Jack Gets Zapped!

Jack Gets Zapped!
Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593114027

From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog. On rainy days, Jack loves nothing more than playing video games. But when lightning strikes and Jack finds himself trapped inside his favorite game, will he find a way out before it's game over? Welcome to the laugh-out-loud and irreverent world of Jack, a new early reader series by the New York Times bestselling and award-winning team of Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli.

Zapped

Zapped
Author: Carol Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2008-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416562192

It's a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out? As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it's not meant to be. While Jack goes to pick up Chinese food, Regan enters their apartment, unaware that a nervous thief, who preceded her by minutes, is hiding in the front closet. A thief who knows about a hidden safe that Regan and Jack have yet to discover. Minutes later, the blackout strikes, and both Reillys are called into action. A new gallery in SoHo, featuring treasured glass sculptures from all over the world, has been burglarized. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack oversees several departments. Art theft is one of them. PI Regan hears from her best friend, Kit, who is in Manhattan on business. She's been abandoned at a comedy club by a colleague from an insurance convention, Georgina Mathieson, who ran out for a cigarette moments before the blackout struck and never came back. Kit gets a call that Georgina is disturbed and dangerous. Fueled by her rage at a college boyfriend who dumped her, Georgina seeks revenge on unsuspecting young blond men. She was last seen getting into a cab outside the club—with a tall blond. Regan heads the search for Georgina and her potential victim. Meanwhile, Lorraine Lily, an almost famous actress, returns to New York City the night of the blackout, after spending three months in England doing a play, and is informed by her estranged husband, Conrad Spreckles, that he'd sold his loft to their next-door neighbors, the Reillys. Lorraine had never told him about the hidden safe she'd had installed in the closet. If she doesn't get back what's in there, she's sure her budding career will be ruined. In Zapped, Clark takes readers on a tour of the city they won't forget and introduces them to a wonderful cast of colorful, eccentric characters whose stories intersect in precarious and often humorous ways during one very dark and hot summer night.

Jack's Notebook

Jack's Notebook
Author: Gregg Fraley
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1418577375

Problems! Jack Huber has his share. But when he is introduced to the creative problem solving process from an unexpected source, life soon changes . . . drastically. Jack Huber dreams of being a professional photographer and starting his own business. He has a few ideas but doesn't know how to process them to make his dream a reality. That is until an unlikely mentor stumbles upon Jack's path and shares a whole new way of thinking through problems. In Jack's Notebook, Gregg Fraley, an innovation consultant to Fortune 500 companies, illustrates a well-kept secret of corporate America: the Creative Problem Solving process. "If you are struggling to move ahead in your career, if you're an executive with a thorny corporate challenge, someone trying to solve a messy community issue, a family trying to sort through an emotional conflict, or an entrepreneur looking for ways to make the most of limited resources-this book is for you. If you have a 'mess' on your hands, you have found a useful tool." -from the Introduction

OMG! I Married the Devil

OMG! I Married the Devil
Author: Robbie Cole
Publisher: Robbie Cole
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2023-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

OMG! I Married the Devil is engaging, funny, thoughtful, and one of the goofiest books I’ve read (that’s a good thing!) — J. Lloyd Morgan, author of The Night the Port-A-Potty Burned Down Jill will do just about anything to avoid the "cat lady" label. And she has a “hope chest” containing all her heart’s desires to prove it. She longs for a masculine, wood-chopping, Speedo-clad muscle man who glistens from sweat in the sunshine. But when she meets Jack, a happy-go-lucky schizophrenic former sanitation worker who’s convinced he’s the devil, she learns that every nobody is someone’s somebody. Jill knows that no one’s perfect. And because Jack pales in comparison to the long list of losers she’s dated, she’s willing to overlook his quirks, but his growing supernatural powers leave her questioning her beliefs. Her desperate attempts to avoid becoming the cat lady while retaining her sanity leads her to hire an inept exorcist and a Voodoo Priest, proving love has no bounds — even if it lands her in hell. OMG! I Married the Devil, a wickedly hilarious, laugh-out-loud, heartwarming romantic comedy, explores the ups and downs of the dating scene, serving as a user’s guide for loving the supernaturally challenged.

