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501) Middlewest
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
The lands between the coasts are vast, slow to change,and full of hidden magics. The town of Farmington has been destroyed sending an unwitting adventurer and his vulpine companion in search of answers to quell a coming storm that speaks his name. From author Skottie Young and artist Jorge Corona comes the tale of Abel, a young boy who must navigate an old land in order to reconcile his family's history. -- Summary of volume 1.
502) Beyond Skyline
Pub. Date
2018
Description
When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the Earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.
Author
Pub. Date
©2001
Description
"In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson's articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson's articles - notably "Letters from the Dust Bowl" - are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
No one worships the Sunshine State as much as Serge A. Storms. Perpetually hunting Floridian arcana and lore, he and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, are on the road again. This time theyre on a frenzied literary pilgrimage that leads them back to Riviera Beach, the cozy seaside town where the boys spent their formative years.
505) Coconut Cowboy (CD)
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
But the America he finds in the rural burgs dotting the neck of the peninsula is a little bit different . . . and a whole lot weirder than anything Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper encountered. In a state where criminal politicians are more common than gators, Serge and Coleman discover one particular speed-trap locale so aggressively inept at corruption that investigators are baffled where to start.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
A man for Amanda: A slow, sexy drawl was all Amanda Calhoun heard when she walked into the wall of denim and muscle that was Sloan O'Riley, the architect hired to renovate her family's magnificent ancestral estate, the Towers. No-nonsense Amanda found Sloan's easygoing manner infuriating. But his irresistible smile was growing harder and harder to resist.
For the love of Lilah: Adrift in a storm, Professor Max Quartermain thought he must have hallucinated...
507) Asadora!: Volume 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won't quit. In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom--and not a soul notices. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. But there's more to her kidnapper and this storm than meets the eye. When Asa's mother goes into labor...
508) The old boat
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"Off a small island, a boy and his grandfather set sail in their beloved fishing boat. They ride the waves, catching wants and wishes and seeing the wonders of the ocean. But soon the boy is sailing the boat himself, drifting further from shore as the waters grow muddied and turbulent. When a storm washes him ashore, he sees home in a new light. He decides to turn the tides of his fortune, cleaning the island's waters and creating a new life with...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before. Egan tells the epic story of this environmental disaster and its impact on the communities stricken with fear and choked by dust in the "dirty thirties". This is the story of those who stayed and survived, those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave and it is an extraordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"For most of his life, Abel has lived under a cloud of fear, worried he could unleash the monster raging just below the surface of his father, Dale. When a violent storm levels his sleepy Middlewest town, Abel and his childhood companion, Fox, must hastily flee from his father and the only home he's ever known, entering into a world of mystical carnies and soothsayer hobos, bridge trolls and wilderness spirits, endless forests and forgotten children.--Back...
511) The ice storm
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...