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Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics [A Graphic Biography]
by Tom ScioliTold in vivid graphic novel form by a groundbreaking Eisner-nominated comics creator, the long-overdue biography of the legend who co-created Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and many more superhero favorites.&“A fast-paced celebration of an underheralded legend within the comic-book industry.&”—Kirkus ReviewsNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALThis sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time on the frontlines in the European theatre of World War II where he experienced the type of action and adventure he'd later imbue his comic pages with, and on to his world-changing collaborations at Marvel with Stan Lee, where the pair redefined comics as a part of pop culture.Just as every great superhero needs a villain to overcome, Kirby's story also includes his struggles to receive the recognition and compensation that he believed his work deserved. Scioli captures his moves from Marvel to DC and back again, showing how Kirby himself and later his family fought to preserve his artistic legacy.Drawn from an unparalleled imagination and a life as exciting as his comic book tales, Kirby's super-creations have influenced subsequent generations of creatives in the comics field and beyond. Now, readers can experience the life and times of a comics titan through the medium that made him famous.
Jack L. Chalker SF Gateway Omnibus
by Jack L. ChalkerA fan from an early age, Chalker was also active as an editor, founding a small press in his early 20s, but it is as a writer that he is best known. Although his earliest novels were singletons, he soon turned his attention to the sequences that would dominate his career: most notably, The Well of Souls series. This omnibus collects the first volume of that series, MIDNIGHT AT THE WELL OF SOULS; book one of his Soul Rider series, SPIRITS OF FLUX AND ANCHOR; and standalone novel, THE IDENTITY MATRIX.
Jack North's Treasure Hunt
by Roy RockwoodRoy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adventure books. The name is mostly well-remembered for the Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926-1937) and Great Marvel series (1906- 1935). The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, and others. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, whose ambition was to be a writer la Horatio Alger. He succeeded in this ambition (eventually even writing eleven books under the pseudonym "Horatio Alger"), turning out inspirational, up-by-the-bootstraps tales. In Stratemeyer's view, it was not the promise of sex or violence that made such reading attractive to boys; it was the thrill of feeling "grown-up" and the desire for a series of stories, an "I want some more" syndrome. Works written under that name include: Five Thousand Miles Underground; or, The Mystery of the Centre of the Earth (1908), Jack North's Treasure Hunt (1907) and Lost on the Moon; or, In Quest of the Field of Diamonds (1911).
Jack Of Ravens: Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1
by Mark ChadbournThis is the Ultimate Fantasy: a quest of epic reach spanning the globe under the mythologies of five great cultures - and finally crossing the barrier between life and death.Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waits for him.Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again ... but nothing is ever that simple.A great Evil waits in modern times and will do all in its power to stop Jack's return. In a universe where time and space are meaningless, its tendrils stetch back through the years ...Through Roman times, the Elizabethan age, Victoria's reign, the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, the Evil sets its traps to destroy Jack.Mark Chadbourn gives us a high adventure of dazzling sword fights, passionate romance and apocalyptic wars in the days leading up to Ragnarok, the End-Times: a breathtaking, surreal vision of twisting realities where nothing is quite what it seems.
Jack Of Ravens: Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1
by Mark ChadbournThis is the Ultimate Fantasy: a quest of epic reach spanning the globe under the mythologies of five great cultures - and finally crossing the barrier between life and death.Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waits for him.Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again ... but nothing is ever that simple.A great Evil waits in modern times and will do all in its power to stop Jack's return. In a universe where time and space are meaningless, its tendrils stetch back through the years ...Through Roman times, the Elizabethan age, Victoria's reign, the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, the Evil sets its traps to destroy Jack.Mark Chadbourn gives us a high adventure of dazzling sword fights, passionate romance and apocalyptic wars in the days leading up to Ragnarok, the End-Times: a breathtaking, surreal vision of twisting realities where nothing is quite what it seems.
