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Yen Press The Brilliant Healers New Life in the Shadows Volume 4 Light Novel
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Yen Press Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill Volume 3 Manga
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Drawn and Quarterly NonNonBa
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of Mizuki''s best-loved workNonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki''s childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre; he is now known as the forefather of yokai manga. His spring 2011 book, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, was featured on PRI''s The World, where Marco Werman scored a coveted interview with one of the most famous visual artists working in Japan today.Within the pages of NonNonBa, Mizuki explores the legacy left him by his childhood explorations of the spirit world, explorations encouraged by his grandmother, a grumpy old woman named NonNonBa. NonNonBa is a touching work about childhood and growing up, as well as a fascinating portrayal of Japan in a moment of transition. NonNonBa was the first manga to win the A
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Drawn and Quarterly Secret Life
Book SynopsisAn uncanny and eye-opening journey into a mysterious building, adapted from a short story by Jeff VanderMeerTo the west: trees. To the east: a mall. North: fast food. South: darkness. And at the centre is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance. Inside, the walls are infiltrated with vines, a mischief of mice learn to speak English, and something eerie happens once a month on the fifth floor. In Secret Life, Theo Ellsworth uses a deep-layered style to interpret Nebula award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer's short story. What emerges is a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home.When his manager borrows his pen for a presentation, a man is driven to unspeakable acts as he questions the role the pen has played in his workplace success. The despised denizens of the second floor develop their own tongue, incomprehensible to everyone else in Th
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Drawn and Quarterly This Is How I Disappear
Book SynopsisAn affecting glimpse into the ways millennials cope with mental health strugglesClara's at a breaking point. She's got writer's block, her friends ask a lot without giving much, her psychologist is useless, and her demanding publishing job leaves little time for self care. She seeks solace in the community around her, yet, while her friends provide support and comfort, she is often left feeling empty, unable to express an underlying depression that leaves her immobilized and stifles any attempts at completing her poetry collection. In This Is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portrait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following a sexual assault.Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions and while Clara can provide consolation to those around her, sh
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Drawn and Quarterly Second Hand Love
Book SynopsisIn the end, we''re all the samewe just want to be smothered like babies against anotherhuman''s beating heartThrough a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover ina wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his neck...and about becoming his mistress once again.And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone else's spoiled husband is just what she ordereduntil it''s time to move on.Then there's Yuko: with even less time for married men''s shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in theirboth father's and daughter''smirrored in
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Drawn and Quarterly Raw Sewage Science Fiction
Book SynopsisThe great fine art doodler returnsCanadian treasure Marc Bell returns with another gorgeous, confounding comic that redefines how an art book can tell a story and how a graphic novel can be an object first and story second. His internal monologue leaks out like static from a radio and informs the external; he's tying up loose ends; he's finishing long-paused sentences.Raw Sewage Science Fiction is about making art and understanding the results as autobiography. The process is a series of indignities, bubble wrapped frames, unpaid invoices, art lost through neglect or in the mail. Bell uses autofiction, collage, straight comix, tight cross hatching, loose doodling, repurposed in-flight magazines, envelopes, grocery lists, and snatches of late night CBC radio to examine a lost decade as he wanders from coast to coast.In a century, these will be our illuminated manuscripts, our sacred texts, our guides to life for now they are simply the truththe i
£21.25
Drawn and Quarterly Dog Days
