Brown
Title | Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Johnson James |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2020-09-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 164700358X |
Celebrating all the beautiful browns in one child’s colorful family Mama’s brown is chocolate, clear, dark, and sweet. Daddy’s brown is autumn leaf, or like a field of wheat. Granny’s brown is like honey, and Papa’s like caramel. In this loving and lovely ode to the color brown, a boy describes the many beautiful hues of his family, including his own—gingerbread.
PhenomX #1
Title | PhenomX #1 PDF eBook |
Author | John Leguizamo |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2021-11-10 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
Wrongfully imprisoned and desperate to regain his freedom, Max Gomez agrees to become a subject in an underground government experiment. When the trial gives him phenomenal shape-shifting abilities, Gomez learns his new “freedom” requires surviving a superpowered war fought on the streets of NYC.
Freak
Title | Freak PDF eBook |
Author | John Leguizamo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Comedians |
ISBN | 9781573226936 |
In this hilarious coming-of-age story--an adaptation of his autobiographical Broadway show--Leguizamo returns to the Queens of his youth, where a boy's feet had to be as quick as his mouth.
Ghetto Klown
Title | Ghetto Klown PDF eBook |
Author | John Leguizamo |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2015-10-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1613128614 |
This Eisner Award nominee, a graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning Broadway play Ghetto Klown, is a "hilarious Hollywood memoir" (Lin-Manuel Miranda, from his introduction) and "autobiographical dynamite” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Junot Díaz). Tony Award winner John Leguizamo lays bare his life story in this graphic novel illustrated by artists Christa Cassano and Shamus Beyale. He shares memories of his early years as an actor on stage, on television, and in major motion pictures opposite some of Hollywood’s biggest stars—including Al Pacino, Patrick Swayze, and Steven Seagal—and working for directors Baz Luhrmann and Brian De Palma. Leguizamo also opens up about his loves and marriages, while addressing self-doubt and melancholy in a way that enlightens and entertains. “[John] is a pioneer in theater and comedy, not just for Latin people, but as much as any comic or playwright I’ve ever seen or read. No one makes me laugh louder than this man. We are better because of him.” —Sofía Vergara “The graphic novel of Ghetto Klown captures the infectious spirit of John Leguizamo’s live performances with the same surprising humor and cultural insight. These pages make John seem like the coolest super hero in New York.” —Jesse Eisenberg
Mambo Mouth
Title | Mambo Mouth PDF eBook |
Author | John Leguizamo |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Drama |
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Seven dramatic portraaits that reveal the comically confused and frequently anguished individual behind the stereotypic mask of Hispanic machismo.
Spic-o-rama
Title | Spic-o-rama PDF eBook |
Author | John Leguizamo |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
"From the award-winning creator of Mambo Mouth, John Leguizamo's latest one-man show, Spic-O-Rama, is a sizzling satire of an urban Hispanic household. Desert Storm vet Krazy Willie is getting married, and the looming event inspires the six members of the Gigante clan--nerdy nine-year-old Miggy; the bridegroom himself; Laurence Olivier-wannabe Rafi; bitter, wheelchair-bound Javier; their sexy, sassy, long-suffering mother, Gladyz; and their foul-mouthed, philandering father, Felix--reveal the love, pain, and frustration of unrealized dreams common to all families."--Publisher's description.
Greenwich Village Stories
Title | Greenwich Village Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Stonehill |
Publisher | Rizzoli Publications |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2014-03-25 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0789327228 |
A love letter to Greenwich Village, written by artists, writers, musicians, restaurateurs, and other neighborhood habitues who each share a favorite memory of this beloved place. The sixty stories in this collection of Village memories are exuberant, poignant, original, and vivid-perfectly capturing the essence of the Village. Every corner of the Village is represented in the book: recollections of jazz clubs and existentialism on Bleecker Street, rock music at St. Mark's Place, folk singers in Washington Square Park. There are stories of Hans Hofmann teaching modern art on 8th Street and Lotte Lenya performing in The Threepenny Opera on Christopher Street. Decades later, Brooke Shields muses on renovating a brownstone and finding history behind its walls; and Mario Batali lyrically describes a Sunday morning walk through the food markets of Bleecker Street. The stories are complemented by a wide range of photographs by iconic figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Rudy Burckhardt, Berenice Abbott, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, and Weegee. Paintings depict elegant red-brick facades and raffish Hudson River piers, now restored; theater posters spotlight Karen Finley and John Leguizamo. This is a book for those who are already beguiled by the Village as well as those just discovering this fabled place.