All Story Weekly
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 194
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Pulp Culture
Author: Frank M. Robinson
Publisher: Collectors Press, Inc.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1888054123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulp fiction' s lurid adventures were vividly reflected on the magazines' eye-catching covers. Hard-boiled dames, bizarre monsters, dicks and ' tecs, sinister villains, and muscled warriors all appeared each month to tempt readers out of their hard-earned dimes. This gorgeous full-color compilation features hundreds of the genre' s most thrilling covers and includes an index. Taken collectively, they provide a dazzling panorama of some 60 years of illustration and social commentary.
Indivisible
Author: Daniel Aleman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0759554978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation. Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he's forced to question what it means to be an American. Daniel Aleman's Indivisible is a remarkable story—both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.
Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955
Author: Bernard A. Drew
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1476616108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, "I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them." The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day. The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books), Irvin S. Cobb (Judge Priest's houseman Jeff Poindexter), Roark Bradford (Widow Duck, the plantation matriarch), Hugh Wiley (Wildcat Marsden, the war veteran who traveled the country in the company of his goat) and Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden (radio's Amos 'n' Andy). These writers deservedly declined in the civil rights era, but left a curious legacy that deserves examination. This book, focusing on authors of series fiction and particularly of humorous stories, profiles 29 writers and their black characters in detail, with brief entries covering 72 others.
The Argus Pheasant
Author: John Charles Beecham
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn adventure story set in the Dutch East Indies. The governor-general of the colony, Jonkheer Adriaan Adriaanszoon van Schouten, is worried about trouble in a remote part of it, where the appointed 'resident' has died. He sends a man called Peter Gross, an American sailor, to sort things out and be the new resident. There he must deal with Koyola, the Argus Pheasant. She is a beautiful woman and a high priestess who has vowed revenge on the white people.
The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547315821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom two-time Caldecott winner Chris Van Allsburg, creator of Jumanji and The Polar Express, comes a poignant story of one hamster's struggle with destiny. Being a pet store hamster isn't much fun for Sweetie Pie, but life in human homes proves downright perilous. As Sweetie Pie longingly gazes out of his cage at the squirrels frolicking in the trees, he wonders if he'll ever have the chance to feel the wind in his fur. Allsburg's expressive, soft-hued illustrations artfully capture a hamster's-eye view of the wide and wonderful world where maybe, just maybe, Sweetie Pie could someday run free.
Max Brand, Western Giant
Author: William F. Nolan
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780879722913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalled the King of the Pulps, Frederick Schiller Faust, aka Max Brand, wrote nearly 400 Westerns from The Untamed to Destry Rides Again--a total of more than 220 books in this genre. Yet Max Brand also created Dr. Kildare (of books, films, and television) and wrote under twenty-one pseudonyms, in another dozen genres. This book removes the mask, with deeply personal memoirs from family, friends and fellow writers, taking us through his orphaned boyhood on the brutal ranches of California, his frustrating decades in Italy, as both a classical poet and a fast-action pulpist, to his heroic death as a war correspondent on the World War II battlefields. Faust's life story is augmented by a complete bibliography of his work--over a thousand books, stories, and films--plus the first listing of works about Faust.
When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree
Author: Jamie L.B. Deenihan
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 1454941677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Grandma gives you a lemon tree, definitely don’t make a face! Care for the tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new ideas, bloom. “Charms from cover to cover.” —Kirkus (Starred review) “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” In this imaginative take on that popular saying, a child is surprised (and disappointed) to receive a lemon tree from Grandma for her birthday. After all, she DID ask for a new gadget! But when she follows the narrator’s careful—and funny—instructions, she discovers that the tree might be exactly what she wanted after all. This clever story, complete with a recipe for lemonade, celebrates the pleasures of patience, hard work, nature, community . . . and putting down the electronic devices just for a while.