Book SynopsisThe author of Grass and The Naked Tree returns with a profound tale of familyYuna never wanted to adopt a dog. But with her partner in mourningand in desperate need of a boost in moraleshe gives in to his humble request. And in the grand tradition of reluctant pet owners, she and their puppy soon become inseparable. The young couple even goes so far as to relocate to soothe their new canine pal's anxiety. After all, there's nothing like a move to the country to set yourself right. Right?The idyll of a quiet life soon gives way to a surprising degree of antagonism, including clashes with long-time local residents of a different generation. The culture shock is palpable for all three urban transplants as the isolation of their new environs starts to sink in. They eventually adopt another dog, and still anotherall while reckoning with the ups and downs of middle-age and childlessness in an unforgivingly traditional milieu.Dog Days is critica
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Drawn and Quarterly The Wendy Award
Book SynopsisEverybody's favorite party girl Wendy is so backWhen Wendy is nominated for the coveted National FoodHut Contemporary Art Prize alongside her friend Winona, all of her millennial dreams seem to be coming true. She lives a post-pandemic, polyamorous fine artist's lifestyle in the big city and basks in the glory of national attention with the success of her popular comic strip, Wanda.But not even achieving bona fide art star fame can hide the truth: a never-ending struggle with imposter syndrome. After she cracks in an online interview and gets dragged in the comments section, she heads straight to a local watering hole to drown her sorrows. Several lines of coke, too many drinks, and one all night rager with fans later, Wendy is ready to curse Gen Z and confront her addictions. All the while, she and Winona drift apart as a younger Indigenous artist wedges herself between them. Will Wendy's commitment to change wind up short-lived?The Wendy Aw
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Drawn and Quarterly Are You Willing to Die for the Cause
Book SynopsisThe critically acclaimed graphic novel about Quebec's contentious history by the founder of D+Qis now in paperback.It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal neighborhood were blown to bits by handmade bombs. By the following year, a guerilla army training camp was set up deep in the woods, with would-be soldiers training for armed revolt. Then, in 1966, two high school students dropped off bombs at factories, causing fatalities. What was behind these concerted, often bungled acts of terrorism and how did they last for nearly eight years?Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early years of a now-defunct movement whose legacy still holds a tight grip on Canadian politics and the hearts and minds of Quebec. The Front de libération du Québec (or in English, the Quebec Liberation Front), began as a socialist movement with a goal of championing workers' rights among the province's French-speaking majority.
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Drawn and Quarterly Paying for It
Book SynopsisThe critically lauded memoir about being a john is now a major motion picture!Paying for It was the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in The New York Times. Chester Brown''s eloquent, spare artwork stands out in this new paperback edition, tied to the release of the film adaptation co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee, Brown's longtime friend and the director of Year of the Carnivore and Octavio is Dead! Paying for It offers an entirely unvarnished exploration of sex work through Brown's own life story, showing him as a timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice. The book demystifies an experience that is so often sensationalized, revealing a world of online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd st
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Iguana Books Svevi Avatar Glimpses
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Conundrum Press Degrees of Separation
Book Synopsis"The tension between free-spirited off-grid living and prosaic adult responsibility runs through Alison McCreesh’s tender and loving ode to the people and landscapes of the Far North." —Joe Sacco, Paying the LandAt age 21, Alison hitchhiked to the Yukon and spent the summer living in a tent. 10 years later, in the deep of winter and seven months pregnant, she returns. Degrees of Separation is about what happened in between. Over the course of a decade, artist Alison McCreesh lived, worked, and travelled north of the 60th parallel. Through a combination of autobiographical stories, drawings and sketches, Degrees of Separation offers an intimate and understated glimpse of the North as Alison experienced it. From frigid days spent killing time while stranded in the High Arctic, to the challenges of raising a baby in a small shack with no running water, it is one young w
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Conundrum Press Cheryl
Book SynopsisA story about a newly realized lesbian woman in her 40s, hellbent on reaching spiritual enlightenment. Even if it kills her. Cheryl just came out and she''s been doing just fine, thanks for asking!!!! She just broke up with her dog, quit gluten, cut contact with her father, and is just really trying to focus on getting enough water daily! It''s all going great!! Except it isn''t and everything is terrible, because no matter what Cheryl does she really can''t shake that there''s something wrong deep down in the core of her being. What would really fix things would be to address her lingering internalized homophobia and childhood trauma. Or reach total spiritual enlightenment, reaching total enlightenment sounds easier, let''s go with that one. As Cheryl falls further down the New Age wellness industrial complex however, the world turns out to be a lot weirder and sicker than she could have ever imagined. Now Cheryl is forced to confront that n
