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Series
Publisher
9th Cinebook
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this book you will find volumes 3 to 5: The Land Without Stars, Welcome to Alflolol and Birds of the Master - three stories that introduce the societal criticism aspect of the series. Battle of the sexes, totalitarianism and extreme productivism are lambasted, but never at the expense of fantasy or of the action. And as they travel from world to distant world, Laureline becomes a truly equal partner, far from the stereotypical female sidekick...
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.
6) 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.
10) Asterix and son
Author
Series
Asterix adventures volume 27
Publisher
Distributed in the United States of America by Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Asterix and Obelix do their best to care for the infant left outside of Asterix's hut while finding his true parents, who seem to belong to a powerful family.
Author
Series
Chevalier d'Eon volume 7
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
13) Exquisite corpse
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Zoe isn't the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment...and into his life. It's also why she doesn't know that Rocher is supposed to be dead. Rocher faked his death years ago to escape his critics, and has been making a killing releasing his new work as "lost manuscripts," in cahoots with his editor/ex-wife Agathe. Zoe doesn't know Balzac from Batman, but she's going...
Series
Whiskers Sisters volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe, a division of Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A letter from Mrs. Owl, the Whiskers Sisters' mail carrier, prompts Mia and Maya to plan a celebration. But their little sister, May, has been swept up in Mrs. Owl's mailbag! Soon May is in the woods having a wild afternoon. But will she make it home in time for the party?"-- Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For thirty years, Herakles Nikopol has floated alone in space, sentenced to cryopreservation. When he finally returns to Earth, the year is 2023, and the world has been ravaged by two nuclear wars! But the strangest change in the world floats above Paris a giant pyramid, home to the recently returned Egyptian Gods, who would like to reclaim humanity as theirs, if only they could all agree.
Author
Series
Asterix adventures volume 16
Publisher
Distributed in the United States of America by Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus, who is about to expose the Roman governor, has been poisoned. It is up to Asterix and Obelix to find a certain flower for the potion so Getafix can brew an antidote.
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...
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