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Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years — roughly contemporaneously with the author’s own journey as a mother— wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love,...
3) Umma's table
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Drawn & Quarterly
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©2020
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English
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"The joy of food and tradition brings a family together. Madang is an artist and new father who moves to a quiet home in the countryside with his wife and young baby, excited to build a new life full of hope and joy, complete with a garden and even snow. But soon reality sets in and his attention is divided between his growing happy family and his impoverished parents back in Seoul in a dingy basement apartment. With an ailing mother in and out of...
4) Shadow life
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First Second
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English
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Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko's well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it's not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping...
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Way of the househusband volume 7
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. But it's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but! Tatsu is tasked with squeezing the locals for money owed to the association--the neighborhood association, that is. But when the former gangster tries to collect, what should be a quick and easy job ends up anything but! All your faves are back in action...
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Way of the househusband volume 2
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The legendary yakuza 'the Immortal Dragon' has washed his hands of the gangster life for something far more dangerous--becoming a househusband! Cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking... These days he's doing everything he can to succeed as man of the house, if it doesn't kill him first! The cozy yakuza comedy continues!"--Provided by publisher.
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Spy X Family volume 4
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head!... The Forgers look into adding a dog to their family, but this is no easy task--especially when Twilight has to simultaneously foil an assassination plot against a foreign minister! The perpetrators plan to use...
8) Keeping two
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"20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie,...
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Way of the househusband volume 10
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Through the Torii group's yakuza matriarch, Tatsu bags himself a new hustle as an enforcer--for the local supermarket! The gig? Catching shoplifters, of course!"--Provided by publisher.
10) Salamandre
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"Kaspar Salamandre is a bereaved young artist who is sent to stay with his enigmatic grandfather in a land ruled under an oppressive regime, where there can be only one loved one: The Emperor. In this land where flowers are contraband, music is illegal, and art is created in hiding, Kaspar discovers a world of art revolutionaries, espionage, and the Secret Police. His search for answers will bring him face to face with the meaning of sacrifice. But,...
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Way of the househusband volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Tatsu is ambushed by a yakuza with a beef, and there's only one way to settle things----an epic rap battle! But this throwdown is only a warm-up for the buffet yet to come, because when you're the Immortal Dragon, you don't choose the househusband life, it chooses you!"--Back cover.
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Way of the househusband volume 8
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The cozy yakuza comedy continues as everyone's favorite househusband finds himself in even more crazy high jinks. Between a donut showdown and a new lady cop on the beat, Tatsu may have finally met his match! It's just another day for the Immortal Dragon."--Amazon.
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Sakamoto days volume 4
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! The race to rescue Lu takes Sakamoto and Shin deep into an underground...
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Way of the househusband volume 9
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu faces off against his toughest opponent yet--a cunning little girl who refuses to eat her vegetables! It's going to take more than some quick sleight of hand to get one over on this smart cookie. Does the Immortal Dragon have what it takes to deliver the goods?"--
15) Stone fruit
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"Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. As their emotional intimacy erodes, Ray and Bron isolate from each other and attempt to repair their broken family ties -- Ray with her overworked, resentful single-mother...
Author
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Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Sakamoto and X finally face off! Although Sakamoto has vowed not to kill, X shakes him up by threatening his family....
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Blood on the tracks volume 12
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"p on the hill, Seiichi's encounter with Shigeru merges with his own experience of being cast away by his mother, Seiko--and in that moment, he kills Shigeru in order to kill himself, a sacrificial rite to permanently sever his connection with his mother. Taken into custody, Seiichi feels only relief...But Seiko isn't gone from his life yet!!"--
18) Spy x family: 7
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Spy X Family volume 7
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Master spy Twilight receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid.
Author
Series
Way of the househusband volume 6
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"All of Tatsu's hustling and networking since leaving the yakuza has earned him an offer he can't refuse--an invitation to run with the women's association, the movers and shakers of his neighborhood. But before he can be initiated, the Immortal Dragon must prove to the board's heavyweights that he truly can hack it as a homemaker. It will be the greatest test of his househusband's skills yet!"--Back cover.
20) Spy x family: 8
Author
Series
Spy X Family volume 8
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment--to get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head! Yor is assigned to be a bodyguard for a mafia family on a cruise ship by the secret organization Garden. But with Lloyd and Anya also on board thanks to a giveaway they won, Yor is starting to have doubts about her...
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