Trash Animals by Phillip David Johnson II

(script) & Gil Kane (art)January 24: The World Until Yesterday, by Jared DiamondJanuary 26: The Fall of the Stone City, by Ismail Kadare (translated by John Hodgson)January 27: The Illicit Happiness of Other People, by Manu JosephJanuary 28: Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent, by Gabrielle WalkerJanuary 29: The Making of the First World War, by Ian F. (art)January 19: Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010, by Sara WheelerJanuary 20: Adventures of Superman: Gil Kane, by Bob Rozakis, Martin Pasko, Marv Wolfman, et al. MartinJanuary 9: World War Two, by Norman StoneJanuary 10: The Midwife’s Tale, by Sam ThomasJanuary 11: A Memory of Light, by Robert Jordan & Brandon SandersonJanuary 12: A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus, by Frederic RaphaelJanuary 13: Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, by Garry WillsJanuary 17: The Boy, by Lara SantoroJanuary 18: Essential X-Men, volume 11, by Chris Claremont et al. Borza)January 8: Ice Forged (The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, Book 1), by Gail Z. PlanckJanuary 6: Scenes from Early Life, by Philip HensherJanuary 7: Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, by Peter Green (foreward by Eugene N. January 4: Superman: Last Son of Krypton, by Richard Donner, Geoff Johns (script) & Adam Kubert, Gary Frank (art)January 5: The Kassa Gambit, by M. For even more (!), you can browse the reviews from 2012. Perhaps most of all, they give a picture of the diverse and gorgeous banquet of books that a single year can offer. We think they make for splendid reading and can aid all book-lovers in their search for new works or gifts for others. He has reviewed - so far - 198 books, and we present them here, by their date of publication.

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Trash Animals by Phillip David Johnson II