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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lola is a girl like any other, except for one tiny detail: her father, Robert Darkhair, is James Blond, a top-secret agent so secretive that not even he knows what he does, or at least that is what Blond want us to believe. When the villains of Friendly Fall's kidnap Lola's parents, she becomes Super-Lola. Accompanied by her toy dinosaur Super-James (in undies) who can grow the size of an actual dinosaur (thus stretching the undies), their cat Hot...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In a land populated by demons, Nicola stands out: she's a human girl traveling with her demon friend Simon. The spirited Nicola often gets in over her head, but she's got her own magic powers to help her out when things get tough! This beautifully drawn manga has a unique art style reminiscent of a European children's book, and features an enchanting atmosphere like well-known tales The Moomins and Hilda.
5284) Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
In honor of Ingmar Bergman's one hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The author chronicles her fraught relationship with her father, Charles, a WWII veteran, and how the war affected their lives through both childhood and adulthood. Soldier's heart is also a tribute to servicemen and women, dramatizing the trauma of the war on the Greatest Generation and those who followed. Tyler's ink and watercolor narrative is in turns sprawling and gimlet-eyed: compassionate and enraged. Her father's memories are woven into her...
5286) Jane Austen's Emma
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Butler brings readers another Jane Austen classic. Joined with the beautiful illustrations, Butler brings to life Austen's most precocious heroine, Emma Woodhouse. Discover what has made this story so enduring, as it is retold in the Mighty Marvel manner.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A comic book adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear," in which the king foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter after she speaks out against him, and decides to split his kingdom between his other two daughters, who are secretly plotting against him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On a mission to save her mom, Clary prepares to leave for Idris, the homeland of the Shadowhunters. Sure, Jace is adamantly against the idea and Magnus refuses to help, but Clary now has powers of her own. What awaits her on the other side of the portal, though, might not be exactly what she's expecting...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Chair for my mother: A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
Something special for me: Rosa has difficulty choosing a special birthday present to buy with the coins her mother and grandmother have saved, until she hears a man playing beautiful music on an accordion.
Music, music for everyone: Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the world of shadows, battling vampires and fending off wolves at knifepoint, she can deal with that much. But when a trusted ally betrays the Shadowhunters and Jace is nowhere to be found, she might have to face a truth too unsettling to bear..."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
Maia and Simon are kidnapped, and Jace knows exactly who took them. It's time to face the terror known as Valentine to stop him from slaughtering the Downworlders and activating the Soul-Sword. All the Shadowhunters gather to join the fight, but when they find themselves hopelessly outnumbered by thousands of demons, the fate of the world might just lie in Clary's hands...! The showdown begins in this action-packed volume accentuated by beautiful...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Abridged].
Language
English
Description
Beyond reach: When the charred body of a woman is found, and Detective Lena Adams is charged with homicide, Grant County's medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.
Fractured: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
En ¿Eres mi madre? Bechdel nos describe la relación con su madre, una mujer muy especial: lectora voraz, amante de la música, apasionada actriz amateur y esposa infeliz a causa de la homosexualidad de su marido, una mujer cuyas aspiraciones artísticas crecieron coincidiendo con la infancia de Alison. Con un estilo conmovedor a la vez que agudo, Bechdel busca respuestas a su infancia en este maravilloso recorrido por su vida.
Depicts the author's...
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