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Do you like comic books and comic book characters? If you love comics, maybe you will visit a comic convention one day. Join Zach as he learns about the history of comic book conventions and attends his very first convention-Comic-Con! Students will develop their division skills as they are engaged in reading about the fans, costumes, vendors, swag, and exhibits of Comic-Con. This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills, combining...
22) Delirantes
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Bogotá, 16 de noviembre de 1827. Un terremoto destruye la ciudad. Su iglesia mas antigua, la famosa Capilla del Sagrario, sufre grandes destrozos. Dos aventureros se unen para reconstruirla y se valen de los cuadros de la iglesia para venderlos en Europa y así obtener el dinero necesario. Un cómic de aventuras que atraviesa tres siglos de la historia colombiana.
23) Texting Olivia
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Texting Olivia is a funny, fast-paced, modern take on the epistolary novel, using phone texts and calls instead of letters as the main form of communication.
Fay is a paralegal in her forties with thwarted career ambitions, which she blames on her mother. Indeed, she has done almost everything opposite to her own upbringing in raising Olivia. But Fay's assumptions about what it means to be a good mother-and also a good daughter-are put to the test...
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Comics entered their "golden age" in 1938, when a new idea revolutionized the industry: the creation of the first and archetypal superhero. Superman, pioneered by Detective Comics, better known as DC, was quickly followed by Batman, another brainchild of DC, in 1939. An explosion of acrobatic superheroes, such as Captain America, Wonder Woman, and The Green Lantern, quickly made the previous heroes of the crime, cowboy, and romance genres look dated....
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Bella y su mejor amigo Joe se encogieron accidentalmente a dos pulgadas de tamaño. De alguna manera llegaron a la casa de Zac, el niño más lindo de su escuela y finalmente él se fijó en ella. Con la ayuda de su pequeño hermano Bobby, consiguió que regresaran a casa. De vuelta al lado no tan brillante, Zac también logró encogerse, y ahora dependen de su hermano menor para que mamá se enteré y los devuelva a su tamaño normal, pero él no...
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Killoffer trabaja en su mesa de dibujo. Se deja llevar y toca la guitarra. En la noche, sueña que es una estrella de rock, un guitarrista en un grupo cuya vestimenta coincide con la del dibujante Jean-Christophe Menu. Un cómic gracioso y sintético sobre el camino alucinado que pueden tomar los sueños.
27) Roger
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The deadpan cartoon adventures of an expressionless, wordless, trouserless man, whose presence seems to go unnoticed. Enter the extraordinarily ordinary world of a half-dressed man. In the world of ROGER, silence speaks volumes, whether in the workplace, at leisure, or on his travels. In this debut collection of captionless cartoons, we share in the mundane, deadpan adventures of an expressionless, wordless, harmless man, whose full-on, half-dressed...
29) Drles de mondes
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Des nouvelles pas comme les autres!
À l'image de l'homme moderne, les protagonistes qu'on retrouve dans ces nouvelles recherchent tous quelque chose, que ce soit la fortune, la gloire, l'amour, le bonheur ou le plaisir. Et comme nous tous, ils se cherchent eux-mêmes...
Là o la fiction surpasse peut-être la réalité, ce sont les moyens auxquels les personnages créés par l'auteur Pierre DuBois sont prêts à recourir pour parvenir à leurs...
30) The Full Roger
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Great value omnibus edition, containing all the very best silent adventures of the half-dressed man, whose cartoon antics showcase how much fun you can have with your trousers off. He grew from a tiny idea on the back of a napkin to a tiny idea in thousands of books. And now, after three long years and hundreds of cartoons there's still only one ROGER - whether hanging out at work, at leisure or on his travels, he's exposed much and little of himself...
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It's Cristina Hawkins's thirtieth birthday, and the aging stripper has just spent her special night giving another local scumbag a lap dance in the champagne room at the place she works. And when, she gets roughed up by her customer yet again, something seems to change in Cristina, and along with an ever-changing port city of Clearwater, a rough and wild place where anything seems to go and the rich call all the shots-nobody's ready for the scourge...
33) Shinjuku
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Writer and director Christopher "mink" Morrison (Dust) and legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D) join forces to craft an unforgettable tale of destiny, danger, and hard-boiled sorcery, featuring over a hundred original paintings by Amano!
In the year 2020, bounty hunter Daniel Legend finds himself tracking a quarry of a different kind: his long-lost sister. Armed only with his wits, his gun, and a mysterious postcard,...
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Los bosques son lugares ancestrales y peligrosos... Aldara aprendió esa lección a la fuerza. El bosque de Urdi le arrebató a la persona que más quería en este mundo. Desde aquel entonces han pasado muchas lunas y Aldara ha crecido hasta convertirse en una chamana que vive en una cabaña aislada del mundo. Un buen día, Tristán, el hijo de un noble caído en desgracia, acude a su puerta en busca de ayuda para salvar a su hermana pequeña de las...
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The evil and powerful siith are, wanting to rule the galaxy and they need to destroy their enemies the jhadis. And, they have got a new battle station in space the cube base with their siith fighters and droid army they go and attack. The jhadi people are suffering and the time of the jhadi is soon fading the struggle to hold onto hope but they are getting weak. Powerful siith fighters are, sent on missions to planets for the Master Siith who wants...
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Il n'est pas possible pour l'histoire qui va être contée d'en préciser l'époque; elle se perd dans la profondeur des siècles, et la terreur qu'elle a inspirée autrefois a rendu les témoins peu bavards...En ces temps, seuls quelques anciens, le soir, dans la sécurité de leurs foyers, osaient murmurer à des oreilles proches ce qu'ils avaient entendu de la bouche même de ceux qui les avaient précédés. Les confidents transmettaient ces récits...
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I like a good beer buzz early in the morning Sheryl Crow once said in a song, and who wouldnt when you work a nine-to-five! Bonnie Fletcher is a working class, paycheck-to-paycheck married woman who comes to a midlife crisis, realizing that her life has become nothing more than a day-to-day routine, working for a high end retail store, dealing with the irate and bitching public, coming home to frozen Banquette TV dinners, sitting in front of a television...
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Explore the galaxy far, far away. Four decades after the original Star Wars was released, changing cinema forever, the saga continues with all-new movies, books, comics, video games, and TV spin-offs. This collection of interviews and behind-the-scenes features includes: Daisy Ridely on playing Rey in The Force Awakens, an exploration of rare prototype toys that never made it into stores, and Mark Hamill's thoughts on working with Sir Alec Guinness....
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In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, children's comics were a massive part of a young person's life. Comic Book Hero tells the inside story of how Barrie Tomlinson built up a successful boys' publishing group at IPC Magazines - now the stuff of legend among nostalgic and modern-day fans of the UK comic scene and its surrounding culture. Barrie started on Tiger comic as a subeditor, went on to be editor and eventually became head of the Boys' Sport and Adventure...
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"At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi…" They are the warriors whose thirst for power is matched only by their ruthlessness, but who are the Sith Lords? From the beginning moments of A New Hope in which the imposing figure of Darth Vader strode onto the Tantive IV – and into movie history – to Kylo Ren's memorable debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Sith have proved that bad guys have all the fun. This collection includes interviews...
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