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Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-color graphic novel documents the tragic story of a leader so blinded by revenge that he takes his community to the brink of war and destruction. Consisting of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations, Red is a groundbreaking mix of imagery from the indigenous Haida culture and Japanese manga. Red is the prideful leader of a small village in the islands off the northwest coast of British...
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"As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. Then one night, deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor, something unexplainable happens. Jack has a mysterious and supernatural...
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Girl called Echo ; 1
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English
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"Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and...
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Kids Can Press Ltd
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[2018]
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English
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"Agent Gordon's distress calls to P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel) have gone unanswered. His humans and fellow agents have been captured! He is all alone in the middle of an alien invasion! Gordon's deadliest weapon is his mind, but none of the computers, robots or other devices he's built could have prepared him for this. Or could they ...? Gordon has an idea. But is it too dangerous? The device isn't ready--it's just a prototype!...
6) Daybreak
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Told through the perspectives of a silent observer, a one-armed companion guides the reader through a post-apocalyptic world with a zombie-infested landscape.
8) Lint
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Acme novelty library ; 20
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
11) Jaka's story
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Cerebus ; 5
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Aardvark-Vanaheim
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1986.
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English
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Collects no. 114-136 of "Cerebus" comics, in which Cerebus, an amoral, anthropomorphic aardvark, meets up once again with his former love Jaka, a dancer in her landlord's tavern, and sets the stage for disaster when he becomes the houseguest of her and her husband, Rick.
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Drawn & Quarterly
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2012.
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English
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"The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries-- each representing an episode in the life of Freddie-- bring to life adolescence, pimples and all. No matter what happens, it all seems to go wrong for Freddie-- he's set up as an arsonist, mercilessly teased in school, and bossed around by classmates. With consummate skill, Lynda Barry writes about the cruelty...
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Sweet tooth ; 1
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DC Comics
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[2010]
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English
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"A plague has killed almost everyone and is killing more every day, and the only ones immune to it are a group of hybrid animal-children. After his father's death, Gus, a nine-year-old boy-deer, desperately accepts the help offered by a big man who says he will take Gus to the Preserve, a safe place for the hybrid children." --
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Ascender ; 1
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Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Set 10 years after the conclusion of DESCENDER's storyline, here magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules are very different indeed... Mila, the daughter of Andy and Effie from DESCENDER, spends her days exploring the lonely wilds of the planet Sampson and trying to stay out of the clutches of the evil disciples of the all powerful vampire witch known only as Mother. But like her parents, Mila doesn't like to play by the rules and when...
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Annick Press
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[2013]
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English
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Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reserve. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she's deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he's also a little creepy. Little do Tiffany, her father, or even her insightful Granny Ruth know, the mysterious Pierre L'Errant is actually a vampire, returning to his tribal home after centuries spent in Europe.
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"Mid-Life is the story of a 40-year-old man, John, who becomes a father again with his much younger second wife, which results in a slow, painful attack by flowered baby bags and front-facing baby carriers on his former virility and self-identity. John always believed that age is a state of mind; however, his adult daughters, baby son, energetic wife, stressful job, house full of cats, and flabby body--complete with bloated stomach and sagging bosom--all...
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