The Graphic Canon, Volume 2: From Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
10 best books like The Graphic Canon, Volume 2: From Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (Russ Kick): Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Call It Sleep, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans, Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889, The Electronic Revolution, The Fatal Bullet: The Assassination of James A. Garfield, The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, A Treasury of Victorian Murder, No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Henry Roth |
| ISBN | 0374522928 |
When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561635812 |
Nights of terror A city awash in blood New Orleans right after the First World War. The party returns to the Big Easy but someone looks to spoil it. Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night by someone grabbing their axe and hacking them right in their own cushy beds The pattern for each murder is the...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561633089 |
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Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
A newly issued and reformatted, beautifully designed larger version of this bilingual German/English work, published in Germany by Pociao's Expanded Media Editions, featuring a photo of the author by Brion Gysin. "I have described here a number of weapons and tactics in the war game. Weapons that...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561632287 |
Geary (The Borden Tragedy, Jack The Ripper) explores the first assassination of one of our presidents in the hands of an obsessive-compulsive stalker, a deluded loser who thought his action would bring him national glory. In this typically carefully researched and constructed story, Geary parallels...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561636053 |
The fourth entry in Geary's chronicling of famous XXth century murders tackles the extremely controversial case of Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Geary delves into his most political case yet in this series, however, all his favorite elements are there: the murders are...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561633097 |
This was incredible, especially being his first title of a MAGNIFICENT series, but I'm using my review to try to inspire:
Carl Panzram- someone I wish Geary (or anybody near his talent) did a graphic novel on! His story is blurry from being so long ago and but there are enough facts to pull it off with...
| Author | Amos Barshad |
| ISBN | 1419734555 |
An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control.
Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders—he’s interested in their scheming advisors, the dark figures who wield power in the shadows. And, as...
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
| Author | Debbie Levy |
| ISBN | 1481465597 |
Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—in the first picture book about her life—as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing...
Lovers' Lane: the Hall-Mills Mystery
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561636282 |
The perfect ingredients for a juicy scandal and fascinating investigation are presented in this masterful graphic novel retelling of an unsolved murder from the 1920s. On the evening of September 14, 1922, Reverend Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the New Brunswick town park. Shots...
