European comics (bande dessinée) essentials
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
- ASIN: 0393320979
- ISBN: 9780393320978
- Brand: W W Norton Company
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age i... [Read More]
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Lilac Girls: A Novel
- ASIN: B011G3HI9U
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French ... [Read More]
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- UPC: 000553296981
- ASIN: 0553296981
- ISBN: 9780553296983
- Brand: Bantam
- Manufacturer: Bantam
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The Complete Maus
- UPC: 000679406417
- ASIN: 0679406417
- ISBN: 0679406417
- Brand: PANTHPEON
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and ... [Read More]
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
- ASIN: 0394747232
- ISBN: 9780394747231
- Brand: Raw Books and Graphics
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
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The Secret Lake: A children's mystery adventure
- ASIN: 0956932304
- ISBN: 0956932304
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Well Said Press
A lost dog, a hidden time tunnel and a secret lake... A page-turning time travel adventure for children aged 8-11. Now enjoyed by thousands of young readers!When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home,they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their elderly neighbor's small dog. Where does he go? And why does... [Read More]
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
- ASIN: B013S434Y8
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and ... [Read More]
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Grendel
- ASIN: 0679723110
- ISBN: 9780679723110
- Brand: BALLANTINE
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library)
- ASIN: 0679729771
- ISBN: 0679729771
- Brand: Pantheon
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus ... [Read More]
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I Love You My Child, I'm Abandoning You: WW2 Holocaust Survivor memoir
- ASIN: B071CMPR38
An exciting human documentary taking place in France during the HolocaustLittle Paulette is an excellent pupil, surrounded by a loving family. But one day she is suddenly forced to confront the cruel reality of the Holocaust, together with the rest of French Jewry. Paulette is forced to separate from her family, and as a result, abandoned by her fa... [Read More]
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- ASIN: B000FBFNCO
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- UPC: 884275464862
- ASIN: 0439813786
- ISBN: 1407103482
- Brand: Scholastic Press
- Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4"
- Manufacturer: Scholastic Press
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The Women in the Castle: A Novel
- ASIN: 006256367X
- ISBN: 9780062563675
- Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
- Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic."—People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of h... [Read More]
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All My Love, Detrick: A Historical Novel Of Love And Survival During The Holocaust (All My Love Detrick Book 1)
- ASIN: B007A19V84
Book One in the All My Love, Detrick SeriesCan Forbidden Love Survive in Nazi Germany? After Germany’s defeat in the First World War, she lays in ruins, falling beneath the wheel of depression and famine. And so, with a promise of restoring Germany to her rightful place as a world power, Adolf Hitler begins to rise. Detrick, a handsome seventeen... [Read More]
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Wives of War
- ASIN: B01LQ646C4
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
An RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award nominee and an Amazon Charts bestseller.London, 1944. Two young nurses meet at a train station with a common purpose: to join the war effort. Scarlet longs for the chance to find her missing fiancé, Thomas, and to prove to her family—and to herself—that she’s stronger than everybody thinks. Nursing is ... [Read More]
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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (Landmark Books)
- ASIN: 1400031141
- ISBN: 1400031141
- Brand: Anchor Books
- Manufacturer: Anchor Books
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus. Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose, Herodotus's account of the rise of the Persian Empi... [Read More]
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The Inferno (Signet Classics)
- ASIN: 0451531396
- ISBN: 9780451531391
- Brand: Dante Alighieri/ Ciardi, John (TRN)/ Macallister,
- Manufacturer: Signet
Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.The first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways ... [Read More]
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The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day
- ASIN: 0809073641
- ISBN: 0809073641
- Brand: Wiesel, Elie
- Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1960), a young m... [Read More]
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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Graphic Library)
- ASIN: B0776KJL5L
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen—and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal. Ada... [Read More]
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Julius Caesar: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels)
- ASIN: 9380741804
- ISBN: 9789380741802
- Brand: William Shakespeare
- Manufacturer: Campfire
Rome, 44BC, the great general Julius Caesar arrives home from war as the sole ruler of Rome. The citizens cheer the conquering hero, but not all are pleased to see him return. Many fear that with nobody to oppose him, this military genius will become a cruel dictator. A conspiracy takes shape that ensnares the proud Brutus, one of Caesar's most tr... [Read More]
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