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1) Sour Apple
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
By all appearances they are a happy couple. Married, religious, hardworking. What happens behind closed doors, however, is a secret, even to those closest to them. "Kwane jabko" (Sour Apple), written by Jerzy Szyak and illustrated by Joanna Karpowicz, tells a story of domestic abuse, a story of a victim and persecutor. This story of violence spiraling out of control brings no hope, instead playing on emotions and powerful illustrations, painted with...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an invisible man. He's a man that no one ever notices. He is transparent, whatever he does. This is rather a difficult cross to bear! One night, the man who so wants to be seen loses it. He's had enough. He wants to feel things too! His outburst costs him an ankle injury, which in turn leads him to Berenice, the lovely young physiotherapist. She soon sets him straight: we are all victims in one way or another! Gregory Mardon develops...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
1982. Leiva, Manu and El Canijo are three friends who always go everywhere together. They share their struggles, concerns, hopes, and fears. And their greatest fear of all is the end of the world, predicted by American preachers to occur on the afternoon of October 2, 1982. With the help of a few everyday objects, they will build masks, suits and everything necessary to survive the final judgment at all costs. Although not everything will end as they...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Layne Green is a social media sensation of a cook. He's selected to compete on a reality TV show called Voyage de Gourmet - a globe-trotting foodie adventure. However, his partner is his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, someone that he really wronged with some of his posts. Join our two stars and a cast of diverse chefs from around the world as they compete to see who is the best young cook! But, at the heart of this story, are Layne and Jang-Mi....
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat with pride all year, but when it gets too tight for himhes a growing boy, after allits given to his sister, Yeshaya. Thus begins the journey of the coat as its passed down from child to child, a charming portrait of a loving family. Drawn in a clean-line style with a muted color palette, The Life of a Coat is...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
At the Gamble Ranch, all of the animals have a special talent. All of them except for Centurion and Emperador, two baby horses delivered by a couple of confused storks lost in a storm. When the ranch owners decide they'll grow up to be race horses, Centurion and Emperador do their best to be the best. Unfortunately, what they prove to be best at is anything but racing . . . An adorable story about finding and embracing your passion, written by Rob...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Whenever Jerome Katzmeier ventures into the society jungle, it's always with the greatest ardor. Everyone has to eat, but when Loulou, the youngest of the Moucherot family, is swallowed by a shark, our madcap warrior will not stand idle. The time of cohabitation with predators is over!
8) Keeping Two
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected...
9) Okay, Andy!
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Andy and Preston are back for a brand-new nutty adventureonly this time there are two of them! Well, not two Prestons. Because Preston has decided that from now on, he is also going to be called Andy. Guess who doesnt like this, AT ALL? As Andy tries to convince Andy that he should be the only Andy, the buddies share noisy fun, talk about rabbits, and the confusing arrival of Dr. Turkeyfeet?
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Manu and Mariette have immigrated to the countryside. Manu wants a vegetable garden and Mariette wants a baby. But Manu, who's celebrating with much jubilation the birth of his very first radish, is having a hard time accepting the notion of parenthood. I mean, imagine having to admit to your child that you don't know how to change the contact breakers on your car... So Manu hides himself away inside the packing boxes that seem to have become a permanent...
11) Animal V2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Would you be capable of renouncing your status as a human being and assuming the ultimate consequences? At the center of it all here is a quiet and introspective man with a desire to live, but who isnt quite sure in which world to do so. Is it he who is broken or is it society? What could he possibly cling to in order to carry on, despite being alienated from everything that surrounds him?
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract in this humorous graphic novel series about best friends, Gustav and Henri (short for Henrietta!). Meet Gustav and Henri. This is their book.
It's a bit about friendship and a lot about snacks (especially Nachos!).
They love doing normal things together, like:
finding a lost shuttlecock IN SPACE!
returning an overdue library books 100 YEARS AGO!
or making cakes IN THE BATH!
You know, completely boring things.
Join them...
14) London
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
If youre looking for words of wisdom, you wont find them here, cause theyre drenched in scotch and beer But theres something there underneath it all, some ordinary life. Economic emigration has never seemed so hopeless, and yet so promising. An engrossing portrayal of a hard-won life led by so many today, from Polish creators Dominik Szczeniak and Rafa Trejnis.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jean and Germaine are the most affable couple the little village of Colle sur Loup has ever seen. A duke married to a commoner, they have no children, no jobs, and are disastrous cooks! They like to indulge in life's small pleasures; their books, their garden, and their after-lunch naps. They live for each other, and for their love. Their simple happiness intrigues, fascinates, infuriates and is the envy of all those around them. Daniel Pennac knew...
16) Desolation
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Jean-Louis Payet is a man on the run. Reeling from a breakup, he changes his name and heads south from his home on Runion Island. Way south: the remote Kerguelen Islands, an inhospitable archipelago whose scientific bases are civilizations last bastion before the frozen Antarctic wastes. The mere journey, aboard a resupply vessel, will take a month. Payet spends the endless hours feeling diffident and superior, pining for his ex, hating his fellow...
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
So it's finally happened: Mariette is pregnant. And so is Manu. He's brushing up on his baby and parenthood knowledge with the help of Dr. Spock, who, Manu finds, is rather evasive regarding the torments of a father-to-be. Still, preparation is the key to success, and Manu's about as prepared as he can be: run-through's of the big day, suitcases ready and packed for the hospital, route planning. Basically, he's totally freaking out. Of course, he...
18) Modern Speed
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Modern-day Paris. One night, as she's leaving rehearsal, Lola, a young dancer, is approached by Rene. She introduces herself as a writer, and asks Lola if she could share her life for a while in order to gather material to write a book about her. Despite not feeling entirely comfortable with the idea, Lola accepts. The very next day, Lola and Rene experience the strangest day of their lives, involving an absent father who reappears at random points...
19) Animal V3
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Would you be capable of renouncing your status as a human being and assuming the ultimate consequences? At the center of it all here is a quiet and introspective man with a desire to live, but who isnt quite sure in which world to do so. Is it he who is broken or is it society? What could he possibly cling to in order to carry on, despite being alienated from everything that surrounds him?
20) Water Memory
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A new life begins for Marion when her mother inherits an old family house and decides to make it their new home. With its own private beach and a view of the sea, the house has all the makings of a happy new life. But when Marion discovers strange rock carvings nearby, and learns that a sinister-looking lighthouse watchman may be part of a local legend come to life, it becomes clear that things are not as idyllic as they seemed.
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