He was the eldest of nine children his stepfather was a minister. James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel, is a partially autobiographical account of his yo Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Critics, however, note the impassioned cadences of Black churches are still evident in his writing. In the early 1940s, he transferred his faith from religion to literature. At age 14, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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I also like that the dogs aren’t completely anthropomorphized and still enjoy doing dog type stuff like sniffing each other’s butts and drinking out of the toilet.Īnd the beautiful job done by painter Michael DiPascale is a perfect compliment to Ennis’ twisted tale. I also love the little touches like when a dog is barking his word bubble comes across as a repeated barrage of “I’m a dog! I’m a dog!” and that all the humans speak in totally unintelligible gobbledygook because honestly that is what we sound like to canines. I immediately fell in love with these three canine buddies as they struggle to not only survive what looks to be the end of the world but also gain some understanding of just what has made the humans go so bats hit crazy. Garth Ennis is known for writing balls out twisted stories but this one, which is really balls out and twisted, has so much heart that I was shocked by it. Now he and his pals Rover and Red must escape the failing New York City and find their way in this new order. Charlie was a helper dog and he was good at getting his feeders safely around. This is the story of three best friends at the end of the World. Synopsis:When a worldwide epidemic suddenly rids the Earth of all humans, what happens to man’s best friend? GARTH ENNIS – the master wordsmith of Preacher and Crossed – delivers a story like no other, as a band of canines set out to survive on their own for the first time. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. Meanwhile, in Georgetown, a young girl named Regan MacNeil is living with her famous mother, actress Chris MacNeil, who is in Georgetown filming a movie. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an actual ancient Assyrian demon), a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which, unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa. In September 2011, the novel was reprinted by HarperCollins to celebrate its fortieth anniversary, with slight revisions made by Blatty as well as interior title artwork by Jeremy Caniglia.Īn elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. As a result, the novel takes place in Washington, D.C., near the campus of Georgetown University. The novel was inspired by a 1949 case of supposed demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University. Published by Harper & Row, the novel was the basis of a highly successful film adaptation released two years later, whose screenplay was also written and produced by Blatty, and part of The Exorcist franchise. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. |