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He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Before all that, Chuck Wepner was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight whe...
In order to get out of national politics, a disillusioned speech writer runs a federal election campaign in a supposedly hopeless riding with an eccentric candidate.
An anthology of six tales that show Hal Jordan and the Green Lanterns policing the galaxy a la 'Gotham Knights.'
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Phili...
Annie has an uncle who is creative, especially in doing hair. He always does Annie's hair which elicits joy and admiration from her classmates. One time, Annie wins a contest in school because of how her uncle dressed her up. Annie's uncle is so different from her daddy. His ...
The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a ...
The intern of a record company finds himself with both his dream job and biggest nightmare, when he is assigned to retrieve a British rock star and get him to his concert in time.
Tito Dok teaches kids about sore eyes through the story of Tricia who woke up one morning with her right eye stuck shut and so red.
Bing is a smart young lizard. He knows all about naughty kids and the games they play with lizards. He never goes near them! So what is this news about Bing Butiki having a new friend? A little girl? What changed his mind?
Nelson Moss moves in with Sara Deever, a woman who shares her apartment each month with a different troubled man.
A young man who is living in the past tries to convince his old music teacher to help make his recording dreams come true. When he revisits his high school on opening night of the school's production of The Wiz, chaos erupts after he learns that his old flame is in a secret roman...
Bubbly eccentric Sara shares her heart and her apartment with a different man each month, in a series of human reclamation projects. November is for power-suited ad exec Nelson Moss.
Collection of twenty-five previously published essays on traveling and experiencing cultures around the world, selected by television personality and host of Top Chef. Includes work by Kiese Makeba Laymon, author of Heavy (DB 93279), and Meghan Daum, author of The Problem with Ev...
Maddie Moss is blackmailed into stealing the Dragonheart from Jason Haley, who seems powerless against the oncoming onslaught but whose connection to the Dragonheart may prove that he is destined for a greater purpose than anyone imagined.