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161) Airboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 unpaged volume : illustrations ; cm
Language
English
Description
"When acclaimed comics author JAMES ROBINSON (Starman, Fantastic Four) is hired to write a reboot of the 1940s action hero Airboy, he's reluctant to do yet another Golden Age reboot. Just what the hell has happened to his career-?! His marriage?! His life?! Hey, it's nothing that a drink can't fix. After a night of debauchery with artist GREG HINKLE (The Rattler) the project really takes on a life of it's own. Quite literally" -- page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Richard Benson (William Holden) has a script due in three days. When he asks secretary Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots in this classic romantic comedy.
165) J.K. Rowling
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the personal life and professional career of the author of the best-selling Harry Potter novels.
166) Tolkien: a biography
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1988], c1977
Physical Desc
286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
167) The origin of others
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
168) Catching the light
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old nurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A journal believed to be that of John Wilkes Booth is found during a renovation project. It claims Booth never intended to kill President Lincoln and relates how he evaded capture to live many years in the West under an alias.
173) How not to write a novel: 200 classic mistakes and how to avoid them--a misstep-by-misstep guide
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vii, 262 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Elinor is used to doing very well in school, but as Poem in Your Pocket Day approaches, bringing an opportunity to meet a real poet, her struggle to write a perfect poem causes Elinor's confidence to falter, despite Mr. Tiffin's guidance and reassurance.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 180 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of one of the most fascinating and complicated figures ever to walk across America’s public stage – our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of our most sacred document, the Declaration of Independence, he gave voice to our fervent desire for freedom, but he also owned more than 150 human...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book’s publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory—a theatrical version of her novel. Along the way she reinvented what a book...
177) Meet J. K. Rowling
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An easy-to-read biography of J. K. Rowling, the English author of the popular Harry Potter series of children's books.
178) Unstuck
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
179) Ike's incredible ink
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cleaning his room and talking to his best friend while preparing to write what he knows will be an incredible story, little Ike discovers that he is missing just the right ink to get his project underway, a need that requires extraordinary effort to fulfill.
180) The national anthem
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how a patriotic and eloquent attorney was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
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