Careless Love

Careless Love
Author: JOHN OLIVE
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573690792

The Protectors and the Motorcyclists

The Protectors and the Motorcyclists
Author: John Mansfield
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1685175805

All of Jack's life, he had experienced many close calls with serious injury or death. They began when he was very young and continued throughout his life. He always believed he was just lucky, but at the age of about twenty, he came to realize God and his angels, indeed, were protecting him. All of the supernatural events that happened to Jack through the years are real. Even as a teenager, he had a premonition of his younger brother's death. For obvious reasons, he only told a few people just bits and pieces of the strange things that had happened to him. He didn't want people to think he was crazy. In fact, for his entire life, he never even told his parents about these experiences. Jack became a very passionate motorcyclist as a means to try to balance the extreme anxiety he often felt as a result of his otherworldly experiences. The many motorcycle trips he took were therapeutic for him in so many ways. Over time, he developed a rather unique theory about the direction mankind was taking and the shape of things to come. More than anything else, this is the story about the ups and downs most people face in life and how having complete trust in God can get you through even the most difficult situations.

Fell in Love with a Band

Fell in Love with a Band
Author: Chris Handyside
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1466851848

With only two members and no bass player the White Stripes certainly seemed like the ultimate makeshift band. So how is it that this enigmatic couple—who publicize themselves as brother and sister though official documents say they're ex-husband-and-wife—became a multi-platinum musical sensation? From their early days as the darlings of Detroit rock scene to their current status as MTV celebs, they've defied expectations every step of the way. How did it happen that the simple idea of staying true to a lo-fi, blues-based sound became a revolutionary idea in the age digital conformity and complex studio production? Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of the White Stripes is the first biography by a Detroit journalist who has followed their career since the group's inception in 1997. From Meg White's novice attempts at banging the drums to their current incarnation as the face of indie rock. With never before seen photos and exclusive interviews with members of Detroit bands like Blanche and The Von Bondies, Fell in Love with a Band gets to the heart of this enigmatic rock band and for the first time tells the real story of their rise to fame and the power behind their sound.

So You Created a Wormhole

So You Created a Wormhole
Author: Phil Hornshaw
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1101561564

Welcome, intrepid temporal explorers, to the world's first and only field manual/survival guide to time travel!DON'T LEAVE THIS TIME PERIOD WITHOUT IT! Humans from H. G. Wells to Albert Einstein to Bill & Ted have been fascinated by time travel-some say drawn to it like moths to a flame. But in order to travel safely and effectively, newbie travelers need to know the dos and don'ts. Think of this handy little book as the only thing standing between you and an unimaginably horrible death-or being trapped forever in another time or alternate reality. You get: Essential time travel knowledge: Choosing the right time machine, from DeLoreans to hot tubs to phone booths-and beyond What to say-and what NOT to say-to your doppelganger Understanding black holes and Stephen Hawking's term "spaghettification" (no, it's not a method of food preperation; yes, it is a horrifically painful way to meet your end) The connection between Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, traversing wormholes and the 88 mph speed requirement The possible consequences of creating a time paradox-including, but not limited to, the implosion of the universe Survival tips for nearly any sticky time travel situation: How to befriend a dinosaur and subsequently fight other dinosaurs with that dinosaur Instructions to build your very own Rube Goldberg Time Machine Crusading-for fun and profit Tips on battling cowboys, pirates, ninjas, samurai, Nazis, Vikings, robots and space marines How to operate a microwave oven Enjoying the servitude of robots and tips for living underground when they inevitably rise up against us

The Renaissance of Aspirin

The Renaissance of Aspirin
Author: Glenn Parris
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483633012

This is the story of Anita Thomas and Jack Wheaton, two young doctors unwittingly in possession of a designer antibody for the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome. The new drug is effective, but dangerously flawed. The problem is Anita Thomas has developed a cheap, safe alternative agent. Naturally, after expenditure of a fortune in development, the drug manufactures are not at all pleased with her. The pieces unfold, as we follow Anita and Jack from beautiful upscale midtown to the seedier downtown counterparts of Boston and Atlanta over shadowed by deadly stalkers and embellished by amorous often comically frustrating misadventures. The Renaissance of Aspirin is peppered with industrial espionage, suspense and passion as the chase is on for the first cure for fibromyalgia. Entangled with colorful comrades such as Dasher Clay; Stormi Seales and Khandi Barr in their camp, Anita and Jack barely keep ahead of the treacherous cabal of nemeses; Luciana Velasquez and Jason Brasil led by the Über-villain, Orson Quirk. Paced in the tradition of The Pelican Brief, Coma or a contemporary Maltese Falcon, The Renaissance of Aspirin is both plot and character driven with a ly credible McGuffin at its core. These complex characters are funny, mean, desperate, lonely and at the same time very humanly imperfect. Readers will find their prickly exploits thoroughly entertaining.