Jack Serpent (The Scriver Archives #1)
by E.A. FieldBook One of The Scriver Archives, Jack Serpent introduces readers to a brooding anti-hero and a rich worldbuild that is remniscent of The Witcher and One Dark Window. Created by monsters to be destroyed by men. Jack Serpent is the only person to have survived the Scriver Trials. With that, he became a lore keeper for the origin of monsters, a spy, and hybrid soldier able to withstand crushing magic. Ever since a coven of Strygan murdered his family, he&’s set out to discover and record what plagues the continents. It&’s the sort of highly valuable knowledge that could change wars and divide kingdoms. In the dark places of Ocrana, an uprising of Strygan has begun. They use stolen magic to take over the realms. No one knows how to effectively kill the monsters summoned by Strygan, let alone the High Stryga herself. The military general only knows how to kill with bullets and fire, but he&’ll need more to challenge the encroaching threat. He&’ll need a Scriver&’s help. Jack is recruited to kill the High Stryga before she tips the balance of magic and takes the throne. To locate and destroy the High Stryga within a swamp poisoned with corrupted magic, Jack must reluctantly accept the help of others. As a man accustomed to working alone, cooperating with the ragtag group of soldiers, an old nemesis, and a tracker might prove more challenging than the monsters themselves. When Jack finds more than a kindred spirit in the feisty tracker, he will have to choose between the mission and saving lives. There&’s more to the Strygan than they understand. Jack discovers a secret in his past that will either lead to a Stryga on the throne and the enslavement of humans, or the unraveling of his mind. Sometimes knowledge is worth dying for.
Jack Shadow (Shadow Dance #1)
by Graeme SmithJack Shadow. Because some days – the last thing you need is a good guy. He’s heard them – every one of them. The jokes. They all start out the same. "See, this guy walks into a bar..." Well, that's not him. That guy who walked into a bar. He’s the guy who walked out. It's not amnesia. Near as anyone knows, he just doesn’t have a past. Near as anyone knows - or admits to. He doesn’t walk round a corner, and some guy from a car shoots at him because of something he did long ago. Sure. Guys shoot at him. Hell, women too. But not for long ago. Mostly for last week. Where 'last week' is any week you choose. No, he just walked out of a bar. Were there piles of dead bodies behind him? A stacked deck he was dealing, or one he was dealt? He doesn’t know. Or care. But they were waiting, and they took him. The Dragon. Took him to make a difference. To wait for the time a beat of a gnat's wing could change tomorrow. And Jack’s the gnat. Jack walked out of a bar. The rest - the rest will be history. Some day. Not that he’ll be in it. Nobody remembers the gnats. Not if they did their job right. And Jack’s the best there is.
Jack Staples and the City of Shadows
by Mark Batterson Joel N. ClarkThe Assassin is closing in. Just as Jack and his friend Alexia discover what it means to be the Chosen Ones, they each face the test of a lifetime. For Jack it is a question of trust; for Alexia, of loyalty. Everything rests on their making the right choices, and on the completion of their missions. The Assassin expects they will fail, and that they will either join him or be destroyed. It will take all of the Author's forces, the special gifts Jack and Alexia each have, and the help of their friends, Arthur and Mrs. Dumphrey, to overcome. But when the enemy makes a key move, and an important quest proves difficult, the prophecy--that they will both destroy and save the world--seems further from coming true than ever before.
Jack Staples and the Poet's Storm
by Mark Batterson Joel N. ClarkOur world is more fantastical than we dare imagine ... filled with both unbelievable beauty and horrific evil. Just ask Jack Staples and Alexia Dreager. They're at the epicenter of the conflict that's been raging since time before time began. Their birth and destiny have long been prophesied--but things aren't going as planned. In this epic conclusion to the Jack Staples trilogy, Jack and Alexia must make an impossible choice during their final battle against the Assassin--one that could alter time itself and the fate of the world.
