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A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid Game-meets-World Cup manga, now...

A guide to the cities and archaeological sites of Turkey's Aegean coast, from earliest times through the Byzantine and Ottoman periods and up to the present day. Included are the famous sites of Troy, Pergamon and Ephesus, as well as Miletus, Priene, Didyma and...

The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the HamptonsArchitecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton--Blue Dream, the result of a...

Blue Camas! Blue Camas! tells the story of a flower that is native to the Northwest Coast of North America. For thousands of years, it has been considered a sacred and valuable plant by the Indigenous Peoples of this region, who harvested and traded...

Author: Liselle SamburyPublisher: Margaret K. McElderry BooksPublished: 08/22/2023Pages: 1008Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 8.35h x 5.64w x 2.60dISBN: 9781665943215Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorLiselle Sambury is the Trinidadian Canadian author of the Governor General's Literary Awards Finalist Blood Like Magic and its sequel, Blood Like Fate....

It hurts to remember its easier to forget. Detangling from the scar tissue matted under our skin Is messy. It bloodies and it maims. We all have shadows hiding from our sight. Demons without a name that refuse the light. It's a journey seldom...

What is a twelve year old girl to do when she finds herself in the silver boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, and her only home is a brothel and her only parent is a drug-addicted mother? If she is Carissa Beaumont, she...

A new immigrant searching for work in her field discovers a Jekyll and Hyde veterinary doctor who shows her the dirty underbelly of a trade not often questioned or examined.Carmen is an undocumented immigrant who is hired by a beloved local veterinarian, Eugene Hess,...

Can we truly find peace and even blessing amid the chaos, the disappointments, and the other messes that life brings our way? Life is often messy. We hear people say, "My life is a mess," or "This situation is a mess." What they mean...

Everyone in Rockhead Point watched in fascination as the Barnett brothers found their women, and their happily ever afters.But I'm not a Barnett.I'm not destined, or cursed to fall in love at first sight.So why when she walks in the room, do I feel...

Blanche Ames Ames and Oakes Ames advanced women's suffrage, reproductive rights, artistic expression, and scientific knowledge, among other accomplishments, in the first half of the twentieth century. Blanche was part of women's history for nearly seven decades and deserved to be better known for...

Blade hit the comics scene in the 1970s - a time when horror movies were all the rage and Black cinema was introducing bold new action heroes who defied authority. Blade immediately changed the stakes of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's TOMB OF DRACULA,...

The Anarchist League of Scientists charges forward for one final adventure as RICK REMENDER and MATTEO SCALERA bring their seminal pulp science fiction epic to a mind-shattering finale! The Eververse is collapsing under its own weight. Grant McKay created the Pillar to save the...

Following the catastrophic final jump of the Pillar, Grant McKay is stranded in the furthest reaches of space, adrift on the wreckage of his former self. Before he can reclaim his mantle as protector of the Eververse, he must first overcome the demons that...

Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: He has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality. But what lies beyond the veil is not epiphany, but chaos. Now Grant and his team are...

As the kids struggle to rescue Andy from the Darkness, more secrets from Black Sand Beach past--and present--are revealed in the fourth installment of the dark and creepy Black Sand Beach graphic novel series. Perfect for fans of Gravity Falls, Rickety Stitch, and Fake...

BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with a profound impact on the global investment industry. In this novelette, "BlackRock: Shaping the Future of Investment", readers will discover the fascinating history and evolution of this influential company. This book covers topics such as BlackRock's...

Inspired by a deep longing for writing that embodies the vivacity of Blackness and Black life, Black Joy Unbound is a multi-genre collection that encompasses a broad spectrum of literary writing on Black joy.Contributors: Maria Hamilton AbegundeAshia AjaniStephanie Andrea AllenÀjọkẹ́ Bọ́dúndé́Akua Lezli HopeAudrey WilliamsAzaria...

Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of existence, philosophy of race, Africana philosophy, philosophy of human sciences, aesthetics,...

A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van...