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Coyote Run by Gaëtan Dorémus
Here’s your oxymoron for the day: wordless books that convey so much. French illustrator/author Gaëtan Dorémus pays a kid-friendly homage to the American western … with whimsy, ingenuity, and (of...
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Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner, foreword by Brian Michael Bendis, afterword by...
“I am Fagin the Jew of Oliver Twist,” begins the ‘father of the graphic novel’-Will Eisner‘s 21st-century literary reclamation of the 19th-century classic. “This is my story, one that has remained...
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The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonça and PizzaBoy (I and II: Apocalypse)...
While watching evening TV that’s been interrupted by a special bulletin about the unending “wave of child abductions in Lisbon,” Eurico nods off, only to be jarred awake by the ringing telephone. He’s...
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Whenever I hear that a book is about to be transformed into celluloid, I get into a little panic to read the original, oftentimes titles I ironically wouldn’t have opened otherwise. Occasionally, I’m...
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Schroder by Amity Gaige
This is an immigration story. But not the sort of immigration I’ve become accustomed to … only a select few could make the sort of metamorphosis that being white and male affords Erik Schroder who, at...
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Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loïc Dauvillier, illustrated by...
Preorder this title now and you can stop reading here … you won’t, you can’t, you will not be disappointed. Oh, fine. If you’re still with me, let me tell you about Elsa, a little girl who just can’t...
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A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin Wiliarty
Every once in a while, only the very best schmaltz will do. Earnest and endearing, this just-arriving-in-translation sequel to the international mega-bestseller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, is a...
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie...
‘Sprawling’ barely begins to describe journalist/editor Leslie Helm‘s ambitious family history that spans nearly a century-and-a-half, three continents, and the titular five generations of a German...
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Line 135 by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine
Clearly this image is not doing justice to the book’s spirited cover with its bright lime green train and fluorescent orange doors. To appreciate its vibrancy is reason enough to go find the real book!...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
From the very first page, you’ll learn that one lover is dead, while the other survives: “My love, when you read these words I will have left this world.” Emma is in transit to Clementine’s childhood...
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A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge...
After traveling and drawing the world – Pyongyang, Shenzhen, Burma, Jerusalem – comic master extraordinaire Guy Delisle turns inward to his own family with a tongue-in-cheek look at the challenges of...
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: The Shadow of the Wind, Angel’s Game, The...
Well, crud. In spite of making a list and checking it twice, thrice, and more, I read these in about as ‘wrong’ order as I possibly could. But before I offer two preventative options, some quick...
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Paris Was the Place by Susan Conley
In Susan Conley’s debut novel defined by deep relationships, the most intriguing alliances get neglected and overlooked for the more commonplace and predictable. Willow – called Willie – moves to Paris...
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The Hole by Øyvind Torseter, translated by Kari Dickson
So here I find myself facing a bit of a conundrum: how best to tell you about this whimsical delight without spoiling that giddy sense of discovery … The best option, of course, would be to take my...
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My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, translated by...
When Dani can’t sleep, she doesn’t count sheep, she “counted all the times she’d been happy.” Now she’s also excited, as well as happy: “She’d waited her whole life to start school.” Her first day is...
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Nasreddine by Odile Weulersse, illustrated by Rébecca Dautremer
Here’s the perfect companion to Mar Pavón and Nívola Uyá’s A Very, Very Noisy Tractor which posted Saturday. Young Nasreddine’s answers his father Mustafa’s request to ready the donkey for their...
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A Very, Very Noisy Tractor by Mar Pavón, illustrated by Nívola Uyá,...
An unnamed lady with “an enormous beehive hairdo” – in glorious auburn, no less! – chugs down the road … on a tractor. The “colossal” noise the tractor makes allows her to ignore the pizza delivery boy...
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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
So here’s the last of my recent unintentional assemblage of end-of-World-War-II novels that began with Elizabeth Wein’s wrenching Rose Under Fire, and progressed with Chris Bohjalian’s desperate...
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The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
This, Chris Bohjalian‘s latest, is one to stick in the ears … it opens with Mark Bramhall (a personal favorite, and clearly one of Bohjalian’s as well, as he voices five of Bohjalian’s 14 aurally...
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Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Every so often, I seem to get on a specific reading spree on a topic not exactly of my choosing – that is, the books seem to serendipitously line up on their own. The latest batch of...
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