Vigilante
Title | Vigilante PDF eBook |
Author | James Robinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Graphic novels |
ISBN | 9781401221287 |
Written by James Robinson Art by Tony Salmons & Bret Blevins Cover by Mark Chiarello The motorcycle-riding, two-gun hero called The Vigilante stars in this new volume collecting the four-issue miniseries from 1995, written by James Robinson! Greg Saunders, better known as The Vigilante, hits Hollywood to appear in a movie - but heads into action when his sidekick runs afoul of gangsters! Advance-solicited; on sale February 11 - 144 pg, FC, $19.99 US
City of Light, City of Dark: A Graphic Novel
Title | City of Light, City of Dark: A Graphic Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Avi |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2013-11-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545633419 |
Avi's ground-breaking graphic novel gets a stunning new cover to celebrate its twentieth anniversary! Two kids fight to save their city from eternal winter in this gripping fantasy by Newbery Medalist Avi, illustrated by three-time Sibert Honoree Brian Floca."To begin with--there were these KURBS. These Kurbs owned an Island...with their POWER they controlled both day and night...Years ago, when People first came to the Kurbs' Island, they wanted to build themselves a City."The Kurbs give people light and warmth to establish a city, on one condition: The people must return the Power every year or risk losing the city--forever. This system works for centuries until evil Mr. Underton tries to steal the Power. If he succeeds, the Kurbs will take back the City, reducing it to a dark and frozen tundra. It's up to Carlos and Sarah to find the Power--housed in a subway token--and keep the City safe, despite secrets of Sarah's history that are entwined with the token. What ensues is a race against darkness. A race against the lies of the past. And most of all, a race against time.
Pretty Good Joke Book
Title | Pretty Good Joke Book PDF eBook |
Author | Garrison Keillor |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN |
Over 2,200 Jokes from America’s favorite live radio show A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, “Where is the bar tender?” Drum roll. The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first five were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes (have you heard the one about Elvis Parsley?). More religion jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, blonde jokes, and jokes in questionable taste (Why did the urologist lose his license? He got in trouble with his peers). More jokes about chickens, relationships, and senior moments (the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you can enjoy the same jokes again and again). It all started back in 1996, when A Prairie Home Companion fans laughed themselves silly during the first Joke Show. The broadcast was such a hit that it became an almost-annual gagfest. Then fans wanted to read the jokes, share them, and pass them around, and the first Pretty Good Joke Book was born. With over 200 new and updated jokes, the latest edition promises countless giggles, chortles, and guffaws anyone—fans of the radio show or not—will enjoy.
Black Lives Matter at School
Title | Black Lives Matter at School PDF eBook |
Author | Denisha Jones |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1642595306 |
This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is “an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system” (Ibram X. Kendi). Since 2016, the Black Lives Matter at School movement has carved a new path for racial justice in education. A growing coalition of educators, students, parents and others have established an annual week of action during the first week of February. This anthology shares vital lessons that have been learned through this important work. In this volume, Bettina Love makes a powerful case for abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones looks at the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education, and prominent teacher union leaders discuss the importance of anti-racism in their unions. Black Lives Matter at School includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from participants across the country who have been building the movement on the ground.
Schmuck
Title | Schmuck PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Kushner |
Publisher | Alternative Comics |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1681485281 |
Schmuck drips with self-loathing, near-sightedness, and sexually frustrated Ashkenazi goodness. In Schmuck, Kushner tells "true" stories based on his own mishaps and mortifying memories, which are energetically illustrated by the cream of the indie comix crop."—Megan Sass, Heeb Magazine One man's awkward coming-of-age-quest to find love in New York City, illustrated by twenty-two artists, whose individual short stories together tell a complete narrative. Artists include Josh Neufeld, Nick Bertozzi, Dean Haspiel, Gregory Benton, Noah Van Sciver, Stephan DeStefano, and Christa Cassano. Cover art by Joseph Remnant. Book design by Eisner award-winner Eric Skillman. Forward by Jonathan Ames, creator of HBO's Bored To Death and Starz' Blunt Talk. Seth Kushner was an environmental portrait photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, L’Uomo Vogue, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker and others. He was a founding partner in Hang Dai Editions with Dean Haspiel, Josh Neufeld, and Gregory Benton. Kusher's previous books include The Brooklynites (powerHouse Books, 2007) and Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics (powerHouse Books, 2012).
The City of Light
Title | The City of Light PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Bikel |
Publisher | Momentbooks |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2019-12-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781942134619 |
A new Hanukkah classic and introduction for kids to the Holocaust.
Family Feeling
Title | Family Feeling PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Ross Justice |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2014-02-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0985932546 |
Jean Ross Justice’s Family Feeling, a novella and collection of stories, is a moving portrait of American domestic life of the last half-century. Often spanning generations, the stories are defined by subtle shifts in both family relationships and the ways in which we reconfigure them in memory and mind. Many of the stories revolve around end-of-life scenes. An elderly man is visited by his middle-aged son’s young second wife and child, whom the son has temporarily abandoned in order to tend to his dying ex-wife. A recently widowed woman faces a complicated relationship with a troubled home health-care worker who had been uncommonly kind to her dying husband. Four middle-aged siblings reconvene in their childhood home to attend to the death of their father and find themselves simultaneously children of, and parents to, their own parents. The unobtrusive historical breadth of the stories is remarkable. Reflecting back to Depression-era southern America from the perspective of the early twenty-first century, the characters provide us with an intimate view of the changing cultural landscape of our country. Issues of class are not merely ideological here—they are fluid and intricate aspects of fate and of soul. Justice’s prose is characterized by quiet humor and attention to gesture. The deeply self-reflective and self-contained narrators offer us a window into issues of aging and mortality that is real and rare. In the manner of Alice Munro or William Trevor, Jean Ross Justice’s thought-driven fiction centers on pivotal moments of action or conversation that haunt—or reverberate—for decades.