Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.)
Title | Americana (And The Act Of Getting Over It.) PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Healy |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1910620610 |
The Pacific Crest Trail runs 2660 miles, from California's border with Mexico to Washington's border with Canada. To walk it is to undertake a grueling test of body and spirit. In Americana, cartoonist Luke Healy accepts the challenge. This intimate, engaging autobiographical work from an Irish visitor to the United States recounts the author's own attempt to walk the length of the USA's west coast. Healy's life-changing journey weaves in and out of often humorous reflections on his experiences in America and his development as an artist, navigating both the trail itself and the unique culture of the people who attempt to complete it. For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild.
Americana (and the Art of Getting Over It. )
Title | Americana (and the Art of Getting Over It. ) PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Healy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | Cartoonists |
ISBN | 9781910620533 |
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The Multiversity: Pax Americana (2014-) #1
Title | The Multiversity: Pax Americana (2014-) #1 PDF eBook |
Author | Grant Morrison |
Publisher | DC |
Pages | 46 |
Release | |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
As the assassination of the U.S. president leads to political intrigue, interpersonal drama, and astrophysical wonder, the truth behind the crime and those involved will blow your mind! Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely investigate the conspiracy on Earth-4!
How To Survive in the North
Title | How To Survive in the North PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Healy |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1910620327 |
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016, available in paperback for the first time! With stunning narrative skill, this compelling graphic novel intricately weaves together true-life narratives from 1912 and 1926 and a fictional story set in the present day. How To Survive in the North is an unforgettable journey of love and loss that shows the strength it takes to survive in even the harshest conditions.
The Hidden Goddess
Title | The Hidden Goddess PDF eBook |
Author | M. K. Hobson |
Publisher | Spectra |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2011-04-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345526392 |
In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies. Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought’s family and the magical elite of the nation’s wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily’s future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?
Absolutely American
Title | Absolutely American PDF eBook |
Author | David Lipsky |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2014-12-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547523750 |
New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating, funny and tremendously well written” chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy (Time). In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America’s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most “absolutely American” institution? During an eventful four years in West Point’s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Lipsky also meets some extraordinary people: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia O’Keeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to “a career in hair and nails” after the Army. The result is, in the words of David Brooks in the New York Times Book Review, “a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. . . . How teenagers get turned into leaders is not a simple story, but it is wonderfully told in this book.”
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Title | Lies My Teacher Told Me PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1595583262 |
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.