Del Norte Public Library

Intimate portraits of much-loved lesbian writers. Discover the struggles and the triumphs of the women whose books have shaped so many lives.

Provides an overview of the creative process of writing a comic book, discussing scripts, page layout and design, space relationships, camera angles, character acting, inking, coloring, and other related topics; and includes tips for aspiring authors and illustrators

Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Ciť Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who question the director's choice of "the worst ones." As...

Over the past decade a rich chorus of women's voices has emerged from the West. The Stories That Shape Us is an extraordinary anthology of twenty-six personal essays by contemporary women writers, many being published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the cultures and the regions of the West, these women relate stories of family and community, of race and gender, of commitment and displacement, of grief and repair, of spirituality and...

"Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up,"...

Things get complicated for Christie, a young manga writer, at her first anime convention when problems with her artist boyfriend come to a head and she falls for Matt, a mysterious cosplayer.

Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and -dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for power of the throne? Intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.

It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...