![]() ![]() The similarities: weapons used, no money taken and the method of entrance. The police could not figure out who the killer was knowing only that the man was large in stature and wearing a coat. A husband and his wife were slaughtered with a razor blade and an axe, both left behind at the scene of the crime. In the steamy spring of 1918 a grisly murder was committed. If this is a weaker title, I can only imagine how fabulous the other titles are. My introduction to Geary came in the form of what is considered a weaker book in the series, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans. He has been working on his more recent series, A Treasury of XXth Century Murder since 2008. His first series, A Treasury of Victorian Murders included volumes on Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, H.H. ![]() Unbeknownst to me, Author and Illustrator Rick Geary has been producing a series of glorious true crime graphic novels since the 1980’s. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She also holds a doctorate in Political Science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Later she received another degree in Cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts. She later moved to New York and attended New York University, where she received a degree in Classics and English. She attended the University of Florida, but was expelled for her participation in a civil rights rally. Rita Mae Brown was born in Pennsylvania in 1944 and moved to Florida during her adolescence. The book is unique within the picaresque tradition in that both the protagonist and the author are female. Rubyfruit Jungle fits into the tradition of the picaresque novel, which typically follows the adventures of a socially or financially marginalized protagonist, such as Huck Finn in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Many of the events and characters in the book draw from Brown's own early years. ![]() Her relationships with other women are also a major source of focus and conflict in the novel. Starting with her childhood in Pennsylvania, the book follows her adolescence in Florida and her later adventures in New York. Rubyfruit Jungle chronicles the life of a young woman named Molly Bolt. In 1977 the book was reissued by Bantam Books and went on to sell over one million copies. When a small feminist press published Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, the novel sold 70,000 copies despite being almost completely ignored by reviewers at major magazines and periodicals. ![]() ![]() Yet I wonder if this sliver of ubiquity, carved off by the endless posting and reposting of images that drive so much of social media, risks transforming Itō into a type of internet fauna: a Junji Itō that merely exists, ex nihilo, without consideration of the reality inhabited by the artist. I don't know if those names come directly from Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu (Kodansha Comics, 2015 emphasis added), but this is an artist at a level of general visibility high enough that I can't discount the possibility out of hand. ![]() There's pair of cats named in the story: Yan and Mu. ![]() Junji Itō, of course! Or: I'm sure you've heard of the Kristen Roupenian short story "Cat Person" by now. "Who drew this?" someone inevitably asks. This is another way of saying that his comics are pirated a lot enough so that the initial acts of piracy become stock for subsequent excerpts and details, often posted out of affection. ![]() ![]() And, provided you are extremely online, you've also heard of Junji Itō, surely among the most internet-famous of horror cartoonists, whose works are passed around - be they full stories or juicy images - on any platform for the dissemination of images you can think of. Hey, wanna hear a scary story? The internet has transformed the impulse for expressing affection into a dehumanizing and monetizable force! Well, I didn't say it was going to be a new story. ![]() ![]() ![]() As we have throughout our 140-year-long history, we will continue to support efforts to abolish intolerance and cultural invisibility, stand up for all the members of the communities we serve, and promote understanding and inclusion through our work." "As an association representing these libraries, librarians, and library workers, the American Library Association believes that the struggle against racism, prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination is central to our mission. Our nation's libraries serve all community members, including people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the most vulnerable in our communities, offering services and educational resources that transform communities, open minds, and promote inclusion and diversity. Libraries provide a safe place for individuals of all ages and backgrounds and for difficult discussions on social issues. "During times like these, our nation's 120,000 public, academic, school, and special libraries are invaluable allies inspiring understanding and community healing. ![]() From children acting out in schools to adults participating in violent acts, it is clear that our nation is struggling in the wake of this election. ![]() "After a contentious campaign season filled with divisive rhetoric, we are now hearing from our members and in the news media about incidents of bigotry and harassment within our communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() All pages are intact and the cover is intact. