Matthew Smith
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. For others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. This book parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that now dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. Surveying the...
6) Lizzy Legend
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
Unhappy at not being allowed to play on the boys' basketball team, Lizzy Trudeau, thirteen, wishes to never miss another shot and soon finds herself playing in the NBA against her hero, the greatest player of all time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
"Behold, the story of Sophie Blanchard, an extraordinary woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history. In eighteenth-century France, "balloonomania" has fiercely gripped the nation, but all of the pioneering aeronauts are men. The job of breaking that barrier falls to a most unlikely figure: a shy girl from a seaside village who is entirely devoted to her dream of flight. And although she isn't the...
10) Ragtag team
Author
Series
Slamdown town volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Tamiko is transformed into Game Over, she and best friend Ollie, as Big Chew, team up to face Slamdown Town tag-team champions the Krackle Kiddos, but will their friendship survive?
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The kid-friendly horror series returns with all-new stories for a new generation, bringing the terrifying world of R.L. Stine to graphic novel form. All the kids in Beaver Creek, Oregon, know that the old Whaley House is probably haunted, so when young tech entrepreneur Veruca Curry moves in, the kids fear that there's more to her than meets the eye.
Author
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
The complete comic-book sequel to the hit movie DREDD. Featuring three action-packed stories from the critically acclaimed cinematic world of DREDD. In Underbelly Ma-Ma's death has led to a power vacuum and now other criminal gangs in Mega-City One are trying to fill the gap. When a number of corpses are discovered in a rad-pit, the bodies are all revealed to be mutants. Could the dead be connected with an outfit smuggling illegal refugees into the...
Author
Series
Dark crystal creation myths volume 3
Publisher
Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At the close of the Age of Harmony, began the Age of Division ... Brian Froud, legendary conceptual designer of the beloved Jim Henson fantasy film The Dark Crystal, returns to the world he helped create in this stunning conclusion of the official prequel to the original movie. The world of Thra is shattered. Following the events of the Great Conjunction, the once-powerful Urskeks have been split into two separate beings: the Skeksis and the Mystics....
Author
Series
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In an all-new adventure from Cassandra Anderson's early days in the Mega-City One Psi-Division, writer Matt Smith and artist Carl Critchlow present King of the Six Sectors. It all starts with Anderson awaking from an unusually strong vision of an attack on the Megapolitan Museum showcasing Cursed Earth artifacts.
Author
Publisher
Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Folk horror through the eyes of a modern teen in this atmospheric tale of obsession, suspense and magic. Something strange has been unleashed in the north of England. A modern-day druid commits a series of ghastly murders in an attempt to unleash the awesome power of the ancient gods of Great Britain. But all hell really breaks loose when his latest would-be victim, Nicnevin 'NISSY' Oswald, turns out to be more than she seems."--Provided by publisher....
19) The keep
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The Keep had stood empty in the Transylvanian Alps for 500 years. No one knew who built it, or why. But on the eve of WWII, German soldiers move in and awaken something -- something hungry...something as merciless as the SS Einsatzkommandos accompanying them. "--p. [4] of cover.
20) Bad luck Chuck
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Cursed at birth, Charlene "Chuck" Manchester hires out her own bad luck, providing disaster where someone else can profit. Got a failing business? For a price Chuck will make sure you collect on that insurance policy, without ever getting your own hands dirty. But bad luck doesn't always go as planned. Now the mob boss, the cult leader, and a dogged insurance-fraud investigator all come for her at once. Everything that could go wrong does - and only...