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The Marvel Studios Phenomenon
Inside a Transmedia Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans to extend its production of connected texts in cinema, network and online television until at least...
by Dr Chris Gavaler
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres.
In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals:
·The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st...
Caveat Emptor
A Novel of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In her fourth novel, Ruth Downie brings to life the corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain, as it closes in on her winsome leading man, Gaius Petreius Ruso.
Ruso and Tilla, now newlyweds, have moved back to Britannia, where Ruso's old friend and colleague Valens has promised to...
by Mitchell S. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Winner Whiting Writers' Award
Winner Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
Finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood...
Ada's Rules
A Sexy Skinny Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Ada Howard is the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle. With a whole congregation to help tend to, plus the kids at the daycare where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing parents, Ada's busy taking care of a lot of people. She hardly has time to take care of herself....
by Alex Scarrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Continuing the heart-pounding, time-bending action of the TimeRiders series, The Eternal War brings readers back to a pivotal time period in American history: the Civil War. Only this alternate history is one where a young Abraham Lincoln has somehow followed Liam into the present from 1831, and the...
by David Chariandy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James
"Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter
WINNER--Toronto...
Slumberland
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize-winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.
Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation,...
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Sunday Times Bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL...
The Dark End of the Street
New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
In one fast-paced story, a strong and aggravated man considers the pretty woman at the bar while he fingers the knife in his pocket. But what becomes of his prey when they move to the bedroom? In another tale, a man remembers the victim of a ghastly murder who visited the same hair salon as he does....
Gangster Warlords
Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
"Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read [Gangster Warlords]." --The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives...
Frankenstein Dreams
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest.
Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they...
In the Closet of the Vatican
Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The New York Times Bestseller
'[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption' - National Catholic Reporter
In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four...
Henrietta Sees It Through
More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
World War II is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable...