Biography & Autobiography
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Hex the Patriarchy & Heal the Patriarchy
$54.99In astrology, Pluto is the planet everyone fears: a herald of change, destabilization, and the destruction of everything you think you know. The Pluto Returns series follows Lilith as Pluto transforms the existing patriarchal systems within the U.S., while simultaneously upending Lilith’s life. In the first book in the Pluto Returns series, Hex the Patriarchy,…
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Dumb Things I’m Glad I Did
$17.50In “Dumb Things I’m Glad I Did”, Michael Engstrom invites you to take a hilarious and heartfelt trip down memory lane as he shares his collection of short stories and adventures from his high school and college days. From wild parties to silly pranks, this book is filled with entertaining tales that remind us of…
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The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon: A Children’s Book Also for Adults
$12.95Imagine living in a high-rise mini-city that people built with their own hands. This city took up only the size of a sports stadium, but it was home to sixty thousand people! What would it be like to live in the most tightly packed place on Earth? Fiona wanted to find out, so she went…
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Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary
$17.00Amaris Feland Ketcham starts her daily diary comic without knowing anything about the cancer diagnosis awaiting her partner. Yet even in the thick of his tests and surgeries, she chronicles her cats and her meals, they take hikes, and the world-at-large somehow continues on. This graphic memoir shares the ups and downs of their cancer…
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Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir
$18.99The exciting life story of naturalist John Muir–who sailed to America as a boy and ended up changing the world–is told for the first time as a graphic novel. A Junior Library Guild Selection.
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Elizabeth I: A Graphic Novel
$10.99In the third of the “Women Who Were Kings” series, we follow the life of one of England’s most celebrated monarchs–Queen Elizabeth I. From her difficult early childhood and her struggle to ascend to a throne that would later see her as the progenitor of a Golden Age, this story aims to chart Elizabeth’s political…
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The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2
$39.99Bursting with a cornucopia of gorgeous artwork and photos, this second of two volumes of the Eisner Award-nominated The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood also features the vivid personal recollections of the friends, colleagues, and assistants who knew him best. The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 completes this revealing, intimate portrait…
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The Spy Who Wore Petticoats: A Graphic Novel Biography of Anna Strong
$36.65During the Revolutionary War, an unsuspecting woman named Anna Smith Strong became one of America’s most wanted spies. In this action-packed graphic novel, follow Strong’s brilliant plan of passing communications to George Washington’s Continental Army. To keep the information secret from British soldiers, this brave Patriot hung out her laundry–including her famous petticoats–in a specific…
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The Flavors of Iraq: Impressions of My Vanished Homeland
$19.951989. My first trip to Iraq. The taste of apricot. “Never say Saddam’s name.” The Western media largely glossed over the immense human suffering that occurred in Iraq during the embargo of the 1990s and the Iraq War. With this innovative and award-winning graphic novel, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani sets that record straight. The Flavors…
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By Fire: The Jakob Hutter Story
$19.95A graphic novel dramatizes a true story of a corrupt ruler, a courageous resister, a daring alpine escape, a refugee love story, a reckless return, a jealous traitor, and a martyr burned alive at the stake. King Ferdinand, who will later become Holy Roman Emperor, orders the eradication of all heretics in Tyrol, and especially…
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Rube Goldberg
$20.95Welcome to the world of that archetypal American, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the dean of American cartoonists for most of the twentieth century. For more than sixty-five years, Rube Goldberg’s syndicated cartoons — he produced more than fifty strips — appeared in as many as a thousand newspapers annually He was earning a hundred thousand dollars…
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Burn My Letters: Tyranny to refuge
$21.00At the end of the 19th century Finland is a dark and repressive place. Pacifist and political dissenter Karl Johan Back is conscripted to fight for the Russian despots that occupy his country. In 1899 he flees to an untamed land on the far side of the world. Finding refuge on ridges overlooking the Byron…
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Shady Bizzness’ Life as Eminem’s Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters: Life as Eminem’s Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters
$49.95Eminem’s bodyguard details the good times, hardships, drug abuse, domestic violence, scandals, sex, near-death experiences, murder, oppression of employees, and bitter betrayal that take place in the hip-hop/rapper’s world.
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Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion
$8.99In this graphic novel, witness Isaac Newton develop the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. World-changing events unfold before your eyes in this amazing tale of invention! Dramatic illustrations and fast-paced text provide a “you-are-there” experience. With extensive back matter, including a bibliography, extended reading list, glossary, and further Internet sources, young…