by envisionmg | Jun 7, 2017 | Patrick Reviews, Pop Culture Spotlight
One of the early pioneers of the early comic and sequential art form, Jack Kirby fully deserves the title of “King of Comics”. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Kirby would move from selling day old bread to creating some of the most iconic comic...
by envisionmg | Jun 5, 2017 | Non-fiction, Reading Lists
A quarterly roundup of the latest updates to our science collection with a spotlight on: Nature The Earth The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are (March 2017) How many of us have given much...
by envisionmg | Jun 1, 2017 | Patrick Reviews
The Star Wars Lego saga started in 2005 with the premiere of Revenge of the Brick short on Cartoon Network. Since then there have been numerous other cartoons, and an ongoing series on Disney XD. These DVDs are a great way to introduce younger viewers to the Star Wars...
by envisionmg | May 30, 2017 | Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1431 Joan d’Arc Is Burned At The Stake Born a peasant in rural France during...
by envisionmg | May 25, 2017 | Jim Reviews
With the hundredth anniversary of World War I there has been a lot of discussion of “who’s fault was it?” Classically German gets the most of the blame but Russian and France and even England have gotten their share as well. Now Wawro has turned the...
