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Generation X cult classics Our Noise and Geniuses of Crack chronicled a group of friends just out of college who lived in a small town, cared more about their record collections than their careers, and never imagined they'd have to grow up. Losing Our Edge-the sequel to both books-revisits a number of the characters, seeing where they are twenty years later and discovering what's happened with their lives. There's Charles and Randy, two old friends...
2) Unfamous Men
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A new retelling of the classic novel
Inspired by Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck's timeless tale of Depression-era friendship, Unfamous Men chronicles a different group of doomed dreamers: Mexican fruit pickers in Southern California in the years following World War II.
Tomás, a small man with a weakness for women and gambling, is constantly getting into trouble. Juanito, on the other hand, is a gentle giant with limited emotional intelligence...
3) Hollis
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Everything looks different underwater. Even murder.
Los Angeles 1937. A nasty heat wave and crippling drought set the city on edge. LA desperately needs water, but Hollis Mulwray-the water department's chief engineer-needs answers. Before he'll build a new dam, he has to find out what happened to the old one. Years ago, the Van der Lip Dam collapsed in the middle of the night. More than five hundred people were killed. Trying to solve the mystery...
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Led by indefatigable singer and songwriter Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices have been one of the most important rock groups of the past thirty years. After toiling for a decade in obscurity, they broke onto the scene in the early 90s by delivering generation-and genre-defining records such as 1994's Bee Thousand and 1995's Alien Lanes.
Pollard and a rotating cast of musicians have kept at it ever since, releasing LP after LP of stadium-worthy rock'n'roll....
5) Vicious
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In the fall of 1970, Lou Reed walked away from rock and roll. He left the Velvet Underground, and New York City, returning to Long Island. He moved in with his parents and got a job as a typist at his father's accounting firm. He told friends his career in music was over. Vicious takes an imagined look at what happened to Reed after he quit his band, and before the successful solo career that began in 1971.
"Vicious is a super fun read. I'll...
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Chemistry is what everyone hopes for when meeting somebody for the first time. Yet, too often, relationships soon evolve into a union akin to rubbing two wet sticks together and hoping for fire, then hanging on for dear life should the spark produce flames of any size. In Attempted Chemistry, Jeff Gomez, author of the cult favorite Our Noise, charts the lives and loves of a variety of Manhattan men and women who find that it's not establishing...
7) Sabotage
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English
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Triple Trouble
Three cops went looking for one of their own. What they found was sabotage.
Los Angeles. 1978. For a trio of detectives, the City of Angels turns into hell.
There's the Chief, a detective who's been around for years and knows all the angles. There's the Rookie, fresh from the streets and still, getting used to not being in uniform. And, finally, there's Cochese, a dedicated cop on a frantic search to find his missing partner.
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Eternal Warriors volume 3
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English
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Betrayals and bizarre alliances abound as Aram joins forces with Archer to stop the Warmaster from destroying the world in his effort to neutralize a mysterious cosmic entity.
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Doctor Tomorrow volume 12
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English
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With time running out on him, an elderly Bart Simms fights to prevent the time capsule which created his Doctor Tomorrow persona from ever going back into the past. But the time-gazing Mushroom Cloud has other plans! Who will survive? Who will be history? And who will rise from the ashes to save the future? Could it be a new, younger Doctor Tomorrow?
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Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021
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English
Description
With time running out on him, an elderly Bart Simms fights to prevent the time capsule which created his Doctor Tomorrow persona from ever going back into the past. But the time-gazing Mushroom Cloud has other plans! Who will survive? Who will be history? And who will rise from the ashes to save the future? Could it be a new, younger Doctor Tomorrow?