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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic CountriesThis collection of reports of elfin creatures in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany ranks among the most scholarly works ever published on the subject. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries begins with the author's account of firsthand testimony from living sources, classified under individual countries...
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Girls Have a Blog: The Signature EditionCreating comics, playing video games, eating burgers - everything is better when it's with your best friend. Girls Have A Blog is an autobiographical comic about Sarah's and Tara's lives as roommates, friends, and comic book artists. It began as a bi-weekly webcomic on...
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Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World WarBy the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70,...
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an AlcoholicA moving autobiographical manga about her father's alcoholism that inspired a critically acclaimed live-action film. Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father's alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father's illness. She rejects the common belief that family members...
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All the Sad SongsIn her first full-length graphic memoir, Summer Pierre takes us on a journey through the soundtracks that shaped her. Through mix tapes, boyfriends, late nights in Boston folk clubs, and ill-fated cross-country road trips, Pierre weaves a moving meditation on music, memory, and identity.Author:...
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MusashiA stunning graphic novel biography of the famous samurai warrior who wrote the classic text on Japanese martial arts, The Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary samurai, is known throughout the world as a master swordsman, a spiritual seeker, and the author...
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos,...
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic ManifestoWhat we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, authenticity, and social connection in a world disrupted by...
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The Day I Divorced GodTamosan believed in the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses for 25 years, after her mother first brought the family into the group. But - years later - when Tamosan's first born son falls ill and is in desperate need of a blood transfusion, her...
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Chartwell ManorNo one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserved to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school -- run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys...
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The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and PhilanthropistA visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Luciana Cimino's meticulously researched graphic-novel...
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The Body Factory: From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented HumanA young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject of the painting...
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The Incantations of Daniel JohnstonArtistic and hallucinatory. --John Williams, New York Times Book ReviewThe Incantations of Daniel Johnston is a spirited, eye-popping collaborationg between New York Times-bestselling Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo and award-winning author Scott McClanahan.Long a fan of Daniel Johnston, the man and his music, Cavolo illustrates...
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The Manga Guide to Linear AlgebraReiji wants two things in life: a black belt in karate and Misa, the girl of his dreams. Luckily, Misa's big brother is the captain of the university karate club and is ready to strike a deal: Reiji can join the club if he...
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The Manga Guide to ElectricityRereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time, she has to pass. Luckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is...
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The Manga Guide to DatabasesWant to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you. Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to...
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Sex Crimes: Then and Now: My Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators"NOBODY KNOWS RAPISTS BETTER" After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to "go along to get along," Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as "a stark, passionate closing argument in her] broader case against...
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The Angry HillsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Trinity, Topaz, and Exodus, comes a classic World War II thriller of Greek resistance during the German infiltration of Athens--based on the diaries of Leon Uris's uncle.Just as World War II threatens to break out,...
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Frontlines of RepairPolitical cartoonists and artists address social, political, and environmental damage, charting a path toward healing and repair.World War 3 Illustrated is back with a collection of comics and art about repairing our deeply damaged world. Over twenty artists interpret the theme in a wide...
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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change ThemPAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism Bestselling "overeducated cartoonist" Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the history of the universe...
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