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Author
Series
Far South volume 2
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Aurora
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, near the tiny harbour town of Riverton, Finn Bell moves into the isolated Smuggler's Cottage. He's running away from his old life and broken marriage, and still hasn't decided whether or not he's come here to die. At first, Finn dares to believe that he's building a new life with the help of new friends, counselling, a place in the local Murderball team. But chance encounters and odd occurrences convince...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory profiles and celebrates seventy women and nonbinary champions of progressive social change in a bold, colorful, illustrated format for all ages. Despite making huge contributions to the liberation movements of the last century and today, all of these trailblazers come from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated: not just women, but people...
Author
Publisher
Behler Publications
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
THE LONG BLINK is a narrative nonfiction book by Emmy Award-winning journalist, Brian Kuebler, who exposes the staggering cost of the American trucking industry?s rising crash rate through the intimate struggle of Ed Slattery, who is left to piece his family back together after a trucker fell asleep at the wheel and killed his wife and maimed his son. From the historic, public settlement with the trucking company and a bizarre confrontation with its...
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Series
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (?Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender? VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. We?ll look at how gender has been ?done? differently - from patriarchal societies to trans communities - and how it has been viewed differently - from biological arguments for sex difference to cultural arguments about received gender norms. We?ll dive into complex and shifting...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers, and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries...
Author
Publisher
Bluebird
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'We had our hardships, and there were times that we didn?t have a lot of food and didn?t have a lot of money. But that didn?t stop me having the time of my life.' Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless. In this book, Jay shares the details of his life, from his childhood growing up sheltered and innocent on a council estate in Hackney, to his adolescence when he was introduced...
7) Peril
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Language
English
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But as No. 1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the centre of the turmoil, resulting in over 6,000 pages of transcripts- and a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink. This classic study of Washington takes readers deep inside...
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