Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #112


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Michelangelo takes to the airwaves as tensions in Mutant Town grow! New mutants have grievances with both the Turtles and the Mutanimals as both groups plan for the future. Plus Casey Jones returns!




Negative Space


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"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper's George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager's multi-valent voicing of drugged up, occult youth reveals fresh tunnels into the gray space between the body and the spirit, the living and the dead, providing a well-aimed shot in the arm for the world of conceptual contemporary horror." -Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million "Ever wonder where teenage children go at night? Perhaps it's best not knowing the answer. There's something amiss in Kinsfield, a drab, boring city much like your own, except for the teenage suicide epidemic, stagnant, ineffectual parents, cultish behavior that borders on psychosis, and strings, strings everywhere. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a hypnotic collage of message boards, memes, and ruined bodies twisting at the end of a rope. Most modern novels have lost all concept of magic. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a stunning refutation of the quotidian." -James Nulick, author of Haunted Girlfriend & Valencia




The Spectrum in Between


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This is everything strange and wonderful that you are not supposed to write about in a first novel. Metaphysical weirdness.




Shell Shocked


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(Book). If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together," his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather eye-opening iceberg. For nearly five decades, Howard Kaylan has been a player in the rock-and-roll revolution. In addition to his years with the Turtles, Kaylan was a core member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and the dynamic duo Flo and Eddie, and part of glam rock history with Marc Bolan and T. Rex. He's also given street cred and harmonies to everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Alice Cooper to the Ramones and Duran Duran, to name just a few. Howard Kaylan's life has been a dangerous ride that he is only too happy to report on, naming names and shedding shocking tales of sex, drugs, and creative excess. Shell Shocked will stand alone as not only one of the best-told music-biz memoirs, but one with a truly candid and unmatchable story of rock-and-roll insanity and success from a man who glories in it all.




Free Spirit


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An Unforgettable Journey Through an Unconventional Childhood When Joshua Safran was four years old, his mother--determined to protect him from the threats of nuclear war and Ronald Reagan -- took to the open road with her young son, leaving the San Francisco countercultural scene behind. Together they embarked on a journey to find a utopia they could call home. InFree Spirit, Safran tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of his childhood chasing this perfect life off the grid--and how they survived the imperfect one they found instead. Encountering a cast of strange and humorous characters along the way, Joshua spends his early years living in a series of makeshift homes, including shacks, teepees, buses, and a lean-to on a stump. His colorful youth darkens, however, when his mother marries an alcoholic and abusive guerrilla/poet. Throughout it all, Joshua yearns for a "normal" life, but when he finally reenters society through school, he finds "America" a difficult and confusing place. Years spent living in the wilderness and discussing Marxism have not prepared him for the Darwinian world of teenagers, and he finds himself bullied and beaten by classmates who don't share his mother's belief about reveling in one's differences. Eventually, Joshua finds the strength to fight back against his tormentors, both in school and at home, and helps his mother find peace. But Free Spirit is more than just a coming-of-age story. It is also a journey of the spirit, as he reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.




Love from the Mountains


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In 1998, Deborah Burford and her husband, David, loaded their cars and trailer with their belongings-along with four cats, two dogs, and one ferret-and departed New Jersey for a new home in the North Georgia mountains. In Love from the Mountains, Deborah shares a compilation of her weekly columns, originally published in The North Georgia News and The Towns County Herald, bringing to life the humorous voices of the animals-both wild and domestic-who share the woods with her. There's a squirrel named Howard, who taunts Miss Adventure the cat with unsavory language; there's Mangefur, the opossum who develops a taste for high-priced birdseed, and Bosley and Cosette, the miniature poodles who possess an insatiable appetite for puddle-surfing. Exploring the entertaining world of nature, Deborah includes amusing anecdotes about a hungry bear with an eclectic appetite, a ferret who likes women's toes, and four mutt cats who rely on their patience to torment other animals crazy enough to traipse into their environment. The true animal stories in Love from the Mountains prove that the furry creatures who share our world with us really do have opinions on just about everything we humans do.




Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin


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A New York Times Bestseller!Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost. From legendary TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, get ready for the final story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three decades in the making! What terrible events destroyed his family and left New York a crumbling, post-apocalyptic nightmare? All will be revealed in this climactic Turtle tale that sees longtime friends becoming enemies and new allies emerging in the most unexpected places. Can the surviving Turtle triumph? Eastman and Laird are joined by writer Tom Waltz, who penned the first 100 issues of IDW's ongoing TMNT series, and artists Esau & Isaac Escorza (Heavy Metal) and Ben Bishop (The Far Side of the Moon) with an Introduction by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez! Collects the complete five-issue miniseries in a new graphic novel, an adventure as fulfilling for longtime Turtles fans as it is accessible for readers just discovering the heroes in a half shell.




