Everything is Flammable

Everything is Flammable

Author: Gabrielle Bell

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781941250181

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The first full-length Graphic Memoir from one of the masters of the form.


Imagine Wanting Only This

Imagine Wanting Only This

Author: Kristen Radtke

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1101870834

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A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief. • “What ultimately emerges is a portrait of a powerful mind grappling with alienation and loneliness.” —The New York Times Book Review When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual, historical and personal, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here, and what will we leave behind? (With black-and-white illustrations throughout; part of the Pantheon Graphic Novel series)


The Voyeurs

The Voyeurs

Author: Gabrielle Bell

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780984681402

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"One of the best things going in auto-bio inflected comics these days." -- Art Spiegelman, Maus


How Are You Going to Save Yourself

How Are You Going to Save Yourself

Author: JM Holmes

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 031651487X

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Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.


Tenements, Towers & Trash

Tenements, Towers & Trash

Author: Julia Wertz

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0316501220

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.


Sons and Other Flammable Objects

Sons and Other Flammable Objects

Author: Porochista Khakpour

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2008-11-09

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1555848591

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The Iranian-American author’s award-winning debut examines an immigrant’s coming of age with “punchy conversation, vivid detail [and] sharp humor” (The New York Times Book Review). Growing up in the United States, Xerxes Adam’s understanding of his Iranian heritage vacillates from typical teenage embarrassment to something so tragic it can barely be spoken. His father, Darius, is obsessed with his own exile, and fantasizes about a nonexistent daughter he can relate to better than his living son. His mother changes her name and tries to make friends. But neither of them helps Xerxes make sense of the terrifying, violent last moments in a homeland he barely remembers. As Xerxes grows up and moves to New York City, his major goal in life is to completely separate from his parents. But after the attacks of September 11th change New York forever, and Xerxes meets a beautiful half-Iranian girl on the roof of his building, he begins to realize that his heritage will never let him go. Winner of the California Book Award Silver Medal in First Fiction, Sons and Other Flammable Objects is a sweeping, lyrical tale of suffering, redemption, and the role of memory in making peace with our worlds. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice


Elemental

Elemental

Author: Tim James

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1468317032

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If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements—nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson—we at last could identify all the ingredients necessary to construct our world.In Elemental, chemist and science educator Tim James provides an informative, entertaining, and quirkily illustrated guide to the table that shows clearly how this abstract and seemingly jumbled graphic is relevant to our day-to-day lives.James tells the story of the periodic table from its ancient Greek roots, when you could count the number of elements humans were aware of on one hand, to the modern alchemists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who have used nuclear chemistry and physics to generate new elements and complete the periodic table. In addition to this, he answers questions such as: What is the chemical symbol for a human? What would happen if all of the elements were mixed together? Which liquid can teleport through walls? Why is the medieval dream of transmuting lead into gold now a reality?Whether you're studying the periodic table for the first time or are simply interested in the fundamental building blocks of the universe—from the core of the sun to the networks in your brain—Elemental is the perfect guide.


The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Author: Aimee Bender

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1448136032

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In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and another has one made of ice. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of extraordinary desires take us to a place far beyond the imagination.


Cecil and Jordan in New York

Cecil and Jordan in New York

Author: Gabrielle Bell

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897299579

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Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original Cecil and Jordan in New York Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This collection represents her short comics work that has been published in various anthologies over the past five years, including Kramer's Ergot, Mome, and The D+Q Showcase Book Four. The surrealist title story, in which a young woman turns herself into a chair so as not to be too much of a bother to those around her, is being adapted into a short film, Interior Design, by director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep) as part of the forthcoming Tôkyô! trilogy set for fall 2008 release.


Pretty People Are Highly Flammable

Pretty People Are Highly Flammable

Author: Gerry Walker

Publisher: Sfe Publishing

Published: 2011-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780578051826

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"Fantastically twisted, deliciously get-down dirty, gritty and real, Pretty People Are Highly Flammable is seductively addictive and simply amazing. I loved every breathing moment of it and am officially a Gerry Walker fan for life " - Delilah Marvelle, author of 'Prelude To A Scandal' & 'Once Upon A Scandal', HQN Books Xavier, Charmaine, Emil, Karianna, and Andy are childhood friends groomed to become young, successful high-powered professionals. But on the road to the lush life, their secret addictions, unscrupulous decisions, backdoor trysts, and unhealed wounds threaten to destroy the loving, trusting bond they once built. When a Valentine's Day reunion thrusts their innermost demons into the light, a devastating avalanche of events is unleashed, leaving one of them dead. Pretty People Are Highly Flammable is a raw, heartfelt romantic comedy thriller with erotic undertones. It's like E. Lynn Harris on speed. The first installment of the ''Pretty People" Dirt Opera trilogy, Pretty People Are Highly Flammable introduces the characters, unveiling their quirks, strengths, weaknesses, and hopes. We learn how they met, as well as what forces have begun to tear them apart. The rug is pulled from beneath them one by one, forcing them to face the aftermath of their behaviors and choices. Will they completely unhinge as a result? Pretty People Are Highly Flammable is a multicultural, inter-sexual romp for adults. It tackles adultery, incest, rape, drug abuse, cancer, AIDS and more head-on. Steaming with sex, scandal, rollercoaster twists, and a bit of dark humor to boot, Pretty People Are Highly Flammable will take you directly to the edge, then drop you right into the mouth of its sequel, PRETTY PEOPLE MAKE GREAT PROJECTILES, coming in 2016. www.GerryWalker.net @gerrywalker on Twitter