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Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden's groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, Nina, a beautiful and restless teenager, vows her life will be different. When a strapping older man in a fancy car appears at school one day offering her luxuries her single mother cannot afford, Nina believes he's her ticket out of her dumpy little town. Ignoring the danger signs and her mother's constant pleas, which end in exhausting screaming matches, she packs a...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive in Germany to run a Displaced Persons camp. They long to help rebuild shattered lives--including their own... For Martha, going to Germany provides an opportunity to escape Brooklyn and a violent marriage. Arriving from England is orphaned Kitty. She hopes working at the camp will bring her closer to her parents, last seen before the war began. For Delphine,...
Author
Language
English
Description
This work chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church. An exploration of race relations, this book offers a portrait of race in America....
86) Rogues
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Incarcerated. Retired. Dead. Nothing's gonna stop these Rogues from getting theirs, as the Flash's deadly enemies come out of retirement for one last-and potentially fatal-score! Ten years ago, the Rogues disbanded and went their separate ways. But time hasn't been kind to the former blue-collar super-criminals. Caught in an endless cycle of prison, rehab, dead-end jobs, broken relationships, probation, and endless restitution fees, the Rogues-Captain...
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Series
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A castle in the Himalayas. Five guests. One dead body. The idyllic Peter Dann Castle is a picture of tranquility as summer blooms in the Himalayan foothills. The heritage hotel has a reputation of being blessed - whatever happens here is said to happen for the good. Harith Athreya is invited here by his friend Javed, a retired police psychologist, to solve what appears to be an ominous riddle. Five friends have checked into the hotel, pretending...
Author
Series
Dan Lewis novels volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A teenage sailor disappears on HMS Defiance, an infamous closed case reopens, and Lt. Danielle Lewis fights for truth and survival in this high-octane military thriller After events on board the submarine HMS Tenacity, Lieutenant "Dan" Lewis of the Royal Navy's Kill Team was warned not to pursue those responsible. She should walk away, stop investigating, but her thirst for justice means she can't let it go. But even as Dan defies the order, continuing...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Robert Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships they faced, based on new interviews with Bill Parcells, Phil Simms, Mark Bavaro, and Bill Belichick. The 1986 New York Giants are legendary. A championship team coached by Bill Parcells and his wunderkind assistant Bill Belichick, featuring future Hall of Famers and All-Pros like Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor,...
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Keen to leave his controversial past behind him and enjoy a more relaxed, hedonistic lifestyle on a converted houseboat in the glamorous French resort of Cannes, enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier is known as 'Le Limier' or 'Fixer'. People come to him with their problems - and he fixes them. However, when Camille Ager asks Patrick to find her sister, Angele Valette, star of the new movie The Black Pearl, Patrick's laidback lifestyle is dealt...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption. Reporter Lee Ellerin's investigation into a young woman's unsolved murder gained national attention--only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake. After being publicly ridiculed for causing a suspect's death, Lee is forced to leave her career behind. Five years later, pregnant college student Amanda Hartley lies in a coma. The police say she attempted suicide,...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"McClanahan crafts his coming-of-age tales with comic wit and refreshing honesty, inviting readers to relive the memories that shaped his character and career-from hilarious childhood antics in small-town Kentucky to eye-opening adventures on the West Coast Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever is a vivid retelling of Ed McClanahan's life, from his early years growing up in rural northeastern Kentucky to his departure for the West Coast in pursuit of...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign--victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore shows that by turning our focus to stories of the front line--to acts of heroism and moments of both terror and triumph--we can counter, and even...
96) El último árbol
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Pero sin árboles estamos perdidos.. ¿acaso no estás bien aquí? Preguntó Goran mientras tosía. Prefiero irme con mis propias raíces antes de que me reduzcan a canizas o me corten en mil pedacitos. Contestó el árbol y, haciendo temblar la tierra, comanzó a desaparecer en aquella asfixiante niebla."--Page [4] of cover.
"One night, the last tree in the forest decides it's time to uproot and leave. A little boy soon realizes what is happening...
97) Connemara
Author
Publisher
Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Hélène is approaching forty. Born in a small town in the east of France, she worked hard to leave it behind and achieve a life worthy of the glossy magazines she pored over as a teen. But now that she seemingly has it all - a husband and two daughters, a successful career, and an architect-designed house near Nancy - she feels unfulfilled, as though the years have passed her by. Christophe just turned forty and has never left his little corner...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen urges for a radical remaking of the European Union in the model of the United States The diseases that plague Europe respect no borders. Guy Verhofstadt, former prime minister of Belgium and a leader in the European Parliament, shows that wherever we look-from the debt crisis in Greece to the rise of political Islam across Europe, the Syrian refugee crisis to Putin's...
Author
Publisher
Universe Pub
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
North America's pristine, remote, and very much endangered lands as seen through the award-winning aerial photography of Jim Wark. The expanse of North America seems boundless, and its wild lands encompass some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. Though timeless in their majesty, some areas are at risk of vanishing or changing forever, and Jim Wark's passion is to capture many of these beautiful regions before they are developed or environmentally...
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