March 2012
Spring is on its way, which means just around the corner I will move my weekend reading spot from the couch in the family room to the hammock on the patio and then later as we move into summer to a lounge chair poolside. This comes just as I have finally mastered how to make a fire in the fireplace where the snap of burning wood is background noise as I read. I guess it's my version of "white noise."
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Eddie Deighton and Benjamin Shahrabani take us on a tour behind the operations of indie U.K. comics publisher Com.x, a little company responsible for some very big, and very good, graphic novels.
February 2012
WHOA --- we’ve almost marched right into March! And just think --- if it weren’t a leap year, the new month would be coming EVEN sooner. I have a few friends who are born on February 29th, and every four years they have a party on the right day, while on the others they are juggling whether it is celebrated on the 28th or March 1st. It’s been such a mild winter here in New York that I am betting it's going to be a very lamb-like beginning of March, but let’s see.
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Chris Shanley-Dillman
16-year-old Chap is alone in the world. He has no family, friends, home, identity, past or future, and has nowhere to go. In fact, he’s running from social services who want to lock him up in an institution. The only person he’s ever loved, his reclusive grandfather, has just confessed to covering up Chap’s entire existence with, if not lies, then omissions of the facts. Now Chap is completely alone with nothing to lose. Read More
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When the 16-year-old runaway Chap is mistaken for a missing boy named Cassiel, he takes on the boy’s identity, gaining the family and friends he’s always dreamed of having. But as he begins to unravel the mystery behind Cassiel’s disappearance, Chap realizes that he’s in much deeper danger than he could have imagined.
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When the 16-year-old runaway Chap is mistaken for a missing boy named Cassiel, he takes on the boy’s identity, gaining the family and friends he’s always dreamed of having. But as he begins to unravel the mystery behind Cassiel’s disappearance, Chap realizes that he’s in much deeper danger than he could have imagined.
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When the 16-year-old runaway Chap is mistaken for a missing boy named Cassiel, his life changes dramatically. Chap takes on Cassiel’s identity, gaining the family and friends he’s always dreamed of having. But becoming someone else isn’t as easy as he hoped --- and Chap isn’t the only one hiding a secret. As he teeters on the brink of discovery and begins to unravel the mystery behind Cassiel’s disappearance, Chap realizes that he’s in much deeper danger than he could have imagined.
After all, you can’t just steal a life and expect to get away with it.
Award-winning author Jenny Valentine delivers an explosive mystery where dark secrets, betrayal and loss pave the way for one teen’s chance at redemption.
