Serving Gay in Vietnam Combat Corpsman Dave Lara keeps the biggest secret of the Vietnam War - he's gay. He saves lives, becomes a man, and falls in love at a time when being him was a crime. ZIPPO BOYS takes the reader into the fog of war and hearts of young men who face prison if their truth is t...

Throughout the 1930s the Zippo Company in Pennsylvania prospered on the growing success of its stylish, charismatic little cigarette lighter. The lighter was made mostly of brass, but with the World War II that metal was declared a 'strategic material' in the U.S. where huge amounts of it were neede...

Juanjo Morales (Malaga-Spain-1961) Musician and writer. Author of "The tear of the Phoenix" and other stories. Is the Zippo Club Spain President, a member of Zippo Club Italia and ZCA (Austria), actively participating in other Clubs and forums Zippo worldwide. His fondness for Zippo lighters for ove...

Learn the history of your Zippo lighter, the American icon that today is the subject of desire to millions of collectors around the world. Find out the operation of each one of its parts and its evolution through time, the different presentation boxes, the old original models and the most recent one...

"Ten Dollars and a Zippo" is a stark record of joy, pain, and a poet's long struggle with mental and physical illness. Part poetry collection, part photo essay, the book is semi-autobiographical. The work reveals the private thoughts of a usually introspective writer. Jonathan Clayborne is a poet, n...

Featuring creative and delicious recipes that match the quality and presentation of a five-star restaurant with self-parody and humor about punk rock culture and history, this cookbook is unlike any other. While exploring the favorite foods of historic punk rockers through exclusive interviews, it t...

It’s 50 years after the Reconstitution. A secretive group of billionaires called "Opies," short for One Percenters, owns and controls both Industry and Government. A TV game show, Instant Winner, awards a lifelong million credollars a year to Zippo Morrow, a government psychologist. However, his s...

A Detective Kids Story with Bonus Coloring Pages. The Detective Kids have another mystery to solve. The kids take a trip to the Sweetwater Circus Fair. Miss Stella and the town Detective Kids learn that Zippo the Zebra is missing. The Detective Kids search the Circus Fair for Zippo. The kids will ...

A hilariously funny tale of friendship, belonging and LOTS OF EATING from the bestselling author of There Is No Dragon in This Story. Perfect for fans of Oi Frog . WITH SUPER SPARKLY GLITTER COVER! Oscar the Unicorn has eaten his stable so he needs to find somewhere else to live. Not easy if you'...

Oscar the Hungry Unicorn returns to save Easter in this third hilarious Oscar adventure from Lou Carter, the best-selling author of There Is No Dragon in This Story . It's Easter and the Easter Bunny has put together the most incredible, absolutely fantastic egg hunt. Everyone is excited, but uh-oh...

From the author who brought you Fly Guy comes an easy-to-read graphic novel about two very funny brothers—“great fun for newly independent readers and graphic novel newbies” ( School Library Journal ) Mac and Mac, who love pie and hate making their beds, are hollow-headed. "See in here? Not...

“Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green. . . . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be thought of as a young Lisbeth Salander, or a high-IQ, antiheroic Katniss Everdeen, but with a better sense of humor.” ...

From the author who brought you Fly Guy comes an easy-to-read graphic novel about two very funny brothers—“great fun for newly independent readers and graphic novel newbies” ( School Library Journal ) Mac and Mac, who love pie and hate making their beds, are hollow-headed. "See in here? Not...

“Paul is dead.” It was the late 1960s, the Beatles hadn’t toured since 1966, and some truly bizarre indications began appearing, pointing to the unthinkable: Paul McCartney had been killed in a car accident and replaced by a look-alike. The Walrus Was Paul unearths every single clue from o...

Join Penguin and Pup in this laugh-out-loud springtime caper from rising star Hazel Gardner and bestselling You're Called What? illustrator, Nikki Dyson. The yummiest Easter treat with giggles guaranteed! Like lots of friends, Penguin and Pup like VERY different things. Especially when it comes...

Part meditation, part oracle, part heedless plunge, The Letter is a dialogue with time, death, memory, and the self. These thirty poems ask what it means to live inside a body, to love, to grieve, to search for meaning, to grow older, to speak back to the void. The Letter is a reckoning with hum...

There are tough times ahead for sixteen-year-old Billy. After his mother dies, he goes to Fort Worth with his father, whose drinking and gambling leave them all but penniless. Desperate to make a life for himself, Billy heads over to Colonial Country Club, where he hopes to get work as a caddie. He...

The acclaimed Vietnam Journal comic book series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is collected and presented as a series of graphic novels. Vietnam Journal is a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a war journalist, Scott 'Journal' Neithammer, as he chronicles the lives and eve...

Tony Kornheiser is back. Within these pages, the celebrated Washington Post columnist, Pardon the Interruption cohost, and ESPN radio personality relates his experience as an OnStar user, the proud new owner of the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, and a “phone-a-friend” on Who Wants to Be a Mi...

Set in the early 1950s, follows sixteen-year-old Billy after his father moves him from Albuquerque to Fort Worth and then abandons him, as Billy finds work at a local country club and learns about golf and life from two golfing legends. Adult/High School-Fort Worth, 1951, is the setting for this com...