![]() ![]() The end may be at hand for Kara, Safia, Crowe, and all of the interlopers who wish to expose its mysteries, as it prepares to unleash the most terrible storm of all. Many lives have already been destroyed by ruthless agencies dedicated to guarding its mysteries and harnessing its might. It is an ageless power that lives and breathes. What is hidden below the sand is more than a valuable relic of ancient history. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head of an elite counter-espionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat and the trail is pointing him toward Ubar. Rollins writes with intelligence, clarity. The two extraordinary women and their guide, Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to the desert. More heart-stopping action and suspense from the bestselling author of Amazonia and Subterranean. Evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend.and that something astonishing is waiting there. Her search for answers leads Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's curator, into a world they never dreamed existed. ![]() Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s more textbook than summer-read-on-the-deck, more reference read than cover-to-cover read. I can’t really summarize this book because it is so information dense. If you have questions about white people, this book probably has answers. ![]() Historian Nell Irvin Painter has clearly Done the Research necessary to present a truly detailed, monumental look at the history of whiteness as a concept, an identity, a label. Between these covers, however, is a book that is far from minimalist. ![]() So too does the cover of my edition: pure white with a black circle in the centre containing the title and author in white block letters nothing else on the front cover, blurbs pushed to the back and even to the spine. The History of White People is minimalist in this sense: the title says it all. This is a small thing, but I feel like it’s rare these days for a non-fiction book to lack a subtitle. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny’s murderer to justice - if he doesn’t track her down first. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. ![]() Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. ![]() From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: “Her greatest achievement yet…Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music - she shows genius.”- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some nice art and a great story make for a thoroughly enjoyable book. Not necessarily the best but well above average and for the most part it’s a pleasure to take in. The art is very accomplished comic book art. BATGIRL VOL.2 - KNIGHTFALL DESCENDS (NEW 52)Back in her role as Batgirl, Barbara Gordon faces the deadly new gentleman killer Grotesque, who stalks the. That story kept me awake as the pages continued to turn and I’m just so happy to be reading this book right now. The story arc in the second half of this collection, however, really grabbed me by the lapels and pulled me in. Without any spoiler alerts I was just very unhappy with how that turned out. ![]() Ultimately that ended up letting me down. ![]() I became very excited when I saw that for one particular little jaunt, Gail was tying it directly to the classic The Killing Joke story. Batgirl’s not one of my favorite characters but she’s one of the most comfortable.īatgirl Knightfall Descends started much like the first volume one Batgirl: The Darkest Reflection it was good and I was happy to read it. I’ve never collected Batgirl comics and don’t have a particularly solid grasp on her history, but Barbara’s always seemed more accessible to me than Bruce. I like Barbara Gordon as Batgirl and I’ve never had any qualms about saying so. Batgirl Knightfall Descends collects Batgirl #7 – 13 and #0 written by Gail Simone with art by Ardian Syaf, Ed Benes, Alitha Martinez, and Vincent Cifuentes. ![]() |