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981) Augel's young Mozart
Author
Publisher
BIG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces.Based on real events in Mozart's childhood. A charming tale,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older half-brothers have troubles, too. Following the author's young...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
146 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this third volume, (1985-1987), Riad's mother, fed up with the grinding reality of daily life in the village, decides she cannot take it any longer. When she resolves to move back to France, young Riad sees his father torn between his wife's aspirations and the weight of family traditions.
984) King of King Court
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
approximately 460 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a child's-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro perceptively details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family while maintaining a child's innocence for as long as he can....
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
147 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Akiko has graduated from art school--let the job hunt begin! But finding work is easier said than done. Will she have to return home to Miyazaki empty-handed?"--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This haunting memoir describes visionary architect Woodie Garber's descent into madness and follows Elizabeth's inspiring journey to emerge from her abuse, gain understanding and freedom from her father's control, and go on to become a loving mother and a healer who helps others"--Provided by publisher.
987) Lit: a memoir
Publisher
Harperluxe
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
561 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awkening led her to sobriety.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
236 pages : chiefly illustrations (black & white) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserved to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir a book almost 50 years in the making tells the story of that experience, and then delves with even greater detail into...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Board book ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Beatrix Potter, best known for her Peter Rabbit children's books, describing how she showed her love of animals through her stories and illustrations.
990) The high desert
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining--new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty,...
991) Hummingbird heart
Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the death by suicide of his drug-addicted father, Travis moves in with his grandmother to become her caretaker as she battles cancer. Meanwhile, he tries to live a typical teen life of pulling pranks, occasional shoplifting, dating, and endless drives through the twisting backroads of Central Massachusetts with Nirvana's Nevermind as the soundtrack. When the police intervene after a prank backfires, the boys realize that their time...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
124 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic adaptation of Geoffrey Canada's memoir of a Bronx, N.Y. childhood, along with an analysis of how a chain of events set in motion by 1960s drug laws has led to the child violence on the streets today.
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