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APublishers WeeklyTop Ten Best Book of the Year An Amazon.com Top Ten Best Book of 2009 AWashington Post Book World’s Ten Best Book of the Year ACalifornia Literary ReviewBest Book of 2009 An L.A. Times Top 25 Non-Fiction Book of 2009 An NPR Best Book of the Year, Best Memoir With this stunning graphic memoir, David Small takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the dark heart of his tumultuous childhood in 1950s Detroit, in a coming-of-age tale like no other. At the age of fourteen, David awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover his throat had been slashed and one of his vocal chords removed, leaving him a virtual mute. No one had told him that he had cancer and was expected to die. The resulting silence was in keeping with the atmosphere of secrecy and repressed frustration that pervaded the Small household and revealed itself in the slamming of cupboard doors, the thumping of a punching bag, the beating of a drum. Believing that they were doing their best, David’s parents did just the reverse. David’s mother held the family emotionally hostage with her furious withdrawals, even as she kept her emotions hidden — including from herself. His father, rarely present, was a radiologist, and although David grew up looking at X-rays and drawing on X-ray paper, it would be years before he discovered the shocking consequences of his father’s faith in science. A work of great bravery and humanity,Stitchesis a gripping and ultimately redemptive story of a man’s struggle to understand the past and reclaim his voice. From the Hardcover edition.

“Among the most masterful storytellers alive today” (Gene Luen Yang), “few creators mine the pathos of a dark midcentury childhood like Small” (Washington Post). Since the publication of Stitches a decade ago, David Small has emerged as one of the seminal authors in the genre of graphic literature. Here, in Home After Dark, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2018, Small provides a “painfully honest” and “haunting work of unfolding surprise” (Jules Feiffer) that renders the brutality of adolescence in the 1950s. Through “gorgeous and expressive drawings” (Roz Chast), Small “recaptures the inchoate chaos of youth” (Jack Gantos), telling the story of thirteen- year- old Russell Pruitt, who, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to the sun- splashed land of California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys. Eerily foreboding yet filled with uncanny psychological insights and stray glimmers of hope, Home After Dark confirms Small’s place as a modern master of graphic fiction.

35 years after Imogene woke up with antlers, she''s back! The follow up to the classic, Imogene''s Antlers by Caldecott Award winning David Small. One day, Imogene woke up to discover that she had sprouted antlers overnight. Her family was confused, her mother was distraught and there was no explanation. Then she woke up the next day and they were gone, but were replaced by something just as curious. Now Imogene has found she has a new curious feature every day. Some are helpful, some are sweet, some are downright strange. But all of them upset her poor mother who just can''t handle how improper it all is. Yet even as Imogene discovers something new every day, she always remains Imogene at heart. David Small returns to one of his most beloved characters in this charming tale.

This whimsical story of a little girl who wakes one morning to discover she has grown antlers has delighted children since it was first published 15 years ago. The perfect Christmas present for any kid looking forward to a visit from Santa''s reindeer--or any reader looking for some year-long fun! The family doctor, the school principal, and even Imogene''s know-it-all brother, Norman, fail to resolve her dilemma. Imogene, the cook, and the kitchen maid, however, make the best of things, finding unusual uses for Imogene''s new horns. Meanwhile, the problem appears to be solved when Imogene awakes the next morning antler-free.But the family (and the reader) are in for a surprise when Imogene comes down to breakfast. . . .

Wanna know what the problem is? Its God. Deep down inside, in that quiet place in our heart and soul, the problem is we dont know if he is real. I was betrayed by the church, hurt by the leaders and the ones I looked up too, and embarassed about how Christians behave. So I walked away. For more than a decade I left it all behind, I didnt need God. I equated all the hurt and bitterness the church had caused me with God. But thats not God. After a decade focused on my career, my wealth, my happiness, my desires, I found myself on a wild adventure with God. Through the army, coaching professional hockey in Europe, helping victims of war in Burma, and a long walk in Spain, I slowly began to see the true nature and character of God. He wasnt into rules and religion, he didnt want me to memorize the Bible and follow all the traditions, he just wanted my heart. Through my struggle with depression I learned that God is real, not because of some warm fuzzy feeling I had one time, but I actually mathematically concluded that God is real. Want to meet the real Jesus? Want to know if God is really real? Come on an adventure with me.

