Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/prince-of-ayodhya-vol-1-252-113838.html Adapted by Ashok K. Banker from his internationally best-selling Ramayana Series®, and magnificently illustrated by world-renowned comic book artist Enrique Alcatena, the graphic novels in this spectacular series unfold the Ramayana in a stunning visual style never seen before. Prince of Ayodhya: Volume 1, will transport you to a mesmerizing world in which Rama awakens…Ravana reveals himself…Vishwamitra appears … Manthara kills… Tataka is vanquished… and much, much more. Prepare yourself for an utterly unforgettable journey.

Author: ASHOK K BANKER  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/asterix-obelix-s-birthday-252-114518.html To celebrate a half-century of Asterix, we have something special for his millions of fans: a fabulous anniversary-themed collection of stories, fun travel guides, and a big birthday surprise for the two Gaulish heroes This is sure to become a treasured collectible.

Author: RENE GOSCINNY, ALBERT UNDERZO  Publisher: ORION]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cyanide-and-happiness-i-m-giving-you-the-finger-252-114012.html A laugh-out-loud and exceedingly irreverent collection of comics from the #1 hit web comic, Cyanide and Happiness. Complete with 150 of their funniest classic comics as well as well as 30 brand new ones. WARNING - This book is illicit, inappropriate, insensitive, perverse, profane, depraved, reprehensible, and, well, just plain wrong. Rob D., Matt, Dave and Kris have been drawing the #1 hit web comic, CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS, since 2005. Loaded with inappropriate jokes, irreverent characters, and deviant behaviour, stick figures have never been more twisted. Now, for the first time, fans can get CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS: I‟M GIVING YOU THE FINGER, an exclusive collection of 150 classic comics as well as 30 brand new, never-before- seen strips. You‟ll laugh out loud at trademark characters like Superjerk, Ass Rape Man, Obese Maurice, and the Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber. Laughing never felt this wrong…

Author: Rob D. Dave Matt, Kris  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/if-bursts-out-252-113774.html Written and drawn in full colour, this bumper, shelf-busting volume is Steve Bell's sharp-as-a-tack commentary on politics, the planet and everything in between from the cartoon riots of 2006 to the death of New Labour and the arrival of the ConLibDemolition in 2010. MARVEL AT GORDON BROWN'S PROGRESS FROM THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD TO ROCHDALE OGLE AT SILVIO BERLUSCONI'S FALSE TITS WATCH CHERIE BLAIR LOSE TRACK OF HER EQUIPMENT WEEP AS PRUDENCE DIES IN THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN CELEBRATE AS DUBYA DISAPPEARS AND OBAMA BOUNDS ONSTAGE THRILL AS THE THREE PARTY LEADERS JOIN IN A TELEVISED DEBATE WHERE HAIRSTYLES ARE BLOWN UP OUT OF ALL PROPORTION GASP AS CLEGGMANIA IS BURIED BENEATH A HUMPING HEAP OF TOADS

Author: Bell, Steve  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-adventures-of-ook-gluk-kung-fu-cavemen-from-the-future-252-99292.html In this all-new graphic novel, George Beard and Harold Hutchins present the sensational saga of two silly caveboys named Ook and Gluk. Ook and Gluk have a pretty awesome life growing up together in Caveland, Ohio, in 500,001 BC, even though they’re always getting in trouble with their nasty leader, Big Chief Goppernopper. But Ook and Gluk’s idyllic life takes a turn for the terrible when an evil corporation from the future invades their quiet, prehistoric town. When Ook, Gluk, and their little dinosaur pal, Lily, are pulled through a time portal to the year 2222 AD, they discover that the world of the future is even worse than the devastated one they came from. Fortunately, they find a friend in Master Wong, a martial arts instructor who trains them in the ways of kung fu, so that they may one day return home and make things right again. And, like the other Captain Underpants books, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future features the world’s cheesiest animation technology, ‘Flip-O-Rama’, in every chapter.

Author: DAV PILKEY  Publisher: SCHOLASTIC]]> Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/x-ed-out-252-99319.html Meet Doug, aspiring young artist. He's having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat Inky. Who died years ago. But that's no longer the case, as he slinks through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow. So he does. Now there's no turning back. What the heck is going on? To say much more would spoil the creepy, Burnsian fun, especially since - unlike Black Hole - X'ed Out has not been previously serialised anywhere and will have readers guessing at every unnervingly meticulous panel. Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Herge and William Burroughs, X'ed Out is an engrossing new comic book fever-dream, from a true master of the form at the height of his powers

Author: Burns, Charles  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/night-bookmobile-the-252-99320.html Audrey Niffenegger’s two novels, The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, have made her one of the most popular writers in the world. She is also the author of two extraordinary novels-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. Now, with The Night Bookmobile, she has written her first graphic novel. First serialised in the Guardian, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a young woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing mobile library that happens to stock every book she has ever read. Seeing her history and her most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. Over time, her search turns into an obsession as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and her memories.

