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"On a dreary November night in 1792, Victor Frankenstein used natural-- and unnatural-- science to reanimate the dead. Victor eventually died, but the monster never did. It hid away in Antarctica and thought itself free of humanity. But the world isn't done with the monster and one descendant of the Frankenstein bloodline yet lives..."
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Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into this fantastic and frightening alternate world. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues singing, swamp monster called Bayou. Together, Lee and...
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Gil Scott-Heron is one of the most important artists of the past 60 years, and is widely credited as laying the foundations for modern hip hop as we know it. This gorgeous graphic novel follows the author as he attempts to track down the elusive "Godfather of Rap" for an interview that never seems to happen, while examining his target's music, controversial life, and lasting political and cultural legacy.
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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
28) White like she
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The tale of a down on his luck African American nuclear power plant custodian whose brain is transplanted into a militant white teenage girl whose brain also finds a new home, the book mixes message, humour, violence, and Frankensteinian brainjuggling.
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"Yvan Alagbé one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures--drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English--he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual storytelling and an essential, deeply personal political statement....
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The unlikely trio - Trace, a human ex-Templar; Flora, a former slave; and Keith, a banished warrior - continue to travel towards the Basitin homeland. However, their journey brings them dangerously close to the bestial Keidran's territory, and new challenges arise to break the three apart.
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Killadelphia volume 3
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"A new horrifying chapter begins for the critically-acclaimed series from Rodney Barnes, the writer behind such hit shows as Wu-Tang: An American Saga and STARZ's American Gods, and the artist who redefined SPAWN for a new generation, Jason Shawn Alexander! A new vampire king has entered the game and his name is Thomas Jefferson! The third President of the United States plans to (literally) raise hell as he sets forth to craft a new America far more...
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The Basitin Islands have been left behind, but letting go is harder. Keith struggles to cope with the loss of his ex-fiancee, while the others deal with their own inner demons, culminating in a conflict that threatens to tear the ship apart before they can even reach human lands again.
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After waking up without any memory of his past, the lone mage Trace finds himself in the company of Flora, a girl from a bestial species known as the Keidran. Along with a reluctant Basitin warrior named Keith, they journey in search of a place to call their own. But with war between the races brewing, love conflicts with loyalty.
35) Taṛarruf rāq
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"يدرك درو إليس، طالب الصف الثامن، أنه لا يحصل على نفس الفرص، بغض النظر عن مدى صعوبة عمله، والتي يعتبرها زملاؤه المميزون في مدرسة Riverdale Academy Day School أمرًا مفروغًا منه، ولجعل الأمور أسوأ، يبدأ درو في الشعور كما لو كان ابنه قد يكون الصديق العزيز ليام واحدًا...
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