Stumptown Kid
Stumptown Kid

Author: Carol Gorman

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 149769440X

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This dramatic and moving story set in the days of the Negro Leagues illustrates the true meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can’t get: to make the local Wildcats Baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War. Then Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in the small town of Holden, Iowa, and sets up camp near the river. Luther is a former Negro Baseball League player, and Charlie loves baseball. The two strike up a friendship and Luther agrees to coach Charlie’s fledgling neighborhood baseball team for a game against the Wildcats. But many of Holden’s white residents are suspicious of Luther because of his skin color. And when Charlie inadvertently reveals a secret of Luther’s, violence erupts in the town and both Luther and Charlie are drawn into serious danger. Authors Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley have created two highly memorable, emotionally complex characters in this dramatic story that illustrates the meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism.

Stumptown Vol. 1
Stumptown Vol. 1

Author: Greg Rucka

Publisher: Oni Press

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781620104408

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Soon to be a TV show on ABC this fall starring Cobie Smulders! Join the investigation on Dex Parios's first case for just $10! Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke―she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast's casino operation, will clear Dex' debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne's missing granddaughter. Is this job Dex's way out of the hole or a shove down one much much deeper?

Angel City #4
Angel City #4

Author: Janet Harvey

Publisher: Oni Press

Published: 2017-01-11

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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When MGM's top star is linked to the April Fools murder, the studio will go to great, dangerous lengths to shut down the rumors. Meanwhile, Dolores calls on her skills as a mob enforcer to get answers from Brenda's driver, Rollo. But without Gino Volante's protection, Dolores may be out of her depth - and the "fixers" will let her know it.

Flight Path
Flight Path

Author: David Hill

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2017-04-03

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0143770535

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A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War. Pete and Paul yelled together. 'Bandit! Nine o'clock! Bandit!' Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them. Eighteen-year-old Jack wanted to escape boring little New Zealand. But he soon finds that flying in a Lancaster bomber to attack Hitler’s forces brings terror as well as excitement. With every dangerous mission, he becomes more afraid that he’ll never get back alive. He wants to help win the war, but will he lose his own life? My Brother’s War: '... there are stories that need to be told over and over again, to introduce a new generation of readers to important ideas and to critical times in their country's history ... Hill's descriptions of trench warfare are unforgettable.' from the Judges' Report of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2013

Stumptown
Stumptown

Author: Constantine

Publisher: Over the Edge Books

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781944082314

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"A celebration of life on the streets, shared in gritty dirty glory by those too often ignored and unseen." Lesann Berry "You will come to care about this deeply flawed but charming cast of outsiders - like family." Lesann Berry, author of Passing Judgement, Alternate Endings, and Ambushing the Vigilante You've seen them darting from street corners and nightclub back alleys, the squatters and addicts, the underage strippers who've barely felt their first crush, the hustlers and millennial Cinderellas of the not always velvet underground aching for magic and surrogate connection. Thea Constantine is a Lou Reed for the Pacific Northwest, deep in the thrall of the characters she's set in motion, and in her skillful and weirdly redeeming crosshatch of modern Portland's days and nights, we may also see flashes of who we're busiest avoiding: ourselves. -Alan Rifkin, author of Signal Hill and Burdens by Water "It's been two weeks since I finished Thea Constantine's 'Stumptown, ' and her characters are all still with me. We like being around each other. The place I live is not far from Portland, evidently." Allan MacDonell, author of 'Prisoner of X' and 'Punk Elegies'

The Cloven: Book One
The Cloven: Book One

Author: Garth Stein

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1683963105

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From Garth Stein, the author of the #1 bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Matthew Southworth, the co-creator of Stumptown come a raucously funny and fast-moving series of graphic novels. James Tucker is the most successful Genetically Modified Human Organism ever created. Half-man, half-goat, Tuck's story unfurls like an action-packed fever dream spanning the Pacific Northwest, from a homeless encampment to a secret sanctuary in the woods where elites perform ritual goat sacrifices. The Cloven Book One features a special full-color four page fold-out spread.

Annual Report
Annual Report

Author: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13:

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God in a Cup
God in a Cup

Author: Michaele Weissman

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0544186613

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Follow the ultimate coffee geeks on their worldwide hunt for the best beans. Can a cup of coffee reveal the face of God? Can it become the holy grail of modern-day knights errant who brave hardship and peril in a relentless quest for perfection? Can it change the world? These questions are not rhetorical. When highly prized coffee beans sell at auction for $50, $100, or $150 a pound wholesale (and potentially twice that at retail), anything can happen. In God in a Cup, journalist and late-blooming adventurer Michaele Weissman treks into an exotic and paradoxical realm of specialty coffee where the successful traveler must be part passionate coffee connoisseur, part ambitious entrepreneur, part activist, and part Indiana Jones. Her guides on the journey are the nation’s most heralded coffee business hotshots: Counter Culture’s Peter Giuliano, Intelligentsia’s Geoff Watts, and Stumptown’s Duane Sorenson. With their obsessive standards and fiercely competitive baristas, these roasters are creating a new culture of coffee connoisseurship in America—a culture in which $10 lattes are both a purist’s pleasure and a way to improve the lives of third-world farmers. If you love a good cup of coffee—or a great adventure story—you’ll love this unprecedented up-close look at the people and passions behind today’s best beans. “Weissman illustrates how the origin, flavor compounds and socioeconomic impact of a cup of coffee are relevant now more than ever. . . . Tagging along behind the main characters in today’s specialty coffee scene, [she] travels from the exotic to the expected to artfully deconstruct the connoisseur’s cup of coffee.” —Publishers Weekly