Author: Niffenegger, Audrey  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/400-bc-252-99123.html Fortune favours the bold… They were an unstoppable force hired to take the crown from the King of Persia. They were a fearless army of Greek soldiers, and one hundred thousand men fighting as one. They were led by the finest and most courageous generals in all of Greece. They were being led to unimaginable wealth, but that was days ago. Now their leaders are dead and their army has scattered. Now their numbers have fallen to ten thousand men and nothing remains but fear. Now they are men praying not for victory, but for the slim chance of living one more day. Cut off by impassible terrain and pursued by an army of one million enemy soldiers; they must stand together to survive. To find their way home, one of their own must lead them. And to live one more day… …they must fight.

Author: LEWIS HELFAND  Publisher: CAMPFIRE]]> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/maximum-ride:-manga-volume-3-252-87348.html Narrowly surviving their encounter with erasers in New York City, the flock is following up a lead on their pasts in Washington, D.C. But what they find waiting for them is ... a home?! How will the flock adjust to a real school – one that doesn't involve mad scientists and genetic freaks?

Author: Patterson, James  Publisher: Arrow]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/how-obelix-fell-into-the-magic-potion-252-95335.html Every one of the Asterix stories refers to a decisive moment in Obelix's life: when he, as a six-year-old boy, fell into the Druid's cauldron of magic potion. As a consequence of this accident, he developed phenomenal physical strength. But what actually happened? How did Obelix make that life-altering plunge?

Author: Uderzo, Albert & Goscinny, Rene  Publisher: ORION]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/art-of-pho-the-252-87350.html The noodle soup called pho is the national dish of Vietnam. When Little Blue-- having been dropped by a mysterious man with a red car and being told to count to 500 -- finds himself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s baffling, daunting capital,his salvation is his own mobile phostand. Little Blue's relationship with the city and its food brings an understanding to what it means to never want to return home and the fact that everyone goes away in the end. Beautifully drawn and coloured, and featuring many delicious recipes for pho, this is a startlingly original and immensely appealing graphic novel by a brilliant new talen

Author: Hanshaw, Julian  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alice-in-sunderland-252-50309.html Alice in Sunderland is a graphic novel like no other. Bryan Talbot takes the city of Sunderland and the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell (the ‘real’ Alice) as the spine of his story and around them spins a spectacularly diverse range of different stories. He explores Carroll’s links with Sunderland and shows how the city inspired his masterpieces. He delves into the city’s history, from the Venerable Bede to George Formby, from its heyday as the greatest shipbuilding port in the world to its present multicultural mix. Talbot’s artwork is a spectacular mixture of different styles: black and white ink line and pencil drawing, watercolour, collage and digitally manipulated photographic artwork. His stories are told from the stage of the Sunderland Empire theatre, an Edwardian music hall, and the book is a genuine variety performance. In Alice in Sunderland he shows – triumphantly – how local history is national history in microcosm, how one story begets another. The result is a landmark book in the graphic field.

Author: Talbot, Bryan  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/walking-the-dog-252-87341.html Approaching fifty, and warned by his doctor that he’s drinking too much and needs to take more exercise, David Hughes is given a dog for his birthday – Dexter, a wire-haired fox terrier. Hughes’ daily walks with Dexter form the spine of Walking the Dog. We eavesdrop on their encounters with fellow dog-walkers (‘Hello Hector’, ‘Hello Chester’…) and on Hughes’ thoughts as he plods along carrying a plastic bag of poo. He begins to remember moments from his past, dark memories of murder and violence. He explores his own fantasies and obsessions. From the gentle comedy of the early pages, Walking the Dog is transformed into something deeper and more disturbing. This will be a landmark book in the field of graphic literature. The drawing is sublime, the imagination extraordinary, the ambition unequalled.

Author: Hughes, David  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/acme-novelty-library-the-252-50300.html What would happen if William Faulkner, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Eugene O'Neill drew masterful strips for their Sunday comics pages? Frankly, we'll never know. But in the meantime we'll have The Acme Novelty Library and its eye-tearingly beautiful depictions of longing, despair, melancholy, disappointment, bleakness, lethargy, abandonment, and relentless parental cruelty. Not since Tosca has such utter emotional collapse been so ravishingly depicted. All of Ware's extraordinary cast of characters are here: Jimmy Corrigan, the put-upon sad sack of the space age in Tales of Tomorrow, Rocket Sam, Quimby the Mouse, the Super-man, Sparky the cat, Big Tex, and introducing . . . Rusty Brown - the world's most pathetic over-grown adolescent toy collector and the star of Ware's next magnum opus (which won't be finished for years). Also included are Ware's trademark ingenious make-it-yourself paper toys, including: Rocket Sam's rocket ship, a Victorian 'library' cabinet, and an actual, working stereopticon picture movie viewer!

