Non-Fiction

Canada has a rich and fascinating history. In this informative overview, kids will discover the people, places and events that have shaped our country. Featuring fact boxes, mini-profiles, maps, a timeline and more, this title in the acclaimed Kids Book of series offers a...

As featured on CNN, FOX News, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, LA Times, OK Magazine, and MSNBC! Female Force is a series that features biographies on strong, independent women in modern politics. This graphic novel includes stories on Sonia Sotomayor, Michelle Obama and her...

For use in schools and libraries only. True-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe.Author: Allan Zullo, Mara BovsunPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 03/01/2005Pages: 196Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9781417660001Audience:...

In a society obsessed with being politically correct, we sometimes need a break from the norm. A chance to laugh at that dirty joke or raunchy piece of business. Left Field RAW is the cartoon antidote. Within these pages, it's totally appropriate to laugh...

Who is Tian Fushi? A misunderstood manga artist? A young gay man gone astray in an ultraviolent world? A lost boy out of Peter Pan's Neverland? How will he put the fragments of himself together and discover who he really is? Queer: differing in...

The award-winning, best-selling series returns, as John Lewis' story continues through Freedom Rides and the legendary 1963 March on WashingtonAuthor: John LewisPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 01/20/2015Pages: 187Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.50w x 0.80dISBN: 9780606365475Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.5Point Value: 2Interest Level: Middle Grade PlusQuiz...

The science of forensic entomology-the application of insect biology to the investigation of crime-is extremely specialized, combining as it does an expert knowledge of entomology with keen powers of observation and deduction. Dr. Erzinclioglu has been a practitioner for over twenty-five years and has...

" . . . fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics . . . This collection will surely become a standard text for those who teach semiotics, aesthetics or philosophy of language." --International Philosophical QuarterlyThis volume presents the classic statements...

Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works--from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist, playwright, and respected...

An autobiographical account, in graphic novel format, of growing up in Cold War Alaska in the shadow of a nuclear arsenal. From the creator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's comes an unnervingly funny tale of life in...

Author: Madeline BergerPublisher: Cloudscape ComicsPublished: 05/08/2022Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.80w x 0.40dISBN: 9781927742211

All of Ben Snakepit's comics for Razorcake magazine, collected into one definitive volume! Spanning from 2003 until 2020, Snakepit covers the essentials of DIY punk life, from show reviews and scene reports, to the basics of touring on the cheap and making friends on...

TidalWave has created the comic book biographies on the other Beatles, so now it is time to read about the world of Sir Ringo Starr in comic book form. Read about how overcame life-threatening illnesses during childhood to how he became one of the...

If you have ever thought, as you bite into a hot dog, "what am I really eating?" then this is for you.We buy and eat convenience food every day, yet how these foods are created is a mystery to almost everyone. For most, mass...

Before there was Lady Gaga. Before there was Adam Lambert. Before there was The Killers...there was David Bowie. Bowie is one of the most influential artists of this generation from his music, fashion and persona. Bowie has reinvented himself on several occasions to make...

In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement, setting the stage for massive...

From a working class New York Italian American family Sarnicola invites the reader into the world of security clearance investigations for the federal government and military. The book is not only a reflection of his coming of age but describes some of his more...

Is LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time? The Akron, Ohio native grew up in an impoverished home. His mother, sensing LeBron would thrive in a stable family environment, allowed him to live with a local youth basketball coach when he was...

He imagined realms of wizards, orcs, and hobbits and elevated fantasy from pulp to respected literature. J.R.R. Tolkien, the iconic author who captivated generations with his rich and complex mythology of Middle Earth, is the subject of his own tale in a special edition...

When MariNaomi first meets Mirabai in grade school, Mirabai seems to be more of a bully than a friend. But over the course of time, their relationship shifts from tense to friendly, to drifting apart, to reconnecting and finding something much deeper. I Thought...