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Gnarr! How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World

by Jón Gnarr

Published: 2014-09-01

Hardcover: 192 pages

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In the epicenter of the world financial crisis, a comedian launched a joke campaign that didn’t seem so funny to the country’s leading politicians .?.?.It all started when Jón Gnarr founded the Best Party in 2009 to satirize his country’s political system. The financial collapse in ...

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Fu-go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)

by Ross Coen

Published: 2014-11-01

Hardcover: 296 pages

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Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift...

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Sea Change

by S.M. Wheeler

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 304 pages

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The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius’s many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family. When Oct...

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Afterparty

by Daryl Gregory

Published: 2014-04-22

Hardcover: 304 pages

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It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a s...

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Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory

by Constance Bowman Reid

Published: 2004-10-17

Paperback: 200 pages

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   In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools...

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The Brick Bible: The Complete Set

by Brendan Powell Smith

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 576 pages

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The Brick Bible series has taken the world by storm, and now, for the first time, Brendan Powell Smith's visually striking The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament and The Brick Bible: The New Testament are available in a beautiful hardcover box set. With over two thousand color ph...

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The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War

by Kevin Sites

Published: 2013-01-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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What is it like to kill?  What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget?In The Things They Cannot Say, award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who—by sharing the truth abou...

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Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide

by Andrew Rankin

Published: 2011-05-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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This astonishing book charts the history and practice of ritual samurai suicide from ancient times until the 20th century through primary sources, both literary and historical, many of them never before translated into English. The author has worked from documents such as medieval war tale...

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Sweet Tooth Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods

by Jeff Lemire

Published: 2010-05-18

Paperback: 128 pages

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Following on the heels of THE NOBODY, his Vertigo graphic novel debut, writer/artist Jeff Lemire pens his very first ongoing series SWEET TOOTH. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, SWEET TOOTH tells the story of Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children, has ...

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Asterios Polyp

by David Mazzucchelli

Published: 2009-07-07

Hardcover: 344 pages

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The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect ...