Sixteen years after his sudden death, Elvis Presley is more popular than ever. This first complete and authenticated compendium contains everything there is to know about the King's personal life, presented in riveting detail by David Stanley--Elvis's stepbrother--who lived with Elvis for 17 years a[...]
From Frank Portman comes the long-awaited sequel to the beloved cult classic "King Dork," of which John Green, author of "The Fault in Our Stars," said, "Basically, if you are a human being with even a vague grasp of the English language, "King Dork" will rock your world."
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Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative i[...]
"Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Kingshaw's face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid." This tragic tale of two isolated children explores the nature of cruelty and the power of evil. Hardback 256pp[...]
At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish migr Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger w[...]
In 1982 Russell E. Burrows, a treasure hunter in southern Illinois, stumbled on an incredible cache of ancient weapons, jewels and gold sarcophagi in a remote cave. In addition there were countless stone tablets inscribed with hieroglyphs and bearing the portraits of ancient Roman soldiers, Hebrews,[...]
The latest volume in the acclaimed series, designed by Chris Ware
Frank King’s "Gasoline Alley "remains one of the truest chronicles of American domestic life, tracing the joys and heartbreaks of a typical middle-class family from the giddy 1920s to the Great Depression to World War II and[...]
This story opens with the purchase of a 9mm Browning at a small Paris gun shop by a man named Ivar Kreuger. The next morning, the world's leading bankers nervously waited to ask Ivar about some forged Italian bonds. Hours later, his dead body was discovered and the largest financial empire of the er[...]
THE LONG-AWAITED NEW VOLUME FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ARCHIVAL COLLECTION OF FRANK KING’S CLASSIC STRIP
In this fourth volume of "Walt and Skeezix," the newly married Walt Wallet settles into domestic life with his wife, Phyllis, and their adopted son, Skeezix, but their family bliss i[...]
The year 1964 was a momentous one in the history of Gasoline Alley - it's when Frank King officially handed the baton to Dick Moores. King continued to help plot the strip but it's Dick Moores who takes center stage. More so than any other newspaper strip, Gasoline Alley is renowned for its strict c[...]
Presenting the second in a series that will collect, in chronological order, all the Sunday pages of the celebrated newspaper strip Discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world--as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix, in some of [...]
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The prelude to the "Walt and Skeezix" series offers a portrait of a country in transition "Walt Before Skeezix" collects the first years of Frank King's beloved comic strip "Gasoline Alley"--one of the most widely read and syndicated strips of its time, which is still syndicated today. These comics,[...]
"Walt & Skeezix" is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip "Gasoline Alley," and "Book One" is the beginning of a handsome multivolume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris Ware Chris Ware has often cited "Gasoline Alley" as one of his favorite comic[...]