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Series
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On the shadowy, noir-tinged streets of Manila, two friends seek a cure for a mysterious malady. To add to their problems, the Magic Prohibition Act has been adopted, and Lambana - the supernatural realm of the Diwata - has fallen. Slinky sirenas and wraith-like spirits populate this parallel universe of lurking danger and corruption. Will Lambana spill its secrets and provide the healing balm that's needed? Or will Conrad and Ignacio fail in their...
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fly to Japan and come discover all there is to know about sushi. After revealing the secrets of chocolate to us, Franckie Alarcon offers a gourmet panorama of this exceptional dish that has conquered the planet! But do you really know sushi? The author traveled to Japan to meet all the players involved in the making of this true work of culinary art. From the traditional starred chef to the young cook who is shaking up the rules, including all the...
4) A man's skin
Author
Series
Publisher
Ablaze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is of marriage age. Her parents find her a fiancé́ to their liking: Giovanni, a rich merchant, young and pleasant. The wedding looks set to go smoothly even though Bianca cannot hide her disappointment at having to marry a man she knows nothing about. But before the marriage, she learns the secret held and bequeathed by the women of her family for generations: a "man's skin"! By donning...
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time there was a fallen knight, who believed that saving a princess would allow him to atone for his crimes. Once upon a time there was a dark princess, who believed that it was up to her to atone for the crimes of her parents... Banished for a fault that forever taints his reputation, Arzhur wanders from tavern to field of battle in search of the next contract which will fill his purse. One night, three mysterious old women offer him...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy, but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through Dream Theory Land guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Describes the apartheid South in Martin Luther King's time, which in many ways was not very different from the early days of slavery, with descriptions of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the formation of civil rights groups, and mass movements against segregation.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twin homeless orphans Elliot and Liza take part in the Raven Quests--magical tasks that when completed promise the victors untold riches--but when a quest goes terribly wrong and Liza is poisoned, Elliot sacrifices everything to find the cure.
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in thetime and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?"--...
11) Girl juice
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century, Welcome to the Girl Juice House, home of the hottest gang in town. Benji Nate's stylish and rambunctious sense of humor lovingly takes digs at the young and tragically hip-reserved and introspective Nana, comically hypersexual Bunny, fledgling U-tuber Tula, and Designated Mom Sadie-as they navigate life, love, and the pursuit of a good time. Girl Juice flaunts the gloriously...
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Forget what you know. This book changes everything. Someone's found her voice and she has A LOT to tell you"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cinema and surrealism-- those twin-born monsters of 20th century culture-- found a common champion in the visionary Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who transformed his childhood nightmares into art, but then came to dream of a better world. Buñuel: In the Labyrinth of the Turtles tells the graphically surreal true story of how, why, and where this unique artist came to film his third feature, the 1932 "pseudo-documentary" Las Hurdes (Land Without...
Author
Series
Lore Olympus volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Offers a contemporary retelling in graphic novel format of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago's Black press-- from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets-- was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson's anti-racist time travel adventure serial Bungleton Green, to Morrie Turner's radical...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After inheriting a farmhouse, Trudy and Gabby are ready to start the next chapter of their lives together ... except it's already home to a mysterious force that's attracted ghosts, aliens, and all kinds of supernatural beings for decades.
17) Okinawa
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull...
18) Plunge
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1983, a state-of-the-art drilling ship, the Derleth, vanished near the Arctic Circle. Decades later, it has begun sending a distress call... Tracing the signal to a remote atoll in the Bering Strait, the Rococo oil company hires the Carpenter brothers and their salvage crew to investigate the ghost ship. Joined by a marine biologist and an oil executive, the brothers set out on a grim mission to learn what caused the disappearance and recover...
19) Our colors
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synesthetic hues of blues and reds, and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. His best friend and childhood confidante Nao, a young woman whom everyone thinks is (or should...
20) Do a powerbomb
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro-wrestler, but she's living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a wrestling obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandest pro-wrestling tournament of all time, which is also the most dangerous!"--Back cover.
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