This Corrigan is later revealed to be a corrupt, self-serving malefactor who murders his colleague Crispus Allen Allen then becomes the host to the Spectre. The character, created by Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, and Michael Lark although similar to the first Corrigan in being a police detective, again is not related to him and served as a red herring of who would become the new Spectre. The third Jim Corrigan appeared years later in issue #12 of Gotham Central, a series about the Gotham City Police Department. He later became a regular supporting character in Black Lightning beginning with #4. The character was created by John Albano and José Delbo. The second Jim Corrigan was an African-American policeman who has no relation with the original character, first appeared in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #149 (May 1972). The first Corrigan initially appeared in More Fun Comics #52 (February 1940), a deceased cop acting as host to the cosmic entity the Spectre, and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily. Jim Corrigan is the name of three fictional characters that have appeared in numerous comic books published by DC Comics. Knowledge of events before the Crisis on Infinite Earths Art by Patrick Olliffe.Ĭosmic-level energy, space and time manipulation Interior artwork from The Spectre Annual (vol.
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With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Yet surprises greet Gryce at every turn-even before the second murder.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. His favorite niece, Mary, is to inherit his fortune, and all of the evidence seems to implicate her or her sister. Showcasing Green's verve and style, The Leavenworth Case opens with the shocking murder of Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy New York merchant, philanthropist, and well-known member of the community. Introducing the first American series detective, Ebenezer Gryce, The Leavenworth Case was published nine years before the debut of Sherlock Holmes, and made author Anna Katharine Green an enormously popular and influential writer who changed the mystery genre forever. The classic genre-defining whodunit, by the mother of the detective novel The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that the reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers All about Love Has No Boundaries Anthology: Volume 9 by Erica Pike. They may also contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. Click to read more about Love Has No Boundaries Anthology: Volume 9 by Erica Pike. The stories in this collection may contain sexually explicit content and are intended for adult readers. Nearly 190 stories were submitted and have now been published as a twelve volume set with two additional bonus volumes, titled Love Has No Boundaries. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shone a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what they produce. He also learns that the power of love allows us to endure great physical and emotional hardships. The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited members to choose a photo and pen a letter asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image authors from the group were then encouraged to select a letter and write an original tale. Love Has No Boundaries By Stefan Mukoski In the movie Philadelphia, the character Joe Miller learns that love is many-sided and that it has no barriers. They are a product of the Love Has No Boundaries promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group, and each anthology is published as a gift to you. The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. Not everyone can help the restless dead cross over, especially when the haunting threatens the Living. But as Leif finds himself drawn deeper into Dan’s life, he quickly realizes he’s not just in danger of breaking the rules, but breaking his heart as well. The Good Guy: Haint-working runs in Dan Miller’s blood. Since Nice Guys are off the menu, Leif just has to keep his hands to himself for as long as it will take to stop Rúnar’s latest scheme. It keeps things simple, especially since his oath to stop Rúnar has him constantly drifting from one town to the next.īut this time, it looks like Leif is going to need help, in the form of the very down-to-earth Dan. Pierced, tattooed Leif never has sex with the same guy twice. Besides, the sexy Leif is too much of a temptation, and Dan is firmly in the closet. Not everyone can help the restless dead cross over, especially wh. With two teenagers to look after, he’s already got all the trouble he can handle. The Good Guy Haint-working runs in Dan Miller’s blood. So when the flamboyantly goth Leif Helsvin shows up on Dan’s doorstep looking for help with an evil necromancer named Rúnar, Dan’s first instinct is to turn him down. But the death of his parents six years ago forced Dan to give it up in exchange for raising his brother and sister, all the while struggling to keep their rural NC farm afloat. Haint-working runs in Dan Miller’s blood. Yet here Sam is, the same charming, confident man she knew, but even more alluring than she remembered. When she steps onto the set of her first big break, he’s the last person she expects to see. So when it became clear her trust was misplaced, her world shattered for good.