The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
10 best books like The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography (Tetsu Saiwai): Snow, Glass, Apples, The Library of the Unwritten, A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, When I Arrived at the Castle, Off Season, Chroniques de Jérusalem, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, The Nightingales are Drunk, Gandhi: A Manga Biography
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1472262913 |
A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever...
The Library of the Unwritten
| Author | A.J. Hackwith |
| ISBN | 1984806386 |
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.
Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian...
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
| Author | Zeina Abirached |
| ISBN | 0761385681 |
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...
When I Arrived at the Castle
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
| Author | James Sturm |
| ISBN | 1770463313 |
Rage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see, taste, and feel.
How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s...
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 2756025690 |
Guy Delisle et sa famille s’installent pour une année à Jérusalem. Pas évident de se repérer dans cette ville aux multiples visages, animée par les passions et les conflits depuis près de 4000 ans. Au
détour d’une ruelle, à la sortie d’un lieu saint, à la terrasse d’un café,...
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir
A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist.
In this achingly beautiful graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost—her...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0141980265 |
'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded'
Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in modern Iran.
Introducing Little...
Gandhi: A Manga Biography
| Author | Kazuki Ebine |
| ISBN | 0143120247 |
The life of a true twentieth-century hero told in a vibrant graphic novel format.
Through his quietly powerful leadership and influential use of nonviolent resistance in India's struggle against the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi became one of the most revered figures of the modern era. While history...
Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What’s keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his...
Lewis Trondheim et Brigitte Findakly forment en bande dessinée comme à la ville un duo depuis de nombreuses années. Si la bibliographie pléthorique de Lewis Trondheim n’a plus de secret pour personne, celle de Brigitte Findakly, son épouse et coloriste, quoique toute aussi importante, reste...
Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts
is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (
Kitchen Confidential
, Emmy-Award winning TV star of
Parts Unknown
) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (
Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster
) back again from their
New York Times
#1 best seller,
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| Author | Elio D'Anna |
| ISBN | 0956071627 |
"The School for Gods" is a novel about the ideas and the philosophy that inspire the School, but also a manifest announcing “the Individual Revolution”, the birth of vertical men, the cells of a new humanity finally healed from pain, fear and conflictual thinking.
The original manuscript...
Meeting Of Minds: A Dialogue On Tibetan And Chinese Buddhism
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 1890684031 |
This enlightening little book is the account of an historical dialgoue between two leading representatives of Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism today,His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama and Venerable Chan Master Sheng-yen. These two masters spoke before 2500 people gathered at The Roseland in New York...
| Author | Catullus |
| ISBN | 0141398590 |
Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world...
| Author | Bob Dylan |
| ISBN | 0743230418 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.
Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection...
| Author | John Allison |
| ISBN | 1684153719 |
Daisy, Esther, and Susan’s last year at university is getting a bumpy start, with everything strange after Ed’s declaration of love followed by grievous injury, Daisy with nowhere to live, and McGraw and Susan at odds over their new flat!
The final year of university is about to start for...
