Spend some time with Ethan Green as he explores...rejection...career opportunities...and commitment...in this new collection from The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green. For more than a decade, the ever-increasingly popular comic strip "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green" has tracked the foibles and failings of gay everyman Ethan Green. In this latest collection, Ethan again faces the terrors of gay America--from ex-boyfriends to new relationships, from relatives to best friends. With wry wit and uncommon insight, Eric Orner hilarously exposes the truth about gay life.
Eric Orner’s groundbreaking comic strip, “The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green”, debuted in 1990 and appeared in papers in a hundred cities across the US, Canada and the UK. Now, for the first time, every subversive, laugh-out-loud funny, and occasionally surreal episode from the gay everyman’s 15 years in print is in one deluxe collection. Includes behind-the-scenes stories from the author, bonus strips, and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author David Ebershoff. Released by Northwest Press, which has been publishing quality LGBT-inclusive comics and graphic novels since 2010.
Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with this riveting children's debut. Twelve-year-old Ethan Blackwood has always known exactly what he wanted—to win the state soccer championship, get into the best high school, and become an astronaut. Then he meets Madison and Felix, who tell him something . . . insane. They claim that 50 years ago, aliens took over the earth, and everyone past puberty is under their mind control. Ethan doesn't believe it. But then he sees for himself the aliens' monster bug robots and the incredible way that Madison and Felix have learned to fight them. So Ethan Blackwood has a choice: he can go back to his normal, suburban, protected lie of a life—or he can become a Resister. This science fiction on the lines of Scott Westerfield and Cory Doctorow for middle graders is now available in paperback.
When 12-year-old Ethan, still a trainee, learns that the alien Ch'zar invaders are rapidly growing in number, he initiates a radical plan to increase the ranks of Resistor pilots and soon finds himself leading battle forces. Simultaneous.
What gem comes from the Sleeping Beauty mine? What gem was featured on the mask of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen and in Native American jewelry? It’s turquoise. Readers will learn amazing facts about one of the only gems to be mined in North America. Captivating photographs show the variety of turquoise pieces that can be found throughout the world.
For nearly a hundred years, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome has been considered one of the great works of American literature, a book that nearly everyone has heard of, if not required to read in school. Ethan Frome: Analysis in Context is a contextual close reading of Wharton's classic novel, a unique approach that brings together a wealth of research and literary criticism to look at the story in an entirely new light. There isn't another book like it--about any novel. The book analyzes not only the entirety of the novel in detail but also two other stories by Wharton's contemporaries that will guide educators and general readers to a more thorough understanding of a beloved classic in a way they had never imagined.
Emeralds are the most expensive gems in the world, but it takes a lot of time and effort for them to get that way. Readers will discover many interesting facts about this beautiful May birthstone that takes millions of years to form. Vibrant photographs capture emeralds at all stages, from the mines to beautiful pieces of jewelry.
SOMETHING wants in. To your head. Through this audiobook. Ethan, a digital sound engineer in Los Angeles, becomes aware that his life is unraveling when an audiobook begins to reveal his deepest, darkest secrets, escalating until the narrator addresses him directly, threatening to destroy him from within. Vivian, a single mother running an antique store in San Francisco, listens to her audiobook to distract herself from missing her young daughter, but is shaken when the narrative is interrupted by her daughter's voice, faintly calling for help. Ethan and Vivian are drawn together as they fight to solve a generation-spanning conspiracy that begins with a boy listening to the Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938 and evolves through the latest innovations in digital technology, unearthing the mind-bending concept of a POSSIBILITY PARASITE bent on unleashing an explosion of APOCALYPTIC META HORROR. From Eric Luke, screenwriter of EXPLORERS, and comic books GHOST and WONDER WOMAN: an experiment in audio horror. INTERFERENCE. Just click PLAY...
Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund again brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with the riveting second book in The Resisters series. Even as he trains to be a pilot for the Resisters, twelve-year-old Ethan Blackwood is still reeling from the news that aliens called the Ch'zar have taken over the world and put all the adults under their mind control. Now the Ch'zar mechanical bug armies are growing. The Resisters need more pilots like Ethan, kids who aren't afraid to think for themselves. Ethan knows just where the Ch'zar send troublemakers like that—to Sterling Reform School. Can Ethan find a way to break into Sterling and recruit new fighters before the enemy discovers the Resisters' underground base?
An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of yellow sac spiders, the most common house spiders in parts of New England and Canada.
It’s hard to believe that opals come from the same element that makes sand, but it’s true. This book features that fact and many more about this beautiful gem. From the mines of southern Australia to pieces of very expensive jewelry, readers will see how opals go from raw stones to a fantastic finished product. Beautiful photographs present the rainbow of colors that brilliantly emit from these gems.
The Accidental Teacher is a humorous and provocative account of the authors experience teaching English in a California public high school with absolutely no qualifications, training or previous experience. Equal parts McCourts Teacher Man and Keseys Cuckoos Nest with a dash of Sedaris and a shot of Hunter Thompson, the story follows Mr. Mandel as he muddles through his first year, mangling metaphors and alienating administrators while attempting to engage a very difficult group of teenagers. From his outsiders perspective, Mr. Mandel provides pointed commentaries on the troubling issues facing public education and poignant accounts of his students lives and his own personal journey; frequent digressions offer literary allusions from the subtle to the ludicrous. The author displays a wry sense of humor as he struggles to counter administrative absurdities, to appease his own Nurse Ratchet, and to compensate for his own deficiencies. The Accidental Teacher is certain to entertain and interest anyone who has taught, wants to teach, cares about public education, or dreams of changing careers late in life.
Describes the Miller 400, the first race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) in 1969 and held annually at the Michigan Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.
Eric Orner’s groundbreaking comic strip, “The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green”, debuted in 1990 and appeared in papers in a hundred cities across the US, Canada and the UK. Now, for the first time, every subversive, laugh-out-loud funny, and occasionally surreal episode from the gay everyman’s 15 years in print is in one deluxe collection. Includes behind-the-scenes stories from the author, bonus strips, and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author David Ebershoff. Released by Northwest Press, which has been publishing quality LGBT-inclusive comics and graphic novels since 2010.
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