But the knife has created enemies just as it has killed them. This new approach to war has been embraced by Washington as a lower risk, lower cost alternative to the messy wars of occupation and has been championed as a clean and surgical way of conflict. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies. The Way of the Knife is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can’t go.
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Salina has been dating Josiah for almost a year now, but he feels more like a friend than a boyfriend. She also feels the pressure of having to be the perfect daughter for her mother and father, who is a bishop. Her family is very close, yet sometimes she tires of being compared to her older brother, Neil, a deacon who is married with two children. Salina Petersheim runs her own booth at the Amish market, where she’s known for having the freshest and most delicious produce in the area. In this second installment of Amy Clipston’s Amish Marketplace series, love begins to grow between Salina and Will, a Mennonite chef-and both must decide if it’s a love worth fighting for. Salina is engaged to the “perfect” man-except for the fact that Josiah feels more like a friend than a fiancé. "This comic book may be one of the best ever written to understand wine, it does the same for comic books. The sheer amount of foresight and raw faith that goes into making wine as a commercial proposition is a wonder to behold, and Davodeau does his best to capture every step and draw every esoteric piece of equipment that Leroy deploys.". For anyone looking to break out of their personal and professional comfort zone, The Initiates is a well-illustrated inspiration." -"Engrossing piece of comics reportage. "I'm just going to come out and say it: The Initiates is one of the best books about wine I've ever read, period. Oenophiles will love this and the merely curious will be plenty satisfied." -Library Journal (March 2013) Davodeau's smoky realism, though black-and-white, manages to suggest the full range of wine-growing climate shifts. The excellent writing, characterizations, and tranquil-yet-stimulating vibe make this a treat to savor slowly, like wine.
Can Uncle Bobby and his boyfriend Jamie show Chloe that, when it comes to family, the more the merrier? In this inspiring, love-filled story, Chloe learns just what family means. What if Uncle Bobby no longer has time for picnics, swimming, or flying kites? Chloe just wants to keep having fun with her favorite uncle, but she's afraid everything is going to change. When Chloe's favorite uncle announces that he's getting married, everyone is excited. "With warm, richly colored, and expressive illustrations by Lucia Soto, the book, published in partnership with GLAAD, serves as a gentle and welcome celebration of the different shapes love and family can take." Boston Globe "Valiant, valid, validating, valuable." Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked "A large-hearted affirmation of society's newest kind of wedding." Booklist "Those we love, and Brannen show, needn't change just because they love someone else, too-there's plenty of room in the human heart." Publishers Weekly "A joyous, heartwarming, sweet-and essential-update." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW Selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best picture books of 2020 and by the American Library Association as a 2021 Rainbow Book List title, celebrate family with this gorgeous picture book.įeatured on Bank Street's Best Books of the Year list. But after a magical day with Uncle Bobby and his boyfriend, Jamie, Chloe realizes she's not losing an uncle, but gaining one. Chloe's favorite uncle is getting married, and she's not happy about it. The resulting interweaving story is an epic of Shakespearean emotional depth and arresting visual imagery that nonetheless demonstrates the racism and sexism of the period. Vacillating between the present and the past, the goddess’s narrative centers on Aubrey, an African American musician Colette, a Belgian singer Hazel, a wide-eyed British pianist and her paramour, James, an aspiring architect (the latter three are white), who are all brought together by happenstance during the First World War. To exonerate herself of the crime of adultery, she weaves an intricate tale of mortal love during wartime that demonstrates the endurance of the human spirit. In a Manhattan hotel on the eve of World War II, Hephaestus catches his wife, Aphrodite, in a compromising position with his brother Ares. Love’s enduring power faces off against the horrors of war in this sumptuous Greek mythology–inspired romantic page-turner. It took 40-year-old Chuvalo only 2 minutes and 24 seconds to put away 33-year-old Earl McLeay in December 1977. Lacking in skills, overloaded with courage, the one undisputed title he earned was "the toughest man in Canada". In that historic company, he was