Author: Ware, Chris  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fuck:the-human-odyssey-252-87334.html Award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson tells the story of Earth, from the Big Bang, the emergence of life, the death of the dinosaurs, the dawn of civilization, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, the Crucifixion, the Fall of Rome, the Black Death, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, World War One, Nazism, consumerism, the Cold War, 9/11 and beyond to the End of the World, in sixty-seven beautiful, savage, splendidly satirical images, all with only one word in the speech bubbles.

Author: Rowson, Martin  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/aya-252-50301.html For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time – work is plentiful, hospitals are clean and well equipped, and school is obligatory. The Ivory Coast is as an island of relative wealth and stability in West Africa. For the teenagers of the town, though, worries are plentiful, and life in Yop City is far from simple. Aya tells the story of its nineteen-year-old heroine, the clear-sighted and bookish Aya, and her carefree and fun-loving friends Adjoua and Bintou. Navigating meddling relatives and neighbours, the girls spend a last summer of their childhood on the sun-warmed streets of Yop City – sneaking out for dancing at open-air bars, strong solibra beer, chicken in peanut sauce and avoiding at all costs the scandal pages of the Calamity Morning…. Aya is a captivating, colourful and hugely entertaining portrayal of an Africa we rarely see, spirited and resilient, and full of the sounds, sights and smells of a prosperous town and its varied inhabitants.

Author: Abouet, Marguerite  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/black-hole-252-50302.html And you thought your adolescence was scary. Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters - some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it - what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness of it, or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high-school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. And then the murders start. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying (and, believe it or not, autobiographical), Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it - back when it wasn't exactly cool to be a hippie any more, but Bowie was still just a little too weird. To say nothing of sprouting horns and moulting your skin . . .

Author: Burns, Charles  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/exit-wounds-252-50304.html Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, Exit Wounds is the first graphic novel to be published in Britain by one of Israel's best-known cartoonists. A young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself not only piecing together the last few months of his father's life, but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolours, Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.

Author: Modan, Rutu  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/footnotes-in-gaza-252-50310.html Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this most bitter of conflicts. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinian refugees dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah - coldblooded massacre or dreadful mistake - reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco arrives in Gaza and, immersing himself in daily life, uncovers Rafah, past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy. As in Palestine and Safe Area Gora

Author: Sacco, Joe  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/maximum-ride:-manga-volume-1-252-87338.html Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the 'Flock' – Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel – are just like ordinary kids – only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time – like when Angel, the youngest member of the 'Flock', is kidnapped and taken back to the 'School' where she and the others were genetically engineered by sinister scientists. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, California, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare – this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf 'Erasers' in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb – now her betrayed and greatest enemy – that her purpose is save the world – but can she?

Author: Patterson, James  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dfc-library:-good-dog-bad-dog-252-87309.html Kirk Bergman and Duncan McBoo are pedigree police: the finest canine cops in all Muttropolis. And they’re never short of work. The city is heaving with cunning crooks and malevolent mongrels who would sell their own mother for a bone. Join our dog detectives as they chase leads, sniff out crime, collar the bad guys and generally get their teeth into adventures full of action, suspense and . . . milkshakes. Criminals beware: McBoo and Bergman are on your tail!

Author: Shelton, Dave  Publisher: David Fickling Books]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dfc-library:-mezolith-252-87310.html The world of MeZolith awaits. 10,000 years ago, the Kansa tribe live on the western shores of the North Sea Basin, where danger is never far away. Each season brings new adventure, each hunt has its risks, and each grim encounter with the neighbouring tribe is fraught with threats. Poika, a boy on the verge of manhood, must play his part and trust the strength and wisdom of his elders. This is a tale of beasts and beauty, man, magic and . . . horror. Stone Age horror from the DFC Library

Author: Haggarty, Ben  Publisher: David Fickling Books]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dfc-library:-spider-moon-252-87311.html They tell a prophecy of our homelands being crushed by a falling sky. That fate has been a shadow over our people ever since. The end has begun . . . in my lifetime. Bekka and her people are facing the end of times. They must do all in their power to save themselves from the fate they believe is theirs. But destiny is like a tightly coiled snake. Which Bekka must unfurl without getting bitten . . .

Author: Brown, Kate  Publisher: David Fickling Books]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/spring-heeled-jack-252-87314.html Deep in the dark and murky streets of Victorian London, Rose, Ned and Lily are running away from the orphanage and heading to the docks. They want to escape to America and a new life. But in the shadows lurks that infamous murderer Mack the Knife… A dreadful fate looks certain until that original and most unusual of superheroes, Spring-Heeled Jack, leaps through the air to their rescue, but the adventure doesn’t end there…

Author: Pullman, Philip  Publisher: Yearling]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/gea-bovery-252-87315.html Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma's neighbour, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma's wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine's diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now. Many familiar ingredients of the novel are given new life in Gemma Bovery's unique graphic form. Like Posy Simmond's legendary cartoon strips featuring the Weber family, Gemma Bovery was published in weekly parts in the Guardian.

