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Author
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
"Etienne Davodeau is a comic artist. He doesn't know much about the world of wine-making. Richard Leroy is a wine-maker. He's rarely even read comics. But these two are full of good will and curiosity. Why do we choose to spend one's life writing and creating comics or producing wine? How and for whom do we do them? To answer these questions, for more than a year, Etienne went to work in Richard's vineyards and cellar. Richard, in return, leapt into...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The highlight of Sarah Orne Jewett's career was The Country of the Pointed Firs, a tightly crafted narrative of a summer visit to a small town on the coast of Maine. The narrator is a writer who comes to the fictional town of Dunnet Landing in search of solitude but instead finds herself drawn into the town's rhythms. She's adopted into a loose-knit group of women who tell stories about the town and the people who inhabit it.
1285) The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
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Description
The beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork by Chabon. It is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and their quest to become American icons in the comic book world. Now with special bonus material by Chabon.
Author
Series
The last comics on Earth volume 2
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Strange invaders from the Underverse are threatening the peaceful peoples of Apocalyptia, the Under Clowns from Clownlantis have come, and it's no laughing matter! Now Jack, June, Quint, and Dirk have to write and draw a sequel, while Lightning Boy, Moonstar, and Doc Baker help Savage Aloner face his primal fear of clowns and save Apocalyptia (again)! It's going to be even MORE wild than it sounds!" -- Page [4] cover
1287) Fangirl: Vol. 3
Author
Series
Fangirl the manga volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"“The graphic novelization of Fangirl is a beautiful, contemplative, and fun reading experience.”—Women Write About Comics. Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can’t let go…Everything in Cath’s offline life is going wrong. Just when she’s started to realize her feelings for Levi, she sees him kissing someone...
1288) Big eyes
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
1289) Man about town
Pub. Date
2007
Description
With a marriage in shambles and a shaky client roster, slick Hollywood agent Jack Giamoro has lost his killer instinct. To make matters worse, his personal journal has been stolen by a reporter who is now threatening to write a career-ending expos©♭. Now with everything on the line, Jack is forced to take a hard look at himself and step up to close the deal on what's most important in his life.
1290) Sandhills boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
Born in 1926 to a struggling West Texas cowboy, Elmer toils beside the last generation of horse-riding cow-punchers. Nearsighted and convince he'll never be the cowboy his dad is, Elmer determines to become a writer. But as he struggles to persuade a disappointed father to let him attend the faraway University of Texas--and see writing as legitimate work--the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and trigger events that carry bashful Elmer to the Austrian...
1291) Fangirl 2
Author
Series
Fangirl (Manga) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Cath just wants to hang out with her twin sister and write fanfiction. But now that they're in college, her sister doesn't have time for her. And life keeps pulling Cath further and further out of her shell. For the first time ever, Cath has her own social circle, like Nick, her handsome classmate who wants her to write short stories with him, and Levi, who keeps showing up when she isn't looking for him.
1293) The sister queens
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Two rival queens. History's greatest playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor with her modern vision of a civilization that thrives in peace and diversity, England is in a supremely perilous moment. Elizabeth's foes understand the power of a poet's voice to shape popular opinion, and force esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a script detailing...
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A profile of the life of the influential science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick presented through interviews with contemporaries and excerpts from his writings. Dick's writing and ideas on reality, humanity and technology which blend West Coast utopianism, counterculture paranoia and mystical experience have been adapted into films, including Blade Runner and Total Recall. Since very little interview footage exists of Philip K. Dick, this documentary...
1295) Man about town
Pub. Date
2007
Description
With a marriage in shambles and a shaky client roster, slick Hollywood agent Jack Giamoro has lost his killer instinct. To make matters worse, his personal journal has been stolen by a reporter who is now threatening to write a career-ending exposé. Now with everything on the line, Jack is forced to take a hard look at himself and step up to close the deal on what's most important in his life.
1296) Anonymous
Pub. Date
[2012, c2011]
Description
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 the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
1297) Fangirl 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life - and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020].
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Description
"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
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