destined just to be a willing contender. In a different generation, Chuvalo might have snagged a brief hold of the belt. Some boast when his resume included clashes with Ali (twice), Joe Frazier (who shattered the orbital bone under one of his eyes), George Foreman, Floyd Patterson, Jimmy Ellis and Ernie Terrell, boldface names that defined arguably the greatest era in the division and the sport. In 93 professional bouts, he finished with a 73-18-2 record but was never knocked to the canvas. No question I got the best of that deal.” “When it was all over, Ali was the guy who went to the hospital because he was pissing blood,” said Chuvalo. Even if the champion always looked in control of the contest, he later described Chuvalo as the toughest fighter he'd faced to that point in his career. An excessively cruel jibe about a game Canadian heavyweight who'd signed up for the bout at just 17 days' notice, his opponent made a mockery of the insult when he became the first man to take Ali 15 rounds. In the build-up to their first fight at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in March, 1966, Muhammad Ali dubbed George Chuvalo "the washerwoman". Feminist, fierce, personal and scholarly, Breathe elucidates the fear that comes with raising Black children in America, while also imagining Black futures firmly rooted in our pride and our history. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani PerryĪt a time when Black children’s lives are not valued, and when Black resilience and resistance are so necessary, Perry shares this love letter to her children and ours, encouraging them toward freedom and possibility in a racist society. It is at once scholarly and literary, imaginative and the hardest truths.Ģ. Hartman spins painstaking research into gold that reads like fiction. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartmanĭid you know that at the beginning of the twentieth century, young Black women in New York and Philly sparked a radical cultural movement defined by free love, queer relations, and alternative forms of cohabitation, intimacy, and kinship bonds? Neither did I, until I read this aching, gorgeous, brilliant book. So, as a firm believer in the transformative power of a good book, I invite you to roar your way through the ’20s, starting with these deep, daring, delicious reads.ġ. Given the sad state of our democracy, extrajudicial police killings, and the reinvigoration of fascism and white supremacy, never before have I wished so hard for peace on Earth and goodwill toward humanity. Let’s face it: The ’10s have been quite the shitshow of a decade. "This sweet seedling will undoubtedly take root and thrive. "In an understated and intimate partnership, Fogliano and Stead conjure late winter doldrums and the relief of spring's arrival, well worth the wait." - Publishers Weekly, Starred "This seemingly real-time experience of getting to green is a droll, wistful ode to the stamina behind wanting, will, and perseverance." - School Library Journal, Starred Stead's finely drawn illustrations, we see the imagined bears lounging in the seedbeds with a sign that reads: 'Please do not stomp here-there are seeds and they are trying.'" - The Wall Street Journal Did birds eat the seeds? Did bears trample them? In Erin E. "Green is what the bespectacled boy in Julie Fogliano's 'And Then It's Spring' eagerly hopes to see as he waits for seeds he has planted to sprout from the brown earth. I've mentioned before how much of a fan of Usagi Yojimbo I am, so I'm not going to go through all of what makes the series, characters, and stories so good. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959). He also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist (Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story "Broken Ritual" is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story "Return to Adachi Plain" that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paper-back edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井 スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.īorn in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii. We have two preorders currently available in the shop! Whaaaaat? Two giveaways back to back? That’s right! This month, we’re giving away a copy of the Faecrate edition of The Rightful Bearer, the thrilling conclusion to The Maiden Ship trilogy! This hardcover edition features a gorgeous hidden cover and artwork on the reverse side of the dust jacket and sprayed edges. Remember, these are limited! They will only be available for a month or until they sell out, whichever comes first! Only 50 are being printed so don’t drag your feet if you want to add mischievous Jacks to your collection. Caraval Bookmark #2 – The Prince of Heartsįor the month of March, I couldn’t resist giving the spotlight to the Prince of Hearts himself! And how better to feature him than with one of his magically tantalizing apples? |