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Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1984], c1970
Language
English
Description
American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is one of the most famous and fascinating figures in all of American literature. He led an adventurous and eventful life, beginning with his birth in a log cabin, to his time as a Civil War soldier, and followed by his career as an author and journalist, to finally his mysterious disappearance during the Mexican Revolution at age 71. Bierce is perhaps best known for his short stories about the American...
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This month marks 10 YEARS OF KICK-ASS the greatest superhero comic of all time! It 's been a decade since teen comic book nerd Dave Lizewski donned his homemade Kick-Ass costume and took to the streets of NYC to fight the city 's hardest criminals. This New York Times bestseller became a worldwide phenomenon overnight, spending three months at the top spot on the Diamond Direct Market chart and spawning the KICK-ASS movie that opened at No.1 in the...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
65) Nothing personal
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Personal is the stunning story of Warren Hament, a bright young man who stumbles into a career in finance in the early 1980s. His rapid rise exposes the inner workings of the amoral, crude, and brutal world of top-tier investment banking as only a true insider could know them. Introduced to the elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and with his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend pushing him, he gets a major boost when first his patrician...
69) Any which wall
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the middle of an Iowa cornfield, four children find a magic wall that enables them to travel through time and space.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington's poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood--not necessarily in that order. It's a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much social media, and occasional inner monologues where timeless debates are resolved such as Pro/Con: Caving to PTO Bake Sale Pressure ("PRO: Skim the crappiest brownies for myself. CON: They're really crappy."). With accessibility and wit, she captures the emotions...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Conservative talk show host and #1 bestselling author Savage takes on President Obama's socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex, showing how conservatives can save America from Obama's assault on the middle-class.
Author
Publisher
Keylight Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When estranged siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot head out on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque in the wake of Jonah's divorce, the last thing they expect to discover in the Nevada desert is an abandoned industrial site built around a hole in the earth that seems to go on and on forever. Exploring it, they soon discover an underground cavern filled with corpses both fresh and ancient, indecipherable writing covering the...
74) The bloody tower
Author
Series
Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher--recent mother of twins--resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London--the Bloody Tower--for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In her ground-breaking reporting Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment", losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story...
Author
Series
Joanne Ross novels volume 3
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened. In the Highlands in the late 1950s, much of the local newspaper's success was due to Mrs. Smart, the no-nonsense office manager who kept everything and everyone in line. Her murder leaves her colleagues in shock and the Highland Gazette office in chaos. Joanne Ross,...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. ...The riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Leeds. December, 1916. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper is called out in the middle of the night when a huge explosion rips through a munitions factory supplying war materials, leaving death and destruction in its wake. A month later, matches and paper to start a fire are found in an army clothing depot. It's a chilling discovery: there's a saboteur running loose on the streets of Leeds. As so many give their lives in the trenches, Harper and his...
80) Bridge of sighs
Author
Series
Martha Gunn mystery volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Two violent suicides leave Coroner Martha Gunn with some disturbing questions to answer - but the most difficult one of all lies closer to home . . . Gina Marconi was a beautiful young barrister with everything to live for - a loving fianc©♭, a young son and a successful career. So why did she leave her home in the middle of the night and drive her car into a stone wall? Soon afterwards, Patrick Elson, a clever twelve-year-old schoolboy, jumps...