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. : Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling: Book One: This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. Cornish's tale of scolds, scourges, smugglers and shrewds will thrill and captivate, and leave the reader desperate for more. ![]() Stunning in scope and rich in detail, alive with memorable heroes and villains and brimming with new and original science and magics, D.M. And all Rossamund carries with him is a battered almanac and a pocketful of cheap potions. Only monster-hunters, leers and the most desperate of brigands dare travel the inland ways unguarded. Such a road is not for the faint of heart. ![]() But for Rossamund to begin his education, he must first undertake a journey of his own: to the great city of High Vesting. ![]() He is being sent to train as a Lamplighter - to bring light to the inland roads of the Half-Continent, to shine the way for travellers through lands peopled by outcasts, monsters and worse. But fate has chosen him for a different path. Rossamund has always dreamed of a career in the Navy, fighting tentacled monsters and rescuing damsels from hook-handed pirates. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but the right woman will get inside their walls, make them human, make them fall in love and they will become more cherished than even their Oaths. Their Blood Oath forever binds them to the Mafia brotherhood above all else. They are all layered dark love stories with emotional push n pulls, friction, fireworks, sexcapades and character growth as Capos and Made Men bend for the women theyve each struggled and fought their attraction to. With their family dynamics, with the various threats, with their protective natures, loyalties and customs, with their arranged marriages and with the brutal challenges when the Chicago Outfit, the New York Famiglia and the Las Vegas Cammora simmer, spill blood, torture and go to war. For over a week Ive been totally immersed in, and absolutely obsessed with, this warring Mafia world of dangerous alphas and their layered lives. ![]() ![]() Alternating between Elisa's truncated affair with a revolutionary comrade and Marisol's search to understand her family's forcibly abandoned heritage, romance novelist Cleeton ( On Broken Wings) alchemizes her own family's Cuban exodus into historical fiction. Kyla Garcia relies on her notably adjustable range to channel seamlessly Marisol's tenacious quest and vulnerable discoveries. ![]() Frankie Maria Corzo imbues Elisa with steely determination, even as her family faces destruction, and even death. Romance leavened with a sizable measure of. Next Year In Havana is an extraordinary journey that connects the past and present and will enthrall readers until the very end. ![]() Elisa's childhood best friend Ana-who still lives next door to the former Perez mansion-warmly welcomes Marisol to Havana, presenting her with Elisa's box of long-buried secrets, prompting an inevitable collision of past and present. ( Starred review) A poignant tale of aristocracy, subterfuge, tyranny, conflict, corruption and courage during the Cuban Revolution. ![]() ![]() Almost 60 years later, Marisol Ferrara arrives in Cuba bearing Elisa's ashes in fulfillment of her grandmother's final wish to return home. So 19-year-old Elisa Perez leaves Cuba with her three sisters and their parents. In 1959 Havana, as Fidel Castro claims absolute power, the sugar-rich Perez family's vast wealth marks them as targets, necessitating their escape to Miami, FL. ![]() ![]() The gist of the story is the affair Bendrix conducted with Sarah Miles, and its unexpected and unexplained end at her behest a year before the opening scene, at the height of the Blitz. ![]() The order in which a story is told is pitted against the chronological order of the events depicted, this contrast in turn masking the one between human choice and divine intervention. ![]() Maurice Bendrix, the first-person narrator, considers whether it is his craft as a professional writer that leads him to begin telling his story the way he does, or, were he a believer, whether the hand of God played a role in organizing the events that he retells. The first paragraph of Greene’s The End of the Affair establishes a clear link between two of the major themes of the novel: storytelling and Catholicism. ![]() ![]() That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. ![]() Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. "Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve." - Booklist (starred review)ĭr. New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each president is illustrated as a caricature and is shown taking part in different comical scenarios. ![]() Delightful, relateable, and humorous book about our US Presidents. George and illustrated by Small, contains fifty-two pages each page detailing jobs, benefits, lifestyles, and the personalities of forty-two American presidents. Urn:isbn:1555920942 Scandate 20091216225355 Scanner . So You Want to be President By Judith St. OL15152611W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.66 Pages 62 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:155592963X Urn:lcp:soyouwanttobepre00stge:epub:fbeb6860-777a-4688-91f1-95b1c5a12f08 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier soyouwanttobepre00stge Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7gq7hr3g Isbn 0439252865ĩ8040002 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:37:34 Boxid IA107613 Boxid_2 CH113601 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition Paperback. So You Want to Be President 2001 Caldecott Medal Winner Email Print Cite Share This 1 Caldecott Medal Winner: So You Want to Be President Illustrated by David Small text by Judith St. ![]() |