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Big Trouble in Little China (Big Trouble in Little China #5)
by John CarpenterJack Burton must play against the world’s top sorcerers for Eddie Lee and Margo Litzenberg’s freedom. As Wang and Miao Yin face each other for the first time since divorce, their daughters take it upon themselves to take down the rampant corruption within wizarding. Collecting issues #17-20, Fred Van Lente (Incredible Hercules; Archer & Armstrong) and Dan McDaid (Judge Dredd) bring Jack Burton to China for the poker tournament of a lifetime.
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #6 (Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #6)
by John Carpenter Anthony Burch Jorge Corona Gabriel CassataJack, Lo Pan, and Wang are trapped in their own separate, personal hells that they can only escape if they find a way to work together once again.
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack (Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #7)
by John Carpenter Anthony Burch Jorge Corona Gabriel CassataJack and his increasingly improbable team break into the Tower of Skulls to save an old ally who could change the tide of this fight— if they can make it in time!
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #8 (Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #8)
by John Carpenter Anthony Burch Jorge Corona Gabriel CassataJack has finally come face to face with Ching Dai. It’s a battle of wits, a battle of magic, a battle to end all battles. As soon as Jack can find his reading glasses...
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack Vol. 2 (Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #2)
by John Carpenter Anthony Burch Jorge Corona Gabriel CassataGetting old ain’t ever easy. Especially when you’re entering your golden years during the apocalypse. Jack Burton’s haphazard quest to save the world and defeat the evil Ching Dai continues here — but to get the job done, he’ll need the help of his old friends Wang Chi and Egg Shen. The question remains, do they want to help him? Collects issues #5-8.
Big Trouble in Little China: Big Trouble in Mother Russia Novel (Big Trouble in Little China)
by John Carpenter Matthew J. Elliot Elena CasagrandeJack Burton from John Carpenter’s cult-hit film, Big Trouble in Little China returns in Big Trouble in Mother Russia! Jack is back and he’s brought some old friends—and a few enemies. Kidnapped and dropped into communist Russia, Jack and his best friend Wang must survive the KGB, the ancient Chinese Wing Kong, and a series of fantastical horrors if they ever want to get home. With the help of Gracie Law and Egg Shen, they will have to unlock a centuries-old mystery that could tear apart the very fabric of reality in order to survive. From writer Matthew J. Elliot (RiffTrax; Doctor Who: Maker of Demons) and illustrator Elena Casagrande (Hulk; X-Files Season 10) Big Trouble in Mother Russia adds a compelling new chapter to the travails of cult hero Jack Burton!
Big Trouble in Little China: Big Trouble in Merrie Olde England Novel (Big Trouble in Little China)
by John Carpenter Matthew J. Elliot Jonas ScharfJack Burton from John Carpenter’s cult-hit film, Big Trouble in Little China returns with Big Trouble in Little England! Forced on an adventure for the lost Excalibur, Jack Burton, Wang Chi, and Gracie Law must traverse the mystical, topsy turvy underbelly of England. Hunted by the Wing Kong and the reanimated corpse of Lightning, they will discover that things are never as they seem. From writer Matthew J. Elliot (RiffTrax; Big Trouble in Mother Russia) comes Big Trouble in Little England, adding a new chapter to the travails of cult hero Jack Burton!
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack Vol. 3 (Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #3)
by John Carpenter Anthony Burch Jorge Corona Gabriel CassataJack Burton has angered a lot of folks in his day, but this time he might have really done it. With both Heaven and Hell out for Jack’s head, there’s nowhere left for him to hide. It’s a battle of apocalyptic proportions, but ol’ Jack Burton won’t go down without a fight. Gas up the Pork-Chop Express and get ready for the final ride! Written by Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2) and horror icon John Carpenter, and illustrated by Jorge Corona (We Are Robin, The Flash), Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack Volume 3 collects issues #9-12 of the authorized, in-continuity sequel to the fan-favorite film.
