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1) Girl in Dior
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In February of 1947, the crème de la crème of Paris haute couture have flocked to see Christian Dior's debut fashion show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway and the mesmerized audience declares the show a triumph. When Clara-a freshly hired chronicler and guide to the busy corridors of the brand-new fashion house-is hand-picked by Dior to be a model, she knows her life will never be the same. A biography...
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A graphic novel memoir with LGBT-themed tales of love and loss In this autobiographical work, Patrick Atangan documents the sad hilarity of his love life, from awkward first encounters, to finding out that the great guy you've been dating already has a boyfriend, to the sad inevitability of a break up. With a dark sense of humor, this work artfully navigates the perils of the gay world.
3) Lulu Anew
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At the end of yet another unproductive job interview, Lulu, on a whim, takes off for the shore just to get away from it all. She's got a husband and kids left bewildered but it's nothing against them. This is just her time, getting away from the grind and with no other plan than savoring it. Surprised at her own temerity, she meets other people on the edge of the world. It wasn't meant to be for long. It wasn't meant to be anything but in the end...
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Zombillenium volume 1
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There's a renewed excitement in Zombillenium, a horror-themed park run by actual monsters when the vampire Beauford Jaggar Carniegie III is officially brought on to help CEO Francis Von Bloodt manage the park. The park's employees, however, soon fear the worst as this latest hire is known as a cold-blooded killer and his mission to increase return-on-investment for the shareholders means the return has to be in souls. Francis is appalled but obligated...
5) Thoreau
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"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust." This graphic novel biography relates the forward looking inspirational life of the great author, philosopher and pioneering ecologist. Henry David Thoreau was also the father of the concept, still fresh today (viz "Occupy Wall St."), of "civil...