Aya: Life in Yop City
Aya: Life in Yop City

Author: Marguerite Abouet

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-06-10

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1770465588

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Ivory Coast, 1978. It’s a golden time, and the nation, too—an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa—seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. Clément Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in the lively world of Aya and her friends, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. Drawn & Quarterly has release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Aya: Love in Yop City. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Children’s Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award; was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award; and was included on “best of” lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Aya: Life in Yop City has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as Hostage by Guy Delisle and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

Aya of Yop City
Aya of Yop City

Author: Marguerite Abouet

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0224087479

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"For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time work is plentiful, hospitals are clean and well equipped, and school is obligatory. The Ivory Coast is as an island of relative wealth and stability in West Africa. For the teenagers of the town, though, worries are plentiful, and life in Yop City is far from simple. Aya tells the story of its nineteen-year-old heroine, the clear-sighted and bookish Aya, and her carefree and fun-loving friends Adjoua and Bintou. Navigating meddling relatives and neighbours, the girls spend a last summer of their childhood on the sun-warmed streets of Yop City sneaking out for dancing at open-air bars, strong solibra beer, chicken in peanut sauce and avoiding at all costs the scandal pages of the Calamity Morning . Aya is a captivating, colourful and hugely entertaining portrayal of an Africa we rarely see, spirited and resilient, and full of the sounds, sights and smells of a prosperous town and its varied inhabitants."

1リットルの涙
1リットルの涙

Author: 木藤亜也

Publisher: IBC PUBLISHING

Published: 2007-06-24

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9784896844955

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「わたしは何のために生きているの?」中学3年生で脊髄小脳変性症を発病し、歩くことも、話すこともままならなくなりながら、必死で自らの生きる道を見つけようとする亜也。母はともに悩み、時に涙しながら亜也を支え、導いてゆく。本書は亜也が治療の助けとなるようにと書き続けた日記であり、生きることに希望を見いだそうとする魂の叫びである。

Blank Slate, Vol. 1
Blank Slate, Vol. 1

Author: Aya Kanno

Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

Published: 2013-01-29

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1421559994

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Zen’s unearthly charm attracts a veritable rogues gallery. A bounty hunter becomes obsessed enough to become his new partner, while the daughter of a general treats him like some sort of guru. But when he meets a mysterious doctor who may know him from the past, Zen learns that the secret of his lost memory is definitely more sinister than saintly. -- VIZ Media

Initial Sparks
Initial Sparks

Author: Aya McHugh

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-10

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781710730005

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In a world much like ours, in a small town far to the north, a young girl wakes up for what will be the start of the most important week of her life. Join our heroine Rei Scios as she deals with transfer students, romance, ruffians, and the encroaching realization that the supernatural is probably very, very real. Adventure awaits as Rei's small town life is slowly turned on its end. Will she find love? Will her birthday go off without a hitch? Will she and her friends survive? There's only one way to know for sure...

Scattering His Virgin Bloom, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)
Scattering His Virgin Bloom, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)

Author: Aya Sakyo

Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1974729966

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Hana—an omega frequently mistaken for an alpha—works at a local cafe, and at 26 years old, he’s somehow never gone into heat and still retains his virginity. When his first heat finally hits, it’s in front of arrogant alpha Renjaku, a regular at the cafe whom he’s been secretly crushing on. Will a sought-after alpha such as Renjaku take his coffee and go, or will he take something much sweeter instead? -- VIZ Media

Nick and Aya Travel to Argentina
Nick and Aya Travel to Argentina

Author: Khadizhat Witt

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-28

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 9781728759500

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"Nick and Aya Travel to Argentina" is a book about a four-year-old girl Aya and her ten-year- old brother Nick flying to Argentina from the United States together with their parents for vacation. The story takes its readers first to Buenos Aires followed by Bariloche, where the family then starts their adventure driving a rented minivan throughout Patagonia. Children learn the names of some of the existing plants, animals, fish, national landmarks and food items typical for Argentina. While following Nick and his sister Aya, the readers virtually visit a cave, a glacier, a bird sanctuary, lakes, streams, and mountains. They end their vacation at the Iguazu Falls and return home full of new impressions.

Unordinary Meeting
Unordinary Meeting

Author: Darry Borisova

Publisher: Adventures of Andy and Aya

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781724186645

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The author of the book, Darry Borisova, established the Andy and Aya Academy for Children from the Deaf Community in Bulgaria in 2017, where she works with deaf children and their families. Darry herself is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) and a member of the Deaf community, raised with the challenges of Deaf people in Bulgaria. She is also a qualified Deaf therapist and Sign Language interpreter. All proceeds of the book sales go towards supporting the development of the Academy and its efforts to offer a wider range of high quality affordable educational opportunities for deaf children in Bulgaria. The book series is a way to raise awareness about deafness and acceptance, to promote the cause for affordable deaf education, and to subsidize the costs of the Academy by socially oriented entrepreneurship. The Adventures of Andy and Aya series tell the story of two incredible toys who come to life with the magic help of their owner - Dara. Dara is an extraordinary girl who is also deaf. The two toys go through everyday adventures and struggles of what it is like to be deaf together with Dara. The book teaches acceptance, tolerance and love and shows that there is magic in everyday life. The first book of the series, Unordinary Meeting, is the story of how the friends meet and how they come to life. If you buy the book, you will be supporting the Andy and Aya Academy for deaf kids in Bulgaria and helping promote acceptance of deaf people all over the world.

The Accidental Slave (Aya's Story)
The Accidental Slave (Aya's Story)

Author: Elin Peer

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781310119699

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If you like raw emotion, fast-paced stories, and characters that are imperfect and real, then you are going to love this contemporary romantic drama.Aya Johansen is a young nurse working with refugees in a war zone, when she's captured by fanatical religious warriors. She's determined to break free, even if it means compromising her own values and starting a relationship with one of her kidnappers.Kato wants to do the right thing, but helping Aya could cost him his life - and he's smart enough to know that if she ever escapes he'll never see her again. That alone makes it impossible to let her go.Will Aya be able to convince him to free her before she's branded and sold as a slave? And if she achieves the impossible, can she ever live a normal life again and forget about Kato?The Accidental Slave is a stand-alone novel and the first book in Elin Peer's Slave series. Readers say it's impossible to put down and call it: "Gripping, dark, funny, sad, exciting, and sexy all rolled into one."Pick up your FREE copy of The Accidental Slave to discover this exciting new series today!(The Accidental Slave is intended for mature readers only as it contains graphic language and sexual scenes of a violent nature. All characters are fictional and any likeness to a living person or organization is coincidental.)