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Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (109 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Camilla d'Errico is an artistic dynamo-a highly accomplished painter and comic-book artist as well as a clothing, product, and custom-toy designer. Her handiwork captivates admirers around the world, and some of her best-known creations are these, her studies of beautiful women and their animal companions. Playful and flamboyant, exotic and enigmatic, the women who inhabit these striking paintings embody a fascinating array of contradictions. They...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
286 [4] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alison Bechdel?s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
173 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"--from...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
256 pages
Language
English
Description
"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 a permanent relocation-following her mother's announcement that she's getting married-Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
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