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4101) Adler
Author
Series
Adler volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"1902. Wounded in the Boer War, Jane Eyre returns to a London transmogrified by emerging modernity. An old friend, the glamorous inventor Lady Havisham, introduces her to the American adventuress Irene Adler, and the two seek lodging together. But Adler is engaged in a brutal secret war against a mortal enemy of the British Empire: Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, who seeks revenge against the colonisers who destroyed her country. And Jane,not unwilling,...
4102) The eightfold path
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After an unexplained disappearance--and a reappearance that was just as odd--Claudia Jones is back at Blithedale High School. She's even started to tutor Nigel, who feels the power of Claudia's presence like no one else. The days are extra strange for Nigel's friends. Shy, self-deprecating Paula is coming into her own--and it's making her new girlfriend, Johanna, a little nervous. Paula's former friend Emily is learning to look inward. And Brett...
4106) Set to sea
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A nautical debut graphic novel from a major talent. A big lug and aspiring poet gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong and learns to live - and love - life on the sea. Part rollicking adventure, part maritime ballad.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Hawthorne's mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his mother could never truly escape --she begins a series of events that drive him away both physically and emotionally. For the first time ever, Eisner Award-nominated artist Mike Hawthorne (Superior Spider-Man)...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Valerie lives on her own and has, shall we say, a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong. What follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions,...
4109) Kingdom Kong
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A group of highly skilled Monarch pilots gathers together on Skull Island to see who has 'the right stuff' to take on a dangerous mission into the hollow earth. One of the pilots, Audrey, is haunted by the memories of a monstrous clash with a bat-like Titan that left deep scars. Following an attack, Audrey must come to terms with her inner demons or face destruction, and Kong, finding his home threatened, must rise to face a usurper that would plunge...
4110) Mandela and the general
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Will the Freedom Struggle End in a Bloodbath? Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popular movement to fight structural racism. But that nonviolent struggle for equality and justice very nearly spiraled into an all-out race war that would have only ended in "the peace of graveyards." As the first post-apartheid elections approach in 1994, with South African...
4111) Guardian of the dead
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Debut novelist Karen Healey taps Maori mythology for this fresh spin on the fantasy genre. Seventeen-year old Ellie Spencer has a crush on the cute and mysterious Mark. That's the normal part of her life. But something terrifying also haunts Ellie and her community. People are being killed-and their eyes are being removed. Ellie soon learns two shocking truths. First, Mark is part patupaiarehe, the Maori equivalent of a fairy. Second, a war is brewing....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A dying young girl inherits ancient magical powers. When Iscariot, a rebellious magician in an age-old order, secretly bestows powers upon Carson, a dying young girl, he throws generations of magical tradition into chaos. As Carson struggles with not only her new powers, but with returning to life after years of sickness--schoolmates who don't remember her, a mother who has hidden her spiraling depression--she discovers that Iscariot's intentions...
Author
Series
I survived volume 10
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The beast beneath the mountain is restless...
No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.
But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In early 2018, cartoonist Sofia Warren was not paying attention to New York state politics. But that summer, her Brooklyn neighborhood began buzzing about Julia Salazar, a 27-year-old democratic socialist running for state senate whose grassroots campaign was inspiring an army of volunteers. When they beat the odds and won, Warren found herself wondering what would happen next. How does it work when an outsider who runs on revolutionary change has...
4116) Breaking up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Breaking up is something different for the Gossip Girls set: all the drama, all the romance, all the style -- illustrated in juicy graphic novel format."There's a fine line between a friend and an enemy. One minute there's all this trust, and laughter, and love. And the next minute . . . there's hurt. And cruelty. And betrayal."Meet Chloe Sacks: Thoughtful, artistic, and a junior at Georgia O'Keeffe School for the Arts, nicknamed "Fashion High"...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alone at the end of the world, Aria is a woman with a mission! Trekking through an overgrown city with her only companion, a cat named Jelly Beans, Aria must find an ancient relic of immeasurable power if she ever hopes to complete her quest. When a run-in with a creepy savage sets her on a path to fulfill her task, she'll face death head on in the hopes of claiming her prize and, if all goes according to plan, finally returning home"--Provided by...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. Other than weekly therapy,...
4120) A letter to Jo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Graphic novel presents the gripping firsthand account of a Polish-American machinegunner in World War II, adapted from a genuine letter home from the author's own grandfather. As Leonard fights on the frontlines of World War II, memories of Josephine and home help keep him alive. As Josephine contends with life, family, and work in Cleveland, letters from Leonard sustain her. But official censorship forces him to leave out much of the most significant...
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