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Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
A Tale of Two Arthurs is an impressionistic chronicle of two very different men: Jack Arthur Johnson, the black American boxer, and Arthur Cravan, the white French poet and provocateur. These two men fought an improbable boxing match in Barcelona in 1916 which acts as the pivot point of this double-portrait which is also a kind of mirror: for despite their differences they were both fiercely independent individuals who in their own ways defied the...
4) Beneficio
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Not so long ago, humankind did not move as widely as it does today. Few left their native village, and people were left to wonder what lay beyond the next hill or valley. But life was full of storytellers, folklore, performers, nature. These days anyone can buy a ticket to the other side of the world, but what is the purpose? What are we seeking? This poetic work seeks evasive answers to the questions we have all asked ourselves about the mysteries...
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
In her 30 years on earth, Amelia Johnson has touched many lives with her compassion, intelligence, and spirit. Now, at the end of a year-long battle with cancer, she asks her two closest friends to take her final messages to the people who have touched her life the most. Henry Barrons is a cocky, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker whose demeanor hides deep insecurities. Jillian Webb is an acclaimed magazine writer with an inability to make long-term...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Gabriel dreams of buying back Malaterre, an estate built by his ancestors in the heart of the jungle over a century ago. Of going there, living there, and restoring the Lesaffre family honor. Of passing it on to his children. But he knows nothing about the country or managing a timber forest. He will have to risk it all, taking his two eldest with him and separating them from their mother and younger brother. All of this, of course, is completely...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Gabriel dreams of buying back Malaterre, an estate built by his ancestors in the heart of the jungle over a century ago. Of going there, living there, and restoring the Lesaffre family honor. Of passing it on to his children. But he knows nothing about the country or managing a timber forest. He will have to risk it all, taking his two eldest with him and separating them from their mother and younger brother. All of this, of course, is completely...
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The third and final volume of the Eisner Award-nominated adventure from critically acclaimed illustrator and animator Arthur De Pins. When three crabs fight back against evolution and learn to walk forward, not just side-to-side, it's all-out crab war! Those who can change direction face-off against those who cannot, but it may be meaningless against the ultimate enemy: humans.
9) Lydie
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
On a forgotten cul-de-sac in a nameless city, a child is born. It doesnt take long for the charming little girl to work her way into the hearts of all the residents on this cozy little street. Does it really matter that shes invisible? The childs mother delivered a stillborn, fatherless baby. Two months later, she becomes convinced that her child has returned from heaven. The neighbors dont have the heart to tell her otherwise, and so they play along....
10) Monsters
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesnt realize he is about to fulfill histragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to joinup. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past andlooking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for asecret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation ofa genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 yearsearlier in the waning days...
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Presented for the first time in full color, award-winning writer Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years) and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka's (The Realist) powerful graphic novel, Pizzeria Kamikaze, is a most unexpected story of love, loss, and escape. Mordy wanted to get away. Now condemned to an afterlife exclusively for all victims of suicide, he still has to attend a crappy job in a place no less crappy than the place he came from. When...
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Originally published in French, continue with this second of three volumes of the Eisner Award-nominated adventure from critically acclaimed illustrator and animator Arthur de Pins. It's crabs versus the world after all species evolve...except one: the square crab. It simply cannot change direction, condemned to walk in one straight line forever. But during one seemingly ordinary summer, three square crabs take matters into their own claws and rebel...
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Hansel and Gretel's stepmother is a real meanie. She makes them do chores and never lets them eat dessert. And then she ditches the kids and Clementine in the woods! The trio tries to find their way back, but they stumble upon a mysterious house made of sweets. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Peanuts Every Sunday: 1986-1990 has been scrupulously re-colored to optimize the original newspaper coloring, but with far better printing and paper than ever used on any newspaper allowing readers to immerse themselves in Charles Schulz's timeless masterpiece once again.
15) Crisis Zone
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate far beyond any reasonable expectations, Crisis Zone escalated right alongside, in real time, with daily posts on Instagram. Crisis Zone's battle mission was to amuse the masses: no matter how horrible and bleak everything seemed, at least Werewolf Jones wasnt in your house! Over the course of 2020, Crisis Zone has amassed unprecedented amounts of new fans to the Megg and Mogg universe and is presented...
16) Body and Soul
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The lives of a handful of Parisian characters trying to connect with themselves, their bodies, and each other intertwine in this insightful snapshot of modern society: mothers and daughters, sons and parents, lovers, friends, and neighbors interact and experience each other in ways both simple and profound.
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Displaced in time, lost in an unfamiliar wilderness, and beset by enemies on all sides, Sheena must search for a way home before her own jungle is destroyed. There's only one man who might have the key to her salvation, but Tarzan has problems of his own as he battles for his name and his family in London's underbelly, a place more vicious than Sheena can imagine!
18) King Lear
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The works of William Shakespeare come alive in these stunning graphic novels adaptation using the original Shakespearean dialog. The world-class art, betrayal, madness, and tragedy of King Lear will capture the attention of reluctant readers. Supplement your traditional Shakespearean sources with the graphic novel adaptation that will help readers imagine the action like never before. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO...