Michael Chabon
Author
Series
Awesome Man volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A young superhero describes his awesome powers, which he then demonstrates as various foes arrive on the scene.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a 'temporary' safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,...
4) Summerland
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays-heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise-on the meaning of fatherhood. For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical...
Author
Series
Awesome Man volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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 is coming to town soon. What if the people of Awesome City no longer need Awesome Man?
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature-age-old classics as well as his own-that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading.
9) Wonder boys
Pub. Date
2001.
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.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
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.
11) Spider-man 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. Relationships with all those he holds dear are unraveling, and he encounters a new foe, Doc Ock. Peter must use all his powers to stop this diabolical madman.
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