Alexandra Monir's novel "Black Canary: Breaking Silence", now available, with a cover illustration by Jen Bartel, is part of Random House Books' "DC Icons" line:
"...'Dinah Lance' was seven years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in 'Gotham City', taken over by the vicious, patriarchal 'Court of Owls'. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn and to be free.
"Now at seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student 'Oliver Queen' (the future 'Green Arrow') and her...
"...'Dinah Lance' was seven years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in 'Gotham City', taken over by the vicious, patriarchal 'Court of Owls'. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn and to be free.
"Now at seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student 'Oliver Queen' (the future 'Green Arrow') and her...
- 7/27/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Alexandra Monir's new Random House novel "Black Canary: Breaking Silence", with a cover illustration by Jen Bartel, is part of the "DC Icons" line, available December 29, 2020:
"...'Dinah Lance' was seven years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in 'Gotham City', taken over by the vicious, patriarchal 'Court of Owls'. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn and to be free.
"Now at seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student 'Oliver Queen' (the future 'Green Arrow') and...
"...'Dinah Lance' was seven years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in 'Gotham City', taken over by the vicious, patriarchal 'Court of Owls'. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn and to be free.
"Now at seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student 'Oliver Queen' (the future 'Green Arrow') and...
- 12/18/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Alexandra Monir's new novel "Black Canary: Breaking Silence", with a cover illustration by Jen Bartel, is part of Random House Books' "DC Icons" line, available December 29, 2020:
"...'Dinah Lance' was seven years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in 'Gotham City', taken over by the vicious, patriarchal 'Court of Owls'. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn and to be free.
"Now at seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student 'Oliver Queen' (the future 'Green Arrow') and...
"...'Dinah Lance' was seven years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in 'Gotham City', taken over by the vicious, patriarchal 'Court of Owls'. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn and to be free.
"Now at seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student 'Oliver Queen' (the future 'Green Arrow') and...
- 6/9/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Exclusive: One of DC’s first female superheroes is getting the Ya book treatment. Author Alexandra Monir is set to write the first-ever novel about the popular superheroine Black Canary in Black Canary: Breaking Silence. Random House Books will publish the book on December 29.
Black Canary: Breaking Silence marks the fifth book in the DC Icons series which includes Leigh Bardugo’s Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Marie Lu’s Batman: Nightwalker, Sarah J. Maas’s Catwoman: Soulstealer and Matt de la Pena’s Superman: Dawnbreaker.
The upcoming Black Canary story is set in a near-future Gotham City where the patriarchal Court of Owls rules and where women are denied the right to work, learn and make music. They have been stripped of everything. At 7 years old, Dinah Lance hears the sound of a girl singing — something she was never meant to hear. Fast-forward 10 years later and Dinah discovers the power of...
Black Canary: Breaking Silence marks the fifth book in the DC Icons series which includes Leigh Bardugo’s Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Marie Lu’s Batman: Nightwalker, Sarah J. Maas’s Catwoman: Soulstealer and Matt de la Pena’s Superman: Dawnbreaker.
The upcoming Black Canary story is set in a near-future Gotham City where the patriarchal Court of Owls rules and where women are denied the right to work, learn and make music. They have been stripped of everything. At 7 years old, Dinah Lance hears the sound of a girl singing — something she was never meant to hear. Fast-forward 10 years later and Dinah discovers the power of...
- 6/8/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Alexandra Monir’s upcoming novel The Final Six has completed a wild ride after heating bidding saw HarperCollins emerge to seal publishing rights to her high-concept Ya book. This is the manuscript that Deadline told you Sony acquired in a pre-emptive deal earlier this month after seeing only the few chapters that were available to read. The HarperCollins deal is the final piece to an unusual process in which a major studio bid on an unpublished book proposal, triggering…...
- 5/17/2016
- Deadline
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