Author: Sionds, Posy  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jiy-corrigan-252-87316.html Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is now available for the first time in paperback.

Author: Ware, Chris  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/5-is-the-perfect-number-252-87317.html 5 is the Perfect Number, winner of several comics awards including Book of the Year at the 2003 Frankfurt Book Fair, is the story of an old Mafioso who is forced out of retirement when his son is murdered. He lays down his fishing rod and picks up his pistols and goes looking for revenge. Spare, romantic, surreal, 5 is the Perfect Number introduces one of the new European masters to British readers.

Author: Tuveri, Igor  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/britten-and-brulightly-252-87318.html Nowadays I don’t get out of bed for less than a murder. I don’t get out of bed much…Until today.' ‘Private Researcher’ Fern

Author: Berry, Hannah  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tale-of-one-bad-rat-the-252-87319.html Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint, The Tale of One Bad Rat is the story of a young girl, Helen Potter, who runs away from home to escape an uncaring mother and a sexually abusive father. Eventually she finds her way to the Lake District, drawn there by her love of the work of Beatrix Potter, and in that beautiful landscape she at last finds peace.

Author: Talbot, Bryan  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alias-the-cat-252-87320.html At the centre of Alias the Cat are Kim Deitch and his wife, Pam - a passionate collector of Halloween cats from the 1920s and 30s. But when she buys a mysterious old cat costume, she and Kim find themselves in wholly new territory: the lost world of Alias the Cat, who, in 1915, appeared not only in a comic strip and film serial, but in real life as a freedom-fighting superhero. When Kim begins to research this forgotten figure, he uncovers one almost unbelievable story after another: about the Furries, a tiny subculture of people who dress up as cartoon animals in order to have sex; about Keller and Frankie, two seamen stranded on a Pacific island, forced to make cat toys to appease the natives; about the secret lover of Alias’s alter ego, Malek Janochek; and, of course, about Deitch’s own Waldo the Cat, the common thread weaving the stories together as Kim and Pam move toward a fateful showdown in Midgetville...New Jersey, of course. Alias the Cat is Kim Deitch at his eye-catching, mind-bending best.

Author: Deitch, Kim  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/pentti-and-deathgirl-252-87321.html Emma Rendel is one of the most distinctive and original graphic artists at work today. She joins the Cape list with the extraordinary Pentti and Deathgirl, two strange tales in one beautiful volume. ‘Pentti’ is the story of two Finnish brothers, Juha and Pentti. When two men move in next to their farm, Pentti is convinced they must be gay. ‘So what?’ says Juha, but Pentti, full of drink and righteous anger, storms off into town looking for a fight. ‘Deathgirl’s Diary’ tells of Deathgirl, lonely and friendless, talking only to her diary, where she confides her obsessions: stabbing, beheading, strangling, poisoning…

Author: Rendel, Ea  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/david-boring-252-87322.html Terry Zwigoff's movie of Daniel Clowes' extraordinary graphic novel Ghost World has brought Clowes hordes of new readers. Every one of them will be eagerly awaiting the adventures of Clowes' new hero: David Boring, a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is, and what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.

Author: Clowes, Daniel  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/it-s-a-good-life-if-you-don-t-weaken-252-87323.html In his first graphic novel, It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the magazine cartoon. Disaffected by the crassness of contemporary culture, Seth takes refuge in a quest to uncover the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s, but his obsession blinds him to his increasingly withdrawn lover and the quiet desperation of his family. Charming old-fashioned style characterizes this gently wry modern quest tale about longing, anxiety and the lessons of nostalgia.

Author: Seth, Seth  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/wimbledon-green-252-87324.html Taking a break from the serialization of his saga Clyde Fans and the design of The Complete Peanuts, critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Seth creates a farcical world of the people whose passion lies in the need to own comic books (and only in mint condition). Meet Wimbledon Green, the self-proclaimed world’s greatest comic book collector who brokered the biggest comic book deal in the history of collecting. Comic book retailers, auctioneers and conventioneers from around North America, as well as Green’s collecting rivals, weigh in on the man and his vast collection of comic books. Are Green’s intentions honourable? Does he truly love comics or is he driven by the need to conquer? Lastly, is he really even Wimbledon Green? A charming and amusing caper where comic book collecting is a world of intrique and high finance – part riotous chase, part whimsical character sketch, Wimbledon Green looks at the need to collect and the need to reinvent oneself.

