Observer Graphic Novel of the Month Collecting Sticks is a graphic novel about a family glamping trip. (It's like camping, but much more expensive.) Loosely based on actual events, but sometimes veering unexpectedly into fantasy, the story plays with the challenges nature presents to city folk as they forage for berries, get stuck up a tree, make perilous encounters with stinging wildlife, compete to build the best fire and discover the importance of finding good sticks. Also, it rains. It's about the human desire to get back to nature. Or to return to childhood and hit things with sticks. Funny, moving, beautifully drawn, Collecting Sticks can stand beside Joff Winterhart’s classic graphic novel of family life, Days of the Bagnold Summer.
A BC classic--over 100,000 copies in print Joe Garner's father, Oland, was the oldest of four brothers who were run out of South Carolina in 1903 by the Ku Klux Klan. Along with his bride, Lona, Oland headed west to San Francisco, then north to Victoria, BC. He found employment with Emily Carr's father. Ten years later he helped Emily build her house in Victoria. Garner recalls a hilarious childhood night spent sleeping between the artist's two shaggy sheepdogs. In this fascinating memoir, Joe Garner takes us from the family's move to Salt Spring Island to his adventures as a hunter and trapper to his adult exploits as an entrepreneur and innovator in several of the west coast's burgeoning industries. Garner recalls encounters with a cougar, journeys by floatplane to the remote reaches of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the lakes of the Chilcotin, and a poker game in which the stakes included logging camps and aircraft.
Very few people can say Joey roach isn't a man of interest. Being responsible for 90% of all crimes taking place in four counties: his reputation spread quickly. Every time the cops thought they had him nailed to the cross he left them in a pile of shit. Joey's criminal education was greater than all previous criminals they had uncounted, by far. He made the sheriff's and prosecutors' lives miserable. Many a beautiful spring day were ruined by the notorious law breaking drug dealer. So much so that citizens were joining the sheriff's department just to be the one that brought in Joe Roach. Only his friends called him joey, but don't let his Jesus blue eyes fool you or the devil will jump out and get ya!
The son of the legendary "Brown Bomber" presents the private side of the fighter, weaving into the account reminiscences from siblings, former wives, trainers, opponents, and sportswriters
Have you ever met a woman- -Who was Annie Oakley, Scarlet O'Hara, and Eleanor Roosevelt all rolled into one? -Who, on a Sunday morning, faced down desperadoes on a saloon porch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming? -Who could out-barter, out-haggle, and out-dicker a conman? -Who was an entrepreneurial, self-taught interior designer and gemologist and transformed that husband's watch repair shop into a dazzling emporium of jewels, fine China and crystal ... and flowers ... and hats ... and pianos ... and antiques? -Who staged a one-woman campaign to bring racial justice and equal opportunity to Mississippi in the '50's and 60's? -Who was a Renaissance woman-artist, musician, singer, dancer? Let me introduce to you my mother, Josie Morris Ferguson
Life on the road as seen through the eyes of Black Flag/Rollins Band roadie and Rollins confidante, Joe Cole. Tour journal documenting the final Black Flag tour and first Rollins Band tour.
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