Like most teenagers, Kirby Russo doesn't want much: a calm home life, a couple close friends, a sense of direction and purpose. And a chance to relax with a cocktail now and then. And maybe some privacy whenever fantasy and hormones get the better of him. But his world's upended when he comes home from computer camp to find his stepfather gone and his mom sleeping with their neighbor. In short order, he has to plan an epic road trip to save his family. Never mind the fact that he's at that age where you take yourself seriously, but no one else does. Never mind the fact that he doesn't have a car--it's really more like borrowing when it's a friend's parent's car and they won't know it's gone. And never mind the fact that he doesn't know as much about life as he thinks he does.

The Last Good Halloween

Literature & Fiction

Cromley, Giano

Literary

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Dad and Son: A Memoir about Reclaiming Fatherhood and Manhood

Parenting & Relationships

Klein, Arthur C.

Klein, Art

Family Relationships

Pocket clinical & drug guide

DeBello, Paul

Toronto, my city: Poems new and selected

Granatstein, M. J

October, 1967. Yuri Gagarin sits atop a Proton rocket, ready to launch. After several turbulent years in the public eye, he's been chosen in secrecy to captain the Soviet Union's latest space spectacular: the first manned flight around the moon. The second story in the Altered Space series, Public Loneliness is a detailed and imaginative look at a country and a space program with a curious schizophrenia regarding publicity and secrecy. Based on extensive research, it's also a lively and literary story that references familiar classics (like Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea) and forgotten landmarks of Soviet socialist realism, while also touching on universal themes of adventure, alcoholism, heroism and shame. It's a compelling look behind the massive posters at the all-too-real man who led the human race into space.

Public Loneliness: Yuri Gagarin's Circumlunar Flight

Brennan, Gerald

Stunning and visceral in its emotional impact, The Dark Will End The Dark collects 14 stories by veteran author Darrin Doyle. Deftly mixing realism and fabulism, bleakness and hope, sparkling dialogue and unforgettable characters, these literary Midwestern Gothic tales remain in the reader’s mind long after the last page is turned.

The Dark Will End The Dark

Doyle, Darrin

May, 1970. After a one-month launch delay, Apollo 13 lands in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the moon--and then the trouble starts.The first in a series of what-if stories from the golden age of space exploration, Zero Phase was written based on meticulous research, and with assistance from two Apollo astronauts: Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who visited the Fra Mauro Highlands--and Captain Jim Lovell, who was supposed to go.Dramatic, detailed, and finely written, with allusions to 2001 and Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, this novella is a must-read for space aficionados and literary enthusiasts alike.

Zero Phase: Apollo 13 on the Moon

In this surreal series of dreamscapes, bears roam the subway, and fathers become fish. But for all of the fantastic imagery in this stunning debut poetry collection, there are equally memorable explorations of more familiar terrain: the landscapes of our lives and relationships.

In Lieu Of Flowers (Illustrated)

Arts & Photography

Slotnick, Rachel

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The Fugue (New Chicago Classics, 1)

Aras, Gint

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