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Conundrum Press Food School
Book Synopsis"Funny and informative, Jade effortlessly hits the sweet spot between silly and sincere to deliver a delightful treat despite its heavy topic. Grab a snack, a drink and definitely grab Food School!" - Hana Chatani, author of Give Her Back To MeA twenty-something college dropout enrols in a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery. As they change their relationship with food, their relationships with people change, too. Olive''s post-secondary education isn''t what they''d planned. Instead of college, they spend five days a week, eight hours a day at what Olive calls "Food School": a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery where they learn, talk, and cry about eating disorders as part of a survivor support group. Intensely committed to recovery, Olive confronts the secretive, self-destructive, and sometimes tragically comedic nature of t
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DC Comics The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley
Book SynopsisHarleen Quinzel is many things, a gymnast, anxious, broke…but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand…“Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.” - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Harleen Quinzel is many things, a gymnast, anxious, broke…but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand… When Harleen signs up to participate in a clinical research trial with her girlfriend, Pamela, the most she can hope for is extra cash in her wallet and a chance to get her anxiety under control. But what she gets instead are increasingly larger gaps in her memory and stolen mementos from some guy named Jack she’s never met. Soon, Harleen discovers she’s sharing her life with Harley—a take-no-prisoners, who-cares-about attendance, maybe-we-oughtta-save-the-bunn
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DC Comics Injustice Gods Among Us Compendium One
Book SynopsisBased on the hit video game phenomenon, Injustice tells the story of a war between gods for the future of humanity.Superman was Earth''s greatest hero. He was the shining beacon of truth, justice and the American way. Forever an inspiration for the brighter future ahead, the Man of Tomorrow made the world want to be better. Then everything changed in a single day.When the Man of Steel couldn''t protect those he held most dear, he decided being a hero wasn''t enough. To truly save this world, he would have to abandon his philosophy as the Big Blue Boy Scout and become the ruler he felt humankind needed.With his all-powerful allies--Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Shazam and even Robin--the reign of Superman has begun. World conflicts are ended, and criminals are stopped without mercy.Facing a god among men, only one person stands between Superman and ultimate power: the Dark Knight. Batman is gathering an alliance of heroes like Green Arrow, Catwoman, the Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn and Zatanna, willing to risk their lives to oppose this omnipotent dictatorship. He will use every method at his disposal to stop his friend from reshaping the world in his shattered image...whatever the cost, Superman''s rule cannot stand!Based on the hit video game phenomenon, Injustice tells the story of a war between gods for the future of humanity.Collects Injustice: Gods Among Us #1-12, Injustice: Gods Among UsAnnual #1, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Two #1-12, Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three #1-12, and Injustice: Gods Among Us Year: Two Annual #1.
£41.25
DC Comics Stormwatch The Road to The Authority Compendium
Book SynopsisBefore the Authority make their big-screen debut, read the pivotal stories that paved the way to the ground-breaking team's comic book debut!
£41.25
DC Comics Static Shadows of Dakota
Book SynopsisThe breakout creative team of Vita Ayala and Nikolas Draper-Ivey have returned to make Static's life, and Dakota City, very complicated indeed you've never felt shocks like these!
£15.99
DC Comics Harley Quinn Vol. 2 Eye Dont Like Me
Book SynopsisHas Harley ever been able to catch a break?!
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DC Comics Blue Beetle Vol. 2 Forever Blue
Book SynopsisThere?s a new hero in town as Jaime Reyes returns to Palmera City after the events of The Scarab War!Jaime Reyes has returned to Palmera City, tasked with picking up the pieces from the aftermath of The Scarab War. As if that wasn?t enough Victoria Kord has created a brand-new superhero who?s giving Jaime Reye?s alter ego, Blue Beetle, a run for his money. With Victoria Kord involved, Jaime knows there must be something nefarious below the surface. Will he be able to uncover the secrets of this mysterious new hero and get out alive?Collects Blue Beetle #7-12
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DC Comics DC Finest Supergirl The Girl of Steel
Book SynopsisKara Zor-El soars into her very own DC Finest collection!
