New Releases by Peter Gross

Comme tous les enfants de son âge, Jodie Christianson se sent différent, presque inadapté. Il n''est pas à l''aise avec ses camarades, et se pose plein de questions. Jusqu''au jour où il survit à un accident dont personne n''aurait jamais dû sortir vivant : l''explosion d''un poids lourd tombé d''un viaduc. Etrangement indemne, Jodie attire le regard de toute la communauté de sa petite ville, y compris des autorités ecclésiastiques. Sans une seule égratignure, il retourne à l''école et devient un élève surdoué, lui qui, auparavant, faisait partie des cancres. Tout le monde se pose des questions. Jodie le premier. Jusqu''à ce qu''on lui donne un livre, qui contiendrait peut-être une explication : La Bible. Que se passerait-il si un enfant, tout ce qu''il y a de plus banal, survivait à une explosion mortelle ? Et ressuscitait les morts ? Serait-ce le nouveau Christ ? Dans la lignée de La Malédiction, voici un thriller contemporain qui remue les fondations de notre société, et charmera les amateurs de suspense à la Da Vinci Code.

From the pages of Neil Gaimans THE SANDMAN, comes the story of Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell, who is unexpectedly called back into action after he receives a mission from Heaven. Now as his enemies unite to stop his reemergence, Lucifer gathers his forces as he prepares to launch his new revolution.Forces in Hell and on Earth prepare for a final struggle for supremacy in this volume that ventures through space and time and the places outside both, weaving a sweeping saga out of multiple character threads mortal and immortal alike.

Follows Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell, as he faces challenges from forces in both heaven and hell.

Collects issues twenty-nine through thirty-five of "Lucifer" comics in which the retired Lord of Hell, having built a new Creation, populated it, and defended it from those who wished to take it from him, must now answer the challenge of combat with an angel of the Host and repay his debt to the half-angel Belloc.

Lucifer Morningstar continues work on his magnum opus a new universe outside of the strictures of our own.

The revolutions of 1989 swept away Eastern Europe''s communist governments and created expectations on the part of many observers that post-communist media would lead the liberated societies in establishing and embracing democratic political cultures. Peter Gross finds that it was utopian to hold such expectations of the media in societies in transition. On the one hand, those countries'' media professionals had all learned their jobs under the communist regimes and could not instantly transform themselves into guides for a politically enabled populace, Gross argues. On the other hand, newcomers to the media world, even those who were notable literary figures, viewed themselves as social and political leaders rather than mere informers and facilitators of the resocialization required to form new democracies. The news media have remained highly politicized and partisan. So how are the media, civil society, and political culture related in societies in transition? And can changes in these relationships be anticipated? To address these questions, Entangled Evolutions examines media in post-1989 Eastern Europe. It studies the effects of privatization of the media, journalists'' relations to political figures, institutional structures such as media laws, professional journalistic culture, and the media''s relation to their market. Sources include interviews with journalists and politicians, sociological and political data from national surveys, and media audience studies.

Tim Hunter''s voyage of discovery across America''s mystical landscape and beyond continues, with a way-out trip to the wild, Wild West, and a pioneering leap into the unknown.

Timothy Hunter is taken on a tour of the magical realms by a quartet of fallen mystics.

Examines the nature and influence of the news media in Romania before, during, and after the December 1989 revolution, concentrating on print and broadcast news media and their struggle to remake themselves and remake society. Covers the precommunist legacy, foreign mass media as a spark for the revolution, media laws in the noncommunist era, neutrality and objectivity in journalism, and news media in the presidential and parliamentary elections of the 1990s. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR