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Publisher
Eureka Productions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS presents comics adaptations of stories from the original creators of science fiction including "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells and "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum. Also featured are "In the Year 2889" a rare short story by Jules Verne, and "The Shadow and the Flash" by Jack London. Plus E.M. Forster's only SF tale "The Machine Stops", and shorts by Fitz-James O'Brien and Hans Christian Anderson.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Retells the epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War, told from the point of view of the steadfast companion who never gives up hope of his master's safe return.
5) Rapunzel
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Lea S.A
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
AIn an original story inspired by the classic Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel devises a plan to escape from the witch who is holding her in the tower of a castle.
6) The stranger
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 3
Publisher
Viking (Penguin Books)
Pub. Date
©1956, 1984
Language
English
Description
When the Spanish ambassador moves in next door, Madeline and the rest of the twelve little girls discover that his son is not the best neighbor.
11) Luther Arkwright
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In a sprawling adult epic of boundless imagination, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire now come together in a single digital edition.
In a swirling multiverse of endless possibilities and incalculable dangers, malign forces manipulate history through countless timelines and act to wreak destruction across universes. But the fate of these infinite existences depends on one man, an anomaly who exists in but a single universe,...
13) Madeline
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 1
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
15) Bless me, Ultima
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 2
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.
Author
Language
English
Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...
19) Goodnight moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
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