Author: Seth, Seth  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/99-ways-to-tell-a-story-252-87325.html Matt Madden’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of one-page comics that tell the same story in a variety of ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s 1947 work of the same title, which told a simple story in ninety-nine different styles and genres – haiku, sonnet, book jacket blurb – Madden does the same but in different styles of comics – Marvel superhero, R. Crumb, Herg

Author: Madden, Matt  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alphabet-of-aunts-an-252-87326.html Aunts have not had their due recognition - until now. But here, in the simple tasks and pleasures of her ordinary life, the aunt is portrayed with wonder and affection. Starting with the Ambulant, walking her dogs past G.F.Watts’ statue of Physical Energy in Kensington Gardens, this book describes her in twenty-six beautifully observed portraits, one for each letter of the alphabet. Here is the Elegant on the catwalk; the Hydrant, watering her garden; the Indignant, watching those same plants being dug up by the ubiquitous canines who are so much a part of her life; the Mendicant, begging outside Daunt’s bookshop; the Osculant, indulging in the pastime that aunts do best; the Ruminant, eating salad in her lonely cafe, not to forget the Truant, shamelessly sporting SEMPER ABSUM on her school blazer. Each picture, meticulously drawn by Mungo McCosh, is followed on its subsequent page by the name of the aunt the picture describes. Beautiful and aptly chosen lettering tells us who she is - in case we can't guess for ourselves. A book of wit and wisdom, for nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles, everywhere.

Author: Dawnay, C. M.,McCosh, Mungo  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poor-bastard-the-252-87327.html Meet Joe Matt, a talented cartoonist with strong ideas about how life should be lived. He makes no apologies and never compromises. Well, almost never. Actually, Joe Matt is a painfully honest man who doesn’t mind admitting – in print, in cartoon form – that he has one or two flaws. Just minor ones. The Poor Bastard is his neurotic, compelling and utterly shameless account of some of the most personal details of his life. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, he leaves no aspect untouched, from the disintegration of personal relationships to the grim realities of life in a Toronto rooming house and his obsession with pornography – or, as Joe prefers, “nature films”. Watch as he alienates lovers and friends in a candid and hilarious story about his ruthless quest for a woman who understands him and meets his ridiculous standards. This is Joe Matt: neurotic, compulsive, cheap, self-absorbed – human. And funny.

Author: Matt, Joe  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jamilti-and-other-stories-252-87328.html Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds was chosen by The Times as one of the three best graphic novels of 2007. It won the 2008 Eisner Award for the Best New Graphic Novel and was nominated for the Angoul

Author: Modan, Rutu  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/burma-chronicles-252-87329.html After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle is back with Burma Chronicles. In this country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control – where scissors-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information – he turns his gaze to the everyday for a sense of the bigger picture. Delisle's deft and recognisable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power-cuts and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in this place where catastrophic mismanagement and ironhanded rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and non-governmental organisations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta. Burma Chronicles is drawn with a minimal line, and interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of Delisle's distinctive slapstick humour.

Author: Delisle, Guy  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/three-incestuous-sisters-the-252-87330.html Before she wrote The Time Traveler's Wife, now a bestseller all around the world, Audrey Niffenegger's books were beautiful, handmade, exquisitely illustrated tales, published in editions as small as ten copies. They took many years to create, were bought by collectors and have been seen by few people. At last, as part of its acclaimed and very successful list of graphic books, Cape is delighted to publish The Three Incestuous Sisters in a beautiful edition at an affordable price. It is the story of three sisters, Clothilde, Ophile and Bettine, who live together in a lonely house by the sea. All three are rivals for the love of Paris, the lighthouse-keeper's son. When Paris chooses Bettine, and she becomes pregnant, the other sisters are jealous. Eventually, after the baby is born, they cause Bettine's death. Paris runs away to sea and Ophile, overwhelmed by remorse, throws herself from the lighthouse. Clothilde lives on in the house, sad and alone. Then one day a circus comes to town. In it is an amazing flying boy. She recognizes him as Bettine's child...

Author: Niffenegger, Audrey  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adventuress-the-252-87331.html The follow-up to the lyrical, haunting novel-in-pictures The Three Incestuous Sisters, The Adventuress tells a new tale of love, loss and redemption. When an alchemist's daughter is kidnapped, she escapes into the arms of a man named Napoleon Bonaparte. Together the Adventuress and Napoleon share a passionate romance which has tragic, yet transcendent, results. Niffenegger's stunning, lavish prints again depict a timeless, evocative tale and showcase her unique talent as an artist and writer.

Author: Niffenegger, Audrey  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/quimby-the-mouse-252-87332.html Cleverly appropriated old-fashioned animation imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s are put to use in Quimby the Mouse at the service of modern vignettes of angst and existentialism. As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred (but never quite extinguished), buoying Quimby from page to page. Like Ware's first book, Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby is saturated with Ware's genius, including consistently amazing graphics, insanely perfectionist production values, cut-out-and-assemble paper projects, and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.