Confronting “the beast within” us all, The Werewolf at Dusk celebrates the singular genius of David Small, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stitches. Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches, told the story of a childhood in disarray. Werewolf at Dusk, appearing nearly fifteen years later, turned its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. Eerily striking and mesmerizing, the three stories in this collection are linked, as Small writes, by the dread of things internal. In the title story, an adaptation of Lincoln Michel’s classic short piece, the dread is that of a man who has reached senility with something repellant in his nature. He—an impotent werewolf, no longer able to hunt—confronts the terror of obsolescence. What do I even look like now, he wonders, when the full moon draws out the wolf inside me? The specter of old age also haunts the semiautobiographical story “A Walk in the Old City.” Brain matter cascades and spiders loom as a psychoanalyst, self-assured in his practice, wanders along empty streets, reality warping into the irrational with the insouciance of a dream. In the final story, a reinterpretation of Jean Ferry’s “The Tiger in Vogue,” this dreamscape gives way to the ominous environs of Berlin in the 1920s. When a peaceful evening at the music hall is interrupted by a garish surprise act, only the protagonist seems to notice. Yet he, too, is transfixed by the performance, watching as a little man with a moustache, pale skin, and tired eyes wills a tiger into submission. With its sharp lines and vibrant blues and oranges, the artwork recalls Edvard Munch’s anguished The Scream, likewise capturing the moment—the dread—before disaster. As fluid as Japanese manga and rife with unsettling imagery, Werewolf at Dusk is a testament to the singular dark genius of David Small.

Leadership isnt about being perfect; its about getting things done. In The Wandering Leader, author David Small, an ice hockey coach who has traveled the world, presents his views about being a leader and a man by growing the most important part of your leadership personayourself. The Wandering Leader seeks to help you determine how to dream, give you a road map to accomplish your dreams, and supply the courage to keep taking steps forward once that road map has been blown out the window. To guide you in unleashing the great promise inside of you and make you an amazing leader, it discusses seven different areas of your life: career, finances, social, physical, spiritual, intellectual, and family. But most importantly, it focuses on you and what you have to offer. The Wandering Leader is not a typical book on leadership. Using personal examples from a wide range of peoplesuch as military officers, construction workers, and economics specialistsit shows that you can be a leader in many areas of your lifein friendships, business, and family. Its not about your job or role; its about your character and heart, helping you to pick yourself up after youve been kicked in the teeth. Deeply motivated by your astute truth, I have conquered some of my most difficult obstacles and have you to thank. Mitch Labreche, helicopter pilot, former BCHL Player

This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean. After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts. This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.

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An abandoned doll, who seems to be a perfect child, can''t compare with a toad''s own beloved, but imperfect daughter.

Written by former Transworld Surf journalist and seasoned Mexico traveller David Small, Wavefinder Mexico offers a complete surf guide to one of the best surf destinations on the planet. With more than 300 individual surf spots backed up by our unique Surfer''s Eye maps, Wavefinder Mexico delivers all you''ll need to know about Mexican surf ......

Les années 50. David a dix ans. Pour soigner un kyste au cou, son père, médecin, prescrit à son fils des séances intensives de radiographie. Quelques années plus tard, le garçon se réveille d''une intervention bénigne à la gorge totalement muet. Le kyste de David était devenu un cancer. Entre non-dit coupable, frustration et totale inconséquence, David découvre ses parents sous un autre jour.

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The sight of a wild landscape covered with heathers in full bloom is breathtaking, so it is little surprise that people have found ways of introducing these rewarding plants into their gardens. Here they excel, offering color in the drabbest months and a huge diversity of height, habit, and other valuable characteristics in return for modest cultural demands. This comprehensive and highly informative account encompasses the heaths and heathers of the closely related genera Calluna, Daboecia, and Erica, whose shared characteristics and similar cultural requirements make them broadly compatible in a variety of garden situations. These plants have enhanced people''s lives for millennia and a full discussion of their naming, uses and other interactions with humans is explored in detail. A fascinating account of the unique ecological niche they occupy - including their remarkable adaptation to make use of the nitrogen and phosphorus unavailable to most other plants - provides a fitting context for discussion of their specific cultural needs. With more than 700 cultivated varieties of Calluna alone, selecting the right heather for the right place can be daunting. The detailed selection of cultivated hardy heathers conveniently provides gardeners with the best garden performers while further lists allow them to search for heathers for specific qualities, such as heat tolerance, ground cover, or early summer blooming. Design options for displaying heathers at their best in the garden are provided along with advice on spacing, pruning, propagation, pests, and diseases. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated work, classic wild-collected cultivars are described alongside the latest introductions to produce an invaluable reference that will inspire heather enthusiasts and gardeners for generations to come.

Miss Ruby Mae Foote of Nada, Texas, has a big ambition: to deliver a message of universal peace and understanding at the United Nations. Problem is, she''s tongue-tied! Can a makeshift invention turn Ruby Mae into a political sensation? From Caldecott Honor artist David Small, here''s the wise and funny tale of an ordinary woman--with an extraordinary message.

At the heart of the Canadian system of representative government are question of redistribution and boundary adjustment. Together, they determine the basis on which citizens elect those who govern. This document presents information on Canadian Constitutional standards for electoral distribution and districting; apportionment, districting, and representation in the United States; community of interest in redistricting; the role of electors in boundary adjustment in enhancing relative vote equality in Canada; ecological communities and constituency districting; representation in modern Canada; and enhancing aboriginal representation within the existing system of redistricting.

