The Queen of Spades is an interesting cross between Black Canary, Batman and the Phantom of Lee Falk. Created in 1949, she is the very first female masked vigilante of the Italian Golden Age of Comics. A rarity in the post-war Italian comicdom, she is an independent, strong-willed woman with no fear to face and subjugate her male adversaries. In vol.2 you can read issues 13-24 of her adventures, including her journeys around the world along with her faithful sidekick Buster. The Queen of Spades has all the elements of a classic adventure: action, mystery, romance, humor, and sensuality! The Queen of Spades adventures terminate with a cliffhanger with #24 to be never resumed again. Published in the English language for the first time!

The Queen of Spades is an interesting cross between Black Canary, Batman and the Phantom of Lee Falk. Created in 1949, she is the very first female masked vigilante of the Italian Golden Age of Comics. A rarity in the post-war Italian comicdom, she is an independent, strong-willed woman with no fear to face and subjugate her male adversaries. In vol.2 you can read issues 13-24 of her adventures, including her journeys around the world along with her faithful sidekick Buster. The Queen of Spades has all the elements of a classic adventure: action, mystery, romance, humor, and sensuality! The Queen of Spades adventures terminate with a cliffhanger with #24 to never be resumed again. Published in the English language for the first time!

Gateway to the Great Books are great writings which selections include short stories, plays, essays, scientific papers, speeches, and letters. Each selection represents a primary, original, and fundamental contribution to ones understanding of the universe and themselves. There are over 135 Authors, 225 Selections and 95 original illustrations. Selections include works from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S Eliot, Mark Twain and more. This set will help introduce oneself to good literature and the Great Books of the Western World.

"Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian emigre who also happens to be a lap dancer." "For Windsor this predicament is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the bottom of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past to her Motown childhood, where the Temptations danced across the stage and love came disguised as a sharply dressed gangster; to Harvard, where she endured the humiliation of being an unwed black teen mother; to St. Petersburg, where the verses of the brilliant Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, great-grandson of an African slave, moved through her head as she made love to her own white Russian. The urge to protect her son has been Windsor's only goal, but as she draws ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, the identity of her son's father, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her boy don't add up to the beauty of the truth."--BOOK JACKET.