The Return of Spring-heeled Jack

The Return of Spring-heeled Jack
Author: Jennifer Caress
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2012-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0985882972

Spring-Heeled Jack is a British urban legend, first appearing in 1837. Eye witnesses tell of a man who could leap several stories in the air with little effort. Some say he could breathe blue fire, others say he lured women out of their homes and attacked them by clawing at their faces. By all accounts he was a thief and a menace. Sightings of Spring-Heeled Jack continued for several centuries and crossed numerous continents, but he has been mysteriously absent from the 21st century. Until now. Spring-Heeled Jack breaks into the houses of two women, brutally attacking them both. Police report that a few items from each house were stolen and neither women were critically injured. His appearance is frightening: dressed in all black with hat, full face mask, goggles, cape, shirt, pants, and boots. He then breaks into an antique store, searching for special items for their energies including a rare glass knife. With the correct combination of objects and energies, Jack can open portals to different times and places. Enter Alice, who works at the store. Jack suspects she herself can open portals and the two develop an unlikely alliance in a search for a portal to a mythological utopia.

The Spring Book

The Spring Book
Author: Todd Parr
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316427918

New York Times bestselling author Todd Parr captures the beauty of Spring with his signature blend of kid-friendly art and text in this sweet book about the wonders of a season. Birds are singing and everyone is sneezing because Spring is here! The Spring Book captures a variety of moments that encompasses this season. From rolling down hills or dancing in the rain, to celebrating mothers and honoring heroes everywhere, Todd Parr shows readers with simplicity and universal accessibility the delights of Spring.

The Return of the Past

The Return of the Past
Author: Uzi Rabi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-11-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 179360049X

This book argues that the Arab Spring brought to the forefront numerous societal, political, and historical problems in the Middle East that scholars and practitioners throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century have continually glossed over or reduced in their analysis and analytical frameworks when studying the Middle East. These include the prevalent and persistent impact of Islam on political life, an impact of transnational and subnational identities, including sect, tribe, and regional identity, as well as the overuse of the state as the fundamental unit of analysis when studying the region. As a result, this book asserts that primordial identities including religion, sect, and tribe have, and will continue to have, a significant impact on the conduct of politics in the Middle East.

The Medici

The Medici
Author: George Frederick Young
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1928
Genre: Art, Italian
ISBN:

Spring After Spring

Spring After Spring
Author: Stephanie Roth Sisson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1626728194

From the creator of Star Stuff comes a picture book biography of Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist who fought to keep the sounds of nature from going silent.

Spring

Spring
Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473524776

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for. Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its deep struggles. With this striking novel in the Seasons quartet, Karl Ove Knausgaard reflects uncompromisingly on life's darkest moments and what can sustain us through them. Utterly gripping and brilliantly rendered in Knausgaard's famously pensive and honest style, Spring is the account of a shocking and heartbreaking familial trauma and the emotional epicentre of this singular literary series.

And Then It's Spring

And Then It's Spring
Author: Julie Fogliano
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1596436247

Caldecott-winning artist of A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Erin Stead, dazzles once again in this ode to the first stirrings of spring.