Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Author	Laila Lalami
ISBN	1565124944

Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him. Leaving his mother behind, Youssef assumes a life he could only dream of: a famous and influential...

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...

Author

Tahar Ben Jelloun

مصابي جليل، والعزاء جميل، ...
وظني بأن الله سوف يديل
جراح وأسر، واشتياق، وغربة...
أحمل إني، بعدها، لحمول
وإني، في هذا الصباح، لصالح،...
ولكن خطي...

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...

Author	Shin'ichi Sakamoto
ISBN	4088795652

I tell you what - Japanese authors may sometimes have a weird perspective on European history, be it Middle Ages, Queen Victoria's ruling, or introduction to French Revolution, like here, but the execution of their works is usually so stunningly immaculate/original/funny/you pick yourself, that...

Author	Dave Sim
ISBN	0919359116

Reprinting Cerebus Issues 81-111

Church and State, Volume II, is the second part of a story that exists as a whole and as part three of the Cerebus the Aardvark series. Many consider this volume to be Dave Sim and background artist Gerhard's best visual work to date. The action picks up right after...