Author: Ware, Chris  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/literary-life-252-87333.html This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian’s Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Women writers suffer ‘Rustic Block’ after moving to the countryside, type their sexual fantasies into their laptop, and (in ‘Enemies of Promise’) juggle the dilemmas of feminism and motherhood. Male authors are shown suffering the ego-perils of coming into contact with the public at book signings, and complain about reviewers and ‘media hoops’. Jealousies and rivalries emerge out of reading groups; struggling small booksellers have to deal with recalcitrant customers or sales reps pushing the latest celebrity book. Simmonds’ penchant for literary pastiche and parody is given full rein, as in ‘Murder at Matebele Mansions’. And she wickedly suggests a family’s fixed smiles as a young girl explains the plot of her Harry Potter book … Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery.

Author: Sionds, Posy  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/my-brain-is-hanging-upside-down-252-87335.html What if you wrote and drew a comic strip that honestly depicted every sexual experience you ever had, from junior school (don't ask) to last week (ditto)? It would force you to re-examine your life in ways that would make your shrink blush. In 2004 that's exactly what David Heatley did, and called it (what else) ‘My Sexual History’. It originally appeared in an obscure comics anthology called Kramer's Ergot, which was nevertheless given a starred review by Publisher's Weekly, which singled out the strip and remarked that it was ‘page after page of tiny, crudely rendered but wincingly remembered incidents’. And what else to follow that up with than ‘Black History’, which chronicles every African-American he ever encountered, whether it was Lennie from daycare who taught him the N-word, or the artist's impressions of Michael Jackson's Thriller. All of it rendered in, um, black and white. So make no mistake -- David Heatley is anything but withholding. Quite the opposite. But the great surprise is that he's not simply playing for shock effect either. He's just trying to tell you what happened as succinctly and colourfully as he can, whether it was in a dream or at a game of group Strip Pig in his friend's basement. Which ended in a sort of awkward, slow-motion orgy. These things happen. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (which gleans its title from the refrain of a song by the Ramones, FYI) marks the start of a brilliant cartooning career.

Author: Heatley, David  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/aya-of-yop-city-252-87336.html For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time – work is plentiful, hospitals are clean and well equipped, and school is obligatory. The Ivory Coast is as an island of relative wealth and stability in West Africa. For the teenagers of the town, though, worries are plentiful, and life in Yop City is far from simple. Aya tells the story of its nineteen-year-old heroine, the clear-sighted and bookish Aya, and her carefree and fun-loving friends Adjoua and Bintou. Navigating meddling relatives and neighbours, the girls spend a last summer of their childhood on the sun-warmed streets of Yop City – sneaking out for dancing at open-air bars, strong solibra beer, chicken in peanut sauce and avoiding at all costs the scandal pages of the Calamity Morning…. Aya is a captivating, colourful and hugely entertaining portrayal of an Africa we rarely see, spirited and resilient, and full of the sounds, sights and smells of a prosperous town and its varied inhabitants.

Author: Abouet, Marguerite  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/what-it-is-252-87337.html What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursting with full-colour drawings, comics and collages, autobiographical sections and gentle creative guidance, each page is an invigorating example of exactly what it is: 'The ordinary is extraordinary'. Lynda Barry explores the depths of the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination, where play can be serious, monsters have purpose and not knowing is an answer unto itself. How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? These types of questions permeate the pages of What It Is, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. Her insight and sincerity will tackle the most persistent of inhibitions, calling back every kid who quit drawing to feel alive again at the experiential level.

Author: Barry, Lynda  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/maximum-ride:-manga-volume-2-252-87339.html Having rescued Angel from the horrors at the School, the flock heads east to escape the Erasers. But the danger's not over yet. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family are on the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb — now her betrayer and greatest enemy — that her purpose is to save the world. But can she? The Angel Experiment concludes in volume 2!

Author: Patterson, James  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/robert-crumb-s-book-of-genesis-252-87340.html Envisioning the first book of the Bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, retells the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that he would do a takeoff of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible’s language, “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions,” that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word, assembled primarily from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James Version. Now, readers of every persuasion—Crumb fans, comic book lovers, and believers—can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, tragic, and even juicy stories. Crumb’s Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree-lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire that rained from the heavens, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh, where Joseph’s embalmed body is carried in a coffin, in a scene as elegiac as any in Genesis. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured the Bible’s most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of biblical originals: from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a “kind of depressed guy who doesn’t strike you as physically courageous,” and his bother, Esau, “a rough and kick-ass guy,” to Abraham’s wife, Sarah, more fetching than most woman at ninety, to God himself, “a standard Charlton Heston–like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard.” As Crumb writes in his introduction, “the stories of this people, the Hebrews, were then something more than just stories, they were the foundation, the source, in writing, of religious and political power, handed down by God Himself.” Crumb’s Book of Genesis, the culmination of five years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling that celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

