02906cam a2200337 4500 267250513 TxAuBib 20160702120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780399562228 0399562222 B016JPTMCQ Amazon b7ed6f48-0772-4ea9-bab3-62e3236e4960 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2461805 OverDrive (Product ID) 2461805 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Proehl, Bob. A Hundred Thousand Worlds [Libby]. Penguin Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 863kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 863kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to their destination, he begins to realize that the story his mother is telling him about their journey might have a very different ending than he imagined. A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come to shape us. From the Hardcover edition.. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-07-01 23:00:03. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=b7ed6f48-0772-4ea9-bab3-62e3236e4960 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7ed6f48-0772-4ea9-bab3-62e3236e4960&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7ed6f48-0772-4ea9-bab3-62e3236e4960&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7ed6f48-0772-4ea9-bab3-62e3236e4960&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)