Grady Hendrix's tale of siblings who come together after the deaths of their parents to sell their house fully embraces all the elements readers have come to love about Hendrix's storytelling.
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In 1912, the 47 residents of Malaga Island were forcibly removed from their small, interracial community. Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding fictionalizes the story in a stunning new historical novel.
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Hermetic, paranoid, sleek, dark — and with brief explosions of the sex and violence that have characterized Ellis' oeuvre — The Shards is a stark reminder that the author is a genre unto himself.
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UnCovered review by Beth Bliss, ACLS Brigantine Branch Manager
There have been some amazing author-illustrator teams in the canon of great literature. Think Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard, C.S. Lewis & Pauline Baynes, J.R.R. Tolkein & Pauline Baynes – the list goes on and on.
Those venerated partnerships now have rivals in the delightful author/illustrator team of Steve Martin (yes; that Steve Martin – the comedian) and Harry Bliss.
Martin and Bliss (no relation; what a pity) have been lauded for their latest book NUMBER ONE IS WALKING: MY LIFE IN THE MOVIES AND OTHER DIVERSIONS, which is currently in great demand. Their earlier work, A WEALTH OF PIGEONS (c.2020), however, should not be overlooked. This unpaginated but hefty banquet of black-and-white cartoons is pithy, snarky, and ironic.
The concept of cartoons for grownups isn’t new – think Charles Addams, Berkeley Breathed, Garry Trudeau, and others – but this collection feels fresh, contemporary, and most definitely skewed towards adults. Sharp, funny, accessible; this is one you shouldn’t miss.
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