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Author : Jaime Hernandez
Release : 1989
Genre : City and town life
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Death of Speedy by : Jaime Hernandez
Download or read book The Death of Speedy written by Jaime Hernandez. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4- have imprint Westlake Village, CA.
Author : Jaime Hernandez
Release : 2007-07-17
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. by : Jaime Hernandez
Download or read book The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. written by Jaime Hernandez. This book was released on 2007-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the adventures of the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover Hopey; and their circle of friends, including their bombshell friend Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor Izzy―as well as the aging but still heroic wrestler Rena Titanon and Maggie's handsome love interest, Rand Race. After the sci-fi trappings of his earliest stories (as seen in Maggie the Mechanic, the first volume in this series), Hernandez refined his approach, settling on the more naturalistic environment of the fictional Los Angeles barrio, Hoppers, and the lives of the young Mexican-Americans and punk rockers who live there. A central story and one of Jaime's absolute peaks is "The Death of Speedy." Such is Jaime's mastery that even though the end of the story is telegraphed from the very title, the downhill spiral of Speedy, the local heartthrob, is utterly compelling and ultimately quite surprising. Also in this volume, Maggie begins her on-again off-again romance with Ray D., leading to friction and an eventual separation from Hopey.
Author : Gladys Mitchell
Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 718/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Speedy Death by : Gladys Mitchell
Download or read book Speedy Death written by Gladys Mitchell. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guests have gathered to dine at Alastair Bing's elegant country manor, but only one guest--a murderer--is aware of the dead body in an upstairs bathtub. With renowned explorer Mr. Everard Mountjoy noticeably absent from the dining table, the rest of the party searches for him, and soon discovers the explorer's drowned corpse. The murder is mystifying, not in the least because the body in the bath is clearly a woman's! As danger and theories unravel, psychoanalyst Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley observes and interprets all, from shrieks in the night to drowning attempts to poisoning. It's clear that Mrs. Bradley has a basilisk eye for detail. But can she uncover a motive for murder? Rediscover the notorious detective Mrs. Bradley in her original starring role. This definitive mystery is the first in Gladys Mitchell's sixty-six book series featuring this most unusual and brilliant heroine.
Author : Jaime Hernandez
Release : 2014-05-14
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 297/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Love Bunglers by : Jaime Hernandez
Download or read book The Love Bunglers written by Jaime Hernandez. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life - despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her friends - is what's made her a compelling character. After a lifetime of losses, Maggie finds, in the second half, her longtime off and on lover, Ray Dominguez. Much like John Updike in his four Rabbitnovels, Jaime Hernandez has been following his longtime character Maggie around for several decades, all of which has seemed to be building towards this book in particular.
Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Release : 2009-01-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis This Republic of Suffering by : Drew Gilpin Faust
Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust. This book was released on 2009-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
