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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who was killed at the age of 35 by a suicide bomber while hunting high value targets on a classified mission in Syria in 2019. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the U.S. military, only a tiny fraction are selected as "operators" in elite special mission units. Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as...
Publisher
Universe Publishing, a Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the film critics of The New York Times come these uncut, original reviews of the most popular and influential movies ever made--from the talkies to blockbusters like Chicago and The Wizard of Oz from timeless classics like Casablanca and Notorious, to beloved foreign films by Truffaut and Kurosawa, Fellini and Almodovar. The reviews reflect Hollywood history at its best. In addition, this volume includes: Full cast and production credits for...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After Thomas Jefferson visited Mount Vernon in 1801 to pay his respects to George Washington's widow, Martha Washington remembered the encounter as the second-worst experience of her life-after the death of her husband. The two founders had become estranged by the time that Washington died. But for most of the time that they had known one another, from their first meeting in 1769, they enjoyed a productive and positive relationship. Contrary to the...
186) The hills run red
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Young fans of a mysteriously lost horror film made in the '80s search for the secret location where the film was shot. There they find that the film is more than a movie--it's real, and they're its newest stars. Wait, Babyface is just a character from the movie, right? Wrong. He's alive and thrilled to meet fans who will die slowly and gruesomely for his art. Roll camera!
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted-relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal identities-as black...
Publisher
Shout! Factory/Timeless Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It began as a regional conflict and escalated into a war of Empires that covered the Earth. World War I The Complete Story, is a comprehensive look at The War to End All Wars . Produced by CBS television in the early 1960s in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the onset of World War I, this unflinching 26 episode series is more than just the history of this global conflict; it is also a photo album of the early twentieth century. From the political...