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Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jonny Quest meets Infinite Jest! This mind-bending book--half graphic novel, half postmodern mystery, and 25% footnotes--is a thrilling tribute to the ways we build meaning out of disposable pop culture. WHO IS MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK? How did she save the world from a dimension-hopping megalomaniac? Why was her TV show canceled after only nine episodes? These are just a few of the questions that young journalist Dave Baker begins to ask himself as...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Josiah Manifesto opens up the stunning mysteries that lie behind the dramatic events of recent times that have changed our world - and the message hidden within them with regard to what lies ahead.
Could a three-thousand-year-old calendar of appointed days provide a secret to the most dramatic year of our lives? Could an ancient pagan temple lie behind the event that overtook Capitol Hill and shook the nation? Is America heading for calamity?...
23) Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War--how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes...
24) Fire Force: 28
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Shinra vanishes into Adolla along with the other Pillars, while the remaining Fire Force members rush to Amaterasu to prevent the Great Cataclysm and the world's destruction. Thus begins the ultimate showdown with the White Clad cult! Company 8 and Ogun take position at the gate to defend Amaterasu from an onslaught of powerful enemies -- Charon, Dragon, and the Great Fiery Infernals! Meanwhile, Vulcan infiltrates Amaterasu to guard its activation...
25) Fire Force: 26
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Great Cataclysm has begun, bringing Adolla closer than ever and when the sixth and seventh pillars appear at the same time, the Special Fire Force has their hands full with Company 8 missing and wanted for treason.
26) Fire Force: 27
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While investigating the mysteries of the Kusakabe family with Arrow, Shô makes an Adolla Link and encounters his mother, Mari, who has become an Infernal. What conclusions will Shô draw after learning the truth about his birth?! Meanwhile, an eighth pillar appears off the coast of Tama Bay. As the Empire despairs, the enormous figure of Raffles I descends upon the earth. The people fear divine retribution as Faerie blocks Shinra's path. It's time...
27) The omen
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English
Description
Robert and Katherine Thorn are as loving of parents as any young boy could ask for, but as fate would have it, their new son Damien is far from the typical child. As the mysterious boy's growth begins to share frightening parallels with the Biblical passages detailing the rise of the Antichrist, and the lives of all who seek to reveal his true nature are cut gruesomely short, Robert and Katherine are forced to face the horrifying prospect that their...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this war-room account from inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan leading to Armageddon on August 6, 1945. Here are the strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as Japan struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After defeating Godspeed with the help of his speedster children from the future, Bart and Nora, Barry Allen aka The Flash are back to face new challenges in Season Eight. With the help of Team Flash at STAR Labs Caitlyn Snow/Killer Frost, Allegra Garcia, Chester P. Runk and his family journalist wife Iris West-Allen, Joe West, and Cecile Horton The Flash will face villains old and new in Central City. Season Eight begins with an epic five-episode...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948-1949 War of Independence (called the "nakba" or "catastrophe" by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""[Kaufman] tells the story brilliantly. Anyone interested in the Middle East or military history will appreciate Kaufman's work." --Senator Joseph I. Lieberman "A stimulating and insightful...will no doubt find a permanent place on the Arab-Israeli bookshelf." --Michael Oren, New York Times bestselling author of Six Days of War October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The original adventure that started the enduring sci-fi pop culture phenomenon. Fan favorite episodes from season one include the iconic 'Where No Man Has Gone Before, ' the epic Gorn fight in 'Arena, ' 'The City on the Edge of Forever, ' and 'Space Seed' which introduces the ruthless villain Khan.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.
"The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history. Nashville, August 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, granting all women the vote, is on the verge of ratification--or...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to...
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