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Unterzakhn<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York\u2019s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.<\/p>\n For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York\u2019s Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life\u2019s lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn<\/span> (Yiddish for “Underthings”) tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants; as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse, Fanya for an obstetrician who also performs illegal abortions); and, finally, as adults battling for their own piece of the “golden land,” where the difference between just barely surviving and triumphantly succeeding involves, for each of them, painful decisions that will have unavoidably tragic repercussions.<\/p>\n \n Jack of Ravens (Kingdom of the Serpent, Book 1)<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Short-listed for the British Fantasy Award<\/p>\n Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waits for him. Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again … but nothing is ever that simple. <\/p>\n A great Evil waits in modern times and will do all in its power to stop Jack\u2019s return. In a universe where time and space are meaningless, its tendrils stretch back through the years … Through Roman times, the Elizabethan age, Victoria\u2019s reign, the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, the Evil sets its traps to destroy Jack. <\/p>\n Mark Chadbourn gives us a high adventure of dazzling sword fights, passionate romance and apocalyptic wars in the days leading up to Ragnarok, the End-Times: a breathtaking, surreal vision of twisting realities where nothing is quite what it seems.<\/p>\n \n Texas Killing Fields<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims\u2019 mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call \u201dThe Killing Fields.\u201d <\/p>\n Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner\u2019s warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When familiar local girl Anne (Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz) goes missing, the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl\u2019s life. <\/p>\n Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, Produced by Michael Mann and Michael Jaffe, Texas Killing Fields<\/span> also stars Jessica Chastain (Tree of Life<\/span>, The Help<\/span>), Jason Clarke (Public Enemies<\/span>, FOX\u2019s \u201dChicago Code\u201d) and Stephen Graham (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides<\/span>, HBO\u2019s \u201dBoardwalk Empire\u201d). Executive Produced by Bill Block, Paul Hanson and Ethan Smith, with music by Dickon Hinchliffe.<\/p>\n \n Fair Coin<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Ephraim is horrified when he comes home from school one day to find his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. Even more disturbing than her suicide attempt is the reason for it: the dead boy she identified at the hospital that afternoon\u2014a boy who looks exactly like him. <\/p>\n While examining his dead double\u2019s belongings, Ephraim discovers a strange coin that makes his wishes come true each time he flips it. Before long, he\u2019s wished his alcoholic mother into a model parent, and the girl he\u2019s liked since second grade suddenly notices him. <\/p>\n But Ephraim soon realizes that the coin comes with consequences\u2014several wishes go disastrously wrong, his best friend Nathan becomes obsessed with the coin, and the world begins to change in unexpected ways. <\/p>\n As Ephraim learns the coin\u2019s secrets and how to control its power, he must find a way to keep it from Nathan and return to the world he remembers.<\/p>\n Stuff received 1\/10\/12<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Unterzakhn by Leela Corman Promo copy: A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York\u2019s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, … Continue reading
\nby Leela Corman<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51GsFIwpNML._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Mark Chadbourn
\nCover by John Picacio<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51G3rQCXLhL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby E.C. Myers
\nCover by Sam Weber<\/span><\/p>\n