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The classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colorful graphic novel, inspired by traditional art of the region. 1 VOLUME RELEASED - INDEPENDENT STORIES. It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale and interpreted hundreds of times in a dozen languages, its influence is felt in story, song, popular culture, even language. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qais and Layla were...
2) Fast Enough
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Have you ever been told that you're not enough? That you're not strong enough, tall enough, fast enough? Bessie was told she was not enough. Bessie dreams of riding her bike with the boys after school, but they tell her she is not fast enough. When she finally gets a chance to race, she proves not only that she is fast enough, but she is faster.Fast Enough combines an imagined story of Bessie Stringfield as a young girl with historical facts about...
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Morrigan Moore has always been moody, but her new home is the worst. Her novelist mother has dragged her to the countryside, drawn by the lost myth of the King of Crows, a dark figure of theft and deceit, and the Scarecrow Prince, the only one who can stand against him. When Morrigan finds herself swept up in the legend, she'll have no choice but to take on the Scarecrow Prince's mantle, and to stand and fight. For her town, her family, and her own...
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Gone with the Wind was a huge best seller when released in 1936 selling over a million copies in the first six months. The romantic novel would be then turned into the biggest box office hit three years later. Margaret Mitchell was not only the author of this franchise, but her story is one of determination, success and loss. Working as a journalist at the Atlanta Journal to writing Gone With the Wind, Mitchell is a female force!
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Lose yourself in in the dark forests of Amelie Flechais' spectacular artwork. A young wolf, on a journey to bring his grandmother a rabbit, is charmed by the nice little girl who offers to help him . . . but nice is not the same as good. A haunting fairy tale for children and adults alike.
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An intriguingly interwoven tale of four lives changed by a mysterious late-night radio broadcast that wakes them up from their mundane existences. Each tale speaks to different social issues without pandering to a political agenda: LGBT+ rights, racism, social network addiction, and the difficult decision between settling down versus following your dreams. Each tale is told in a vivid, polychromatic illustration style that flows from one character...
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After a recent family tragedy, a boy sets out to purchase a Christmas tree with the help of his big brother's ex-girlfriend, Katie. Trying to ease his father's mourning and hold what's left of his family together, Katie and the boy search for a Christmas tree in their small town. Together, they try to reclaim a bit of Christmas and help each other deal with the aftermath of death. The Quarry is a coming-of-age story about young love and loss, set...
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Pie Comics began as a college comic strip way back in the mid '00s, when flip phones roamed the earth. But after a shoulder injury forced cartoonist John McNamee to simplify his drawing style and improvise comics, Pie Comics evolved into the beloved strip it is today! This third collection from The Onion and the New Yorker contributor features his most absurdly relatable comics on our futile attempts to look "normal," and why that's hilarious.
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Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • An Oprah Daily Best Book of 2023 • One of the Globe and Mail's Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • A 49th Shelf Fall Book To Put On Your List • One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023
During the hottest summer on record,
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A collection of the comics work of award-winning architectural illustrator Owen D. Pomery. Collecting Pomery's acclaimed self-published series Between the Billboards for the first time, readers will be able to experience the story of existential protagonist James Ebner in a newly formatted and edited edition, as Pomery always envisaged. And in The Authoring of Architecture, Pomery presents his comics work against the context of his practice as an...
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Sean Wu had no idea of the secrets kept by his estranged father--until his death kicked open the gates to a mysterious world of international tomb robbers and ageless myths! Now the sole heir to this critical legacy, he must survive the darkest terrors haunting the most sought after treasures buried within a globe-spanning labyrinth of ancient catacombs in order to solve his father's murder and perhaps even save the world . . . Based on the bestselling...
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Long ago the whole of Southern England was covered in forest. Over time, this woodland has been gradually cut back, but small patches remain amidst the suburban sprawl of South-East London. A few ancient oaks still stand in gaps between housing estates, alongside railway lines and acting as boundary markers on roundabouts. The history and magic that once filled the ancient forest can still be felt even when the trees are long gone. Memories of the...
14) Big Ugly
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Mel isn't going anywhere - except to work every day. But when she offers the spare room in her apartment to her struggling brother, everything she loves and hates about wanting to live up to the expectations of her family becomes part of her every day again. It turns out that even as adults, living with your sibling brings back the dynamics of tween rivalries. As Mel tries to rebalance things with her brother, she navigates how to offer help to someone...
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Puerto Rico Strongis a comics anthology that explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the diversity that exists within that concept, from today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators. All profits will go to towards disaster relief and recovery programs to support Puerto Rico. Despite being a US territory, Puerto Rico is often thought of as a foreign land, if it's even a thought in the mind of the average American at all. Its people...
16) Walking Distance
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A hybrid prose and comics-format essay on the experience of being a woman out walking. Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself. She walks the streets of her London, creating it and herself gaining agency by being in control of her own direction, speed and momentum....
17) Quiet Thoughts
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Karen Shangguan's warm and lyrical narratives capture fleeting moments and sensations while her shifting perspectives take in all of existence from the emptiness of space to the intimacy of human interactions. This book takes readers through a contemplative journey that explores how it feels to be alive with lovely, personal pencil-and-ink artwork. Quiet Thoughts provides time to enjoy and think about quiet things such as thoughts, feelings, sensations,...
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Memories from childhood. Relationships with those we love. The environment that we experience. The time and place within which we exist. These aspects of our lives are questioned and interrogated - memories and places change, whilst we are shaped by our connections with those close to us, as well as the landscapes we inhabit. With vibrant artwork, Tim Bird tells the story of the town all around us.
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Based on the short story by Hugo Awardwinning author Cixin Liu! One mysterious day, over twenty thousand otherworldly spaceships settle into stable orbit around Earth. Six months later, in a certain Asian village, a young girl named Zhihan discovers an old man who fell from the skybut the strangeness doesnt end there. Soon, many more elderly drifters in peculiar outfits begin descending all over the world, claiming they created human civilization....
20) Canciones
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Federico GarcÍa Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics. This collection will appeal to lovers of visual art, graphic novels, and poetry, and aims to bring the colorful and atmospheric landscape of Lorca's work to a new audience.