Jack Staples and the Ring of Time
by Mark Batterson Joel N. ClarkEleven-year-old Jack's ordinary life is upended when mysterious creatures attack his hometown and he is whisked into a fantastical adventure filled with danger at every turn.Jack learns that most live in a shadow of the world, their vision blinded by invisible scales that have covered human eyes since the beginning of time. But the Awakened experience the world as it truly is, where war rages between good and evil--and Jack is at the heart of it. The Awakened are searching for The Child of Prophesy who will both save the world and destroy it. When Jack joins in their epic battle he must learn to trust his friends and face his fears if he is to make his life count.
Jack Strong: A Story of Life After Life
by Walter MosleyIn a Las Vegas hotel room, a man awakes to confront his destinyDreaming, Jack hears voices: a frightened child in a hospital, a woman cheating on her husband, a death-row inmate. When he wakes, the voices recede, but they do not vanish. He is in a luxurious hotel room on the Vegas strip, and his body is covered in scars. Jack Strong is a patchwork man, his flesh melded together from dozens of men and women, and his mind is the same way. Countless lifetimes are contained within him: people whose time was cut short, and who see their place in Jack as a chance to make things right.On behalf of one of them, Jack reignites a feud with corrupt casino bosses. Drawing on the skills of another, he beats the life out of two bodyguards. Jack fights for control as he lurches from impulse to impulse, certain that somewhere within him exists a soul. The answers may lie with whomever is tailing him in a sleek black car—if Jack can somehow confront him.
Jack Williamson SF Gateway Omnibus: The Legion of Space, The Humanoids, Terraforming Earth, Wonder's Child
by Jack WilliamsonFrom The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the incredible career of Jack Williamson, whose career spanned over seventy years. Jack Williamson published his first SF story, 'The Metal Man', in 1928 and continued to write high quality SF until his death in 2006, along the way coining many of the terms the genre now takes for granted, such as 'terraforming' and 'genetic engineering'. He was the second writer (after Heinlein) to be named a SFWA Grand Master and was the oldest recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This volume contains The Legion of Space, the first volume in the eponymous series; The Humanoids; John W. Campbell Award-winning Terraforming Earth and his Hugo Award-winning autobiography Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction.
Jack Wolf
by Kay WalkerHenry Dalton is sent across the country by train to the western town of Woolridge in order to investigate the werewolf problem they're having during the monthly moon cycle. The townsfolk are not forthcoming with information, making it difficult for Henry to solve the case. Even more distracting is Jack, a handsome older lycanthrope. Known for his rebellious youth, Jack has settled down into life and routine in Woolridge, working as the local blacksmith. He assures Henry he's no longer trying to stir up trouble, that those days are long gone. Henry must attempt to ignore the spark between them, the indication of their potential to become mates, which is rare because Henry is human. Henry remains professional and focuses on his job, but each meeting with Jack adds to the draw, and Henry isn't sure how much longer he'll be able to resist.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Daily Dose package "Never Too Late."
Jack and The Beanstalk, with Benjy and Bubbles
by Ruth Lerner Perle Susan HorowitzA delightful retelling of the children's story Jack and the Beanstalk in rhyme. Includes picture desriptions.
Jack and the Beanstalk
by Alison Adams Sera Y. Reycraft Diana MagnusonJack doesn't listen to his mother and ends up running from a big, mean ogre! This fairy tale has magical beans, an old woman that helps Jack, and a happy ending.
Jack and the Beanstalk
by Steven KelloggJoin young Jack as he climbs a giant beanstalk to a magic castle in the clouds. Meet a hen that lays golden eggs and a harp that sings by itself - and don't forget the ogre. A classic fairy tale that will leave you chanting "Fee-fi-fo-fum!" Image descriptions present.
Jack and the Beanstalk (Wishbone: The Early Years)
by Brad Strickland Thomas E. FullerWhen Wishbone returns to find the ball he accidentally left in Joe's third grade classroom and must face a big, scary custodian, he imagines himself as Jack, the boy who met a real giant.
