The Birthday Riots (ComicsLit)
 Powerfully presented, highly recommended graphic novel.: Set in the modern-day London area, The Birthday Riots by Nabiel Kanan is the engaging graphic novel focused on an upscale man who has errantly left behind the ideals of his college days, and now [... more]
$14.95
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Brownsville
Familiar but Confusing Territory: Spanning the mid-1920s to mid-1940s, this tale of a young Jewish boy's attraction to New York's Jewish mafia runs a fairly familiar course without adding much to the genre. Starting in the Catskills, the story moves [... more]
$12.95
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War Fix
Familiar Themes Treated Graphically: Although the subject code on the back of this book designates it as fiction, it's hard not to read it as highly autobiographical -- maybe even as a borderline memoir. Freelance writer David Axe has been to Iraq six [... more]
$9.95
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To Afghanistan and Back
To Hell and Back: In this book, Rall chronicles his trip to Afghanistan that starts shortly after the U.S. begins bombing it. Rall has pretty in-depth knowledge of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and other neighboring countries, their customs, [... more]
$15.95
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Case of Madeline Smith 8 (Treasury of Victorian Murder ...
A good look at a mid-Victorian scandal: This book is a graphic-novel overview of a murder case that gripped the attention of mid-nineteenth-century Britain: Did Madeleine Smith, Glasgow socialite, poison her inconvenient lover, Pierre L'Anglier, or didn' [... more]
$8.95
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War Fix
Familiar Themes Treated Graphically: Although the subject code on the back of this book designates it as fiction, it's hard not to read it as highly autobiographical -- maybe even as a borderline memoir. Freelance writer David Axe has been to Iraq six [... more]
$15.95
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Buja's Diary
Author: Se-yong O Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 895.735 EAN: 9781561634484 ISBN: 1561634484 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: 2005-10-27 [... more]
$19.95
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The Murder of Abraham Lincoln: A chronicle of 62 days in ...
"Popular" history as it ought to be done: This is the seventh in a very high-quality series that includes Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, H. H. Holmes, and Charles Guiteau. Think of it as "Classics Illustrated" for adults. Geary's [... more]
$15.95
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The Jungle
A graphic novel that turns "The Jungle" back into a call for socialism: When I read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in high school I had to keep reminding myself that that novel was written in 1906, otherwise I would never be able to [... more]
$15.95
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Give It Up! And Other Stories Kafka: And Other Short ...
better than kuper's metamorphosis: dear reader, i warmly invite you to take up the brilliant improvisational artistic renderings that peter kuper offers up to franz kafka's more illusory and difficult fables and fantastic tales. at the time of writing, [... more]
$8.95
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Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove ...
Amazon.com Review: Before his death in 1922, Marcel Proust accomplished the monumental feat of recording Remembrance of Things Past, a fifteen-volume literary history, much of which was based upon his own adventures and minute observations. The [... more]
$16.95
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Remembrance of Things Past 3: Love of Swann 1 ...
Amazon.com Review: Before his death in 1922, Marcel Proust accomplished the monumental feat of recording Remembrance of Things Past, a fifteen-volume literary history, much of which was based upon his own adventures and minute observations. The [... more]
$16.95
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