Sita: Daughter of the Earth
10 best books like Sita: Daughter of the Earth (Saraswati Nagpal): Rise of the Black Panther, A Street Through Time, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris/The Eiffel Tower Demon, Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose, The Dream Thief, Ramayan 3392 AD, Vol. 1, Grant Morrison's 18 Days, The Serpent's Shadow: The Graphic Novel, City of Light, City of Dark
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 1302908847 |
Witness the early years of the man who will come to rule one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the world! Wakanda has always kept itself isolated from Western society, but that's all about to change. Young T'Challa knows he is destined to become king, but when his father is brutally murdered...
| Author | Anne Millard |
| ISBN | 0751355356 |
* Follow the life of a street, seeing it develop from a small Stone Age camp - changing over thousands of years - into a bustling riverside thoroughfare in the heart of a metropolis * This beautifully illustrated book brings fourteen key periods in history to life * You'll find out how people lived long...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606993828 |
Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of the same, Adele has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adele having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh...
| Author | Tony Lee |
| ISBN | 0763646431 |
The Arthurian legend springs to life in another powerhouse graphic novel from the creators of OUTLAW: THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD.
Arthur Pendragon was raised in obscurity, but fate will not leave him to the shadows. In a moment of desperate need, he draws a legendary sword from its stonebed and...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1561633917 |
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
| Author | J.M. DeMatteis |
| ISBN | 0007233396 |
I read this book immediately after reading the first in the series The Road to Inconceivable back to back, so I am doing a sort of joint review. Even if you haven't read the first book, please check out my journal entry on it as there are a couple of great stories there.
This book is grand, even better...
| Author | Shamik Dasgupta |
| ISBN | 1934413046 |
events of the epic Ramayan taking place in a dystopian/post-apocalyptic future. Liked the interesting sci fi rendition of the main story. The event does't follow just like main epic, many changes have appeared, so it makes the reading more interesting. The character developements of the four Suryabanshi...
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1606901745 |
From superstar creator Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman & Robin, The Invisibles), comes 18 Days, the story of three generations of super-warriors, meeting for the final battle of their age. 18 Days is a re-imagining of the great eastern myth, Mahabharata, and follows the course of the...
| Author | Orpheus Collar |
| ISBN | 1484781325 |
He's b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. Unfortunately, the magicians...
Two kids fight to save their city from eternal winter in this gripping fantasy by Newbery Medalist Avi, illustrated by three-time Sibert honouree Brian Floca.
The Kurbs give people light and warmth to establish a city, on one condition: The people must return the Power every year or risk losing...
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist: Volume 3
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 1593074921 |
A secret - I bought this book for the contribution of one man. Being Will Eisner's final published work and his only-time return to the Spirit, I felt that I had no choice. Will, as always, proves my faith in him justified. His peculiar look at two pseudo-superheroes, complete with tongue-in-cheek reference...
| Author | Tim Collins |
| ISBN | 1843178567 |
Luke Thorpe is a fifteen-year-old wimp. Excellent at maths and terrible at sport, he likes to keep his head down and get on with his schoolwork. Yet mysterious and uncontrollable changes in his behaviour and appearance - patches of hair growing rapidly, howling rather than singing the hymns in assembly,...
In this final volume, the big confrontation between Fig and the Conception, between Fig and Lotus Blossom, between Lotus Blossom and the Magical Physicians, between Fig and Lotus Blossom and Harry, between - okay, between everyone and everyone else, and it's been building since issue one. What will...
| Author | Gail Carriger |
| ISBN | 1465879749 |
The premise was intriguing, but the delivery was flat and terrible.
It’s hard for me to give anything but a glowing review to anything Gail Carriger has written, but this one just did not do it for me.
As a short-story, it failed. It was confusing, choppy, and over too quickly. While...
Amar Chitra Katha Mahabharata Vol. 1-3
| Author | Anant Pai |
| ISBN | 8190599011 |
The Mahabharata presents sweeping visions of the cosmos and humanity and intriguing and frightening glimpses of divinity in an ancient narrative that is accessible, interesting, and compelling for anyone willing to learn the basic themes of Hindu culture. The Mahabharata definitely is one of those...
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1593071728 |
Following in the footsteps of the massively successful Volume One, the second volume of Michael Chabon Presents. . .The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist collects issues three and four of the likewise popular quarterly series.
Among the stories in this volume: Critically acclaimed writer...
Wodehouse Steampunk! Reggie Worcester and Reeves, his gentleman’s personal gentle-automaton, are consulting detectives in an alternative 1903 where an augmented Queen Victoria is still on the throne and automata are a common sight below stairs. Humour, Mystery, Aunts and Zeppelins!
“A...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Annual 2013
| Author | Paddy Kempshall |
| ISBN | 0007487347 |
Published in advance of the amazing new movie by Peter Jackson, this is the OFFICIAL Hobbit Annual, packed with stills, characters and information from the movie sensation.
Join Bilbo Baggins on his unexpected journey across the wilds of Middle-earth with Gandalf the Wizard and a company...
| Author | Ruth Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0967290201 |
Three princes go on a quest to the Heart of the World to save their drought-ravaged kingdom.
The Enchanted Wood is an original fairytale written and illustrated by Ruth Sanderson. It was originally published in 1991 by Little, Brown and Co. and won the Irma s. Black Award and the Young Hoosier...
The Secret Origins Of The Bible
| Author | Tim Callahan |
| ISBN | 0965504794 |
It is surprising that a book as widely explained as the Bible can still hold secrets. Many intelligent and otherwise well informed readers will find much of the material in this book new and quite startling, although Bible scholars, and anyone who has even an amateur background in comparative mythology,...