Grand Hotel Europa


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Longlisted for the 2023 DUBLIN Literary Award "[Grand Hotel Europa] calls to mind Nabokov, Tom Wolfe, Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Wes Anderson . . . [a novel of] incorrigible high spirits." —Rand Richards Cooper, The New York Times Book Review A sweeping, atmospheric novel about European identity, centered on a hotel that encapsulates the continent's manifold contradictions. The love of my life lives in my past. Despite the alliteration it’s a terrible line to have to write. I don’t want to come to the conclusion, just as the hotel I’m staying in and the continent it is named after, that the best times are behind me and that I’ve little more to expect of the future than living off my past. A writer takes up residence in the stately but decaying Grand Hotel Europa in order to contemplate where things went wrong with Clio—an art historian and the love of his life. His recollections take him back to when they first met in Genoa, his wanton visits to her in Venice, and their dulcet trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere, and the Cinque Terre in their thrilling search for the last painting made by Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of the Grand Hotel Europa and the memorably eccentric characters who inhabit it, all of whom seem to hail from a halcyon era. All the while, globalization is laying claim to even this place, where a sense of lost glory hangs sulkily in the air. Grand Hotel Europa is Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s masterly novel of the old continent, where there's so much history that there hardly seems space left for a future. Cinematic, lyrical, and brimming with humor, this is a novel about the European condition, which like the staff and residents of the Grand Hotel Europa may have already seen its best days.




Turtle Hawks


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Pericles (Peri) Pontakis, investigative journalist and host of the controversial TV show Under World, is fighting a losing battle against corruption in the upper chelons of Greek society. He has little to show for a life's committment to social justice, except a ruined marriage, two alienated children, a mountain of debt, and a multitude of powerful and dangerous enemies. Among his many admirers and acquaintances, his only true friends are Jack, his feisty cat, and the down-and-out journalist, Christos, to whom he lets the apartment below. When his life starts collapsing around him, he decides to change tack and make a documentary about the threatened Loggerhead turtle, in the hope that this undemanding project will enable him to save not only the turtle but his own soul. However, the path to salvation is strewn with unforeseen obstacles, some of which prove not altogether unpleasant.




How to Become an Angel for Turtles


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This book is exciting, and it shows the New Age generation exactly what is going on in our realm today. It shows us how to combat the things that are just tearing us down in our daily lives without us even really noticing it. This book will show you how to persevere—not with miraculous signs and wonders, but with down-to-earth methods that are backed by age-old concepts, like the Constitution and the reason our preachers only preach the gospel. It reveals newly discovered secrets, well-defined and plainly written. To the end that it allows God and his Christ to be with us more than ever before. We’ve all got a little weak spot in us that we’ve got to work on within ourselves, because it’s written. Our role wouldn’t be as the rulers of this world. When people say they’re not going to heaven. Try this: “I’m not ready to go to heaven yet.” We have a lot that we may lose, but one thing we won’t lose is our hope. I’m not trying to block anything that’s in existence. I’m trying to provide a means to a better end result so that people can find their way into a more productive faith. By showing forth things right, like these, you could wind up being a real angel. This one girl told me that I don’t really believe in anything. When I was young, I went to church because my parents made me. I couldn’t understand the preacher because he spoke Polish, and I could never understand the Bible. I told her I couldn’t understand my preacher either. But I read the story in the Bible about the man who died on the cross, and it made me want to help him. People who don’t do the gospel, they’re saying “I don’t have to” or “I don’t want to.” What they’re falling into is spiritual death. That’s a faith that’s not living or growing. When talking to them sometimes, you see they’re on cloud nine, not in reality, doing everything and nothing. What this reminds me of is the prodigal son spending all his money on whores. He wasn’t doing the gospel and saving his treasure up in heaven where his heart ought to be. I don’t see what all the contention is about? If they’re saved into life eternal, it’s going to be by those who do the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ, slain from the foundation of the world. You know there is only one right way to do it. So get yourself a bag that grows not old and let’s see how you do out there. Have mercy on the poor. Temper your faith. Carry on. Doing the gospel shows the Bible is to be mainly used for defense of the children of the cross. People are thinking that the poor or homeless people aren’t Christ-like. But because that sort of suffering is a cross, it makes them Christ-like. That’s also what the church shows. How the preachers don’t accuse any but defend by saying you are forgiven by the Godhead. It says in the Bible God adds glory to the parts that have none. That’s what he’s doing by defending the poor—basically saying they’re loved. When anybody says anything, and I have to reply, I give respect to him who has the right: Jesus. Know that being human is the first quality of being Christ-like. But also, for the animals, they are living breathing beings. If that’s not Christ-like, I don’t know what is. Following these guides, you will be tempering yourself into right actions. What does being self-righteous have to do with love? Guiding people to what’s right in a loving way gives you soul. It builds your soul to be of love. That’s not self-righteous; it’s not parental. It’s loving. Those demons and devils have been practicing their evil for like 150 million years. If you don’t think you’re going to have to study and do works accordingly to beat them, you’re wrong. The thing that makes mass assembly generate low prices and large volume is simplicity. When I see everybody just sitting around and complicating everything, I know exactly what’s going on.