Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife
Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife

Author: Eric Schlich

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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Award-winning author Eric Schlich’s Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife isan accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that’s what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn’t so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father’s self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he’s started having sex dreams about Jesus. Between that and his mother’s terminal breast cancer diagnosis, Eli feels further from heaven than ever. But when the famous televangelist Charlie Gideon shows up at the Harpos’ doorstep with a proposal to create a new attraction based on Eli’s trip to the afterlife at his Bible-themed park, Eli isn’t able to say no. As the Harpos head off on a rollicking road trip from Kentucky to Bible World in Orlando, Eli is left to grapple with not just his faith and his sexuality, but also his own parents’ messy humanity and what happens when a family held together by mythmaking starts coming apart at the seams. Hilarious and moving, Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife is a kind-hearted story about self-discovery and the search for truth, wherever it takes you.

Quantum Convention
Quantum Convention

Author: Eric Schlich

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1574417479

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Quantum Convention’s eight genre-bending stories balance precariously between reality and fantasy, the suburban and the magical, the quotidian and the strange. Caught at a crossroads in his marriage, a high school teacher attends a parallel universe convention, where he meets his multiple selves and explores the alternate paths of life’s what-ifs. The story of Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West, parallels the coming of age of a cross-dressing boy whose crisis of identity is tied to The Wizard of Oz. Other stories feature characters labeled as “outcasts” by society—whether physically, morally, or fantastically: an alcoholic lucid dreamer, a closeted bisexual, a bachelor time-epileptic, orphans-turned-keeners, a vengeful banshee, a nerdy cyclops, and more. Many struggle to find what Dorothy and her entourage searched for: the wisdom to trust or discount their faith; the ability of the emotionally detached to love; the courage to speak up for oneself; a place to belong.

The Wiccan Rede
The Wiccan Rede

Author: Mark Ventimiglia

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780806527406

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The Wiccan Rede is the heart and central tenet of the Wiccan religion, containing all its fundamental teachings. Mark Ventimiglia, a longtime practitioner and Wiccan writer, organises a pocket sized guide to the Rede containing not only the poem itself but a comprehensive interpretation of each of its 26 verses.

I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them
I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

Author: Jesse Goolsby

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0544380983

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In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connectionin family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed in Afghanistan two years into a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. Jesse Goolsby casts backward and forward in time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul. Hailed by Robert Olen Butler as a "major literary event," I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart-wrenching wisdom, and a debut novel from a writer to watch.

Eli
Eli

Author: Derek Glissmann

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781480926479

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Eli By Derek C. Glissman Growing up in an era when handicapped people are rarely seen and often hidden in back rooms, Eli is used to being confined and alone. He is optimistic about his relocation to The Franklin Farm Treatment Center, a community of residents with special needs of various kinds. His hope turns to confusion, however, when he is met with harsh rules and little opportunity for interaction with others. When one of the residents suddenly disappears, rumors and suspicions start Eli on a journey toward the truth about his new home, and his new ¿independence¿ brings challenges he never could have imagined. About the Author Derek C. Glissman has a passion for building bridges between people with disabilities and the rest of society. Derek has spent a good deal of his life inspiring others with his many accomplishments, some of which include earning a Master¿s degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. Despite the physical limitations of having multiple sclerosis, Derek writes to give voice to others with disabilities. He hopes his writing will remind people that they are not alone and will inspire everyone toward their own personal greatness. Derek is a big DC Comics fan and an avid reader. He also loves hunting through antique stores and thrift stores for new additions to his vast toy collection.

The Gate of Gods
The Gate of Gods

Author: Martha Wells

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0061836648

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Tremaine Valiarde and a small, brave band of heroes ventured into a wondrous new realm on their desperate mission to save Ile-Rien from the conquering Gardier. Now, as a relentless enemy creates chaos and destruction -- with the fate of the magical city of Lodun hanging in the balance -- the last hope of a land besieged may rest on the far side of a secret portal. But the doorway leads to a mysterious ruin hidden behind the awesome Gate of Gods -- and to perils that dwarf anything Tremaine and her allies could have possibly imagined. . . .

My Friend Dahmer (Movie Tie-In Edition)
My Friend Dahmer (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Author: Derf Backderf

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1683352033

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“A well-told, powerful story. Backderf is quite skilled in using comics to tell this tale of a truly weird and sinister 1970s adolescent world.â€? —R. Crumb NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a BEST OF 2012 by Time, The Village Voice, A.V. Club, comiXology, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, MTV Geek, and more! “ASTOUNDING.â€? —Lev Grossman, Time You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, Dahmer was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche—a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and readers will never forget. This new paperback edition will coincide with the release of the movie adaptation of My Friend Dahmer and will include additional bonus content from the author archives.

The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures
The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures

Author: Kurt Kalata

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781460955796

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Reviews of over 300 graphic adventure games, focusing on games from prominent publishers such as LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, and Legend Entertainment but covering games from independent developers as well. Reviews primarily cover games published 1984-2000. Interviews with game creators/developers Al Lowe, Corey Cole, Bob Bates, and Josh Mandel are included.

Slaughterhouse 90210
Slaughterhouse 90210

Author: Maris Kreizman

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1250061121

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The perfect book for anyone with a Netflix account and a library card. "Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book." - Jami Attenburg, bestselling author of The Middlesteins Slaughterhouse 90210 pairs literature's greatest lines with pop culture's best moments. In 2009, Maris Kreizman wanted to combine her fierce love for pop culture with a lifelong passion for reading, and so the blog Slaughterhouse 90210 was born. By matching poignant passages from literature with popular moments from television, film, and real life, Maris' work instantly caught the attention (and adoration) of thousands. And it's easy to see why. Slaughterhouse 90210 is subversively brilliant, finding the depth in the shallows of reality television, and the levity in Lahiri. A picture of Taylor Swift is paired with Joan Didion's quote, "Above all, she is the girl who 'feels things'. The girl ever wounded, ever young." Tony Soprano tenderly hugs his teenage son, accompanied by a line from Middlemarchabout, "The patches of hardness and tenderness [that] lie side by side in men's dispositions." The images and quotes complement and deepen one another in surprising, profound, and tender ways. With over 150 color photographs from some of popular culture's most iconic moments, Kreizman shows why comparing Walter White to Faust makes sense in our celebrity obsessed, tv crazed society.

I See You So Close
I See You So Close

Author: M Dressler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1948924900

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The dead and their secrets refuse to stay buried in this thrilling sequel to M. Dressler’s award-winning The Last to See Me, for fans of Lauren Oliver and Kazuo Ishiguro Emma Rose Finnis has never made peace with her death . . . or with her ghostly afterlife. Finally free from the mansion she haunted for more than a hundred years, she takes on a new, daring form, one that allows her to pass for living among the citizens of the remote Sierra Nevada town of White Bar. But the town is hiding its own deadly truth, buried in its Gold Rush past. As the sleepy town’s secrets come to life, they inevitably bring Emma Rose’s past back to haunt her. In this second book in M Dressler's Last Ghost Series, Emma Rose must unlock the secrets of the living, the dead, and even of time itself, if she hopes to be more than an endless fugitive and outlast the ghost hunter who relentlessly stalks her.