Immortals. (Wild reads: waves, winds, and a good book you can take while you bake--isn't that what summer's all about?).Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend by Scott Schechter (Cooper Square Cooper Square is a junction of streets in Manhattan, New York City. It is at the confluence of the neighborhoods of The Bowery, the East Village and the Lower East Side. It is fed directly from the south by Bowery at East Fourth Street which becomes Third Avenue after Saint Mark's Press, $26.95) You say you want to know what Judy Garland was doing every single day of her life? This exhaustively researched (and lushly illustrated) history of the diva's life will make any reader a posthumous stalker. Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths Restored and retold re·told v. Past tense and past participle of retell. by Andrew Calimach Andrew Calimach (born 1952), a descendant of the Callimachi noble family of Moldavia, is an American author of Romanian extraction. Calimach researched and re-wrote an entire domain of Greek mythology - the myths of male love - which was censored from the beginning of the Christian (Haiduk Press, $25) We always knew the Greeks were that way; this long-overdue book entertainingly explains just why. Wonder Woman: Paradise Lost Paradise Lost Milton’s epic poem of man’s first disobedience. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] See : Epic Written and drawn by Phil Jimenez (DC Comics, $14.95) Speaking of Greek legends, this collection features out comics whiz Jimenez's first seven issues of Wonder Woman, which take the Amazon princess's mythological roots seriously, along with her homeland's woman-loving traditions. |
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