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Rene Levesque volume 1
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When Levesque learns that Producers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are going to go on strike to push for unionization, he finds his career in the middle of a political maelstrom that he soon becomes a central participant in.
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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our...
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Gabrielle has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Tallulah, one marked by intimacy and resilience in the face of a volatile patriarch. Everything in their home has been bleached a cold white-from the cupboards filled with sheets and crockery to the food and spices Tallulah cooks with. Even Gabrielle, who inherited the ability to change the color of her skin from her mother, is told to pass into white if she doesn't want to upset...
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Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites-threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston.
Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah,...
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Frank is another dreamer whose life is suddenly burned to the ground. More a disillusioned literature PhD than an experienced financier, he had naively agreed to join his wife's inheritance with his own personal guarantee of a college friend's private equity partnership debt.
The business implosion and subsequent bankruptcy took all their assets. Francy, an orphaned European heiress, now finds herself homeless, still married to pleasant, witty...
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Rene Levesque volume 2
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As a newly elected Minister, Levesque immediately goes to work against corruption, but towards efforts to nationalize electricity, facing strong headwinds in the process. He also learns nothing is more unpredictable than friendship.
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Rene Levesque volume 1
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A victory for Rene Levesque in the 1976 Quebec general election would make him Premier of Quebec and open a new door for Quebec, and Canada's, future. The main question is, where does the spirit of the people rest?
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Rene Levesque volume 2
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Progress is stunted after the referendum fails to gain majority support, leaving Parti Quebecois to negotiate a path forward. However, the true depth of the obstacles that stand before them have only just begun to reveal themselves.
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Rene Levesque volume 3
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Levesque begins to increasingly find himself at odds with Lesage, and by the Liberal Convention of 1967, Levesque is forced to make a momentous decision that will determine his future path, including the people willing to stand by him.
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From the bestselling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multigenerational novel-set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama-about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue Family Shelter in Philadelphia in 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's...
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Lizard of Transition
On his deathbed, a World War Two veteran, Joe Rubin, confesses to his son that he murdered a Japanese prisoner in the jungles of New Guinea seventy years ago. In his last hours, Joe enters the world between life and death, known as the world of transition. He tells of his journey, with an odd lizard leading the way, as he recants the tale of the murder prior to his imminent death.
He reveals to his son, Joshua, that he possesses...
12) The Throwback
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A married couple are thrown into a crisis when the wife, an under-appreciated and stressed "supermom," suffers a post-traumatic breakdown during the holiday season, causing her to regress to her college-age, party-girl self.
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Oni Press is proud to present the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Ray Fawkes' critically acclaimed and deeply moving graphic novel.
One Soul details the lives of eighteen individuals throughout history whose lives unfold simultaneously. Comprised entirely of double-page spreads split into eighteen panels, with each panel featuring one character's life, cartoonist Ray Fawkes uses an experimental narrative structure to artfully craft eighteen linear...
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A powerful and moving story based on real events in the Lebanese civil war in the 1980's. Lamia and her family are caught up in the fighting, with tragic consequences. Lamia struggles with the hatred that threatens to destroy her, until she grasps that forgiveness and love are the most important things. Nothing else matters.
15) One Line
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Comprised entirely of double-page spreads split into eighteen panels, with each panel featuring one character's life, cartoonist Ray Fawkes' master work One Soul crafted eighteen linear stories into one non-linear masterpiece. Nominated for the 2012 Eisner Award in the Graphic Album: New category, One Soul was a groundbreaking work that helped establish him as one of the most unique creative voices in contemporary comics.
As One Soul followed eighteen...
16) Dirty Thirty
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After celebrating her 30th birthday, a woman is found dead and her husband is the prime suspect.
17) Counterplay
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A couple's marriage is tested when an elusive woman begins to seduce the husband, and lure him into her trap.
18) Dangerous Affair
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A happy marriage begins to unravel when the wife starts having an affair with a man in their building.
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