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Abrams ComicArts
Language
English
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"Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo. Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers who performed there, have led the way in the presentation of swing, bebop, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk and hip-hop-along with the latest in dance and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
393 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A classic Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Julit is the talke of two star-crossed lovers who dear to defiy their feuding families, put aside all obstacles, and find happiness together--but a a tremendous cost. This grimly beautiful tale, set in Renaissance Italy, follows Romeo and Juliet from their fateful first meeting to their last"--Page 4 cover
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Series
Dune chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
162 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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"Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format. In the first...
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Español
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Alicia en el País de las Maravillas es una exploración surrealista de la lógica, la imaginación y las complejidades del crecimiento personal. A través de las aventuras de Alicia en un mundo caótico y lleno de personajes excéntricos, Lewis Carroll invita al lector a cuestionar las normas sociales y la lógica cotidiana. La obra desafía las nociones convencionales de la realidad y la identidad, permitiendo que Alicia se enfrente a sus propias...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Series
Schnozzer and Tatertoes volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Two dogs, Schnozzer and Tatertoes, set out into the forest to visit Tatertoes' mother, and on the way they will encounter a number of fairy tale characters and become involved in their adventures.
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Series
Wings of fire volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds,...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
296 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice."--Provided by publisher.
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English
Description
Sin Eternal is more than just a re-tooling of the immortal classic, Dante's Inferno. It plants itself firmly in the modern world and away from the political crimes that dominated Dante's work. Sin Eternal brings a very basic questioning of a man's faith as he witnesses some of the most horrendous punishments that could be exacted. The story covers the travels of a man who is sent to Hell to examine the various torments and punishments that the sinners...
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Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 8
Language
English
Description
Harley Warren is an expert on violent criminals and assists the FBI in their profiling and pursuit of criminals who tend to be on the bizarre side. Warren believes in exploring the darker side of man, especially those who seek to live in the shadows of normalcy. When Warren reads The Necronomicon, a book that can reveal the darkest and oldest mysteries of the stygian unknown, Warren wastes no time packing up his reluctant chronicler and assistant,...
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Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 5
Language
English
Description
Max Finn stays at a rundown rooming house and does not know his fellow boarders, but one sad, mute street musician named Erich Zann, gets his attention. Each night, the old man plays haunting melodies on his violins. Melodies that plague Finn's dreams and give him nightmares about an impossible cosmic land ruled by Nyarlathotep, the messenger of the elder gods.
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Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 3
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable murders in the Catskills. A Hooverville of squatters plummets into a gigantic sinkhole during a ferocious thunderstorm, where their bodies are torn apart and devoured as if by some pack of wild animals. Arthur Munroe, a journalist at the scene, follows a trail of legends to an abandoned Dutch colonial mansion at the top of one of the nearby mountains. And soon discovers and experiences the lurking fear.
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Series
Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 4
Language
English
Description
Do ghosts exist? Since childhood, Jervas Dudley has visited a secluded and locked tomb on his family's Rhode Island estate. Dudley believes he can commune with the ancestral ghosts who inhabit the tomb, many of whom mysteriously perished during a wicked party over 200 years ago when a fire consumed the Dudley's first estate. Is Dudley mad?
Author
Series
Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 7
Language
English
Description
The U.S.S. Augustus is a nuclear submarine. It's crew is unaccustomed to picking up castaways, especially on uncharted islands in the middle of the Atlantic. But that is where the Augustus finds Emma Loveless, sole survivor of a private jet crash. Discovered also is a strange statue of a monstrous sea god killing a whale. The Pentagon contacts Marcus Steed who informs the military the stature is not of a sea god but an elder god once worshipped by...
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Series
Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 6
Language
English
Description
The Jermyn's have lived in their gothic estate in Cambridge shire for centuries. Explorers and adventurers, they are a wild and violent bunch with a cursed, black history of sudden murder and blood. Until the birth of Arthur Jermyn. As brutal as his ancestors, Arthur also seems to possess a calmer, more intellectual side. These two halves seem to war for possession of Arthur's soul as he researches the Jermyn's' past, hoping to find a reason or origin...
Author
Series
Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 1
Language
English
Description
For over 600 years, the male descendants of the Chabrillane family have all inexplicably perished on their 32nd birthday. The legend of the curse began the night Henri Chabrillane, killed the alchemist Michel Mauvis. Michel's son, Charles, Le Sorcier cursed the Chabrillanes. Henri was 32 years old that night, and no male descendant has lived to see age 33. Now, the last Count de Chabrillane is about to turn 32.
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Series
Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft volume 9
Language
English
Description
Lorraine Claude is fascinated with the morbid and weird. It is an interest she has turned into a profitable career as a publisher of lurid non-fiction. And the most recent novel from one of her most popular authors, Pytr Knoll has her captivated. The book deals with lurid events committed in lonely New England farmhouses since the days of the Puritans. Claude cannot get Knoll's accounts out of her mind, and she decides to take a weekend drive into...
18) Look Hamlet
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Language
English
Description
A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund.
Look Hamlet.
Hamlet not happy.
Hamlet's mommy dumb.
Hamlet's daddy dead.
So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen...
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic novel edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First graphic novel edition.
Physical Desc
149 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to ancient Egypt. Inside a pyramid, Jack and Annie find a long-dead queen who needs their help solving a centuries-old riddle. If only they can find their way through the pyramid's maze!"-- Provided by publisher
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