Death at SeaWorld by David Kirby6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He also covers the media backlash, the eyewitnesses who come forward to challenge SeaWorld’s glossy image, and the groundbreaking OSHA case that may spell the end of having trainers in the water with the ocean’s top predators. ![]() Kirby follows the story of marine biologist and animal advocate Naomi Rose at the Humane Society of the US, whose warnings against keeping killer whales in captivity fell on deaf ears. Martin’s Press July 17, 2012) a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America’s most beloved marine mammal park.įrom the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010, to other, less-publicized violent incidents, journalist David Kirby puts these brutal human-on-animal attacks in context and explores the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity in DEATH AT SEAWORLD.ĭEATH AT SEAWORLD introduces the real people taking part in this debate, from former trainers turned animal rights activists to the men and women that champion SeaWorld and the captivity of whales. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory comes DEATH AT SEAWORLD (St. ![]()
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Lori m lee forest of souls6/12/2023 ![]() Soon revealed as Shamanborn herself, Sirscha must flee from the same kingdom she grew up in and has trained to serve her whole life. They kill Saengo instead.Īnd then somehow, Sirscha restores her friend to life. When out on a military assignment, Sirscha and her best friend Saengo sneak off to a tea house in order to conduct Shadow business, only to be ambushed by a pair of shamans intent on killing Sirscha. Now, as one of the favored apprentices of the Shadow, the Queen’s spymaster, she aims to cement her place in the kingdom, and carve out a page of her own in its history books. But she’s been working all her life to change that. ![]() ![]() Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing-abandoned as a child and brought up in the Evewynian Kingdom, she has no family, no people, and no idea where she belongs. ![]() The beast jenika snow read online6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The experiments that he described that they had done to him were gruesome, disgusting, and had her skin crawling. ![]() To know that this male was held a prisoner for so long by their own kind, caused a lot of emotions to fill her. Emma found it harder and harder to listen to everything Roake had to say. ![]() And then Roake started talking about his time, the whole horrifying experience that could have very easily broken him. ![]() But Annabelle didn’t need to say she was raped and beaten and experimented on those unspoken words were out in the open. Jason was already on the verge of shifting, and the sound of him digging his claws into the table and leaving gouges came through loud and clear. It was like he was walking on glass, trying to be gentle with her, and going against his animal instincts to mate with her.įor the next twenty minutes Annabelle talked about the year she’d spent in an underground prison, the same one that had exploded right beneath Sweet Water, and how they had abused her. “Just start from the beginning.” Jason was the one to speak, and Emma had never heard her brother speak so softly before. “I don’t know where to start,” Annabelle said. ![]() Criminal by Ed Brubaker6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The delay on releasing the Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 3 is understandable. The first such collection since 2012, Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 3 collects Savage Sword Of Criminal and Deadly Hands Of Criminal, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies and Bad Weekend, and issues 1 and 4 of the recent Criminal monthly series. Comic Projects: The Really Heavy Greatcoat.Comics Projects: Return to Planet Earth.Starblazer Checklist: Starblazer Abroad.Starblazer Recalled: Forgotten Fantasy Fiction – With Pictures.British Comic Reference | British Comic Characters Profiled | Garth.Marvel UK | “Genesis ’92”: Looking Back and What Might Have Been.Marvel UK in Print: Captain Britain, Death’s Head, Doctor Who and more – A Quick Guide.Action – The Sevenpenny Nightmare – Micro Site. ![]() British and Irish Creators and Publishers on Twitter.British Classic Comics and Creators on Facebook.British Comics Sales Figures: The Good Old Days.British News Stand Comics and Magazines for Teens, Pre-Teens and Children.Why Your Favourite British Comic Strip of 1974 Hasn’t Been Reprinted – Yet!.Lakes Festival Focus – Comic Creator Interviews.Roy of the Rovers – Rebellion Books Check List.2023 2000AD, Treasury of British Collections and Specials. ![]() The abyss surrounds us series6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() I was convinced our future could look like this, with condensed political nations in the wake of rising sea levels, flooding destroying whole portions of continents. The world of Reckoners pulled me in from the first scene. She sense of herself and where she belongs, even if it means turning her back on everything she knows. She transforms into a competent, brave, skilled commander of a Reckoner, and a clever and savvy fighter. By the end, she’s surviving and thriving in a completely different world. At the start of the story, she’s a teen just about to go on her first mission for which she’s been trained on all her life. ![]() Spoilers ahead! I’ll try not to give too much away, but it’s hard to get to the heart of this book without some spoilers.