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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to his User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, more lighthearted, entertaining tales of parental mishaps and practical jokes gone wrong. Whether he's helping remove a pesky, wobbly, but not quite loose tooth or trying to win at hide-and-seek, his antics will resonate with every parent who has wanted to give a sarcastic answer to a funny question from their kid. Delisle's second foray into the world of offering bad advice to parents, and a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her...
6043) Furnishing eternity
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose, a vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots and seeking a father's wisdom through an unusual woodworking project, constructing his own coffin.
6044) Jane Austen's Emma
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Butler brings readers another Jane Austen classic. Joined with the beautiful illustrations, Butler brings to life Austen's most precocious heroine, Emma Woodhouse. Discover what has made this story so enduring, as it is retold in the Mighty Marvel manner.
Author
Series
Fullmetal alchemist volume 9
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Full metal edition ; VIZ media edition; Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
"In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Monster, human, friend and foe--definitions blur when Ed is trapped in the belly of the beast with his enemies."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of the author and her family. In 1975, fearing her husband's growing fanaticism, Nina Bunjevac's mother fled her marriage and adopted country of Canada, taking Nina--then only a toddler--and her older sister back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Her...
6047) Saga: Volume 11
Author
Series
Saga volume 11
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. A multiple award winning, critically...
6048) Hamlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Full original text edition.
Language
English
Description
"The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn't simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance - no matter how many other people must die for it."--Page [4] of cover.
6049) Founding fathers funnies
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This books collect short vignettes featuring some of the country's best-known historical figures and some lesser-known ones.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A comic book adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear," in which the king foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter after she speaks out against him, and decides to split his kingdom between his other two daughters, who are secretly plotting against him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Amber Brown is feeling blue: Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.
I, Amber Brown: Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property.
Amber Brown is green with envy: Fourth-grader...
6052) All the answers
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery 13 hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father--the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia--seems to embrace it, really--means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever. Joel Kupperman became one of the most famous children in America during World War II as one of the young geniuses on the series Quiz...
Author
Series
On the case with Holmes and Watson volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Retold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes attempts to solve the murder of a Herefordshire landowner, whose estranged son has been accused of the crime. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
6056) Fullmetal alchemist: 08
Author
Series
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi volume 8
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Fullmetal edition.
Language
English
Description
"In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. The scarred man who stalks the Elric brothers' path reemerges, this time not as the bearer of vengeance, but as the one in karma's crosshairs"--Back cover.
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