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Christian Cooper (born 1963) is an American science writer and editor, and also a comics writer and editor. He is based in New York City. In 2023, Random House published Cooper's memoir, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World. Career Cooper is currently a senior biomedical editor at Health Science Communications. On May 16, 2022, National Geographic announced Cooper would host a show on their American TV channel called Extraordinary Birder, exploring the world of birds alongside experts in the field. The show premiered on June 17, 2023. Comics Cooper was Marvel's first openly gay writer and editor. He introduced the first gay male character in Star Trek, Yoshi Mishima, in the Starfleet Academy series, which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in 1999. He also introduced the first openly lesbian character for Marvel, Victoria Montesi and created and authored Queer Nation: The Online Gay Comic. Cooper was also an associate editor for Alpha Flight #106 in which the character Northstar came out as gay. Cooper has written stories for Marvel Comics Presents, which often feature characters such as Ghost Rider and Vengeance. He has also edited a number of X-Men collections, and the final two issues of the Marvel Swimsuit Special. Personal life Born in 1963 to parents who were both teachers, Cooper found his interest in birds while reading a birdwatching book during a roadtrip from his Long Island childhood home to California. In the 1980s, he was president of the Harvard Ornithological Club, and is currently on the Board of Directors for NYC Audubon. Cooper has a long history of LGBT activism including being the co-chair of the board of directors of GLAAD in the 1980s. On May 25, 2020, Cooper was involved in the Central Park birdwatching incident, which led to the creation of Black Birders Week. The incident is also the basis for his online comic book about racism, illustrated by Alitha Martinez and published by DC Comics, called "It's a Bird". Bibliography Marvel Comics Presents: "Return of the Braineaters" (featuring Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night, with pencils by John Stanisci and inks by Jimmy Palmiotti, in Marvel Comics Presents #107–112, Marvel Comics, 1992) "Siege of Darkness" (featuring Ghost Rider, with pencils by Reggie Jones and inks by Fred Harper, in Marvel Comics Presents #144–146, Marvel Comics, 1993–1994) "Tower of Blood" (featuring Vengeance, with pencils by Reggie Jones and inks by Fred Harper, in Marvel Comics Presents #147–148, Marvel Comics, 1994) "The Price" (featuring Vengeance, with Fred Harper, in Marvel Comics Presents #149, Marvel Comics, 1994) "Dangerous Games" (featuring Vengeance, with pencils by Reggie Jones and inks by Fred Harper, in Marvel Comics Presents #152–153, Marvel Comics, 1994) "Altered Spirits" (featuring Vengeance, with pencils by Reggie Jones and inks by Fred Harper, in Marvel Comics Presents #156–157, Marvel Comics, 1994) "Final Gambit" (featuring Vengeance, with pencils by Reggie Jones and inks by Fred Harper, in Marvel Comics Presents #175, Marvel Comics, 1995) Darkhold #1–16 (with Richard Case, Marvel Comics, 1992–1994) Excalibur #77–81 (Marvel Comics, 1994) Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #1–19 (with pencils by Chris Renaud and inks by Andy Lanning, Marvel Comics, 1996–1998) Songs of the Metamythos (as C. F. Cooper) "It's a Bird" (with Alitha E. Martinez, Mark Morales, Emilio Lopez, and Rob Clark Jr., DC Comics, 2020) Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World. New York: Random House. June 13, 2023. ISBN 9780593242384. OCLC 1346618419. References External links Chris Cooper at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original). Discover the Christian Cooper popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Christian Cooper books.
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Healing Passion
Sylvie OuelletteJudith is an inexperienced young nurse, fresh out of college, when she is hired to work at the exclusive Dorchester Clinic, specialising in cosmetic care for its very wealthy clien...
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The Red Collection
Portia Da CostaStep into the red collection… From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep, this collection brings you a stunning array of Portia Da Costa’s short fiction – brought toge...
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The Rocky Mountain Heiress Collection
Kathleen Y'BarboTake a trip back to the nineteenthcentury Wild West in these three inspirational romance novels, attractively priced and packaged as an eBook omnibus. Kathleen Y'Barbo's The Rocky...
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Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred
Frank E. PerettiFourteenyearold Jay Cooper is enjoying the view from his Uncle Rex's Cessna when a lowflying 757 speeds past them. Caught in its wind turbulence, their small plane is shaken violen...
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Mark Twain 19 Non-Fiction Works
Mark TwainAmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Saw...
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Wicked
Sylvia DayWicked showcases some of the best erotic writing, bringing together a collection of unashamed, wildly entertaining tales of sensual holiday encounters. This is the perfect sexy sum...
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The Deadly Curse Of Toco-Rey
Frank E. PerettiLila and Jay Cooper have joined their dad on a mission to the jungles of Central America, where a group of American treasure hunters have already become the victims of the deadly c...
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A Private View
Crystalle ValentinoWelcome to the world of the elite...As a model, Jemma is used to being the centre of attention. And when Dominic Vane, the worldfamous photographer, asks her to pose for him, she k...
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Contest Of Wills
Louisa FrancisIn Sydney, Australia, in the late 1870s, vivacious young Melanie marries a man old enough to be her grandfather. On a trip to England, their entire journey is cut short by his sudd...
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The Secret of The Desert Stone
Frank E. PerettiBiblical archeologist Dr. Jacob Cooper arrives in Togwana with his children Jay and Lila and one goalto discover the secret behind the twomilehigh Stone that has mysteriously appea...
