![]() ![]() Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross. Anthony is, of course, a "Samantha," and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. She deftly points out what really happened when Brahms fell asleep listening to Liszt, that the world's first hipsters were obviously the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses from eighteenth-century France, that Susan B. ![]() No era or tome emerges unscasthed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. A new collection by the web sensation and New Yorker cartoonist Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. ![]()
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His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. ![]() ![]() The stunning follow-up to The Notebook - a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.Īfter 30 years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. The Wedding: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!* ![]() |