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7 Ate 9 by Tara Lazar; Ross MacDonald (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Number-based puns dovetail with pulp/film noir sensibility, with plenty of jokes packed into every line in this numerical whodunit from the author of "The Monstore." Full color.
Bandaging the Blitz by Phyll MacDonald Ross
Category: Biography
In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfill her dream to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard work, ne ...Show more
Boys of SteelThe Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman; Ross MacDonald (Illustrator)
Category: Education
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 193 ...Show more
The Drowning Pool (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Ross Macdonald
Category: Classics
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the S ...Show more
The Nature of the Gods by John Macdonald Marcus Tullius; Ross Cicero
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Time Flies - Down to the Last Minute by Ross MacDonald (Illustrator); Tara Lazar
Category: Picture Books | Series: Private I Ser.
The team behind 7 Ate 9 and The Upper Case: Trouble in Capital City is back with another installment of their pun-filled detective noir Private I series. This time, Private I is in a race to find all the missing clocks in town! In the colorful and letter-filled Capital City, there's never a moment's res ...Show more
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