(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
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
BOOM! Studios
Language
English
Description
THE OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO JOSS WHEDON’S AWARD-WINNING BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TELEVISION SERIES!Set during the sixth season of the Buffy the Vampire television series, it’s time for the tragic - and violent - pasts of Giles and Angel to meet in a way they never expected. But that’s not the end of trouble in Sunnydale, as Buffy’s new-but-totally-not-new sister Dawn has disappears, an ancient prison to a portal dimension has opened, and Willow...
Author
Publisher
Tamela Miles
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Rock, Paper, Scissors is a compilation of previously published stories by Tamela Miles, including four new short horror stories.... Carin has somewhere to be, but she's not leaving before she handles some unfinished business with pop star Billy Chambers. Ten-year-old Vanessa feels unloved and abandoned by everyone. Unfortunately, her new hobby is nothing less than deadly for those around her. Zach is the kind of man who loves love and believed...
4) 47 Ronin
Author
Language
English
Description
Japan's enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated, this collection of the acclaimed miniseries recounts this sweeping saga of honor and violence in all its grandeur. Opening with the tragic incident that...
Author
Publisher
Garbage Wagon
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
George thought he’d finally escaped Shawna by picking up an easy bartending gig in Bocas del Toro, Panama. With an extra $400/month to edit an online love column keeping him afloat, he spends his days swimming and sinking beers with his roommate PJ. Does the occasional female tourist ever sleep over? Sure. But that’s nothing compared to PJ’s scorecard. PJ should be registered with the Center for Disease Control. Warm water, cold beers and no...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City
“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”— Edmund White, Times
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this retelling of an old English folktale featuring birds native to the U.S., Magpie patiently explains to the other birds how to build a nest. Some birds are impatient and fly off without listening to all the directions, however, and that is why, to this day, birds' nests come in all different shapes and sizes. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Since its introduction in the 1970s, hip-hop has become a way of life. This title takes an inside look at the women of hip-hop. The Women of Hip-Hop follows the careers of hip-hop's top female acts, examining their contributions to the genre as it burst into the mainstream and went global. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
Author
Publisher
Spotted Owl Press
Language
Español
Description
Ayude a su hijo a familiarizarse con el concepto de los números y contar con el Spotted Owl Press de la diversión de prensa con los números de serie. Los niños pequeños y los niños pequeños les encantarán las imágenes brillantes y coloridas se encuentran en estas páginas que hacen que sea fácil de entender el concepto de contar hasta 21 por los números impares .
Help your child become familiar with the concept of numbers and counting...
Author
Language
English
Description
Escaping the port city of Vritannis is no easy task, for even the finest ship is useless if it can't be reached, and a horde of Kushan monsters stalks the city's docks. Led by a powerful necromancer who has mastered both the elements and the monsters of the deep, this hideous brigade may be too much for Guts the Black Swordsman and his companions to handle, even if Guts and Schierke are able to join forces and control the awful wrath of the Berserker...
13) Little Hockey
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Language
English
Description
"Round and black — do you know its name? You need this disk to play the game." Answer: Puck. Now even the smallest of fans can enjoy a book about their favorite sport. Rhyming riddles accompanied by colorful artwork help introduce the game's simplest, most basic elements.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Janice is accused of shooting dead her abusive father, San Diego crime reporter Ray Myers has reason to believe she is innocent and sets out to prove it. Myers inadvertently becomes the tormented suspect’s protector after breaking the lurid story, and he must now save Janice from the psychopath who’s stalking both in this adrenaline-fueled thriller that Midwest Reviews calls “a riveting piece of deftly woven fiction by a master storyteller.”...
Author
Publisher
Squircle Subversive
Language
English
Description
In the words of John Lennon, "Imagine there’s no countries," nowadays it really isn’t hard to do, is it? And yes, there will be nothing to kill or die for, but all religions too. And hell, well it will be below us, and above us only "I."
Perhaps it’s already here, perhaps we already live in a world where in our thoughts and in our dreams, we can only ‘Imagine all possessions’, where we are already good citisumers. And if we’re not there...
16) Queer Korea
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative sexuality...
Author
Publisher
Grousable Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1862 London, the body of a famous surgeon is found, sitting upright, in an old operating theatre. The bookish Inspector Slaughter must discover the killer with the help of his American sergeant Mark Honeycutt and clues from Nightingale nurses, surgeon's dressers, devious apothecaries, and even stage actors in a world where anesthesia is new, working-class audiences enjoy Shakespeare, and women reformers solve society's problems.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Language
English
Description
Since its introduction in the 1970s, hip-hop has become a way of life. This title takes an inside look at the men of hip-hop. The Men of Hip-Hop Groups follows the careers of hip-hop's top male acts, examining their contributions to the genre as it burst into the mainstream and went global. Features include a timeline, a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Language
English
Description
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice that begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, and places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make and break relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists,
...Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This title explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focusing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors of papers contained in this volume deal with topics such as bureaucratic cultures and practical norms, operational routines in offices, career patterns and modes of appointment; how bureaucrats themselves perceive and...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request