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Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing

Monika M. Elbert and Susanne Schmid

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This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from...

Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery

Michael Bliss

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Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine...

Film Noir

Homer Pettey and R. Barton Palmer

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This book explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book...

There There

Tommy Orange

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Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking—Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering...

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

Women’s March Organizers and Conde Nast

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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...

politics social issues

Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride in Books

Oct 31, 2019

The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride

Garth Ennis | 2011 | Comics & Graphic Novels

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Exposition ahoy!

Hughie is back from his sabbatical and contemplating rejoining The Boys in their crusade against capes. He spends some time with Colonel Mallory, the man who set The Boys up in the first place, and learns more about the history of corrupt corporation Vought American, and their attempts to use superheroes in the military.
Meanwhile, one of the Seven, Jack from Jupiter, is being framed for the murder of a trans prostitute. This story was harder to read, because of the language used by Butcher in speaking to and about the trans people.
Things are starting to come to a head, and it feels like Ennis has his eyes on the finish line, and is now putting in all the back story and setting up the inevitable conflict.