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Author
Series
Wicked + the divine volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
2014-
Language
English
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Every ninety years, twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again.
Author
Series
Great Nritish bump off volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant Days’ John Allison and Max Sarin.
When she enters her country’s most beloved baking competition, Shauna Wickle’s goal is to delight the judges, charm the nation, and make a few friends along the way. But when a fellow contestant is poisoned, it falls to her to apprehend the culprit while avoiding premature elimination...
When she enters her country’s most beloved baking competition, Shauna Wickle’s goal is to delight the judges, charm the nation, and make a few friends along the way. But when a fellow contestant is poisoned, it falls to her to apprehend the culprit while avoiding premature elimination...
Author
Series
Coldest city volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set in the days immediately preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall, "The Coldest City" follows two British spies through the streets of West Berlin and across the border to the East as they attempt to recover an item of vital interest to national-- and international-- security.
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 3
Publisher
Nobrow Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Hilda learns that it's the day of Trolberg's annual Bird Parade, a spectacular carnival in which crowds people from all over the city gather to match the streets in colourful, awe-inspiring plumage" -- from publisher's web page.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven--and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard" --
Author
Publisher
Disney·Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll."--Colophon.
Author
Series
Bad machinery volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Six kids navigate the treacherous waters of school and adolesence while whole-heartedly diving into the whirlpool of mysteries that swirls around the peculiar English town of Tackleford.
12) Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fond memories and old habits compete with modern distractions in this contemplative and atmospheric new work from Jon McNaught, with a meditative art style that makes the ordinary, extraordinary. A family sets off for a long weekend at a campground next to the ocean. We follow them through the familiar landscapes of a summer break: gas stations, windswept cliffs, dilapidated museums, and tourist giftshops. Richly illustrated and sparsely worded, Kingdom...
Author
Series
Coldest city volume Prequel
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"After a string of botched assignments for MI6 in Berlin, David Perceval is being sent home. Even his final mission before leaving, the defection of a Soviet scientist, goes badly wrong, as the coldest winter for 30 years descends on Europe"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbara Fiore Editora
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Su madre, tras conocer que se celebraŕ una espectacular cabalgata, propone a Hilda que vayan juntas. Para sorpresa de la nĭna, su madre le dejará salir además con sus nuevos amigos hasta poco antes del desfile. Ya en la calle, va dándose cuenta de que no se siente cómoda con el comportamiento de los nĭnos: acaban tirándole piedras a un árbol con pájaros y huyen despavoridos dejando a Hilda sola" --
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A librarian mother spends a summer with her metalhead teenage son. A depressive young man becomes an apprentice to a legend-in-his-own mind. These people you never think about will make you reexamine yourself.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A dark, powerful and moving short story from the internationally acclaimed author of Skellig. Joe Quinn tells everyone about the poltergeist in his house, but no one believes him. No one that is, except for Davey. He's felt the inexplicable presence in the rooms, he's seen random objects fly through the air. And there's something else ... a memory of his beloved sister, and a feeling deep down that somehow it might be possible for ghosts to exist....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"London. The future. Alex and Freddy are just like any other brothers. They squabble. They drive their parents crazy. There's only one difference. They're the most powerful robots on Earth. But Alex and Freddy will soon discover that they're not the only super-powered robots around. For an evil robotic mind is making sinister plans, and their lives won't stay peaceful for much longer"--
18) Alison
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter blossoms in bohemian 1970s London. Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which will...
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the wacky and wonderful Jewish grandmothers who nurtured the author as she grew from a kid struggling with anxiety and insecurity to a teen finding her own voice. Danny Noble's mother insisted that they celebrate all types of religious holidays with fun and fireworks, but they wouldn't bother with the fasting ones as long as they were kind. Grandma would pinch her cheeks and say "shayne punim" which in Yiddish means pretty face,...
20) Violent cases
Author
Language
English
Description
Before The Sandman, there was Violent Cases, the first teaming of multi award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and innovative artist Dave McKean. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this seminal work, Violent Cases is being re-issued in a hardcover edition of one of the most influential and groundbreaking graphic novels of all time. A sensitive and ingenious work, Violent Cases reveals the often murky nexus between memory and imagination through the...
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