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The Fire and the Light
Adolescent cruelty is legendary and opens this first volume of the Souls of Aredyrah series. The world has split into two opposing halves the nations of Tearia and Kirador the light and the dark the blond and the dark-eyed. And each...
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Einstein, Money and Contentment
At its very opening, this book relates God the Father to the structure of natural law, God the Son to its essence, and God the Holy Spirit to its dynamic. Thus does author Palmquist offer his views of how to live, produce prosperity, and...
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Life Volume 1
Teens can face devastating problems, as readers learn in this graphic novel about “cutting,” or self-injury. Ayumu and top student Shii-chan are best friends in middle school. Shii-chan has always dreamed of getting into Nishidate...
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Mom's Cancer
Graphic novels span a broad range of subjects, from superheroes’ quests to conquer deadly enemies to the basic struggle for survival. In this entry, readers will find both. The author relates, in direct and eloquent drawings, the story...
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Graphic Classics
Older readers and lovers of vintage movies will remember the swashbuckling adventures of Captain Blood, brought to life on the big screen by Errol Flynn. The memorable, larger-than-life character of Blood leads off this tribute volume to...
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Breakfast at Noon
The dubious pleasures of living in the suburbs, where raccoons use window boxes at will as latrines and cars are apparently smarter than their drivers, are the focus of these essays by Yeager, diagnosed as dyslexic and a stay-at-home dad...
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The Devil in Design
Christmas is a time of peace and good will, happy children and kindly adults, presided over by a merry old gent in red with a staff of flying reindeer and toy-building elves. In America, that’s been the case for the last century and a...
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Please!
The overwhelming popularity of manga today among young people has had its effect on the graphic novel industry. An example of that is this Fanbook, a compilation of stories and interviews with artists and writers, assembled with stills...