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  • Tongues, Volume 1

    by Anders Nilsen ...
    Series series Pantheon Graphic Library
    **From the three-time Igantz award-winning artist and author of Big Questions comes a fascinating graphic novel retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus"An extraordinary reinvention of some of our oldest stories. Nilsen brings these old gods to an electrifying new life, and gives us a new sense of humanity as well."—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel“Mind-bendingly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Demons in the Spring

    Stories

    by Joe Meno ...
    From the author of Between Everything and Nothing, "an inspired collection of twenty stories, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Demons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short stories by Joe Meno, author of the smash hits The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned, with illustrations by twenty artists from the fine art, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Questions

    by Anders Nilsen ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2011, included on Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, and NPR'S Best Comics listsA haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and more than six hundred pages of work ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Poetry Is Useless

    by Anders Nilsen ...
    In Poetry is Useless, Anders Nilsen redefines the sketchbook format, intermingling elegant, densely detailed renderings of mythical animals, short comics drawn in ink, meditations on religion, and abstract shapes and patterns. Page after page gives way under Nilsen’s deft hatching and perfectly placed pen strokes, revealing his intellectual curiosity and wry outlook on life’s many surprises. Stick ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Rage of Poseidon

    by Anders Nilsen ...
    Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don't don't need you anymore. What do you do? Perhaps, seeking answers, you go exploring. Maybe you end up in Wisconsin and discover the pleasures of the iced latte. And then, perhaps, everything goes wrong. Anders Nilsen, author of Big Questions and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Don't Go Where I Can't Follow

    by Anders Nilsen ...
    A STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS INSCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, LETTERS, AND BEDSIDE SKETCHES In this collection of letters, drawings, and photos, Anders Nilsen chronicles a six-year relationship and the illness that brought it to an end. Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is an eloquent appreciation of the time the author shared with his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver. The story is told using artifacts of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dogs & Water

    by Anders Nilsen ...
    Dogs and Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with instinct, the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Jerusalem

    by Guy Delisle ...
    Translated by Helge Dascher ...
    Acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle returns with his strongest work yet—a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in the Holy City. Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger in a strange land point of view that made his other books, Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma Chronicles, required reading for understanding ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ed the Happy Clown

    by Chester Brown ...
    In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the much-lauded Paying For It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, Ed set the stage for Chester Brown to become a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cage

    by Martin Vaughn-James ...
    ?First published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before the form had a name. Considered an early masterpiece of the medium, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. The new edition includes an introduction and appreciation by Canadian comics master and Lemony Snicket collaborator Seth (Palookaville; It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken). Cryptic and disturbing, like Dave ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

    by Stephen Leacock ...
    Canadian political scientist and economist Stephen Leacock had an interesting side career as an immensely popular humor writer. In this engaging volume, he collects a series of charming sketches and vignettes centered on the fictional village of Mariposa, which he describes as an amalgamation of dozens of small towns scattered throughout the Canadian countryside. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Life After Life

    A Novel

    by Kate Atkinson ...
    What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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