Big Trouble in Little China, Vol. 1 (Big Trouble in Little China)
by John CarpenterWhat's to Love: Big Trouble in Little China is one of our favorite cult-classic films because it mashed together '80s action and supernatural fantasy movies with '70s kung-fu flicks. This is the first time any new Big Trouble stories have been officially told, and we have the film's original director, John Carpenter, working with Eric Powell (The Goon) on the story, with Brian Churilla (Secret History of D.B. Cooper) on art.What It Is: Jack Burton, a macho, truck-driving adventurer, shook the pillars of Heaven when he defeated the evil sorcerer Lo Pan. He even helped his best friend Wang save his fianc?e from the sorcerer's clutches. Now Wang's wedding has been invaded by evil forces with one thing on their minds-revenge against Jack Burton! Collects issues #1-4 of the critically acclaimed series USA Today calls one of "2014's best of the best." "This love letter to the classic '80s movie will be sure to please fans both old and new." - Newsarama
Big Trouble in Little Greektown (A Goddess of Greene St. Mystery #3)
by Kate CollinsIn a tourist town on Lake Michigan, Athena Spencer keeps busy raising a son (and a pet raccoon named Oscar) while working at her family&’s garden center. But sometimes, she also has to get the dirt on a murderer, in the new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries . . . Athena has invited Case Donnelly, recently relocated from Pittsburgh and awaiting his PI license, to accompany her to a Save Our Dunes fundraiser and art festival. And her date proves helpful when the body of a disgraced photographer turns up during a nature walk. The crime—and the photos taken by the dead man—raise a lot of questions about local politics, environmental battles, and the victim&’s womanizing ways. As Athena&’s endearing Greek-American family strives to solve a mystery of their own (uncovering the identity of Athena&’s anonymous blog), she and Case try to find the tangled roots of this murder and make sure there&’s no sanctuary for a killer . . . &“Mean girls, stalkers, and a jealous brother are all fair game as suspects in this clever and amusing mystery.&” —Kirkus on A Big Fat Greek Murder &“Kate Collins delivers an entertaining, amusing, and deliciously suspenseful mystery.&” —Cleo Coyle, New York Times bestselling author on Statue of Limitations &“A rewarding and satisfying delight.&”—Kings River Life Magazine on Statue of Limitations
Big Truck Super Wash
by Stephen R. SwinburneEveryone needs a good wash occasionally. Even a giant excavator! After a hard day&’s work, a garbage truck, a tractor, an 18-wheeler, and more are covered with dirt, slime, manure, mud, and bugs. Off to the Big Truck Super Wash!Honk! Honk! Clank! Belch! 5 powerful trucks tell how they got so grubby. The dump truck explains—Hauling rocks from the gravel pit,Working in clouds of dust and grit. It&’s what I love! It&’s what I do!Wouldn&’t you want to play in dirt too?The jolly manager at the Big Truck Super Wash welcomes each dirty truck with a warm smile, shampoo (gurgle and gush), steam, scrubbers (swish-a, swoosh-a), and a rinse. The trucks can return home glistening, gleaming, and spot-free.With rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia, the text is fun to read aloud. And each truck is depicted with expressive headlight eyes and a personality of its own. In creating the character of the truck wash manager, the illustrator portrayed his dad, who owned a truck and often recruited his son to help wash it.Subtle messages about hard work and cleanliness make it a perfect choice for bath time or any time!
Big Tuna
by Zane GreyZane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling book. This is one of his stories.
Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince
by Alliah L. AgostiniAn exuberant picture book written by Alliah L. Agostini and illustrated by Shamar Knight-Justice is about a Black boy with big dancing dreams who learns the meaning of courage and community.It’s the weekend, first in June; speaker’s blasting out big tune!Cousins, aunties, uncles, friends pack the house, and fun begins.Shane is shy but loves to dance—and all year long, he’s picked up cansto earn some money toward his goal: high-tops with a pump-up sole.But then the speaker blows—it’s done! Will this stop his family’s fun?Can Shane come through to save the day and bring back Big Tune Saturday?Set within a vibrant Caribbean American neighborhood and told to a rhythmic beat, Big Tune is a story of Black boy joy that touches on determination, confidence to express who you are, selflessness, and community gratitude.
Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition
by Ernest HemingwayA gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean."The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." —Sports IllustratedA century since its publication in the collection In Our Time, “Big Two-Hearted River” has helped shape language and literature in America and across the globe, and its magnetic pull continues to draw readers, writers, and critics. The story is the best early example of Ernest Hemingway’s now-familiar writing style: short sentences, punchy nouns and verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a seductive cadence. Easy to imitate, difficult to match. The subject matter of the story has inspired generations of writers to believe that fly fishing can be literature. More than any of his stories, it depends on his ‘iceberg theory’ of literature, the notion that leaving essential parts of a story unsaid, the underwater portion of the iceberg, adds to its power. Taken in context with his other work, it marks Hemingway’s passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it, novels and stories poured out after it. —from the foreword by John N. Maclean
The Big U
by Neal StephensonThe New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.
The Big Umbrella
by Amy June Bates Juniper Bates<p>In the tradition of Alison McGhee’s Someday, beloved illustrator Amy June Bates makes her authorial debut alongside her eleven-year-old daughter with this timely and timeless picture book about acceptance. <p>By the door there is an umbrella. It is big. It is so big that when it starts to rain there is room for everyone underneath. It doesn’t matter if you are tall. Or plaid. Or hairy. It doesn’t matter how many legs you have. <p>Don’t worry that there won’t be enough room under the umbrella. Because there will always be room. <p>Lush illustrations and simple, lyrical text subtly address themes of inclusion and tolerance in this sweet story that accomplished illustrator Amy June Bates cowrote with her daughter, Juniper, while walking to school together in the rain.</p>
Big Vamp on Campus (Half-Moon Hollow Series #13)
by Molly HarperIn Molly Harper's newest paranormal romantic comedy set in her beloved Half Moon Hollow, a vampire princess must learn how to navigate life as a college student--including living with her messy, annoying, frustrating new roommate.Ophelia Lambert, four-hundred-year-old vampire princessand college freshman, suddenly finds herself domesticated by humans and forced to suffer the indignities of dorm rooms, communal bathrooms, and a roommate with sticky fingers. As one of the hundreds of undead venturing into post-secondary education, Ophelia has a lot more to learn that just "undead studies"--she has to learn to get along with her fellow vampire classmates and worst of all, her human ones, along with getting back into the good graces of the World Council for the Equal Treatment of the Undead. Can this once all-powerful vampire princess balance classes and campus life with romance, human- and vampire relations, and not sinking her teeth into her annoying roommate? With her "distinct, captivating style," (RT Book Reviews) Molly Harper demonstrates that she is one of the best voices in paranormal romance.
Big Volodya and Little Volodya
by Anton ChekhovA Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection Sophia Lvovna loves Little Volodya, but she is married to Big Volodya. A classic Chekhov story of love, anguish, and revelation. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story, and "Big Volodya and Little Volodya" demonstrates his subtle and profound comic mastery. A selection from Forty Stories, spanning Chekhov's entire career, in Robert Payne's lively translation. An eBook short.
The Big Wander
by Will HobbsFourteen-year-old Clay Lancaster has been dreaming for years of the adventure he calls The Big Wander -- a summer in the Southwest with his older brother, Mike, searching for their uncle Clay. When Mike decides to return home to Seattle and the girlfriend he left behind, Clay chooses to stay on and continue the search on his own. Following a tip about his uncle, he heads out into the most remote canyons of the Navajo reservation, with only a burro and a dog named Curly for company. Clay loses his heart to the vast, rugged land -- and to an adventurous girl with a long, dark braid -- but finds his uncle in big trouble. Can Clay pull off a risky plan to save his uncle -- and the wild horses Uncle Clay has put his own life in jeopardy to protect?
