As the artist behind the beloved Peanuts comic strip for more than 50 years, Charles Schulz—arguably the most famous cartoonist in the world—created a colorful cast of characters that continues to bring humor and comfort to millions of readers. In this distinctively designed yet highly accessible book, renowned children's biographer Beverly Gherman traces both the life events that shaped Schulz's art and the various ways in which art influenced his life in return. Acclaimed by artists ranging from Andrew Wyeth to Mo Willems, the artistic elements of Schulz's work are brought to life in a colorful layout and thoroughly explored in an enchanting text that will draw in even the most reluctant readers. Views: 36
*This edition has been re-released with professional editing, footnotes, and amended scenes. Also includes bonus content."This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp. Can anyone hear me? Hello? Is anyone out there?""The End of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push mankind to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us..."Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the Future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without CHANGE, there will be no peace. Only Survivors.""Set along the lines of The Stand and The Postman, this is a chilling vision of the collapse of all society in the year 2012 and the rebirth of a nation by those who survived. It's so much more than just another fantasy series." -The Review ShopFrom dangerous trips into dark, apocalyptic cities, to patriotic rescues and furious revelations, Life After War is an action packed fantasy series where those left alive must come to terms with their mistakes in the old world, while fighting for a place in the new one. It's the apocalyptic fantasy series that Stephen King fans have been searching for. This way, please...Summary in 20 words or lessAn action adventure quest, with a supernatural romance, and many other subplots, set during the aftermath of the apocalypse. So what's really in this series? Here's a short list:The End of the World, right-up-close and full of apocalyptic horror.A government conspiracy that caused the apocalypse.An adventure into the wastelands to find family, supplies, and safety.A supernatural romance with a dangerous secret about a child's parentage and a love strong enough to survive the end of the world.An invasion, ambushes, attacks from Nature and man - guns and magic.A refugee camp with very different laws, picking up those who've survived.A Hero you'll love, even as you ponder the secrets that could lose him leadership. A Witch, a Doctor, a government Storm Tracker, a TV Star, and three Marines struggling to keep their people alive and together as they prepare to defend themselves against Cesar's Slavers.*A constant battle for survival that includes deadly trips into decaying American cities, insanity, relics of the past, and ghosts that stalk their every move.Life After War. Magic and Reality blended into a post-apocalyptic fantasy series that you won't ever forget.The Survivors (book one) has been a bestseller on multiple retailers in fantasy series, dark fantasy, science fiction adventure, and romance series. It has sold, or been downloaded, more than 50K times in its first 24 months.Review"Seven very gifted survivors are destined to rebuild their country after a nuclear apocalypse... If they can stay alive long enough to find each other. Impossible to put down." - The Review BlogFrom the Author"Please. Come closer. I need to tell you a story of human madness and powerful magic...A realistic tale of horror and hope...A Gripping battle between good and evil...A tangled web of Lust and Passion...Let me introduce an end of the world series like no other. Life After War." Views: 36
They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust… Views: 36
Neither Gabe nor Regina was looking for danger...when it found
them.
Regina Lachlan isn't a good traveler. She's prone to
motion sickness. So why does she agree to chaperone two young ladies to England and France?
Gabriel King is an agent for a quasi-official
organization dedicated to eradication of white slavery and drug dealing
throughout the world. His base is Italy,
so why is he being sent to Paris?
He doesn't speak French.
Gabe and Regina
have known--and loved--each other all their lives. While he would be happy to
carry her off to his Italian villa, she can't imagine abandoning her career and
living in an strange land. She likes a placid, uneventful life and can't
understand how he can enjoy his silly spy games.
When
Gabe is betrayed to his enemies, a dreadful coincidence endangers Regina and her charges. What
happens next will challenge both of them, and its outcome could break their
wills...and their hearts. Views: 36
Robbing a stagecoach on Christmas Eve and kidnapping a woman passenger is the last thing Luke Sullivan expects to do. He just wanted to reclaim the money stolen from him, but ends up with a feisty copper-haired orphan thrown over his shoulder who was on her way to marry Sullivan's bitter enemy. Emily McCarthy is an orphan out of options. Forced to marry because she was too old for her orphanage, she doesn't take kindly to her rescue. Still she trusts God can turn any situation to good especially when it seems Sullivan may just be the man of her dreams. But Sullivan's crossed a dangerous man unused to losing and Emily may just be the prize he's unwilling to sacrifice. Views: 36
At Queen Elizabeths palace, intrigue abounds. And when a naive girl with a gift for keen observation enters the court, she can hardly imagine the role she will play in bringing Englandindeed, the whole of Europeto the brink of war. Nor can she foresee her own journey to the brink of ecstasy and beyond. . . . When she becomes a junior lady of Queen Elizabeths bedchamber, Rosamund is instructed by her cousin, the brilliant and devious secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, to record everything she observes. Her promised reward: a chance at a good marriage. But through her brother Thomas, Rosamund finds herself drawn to the forbidden, rough-and-tumble world of theatre, and to Thomass friend, the dramatic, impetuous playwright Christopher Marlowe. And then Rosamund meets Will Creightona persuasive courtier, poet, and would-be playwright who is the embodiment of an unsuitable match. The unsanctioned relationship between Rosamund... Views: 36
In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared. These aren't ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments - the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They don't move, and they don't speak. Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone. Murders are revealed, rapes and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage. Two of these are Bradley Meyers, a vet already driven half-crazy by his experiences in Vietnam, confronted by the sight of his dead son, and now barely capable of containing his rage, and Jim Callender, whose son has died in the same accident, for which he is partly responsible. As Callender sinks into guilt, Meyers moves toward murder.This edition of Ash Wednesday contains a final portion that was not included with the book when it was first published. It was removed due to an editorial decision to which I acquiesced. After the book appeared, the last chapter was published in Bill Munster's excellent small press magazine, Footsteps. The entire book as originally written appears here, and in the accompanying audiobook, for the first time.-- Chet Williamson Views: 36
"Kangaroo child Norma Jean loves to jump. The problem is that her jumping gets out of hand, causing accidents and some ruffled feelings among her friends, and Norma stops her jumping entirely. But when the school's field-day games come up, Norma Jean is coaxed back into action long enough to win ribbons. Illus. in full color. Views: 36
Being Sheriff is a hard job, even in a town like Midsummer. The law is the law, and when magic is thrown into the mix, everything gets more complicated. Kirby is lonely and worn out, and his latest unpleasant duty is contacting the brother of a recent suicide. Given the complications surrounding the tragedy, and just how loathed the deceased man was in Midsummer, meeting his brother is not something Kirby is any hurry to do.But when he arrives, Merry is nothing like his deceased brother—nothing like anything Kirby has seen in a long time, and quite possibly a reason to feel things Kirby thought he'd never feel again. Views: 36
