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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Description
Revisit the timeless classic in this graphic retelling of Tolstoy's celebrated 1869 novel.
In this beautifully rendered graphic adaptation, both fans and newcomers alike will be immersed in the world of War and Peace, one of the most celebrated novels of all time, about the misadventures of about the misadventures of Pierre Bezúkhov, Natásha and Ilyá Rostóv, and company during the Napoleonic era...
In this beautifully rendered graphic adaptation, both fans and newcomers alike will be immersed in the world of War and Peace, one of the most celebrated novels of all time, about the misadventures of about the misadventures of Pierre Bezúkhov, Natásha and Ilyá Rostóv, and company during the Napoleonic era...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes this irresistible treat, a charming and jaunty graphic novel, based on story snippets peppered throughout a number of her books. Originally mentioned in It's in His Kiss—one of the Bridgerton novels which inspired the smash Netflix series Bridgerton—Miss
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious graphic novel, the roles of cats and humans are reversed, putting humanoid felines in charge of tiny, dimwitted little man-pets. Manfried is a stray taken in by Steve Catson, a slacker with a dead-end job and nonexistent love life. Soon Manfried becomes the Garfield to Steve's Jon Arbuckle: lazy, selfish, and sometimes maddening in his weird human behavior. Yet the pair depends on each other to get through life's troubles. When Manfried...
Author
Series
Corto Maltese volume 1
Publisher
EuroComics, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"With this book Pratt leaves behind the short story form he'd used for twenty-one interrelated tales and presents a truly epic graphic novel. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns--a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women--to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. They aren't the only ones lusting after the treasure....
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Boy's Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-age story, but with a twist: the young protagonist is growing up gay during one of the most oppressive periods in American history. Set in the time and place of author Edmund White's adolescence, the Midwest of the 1950s, the novel became an immediate bestseller, and for many readers was not merely about gay identity but the pain of being a child in a fractured family while looking for love in an anything-but-stable...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Monkey Meat company made a fortune selling cans of...well, monkey meat. They're now ruling over a corporate empire and an island where they run all sorts of wacky supernatural experiments in a hyper-capitalist landscape. Follow the adventures of the citizens of Monkey Meat Island in this five-story anthology."--Amazon.
8) Watchmen
Author
Publisher
DC Comics Inc
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
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Description
A graphic novel in which Rorschach, an aging superhero, digs up the past in his search for answers about the death of one of his former colleagues.
Author
Series
Maus volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
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10) Burma chronicles
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Guy Delisle uses a graphic novel format to reflect on the experiences he had while working in a Burma--Myanmar--where his wife's career allowed him to explore Burma's rural and impoverished regions.
11) Bad girls
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this heart-pounding, starkly colored, and visually stunning graphic novel, three women have twelve hours to get out of Cuba with six-million dollars on the night of New Year's Eve 1958"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.
15) No kidding
Author
Publisher
Fair Square Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"No Kidding is a slice of life modern feminist graphic novel with a humorous take on a serious subject and a woman’s right to choose. Jane, 35 years old, doesn't want to be a mother. Lucy did not plan on having a kid ... But became pregnant. What is she going to do? It's the story of every woman refusing political correctness and diktats of the biological clock ... Loaded with lots of humor and sarcasm and strong examples of woman making...
18) Gone to Amerikay
Author
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping, century-spanning graphic novel explores the vivid history of Irish émigrés to New York City via three intertwined tales, from a penniless woman raising a daughter alone in the Five Points slum of 1870, to a struggling young artist drawn to the nascent counterculture of 1960, the year America elected its first Irish-Catholic president."--Publisher's website.
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