![]() ![]() Max Lord's assault on Paradise Island with his destructive A.R.E.S. How will Wonder Woman carry out her mission of peace and love in a world that can’t get out of its own way? That is, unless there are more insidious forces at play.Īnd once Diana, becomes queen of the Amazons, she’ll be faced with challenges like never before! Diana must assemble the disparate Amazonian tribes for the first time in a millennium. And she is ready for anything that it may throw at her.īut is the world ready for Wonder Woman? An American government, fraught with dissension and conflicts foreign to Diana, has deemed her a danger to society. Now, after a fateful meeting with Air Force pilot Steve Trevor, the Amazon Warrior finds herself in Man’s World. ![]() ![]() ![]() The epic collection of the New York Times bestselling original graphic novel series from superstar and critically acclaimed duo Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette is here!įor years, Diana of Paradise Island yearned to leave the only home she knew behind for adventures that laid beyond its shores. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She candidly depicts a muffed eighth-grade suicide attempt and high-school years passed in a blur of drugs (the time is the late 1960s and early ’70s) as she tried to escape the paralyzing monotony and psychic brutality of life in Leechfield. Karr vividly captures those moments that are so important to a girl growing up, and explains why they are important. But they don’t stave off prepubescent self-consciousness, like the terrible shame of the huge pimple on her forehead exposed to her sixth-grade crush, or the pain when her best friend moves on to another best friend, or the humiliation that her first real date is with the town’s ranking dweeb, who is also a proselytizing Mormon. ![]() Karr’s strange family has pushed her to the social outskirts, and she buries herself in books and fantasies. The author’s much-married mother, bemused father, and angry sister Lecia are all still in place new characters include surfers who nod out at the beach every weekend, the sweet college boy who was her first lover, and a bouquet of remarkable girlfriends, unlikely blooms among Leechfield’s insular population. ![]() Fans of Karr’s award-winning The Liars’ Club (1995) will not be disappointed by this feisty, funny, and tender memoir of a drug-ridden coming of age in Leechfield, her Texas hometown. ![]() ![]() The Land of Seven Rivers is an oversimplified, inaccurate history of India with a pronounced nationalistic tilt (Sanyal seems to believe in the Out of India theory, though he is not confident enough to proclaim this outright). ![]() These travels resulted in The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History.Ĭurrently Sanjeev lives in New Delhi where he serves as the principal economic adviser to the Indian government. He also spent the next few years exploring the Indian Ocean rim-Oman, Sri Lanka, Zanzibar, Vietnam, Indonesia, and up and down India’s coastline. Then in 2011, again for no particular reason, he went back to finance and took up a role as the global strategist of one of the world’s largest banks. This resulted in his hugely popular second book, Land of the Seven Rivers. One day in 2008, mostly on a whim, he decided to move back to India and travel all over the country with his family. ![]() Sanjeev spent most of his adult life battling international financial markets, a few years in Mumbai and many in Singapore. These experiences made him a keen observer of rapidly changing societies, an interest that reflects in many of his varied writings. He spent the tumultuous summer of 1993 in South Africa as it transitioned from apartheid, and then extensively travelled through Guatemala as it emerged from civil war. He grew up in Sikkim, Kolkata and Delhi before heading off to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. ![]() ![]() Sanjeev Sanyal is an economist, urban theorist and writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In"Bog Girl", a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. ![]() |