David Boyd
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
For readers of John Grisham and William Deverell comes a political thriller ripped from today's headlines. Lawyer and environmental activist David R. Boyd writes a riveting thriller about the psychological toll of a humanitarian crisis. Filled with tension and courtroom drama, Thirst for Justice will have you questioning what you believe about right versus wrong.
Michael MacDougall is a talented trauma surgeon whose life in Seattle is slowly unraveling....
2) Heaven
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and realistic portrayals of bullying are counterbalanced...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building--in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers...
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (675 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years in the future, after a universal civil war, a lone organization known as The Alliance controls the world, except for a small band of people running a transport ship called Serenity.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Europa editions.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Breasts and eggs tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makikos daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and...
6) Home run
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. With an unexpected second chance, Cory finds himself on a powerful journey of transformation and redemption. Based on thousands of true stories, Home Run is a powerful reminder that with God, it's never too late . . . freedom is possible." -- container
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Physical Desc
48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The famous writer Christopher Marlowe does secret work as the Queen's spy! But when the young actor Jasper Kyd decides to take revenge against his boss, William Shakespeare, things get complicated and dangerous ... "--Cover verso. Includes factual information about Elizabethan England, the Globe Theatre, Queen Elizabeth's spies, the death of Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan actors and Shakespeare's plays.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
GN 600L
Physical Desc
48 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Marco Polo visits the Emperor of China, Kublai Khan, he is given an impossible task. He has to find a mythical bird, the Roc, and bring one of its eggs back to the Great Khan ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
GN 630L
Physical Desc
48 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Bonaparte helps her famous uncle Napoleon escape from the island of Elba. As Napoleon prepares to go to war, Charlotte makes her own plans"--Cover verso. Includes factual information about Napoleon's family and career, the Duke of Wellington, and the Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon was defeated by Wellington.
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text depict nature darkened by a brief rainstorm then, at sunset, colors brighten, rain drips like crystals, and the bright white moon shines as we fall asleep.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
12) The hole
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
92 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy"--
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Artist RyMji Arai and poet Hiroshi Osada offer up another meditation on the natural world in this ode to water. A lyrical moment between parent and child in a boat on a river unfolds into an examination of the water that surrounds them, and the nature and life sustained by it: "It's only oxygen and hydrogen. Simple as could be, and yet nothing means more to life as we know it." Arai's lush art and Osada's evocative poetry, beautifully translated from...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"--