The Sky is Yours

The Sky is Yours
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Publisher : Hogarth
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9780451496263
ISBN-13 : 0451496264
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sky is Yours by : Chandler Klang Smith

Navigating their burned-out, futuristic city home under constant threat from a pair of dragons circling the skies, three young people are forced to flee and confront challenges ranging from fire and conspiracies to taboo drugs and dragon-worshippers.

Everfair

Everfair
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780765338051
ISBN-13 : 076533805X
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Everfair by : Nisi Shawl

An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.

Not Heaven, Somewhere Else

Not Heaven, Somewhere Else
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1939460182
ISBN-13 : 9781939460189
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Not Heaven, Somewhere Else by : Rebecca Brown

"If heaven is somewhere, it isn't with us, but somewhere we want to get -- a state, a place, a turning to home. Rebecca Brown's thirteenth book is narrative cycle that revamps old fairy tales, movies, and myths, as it leads the reader from darkness to light, from harshness to love, from where we are to where we might go"--Publisher.

Rock Steady

Rock Steady
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781683961017
ISBN-13 : 1683961013
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Rock Steady by : Ellen Forney

Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/ companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock Steady turns the focus outward, offering a self-help survival guide of tips, tricks and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it.

You Private Person

You Private Person
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9798987478776
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Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis You Private Person by : Richard Chiem

Seven years after its most recent release, You Private Person now returns in a brand-new edition by With an X Books. Named one of Publisher's Weekly's 10 Essentials Books of the American West, these stories are sharp, romantic, and heartbreaking to the core. A beloved collection, a cult classic, and a perfect pop song, You Private Person is your favorite writer's favorite book.

Native Seattle

Native Seattle
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780295989921
ISBN-13 : 0295989920
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Native Seattle by : Coll Thrush

Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations. In Native Seattle, Coll Thrush explodes the commonly accepted notion that Indians and cities-and thus Indian and urban histories-are mutually exclusive, that Indians and cities cannot coexist, and that one must necessarily be eclipsed by the other. Native people and places played a vital part in the founding of Seattle and in what the city is today, just as urban changes transformed what it meant to be Native. On the urban indigenous frontier of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s, Indians were central to town life. Native Americans literally made Seattle possible through their labor and their participation, even as they were made scapegoats for urban disorder. As late as 1880, Seattle was still very much a Native place. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, however, Seattle's urban and Indian histories were transformed as the town turned into a metropolis. Massive changes in the urban environment dramatically affected indigenous people's abilities to survive in traditional places. The movement of Native people and their material culture to Seattle from all across the region inspired new identities both for the migrants and for the city itself. As boosters, historians, and pioneers tried to explain Seattle's historical trajectory, they told stories about Indians: as hostile enemies, as exotic Others, and as noble symbols of a vanished wilderness. But by the beginning of World War II, a new multitribal urban Native community had begun to take shape in Seattle, even as it was overshadowed by the city's appropriation of Indian images to understand and sell itself. After World War II, more changes in the city, combined with the agency of Native people, led to a new visibility and authority for Indians in Seattle. The descendants of Seattle's indigenous peoples capitalized on broader historical revisionism to claim new authority over urban places and narratives. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Native people have returned to the center of civic life, not as contrived symbols of a whitewashed past but on their own terms. In Seattle, the strands of urban and Indian history have always been intertwined. Including an atlas of indigenous Seattle created with linguist Nile Thompson, Native Seattle is a new kind of urban Indian history, a book with implications that reach far beyond the region. Replaced by ISBN 9780295741345

The Sexiest Man Alive

The Sexiest Man Alive
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 0692155562
ISBN-13 : 9780692155561
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sexiest Man Alive by : Amber Nelson

Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
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Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781785656835
ISBN-13 : 178565683X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Help I Am Being Held Prisoner by : Donald E. Westlake

JAILED FOR A JOKE It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose... HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades.

Seattle 100

Seattle 100
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Publisher : New Riders
Total Pages : 475
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ISBN-10 : 9780133085471
ISBN-13 : 0133085473
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Seattle 100 by : Chase Jarvis

Seattle 100: Portrait of a City is the culmination of a two-year personal project by renowned photographer, filmmaker, and social artist Chase Jarvis. Both a creative project and an insightful ethnography, Seattle 100 shares—via more than 300 stunning black-and-white portraits and biographies of each subject—a curated collection of leading artists, musicians, writers, scientists, restaurateurs, DJs, developers, activists, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, and more, all of whom are defining and driving culture in Seattle. Some faces you will know, other names you may have heard in passing, and others will have been unknown to you until now. With this book, Jarvis has created a snapshot of a city’s culture through its people. And it’s inclusive. Descriptive rather than prescriptive. It’s a 100, not an exclusive the 100, and it invites each of us to survey our own surroundings, our lives, our friends—and those not yet our friends—that make up the place we live, whether that’s Seattle or anywhere else. Individually, the images and words here introduce you to 100 engaging and important people. Collectively, this portrait of a city tells a fascinating, interwoven story about a unique and vibrant place. Beyond the photos and commentary by Jarvis, there are pithy musings by a select handful of subjects on the topics of art, food, community, region, culture, and film. In addition, many of the subjects share their favorite things, places, and doings in and around the Seattle that they have explored, discovered, and rediscovered time and again. Chase Jarvis is donating 100% of his artist proceeds from this book to the amazing arts and culture organization www.4culture.org.

California Four O'Clock

California Four O'Clock
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0996938702
ISBN-13 : 9780996938709
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis California Four O'Clock by : Martin McClellan