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Wonder Woman

the ultimate guide to the Amazon Princess
2003
Traces the sixty-year career of Wonder Woman, with an emphasis on later developments and characters. Includes a time line of key events.

Megalodon and prehistoric sharks

2013
In graphic novel format, describes the magalodon and other prehistoric sharks.

A bag of marbles

In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.

Clockwork prince

2013
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.

Romeo x Juliet.

2010
Neo Verona has lived in terror of Lord Montague's rule for fourteen years, but Juliet, the long-lost scion of the Capulet family, opposes the regime as a vigilante, until she falls in love with Montague's son, Romeo.

I am here!

When the Sunflower Blooms
2011
Hikago Sumino has low self-esteem and feels invisible to her classmates, but her life starts to change when the most popular boy in her grade suddenly talks to her.

Clockwork angel

2012
Sixteen-year-old American Tessa Gray gets caught up in the supernatural world of Victorian London after she is rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.

Jack the Ripper

a journal of the Whitechapel murders, 1888-1889
1995
Combines fact and fiction in a black-and-white cartoon chronicle of the Jack the Ripper murders, following the case from the perspective of a Victorian Englishman.

Lily Ren?e, escape artist

from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer
2011
A graphic novel biography of Lily Ren?e Wilheim, who, at fourteen years old, was forced to travel alone from Austria to England to escape the Nazis and faced servitude, hardship, and danger before becoming a pioneer of the comic book genre.

The mystery of Mary Rogers

2001
Uses comic art to examine the question of who killed Mary Rogers, a young nineteenth-century New York woman rumored to have died of a botched abortion attempt; includes discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's story based on the case, "The Mystery of Mary Roget.".

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