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At the Gamble Ranch, all of the animals have a special talent. All of them except for Centurion and Emperador, two baby horses delivered by a couple of confused storks lost in a storm. When the ranch owners decide they'll grow up to be race horses, Centurion and Emperador do their best to be the best. Unfortunately, what they prove to be best at is anything but racing . . . An adorable story about finding and embracing your passion, written by Rob...
2) Water Memory
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A new life begins for Marion when her mother inherits an old family house and decides to make it their new home. With its own private beach and a view of the sea, the house has all the makings of a happy new life. But when Marion discovers strange rock carvings nearby, and learns that a sinister-looking lighthouse watchman may be part of a local legend come to life, it becomes clear that things are not as idyllic as they seemed.
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After a recent family tragedy, a boy sets out to purchase a Christmas tree with the help of his big brother's ex-girlfriend, Katie. Trying to ease his father's mourning and hold what's left of his family together, Katie and the boy search for a Christmas tree in their small town. Together, they try to reclaim a bit of Christmas and help each other deal with the aftermath of death. The Quarry is a coming-of-age story about young love and loss, set...
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Enjoy this beautifully illustrated and packaged collection of Mutts comic strips by Patrick McDonnell, delivering a year's worth of special and sweet moments with Earl, Mooch, and the rest of their four-legged friends.
This treasury features an entire year's worth of Mutts comics, including sketch art and illustrations by author Patrick McDonnell. Printed on recycled paper.
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Pie Comics began as a college comic strip way back in the mid '00s, when flip phones roamed the earth. But after a shoulder injury forced cartoonist John McNamee to simplify his drawing style and improvise comics, Pie Comics evolved into the beloved strip it is today! This third collection from The Onion and the New Yorker contributor features his most absurdly relatable comics on our futile attempts to look "normal," and why that's hilarious.
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Cuando Carlos tena 19 aos, su mam decidi dejar su vida en El Salvador y buscar un nuevo comienzo en Estados Unidos. Para el viaje al norte, contrat los servicios de un coyote. Carlos se resista a ir, pero no quiso dejar que su mam partiera sin l y decidi unirse. En su recorrido a travs de Mxico, vivieron los riesgos y miedos que incontables personas de pases centroamericanos enfrentan al emigrar a otras tierras. Diez aos despus, Carlos comparte estos...
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During Adolf Hitlers rule over Germany, there were over 40,000 Nazi concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti, and Roma, as well as other examples of impure races. Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Hitlers rise to power, the rise of antisemitism, and more. Yet they survived. Bluma and Felixs miraculous story of survival, combined...
8) Generations
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After three years in Milan, Matteo returns home to the provincial country town where he was born and from which he had fled. Coming out as a young gay man in a provincial country town had led to ugly clashes with his conservative father, and the urban metropolis of Milan had been a welcome change from the stifling small town life of his childhood and the anger and bewilderment of some members of his family. But now, Matteo finds himself with little...
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Pie Comics began as a college comic strip way back is the mid '00s, when flip phones roamed the earth. But it wasn't until a shoulder injury forced John to simplify his drawing style and improvise the comics instead of actually sitting down and writing them that Pie Comics became the beloved strip it is today! This collection showcases some of the funniest and most trenchant of Onion writer John McNamee's online comic strips, found at piecomic.tumblr.com....
10) Victory Point
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A graphic novel about the tension of coming home for a visit while not yet having fulfilled dreams for a life elsewhere. On a summer's day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in: Victory Point. Revisiting old haunts and people from her past, she feels increasingly disconnected from her previous life, and exhausted by her constant struggle to forge a path ahead. Exploring the town, Ellen searches for some comfort in her own history that...
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A collection of the comics work of award-winning architectural illustrator Owen D. Pomery. Collecting Pomery's acclaimed self-published series Between the Billboards for the first time, readers will be able to experience the story of existential protagonist James Ebner in a newly formatted and edited edition, as Pomery always envisaged. And in The Authoring of Architecture, Pomery presents his comics work against the context of his practice as an...
13) Utown
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UTown is the story of a seedy neighborhood that a cast of misfits call home. Samuel is a 24-year-old self-described aspiring artist (but mostly a video store clerk) whos doing his best to avoid adulthood. When gentrification shows up at his doorstep, he must face the fact that the town he grew up in is no longer his safe havenand that hes not ready to leave just yet. With no money and little options, its time for him to either step up and prove his...
14) Mae Vol #1
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Mae's beloved older sister, Abbie, has been missing for years. Mae has her theories about where Abbie might be. But nowhere in her wildest imagination do those theories encompass a fantasy world full of terrifying monsters, power-hungry nobles, and nefarious scientists. That is, until Abbie suddenly reappears in Mae's world. And not alone.
15) Mae #10
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After a long time apart, Mae is finally reunited with her best friend Dahlia in Indiana. But the visit takes a sudden turn when the pair begin to uncover hidden family secrets, and Colt, Mae's boyfriend back home, makes a difficult proposition. With a dangerous storm ahead of them in the other world, Mae will need all the help she can get.
16) Mae #12
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With Mae finally reunited with Abbie in the Other World, the epic battle betweenalliances is on. Whenthey try to take down theLord Protector, they face an obstacle far greater than a fleet of sky ships or massive weapons. As the sisters uncover unimaginable secrets, will Mae and Abbie fight for family or fight to protect the innocent people inCimrtern?
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Long ago the whole of Southern England was covered in forest. Over time, this woodland has been gradually cut back, but small patches remain amidst the suburban sprawl of South-East London. A few ancient oaks still stand in gaps between housing estates, alongside railway lines and acting as boundary markers on roundabouts. The history and magic that once filled the ancient forest can still be felt even when the trees are long gone. Memories of the...
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Internal Wilderness is part of an ongoing project looking at landscape and memory - our relationship with the environment, effects we have on the world and space around us, and in turn its profound effect on our own memory and emotions. On each page, illustrator Claire Scully presents an entire world that stems from a childhood memory or a future desire. Beautifully produced, this mesmerising book will take you deep into the landscapes Scully creates....
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Examining racism and interracial relationships, this graphic novel is about a couples first meeting with the in-laws. Farai and Adam have been dating for two years, but she's never met his parents. Until this weekend. Adam's parents have a lovely house in a beautiful small town. But after they arrive, Adam's mom immediately begins making racist comments about everything from Farai's hair to her family's education. Farai asks for Adam's support and...
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Desolation Wilderness is part of an ongoing project looking at landscape and memory - our relationship with the environment, effects we have on the world and space around us and in turn its profound affect on our own memory and emotions. Each of these landscapes is a starting point to a much bigger adventure that strives to answer the question of what lays beyond the horizon. This book is the second part of a series that began in Internal Wilderness,...