Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Down a Dark Road will go to Kevin T. from Dallas, TX. Alicia B. from Albuquerque, NM won the copy of Whispers of the Dead. The books are going out in the mail today.
There's no giveaway this week because I'll be out of town next week. However, check back on Friday, July 13. I'll have a new giveaway. I just won't be there to mail out books.
Star Wars: Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol 1 Publishing Information: Paperback; 432 pages Publisher: Marvel; 28 April 2015 ISBN: 9780785193982 Copy: Out of Pocket Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "Let the dark times begin! Marvel welcomes Star Wars to the Epic Collection program, with this first volume of a series focusing on the years that follow "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"! After the end of the Clone Wars, the Republic has fallen and Palatine exerts his ruthless grip on his new Galactic Empire. Now, the few Jedi that remain must decide whether to hold true to their faith, or abandon it completely in the face of a brutal purge--one carried out by the new Dark Lord of the Sith. Rise, Darth Vader! COLLECTING: STAR WARS: REPUBLIC 78-80; STAR WARS: PURGE, PURGE - SECONDS TO DIE, PURGE - THE HIDDEN BLADE ONE-SHOTS; STAR WARS: PURGE - THE TYRANT'S FIST 1-2; STAR WARS: DARTH VADER AND THE LOST COMMAND 1-5; STAR WARS: DARK TIMES 1-5" I've been on a l...
The Last Wish by Andrezej Sapkowski Publishing information: Paperback; 384pgs Publisher: Orbit; 1 May 2008 ISBN: 978-0316029186 Series: The Witcher #1 Copy: Out of pocket Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good. . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. For fans of the video game and the uninitiated alike, The Last Wish is the opening chapter of The Witcher series." The Last Wish is a collection of short stories that are loosely connected to one another all telling the story of Geralt of Rivia, also known as the Grey Wolf, a witcher who sells his services to anyone who has coin. Geralt is an interesting character as he is much more tha...
Flight to the Top of the World: the Adventures of Walter Wellman By David L. Bristow University of Nebraska Press, $29.95 (hc); $28.45 (kindle) Reviewed by P.J. Capelotti Walter Wellman is a unique figure in American journalism and exploration, comparable in some respects with Henry Morton Stanley. However, since Wellman straddled many different fields: journalism, politics, exploration, aviation, technology, and the Polar Regions, he has been a particularly difficult individual to pin down in any one account of his life of writing and adventure. His five expeditions in search of the North Pole from 1894-1909, along with an attempted stunt flight across the Atlantic in 1910, have long defined his life. The present volume moves a bit closer to the goal of a full accounting but, in the end, as did Wellman himself so many times, it comes up short by failing to reach its stated goal. The strengths of this biography are also its weaknesses. First, the revelation of ne...
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