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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398807792Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergere of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul ...

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...

From a child s-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals...

A New York Times Best SellerEnough with the dead white men! Forget what you learned in school! Ever since Columbus,who was probably a converted Jew, discovered" the New World, the powerful and privileged have usurped American history. The true story of...

"Compelling, inspiring, and radiant." -- FOREWORD"Excels in showing the camaraderie of the 'Ghost Girls.'" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Another example of how great graphic novels are at teaching history." -- BOOK RIOTIt's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and...

Fear of contagion, isolated patients, a surge of overwhelming and unpreventable deaths, and the frontline healthcare workers who shouldered the responsibility of seeing us through a deadly epidemic: as we continue to confront the global pandemic caused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683963165Author Vivian ChongFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

A moving autobiographical portrayal of psychosis and mental illness as shown through the experiences and writings of writer-poet Jacques Mathis.Jacques Mathis tells his own story-of a megalomaniacal man stuck in a body too small for his ideas. His...

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...

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,...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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