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Lawless Book Three: Ashes to Ashes
Book SynopsisColonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funds Badrock. Now, Munce is planning to dispose of Badrock once and for all...Trade Review“Dan Abnett has created a feisty, fearless character that just grows and grows on you as the story progresses… makes for utterly compelling reading” - Multiversity“Dan Abnett has created a feisty, fearless character that just grows and grows on you as the story progresses… makes for utterly compelling reading” - Multiversity“Engaging characters, fantastic art design and a truly interesting and exciting story… Lawless is brilliant in every way.” – All-Comic
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Titan Books Ltd Chronos Commandos Dawn Patrol
Book SynopsisWhen the Allies and Nazis develop time-diving technology that could see the course of the Second World War derailed by creatures from the Cretaceous, only the Sarge and his band of misfit soldiers can save the future - by saving history!Dinosaurs! Giant crocodiles! Time travel! Nazis! Albert Einstein with a machinegun! All that barely scratches the surface of this astounding, fully-painted pulp spectacular!
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Titan Accident Man
Book SynopsisThe cult series returns, remastered and collected together in its entirety for the first time ever!Mike Fallon: handsome and sexy as James Bond; lethal as Carlos the Jackal; discrete as an air bubble to the heart. Collected for the first time, Accident Man features four darkly humorous tales of sex, revenge, brutal violence, people drowning in the bath and assassination targets being run over by out-of-control cars, all, of course, by ''accident''.
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Titan Books Ltd Doctor Who - The Tenth Doctor: Facing Fate Volume
Book SynopsisBesieged by an evil red TARDIS and bounced around from the inside of a living nightmare to ancient China, the Doctor and his friends have had a tough time of late! As Cindy recovers from the... splitting headache she developed on her most recent adventure, Gabby's mysterious block-transfer butterfly powers continue to develop - and Noobis, the amnesiac offshoot of a former god, continues to grow as his own entity. But the TARDIS team put all that to one side when they visit the distant past of VENUS. What strange civilisation once lurked in its now-poisonous depths? And what connection does it have to the Doctor's own history? And out in the darkness of the vortex, the Time Sentinel lurks. What nefarious plan does it have for the Doctor and his friends?Trade Review"Another thrilling adventure that is a 'must' for the legions of Doctor Who fans...certain to be an enduringly popular addition for community library graphic novel collections." -Midwest Book Review"The conversations that ensue add real depth to the characters, and the companions have rarely had a better chance to shine than they do here. And while the Doctor’s plotline is mind-bending, it’s also gorgeous, as the artistic team really gets to take over, creating an ethereal threat that’s among the most beautiful images ever seen in a Doctor Who story." - Seattle Book Review
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Cornerstone A Good Man
Book Synopsis'Gripping' Observer'Spellbinding ... I loved this book.' Caroline Kepnes, author of You_________________________________________________________________Thomas knew from the moment he saw Miriam that she was going to change his life forever. They are the couple everyone envies. So when Thomas wants his 'Miri' to be his wife, he doesn't hesitate in popping the question. And when they start a family, Thomas finally has the life he always dreamed of.But what happens when dreams shatter and the unspeakable happens? And who is to blame when there's one man left standing?Trade ReviewAni Katz is a brilliant writer. I sat down to read A Good Man and didn’t move until I’d finished it. This is a spellbinding work of psychologically potent art. I can’t wait to read what she does next. I loved this book. -- Caroline Kepnes, author of YouProfoundly disturbing and deeply unsettling … Richly drawn and laced through with dread, this bold novel is an unflinching examination of what it means to be a man, and how easily a man can become a monster. -- Kathleen Barber, author of Are You SleepingGripping, sly, and ferociously intelligent. I couldn't put it down. -- Jennifer duBois, author of The SpectatorsAni Katz’s debut is a gorgeously written, profound examination of contemporary masculinity and its potentially lethal side effects. -- Laura Sims, author of Looker[A] powerful and unsettling debut ... Producesin the reader a sense of foreboding that builds with ever-increasing intensity to the inevitable and brutal climax … Katz is in full control of mood and pacing. [A] masterly first novel. * Publisher's Weekly *
£8.54
Titan Books Ltd Alpi the Soul Sender Vol.7
Book SynopsisThe climactic seventh volume of the beloved series, perfect for fans of Magical Girl manga, sees the conclusion of Alpi THE soul sender!