įourteen years later, Tate, now an up-and-coming actress, only thinks about her first love every once in a blue moon. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate-the long-lost daughter of one of the world’s biggest film stars-ever revealed her identity to. Including her first heartbreak.ĭuring a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” ( Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it… This book is long – 1006 pages in my copy – and I’m not going to hide the fact that it took me a long time to read it. Together they will throw parliament and the country into chaos with their rivalries, successes and failures, agreements and disagreements, and all other kinds of antics. Then, his soon to be apprentice, Jonathan Strange – a restless, equally irrational but slightly more amiable magician. Enter first Mr Norrell, a grumpy, jealous irrational man who hoards books like a dragon does treasure, and is determined to bring magic back to respectable English society… at some point, after he’s finished reading this book. It is all but lost, having deteriorated since the time of the mystical Raven King, who once ruled over the north of England, and all magicians are merely respectable theoretical magicians, who wouldn’t possibly attempt to do any magic themselves. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell imagines an 18 th century England in which magic exists, but as something people did once, long ago, like pagan rituals and mammoth-hunting. Her novel feels unduly classical and nostalgic and yet timeless at the very same time and it has, at the heart of it, that thing which every truly great novel needs: a brilliant story. With all of the whimsy, spark and imagination of Harry Potter and the dry, well-observed wit of Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clark perfectly conveys all that can be brilliant about British literature and manages to be refreshingly different from either. Watch your children have a blast reading this story while learning valuable lessons. When Nika wakes up one morning and opens her closet, all her clothes have disappeared, leaving behind only hangers. "How easy it is to lose something you love so much." She learns an important lesson at the end of this story. Her clothes had disappeared! What had happened to her shirts and pants? Where did her favorite dresses, coats, and socks go? Why did they leave her with just her pajamas on this misty morning? Will they come back? Taking a closer look at her room, Nika starts thinking about her attitude toward her clothes and toys. One hazy morning when Nika opened her closet, she discovered that it was empty. Recommended for home and school libraries and has earned the Literary Classics Seal of Approval: age 6-8Īn enlightening story about a little girl named Nika who didn't want to take care of her clothes and toys. Honored for Excellence by the Mom's Choice AwardsĢ015 Readers Favorite International Award Winner You will grow to treasure all her stories. D, Runaway Clothes is an excellent one with which to start. D has firmly established herself as one of this generation's premier children's authors. The text of the story meshes perfectly with the illustrations so much so, that you will find yourself pausing on each page to carefully peruse the illustrations after reading the text. Runaway Clothes is richly illustrated, with a hint of Anime influencing the drawings. Faber ( Under the Skin) also weaves in the stories of Agnes, William's delicate, mad and manipulative wife, and Henry, his pious, morally conflicted brother, both of whom seek escape from their private prisons through fantasies and small deceptions. While spying on his sickly wife's maid, whom he suspects of thievery, he begins a slow slide into depravity: he meets Sugar, a whore whose penetrating mind and love of books intrigues him as much as her beauty and carnal skills do. William Rackham is a restless, rebellious spirit, mistrustful of convention and the demands of his father's perfume business. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy. Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.Īs a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. At university, Wilde read Greats he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for homosexuality, imprisonment, and early death at age 46. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. Funny thing is, halfway through the story, I had an idea of where it was going. I had no idea who was going to live or die. I had no idea how it was going to end when I started. I created several characters, and villain, and let the characters write the story. I decided it would be fun to have a story based around something someone found in a storage unit. I took two opposite approaches with my two latest projects: my recently released Blood, Smoke and Ashes, and my work in progress, Bloodlines.īlood, Smoke and Ashes was inspired when I was watching Auction Hunters. There are advantages and disadvantages to each, and for authors like me who do both, it all depends on the story itself. While some authors require an extensive outline before they start any project and some authors never outline, I think most authors do both depending on what the project is. There is no one right way to tell a story. |