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Publisher
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and...
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English
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"The Wandering Earth" is a collection of short stories in the great tradition of Asimov and Clarke by Liu Cixin, China's most acclaimed contemporary science-fiction author. Liu's writing will remind sci-fi fans of the genre's golden age with its positive focus on scientific development, combined with a consistently constructive vision of China's future role as a superpower.
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English
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The popular primer on the best graphic novels, initially called The 101 Best Graphic Novels, is back in its third updated edition. Expert librarian Stephen Weiner-with the crowdsourcing help of professionals in the field, from artists to critics to leading comic store owners-has sifted through the bewildering thousands of graphic novels now available to come up with an outstanding, not-to-be-missed 101. With an all-encompassing variety of genres,...
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English
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Rich in symbolism, these compelling graphic novels feature more than 200 starkly beautiful woodcut illustrations. The passionate, dynamic narratives include The Sun, a somber exploration of one man's struggle with destiny; The Idea, a depiction of the triumph of an artistic concept over attempts at its suppression; and Story Without Words, a tale of thwarted romance. Belgian-born Frans Masereel illustrated the works of Tolstoy, Zola, and Oscar Wilde,...
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English
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Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints, GB Tran's Vietnamerica, Scott McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham...
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English
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Create your own graphic novel and comic book characters with this practical and inspiring guide, with step-by-step exercises and practice pages.
In this stylishly packaged, full-color book you'll find everything you need bring your stories to life, from creating characters, to making a storyboard and coloring in with inks. Whatever your ability, “I Can Graphic Novels” will teach you to create your own characters and compelling scenes by following...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
We all have that one friend from school -- the strange kid, the class freak, the guy whose antics amused, entertained, and maybe even alarmed us. The one who sticks in our heads even with the passing of the years. That classmate is invariably left behind when we graduate, vanishing into memory, filed away with our old yearbooks and other teenage mementoes. But every now and then we wonder, whatever happened to that friend? For one man who grew up...
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English
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This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right. From fictional stories to non-fiction works such as biography/memoir, history, or critical textbooks, graphic narratives provide students a new way to look at the course material and the world around them....
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English
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Featuring essays by, and interviews with, more than sixty professionals, educators, and critics, the book provides an in-depth view of the art, business, and history of comics' art. Readers will learn about a wide variety of genres, from editorial cartoons, political comics, and comic strips to graphic novels, superhero sagas, and alternative comics. Other featured topics include the role of comic art in related fields such as animation, design, and...
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English
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A new approach to family and personal memoirs that includes many creative formats. Memoir Your Way inspires family storykeepers to create a memoir using a craft you already know or are inspired to learn to create a personal, polished memoir your family will treasure. Accessible and with broad appeal, this first-of-its-kind book extends the written memoir form to cookbooks, scrapbooks, quilts, and other forms of storytelling. Readers of Memoir Your...
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Series
Demonizer Zilch volume 5
Publisher
Yen Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"Haruomi and the Seventh Gospel Organization have arrived to rescue Murohime, but Hellentza has designs on the buxom agent as well. What's more, Zilch's bizarre behavior only adds to the chaos--will the true identity of her second personality finally come to light? Discover the fate that awaits the heroines in the climactic conclusion to Demonizer Zilch!" P. [4] of cover.
13) Shortcomings
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel in which Ben Tanaka tries to salvage his failing long-term relationship with Miko Hayashi, who suspects Ben is more attracted to white women, an accusation that cause their personal and political problems to reach a boiling point.
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Series
He's my only vampire volume 7
Publisher
Yen Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Kana is heartbroken as Aki treats her with cold indifference following the loss of all memory of her and their time together. Amid this confusion, Eriya-- Aki's younger twin brother, said to have been put into sleep stasis after Aki nearly killed him-- makes his entrance! What will happen when the blood-soaked vampire twins meet again?"--Back cover.
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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in English, the work of master Haruki Murakami is available in manga form. In this collection you'll find striking full-color adaptions of these iconic short stories: Super-frog saves Tokyo -- A few days after an earthquake, Katagirl-san finds a giant frog in his home. The forg promises to save Tokyo from the next earthquake, but Katagiri-san must help him. Is this real, or a dream? Where i'm likely to find it -- A woman's husband...
18) Ragemoor
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English
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From the creators of Mutant World! Ragemoor! A living castle, nurtured on pagan blood, harborer to deadly monsters! A fortress possessed of its own will and ability to change itself, with the power to add and destroy rooms and to grow without the help of any human hand. Its servants aren't human, its origins are Lovecraftian, and its keeper must fend off the castle walls from the terrible race of worm men! Collects the four-issue miniseries.
19) Ghosts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
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Series
Aya volume 4
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Follows the story of Aya and her family and friends who live in Ivory Coast during the 1970s.
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