter bogs of Ireland to the sacred butter sculptures of Tibet, Butter is about so much more than food. Now, it finally gets its due.Īward-winning food writer and chef Elaine Khosrova serves up a story as rich, textured, and culturally relevant as butter itself. From its accidental invention in a long-ago herder's pouch to its ubiquitous presence in the world's most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. It's a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. ![]() The delicious kitchen staple we so often take for granted is not merely a stick tucked into our refrigerator door. ![]() ![]() A gripping historical narrative that explores the rich chronicle of innovation, revolution, and controversy of our world's most famous fat: butter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regardless of how these substances impact his personal life, they always found a way into his writing in the form of human characters and, in the case of Cujo, a dog. It is also fairly well-known that he directed his "so bad, it's good" movie Maximum Overdrive while using cocaine. The author famously wrote Jack Torrance of The Shiningabout himself, with the inclusion of alcohol abuse. After he penned several stories in the 1980s, his family staged an intervention with the hopes that King would get clean, which he did and has been ever since. He has been very vocal about how these substances impacted him, as well as his family. In fact, the author doesn't even remember writing Cujo due to his use of drugs and alcohol at the time. King's stories are rarely as simple as they appear. The story seems fairly simple: a dog gets infested with rabies, goes on a killing spree, and traps a mother and her child in a car as they await their demise. ![]() |