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Series
Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope volume season 7, episode 6
Publisher
Travelscope LLC
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
'Bonjour' means good day in French and it is always a good day in the French speaking Canadian province of Quebec, especially in the lively cosmopolitan city of Montreal. Taking to Montreal's streets, neighborhoods, natural places and waterways, the travel guide discovers that summer is the time for celebrating.
6) Van Dog
Author
Publisher
Milky Way Picture Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Van Dog rides to the countryside to paint a landscape one day. As he mounts his easel, mixes his paints, and contemplates the scenery, the landscape slowly unfolds in weird and wonderful ways: a snail nibbles on a mushroom, ants gather to work, and a giant lizard monster sets off on a journey to Tokyo. As the landscape becomes busier and busier, Van Dog struggles to finish his painting--but is he overwhelmed by his subject, or is the richness of...
Author
Publisher
CrackBoom!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Warm Celebration of Family Diversity In Aria's tiny village, there are only nine houses. But each of them contains an entire universe. From Samir, whose grandparents never stop dancing, to Judith, whose father identifies as transgender, to Lily, who never knew her birth mother and who lives with her two adoring fathers. Aria introduces us to a wide range of family characteristics. How about your family-what makes it special? Through Aria's eyes,...
8) Entry Island
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal.
9) Nineteen
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
"Ancco looks back at her own tumultuous adolescence, from the not-so-distanced lens of a twenty-something. A mother's struggles mirror her teen's. Memories of care between the cartoonist and her grandmother--before her faculties had started to fade. Quick judgments look ugly through the eyes of a teen, who's leaning into her own sense of self. Whether it's friends, family, animals, or even a stranger on the internet, the stories in Nineteen exude...
10) My dog and I
Author
Publisher
Milky Way Picture Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Out for a walk one day, a girl stumbles upon a lost "dog." Having always wanted a dog of her own, she brings the "little" creature home and takes care of it in secret, hiding it from her parents. Proud of her new "dog," she plays with it, feeds it, and even takes it around town-much to the chagrin of the townspeople and other kids who have been mean to her in the past. But one day, when her "little" friend gets the urge to chase something and ends...
Series
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Trinity is a no-good amateur outlaw looking to build a nasty reputation by committing as many crimes as he possibly can. While being chased by a bloodthirsty lynch mob, he runs into his older brother and the two decide to work as a team -- hijacking stage coaches. After a string of bad luck, the brothers resort to card sharking in a local saloon. When the mob rides into town there's a violent showdown and only one man will be left standing.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Few Black cartoonists have entered national syndication, and before Barbara Brandon-Croft, none of them were women. From 1989 to 2005, she brought Black womens perspectives to an international audience with her trailblazing comic strip Where Im Coming From. From diets to day care to debt to dreaded encounters with everyday racism, no issue is off-limits. This remarkable and unapologetically funny career retrospective holds a mirror up to the ways...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An evocative, earth-shattering memoir about one woman's kidnapping and 450 days of captivity at the hands of terrorists--and her stunning escape to freedom. In January 2019, news outlets reported that a young Canadian woman and her Italian companion were presumed kidnapped while traveling in Africa's Sahel region, a haven for Islamic terrorists. Little was known about the pair's fate until they reappeared in Mali more than one year later, having...
Publisher
Darby Pop Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world's most legendary Christmas music fanatics and hits the road to hang with his holiday heroes including hip hop legend Joseph Rev Run Simmons of RUN-D.M.C., The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, filmmaker John Waters, bebopper Bob Dorough, L.A. DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow. In his search for the twelve best, underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded,...
Series
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Spoof of the western classic The magnificent seven. Two half brothers help a group of Mormon settlers protect themselves from a band of marauding Mexican bandits. Add the further complication of two of the Mormon girls falling in love with Trinity.
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