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Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Joyce Farmer, best known for co-creating the Tits 'n Clits comics anthology in the 1970s, a feminist response to the rampant misogyny in underground comix, spent 11 years crafting Special Exits, a graphic memoir in...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Daphne Walters' life is complicated enough, living at Rycroft Manor with her ghostly friends and trying to figure out why everyone in LA is always 30 minutes late for everything important. So it's TOTALLY the perfect time for Daphne to lose one of her friends, for the mystery of the ghost behind the basement door to be revealed and for Daphne to decide her entire future, RIGHT?"--
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Series
Fatale volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"In 1970s Los Angeles, Josephine can't hide from the forces of Hollywood, Satanic Cults, and creepy 8mm films collected by wealthy deviants. And when a struggling actor and his wounded friend cross her path, all hell will break loose, leaving ripples that echo all the way to modern time, where Nicolas Lash becomes more and more obsessed with finding the ageless Josephine and uncovering her mysteries."--
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Series
Ghosted in L.A volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Daphne Walters moves to Los Angeles for her boyfriend Ronnie, ready to live her happily ever after. But when happily ever after turns into happily for a month, she's stuck in a strange city with no friends, family, or prospects for fun. Desperate to escape the lingering ghost of Ronnie's presence everywhere, Daphne sets out to explore the city--and ends up encountering ghosts of a more literal kind!
5) Reckless
Author
Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles ... And the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears ... his own past."--
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Runaways (2017) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
"The Runaways survived the events of "That was Yesterday" - but the fallout from that epic adventure is still very much being felt, and the teen team is in disarray! Alex Wilder walks away from the Runaways - but will someone actually go with him?! In the aftermath, the team tries to take stock. There's plenty of rebuilding to do, both metaphorical and literal, but the kids are exhausted, heartbroken and confused. Are the Runaways up for these major...
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Runaways (2017) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Nico's magic has always been painful, an inheritance from her parents she had to hurt herself to use. Now, at last, she learns the shocking source of the Staff of One -- and things will never be the same! Meanwhile, Christmas comes to the Hostel -- but a familiar face could ruin everything. Alex Wilder is back! No one led the Runaways better than him -- and no one hurt them more. But with the destruction of Earth looming, will Alex help the team...
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The next book in the red-hot Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring us a new original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless. It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. How hard could that be, right? Only what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan...
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
"Baby Jack-Jack has a cold and everyone is at risk! With each sneeze, the denizens of Metrovill are infected with-- Jack-Jack's powers! With the city being overun with Jack-Jack empowered villains, can The Incredibles find a cure for Jack-Jack and return the city to normal? Or will there soon be a city of Incredibles?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
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GN 430L
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English
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"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
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Series
Fade out volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The final act of the best-selling Hollywood Noir comic from the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips.
16) American vampire
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A new vampire for a new century. Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet has a reputation for cussedness as long as he is ornery. As the first vampire conceived on American soil, however, he's not your usual creature of the night. Stronger, fiercer and powered by the sun, Sweet is the first of a new breed of bloodsucker: the American Vampire. Forty-five years after rising from his grave, Sweet finds himself in 1920s Los Angeles, where...
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Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1985 and things in Ethan's life are going pretty well ... until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywood's secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the '70s."--
Author
Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town, so Anna must tackle this job on her own. When a movie scream queen asks her to prove the mansion she's renovating isn't haunted, Anna will stumble into the decades-long mystery of one of Hollywood's most-infamous murder houses... a place with many dark secrets, some of which might just kill her."--Back cover.
19) Follow me down
Author
Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the 1989 earthquake, Ethan takes a trip to San Francisco to search for a missing woman. But almost immediately he finds himself going down a path of darkness and murder in her wake, in a case unlike anything he's faced before"--
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
There're plenty of gangs in Los Angeles: north of downtown it's the Paid-in-Spades, and down south, past Washington, there's nothing. There's the East-Side Firegirls and Thee Suertes, and past El Pueblo, on the west side, it's the One Tricks. That's what Tubby is, a One Trick, but he's hungry to be someone else, someone out of Los Angeles. He and his girl Vim want to split, but before they can, they need some cash. And that's what the One Tricks got,...
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