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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This new illustrated version of Camus's final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus's own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father's death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the young protagonist's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. In telling the story of his metaphorical search for his father,...
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. Red Harvest is based on the tragic events that took place in Soviet Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1933. Stalin and the ruling Communist Party began their program of forced large-scale collectivization of individual farms...
Author
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bloodshot is finally free of the memories that have haunted him since his awakening - but now even greater mysteries remain. Who was he before he was transformed into a walking weapon of mass destruction? And just what purpose did he serve for Project Rising Spirit? Now, a rogue PRS scientist has told Bloodshot the location of the answers he needs - and they're buried deep within an off-the-grid, savagely fortified black site that will rain hellfire...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The classic tale reawakens and expands through the first-person perspective of Snow herself in this comic retelling! The tale of Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is told through the perspective of the princess herself! More than a damsel in distress, she possesses a heart and soul that yearns for knowledge, love, and acceptance. Made to work in her own castle by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, Snow's world changes the day she meets her prince...
Author
Language
English
Description
"National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent...
Author
Series
Suicide Squad volume 5
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Waller has lost her iron grip on the Suicide Squad, pushed aside in favor of a new commander. While she lays plans to take back Task Force X, a supernatural secret society is quietly moving in for the kill. But an even more powerful enemy awaits--and it's an enemy within. A traitor in the ranks is scheming to use the Squad as cannon fodder in a bloody power struggle. And the battle won't take place in the war-torn Middle East, the shadowy...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Decades ago, a being known as the Giant of Light joined together with Shin Hayata of the Science Special Search Party to save Earth from an invasion of terrifying monsters called Kaiju. Now, many years later, those dark days are fading into memory, and the world is at peace. But in the shadows a new threat is growing, a danger that can only be faced by a new kind of hero--a new kind of Ultraman... After all that has come to light, Shinjiro now struggles...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories!"--Amazon.
"This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For months, Batman has been haunted by the death of Tim Drake, the young hero who fought beside him as Red Robin. Tim helped Batman assemble a team of heroes and misfits to help him keep Gotham safe, then fell in battle defending the city. Or so it seemed. In reality, Tim has been held captive, snatched from the moment of death by the mysterious Mr. Oz. Now he must escape this prison outside of time, but he isn't coming back alone. Tim must rely...
270) Emperors of Rome
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A series of biographic portraits of Roman emperors, from Augustus Caesar to Constantine. Fagan discusses the emperors' characters, the reliability of historical sources, the role of women in the imperial court, the relationship of the emperor to different groups in Roman society, the Roman political and social systems, and an overview of the main scholarly debates.