![]() ![]() That our culture enables rape is not just shown by the numbers: the outbreak of complaints against alleged rapists from Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein to Matt Lauer and President Donald Trump has further amplified this horrifying reality. The sad truth is that statistics on date rape have not changed in more than thirty years. ![]() With the advent of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, and almost daily new reports about rape, both on and off campuses, Robin Warshaw’s I Never Called It Rape is even more relevant today than when it was first published in 1988. It is nonpolemical, lucid, and speaks eloquently not only to the victims of acquaintance rape but to all those caught in its net.”- Philadelphia Inquirer Featuring a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing ![]()
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![]() Radio Free Echo Rift is your the twice weekly Pirate Pop Culture Podcast brought to you from Deep Beneath the City of Philadelphia! We have thirty minutes to record each episode here in the confines of the Waiting Room – the only place our evil overlords, the Researchers, can’t monitor our activities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Waid’s Here Comes Daredevil, Comics that made us cry, Vacation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The present copy is from the first issue, with a flat spine. But in February 1902, before the trade edition was ready, Miss Potter ordered another 200 copies to be printed of her private edition this second issue had a rather better binding, with rounded back and darker printed boards” (Gottlieb). had agreed to accept the book for publication in a regular trade edition. By this time, however, Beatrix Potter's career had already been given its first impetus, for the publisher Frederick Warne & Co. The books were ready on 16 December and Miss Potter began giving them away to selected friends and relatives and selling them to others at one shilling, two pence each. Finally, in 1901, she decided to have the book privately printed, at her own expense. " sent the manuscript to at least six publishers without success. Privately printed first edition of Beatrix Potter's first book, one of only 250 copies of the first issue. ![]() ![]() ![]() The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. ![]() And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. “The queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine) delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. The Hotel Nantucket Elin Hilderbrand € 23.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Enjoy!Īmong the complicated relationships within Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One is the liaison of Batman and Catwoman. ![]() We have four brand new images of Catwoman from the film to share with fans. Batman sets out to pursue the serial killer with the support of police officer James Gordon and district attorney Harvey Dent. Home Entertainment on Digital and Blu-ray on June 22, 2021.ĭuring the holidays, a brutal series of murders strike fear into the city of Gotham. Animation and DC, the feature-length animated Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One will be distributed by Warner Bros. Voiced by the late Naya Rivera (in her final acting performance), Catwoman/Selina Kyle assists, romances, and even comes to the rescue of Batman as the two-part film unfolds. While Police Captain James Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent act as his crime-fighting colleagues, the Dark Knight finds an unlikely partner in Catwoman. Batman normally operates alone, but he finds allies on both sides of the law in Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They might even believe that he could have something to do with her disappearance. And Amy, Logan, Troy, and Brooke Delaney are the first to admit that this situation doesn’t look good for their dad. Everything seems, on the surface, to be quite normal, until one day Joy disappears without a trace, leaving behind her phone. Their four children may not have followed in their footsteps to become tennis pros, but they each have their own jobs, dramas, and successes. ![]() Stan and Joy Delaney have been married for fifty years, and they’ve just recently sold their very successful tennis training business and are settling into retirement. If your book club has chosen Moriarty’s latest novel, read on for an Apples Never Fall book club questions, reading guide, and more! Apples Never Fall Book Summary Her books Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers are book club favorites that have gone on to become hit TV shows, and her latest novel is likely to be just as popular with readers as it expertly interrogates what it means to be successful and how different members of the same family can have vastly different understandings of their history. Liane Moriarty is known for her character-driven novels that propose a tantalizing “what if?” to readers. ![]() ![]() Accompanied by his faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth and his young wards Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Timothy Drake, they take the cadaver-who-will-be-Freeze and head back home.Īlso: a dark omen that “the Thing is coming.” This is initially spooOOOooOoooOOoOoKy, but it, uh, doesn’t really coalesce. Freeze, and Oswald Cobblepot strip naked and join his flippered friends.Īfter twenty-some years of traveling abroad, Bruce Wayne feels the call back to Gotham City. I mean, in the first ten pages you see a giant Cthulu-esque creature frozen in ice, a new take on Mr. What initially seems like a good successor to one of my favorite Batman stories, Gotham by Gaslight, wastes no time in demonstrating just how bizarre of a story it’s going to be. Let me just get this out of the way up front: this book is weird. That seems strange considering the pedigree and level of talent involved, but better late than never I suppose. Published in late 2000 and early 2001, the Mike Mignola penned series had inexplicably not been collected until just a few weeks ago. Taking into consideration that Arkham Asylum was named after a fictional town found in Lovecraft’s lore, and that natural fit turns into a no-brainer. Given that Lovecraft’s works were steeped in the macabre and filled with no small amount of gothic horror elements, the Dark Knight of Gotham seems a natural fit. ![]() ![]() That is the question that the recently collected miniseries Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham seeks to answer. ![]() What would Batman be like had he been written by H.P. ![]() ![]() She has also written for the New York Times and the Washington Post as well as other publications. She is also the author of the nonfiction parenting books, Eat, Sleep, Save the World and Unbound. ![]() Her forth middle-grade novel The Summer of June hits shelves on May 31st, 2022 with Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Connect with her at Jamie Sumner is the author of the critically-acclaimed middle-grade novels, Roll with It, Tune It Out, and One Kid's Trash. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. ![]() Jamie Sumner is the author of the critically-acclaimed middle-grade novels, Roll with It, Tune It Out, and One Kid's Trash. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth. ![]() Our interview with Colonel Seidule focuses on the special challenges he and his team confronted in crafting this text, and the place of the Civil War in the American experience. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appointed Ty to the National Commission on Base. He is the Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College as well as a New America Fellow. Army for thirty-six years, retiring as a brigadier general in 2020. Lavishly illustrated and featuring well-conceived maps and graphs, The West Point History of the Civil War is served by a fully digitized version, optimized for use on tablet platforms. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Robert E. Ty Seidule is Professor Emeritus of History at West Point where he taught for two decades. Lee and Me Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency. Unlike most surveys, the new West Point History of the Civil War draws upon some of the best talent in the field of Civil War history, all called together to craft a synthetic text that not only forms the basis of the Military Academy's course on the subject, but also provides a very informative overview for the general public. We're very fortunate to be joined by the editor of The West Point History of the Civil War (Simon and Schuster, 2014), the Head of the History Department at the United States Military Academy, Colonel Ty Seidule. ![]() ![]()
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