Download or read book Hot Hands and The Weirdo Winter written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the first day of school and Ralph is the new kid. He does not have any friends to eat lunch with until he meets the weird and wonderful Margo, or “Hot Hands.” Margo is a strange girl with hands made out of fire. These two shy classmates help each other overcome their fears. Ralph wants a new friend. Margo wants something else: Will she ever be able to hug anyone without hurting them? Will she ever be able to make a snow man without melting it? Will she ever feel normal? Is normal all that great? Read this amazing book to find out. Discover with Ralph and Hot Hands what being a true friend is all about.
Download or read book I Love You Is Back written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Love You Is Back is the second collection of work from this internationally celebrated poet, spanning 2004-2006. It includes such popular works such as ‘The Victory Explosions,” “All Distortion, All the Time,” “St. Marks,” and “The Last Poem about Anne Sexton.” I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and revelatory - here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent. -Janet Fitch, Author of White Oleander A wit as sharp as Sedaris, a sensibility as poignant as Sexton, Brown manages to blur the lines between poet and cult writer with remarkable ease and grace. - Anthem Magazine Derrick Brown is one of the greatest contemporary poets. Done. I always keep him on my radar. -Sage Francis, Hip-Hop Artist
Download or read book The Book of Basketball written by Bill Simmons and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
Download or read book Love in Winter Wonderland written by Abiola Bello and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sun Is Also a Star meets You’ve Got Mail in this YA Christmas love story set in a London Black-owned bookshop. Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors from closing before the Christmas Eve deadline—and embark on a hate-to-love journey that will change them forever. Heartwarming and romantic, this read is the gift that keeps on giving, no matter the season.
Download or read book Weirdo written by R. Crumb and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marginalia written by H. J. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book--the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia--H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke. Based on a study of thousands of books annotated by readers both famous and obscure over the last three centuries, this book reveals the intensity of emotion that characterizes the process of reading. For hundreds of years, readers have talked to other people in the margins of their books--not only to authors, but also to friends, lovers, and future generations. With an infectious enthusiasm for her subject, Jackson reflects on the cultural and historical value of writing in the margins, examines works that have invited passionate annotation, and presents examples of some of the most provocative marginalia. Imaginative, amusing, and poignant, this book will be treasured by--and maybe even annotated by--anyone who cares about reading.
Download or read book Suddenly Royal written by Nichole Chase and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samantha Rousseau is used to getting her hands dirty. Working on a master's degree in wildlife biology while helping take care of her sick father, she has no time for celebrity gossip, designer clothes, or lazy vacations. So when a duchess from the small country of Lilaria invites her to dinner, Samantha assumes it's to discuss a donation for the program. The truth will change the course of her life in ways she never dreamed . . . As crown prince of Lilaria, Alex D'Lynsal has had his share of scandalous headlines, but the latest pictures in the press have sent him packing to America and forced him to swear off women. That is, until he meets Samantha Rousseau. She's stubborn, feisty, and incredibly sexy. Not to mention heiress to an estate in his country, which makes her everyone's front-page news. While Sam tries to navigate her new world of politics and wealth, she will also have to dodge her growing feelings for Alex. Giving in to them means more than just falling in love; it would mean accepting the weight of an entire country on her shoulders.
Download or read book Just Maria written by Jay Hardwig and published by Fitzroy Books. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme--a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency--she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.
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Download or read book Webster s Grove written by Kyle W.E. Osborn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank has been plagued by nightmares throughout his life. He is 21 years old, going to college and just trying to have fun with his friends. It’s always been a little different for him because his parents died in a plane crash when he was just a baby. If that was not enough, he has been able to predict various different tidbits of the future since his 13th Birthday. Frank’s nightmarish visions about the future begin to get worse as the planetary alignment of the solar system approaches. Unfortunately his life is about to swirl completely out of control. Only one woman can keep him safe in the future, but he has to save her life first. Mandy Murdock is a patrol officer of the Webster Police Department. She is very ethical and very new to the department. She will soon learn that others in her department don’t share her sentiment about upholding the law. Rex is one of Frank’s closest friends and has pissed off the Mistress, the oldest living witch in the United States. She pre-dates back to when the USA was just the 13 colonies. Of course nobody knows who she is or that she exists at all until her precious house cat Foofy gets ran over by one drunken 20 year old named . . . Rex. The Mistress orders her powerful werewolf, Mr. Wolf to exact retribution on Rex and all his friends. What’s even worse is that local drug manufactures wind up blaming one of Rex’s friends for a ton of missing marijuana. They decide to employ a professional assassin from the city of New York. Stevie is just an average cute ten year old boy that gets picked on by neighborhood bullies. He is unaware that he possesses the perfect genetic composition that could enable the survival of one of the most powerful demons. Xmanithon strikes a bargain with the child in a desperate attempt to survive the physical perils of the new world that he has stumbled across. Stevie might become more powerful than he could ever imagine, but the power could come with the ultimate price.
Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.
Download or read book The World She Knew written by Venus Diaz and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A past full of pain and chaos-a world of deception, dysfunction, and darkness: The World She Knew is an emotional journey full of secrets, where the main character, Sage struggles to adapt to the environment that God provided for her. How does little Sage keep faith in the unseen? How can she justify a Higher Powers love for her, when all she feels is lost and forgotten? The World She Knew is a soundless scream, searching for hope underneath all the turmoil and faithless souls Sage encounters.
Download or read book Rebel written by Winter Travers and published by Winter Travers. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and grief change a man. It will make you hate the ones around you and question everything. Rebel wasn't looking for anything but a way to numb the pain. Too bad he didn't understand the longer he numbed the pain, the more it was going to hurt. Will the pain destroy Rebel, or will he find the light and feel again?
Download or read book Snowblind written by Ragnar Jónasson and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taut and terrifying, Snowblind is a startling debut from Ragnar Jónasson, an extraordinary new talent. Where: An isolated fishing village in the fjords of northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. Who: Ari Thór is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík. What: A young woman is found lying half naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed elderly writer falls to his death. Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life. *BONUS CONTENT: This edition of Snowblind includes a new introduction from the author and a discussion guide
Download or read book The Nightmare Affair written by Mindee Arnett and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nightmare Affair is the first in a gripping new urban fantasy trilogy by Mindee Arnett. Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she's a criminal. No, she's a Nightmare. Literally. Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother's infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker's house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He's hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn't get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. Then Eli's dream comes true. Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli's dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she's up to and marks her as the next target. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book We Told You So written by Tom Spurgeon and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976, a fledgling magazine held forth the the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics intended for an adult readership are reviewed favorably in the New York Times, enjoy panels devoted to them at Book Expo America, and sell in bookstores comparable to prose efforts of similar weight and intent. We Told You So: Comics as Art is an oral history about Fantagraphics Books’ key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana. It includes appearances by Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Harlan Ellison, Stan Lee, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, and more.
Download or read book Field Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
