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Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Benny and his sister Penny know its wrong to sneak into someone elses backyard but their mysterious new neighboror is it a monster?may be a thief. They go snooping and discover a lot about themselves anda new friend.
Bestselling childrens artist Geoffrey Hayes enchants early readers with his charming and subtle storytelling. In this lively caper, the artists small-scale mice take on large-scale issues with enormous comics mastery.
2) Curse #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
WHY WE LOVE IT: BOOM! Studios has a long history of publishing some of the industry's best modern horror, and CURSE takes us back to our roots with a werewolf story unlike any you've ever seen.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE IT: The CURSE creative team practically screams "horror" from writers Michael Moreci (HOAX HUNTERS) & Tim Daniel (ENORMOUS) and artists Riley Rossmo (DRUMHELLAR) & Colin Lorimer (UXB), you're in store for a smart, realistic, and haunting...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Amitav Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family-the climax of a yearslong project"--
"When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A blueprint for how to rewild the world around us from two of the world's pioneers of wilding.
The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. Nature can bounce back if you give it a chance. Not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face. Tree and Burrell provide a pragmatic handbook for how we can all help restore nature, grown out of their pioneering project in...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you think of holes, what comes to mind? Maybe the irritating hole in your sock. Or the hole on the shelf where you plucked out this book. But did you know there are holes that suddenly devour entire gas stations? Big holes in the ocean that are visible from space? Small holes in balls that prevent a backyard home run? A hole is a part of something where there's nothing at all. Holes are investigated by scientists, used by artists, designed by...
Author
Publisher
Seven River Publisher
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When the death of a cryptocurrency magnate shakes a small town, Sam Johnstone is thrown into a new and dangerous legal frontier. As changes in Wyoming banking law bring an influx of crypto entrepreneurs to small-town Custer, attorney Sam Johnstone doesn't think much of the new arrivals. But when a shocking crime throws him straight into the epicenter of the digital world, there's no turning back. The death of crypto exchange magnate Max Kovalenko...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. Preoccupied with his own roots, Alex grew inexorably drawn to reggae music, which became his primary solace through years of physical and mental abuse in a childrens home. Although riven by loneliness and depression, Alex found joy and empathy among his reggae heroes: Dennis Brown, Bob Marley, Marcia Griffiths,...