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Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 39
Language
English
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Description
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marcel, a one inch-tall shell, lives with his grandmother Connie, the only residents of their town after their neighbors' sudden, mysterious disappearance. When a brush with fame gives him a chance at reuniting with his long-lost friends and family, Marcel's big adventure begins in this bighearted and bittersweet, delightful and moving story of finding home.
5) Sexology
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a post sexual revolution world, where you can purchase a vibrator just as easily as a pair of shoes, roughly one-third of all women have never experienced an orgasm. Armed with shocking sexual data, a bunch of insecurities and a determination to unlock the key to feminine sexual energy, filmmakers Catherine Oxenberg and Gabrielle Anwar seek out sexual experts, tantric masters, researchers and everyday women to unearth the full female potential....
Publisher
Asylum Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Robert Steven Rhine cooks up five tales of twisted terror.
Illustrated by Hilary Barta (Spiderman), Steve Mannion (Batman), and Frank Forte. Get ready to party in the Big Sleazy for Mardi-Gross madness. This issue features a terrifying gumbo of mayhem, horror, humor and all that jazz. Zombies, serial killers, reality shows, voodoo, vanity and toxic tennis shoes corrupt this issue. In our first story "Live Nudes", two rowdy college buddies explore...
7) Garfield #21
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jon's missing shoes lead Garfield & Odie on a wild ride through town, as we start the year off with two all new Garfield stories.
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
With the mayoral election in high gear and ex-labor boss Derek Mancini looking like a shoe-in, Cross chases down his suspicions that his main squeeze's old man is also the secretive leader of the Flying Tigers gang. But first he and Blaze will have to contend with not one, but two, assassins out for revenge!
Publisher
Archie Comics
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Even as a wedding guest, Veronica manages to make someone else's special day all about herself! Then, while Veronica breaks the bank for her fancy footwear, Betty's bargain shoes help usher in a new era for vintage designs. Next, Archie decides to give both Betty and Veronica wildflowers to show how much he appreciates them, but allergies and buzzing bees may send a different message! Finally, tired of countless action-packed video games turning their...
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A heartrending modern love story. A drunkard for a father, a household of poverty For 17-year-old Atsuko, misfortune is all she knows and believes in. Until one day, a chance encounter with Itaruthe wealthy heir of a huge corporationchanges everything. The two look identical, uncannily so. When Itaru curiously goes missing, Atsuko is roped into being his stand-in. There, in his shoes, Atsuko must parade like a prince in a palace. She encounters many...
11) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top--a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman,...
12) Lucky Cow
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." --Mark Twain
Virtually every American, regardless of social status, eats fast food. Cartoonist Mark Pett's Lucky Cow strip embodies the spirit of America's love-hate affair with fast-food joints and the traits they have in common:
* High turnover: Two Lucky Cow employees argue over who has seniority; the one who was hired at 9:30 that morning eventually wins.
* Uniformity: A Lucky Cow employee boasts that...
13) En tus tacones
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Quién eres cuando tienes que caminar con los zapatos de otra persona? Nisha viaja por todo el mundo y disfruta de las comodidades propias de los ricos y poderosos. Hasta que su marido le pide el divorcio y deja de pasarle dinero. Nisha está decidida a aferrarse a su sofisticado estilo de vida, pero, mientras, deberá esforzarse por salir adelante. Y eso que ya ni siquiera tiene los zapatos que llevaba puestos hasta hace un momento. La razón...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"CELEBRATE THE INSEPARABLE STORY OF SNEAKERS AND BASKETBALL in this richly illustrated history of the beloved game told through the lens of iconic shoes. It is the story of Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars, synonymous with basketball from the very beginning and perfect for the sport's plodding and low-visibility early years. (Celtics players were allotted two pairs at the beginning of the season. If a player needed a third, he had to buy it on his...
Publisher
Via Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at...
Author
Series
Seduction volume 2
Publisher
Eloisa James
Pub. Date
©2023
Language
English
Description
Miss Ella St. Trevelyon lives in the attic of her former home, her only companions a pet squirrel and a three-legged cat. Then one night she accompanies her cousin Fulvia to the theatre, where she meets a man of princelike wealth, with forceful features and insolent manners. Unfortunately, Lord Peregrine is engaged to marry Fulvia. Fiennes Peregrine is not a man who would ever chase after a woman waving a shoe. But he is a man used to getting what...
17) Fractured fables
Author
Series
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In A Spindle Splintered, its Zinnia Grays twenty-first birthday. When she was young, an industrial accident left her with a rare condition and no one who has it has lived to twenty-two. Her best friend is intent on making Zins last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, she finds herself cast into another world, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wonder Books, an imprint of The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clean as a whistle! What does that mean exactly? Learn the meaning and origin of this unusual phrase and many more in this engaging, informative book. Colorful, humorous illustrations and clear examples help readers better understand idioms and how to use them. Additional features include a table of contents, a glossary, critical-thinking questions, sources for further research, an introduction to the author and illustrator, and an index." --
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is demonstrably false. Capitalism is actually a two-way street: if democratic...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...