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This wordless graphic novel is by the author/artist of THE SYSTEM and an adaptation of Franz Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS. The story touches on environmentalism, resisting injustice, and how failing to respond appropriately to the first two can destroy apparently unconquerable civilizations. A stone giant tyrannizes over a town of small stone people, whom he directs to invade and destroy a flourishing village of wood people. As the stone army enslaves the wood people and completely strips the village of resources, it is heedless of the clouds slowly gathering overhead, and the threat posed by a denuded landscape. Many critics feel that Peter Kuper's delicately shaded, blocklike stencilwork is reminiscent of woodcuts. The majority of the extraordinarily evocative art in the book is black and white, punctuated with a few effectively placed full-color spreads; e.g. the barren, oppressive regime of the stone town is contrasted with the happy inhabitants of the flourishing wood village.
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These eight linked short stories comprise the third collection from a writer whose characters are notable for acting rightly in morally ambiguous situations. All the stories take place at a commune called Curtain Creek Farm.
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A comic book retells the story about the Spanish gentleman, considered slightly mad, and his servant, who pass themselves off as knights in order to fight evil and establish justice.
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Jill Barton's life is a shambles when she's left at the altar. She flees to the wilderness of Washington state, and finds rugged Logan Matthews, and a whole new kind of love.
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Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars.—Washington Post Book WorldIn Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down.I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey. But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West, says the narrator in the title story of Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection. In these strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part— and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough.Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women—together and apart.
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