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After the success of The Mental Load, Emma continues in her new book to tangle with issues pertinent to women's experiences, from consent to the "power of love," from the care and attentiveness that women place on others' wellbeing and social cohesion, and how it constitutes another burden on women, to contraception, to the true nature of gallantry, from the culture of rape to diets, from safety in public spaces to retirement, along with social issues...
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The pain of the past weights on Willow, but she's determined to use her magic for the good of those she loves.
But with Giles being occupied with Buffy, Willow will have to turn elsewhere for help.
It will take someone special to cut through the fear and help the volatile witch, and Willow has no idea what she's in store for…
3) Atomic Sheep
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Sixteen-year-old Tamrika Fuller is happy with her life. With good friends and good grades, she's content to keep her options open for her future. But when her parents reveal they've been saving for several years to send her to their Alma Mater for her final years of high school – an old-fashioned boarding academy miles from her home in Vancouver – she's thrown out of her comfort zone. With no friends and a taciturn new roommate, Tammy feels un-moored...
4) Alison
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Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which will follow Alison for years as she pursues her painting career. Combining immaculate prose and stunning artwork, Alison is a complex love...
5) Girl juice
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Drawn and Quarterly
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2023.
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6) Naftalina
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2020
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Español
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Naftalina, obra ganadora del XIII Premio Fnac-Salamandra Graphic, es una emocionante reflexión sobre la familia y la identidad.
Naftalina es una extraordinaria saga familiar que se mueve entre la Italia de principios del siglo XX y la Argentina de comienzos del XXI, pero también una emocionante reflexión sobre la familia, la renuncia y el sacrificio.
Corre el año 2001 y Argentina está sumida en una grave crisis económica. Rocío, una joven de...
7) Us
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What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180º turn? Everything, and yet...nothing.
Us is Sara and Diana's love story, as well as the story of Diana's gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don't really have to change.
Written, drawn, and colored...
8) On the Way
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Emma, a newly single cartoonist in her thirties, impulsively finds herself standing in Roncesvalles with her gaze fixed on Santiago de Compostela. Following the pilgrimage route known as The Way of St. James, she realizes the path she is traveling is bringing her closer to and somehow farther away from everyone around her, that the weight of her backpack is more than the clothes and pans inside, and that what she believed to be a simple walk to get...
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This essential Jane's World collection debuts twenty years after Jane Wyatt first appeared in Paige Braddock's trailblazing comics strip about a young lesbian woman making her clumsy way in the world and the friends who help (or hinder) her along the journey. The Eisner-nominated Jane's World was the first syndicated comic strip with a lesbian main character to appear in many major newspaper markets. This new volume collects the most quintessentially...
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Vampire Slayer volume 9
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While Xander gets ready for a monstrous confrontation, he finds a new one in his relationship as well… a fight that could mean the end in more ways than one. But Willow and Faith are one step ahead of Xander. Needing supernatural aid, will Willow push herself to a place she may not be able to return from? Despite Giles' efforts, they may have to live with an irreversible spell. And as Buffy recuperates from the previous battle that's left her worse...
11) Thanks! Romina
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Thanks! Romina volume 1
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Fresh out of college and thousands of miles from home, Romina is eager to make a name for herself in the madcap world of entertainment post-production. Cultivating a successful career in cutthroat Los Angeles is no easy feat, but with the help of her new coworkers, Romina is ready to prove to her family once and for all that she can hack it on her own. Lights, camera, overactive imagination!
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When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy, this graphic memoir is a meditation on the meaning of friendship and a love letter to an irreplaceable friend.
Emilia first met Charlotte in their school locker room in the late '90s. They quickly bonded over indie music, feminist literature, a love of purple, and a shared sense of outsiderness. Their joyful, intense friendship evolved through the...
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Vampire Slayer volume 16
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In a bloody ritual involving Willow and Buffy, Drusilla's portal puts everyone in peril, with only Buffy having the Slayer chops to stop her!
But with the Baby Crab hungry for portal-energy… his true monstrous form might be something unstoppable to behold!
15) Forward
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Forward is a life-affirming LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are unable to move "forward" and put the pieces of their lives back together. Still smarting years after a horrible breakup, Rayanne diligently buries herself in her work. Aside from work, she has her cat. And other than her cat, she has her crushes: crushes that she prides herself on being able to resist. Unexpectedly, however, one of her crushes beings to affect her more...
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Fashionable-paranoia is a mix of splatter violence, humor and titillation, and manga artist, Shintaro Kago has helped define the genre over the last twenty years. Collecting fifteen different short stories from his illustrious care, this release compiles stories full of neurotic dark humor and unease.
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Velda Girl Detective volume 1
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"Velda: Girl Detective" is a multileveled representation of the more lurid of the 1950s crime comics and presented as if it actually existed as a classic Golden Age comic. Velda is more than a passing homage to the noir films and hard-boiled detective school of writing of the 1950s as it included in issues special features such as a Velda paper doll kit and the complete 1955 Velda pinup calendar to provide authenticity. The comics also include vintage...
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Velda Girl Detective volume 8
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A special oversized double issue! Leading off is the infamous "suppressed" 1950's Velda comic issue as the 'original' publisher folded under the weight of Dr. Frederic Werthham's expose of the comic industry and stories such as "Seduction of the Innocent". With the public outcry against this Velda storyline, the story has never seen print or released until now. As a bonus, this issue features a scrapbook of Velda as she shows us how she went from...
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