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  • Tessa Hulls: Feeding Ghosts : A Graphic Memoir
    Af Tessa Hulls (2024)
    Summary: "Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read." —Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After eight years of government harassment, she fled to Hong Kong with her daughter. Upon arrival, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival, used the proceeds to put Rose in an elite boarding school—and promptly had a breakdown that left her committed to a mental institution. Rose eventually came to the United States on a scholarship and brought Sun Yi to live with her. Tessa watched her mother care for Sun Yi, both of them struggling under the weight of Sun Yi's unexamined trauma and mental illness. Vowing to escape her mother's smothering fear, Tessa left home and traveled to the farthest-flung corners of the globe (Antarctica). But at the age of thirty, it starts to feel less like freedom and more like running away, and she returns home to face the history that shaped her family. Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghost s is Hulls's homecoming, a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of Chinese history. By turns fascinating and heartbreaking, inventive and poignant, Feeding Ghosts exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, and the love that holds them together

  • Mike Madrid: Divas, Dames & Daredevils : Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics
    Af Mike Madrid (2013)
    Summary: A fully illustrated and thrilling look back at the lost supergirls of Golden Age comics | ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the Year BUST Magazine "Lit Pick" Recommendation Certified Cool™ in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's Catalog "Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These 'lost' heroines are now found—to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere." — STAN LEE Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds. Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid's insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary women—superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilots—who protected America and the world with wit and guile. In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we're passionate about today, is unmistakable. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR "Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

  • Wilson Taylor: The Dolridge Sacrament, Issue 3
    Af Wilson Taylor (2015)
    Summary: Seams have started showing on the fragile facade of The Dolridge House. The padre is having second thoughts, Peter is becoming violently desperate and Stephen begins to show his true colors. A dark veil of trepidation and fear has cast its shadow over the humble Bed & Breakfast and the pot is finally beginning to boil over in this penultimate chapter of The Dolridge Sacrament

  • Budjette Tan: Rules of the Race : Trese Series, Case 2
    Af Budjette Tan (2014)
    Summary: Life in the fast lane is definitely not for the timid. For the teenagers who drag race on Highway C-5, that's the place where they get to prove who's king of the lane. Unfortunately, one racer's winning streak has resulted to the death of several racers. When strange hoof prints are found at each car wreck, Alexandra Trese has no choice but to travel down that road and seek answers at the finish line

  • CD Projekt Red: The World of the Witcher
    Af CD Projekt Red (2015)
    Summary: Dive deep into the world of monster hunters, as the prominent characters from the universe take you on a guided tour of the fascinating dark fantasy adventure that is The Witcher . This gorgeous, illustrated hardbound volume contains in-depth knowledge about the locales, the deadly beasts that inhabit them, and the lethal weapons used to put them down

  • Quincy Saul: Maroon Comix : #1 Origins and Destinies
    Af Quincy Saul (2018)
    Summary: Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. They didn't just escape and steal from plantations - they also planted and harvested polycultures. They not only fought slavery but proved its opposite, and for generations they defended it with blood and brilliance. Maroon Comix is a fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together. Stories of escape and homecoming, exile and belonging. Stories that converge on the summits of the human spirit, where the most dreadful degradation is overcome by the most daring dignity. Stories of the damned who consecrate their own salvation. With selections and citations from the writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz, Herbert Aptheker, C.L.R. James, and many more, accompanied by comics and illustrations from Songe Riddle, Mac McGill, Seth Tobocman, and others, Maroon Comix is an invitation to never go back, to join hands and hearts across space and time with the maroons and the mountains that await their return

  • Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped from the Beginning : A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
    Af Ibram X. Kendi (2023)
    Summary: A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist . Racism has persisted throughout history—but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, preeminent historian Ibram X. Kendi reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shape it. In collaboration with award-winning historian and comic artist Joel Christian Gill, this stunningly illustrated graphic-novel adaptation of Dr. Kendi’s groundbreaking Stamped from the Beginning explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future

  • Marjane Satrapi: Embroideries
    Af Marjane Satrapi (2010)
    Summary: From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbours for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talk. Naturally, the subject turns to loves, sex and vagaries of men...

  • Daniel Abraham: George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards : The Hard Call
    Af Daniel Abraham (2015)
    Summary: In 1946, an alien virus is accidentally unleashed that changes the world forever. Most of those infected die horribly, said to have drawn the Black Queen as their fated card. Ninety percent of those who survive mutate into Jokers - deformed, broken, hated, and feared. But a handful are lucky enough to become Aces, gaining superpowers that allow them to achieve almost anything the mind can conceive - both in dreams and in nightmares. Sixty years later, an Ace named Croyd Crenson, better known as the Sleeper, is framed for the murder of a young nurse in New York City's Jokertown. As Crenson investigates the killing to clear his name, he has to fight to stay awake, or else his unusual ability will change him into something else entirely. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers in Whiteoak, Colorado, accidentally activate the dormant wild-card virus, wiping out nearly the entire town. As the teens are sent to the Jokertown clinic, they discover that not all Jokers are bad and not all Aces are good. Set in the world of the novels edited by George R. R. Martin and featuring a brand-new set of characters, as well as appearances from many old favorites, Wild Cards: The Hard Call is an original story written specifically for comics that will enchant new readers and old fans alike

  • Budjette Tan: At the Intersection of Balete and 13th Street : Trese Series, Case 1
    Af Budjette Tan (2014)
    Summary: When night falls, drivers try to avoid Balete Drive in fear of seeing the lady in white. For decades, she has haunted that street shaded by those ancient trees. So, when a lady dressed in white is found dead on that very street, it becomes more than just another car accident. It becomes a case of Alexandra Trese. Indeed, how does one kill a ghost? Join Trese as she unravels the secrets found around at the corner of Balete Drive and 13th Street

  • Budjette Tan: A Little Known Murder in Studio 4 : Trese Series, Case 5
    Af Budjette Tan (2014)
    Summary: After filming the final scene of her movie, the rising career of Heather Evangelista came crashing down on the floor of Studio 4. Her murder is somehow connected to the case of a missing duwende. Alexandra Trese steps behind the scenes of Manila's showbiz industry and discovers the price one pays to become a star

  • Robbie Morrison: Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor, Year One (2014), Issue 3 : The Swords of Kali, Part 1
    Af Robbie Morrison (2015)
    Summary: THE DOCTOR AND CLARA FACE AN IMMORTAL ENEMY! In the distant past, the land that would be India played host to a war between ancient aliens, whose cross-temporal battles contributed to the country's rich myths and legends. Kali, oldest and deadliest of these creatures, was thought defeated long, long ago; her body scattered throughout time to prevent her return. But her psychic essence could not be killed... nor her millennia-long quest for vengeance. Now, in the 23rd Century, she is on the brink of resurrection. And with India at the forefront of human spaceflight, it's not only Earth that falls to her predations if she succeeds – but the whole cosmos! In a race against time, and across it, the Doctor and Clara must gather secrets, intelligence and allies from across India's past, present and future – if they are to survive... THE SWORDS OF KALI! New three-part story begins this issue! Don't miss your chance to get on board the Twelfth Doctor series!