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Summary: "In Paco Roca's intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Through flashbacks into each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCRoca, Paco
Summary: "Based on historical events, this gripping graphic novel chronicles the fierce physical, legal, and political battles sparked by the discovery of an ancient underwater treasure. May 2007. When an American treasure-hunting company uncovers a shipwreck containing the greatest underwater trove ever found, the world is captivated by their discovery. But over in Spain, a group of low-level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCRoca, Paco
Summary: Presents a graphic nonfiction story of five extraordinary cartoonists who decided to rebel in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and WWII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCRoca, Paco/ Rosenberg, Andrea (TRN)/ Groth, Conrad (EDT)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alex Ventura, a young and inexperienced diplomat, leads a team of explorers and experts to recover the undersea treasure stolen by Frank Wild, an adventurer who crosses the world looting common heritage from the depths of the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FORSummary: Based on Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel, the story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo₂s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates and an eccentric cast of characters who rebel against institutional authority, while doing everything in their power to avoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WRIIoka, Waco
Summary: "Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi decides to create a third option for herself! Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather's ability to see spirits--and his massive debt to them! Now she's been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ media, LLC 2019