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From the desert to the streets to the beach to the border: A novel of the Southern California underground. These six artists together reveal the spirit of the little-known zine community, and how it embodies the resilience within all human beings. They're trying to make a difference. They're trying to save themselves. And they're on a collision course with each other. Zines are informal, self-published booklets. Ezekial exposes police abuse with drones. His zine is called SlapDown. Clare decides to challenge her own privilege. Her zine is called Moon Bloom. Blossom refuses to let insults slide. Her zine: The Man Who Booed Littlefeather. Viola uses fairy tales to break down stereotypes with her zine O'Kindred. Rocky rewrites the boundaries of gender in Shake me the Boom Boom. And Stanley looks for ghosts in traffic jams until he makes his first zine: Untitled (Sad). Follow these six artists through a season of Southern California zine fests and get an insider's look into the folks trying to shape a 'New America.' This is their manifesto: There is only dignity in revolt.

It's Ava's final year at Animage Academy......and she's itching to get out.There are so many possibilities for after graduation-college, visiting her father, traveling. All she needs to do is ride out this last semester...Until the city above the academy is attacked.Knowing they need to do something, Ava and her friends head up to the surface to check things out. Turns out the attackers are looking for something specific...Unicorns.With their rare and unique magical properties, unicorns are especially valuable to anyone looking for ultimate power. And Ava is one of the last... In a desperate battle on the surface, teams of students and teachers risk their lives to help victims, and stop the attackers, without having their magical abilities detected by city residents.Will Ava and her friends be able to save the city and return it to peace?Or will it go down as the last unicorn is captured?Animage Academy Year Four is a young adult academy urban fantasy for people who love thrilling action, magical battles and sticking together in tough times.Get Animage Academy Year Four now.

Slutspurten – to dages intensivt arbejde – så skal karrieremagasinet være færdigt. Alle på redaktion­en knokler, men for en enkelt desillusio­neret skribent gør travlheden, meningsløsheden og de inkompetente chefer det umuligt at fortsætte arbejdet.ARBEJDSLIV er en roman om de intetsigende opgaver, de dårlige karriereråd og det drænende arbejdsliv, der på godt og ondt ender med at definere os.

Now available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Swann’s Way, the first of the seven volumes that con­stitute Marcel Proust’s lifework, In Search of Lost Time, introduces the larger themes of the whole work while standing on its own as a brilliant evocation of childhood, hopeless love, and the French Belle Époque. We first encounter Proust’s narrator in middle age, consumed with regret for his misspent life. Suddenly, he is back in the past, seized by memories of childhood: his clinging attachment to his mother, his dread of his father, summers in the country and the two walks his family was in the habit of taking—one by an aristocratic estate, the other by the house of a certain Charles Swann, to whom a mystery was attached. A child’s world, and the world of adults the child struggles to imagine, spread out before us, while Proust’s pages teem with incident and puzzle­ment, pathos and humor. The novel then takes a further step backwards to tell the story of Swann’s infatuation with the courtesan Odette. Swann, man­-about­-town and familiar of royalty, is reduced to walking after midnight, forlorn as a child awaiting a good­night kiss. James Grieve began his career translating Proust in the early 1970s, driven by his dismay at how many readers recoiled from what they imagined to be the difficulty of Proust’s work, and his translation of Swann’s Way brings out the book’s fluency and speed as no other version does. It offers an unequaled introduction to an incompa­rably absorbing work of art.

Jazmine Elliott took a brutal blow to the heart when she discovered the love of her life, Kyree Wright, would be serving Federal numbers in prison. Kyree was a gentleman with common and street sense, not to mention a body that made her thighs quiver. After his sentence, Jazmine was determined to start over and settled into a new life as a young, successful and engaged salon owner. Living a life more fulfilling and less chaotic than her old life with street-hugging Kyree, Jazmine was finally happy. When the past comes knocking at her front door with a new proposition, will she go against all she knows is right and extend an invitation?

Life is lived between the checklistsParade of Streetlights is a captivating exploration of the millennial experience. Following a significant incident from his youth in Lagos, Kolawole Idowu always had a haunting desire to return to Nigeria and commit his time to making a difference. Within the course of a year, Kola explores his adopted home of New York City and all aspects of his world with candor and humor. Kola is both self-conscious and observant as he encounters people on the streets of NYC and constantly struggles with the idea of what it means to be himself. A quarterlife manifesto for the modern malaiseParade of Streetlights is a deeply personal and introspective debut novel from author Itua Uduebo told in vignettes and featuring characters who are working through many personal absurdities. This is a novel about the choices we make, the ways we restrict ourselves needlessly, and the freedom of embracing the authentic pursuit of happiness. Kola's voice is a welcome addition to the literary canon and his story will stay with you long after the last page is finished.

"Londyn Lewis was a B-list movie actress, waiting on a breakthrough role that would propel her to superstardom, but it always seemed to elude her. When she meets Sterling Pierce, a partner in a prestigious Venture Capital Firm, she trades in her dreams of stardom to be a Hollywood wife. Londyn finally acquires the lifestyle of the rich and famous she has always craved. But after the honeymoon is over, her once blissful marriage soon turns into a deadly divorce"--

I'm a soldier.A cattle rancher.>My family's legacy is spread out in front of me, just waiting for me to seize it. If it weren't for one outdated rule, I'd be the owner of the Hayden Cattle Company and my aging father could retire. When Dakota Wright shows up to buy and develop twenty acres of Hayden land, I see more than a pretty mouth and strawberry blonde hair. I see a way around the decree keeping me from getting what I want. And, as luck would have it, Dakota has a big problem of her own. We strike two deals: one for the land, and a second that'll make both our problems a distant memory. It isn't too long before I realize I'm in over my head. I've convinced myself the ends should justify the means, but everything begins to fall apart when my birthright is no longer all that I'm after. I never thought there'd be anything I could love more than my ranch and my country. >Turns out, I want it all.Including her.