![]() ![]() Louis Riel tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nations western frontier. OL5429008W Page_number_confidence 84.33 Pages 302 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211027103132 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 422 Scandate 20211024073415 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781894937894 Tts_version 4. A limited-edition reprint of Brown's celebrated biography of the Canadian rebel. Urn:lcp:louisrielcomicst0000brow_j2u1:epub:bb829fb1-c54d-4145-a77d-a28d0e3d2057 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier louisrielcomicst0000brow_j2u1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t86j79500 Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Cyrillic Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.4862 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000272 Openlibrary_edition ![]() In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. ![]() Urn:lcp:louisrielcomicst0000brow_j2u1:lcpdf:b2ec237d-1d5b-434e-ba88-ccbf3c0636d1 A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLDS OLDEST PROFESSION Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:06:19 Boxid IA40273713 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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![]() ![]() There’s a lot of elements in this series that would play out well over the course of a larger series. Jeff Lemire’s time-bending love story about two people born thousands of years apart and in drastically different situations who are brought together due to a rip in time is a great piece of something different that I would definitely like to see more of from Vertigo. This isn’t just a love story, it’s the LAST love story ever told. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. Two desperate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles, yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. It’s the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled “Lost Temple of the Incas,” an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties. ![]() It’s the year 3797 and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. ![]() ![]() Award-winning and a fan favorite, comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed lovers through space in time in Trillium that features the beautiful collection of every issue from #1-8 in this new graphic novel released today for purchase. ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up in a small town and never quite fitting in, Zade is determined to forge her own path. how Amazon describes the book: “Zade Holder has always been a free-spirited young woman, from a long dynasty of tarot-card readers, fortunetellers, and practitioners of magick. A book that’s out of stock on Amazon and is not currently in any physical B&N in the tri-state area. ![]() And by “unknown,” we don’t mean a dark-horse phenom we mean a book that literally cannot be bought from Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and yet somehow suddenly sold enough copies to not only make the bestseller list but debut at number one. Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, a wildly acclaimed novel (and soon to be movie) about a young black woman who becomes an activist after she sees police murder her friend, had been displaced by an unknown: something called Handbook for Mortals, by Lani Sarem, from the brand-new publishing arm of website GeekNation. ![]() ![]() Yesterday, young adult writer and publisher Phil Stamper noticed a discrepancy on the New York Times bestseller list for YA fiction. Buckle up, because this story is weird as all get-out. ![]() ![]() His bloodstream lit up my own with a passion for the city that I've never lost nor ever will. Charleston was my father's ministry, his hobbyhorse, his quiet obsession, and the great love of his life. He was talking about Charleston, South Carolina, and he was a native son, peacock proud of a town so pretty it makes your eyes ache with pleasure just to walk down its spellbinding, narrow streets. It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. Read an excerpt of the book below and head to the "GMA" Library for more good reads. "South of Broad" shows the importance that place plays in shaping people's identities. ![]() The group's anchor and school principal, Leopold Bloom King, narrates the story as these friends carve out various careers in journalism, law enforcement, Hollywood and music. ![]() They are privileged and poor, black and white. 24, 2009— - A group of teens form a lasting bond in Charleston, S.C., in 1969 just as Southern society is in the midst of dramatic change. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the heat of the hot California sun, tempers flare and desires ignite as Solo and Panther try to resist their attraction while fighting to be number one.
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I won’t be some clichéd convenience for him on his way through town. ![]() Pretty Boy is probably used to snagging city girls with a smile, this gal is country strong. My knees nearly buckle under the weight of his attention. ![]() His steely gaze pierces me behind the counter. ![]() If anything, he seems drawn to my indifference. A man who looks like that-superstar or not-has only ever meant trouble, and more trouble is the last thing I need, what with taking care of Nan and scraping by on tips from truckers. The morning he walks into my dingy diner, I have enough sense to keep my head down and go right on wiping tables, pouring coffee, and serving up short stacks. With little else to talk about, rumors about the players have been spreading like wildfire, and there’s one man in the middle of it all holding a match. That’s why everyone is all in a tizzy over the fact that the USA men’s Olympic basketball team will be training here of all places before this year’s Summer Games. We don’t get a lot of NBA superstars coming through little ol’ Pine Hill, Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s, ‘you’re in the perimenopausal stage, live with it’ … Doctors just fob you off, ‘oh it’s your age’, or, ‘it’s a bit of anxiety, so your pain is heightened’. ![]() Sue Loncaric, founder of Women Living Well After 50. “He didn’t even want to have the discussion,” Anderson says. She also has fibromyalgia, a syndrome which causes widespread pain through her muscles, and adenomyosis, which results in heavy, excruciating menstrual bleeds – both conditions that can affect women in midlife.ĭesperate for some relief, she worked up the courage to ask her GP about menopausal hormone therapy. The mother and grandmother, from Pakenham on Melbourne’s south-eastern fringe, is perimenopausal dealing with severe joint pain, brain fog and night sweats. Karen Anderson, 51, says she has felt dismissed by her GP over her symptoms. It’s very disillusioning,” Anderson says. ![]() “I was wondering why hadn’t any doctors mentioned it to me? I was very pissed off. When Karen Anderson stumbled upon a menopause support group on Facebook in June, she learnt for the first time that hormone therapy is typically the best way to treat symptoms of the natural transition that all women go through in their 40s or 50s. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]() ![]() The second editorial collaboration between Aronson and Smith (after 2011's Pick-Up Game) collects nine short stories by Ellen Hopkins, A.S. But on the other side of it is the rest of your life. It’s an initiation of sorts, and it can be brutal. Being a teenager is a time for all kinds of firsts - first jobs, first loves, first good-byes, firsts that break your heart and awaken your soul. Here, in nine stories, we meet people who didn’t know Kevin, friends from his childhood, his ex-girlfriend, his best friend, all dealing with the fallout of his death. Will Weaver turns a lens on Kevin’s sister as she collects his surprising effects - and makes good use of them. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job - at the mortuary. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery. ![]() Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. And now, even though he’s dead, he’s not really gone. How could one teenage boy’s life elicit other kids’ first experiences - even after he dies? Nine interconnected stories from nine top YA writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the back of the book, both an alphabetical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for. Each entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. "But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as "The Great Train Robbery, " and progressing chronologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, "films noir, "sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers around the world. New in this edition are entries to describe such film hits as "Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, Farenheit 9/11, "and "Million Dollar Baby. ![]() ![]() Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. ![]() |