White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
10 best books like White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War (Herman Melville): Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, The Cruise of the Snark, Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 1, Melville: His World and Work, Peter Simple, En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke, Blue Beetle, Vol. 5: Boundaries, Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 2: Death of a Dream, Blue Beetle, Vol. 4: End Game
| Author | Phil Foglio |
| ISBN | 1890856398 |
REREAD 2019
I was never a big fan of this part of the story. When I first read it, I didn't mind, but on rereading it the first few times, I noticed how it changed the direction of the story completely.
It is good, and I'm glad to get more info on the spark and even the different characters, as well...
| Author | Sheila Fitzpatrick |
| ISBN | 0195050010 |
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0924486465 |
THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK by Jack London
I loved Jack London's life when I was much younger, and well, I still do. I dreamed of sailing the seas as he had. I loved his stone house in Glen Ellen and wished to live there, and I loved and wanted all of his souvenirs from the different islands that he had visited....
| Author | Jerry Siegel |
| ISBN | 1401213820 |
Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced collection of an incredible team of teen heroes from the 30th century, in the stories that inspired the hit animated TV series on the Kid's WB on the CW network. The Legaion comes together from many worlds to fight evil -- with the help...
| Author | Andrew Delbanco |
| ISBN | 0375702970 |
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded...
| Author | Frederick Marryat |
| ISBN | 0805055657 |
In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Murrayat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it be a rough school indeed. Simple's trials and triumphs, alongside his faithful mentor, Terence O'Brien, Mirror Marryat's personal experience, from the hand-to-hand...
| Author | Jan Guillou |
| ISBN | 9119512120 |
Aldrig tidigare har Carl Hamilton känt sig så pressad. Hämnare från den sicilianska maffian slår till mot hans närmaste anhöriga; hans gode vän och kollega Jurij Tjivartsjev hotas av dödsstraff vid en militärtribunal i Moskva, och i Sverige seriemördas invandrare med kuslig precision....
| Author | Matthew Sturges |
| ISBN | 1401221629 |
Growing up a teenager in the west Texas heat can be tough, especially for Jaime Reyes--the stellar, armor-wielding superhero known as Blue Beetle!
As if balancing homework with having a power-granting, extraterrestrial scarab welded to his spine weren't enough, now Jaime faces the arrival...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1401209718 |
A bright, defiant, energized team of super-powered teenagers from different worlds form a legion of passionate activists that crusade to leave their mark on a complacent society that has forgotten how to fight for change. This volume features an all-out brawi between the Legion and the evil agents...
| Author | John Rogers |
| ISBN | 1401219527 |
Borrowed from Debi
If I had to make a complaint, it would be to wonder where Superman and friends were during the huge space battle. Having said that, I will say that I have almost no other complaints about this volume.
Epic space battle? Check. Major character development? Check. Surprising...
| Author | Jeffrey Brown |
| ISBN | 1891830910 |
Far away in space, there is a planet full of robots able to change from robot form to vehicle form -- the Incredible Change-Bots! Leaving their war torn planet, the Change-Bots arrive on Earth, where their battle continues -- but at what cost?! Part parody, part nostalgic tribute, part moral fable, Jeffrey...
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1593621833 |
Two stories of two very different young people who encounter the extraordinary while living their ordinary lives are collected in this omnibus of the early graphic novels by American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang.
In Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, a not-very-deep-thinking...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0543899667 |
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process....
| Author | Keith Giffen |
| ISBN | 1401213618 |
During Infinite Crisis, the mystical Blue Beetle scarab chose sixteen-year-old Jaime Reyes as its new guardian, but its supernatural powers are both a blessing and a curse. The newest hero in the DC Universe will now have to deal with strange and dangerous days as he learns to handle his new abilities....
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0812535170 |
Flung to an alien ocean world, John Bandicut and his companions find themselves plunged into the deepsea realm of the Neri. What will they find in the Neri's failing undersea city, or in the terrifying object of the deep abyss? Book 3 of The Chaos Chronicles continues the hard-SF saga inspired by chaos...
| Author | Bill Willingham |
| ISBN | 1845763785 |
In the aftermath of the universe-shattering events of 'Infinite Crisis', the new heroes and new alliances forge ahead in their very distinct missions. Written and drawn by a host of talented comic creators, this is a companion to the brave, new post-Infinite Crisis universe!
This volume...
| Author | Phil Jimenez |
| ISBN | 1563899566 |
The follow-up to WONDER WOMAN: PARADISE LOST finds the Princess faced with a new challenge. After a devastating battle between worlds, Wonder Woman and her Amazon sisters start to rebuild a destroyed Paradise Island. But taking advantage of Earth's vulnerability, the evil sorceress Circe transforms...
| Author | Keiko Tobe |
| ISBN | 0759523843 |
A little effort goes a long way-that's what Sachiko, Honda-san, and Gunji-sensei learn as they struggle to work together to make life easier for the Special Education children. With the help of gadgets and the support of more people in their environment than meets the eye, Hikaru and Miyu become able...
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| ISBN | 0873954157 |
Having drawn on local knowledge and private information for The Spy and on his own boyhood experiences for The Pioneers, it was inevitable that Cooper would seek a way to convert yet another area of his special knowledge into art. His first choice of career had been the U.S. Navy, in which he served as a...
| Author | Sean McKeever |
| ISBN | 1401219624 |
Wow, this was not as bad as I expected.
I mean, don't get me wrong, other people beyond Gail can write birds of prey. But this is the first one I actually enjoyed. This is the story of the girls working together to stop bad guys. Simple enough but when the first mission goes wrong and someone dies....