Author: Crumb, Robert  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bye-bye-birdie-252-87342.html Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children. She has written and illustrated over fifty books, which have sold more than eleven million copies. Her characters Alfie and Dogger are loved by children and parents all over the world. Bye Bye Birdie is Shirley Hughes' first graphic book for adults. A young man, in his best bow-tie and boater, meets a fashionably dressed - and rather bird-like - young lady. But when he takes her home she undergoes a transformation and our hero's dreams of connubial bliss suddenly turn into the stuff of nightmares. Totally wordless, Bye Bye Birdie showcases Shirley Hughes' brilliant drawing and her extraordinarily vivid imagination.

Author: Hughes, Shirley  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/john-broadley-s-books-252-87343.html Since 1996, John Broadley has been making, chiefly for his own pleasure, a series of remarkable little books. Each one has a tiny print run, sometimes as few as ten copies, which means that apart from a very few cognoscenti, no one has seen his extraordinary work. Until now. John Broadley’s Books will reveal to the world an artist of astonishing imagination and skill, and one with the playfulness of the great English print-makers of the thirties and forties like Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. In this book you will find collected a complete visual record of Broadley’s books – covers, end papers, sketches, notes, lines, captions and errata. Comprising work in a multitude of mediums, this is a treasure trove of visual delights. Here are scenes from much loved classics, mysteries and obscure science-fiction adventures, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to The Hawkline Sisters’ Father: turned into an umbrella stand by his own evil creation – The Chemicals. We travel on a journey through the bookshelves of a remarkable artist, through Broadley’s New Book of Mysterious and Melancholy Scenes in Black and Blue to the celebrated Wild for Adventure Stories – vignettes and fables in miniature – including Old Bill President Temperance League, Macabros the Monster-Maker and Frank and the Farmer, each image offering a peek at a world beyond. Eclectic, unique, fantastical – John Broadley’s Books is the most extraordinary book of books you will ever read and a brilliant new addition to the Cape Graphic novel list.

Author: Broadley, John  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fluffy-252-87344.html Originally published by the author in four volumes, Fluffy is described by Simone Lia as ‘a story of unanswerable questions, love, despair, adventure and happiness’. Fluffy is a baby rabbit who is being looked after by an anxious, single man called Michael Pulcino. Michael tries to make it clear to Fluffy that he is not his daddy, but Fluffy appears to be in denial. Michael is being pursued by Fluffy’s nursery school teacher, and partly to escape her, he and Fluffy set off to visit his family in Sicily. Will Michael escape her? Will Fluffy come to terms with the reality that he is not a human being? All is at least partly resolved in Simone Lia’s utterly irresistible graphic novel.

Author: Lia, Simone  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ice-haven-252-87345.html Welcome to Ice Haven! ‘It’s not as cold here as it sounds.’ So declares Random Wilder, the town’s would-be poet laureate. Would be, that is, were it not for the ‘florid banalities’ of arch-rival poet Ida Wentz, whom the Ice Haven Daily Progress continues to publish ‘ad nauseam’. Random is our ersatz guide to the sleepy midwestern hamlet, and just one of many characters we meet in this ingenious novel told in the form of short comic strip instalments – a form that Time magazine regarded as reminiscent of Robert Altman. In addition to Wilder, we meet a captivating cast of characters. There are the lovelorn lovelies Violet Van der Platz and Vida Wentz, the detective team of Mr and Mrs Ames, those adorable interracial moppets Carmichael and Paula, and the disaffected stationery salesgirl Julie Patheticstein, just to mention a few. Along with the Blue Bunny, the bitterest rabbit in town, fresh-sprung from prison and ready to wreck havoc: ‘I paid my dues! It’s all about ME this time!!’ And lest we forget: poor little David Goldberg, who's been missing for over a week now… All of this blends together seemlessly to weave a fascinating, multi-layered tale that is ultimately based on and inspired by – wait for it – Leopold and Loeb.

Author: Clowes, Daniel  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/smelling-a-rat-252-87346.html Trevor Gristle lives in Merton with his mum and dad and sister. He lives in a world of his own, dreaming of superheroes, and his stories are not always believed by his family. So when he returns home one day with a giant seven-foot-tall insatiably greedy spotted rat called Ratman, Trevor is over the moon and the rest of the Gristles for once are forced to believe him. From this starting point Paul Wright tells and illustrates a brilliantly funny and surreal tale. His drawing is superb, his imagination knows no bounds and his satirical eye is as sharp as a knife. If ever a book was destined to become a classic it is Smelling a Rat.

