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21) Lady Joker: 2
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japanese identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted...
23) Five windows
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"At a busy intersection on a crammed city hillside, an overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before: Is the encampment in the park responsible for the fires--or are his new upscale neighbors somehow to blame? Has the man upstairs even bothered to notice, or is his...
Author
Series
New Crobuzon series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Yes, but what is Perdido Street Station about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac's secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac's quest for...
Author
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The author investigates the alienation expressed by film noir, pinpointing its motivation in the conflict between desires for escape, autonomy and freedom. This survey examines how film noir reflected radical changes in the physical and social landscapes of postwar America, defining the genre's contribution to the eternal debate between the values of individualism and community"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kyle Barnes has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. In light of recent revelations, he finally feels like he's starting to piece together the answers he's looking for. But while he feels a new sense of purpose is Reverend Anderson's life falling apart?
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Edici̤n especial en tapa dura de La metamorfosis, la obra capital de Franz Kafka, seguida de otros dos relatos inolvidables: ±La condena¿ y ±El fogonero¿ La transformaci̤n de Gregor Samsa en un bicho monstruoso, similar a un enorme escarabajo, es uno de los hitos de la literatura universal. En esta edici̤n, la obra m̀s conocida del genial escritor checo, La metamorfosis, se recoge con otros dos relatos suyos, ±La condena¿ y ±El fogonero¿,...
28) Sabrina
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
Description
"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement "Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret." Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite...
Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This "is the story of Jivani's education as an activist on the front lines of one of today's most dangerous and intractable problems: the explosion of violence among angry young men throughout the world. [He] relates his personal story and describes his entrance into the community outreach movement, his work with disenfranchised people of color in North America and at-risk youth in the Middle East and Africa, and his experiences with the white working...
Author
Series
Outcast volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Answers are given, secrets are revealed, and the Barnes family has never been in more danger. Allison learns that there's something very special about her daughter, bu where's Kyle? Will Anderson risk everything to save him?' --
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker is on the outs with the Avengers. He's on the outs with the Fantastic Four. He's on the outs with Aunt May! No one wants to see Spider-Man - except for Doctor Octopus. Doc Ock is on Spidey's tail, and the Master Planner has something truly terrible planned for when he gets his tentacles on Spidey. But what did Spider-Man do that has alienated him from everyone? And what moves is the gangster called Tombstone making? Just in time for Spider-Man's...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers....
35) Frankie's world
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Frankie is different from everyone in her class, and she can't figure out why. She has trouble concentrating, and her classmates tease her for not having a dad at home. To try to make sense of the world, Frankie doodles her daily adventures in a journal. One day, when Frankie sneaks into her mom's room and sees her biological father's name on her birth certificate, she decides to go on a mission to track him down. Could Frankie's father be the key...
Author
Language
English
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
37) The cliff
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence. Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their sleepy town. They make a blood pact to jump together in five days time, before their thirteenth birthdays. Not that navigating the unspoken pecking order of the school quad makes it easy. Can the intensity of their bond survive the scrutiny of their peers,...
Author
Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind. As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind."--
39) El buen nombre
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Tras la lenta recuperación de un terrible accidente ferroviario y un matrimonio arreglado con la joven Ashima, Ashoke Ganguli decide abandonar su cómoda y previsible existencia en Calcuta, aceptar una beca en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts y mudarse con su esposa a Boston. Allí nacerá su primer hijo, que por azares del destino acabará llevando por nombre Gógol en honor al célebre escritor ruso. El niño, hijo de bengalíes, ciudadano...
Author
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author explores the status of being a misfit as something to be embraced, and social misfits as being individuals of value who have a place in society, in a work that encourages people who have had difficulty finding their way to pursue their goals.
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