Chance in Hell
10 best books like Chance in Hell (Gilbert Hernández): Aya, The Terminal Man, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, Safari Honeymoon, There's No Such Thing as a Dragon, By This Shall You Know Him, The Sandman: Overture, Cecil and Jordan in New York, Set to Sea, Good Dog
| Author | Marguerite Abouet |
| ISBN | 1894937902 |
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life goes on." --Marguerite Abouet
Ivory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's house every evening to watch the country's first...
| Author | Michael Crichton |
| ISBN | 0060092572 |
Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people.
Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called...
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the...
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1927668042 |
Looking for the ultimate honeymoon experience, a newly married couple hire a guide to take them to a truly exotic location, one teeming with strange life forms and best described as an unimaginably alien version of a jungle. While the reader immediately realizes that the unfathomable flora and fauna...
| Author | Jack Kent |
| ISBN | 0009780375 |
A personal favorite from my own childhood - and actually, one of the few picture books I remember with total clarity. It has stayed with me over the years. There's something so endearing about this story...the small dragon that befriends the little boy. And then in defiance of all who keep saying he can't...
By This Shall You Know Him
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0986873985 |
Artist and illustrator Jesse Jacobs—whose book Even the Giants (AdHouse, 2011) marked his major publishing debut after several award-winning, self-published titles—describes his new comic work, By This Shall You Know Him, as coming “out of the darkness of oblivion.” Within the book’s...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401248969 |
Twenty-five years since
The Sandman
first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman’s legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition!
The Sandman: Overture heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s return to the art form that made him famous, ably...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1897299575 |
Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original Cecil and Jordan in New York
Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short...
| Author | Drew Weing |
| ISBN | 1606993682 |
The central character is a big lug and an aspiring poet who runs up tabs at the local bars by day and haunts the docks by night, writing paeans to the sea-faring life. When he gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong, he finds the sailor’s life a bit rougher than his romantic nautical fantasies....
| Author | Graham Chaffee |
| ISBN | 1606996363 |
Good Dog marks the welcome return of alternative cartoonist Graham Chaffee, who, after his successful 2003 collection of short stories, The Most Important Thing and other Stories, took a detour to devote himself to the art of tattooing, before charging back with his new, beautifully conceived graphic...
Angela and the Baby Jesus
| Author | Frank McCourt |
| ISBN | 1416574700 |
"When my mother, Angela, was six years old, she felt sorry for the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lived...."* * * *Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a modern classic. Now he has written a captivating Christmas...
Noah Van Sciver’s latest graphic novella drops in on the life of the self-styled, aspiring young writer, Fante Bukowski, as he delusively makes his way to literary fame and fortune, one drink at a time. Living in a cheap hotel, consorting with the debased and downtrodden, searching for that golden...
Immortal Hulk, Volume 4: Abomination
Once upon a time, Rick Jones was the Hulk's best friend. Rick was there at ground zero on the fateful day the Hulk was born, and during the early days when the Hulk was a mindless brute roaming the New Mexico desert, Rick was right by his side. The only one who believed in him. Now Rick Jones is dead and gone....
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1603091548 |
Long out of print, Jeff Lemire's Xeric-Award-winning LOST DOGS now returns in a newly remastered edition, soaked with blood and ink. This 104-page mythic yarn follows a family man who's larger than life... but even he may not be powerful enough to prevent the loss of everything he's ever known.
Bold,...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1936393441 |
When you live forever, what will you live for?
In our distant future, science will provide access to eternal life. With immortality a universal constant, the concept of crime takes on a new definition, giving rise to the “Philosophical Police”, agents trained to solve conflicts between...