£9.49
Titan Books Ltd High on Life
Book SynopsisThe first-ever graphic novel set in the insane world of High on Life. The Bounty Hunter becomes the hunted!
£14.24
Titan Sea of Thieves Sea Dogs Search
Book SynopsisPirate Captain Lesedi Singh returns to the page on a daring adventure that spans the Sea of Thieves and down to the sinister Sirens' lair in this graphic novel set in the eponymous swashbuckling game!
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Titan Books Ltd Working for God in a Godless World Vol. 1
Book SynopsisPerfect for fans of Isekai with an unusual twist, this tale of finding the divine is a godly treat!When the son of a cult leader is transported to a world without religion, he must bring the god he despised with him to save the world!The first volume in an ongoing series (with a hit anime adaptation now on Crunchyroll), Working for God in a Godless World is an all-new take on the isekai genre!When Yukino is sacrificed by his father to the all-powerful Mitama, he prays that he can finally be without religion. He wakes up in a placid world free of faith and begins a new life there.But when the truth is revealed that the ruling empire purges the citizens, Yukino must find his faith and summon Mitama to protect them!
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Titan Books Ltd The Elegant Courtly Life of the Tea Witch Vol. 2
Book SynopsisPull up a chair as we brew the tea for the second volume of this cosy manga series! Remy and Princess Stella start to become closer as a bodyguarding mission secretly becomes a date!
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Titan Books Ltd Welcome to Ghost Mansion Vol. 1
Book SynopsisFor fans of horror comedy, this story of a freelancer slacker who buys a mansion full of ghosts is sure to terrify and amuse in equal measure! Join Kaoru as she becomes landlord for a house full of specters!
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Titan Books Ltd Battletoads The Lost Adventure
Book SynopsisBased on the hit videogame Battletoads, fans can expect a cosmic clash for the ages - The ultimate battle royale experience is redefined, as the toads take on the franchise's fiercest fighters.
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Titan Books Ltd Gun Honey 13 Slipcase Set
Book SynopsisThe first three volumes of the critically-acclaimed, best-selling comic franchise, written by award-winner Charles Ardai, co-founder of Hard Case Crime, collected together for the first time!A must-have for fans of the series and pulp noir enthusiasts to add to their collection of sexy heroine Joanna Tan's adventures!
£35.99
Titan Books Ltd Outsiders Vol.2
Book SynopsisExperience a world where vampires and werewolves collide in this fantasy thriller. Follow a magical girl navigating hidden realms and dark secrets in a city teeming with supernatural intrigue.
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Cinebook Ltd Outlaws Vol. 2 The Shores of Midaluss
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Cinebook Ltd Amazonia Vol. 1
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Cinebook Ltd Redbeard Vol. 3 Mami Wata
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Cinebook Emilies Inheritance 2 Maeve
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Cinebook Buck Danny Classics Vol. 7 Sea Dart
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Cinebook Ltd Harry Dickson Vol. 2 The Court of Terror
Book SynopsisFrederic Hamilton, an aging millionaire and philanthropist, calls upon Harry Dickson to investigate most curious facts. For some time, he has been having strange dreams in which he appears before a mysterious court eleven masked judges who accuse him of despoiling Humanity. Now, his latest dreams have included physical torture and the pain is still present when he wakes up! Dickson and Superintendent Goodfield travel to Hamilton's residence, but their mission quickly turns into a nightmare.
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Panini Publishing Ltd Doctor Who The White Dragon
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Panini Publishing Ltd Star Wars Tales From The Death Star
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Panini Publishing Ltd Freaking Romance Volume 1
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Panini Publishing Ltd Everything Is Fine Volume 2
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Panini Comics Freaking Romance Volume 3
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Pushkin Press Completely Kafka
Book SynopsisThe young Franz Kafka has too many fears to name. Mirrors, clothing, his own body, almost everything causes him to fret. How did this 'anxious and small bundle of bones' become one of the world's great writers?With telling details and sharply minimal illustrations, Nicolas Mahler tells a wickedly funny story of the development of Kafka's genius, offering a tribute that is as playful as it is profound.
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