The Big War
by Anton Myrer“One must go back to All Quiet on the Western Front to find another novel as charged as this one!” — Philadelphia InquirerNATIONAL BESTSELLERThey were our husbands, our fathers, our lovers, our sons. They were Americans and Marines. And this is their story: The Big War, Anton Myrer's panoramic novel of Marines in the Pacific in World War II. This is the story of Alan Newcombe, the Boston society Harvard man; Danny Kantaylis, the natural-born leader; Jay O'Neill, the barroom scrapper. Myrer does not glorify war; he does not flinch from describing what the actual experience of warfare was like for a desperate group of Marines trapped in some of the worst fighting conditions of the war. We learn about their lives at home and their fates on the battlefield.
Big Water
by Andrea CurtisSeventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. Marie. She'll figure things out once she's settled. <P><P> But a violent storm suddenly rises on Georgian Bay, and the overloaded and top-heavy steamship begins to sink. Christina is tossed overboard. Pulled to safety just before she loses consciousness, she finds herself on a lifeboat, surrounded by a number of bedraggled and terrified passengers and crew. One by one they succumb to their injuries, until only Christina and a brooding young man named Daniel are left alive. <P><P> The usual rules of society no longer apply—Daniel and Christina must now work together as equals to survive. <P><P> Big Water is a fictional account of the real-life story of the only two survivors of the sinking of the SS Asia in 1882.
The Big Wave
by Pearl S. BuckThe classic tale of a Japanese boy orphaned by a tsunami from the author of The Good Earth, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. On a mountainside in Japan, two boys enjoy a humble life governed by age-old customs. Jiya belongs to a family of fishermen; his best friend, Kino, farms rice. But when a neighboring volcano erupts and a tidal wave swallows their village—including Jiya&’s family—life as they know it is changed forever. The orphaned Jiya must learn to come to terms with his grief. Now facing a profoundly different life than the one he&’d always taken for granted, he must decide on a new way forward. Written with graceful simplicity, The Big Wave won the Children&’s Book Award of the Child Study Association of America when it was first released. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author&’s estate.
The Big Whatever
by Peter Doyle Introduction by Luc SanteWhen Billy Glasheen picks up a trashy paperback he finds in his cab, its plot seems weirdly familiar. One of the main characters is based on him . . . Only one person knows enough about his past to have written it--Max, his double-crossing ex-partner in crime. But Max is dead. He famously went up in flames, along with a fortune in cash, after a bank heist. If Max is somehow still alive, Billy has a score to settle. And if he didn’t get fried to a crisp, maybe the money didn’t either. To find out, Billy has to follow the clues in the strange little book--and rapidly discovers he’s not the only one on Max’s trail. The Big Whatever is the fourth instalment of Peter Doyle’s acclaimed series, which has grown into an epic underground history of postwar Australia, where crooks, entertainers, scammers, corrupt cops and politicians all rub shoulders, chasing their big paydays.
Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood
by Richard A. ThompsonThe summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed.But with Big Wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man. He believes he has a holy calling to water the newly plucked earth with blood. The mobile harvest provides an endless supply of ready victims. He has been killing for years now and intends to kill for many more.A young man named Charlie Krueger also follows the harvest. Jilted by his childhood sweetheart and estranged from his drunkard father, he hopes to find a new life as a steam engineer. But in a newly harvested field in the nearly black Dakota night, he has come upon a strange man digging a grave. And in that moment, Charlie becomes the only person who has seen the face of a killer....
Big Whopper
by Patricia Reilly GiffThe author of the beloved Kids of the Polk Street School series introduces a new generation of readers to a multicultural group of kids who enjoy all the activities of an after-school center. It's Discovery Week at the Zigzag Afternoon Center! Everyone writes their discoveries on a big sheet of paper in the hallway. But Destiny Washington can't think of anything new to discover. Before she knows it, Destiny has told a BIG whopper. And snooty Gina, who's great at discovering things, knows all about it. Destiny has to find a way out of the whopper. In the end, she makes the best discovery of all. In this delightful new series, award-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff introduces readers to a quirky, lovable group of kids, capturing all the excitement and surprises of new friends and after-school fun. From the Trade Paperback edition.