Jack and the Giant Barbecue
by Eric KimmelJack's late daddy once made the best barbecue in West Texas, until a giant stole his recipe book. Jack is determined to find that greedy old giant and get those recipes back! With a little bit of strength, the help of an unlikely jukebox, and a whole lot of luck, Jack outwits the giant and opens his own barbecue shack. John Manders' hilarious gouache paintings, bring Eric Kimmel's version of Jack and the Beanstalk to uproarious life.
Jack and the Leprechaun
by Ivan RobertsonA cute story about Jack visiting his Aunt and Uncle and learning about ST. Patrick's day.
Jack and the Princess and Betrothed to the Prince
by Raye MorganJack and the PrincessCracking the security system at the Roseanova estate seemed like a surefire way for Jack Santini to prove to the royal family that he was the man for the chief-of-security position. But he hadn't counted on waking up a beautiful, golden-haired princess! Karina Roseanova thought the brooding bodyguard who scaled her balcony was the perfect person to free her from the confines of her ivory tower and show her the ways of the world. Before long, Karina's irresistible girlish wonder gave way to a love beyond her wildest dreams. All she had to do was convince her family that this gruff commoner was her one and only prince!Betrothed to the PrincePrincess Tianna had no intention of honoring her lifelong betrothal to Prince Garth Roseanova. But when she arrived to disengage herself from the playboy prince she'd never met, she ended up going undercover as a nanny-to protect the abandoned baby girl who might be the man's illegitimate heir! Dashing Prince Garth was nervous around the child, but her sweet cooing soon won him over, just like her beautiful nanny. Before long, he and Tianna were drawn together, propelled by forces beyond their control. But could their fairy-tale romance survive the shocking truth?
Jack and the Snackstalk: A Branches Book (Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #4)
by Noah Z. JonesA few jelly beans are about to turn into a GIANT problem!Princess heads to Moldylocks’s house for movie night. Moldy’s cousin Jack comes, too. He brings pink jelly beans for a snack. But Princess doesn’t like pink, so she throws the jelly beans out the window. Soon, the beans sprout into a huge pillar of snacks! The three friends climb up the snackstalk and find themselves in Snackland! It is filled with pizza-roll hills and nacho-cheese rivers, and there’s even a golden egg roll in a snack-filled castle! The problem is there’s also a GIANT in that castle! Will Princess and her friends ever escape Snackland?This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Praise for Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #1: Moldylocks and the Three Beards“Jones takes ‘The Three Bears’ for a dizzy spin in this laff-riot series opener.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Will have kids guffawing with the silly puns and cheering for the ingenious Princess Pink in this subverted version of the more traditional tale.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Jack of Eagles
by James BlishDanny Caiden is on the run - from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department and the Mob. Only recently, Danny was an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone has plans for Danny: a mysterious group of sinister men bent on world domination. They'll stop at nothing until they capture Danny . . . or destroy him. For only Danny Caiden has the power to sabotage their diabolical tyranny. Through no fault of his own, he has found himself at the centre of a shattering psychic struggle for the future of humanity. In the final battle, Danny must master all of his powers, or sacrifice himself - and all mankind - to satanic slavery forever.
Jack of Kinrowan (Jack of Kinrowan Omnibus)
by Charles De LintThis omnibus comprises two novels--Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon. Jacky Rowan must come to know herself and what she can accomplish with the help of her friends. She must come to terms with the world and walk a fine line between the every day reality of this world and another quite different one.
Jack of No Trades
by Charles CottrellFirst we discovered the Willy Maloon category. Then we discovered Willy himself. Then we data-researched, and postulated a theory. Everything was easy, until it came to the question of proof.
Jack of No Trades
by Evelyn E. SmithI was psick of Psi powers, not having any. Or didn&’t I? Maybe they&’d psee otherwise psomeday! Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and always unforgettable.