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Wedding Games
Karen S. SmithFour weddings and a seduction…Emma is not looking forward to her cousin’s wedding: the usual awkward guests, the endless small talk, the bad dancing... But a chance encounter with ...
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Garden of Desires
Emily DubberleyFemale sexual fantasy began in 1973 with Nancy Friday’s multimillionselling collection of real women’s fantasies, My Secret Garden. Until that book was published, female sexual fan...
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Illusion
Frank PerettiThe New York Times bestselling author of This Present Darkness and “master storyteller” (Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author) crafts a stunning thriller about a grie...
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Thrill Seeker
Kristina Lloyd‘I’d never set out to snag Mr Right but I’d veered so far off that track I was now at the mercy of Mr Dangerously Wrong...’Betrayed by her lover, Natalie Lovell finds herself explo...
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Set Fire To Sicily
Jane HeritageMarcello D'Estari, bastard son of a nobleman and a courtesan, is the most effective, most unmanageable and most amorous of the spies of the Venetian Republic.To safeguard its posit...
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The Bracelet
Fredrica AlleynB is for Bondage…When Kristina spots her bestfriend wearing a pretty new bracelet, little doesshe know that her new piece of jewellery hides a multitude of erotic secrets.Enticed b...
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Magic and Desire
Janine Ashbless, Olivia Knight & Portia Da CostaThree novellas of forbidden desire and otherworldly passions, from the leading names in erotic fiction, including the Sunday Times bestselling author Portia Da Costa.The House of D...
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Wicked Games
Kelly Lawrence‘Looking back, I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. The road he took me down was at once both more liberating than I could have dreamed of, and yet more intens...
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The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper
Kathleen Y'BarboThis Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia “Gennie” Cooper, but she secretly longs to sli...
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Diamonds Forever
Justine ElyotThe bad boy or the rock star?Jenna Diamond and her badboy lover Jason are enjoying an exciting and sensual fling. But he has skeletons from his past which prove challenging to over...
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The Apprentice
Carrie WilliamsIn desperate financial straits, aspiring writer Genevieve Carter takes a job as a personal assistant, only to discover that the middleaged woman she will be working for is none oth...
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Seven Scarlet Tales
Justine ElyotA brand new sizzling collection of linked short stories by the highly acclaimed author of the ebook sensation, On Demand They include the actress/director of a new production of Ki...
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American Wife
Taya Kyle & Jim DeFeliceThe widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable lossand a moving...
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Undone
Kristina LloydI can’t recall my first thought that morning: that I was in a strange bedroom; that an unfamiliar man was naked beside me; or that a woman was screaming somewhere in the distance.W...
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Hotbed
Portia Da CostaHow the other half live...Natalie and Patti are two sisters as opposite as can be. While Patti has been voraciously bedding a whole host of hunks, for shy and retiring Natalie, an ...
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The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
Suzanne PortnoyWhat if you had the power to make all your fantasies come true?Suzanne Portnoy is a woman on a mission. Freed from the restraints of marriage and monogamy, she’s no longer looking ...
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The Accidental Call Girl
Portia Da CostaIt’s the ultimate fantasy:When Lizzie meets an attractive older man in the bar of a luxury hotel, he mistakes her for a high class call girl on the lookout for a wealthy client.Wit...
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Seen and Unseen
Marc Lamont Hill & Todd BrewsterA riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times)...
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Diamond
Justine ElyotHer name is Jenna Diamond. She is about to meet her match…Since the painful breakup with her famous musician husband Jenna has returned to England and bought a crumbling old house ...
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The Legend Of Annie Murphy
Frank E. PerettiIn 1885, the Murphy mine struck gold. According to legend, Annie Murphy killed her husband out of greed, but just before she was to be hanged for the murder, she escaped. Now, a hu...
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Chickasaw County Captive
Paula GravesWhen someone tries to kidnap his daughter, Jefferson County D.A. Sam Cooper sees red. He wants little Maddy protected, at any cost. Even if that cost includes working with a distra...
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How to Seduce a Billionaire
Portia Da CostaThe virgin and the billionaire… Just because Jess Lockhart is a virgin in her late twenties doesn’t mean she isn’t interested in men. In fact, far from it: she fantasies about find...
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Being Magdalene
Fleur BealeThe gripping sequel to the awardwinning and bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and I am Rebecca. In this breathtaking followup to I am not Esther and I am Rebecca, Fleur Beale...
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The Gift
Portia Da CostaIt’s going to get hot and steamy this Christmas...Sandy Jackson still dreams of the sexy stranger who came to her rescue years before.And when she meets Jay Bentley again she doesn...
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What the Chicken Knows
Sy MontgomeryA charming and eyeopening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York...
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The Accidental Bride
Portia Da CostaMarrying a billionaire? It’s every girl’s fantasy but ever since meeting brooding sexy tycoon, John Smith, Lizzie has never been entirely sure of his true feelings for her.Has he p...
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On Demand
Justine ElyotI have always been drawn to hotels. I love their anonymity. The hotel does not care what you do, or with whom.The Hotel Luxe Noir is a haven for sensual pleasures. But as young rec...
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Fallen
Justine ElyotA lady of pleasure...In the backstreets of London in 1865, James Stratton makes his living writing saucy stories for anonymous clients. But then he receives an enquiry of a far mor...