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1) The Marvels
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
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Description
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...
Author
Publisher
KaBOOM!
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When a giant lion statue in Trafalgar Square comes to life and wreaks havoc on 1930s London, it seems like the perfect case for the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. With an overwhelmed caseload, however, Holmes recruits the help of three precocious young detectives-in-training (and one cunning golden retriever) to solve the mystery. Molly, Rajani, Humphrey, and Wellington (the dog) will have to work together and use all their wits...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 10
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"With his royally sanctioned dinner party a shambles and a murderer on the loose, Earl Ciel Phantomhive is a veritable prisoner in his own home, alongside those of his guests who still live. And in the most shocking of turns, the young earl now finds himself without his indispensible manservant, Sebastian. But as the mystery deepens, there arrives upon the young earl's doorstep an odd vicar, wearing an insolent smile and an Inverness cape that flaps...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 15
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When students fail to return home from an English boarding school that numbers several elite bloodlines among its student body, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his indomitable butler, Sebastian, infiltrate the lush grounds and stately halls of this distinguished house of learning at Her Majesty's behest. The butler takes on the role of tutor, his master that of student-- parts to which both are more than just a little accustomed. As their dorm lives of...
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The threat of Mortmain's Infernal Devices looms as the Shadowhunters race to work out a way to counteract the mechanical monsters. Meanwhile, plans for Tessa's marriage to Jem are underway, despite her fiancé's failing health and the unresolved feelings between her and Will. When Tessa is captured, Will must leave his comrade behind to save the woman they both love... But with the final missing piece-Tessa herself-in Mortmain's possession, can anything...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 16
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his invincible butler Sebastian may have succeeded in sneaking their way into the elite Weston College, but their investigation quickly hits a wall. To earn an audience with the headmaster, Ciel's only option is to attend the "Midnight Tea Party," an exclusive gathering hosted by the elusive head of the school. And the only way a lowly first-former like Ciel, earl or no, can land a seat at that table is by being elected...
10) Bodies
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"VERTIGO brings you a graphic novel with four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies - all set in London. Edmond Hillinghead is an 1890s overachiever who's trying to solve a murder no one cares about while hiding his own secret. Karl Whiteman is our dashing 1940s adventurer with a shocking past. Shahara Hasan is 2014's kickass female Detective Sergeant, who walks the line between religion and power. And Maplewood, an amnesiac from post-apocalyptic...
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"--
12) Black butler: 14
Author
Series
Black butler volume 14
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Earl Ciel Phantomhive looks on in horror as Sebastian, his infallible manservant, is struck down by the death scythe of an unforeseen combatant. Devil though he may be, even Sebastian is not immune to the blade of a reaper's scythe. As Sebastian's cinematic record spills forth, the tale of how a devil became a butler to a little lost lord flickers to life in shades of sepia, blood, and ash...."
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Francis "Chas" Chandler, a cab driver who has "The Knowledge" of the streets of London memorized, takes on a task above and beyond his work as a chauffeur for John Constantine when a dangerous entity from the city's history reemerges.
16) Black butler: 8
Author
Series
Black butler volume 8
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
17) Fagin the Jew
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A reinvention of the Dickens character, beginning with Fagin's hapless childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, counters the anti-Semitism of Victorian-era literature with a portrait of a man unfairly victimized by prejudice and poverty.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
Author
Series
Rivers of London graphic novels volume 9
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's the case of a Swedish Werewolf in London, the unmissable next chapter in the life of full-time cop and part time wizard Peter Grant. Grant works as part of a very special London police unit investigating unusual crimes involving magic and the general weirdness that permeates London's dark underbelly."--
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