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1861) Munich Airport: a novel
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him that his sister Miriam has been found dead of starvation in her Berlin apartment. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American Consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet and returned to America"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer-while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On February 13, 2017, two teenage girls-13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German-decided to enjoy a day off from school by exploring the popular hiking trails near the Monon High Bridge just a few minutes' drive from Libby's home in Delphi, Indiana. Libby's sister, Kelsi, dropped the two girls off at the head of the trail and waved to them as they walked down the path, which was the last time they'd ever be seen alive. Less than 24...
1864) Ruins
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever. In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a monarch butterfly endures on its annual...
1865) Final fantasy XV
Publisher
Square Enix
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Out on the road with his closest friends, Prince Noctis hears unsettling news: his homeland has fallen to the empire, with his father, his fiancèe, and he himself reported dead. Unsure of what to believe, he knows only one thing--he must make his way home and take back what is rightfully his."--Container.
1866) Loveless: Volume 7
Author
Publisher
TokyoPop
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Soubi takes Ritsuka to find Septimal Moon, and Kio tags along for the ride. Ritsuka is unsettled and disturbed to discover that the Seimei Kio knew is very different from Ritsuka's own memories of his beloved older brother... Or are they so different after all? When Ritsuka confronts him about it, Soubi reveals a link that may finally start to reconcile Ritsuka's fragmented view of the young man he always admired. But when they arrive at the Seven...
1867) Final fantasy XV
Publisher
Square Enix
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Out on the road with his closet friends, Prince Noctis hears unsettling news: his homeland has fallen to the empire, with his father, his fiancess, and he himself reported dead. Unsure of what to believe, he knows only one thing-he must make his way home and take back what is rightfully his." -- container.
1868) Incognegro
Author
Language
English
Description
"This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the world of shadows, battling vampires and fending off wolves at knifepoint, she can deal with that much. But when a trusted ally betrays the Shadowhunters and Jace is nowhere to be found, she might have to face a truth too unsettling to bear..."--Page [4] of cover.
1870) Walk me to the corner
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Elise is middle aged and satisfied in her marriage with her husband when she meets Dagmar. What ensues is an affair that unsettles her whole life. A portrait of middle-age relationships and sexuality."--
1871) Qualification
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, a new graphic memoir brimming with black humor, that explores the ultimate irony: the author's addiction to 12-step programs. David Heatley had an unquestionably troubled and eccentric childhood: father a sexually repressed alcoholic, mother an overworked compulsive overeater. Then David's parents enter the world of 12-step programs and find a sense of support and community. It seems to help. David,...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"UNDERSEA MYSTERIES: The Arcadia has returned to Earth! Harlock and Tadashi infiltrate an underwater pyramid and encounter an unsettling grave--and with it, an ancient mystery. Seeking answers, Tadashi heads into space, to the pirate paradise known as Deathshadow Island, to see to a task only he has the power to execute."--Page [4] of cover.
1873) Sock monkey treasury
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The precocious sock monkey Uncle Gabby and his innocent pal Mr. Crow are the heroes of this funny, unsettling and endearing collection. Follow them as they try to find a home for a shrunken head, play matchmakers between the bat in the doll's house and the mouse in the basement, unlock the mysteries of a glass doorknob, hunt salamanders, try to get to heaven, and much more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Office worker Hiromi Sakura only recently discovered that he can turn into a magical girl--and now he's leaping off a paramilitary helicopter and fighting an unsettling schoolgirl in the clouds! And as if things couldn’t get more off-kilter, who's this dashing, caped protector asking Hiromi to call him "senpai"?! But bizarre as these encounters are, they could be a chance for Hiromi to learn more about his new identity, including what special powers...
1875) Voices in the dark
Author
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations--the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear--and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to party rallies, to the eastern front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright,...
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies. But stranger still is Lost Carcosa." The King in Yellow: a play that brings madness to all who read it. Irresistible and insidious, it lures the reader with its innocence and dooms them with its corruption. In a series of interlinked stories, Robert W. Chambers' classic work of weird fiction shows the creeping spread of the play's macabre touch. I.N.J. Culbard's...
1877) Mitchum
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Blutch is one of the most inventive storytellers in comics, and nothing reveals it like Mitchum. Serialized and collected in the mid-90s and never before available in English, this is Blutch at his most wide-ranging: from Puritan fever dreams to an encounter with a shape-shifting Robert Mitchum, Blutch builds stories out of his dreams, visions of America, and anything else he can get his hands on. Drawn in his unmistakable line that veers in a moment...
1878) Jamilti & other stories
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Collects the cartoonist's short works, which lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual character portraits. Some are darkly fantastical and unsettling, such as the unraveling of a serial-killer murder mystery, or her accounts of an infatuated plastic surgeon and his sanitarium, and a mother back from the dead with dubious healing powers. Others are more attuned to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity, as in the story...
1879) X-men: from the ashes
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chris Claremont and Paul Smith's classic UNCANNY X-MEN arc puts the team through major changes--and a test of faith! It's the start of a beautiful friendship between Kitty Pryde and Lockheed, but why does Kitty think Professor Xavier is a jerk? Storm battles Callisto, leader of the outcast mutant Morlocks--but why is Storm so unsettled, and what will she do to resolve her inner conflicts? Meanwhile, Rogue joins the X-Men, but how will the team react...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the...
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