Ĭassandra Leung goes through an incredible journey. This sea adventure ride is full of twists and turns and they start right away. The fights hurt, the romance hurts, and it’s all worth it. This is fantastic sea adventure with a queer lady romance that doesn’t pull it’s punches. Honestly, I think most books could benefit from a good dose of lady pirates. It has pirates, sea monsters, queer lady romance, lady villains, pirate queen moms, an Asian-American lead character – it’s packed with all the things you’ve been wanting in your YA. ![]() ![]() In a future where pirates rule the open seas, the fleets the shore are kept at bay by genetically engineered giant sea creatures bonded to their ships and guided by their trainers. ![]() The writing class by jincy willett6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Though some of Willett's observations are predictable, the best of these stories still seem ahead of their time. I can't sleep, and I'm not so much depressed as humiliated, both by slapstick catastrophe and by the minute tragedy of my wasted talents," laments Willett's funniest subject, an advice columnist who has an existential crisis in epistolary form. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. My younger daughter just gave all of her trust money to the Church of the Famous Maker. The Writing Class: A Novel is written by Jincy Willett and published by Thomas Dunne Books. My husband's mistress has myasthenia gravis. Willett is alive to the absurd in American culture and the tragicomic struggle for dignity that we often lose. ![]() Lazenbee," a sixth grader manipulates her school's new campaign to teach children about "touches that feel good" and "touches that feel funny" by pointing fingers at an easy neighborhood target. She says the rapist "measurably improved the quality of my life," because she no longer lives in fear of the unknown. He cheated on his wife once, but notes that he "cried once on someone else's account" while watching a televised unfolding of American POWs returning to Washington and asks God to consider granting immortality in return for nothing, just as "a fresh approach." "Under the Bed" is narrated by a woman who was beaten and raped in her own home. In "Résumé," a run-of-the-mill man gives God a quick rundown of his life. ![]() Willett is a marvelous philosopher and humanist, even when writing about subjects that beg for a knee-jerk reaction. First published in 1987, this debut collection of morbidly funny stories has been given a well-deserved second life. ![]() Irene gammel baroness elsa6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Striding through the streets of Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris wearing such adornments as a tomato-soup can bra, teaspoon earrings, and black lipstick, the Baroness erased the boundaries between life and art, between the everyday and the outrageous, between the creative and the dangerous. ![]() In Baroness Elsa, Irene Gammel traces the extraordinary life and work of this daring woman, viewing her in the context of female dada and the historical battles fought by women in the early twentieth century. ![]() The editor Margaret Anderson called her "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." Yet despite her great notoriety and influence, until recently her story and work have been little known outside the circle of modernist scholars. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) is considered by many to be the first American dadaist as well as the mother of dada. The first biography of the enigmatic dadaist known as "the Baroness"-Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. ![]() X men by jonathan hickman vol 16/11/2023 ![]() ![]() He launched his era with a pair of intertwined mini-series – House of X and Powers of X, widely abbreviated as HOX and POX or HOXPOX – both filled with major bombshells of plot. By many accounts, Hickman and his massive pitch for a massive shift in status quo for the X-Men had been around for some time in the X-Office during All-New All Different Marvel and RessurXion.Įven knowing a major change was coming to the X-line couldn’t prepare readers for what Jonathan Hickman had in store. As a film media property, the rights to X-Men returned to the Marvel fold when Disney acquired FOX in March of 2019.Ĭertainly, this change to the licensing of Marvel’s Merry Mutants had an effect on the potential for massive comic plots to return to the somewhat languishing X-line. That’s not the only reason 2019 was a historic year for the X-Men. ![]() Last updated April 2023 with titles scheduled for release through January 2024.Ĭomics mega-star Jonathan Hickman took over the X-Men franchise as both a writer and “Head of X” in July 2019, and since then nothing has been the same. ![]() A part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics. The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide on collecting X-Men Age of Krakoa, including X-Men flagship titles by Jonathan Hickman, Gerry Duggan, Kieron Gillen, & Al Ewing, in comic books via omnibuses, hardcovers, and trade paperback graphic novels. ![]() Book lovers charlie lastra6/10/2023 ![]() It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. ![]() Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens’ life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. ![]() Invincible comic compendium6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Omni-Man is kidnapped by aliens, taken to another dimension, but returns after what seems to be only a few days, but was actually eight months to him. He also foils a plan to make an army of robots, created by the Mauler Twins. He stops his teacher with the help of the heroine, Atom Eve. Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. ![]() Mark worked occasionally with a superhero team called the Teen Team (consisting of Robot, Rex Plode, Dupli-Kate and Atom Eve), from there discovering that his Physics teacher has been turning his students into human bombs. At the age of 17, Mark begins to display superpowers, which come from his father being a member of the Viltrumite race, who, according to Nolan, pioneer the galaxy on a mission of benevolence and enlightenment.Īs Invincible, Mark begins working as a superhero, with his father acting as his mentor, and meeting other heroes. Introducing the first nine volumes of the greatest superhero comic in the universe, collected into one massive paperback edition Collects INVINCIBLE 0-47. He was a normal high school senior with a normal part-time job and otherwise normal life, except his father Nolan is the superhero Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. Mark Grayson is teenage superhero Invincible. ![]() |