Agravity Boys, Vol. 5

Agravity Boys, Vol. 5
Author: Atsushi Nakamura
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1974731316

In pursuit of obtaining a time machine to save the world, the boys discover an island on α-Jumbro that’s brimming with the precious mineral known as Dagmatite. They rush to investigate this auspicious find, but the galaxy’s worst bassball team, the Rubonoans, are already there conducting their off-season practice! And the only way they will leave is if the Agravity Boys beat them in a game of bassball! Shouldn’t be too hard, right? It’s just the entire fate of humanity hinging one measly bassball game. -- VIZ Media

Agravity Boys, Vol. 6

Agravity Boys, Vol. 6
Author: Atsushi Nakamura
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1974731995

The Testanisari Conseirgen Conglomorate are throwing everything they have at the Agravity Mining Company, but the boys are too brilliant—or too stupid—to notice. Frustrated with the lack of progress, the head of the company, Testanisari Alesta himself, confronts the boys head-on! Or rather...nipples first? The eccentric superrich alien has fallen in love with the Urth custom of hei-kus, so much so that he hangs a slip of paper with a unique hei-ku from his nipples every day. And the only way he’ll back down is with a nipple-hanging hei-ku showdown! May the best pervert—no, the best poet win! -- VIZ Media

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5

Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 5
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 1116
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3968587677

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Jelly-Bean May Day The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Bernice Bobs Her Hair Head and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl - Edith Wharton:The Triumph of Night The Pelican The Fullness Of Life April Showers A Journey Afterward Xingu - Stephen Crane:A Dark Brown Dog An Experiment in Misery The Veteran Four Men in a Cave A Tent in Agony The Snake Upturned Face - Susan Glaspell:His Smile "Government Goat" A Jury of Her Peers The Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans" At Twilight From A to Z - Kate Chopin:A Respectable Woman A Pair of Silk Stockings A Matter of Prejudice A December Day in Dixie At the 'Cadian Ball The Storm Désirée's Baby - Laura E. Richards :Maine to the Rescue The Coming of the King The Golden Windows The Shed Chamber The Green Satin Gown The Scarlet Leaves Don Alonzo - Alice Dunbar Nelson:A Carnival Jangle Little Miss Sophie La Juanita The Praline Woman Sister Josepha Mr. Baptiste M'sieu Fortier's Violin - Louisa May Alcott:A Modern Cinderella My Red Cap A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Aunt Kipp Rosy's Journey The Brothers - Hans Christian Andersen:The Little Mermaid Brave Tin Soldier The Princess and the Pea The Goloshes of Fortune The Emperor's New Clothes The Last Dream of Old Oak Little Tiny or Thumbelina - Charles Dickens:A Child's Dream of a Star Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn Nobody's Story The Child's Story The Magic Fishbone What Christmas is As We Grow Older The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 5

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II Volume 5
Author: Valerie Sanders
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040129234

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

Sun of Suns

Sun of Suns
Author: Karl Schroeder
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429938056

A young man seeks vengeance against the man who killed his parents in this action-packed science fiction thriller series opener. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and “towns” that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He’s come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden’s nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden’s spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn’t bode well for Fanning’s chances . . .

At Swim, Two Boys

At Swim, Two Boys
Author: Jamie O'Neill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743222946

Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.

Sketches by Boz Volume 1 of 5 (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

Sketches by Boz Volume 1 of 5 (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2000
Genre:
ISBN: 1427042780

"Sketches by Boz" was Dicken's first book, published when he was 24 and written under his pen name. A mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction, it centred on the doings of the city of London.

The Shadows

The Shadows
Author: Alex North
Publisher: Celadon Books
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250318025

"This is absorbing, headlong reading, a play on classic horror with an inventiveness of its own... As with all the best illusions, you are left feeling not tricked, but full of wonder." – The New York Times The haunting new thriller from Alex North, author of the New York Times bestseller The Whisper Man You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it’s attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat. Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree--and his victim--were Paul’s friends. Paul has slowly put his life back together. But now his mother, old and suffering from dementia, has taken a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home. It's not long before things start to go wrong. Paul learns that Detective Amanda Beck is investigating another copycat that has struck in the nearby town of Featherbank. His mother is distressed, insistent that there's something in the house. And someone is following him. Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again...

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
Author: Taylor Brorby
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1324090871

"Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight." —Jung Yun, New York Times Book Review From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.” “I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, “a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking.” In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.