Contrapaso - Volume 1 - The Children of Others

Contrapaso - Volume 1 - The Children of Others
Author: Teresa Valero
Publisher: Europe Comics
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2021-08-25T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Madrid, winter of 1956. Franco's fascist dictatorship controls the press and maintains the fiction of an idyllic nation. Faced with the Regime's attempts to cover up the country's most sordid crimes, two journalists from the crime beat, the jaded veteran Emilio Sanz and the young and intrepid Léon Lenoir, seek to reveal the truth. Confronted by a wave of unexplained murders, the duo sets out to uncover the dark secret connecting them, buried in a cruel past. Brilliantly written and illustrated by Teresa Valero, Sanz and Lenoir's investigation plunges us headfirst into an era and society as dark and as violent as it is full of hope. A bracing journalistic thriller revealing the lengths the Francoist regime was willing to go to in its attempts to stifle any form of dissent.

Contrapasso

Contrapasso
Author: Nathan Jorgenson
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0974637084

CONTRAPASSO (kon-tra-pass-oh n. the concept that the punishment of an individual's soul corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth. Secret memories that linger in the heart of a lover, the joy of childhood and young love, loss of innocence, and the losses that come with aging. In Contrapasso, Nathan Jorgenson's unique sense of humor and heartbreak shine through as he weaves all of these into a rich story of ....LIFE.

Noir Burlesque - Part 1

Noir Burlesque - Part 1
Author: Enrico Marini
Publisher: Europe Comics
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

After a hold-up gone wrong, Slick finds himself deep in the red with local mafia boss Rex. But that's not the only thing setting them at odds: they also have their sights set on the same woman, the beguiling Caprice. She's engaged to Rex and headlines his club, where she thrills the nightly crowds. She's off-limits, but Slick has never been one for limits. And he has unfinished business with Caprice, who was once his own sweetheart before the war pulled them apart. After all these years, there's no love lost between them, but that doesn't mean the old spark isn't alive... And now, they're playing with fire. Taking inspiration from the Hollywood noir films of the 1950s, Enrico Marini delivers a gritty graphic novel combining crime, love, jealousy, and betrayal.

Waiting for White Horses

Waiting for White Horses
Author: Nathan Jorgenson
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0974637041

The friendship between Grant Thorson and Will Campbell is the only sure thing in Grant's life as he suffers a series of painful losses. When he falls in love with Susan, it seems that happiness is his once more. But when Will dies, Grant decides that loving someone makes him too vulnerable, so he pushes Susan and his daughter away to keep from being hurt again.

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Canticle 1: Hell

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Canticle 1: Hell
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Scripsi
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2010
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0955288428

"In this new translation of its first canticle, Hell, the precise meaning of the original is allowed to come across without recourse to literalness or loss of poetic feel. In addition, the novel use of tetrameters ensures the lively rhythms of the original are captured better than by using the more traditional blank verse. Similar novelty may be found in the redesign of forty-two of Gustave Doré’s original engravings to convey a striking vision of a stark, bleak and desolate Hell; there are also two new maps of both Hell and Dante’s universe. With nearly a hundred pages of notes to help the reader who is unfamiliar with Dante and his world, this is a translation that can be readily understood by anyone ..." publisher's blurb.

InMusic

InMusic
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 980
Release: 1990
Genre: Audiotapes
ISBN:

Her Infernal Descent, Vol. 1

Her Infernal Descent, Vol. 1
Author: Zac Thompson
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781935002413

A tale of loss told in five parts. Any good mom would march through theinferno of HELL to get her family back. Unable to cope with the burden of grief,a middle-aged mother descends the nine circles of hell to retrieve her forsakenfamily. Guided by the ghosts of William Blake and Agatha Christie, thisno-nonsense matriarch journeys deep into a bizarre underworld filled withcelebrity sinners, surreal landscapes and absurdtasks. From Lonnie Nadler and ZacThompson, the writers of the break-out hit The Dregs and Cable,and Kyle Charles, the artist of Roche Limit, comes a journey through hellunlike anything you've experienced before. HER INFERNAL DESCENT vol 1 contains thecomplete first story arc, issues #1-5.

Annie's Baby

Annie's Baby
Author: Beatrice Sparks
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-07-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062012665

When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise this child on her own?

The Right Madness

The Right Madness
Author: James Crumley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2006-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143037307

James Crumley is one of the most revered practitioners of post-Chandler crime fiction, praised by the likes of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly as a major influence. C. W. Sughrue is Crumley's most indelible creation. Now Sughrue is back, in a searing thrill ride of a novel that has the seen-it-all Montana private eye trying to find out which of a small-town shrink's bizarre patients has made off with some highly confidential files. Fast-paced, brutal, melancholy, and ruefully funny, The Right Madness is Crumley at his uncompromising best.