Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3]
10 best books like Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3] (David B.): Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World, American Knees, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Candy, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome, Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization, Kiki de Montparnasse, Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
Author | Vicki León |
ISBN | 0802715567 |
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicarius...
Raymond Ding is 40, divorced, and, as a boyfriend, sort of lecture-y and condescending. He works as the Assistant Director of Minority Affairs at Jack London College in Oakland and, in his relationship with Aurora Crane, a younger Eurasian woman, he can't seem to forget that he's the guy she's sleeping...
Author | Larry Gonick |
ISBN | 0393324036 |
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Author | Cecilia Manguerra Brainard |
ISBN | 0472086375 |
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance...
Author | Mian Mian |
ISBN | 0316563560 |
I quit trusting anything that anyone told me.
My life was skidding into darkness at high speed, and I couldn't stop it.
I didn't think that there was a man anywhere in the world who could love me.
I was 22 years old and dead on the vine.
I want to see a thousand lonely strangers dancing happily...
Author | James M. Fallows |
ISBN | 0307456242 |
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic,...
Author | Annelise Freisenbruch |
ISBN | 1416583033 |
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has...
Author | Evan D.G. Fraser |
ISBN | 1439101892 |
We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor.
Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century merchant as a narrative guide, Empires of Food vividly chronicles...
Author | Catel |
ISBN | 2203396210 |
Kiki de Montparnasse, née Alice Prin au tout début du XXe siècle, fut l’une des figures les plus marquantes de la vie artistique parisienne de l’entre-deux guerres, lors des Années Folles. Égérie et amie de très nombreux artistes – Modigliani, Duchamp, Desnos, Picasso, Cocteau, Aragon,...
Author | G.B. Tran |
ISBN | 0345508726 |
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
Author | Brian Fies |
ISBN | 0810958406 |
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.
This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
Author | Pat Mills |
ISBN | 1840236272 |
From renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law, Slaine) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) comes a truly classic piece of graphic storytelling, by turns thrilling, horrifying and deeply moving. In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to enlist and fight on the battlefields...
Author | Charles M. Schulz |
ISBN | 0449205479 |
Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul...
Author | Philippe Dupuy |
ISBN | 1896597793 |
A celebration of the sophistication, wit and charm found only in the singular collaboration of French cartooning team
For twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have collaborated on every aspect—sharing both the writing and drawing—of their highly...
In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In "Hapa Girl" (hapa is Hawaiian for mixed) their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s....
Author | Marilyn Chin |
ISBN | 0393331458 |
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.
When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
Author | Eiji Otsuka |
ISBN | 1595824464 |
Stuff I Read – Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol 10
So here is the second of my birthday haul of manga, and volume 10 takes a rather large departure from most of the previous volumes, or at least from volumes 8 and 9, which were made up of at least three stories a piece. Instead, volume 10 breaks...
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
Author | Doreen Baingana |
ISBN | 0767925106 |
In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin's dictatorship.
Three...