Michael Chabon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams
3) Summerland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
4) Moonglow
Author
Language
English
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Description
Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at mid-century, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart - half...
Author
Series
Awesome Man volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young superhero describes his awesome powers, which he then demonstrates as various foes arrive on the scene.
11) Wonder boys
Author
Language
English
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Description
Chabon's extraordinary story of one turbulent weekend in the life of a struggling writer, a satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade as swords for hire, until they become involved in a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars as bodyguards for a fugitiveprince.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Awesome Man, our favorite superhero, is back, and in this fantastic sequel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Chabon, he must prepare for his greatest threat yet!
Awesome Man's secret identity has stayed safe, and he's still the coolest superhero around. He loves protecting the people of Awesome City from evildoers, like the giant Plutonian octolizard, with his trusty sidekick, Moskowitz. But there have been reports that a new hero...
15) The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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Description
The beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork by Chabon. It is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and their quest to become American icons in the comic book world. Now with special bonus material by Chabon.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, and more! Margaret Atwood - Lusus Naturae David Mitchell - What You Do Not Know You Want Jonathan Lethem - Vivian Relf Ayelet Waldman - Minnow Steve Erickson...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cryptic and desperate message from a long-lost friend Dr. Beverly Crusher draws Starfleet legend Admiral Jean-Luc Picard into the most daring mission of his life, forcing him to recruit allies spanning generations old and new. The legacy of Picard's past meets explosive new revelations that will alter the fate of the Federation forever. Experience the Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion three decades in the making like you've never seen it before,...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the Planet Romulus, follow Picard as he tracks down a series of mysteries about his past. Picard sets out on a new adventure against a legion of dangerous foes, with the help of a few returning characters: Data, Riker, and Seven of Nine, and a whole new crew.
20) Wonder boys
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A college professor who's been divorced three times and hasn't been able to overcome writer's block, gets his boss's wife, the college chancellor, pregnant.