Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
ElseWhere chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Four friends discover a movie projector that opens a passageway into a world threatened by creatures of shadow, where their only weapon is light.
Author
Series
Ariol volume 6
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Timberwolf is Ariol's best enemy, an ill-tempered cat always picking a fight, making fun of anything and everybody, even of Thunder Horse! And you know what's worse? Petula likes that obnoxious tomcat! School would be nice and calm, if it weren't for him.
4) Blacksad
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery and intrigue, digging up the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets during the 1950s Red Scare in the United States" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
ElseWhere chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rebecca, Max, Theo, and Noah continue their journey through the other world in search of a way home, pursued by the Shadow Spies and the mysterious Master of Shadows.
Author
Series
ElseWhere chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After discovering that Grandpa Gabe has sealed the passageways between worlds, Max, Rebecca, Theo, and Noah must confront the Master of Shadows himself to find another way home.
Author
Publisher
Archaia Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When you live forever, what will you live for? In the distant future, Elijah is a member of the 'Philosophical Police,' who must solve conflicts that arise out of ignorance of the Other. Two species are fighting a war with roots in a crime committed centuries ago, and Elijah must solve the crime and bring peace between their species, while also confronting his own immortality in a world where science provides access to eternal life. In a world where...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy...
Author
Series
Ariol volume 5
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All of Ariol's friends know that he has a big crush on Petula, but no one seems to notice that Bizbilla has her sights on Ariol, including Ariol! While she's waited in the . . . er, wings hoping Ariol will notice her, this sweet little fly has been cooking up a plan. Mister Cantharide, Bizbilla's dad, is an ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist is the eye doctor. Ariol wears glasses. And it seems he has an appointment coming up! Bizbilla is all abuzz...
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way to the most fabulous world tours and adulation. Beyond...
Author
Publisher
Ablaze Publising
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A classic of LGBTQ literature that has become a cult sensation! The heroes of this enchanting group have been enjoyed by millions of readers worldwide! Adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now in graphic novel form for the first time! San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir, part self-help book, So Much For Love offers hilarious and empathetic advice on how to survive a relationship with a master manipulator. Sophie had always been cynical about love--until she meets Marcus. His affection and doting praise melt away her defenses. The beginning of their relationship was a whirlwind romance, but over time she finds herself on uneven footing. Marcus lies. He's violently angry and bewilderingly inconsistent....
Author
Publisher
Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. These are their stories. Author and artist, Clement Baloup, delves intimately into the pasts of a few colorful, passionate, and strong Vietnamese women who crossed the Pacific Ocean to rebuild their lives in small Vietnamese communities across the United States. Faced with shocking, and at times, horrifying obstacles instigated by forces both internal...
Author
Publisher
nbm graphic novels
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When he's five years old, Albert Einstein's father offers him a compass that triggers in him an irrepressible need to understand the laws of the universe. At first a simple employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, the young Einstein published in 1905 a series of scientific articles that question everything that was thought to be known in the world of physics. His theory, summed up by the formula E = mc2, opens to humanity the doors of the power...
Author
Series
Vietnamese memories volume 1
Publisher
Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. These are their stories. With his award-winning work, Vietnamese Memories, Clement Baloup chronicles through vivid painted art and poetic storytelling the fate of handful of people who, like many of their peers, were condemned to leave a country successively occupied by the Japanese, the French and the Americans. Book 1: Leaving Saigon recounts the...
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Madame Livingstone is a historical fiction story of adventure and friendship against the backdrop of World War I. Based on the true story of two vastly different men -- one Belgian, one African -- who take on one impossible mission: sinking of a German battleship in the Congo. Aviator Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, arrives at Lake Tanganyika, Congo in 1915 on orders to sink a critical German warship, the Graf Von Götzen. To...
17) Bootblack
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request