Alan Powers is getting on in years, and he''s coming to terms with some of the difficult people he''s loved in his life, helped by his wife, Marilyn, who is much younger and some ways much wiser. He gets calls from his ex-wife who says she''s getting phone calls from their dead son. He deals with his emotionally damaged brother, his surviving son''s struggles, and his crazy mother. He must placate the ghosts of past loves and cope with the loss of dear friends. Just as Paris beckons, he is struck down by a serious illness. Yet Marilyn will see that more remains of his life than a quiet summing up, and that in the end all their hard-won dreams will come to pass. MORE OF EVERYTHING is a love story told in a very special voice with moments that will make you laugh and cry, just like real life.

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children''s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die. In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children''s illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David, a highly anxious yet supremely talented child, all too often became the unwitting object of his parents'' buried frustration and rage. Believing that they were trying to do their best, David''s parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son''s respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David''s cancer. Elizabeth, David''s mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden. Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen, with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist, will resonate as the ultimate survival statement. A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again.

Somebody Else''s Man

Depois do reconhecimento internacional com a graphic novel autobiográfica Cicatrizes (2009), e de um hiato de quase uma década, o premiado quadrinista David Small agora apresenta uma obra ficcional. Um caleidoscópio selvagem, com uso brutal dos recursos gráficos, Escuridão é um tour-de-force literário que aborda a brutalidade da adolescência na década de 1950, evocando clássicos como O Senhor das Moscas e O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio, numa atmosfera densa que remete à pintura de Egon Schiele e aos filmes de Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski e Ingmar Bergman. Após ser abandonado pela mãe, o garoto Russell Pruitt, de treze anos, muda-se com seu pai para a ensolarada Califórnia, aonde vão em busca de um sonho. No entanto, repentinamente forçado a tomar conta de si mesmo, Russell luta para sobreviver em Marshfield, uma cidade em decadência, aterrorizada por um assassino de animais e por um bando de garotos malvados que o persegue. Resgatado de seu pai alcóolatra pelo casal de imigrantes chineses Wen e Jian Mah, Russell tenta se virar enquanto enfrenta os demônios internos dos primeiros anos da adolescência. Embora se passe na década de 1950, a história aborda temas que continuam pertinentes na terceira década do século xxi, como masculinidade tóxica, bullying, homofobia, alcoolismo, imigração, e, de modo geral, a relação do indivíduo com o próximo, com aqueles que vivem de modo diferente. Como afirma Rachel Cook em resenha ao Guardian, “Escuridão é uma obra de ficção, mas assim como Cicatrizes [a ser republicado pela DarkSide® Books em 2022], seu principal assunto é a falta de voz: nem Russell, nem o pai, nem qualquer um dos homens ou garotos que eles conhecem é completamente capaz de verbalizar suas emoções, uma peculiariedade que trará graves consequências para todos eles”. David Small passou anos reescrevendo a história, e, insatisfeito com o visual do quadrinho, chegou a redesenhar à mão as mais de 400 páginas, até que ficassem como ele imaginava. O resultado é uma obra tensa e melancólica, com muitos ângulos inusitados e longas sequências silenciosas, que ficou entre os vencedores do Alex Awards, da American Library Association, e foi indicado pelo Boston Globe como um dos melhores livros de 2018. Diferente de qualquer quadrinho dos últimos tempos, Escuridão é uma densa e tocante reinterpretação dos chamados “nostálgicos” anos 1950. A DarkSide® Graphic Novel é uma expansão do universo sombrio e fantástico da editora, lar de Charles Burns, autor de Black Hole e Big Baby, e de quadrinistas de renome como Dave McKean, Nagabe, Junji Ito, Kate Evans, Emily Carroll, Danilo Beyruth, Bernie Wrightson, Joe Hill, Derf Backderf (de Meu Amigo Dahmer), entre outros. Se você é fanático pela arte sequencial, prepare-se para se surpreender novamente com sua velha paixão. Os que não têm o hábito de ler hqs, não vão se arrepender. Quem aposta no escuro com a DarkSide® costuma virar fã.

Includes: "The Gardener," "George Washington''s Cows," "Imogene''s Antlers," "The Library" & "Paper John."

Uma bela quinta-feira, Filomena acorda e constata que lhe cresceram chifres na cabeça. Esse acontecimento estranhíssimo parece não perturbar a menina, mas lhe causa muitos problemas, como dificuldade para se vestir e para passar pela porta do quarto. Os chifres engancham no lustre da sala, e a mãe da garota desmaia quando a vê transformada. O médico não consegue explicar o ocorrido, tampouco o diretor da escola, que a olha com cara de mau. Quem chega à resposta mais esdrúxula é Nelson, o irmão de Filomena - ao consultar uma enciclopédia, o menino constata que ela se transformara num tipo raro de alce.