Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers

Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers
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Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781943145553
ISBN-13 : 1943145555
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers by : Nadja Spiegelman

"In this updated adaptation of a classic Latin American folktale, Blancaflor, a young ogre with magical powers, decides to secretly help a charming prince who has made a foolish bet with her father. Through saving the prince and the kingdom, she learns to be honest with herself and others about the things that make her special"--]cProvided by publisher.

Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure

Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure
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Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781943145485
ISBN-13 : 1943145482
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure by : Nadja Spiegelman

Lost on a school fieldtrip, Pablo learns to navigate the New York subway and his feelings about his new home.

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : 9781935179023
ISBN-13 : 1935179020
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework by : Nadja Spiegelman

Zig and Wikki arrive on Earth to seach for a pet for Zig's class assignment.

I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This

I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9781101627754
ISBN-13 : 1101627751
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by : Nadja Spiegelman

A Vogue Best Book of the Year "What Ferrante did for female friends—exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold—Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She’s essentially written My Brilliant Mom." —Slate A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers—French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly—exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja’s body changed and “began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand,” their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mother’s past, a drama Nadja sensed but had never been told. Then, after college, her mother suddenly opened up to her. Françoise recounted her turbulent adolescence caught between a volatile mother and a playboy father, one of the first plastic surgeons in France. The weight of the difficult stories she told her daughter shifted the balance between them. It had taken an ocean to allow Françoise the distance to become her own person. At about the same age, Nadja made the journey in reverse, moving to Paris determined to get to know the woman her mother had fled. Her grandmother’s memories contradicted her mother’s at nearly every turn, but beneath them lay a difficult history of her own. Nadja emerged with a deeper understanding of how each generation reshapes the past in order to forge ahead, their narratives both weapon and defense, eternally in conflict. Every reader will recognize herself and her family in I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This, a gorgeous and heartbreaking memoir that helps us to see why sometimes those who love us best hurt us most.

Astra Magazine, Filth

Astra Magazine, Filth
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Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781662619052
ISBN-13 : 1662619057
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Astra Magazine, Filth by : Nadja Spiegelman

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. Each issue contains prose, poetry, art and comics, artfully produced on silky smooth paper with luxurious French flaps. It's the most covetable accessory of the fall — dark and playful, pretty and smart. The Filth issue features work by Elif Batuman, Sheila Heti, Raven Leilani, Aracelis Girmay, Samuel R. Delany, Brontez Purnell, Wayne Koestenbaum, Clarice Lispector, McKenzie Wark, Mariana Enríquez, Safiya Sinclair, Maggie Millner, and many more. There is a moral element to filth. It is both what we have been taught to hide, and the subversive pleasure in revealing it. Many of the writers in this issue are queer or trans or otherwise outsiders. When you are taught that an intrinsic part of you is shameful, you find power in that shame. All that filth, compressed by the pressure, sparkles like diamonds when it is let it into the light. Have you ever felt the relief of telling your own secrets? There’s a reason why people revel in their own filth. It’s a place for reveling

The Daughters of Ys

The Daughters of Ys
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Publisher : First Second
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781250790361
ISBN-13 : 1250790360
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Daughters of Ys by : M. T. Anderson

An Atlantis-like city from Celtic legend is the setting of The Daughters of Ys, a mythical graphic novel fantasy from National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson and artist Jo Rioux. Ys, city of wealth and wonder, has a history of dark secrets. Queen Malgven used magic to raise the great walls that keep Ys safe from the tumultuous sea. But after the queen's inexplicable death, her daughters drift apart. Rozenn, the heir to the throne, spends her time on the moors communing with wild animals, while Dahut, the youngest, enjoys the splendors of royal life and is eager to take part in palace intrigue. When Rozenn and Dahut's bond is irrevocably changed, the fate of Ys is sealed, exposing the monsters that lurk in plain view. M. T. Anderson and Jo Rioux reimagine this classic Breton folktale of love, loss, and rebirth, revealing the secrets that lie beneath the surface.

Mo and Jo

Mo and Jo
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : 9780979923852
ISBN-13 : 0979923859
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Mo and Jo by : Jay Lynch

Brother and sister Mona and Joey are always fighting, but when they inherit a suit and special powers from a superhero who is going into retirement, their inability to get along hampers their ability to fight crime.

Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories

Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9781338681635
ISBN-13 : 133868163X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by : Dan SaSuWeh Jones

Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of American Indian nations. Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These thirty-two short stories -- from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday -- are collected from the thriving tradition of ghost stories in American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walking dolls, hungry skeletons, La Llorona and Deer Woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone. Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca Nation) tells of his own encounters and selects his favorite spooky, eerie, surprising, and spine-tingling stories, all paired with haunting art by Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva). So dim the lights (or maybe turn them all on) and pick up a story...if you dare.

The Dragon Slayer

The Dragon Slayer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 1536453390
ISBN-13 : 9781536453393
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dragon Slayer by : Jaime Hernandez

"A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"--

Threads of Peace

Threads of Peace
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 336
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781481416788
ISBN-13 : 1481416782
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Threads of Peace by : Uma Krishnaswami

"A look at the lives of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and how they were led to seek revolution through peace"--