Slanky

Slanky
Author: Mike Doughty
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1593765045

Cult poet and musician Mike Doughty makes his print debut with Slanky, a black-comic stroll through the demimonde of pop culture and modern urban life. Doughty's poems are at once absurdest and matter-of-fact; the images he conjures are thrown into high relief through cutting wordplay. In a series of prose poems about showbiz, he re imagines Cookie Monster as a burned-out suicide, and cheesy talk-show host Joe Franklin as a cross-dressing witness to the apocalypse. And in "For Charlotte, Unlisted" he wrenchingly tracks the elusive memory of a faded romance.

Oddballs

Oddballs
Author: James Rallison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0593718712

From the mind that brought us The Odd 1s Out, Oddballs creator James Rallison is back with five brand new stories from the popular Netflix animated show! Join James, Max, Echo, and all of your favorite Oddballs characters as they get into epic amounts of preventable trouble. In these five exclusive mini stories, James grows sentient bacteria in his mouth, sells his yard, turns the whole town into ASMR zombies, enrages several birthday girls, and faces his own impending death. And, of course, he learns nothing.

Hitchhiking with an Angel

Hitchhiking with an Angel
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Hitchhiking
ISBN: 1410771229

Desperate for her help, Horace Jackson has Shawna Kane's children kidnapped. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know the kind of fury he unleashed in her. In her anger, Shawna reveals one secret she had kept for ten years. A daughter, with the blood of Tomahawk running through her veins. But that was the least of Shawna's problems. The train her daughters were on was transporting gold. Tomahawk has nothing to lose. As leader of a gang of outlaws, he boldly robbed stagecoaches and trains. Taking any gold or money transfers they were carrying. His men didn't question why he gave equal shares of the loot. To be honest, they didn't care. Tomahawk did care, but not about the money or the men. Learning of his illness, he realized he cared about his children. And there was only one person he wanted to raise them. As instructed, alone or in groups, the children sired by Tomahawk began to make their way to the Shooter's Ranch. Furious at his boldness, Shawna tracks down Tom to save her oldest two. In her search for his hideout, an unexpected arrival brings out another secret. Her anger at Tomahawk dissolves when she finally catches him. A final promise to make his family complete, sends her on several adventures. The growing family didn't deter Horace Jackson from forcing work on Shawna. Only the endangerment of one of her household could make her don the badge again. A slick con man was stealing lady gamblers for a high stakes poker game. And it became Shawna's job to stop him. But not without the help of her tribe.

Lucy the Octopus

Lucy the Octopus
Author: Richy K. Chandler
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1784509027

Lucy is an incurably uncool teen, and an octopus. For no reason at all (other than that she isn't very "girly"), she is very unpopular, and even her parents don't like her! The only friend who will hang out with her in public is Puffy, her pet puffer fish. But Lucy's haters don't know that she is secretly an awesome guitarist, and she has been picked to join everyone's favourite local band, Lamington Fuzz. While Lucy rocks at doing her own thing, her classmates realise that spending time with the "cool kids" isn't all it's cracked up to be... Richy K. Chandler's latest graphic novel is a celebration of being who you are, and a story about why it pays to be kind. Bubbling with fun and wit, it will buoy up the self-esteem of children aged 9+, and is a delight to read for big kids of any age.

The Book of Drugs

The Book of Drugs
Author: Mike Doughty
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0306818779

Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.