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In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Sylvie began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of...

Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fies's firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest,...

You feel like you're...how can I put it...falling?'This inspirational gift book helps readers overcome troubling times in their lives. Through vivid illustrations and positive affirmations, the book shows how you can face your past and embrace your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Eisner Awards 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781101871799Author Anne FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA...

Since its landmark publication in 1980, "A People's History Of The United States" has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the U.S.A., and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953165053Author Ethan SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint UpshotPublisher Artists Writers & Artisans

From Nate Powell, the National Book Award-winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protest In this anthology of seven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997314Author Drew FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1217g

Blind Willie Johnson. Willie Dixon. Ma Rainey. We know their music, and of course we recognise their names, but to their fans the faces of these blues legends are equally as intrinsic. In the same format as our bestselling R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues,...

An arrestingly drawn debut graphic novel, Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. It explores the childhood of the author's father from a determinedly boy's-eye view. Ahmed was raised in the refugee camp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198393Author Keiji NakazawaFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

In 2008, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota launched the auto-bio webcomic Johnny Wander. Eight years, four cats, and three moves are chronicled in this gorgeous hardcover omnibus, which includes a foreword by Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Ghosts). Hirsh and Ota's...

What is sex? Has it always existed? What purpose does it serve? Why are there penises and vaginas? These questions are at the very core of Dirty Biology, an erudite (and hilarious) graphic novel that aims to teach you everything you wanted to know about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861662463Author Marcel RuijtersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 773g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621067399Author Anne Elizabeth MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581441Author David F. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198379Author Keiji NakazawaFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683963813Author Spain RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its realms of torture around the world across literature, religions, culture, and folklore, gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by writing on the origins and details of each hell. Whether it's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780262260Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

THE AWARD WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FATHER, AND THE CHALLENGES HE FACES RAISING HIS AUTISTIC SON. A beautiful visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967736Author Maria BamfordFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Told for the first time in graphic novel form, the story of Francis Bacon's life is as complex, colorful, and highly charged as his paintings. Drawn in shades of mauve, red, yellow, and blue that distinguished his palette, these illustrations weave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603095273Author Emilia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122519Author Claire FauvelFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Loosely based on the story of Eisner's wife's family, this epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege explores wealth, marriage, and jealousy in a sprawling American dynasty.About the AuthorBorn in New York City, Will Eisner (1917-2005)...

A Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love. The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines...

In 13th-century Japan, disease, famine, violence, and natural disasters plague society. Samurai lords, blinded by power, shirk any responsibility to protect the citizenry. Religious leaders care more about currying favor with the powerful than helping...

One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator...

Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns with another chapter in his growing library of reflective memoir, producing his most compelling and strongest tale to date. Chronicling a year of heartbreaks, writer's block, career highs, emotional lows, and the...

By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988903705Author William SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Renegade Arts Canmore LtdPublisher Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509032Author Ben PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 11Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

With 'alternative facts' and newspeak the order of the political day, a growing audience for George Orwell's work has emerged. Orwell is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century literary figures, and his dystopian novel, 1984, continues to be widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603093835Author John LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf ProductionsWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 305mm...

Helen, along with sixty-seven million other people, is in lockdown. Unfortunately, Helen's neighbour, Mrs Delgado, is not. Mike Bartlett's funny and poignant play for one actor tells a story of desire, control, raised blinds and lowered boundaries. ...

When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, 'Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam', everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures - a war lost on the home front although never truly lost on the battlefront. During the...

Gila, 26, was at a party when the police showed up. The men were able to get away with bribes, but the women were taken to the station, and anyone who'd been drinking was forced to submit to a virginity test. She never went to another party after that...

Follow novelist Cecil Castellucci in this insightful memoir of making art, the nature of memory, and being a teenager in 80s New York City. One thing young Cecil was sure of from the minute she saw Star Wars was that she was going to be some kind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547615592Author Nicole J GeorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 862g