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Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Juniper and Hadley have a good thing going in Larkspur, spending their respective days apprenticing at a little bakery and performing at the local inn. But when a stranger places an unusual order at the bakery, the two friends (and Hadley's pet snake, Fern) set out on a journey to forage the magical mushrooms needed to make the requested galette pastries. Along the way, Juniper and Hadley stumble across a mystery too compelling to ignore: Something...
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nejishiki represents the pinnacle of avant-garde manga. Originally published in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in 1968, the title story marks cult cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge's radical turn to dreams, surrealism, and existential horror. Tsuge's literary landscapes were once lush and inviting; now they are shadowy and haunted. His cheery travelers have lost their innocence; they have been replaced by alienated wanderers pursued by menancing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches, told the story of a childhood in disarray. Werewolf at Dusk, appearing nearly fifteen years later, turned its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. Eerily striking and mesmerizing, the three stories in this collection...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Trees are being cut down around the world. But why are rain forests being cleared, and what happens if they disappear? In this nonfiction graphic novel, Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists are on a mission to find out[.] Using their superpowers and super-smarts, the team will break down this complex environmental issue into [a] . . . fact-filled adventure so young readers can learn about the causes and effects of deforestation and discover...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team.
Author
Series
Monster Support Group volume 2
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Anatiti: the most stubborn pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. Being chosen by the gods has given her quite an ego... after all, she knows best, not her pesky advisors. But, when tragedy strikes and she is cursed, she realises maybe they had some good advice after all. Stuck inside a tomb for thousands of years, taken by an explorer and brought to the village of Dreadbury, will this mummy finally learn to listen and head off to the afterlife?"--
Author
Series
Earthdivers volume 2
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Martin and Tawny's children disappeared, the couple barreled into the desert to track them down at any cost. Instead, they ran afoul of another group of rovers who claimed to be saving the world by traveling through a cave portal to the year 1492 to prevent the creation of America—an idea that defied belief until the grieving parents were lured into the cave and vanished in time and space. Now alone, Tawny must adapt to the wild marshlands...
11) Scurry
Author
Publisher
Skybound Comet
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A group of house mice struggle to survive a long and strange winter. The humans are gone, the sun is rarely seen, and a cold, dark rain befouls everything it touches. The mice, long dependent on humans for food, stubbornly cling to their old ways, looting the nearby abandoned houses for any scraps they can find. Once, there was plenty to eat, but now the scavengers return empty-handed, or not at all. Food is scarce, but danger is everywhere. Poison...
Author
Series
Nico y los dinos volume 2
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
¡Vuelven Nico y Dino con una nueva aventura jurásica dino-divertidísima con la que no pararás de reírte! Desde que Nico se tropezó con el huevo de Dino, humano y dinosaurio se han vuelto inseparables. Juntos descubrieron una puerta secreta a un mundo jurásico, el valle de los Dinosaurios, un lugar fantástico lleno de dinos donde conocerán a Silva, una valiente chica que ha crecido entre ellos y con la que vivirán emocionantes aventuras....
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Earth's Arctic ice is disappearing! But why are ice caps, glaciers, and icebergs melting, and how does it impact the planet? In this nonfiction graphic novel, Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists are on a mission to find out! Using their superpowers and super-smarts, the team will break down this complex environmental issue into [a] . . . fact-filled adventure so young readers can learn about the causes and effects of climate change and...
14) Hound
Author
Publisher
Mad Cave Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
During World War I, a young soldier is assigned to one of the most deadly areas along the Western Front. However, he finds the greatest threat to his life lies not with the enemy, but with a cult formed by his own men.
15) Call me Iggy
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with the likes of Iggy. She has school, work, family, and the uphill battle of getting her legal papers. As Iggy stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Al terminar sus tareas, el bullicioso grupo presenta unos mini-cómics aún más increíbles: un emocionante viaje en "El Sr. Trasero de Araña", una farsa llena de acción en "Godzirrana", unos reflexivos haikus en "El lago otoñal", un misterio cubierto de dulce en "Policía Malvo" y mucho, mucho más. Las ranitas descubren que, al trabajar juntas, las pequeñas cosas pueden tener un gran impacto. En esta innovadora serie de novelas gráficas, el...
17) The swamp
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
April 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge's fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying...
Author
Series
Pizza and Taco volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Language
Español
Description
Pizza y Taco son mejores amigos. Ambos aman los toboganes gigantes. Ambos tienen cantidad de ingredientes Pero solo uno de ellos puded ser el mejor.
"Best friends Pizza and Taco agree on nearly everything until Pizza declares himself the best of all, leading to debating, voting, competing, and finally defining what being the best really means." --
Author
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Bienvenidos al divertido mundo de Gustavo y Rita. ¿Preparados para vivir las aventuras más delirantes? Gustavo es un cerdo un poco tonto, optimista y muy entusiasta. Su mejor amiga es Rita, una perra pragmática, sensata y escéptica. Ya sea aventurándose en las cañerías para encontrar la pieza perdida de un puzle o explorando juntos una isla desierta, Gustavo y Rita siempre están viviendo una excepcional aventura. Un dúo inesperado con el...
20) Venom: dark web
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At the mercy of Bedlam! With Dylan Brock's life hanging in the balance, where is his father, Eddie, the original Venom? Or more accurately: when?! After the Venom symbiote's Hail Mary decision, Dylan is about to see sides of symbiosis that he never imagined! And forced to watch his son suffer from across the timestream, Eddie finds himself surrounded by enemies--alone and with no one to trust, until an unexpected ally intervenes. Suddenly, Eddie...
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