Author: Wright, Paul  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jimmy-corrigan-252-87347.html 0

Author: Ware, Chris  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/wilson-252-87349.html Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friends and strangers alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humour. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family – a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.In his first all-new graphic novel, one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes, creates a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating character study of the modern egotist – outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page gag format and drawn in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of Ghost World, Ice Haven and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

Author: Clowes, Daniel  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/george-sprott-252-87351.html Seth’s new graphic novel tells the story of George Sprott, the host of a long-running and unaccountably popular Canadian television programme, Northern Hi-Lights, in which he shows old films of the Arctic, while ‘rambling on in a monotone voice about Eskimos or seal hunts or snowstorms’ and often falling asleep on-air. On the surface George seems a charming, foolish, old man, but as we come to know him, piece by piece, in a series of‘interviews’, flashbacks and personal reminiscences a more complex picture emerges. Another small masterpiece by the author of It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken and Wimbledon Green, George Sprott is a story about time, identity, loss and the persistence of memory. It’s beautifully drawn and often very funny.

Author: Seth,  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ghost-world-252-87352.html Ghose World tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner. Clowes captures them with uncanny skill, raising the comic book to new heights.

Author: Clowes, Daniel  Publisher: Jonathan Cape]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-secret-of-shadow-ranch-5-252-1108.html Nancy Drew arrives in Phoenix, Arizona, eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at Shadow Ranch, but abruptly finds herself involved in a baffling mystery. The ranch is being haunted by a phantom horse and maliciously damaged by an unknown enemy. Local people believe that the ghostly animal is carrying out the curse of Dirk Valentine, the romantic outlaw who was killed many years ago at Shadow Ranch, where he had gone to fulfill a promise to his sweetheart. Suspecting that a treasure hidden by Valentine may be at the root of the Shadow Ranch mystery, Nancy undertakes a challenging search, aided by her friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne. The first vital clue is found in an antique watch and sparks a series of clever deductions and dangerous developments. While seeking further clues, the girls' investigation in a ghost town ends in near disaster when Nancy is trapped inside a building that is toppled by a rockslide -- a rockslide which is deliberately caused. But the pretty titian-haired detective remains undaunted in her determination to solve the mystery. For those who enjoy a suspenseful thriller, Nancy Drew's first Western adventure makes a great listen.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-56-the-thirteenth-pearl-252-1109.html NANCY is asked to locate a stolen pearl necklace that is unusual and very valuable. She soon learns that strange and dangerous people are responsible for the theft. They harass her at home and intensify it when she and her father go to Japan, and they finally manage to kidnap Nancy and her friend Ned Nickerson when she returns to River Heights. Through clever sleuthing, Nancy is able to penetrate the rites of an amazing group of pearl worshippers, some of whose members are far from devout, and she uncovers underhanded dealings of certain employees of World Wide Gems, Inc., a tremendous international jewelry company. Readers will love accompanying Nancy, disguised as a Japanese girl, in this adventure in Tokyo.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-secret-of-the-forgotten-city-52-252-1113.html Nancy and her friends become involved in a search for lost treasure.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-bungalow-mystery-3-252-1115.html Nancy believes her friend's guardians are trying to steal her inheritance. As she investigates, she has a perilous experience near the deserted bungalow.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-message-in-the-hollow-oak-12-252-1116.html Nancy Drew tackles a mystery professional detectives failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-15-the-haunted-bridge-252-1117.html Nancy Drew becomes involved in a double mystery concerning a haunted bridge and jewel thieves.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-sky-phantom-53-252-1120.html While vacationing in the Midwest with her friends, Nancy Drew investigates a mysterious magnetic cloud, searches for a hijacked plane, and hunts a horse thief.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-hidden-staircase-2-252-1121.html Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-secret-of-red-gate-farm-6-252-1122.html The beloved and bestselling Nancy Drew mystery series continues with this latest exciting installment of the adventures of every girl's favorite detective in The Secret of Red Gate Farm. Solving crime never takes a vacation While off on a summer visit to Red Gate Farm, Nancy becomes suspicious of a secret society gathering near the ranch. Her curiosity gets the best of her and she is drawn to investigate. Despite the risks to her own safety, the pretty titian-haired detective remains undaunted in her determination to solve the mystery.

Author: CAROLYN KEENE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-43-the-mystery-of-the-99-steps-252-1123.html NANCY DREW'S search for a flight of 99 steps to solve the mystery of a friend's weird dream takes her to France. But before she leaves the United States, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not to pursue her mission. With her friends Bess and George, Nancy arrives in Paris to join her father who is working on another case: to find out what, or who, is frightening wealthy financier Monsieur Leblanc into selling large amounts of securities. Startling discoveries convince the young detective that Mr. Drew's case and her own mystery are linked by the 99 steps, and that a mysterious Arab has a strong hold over Leblanc. Is it blackmail? she wonders. Nancy's quest for further clues leads to the romantic chateau country in the Loire Valley, where a web of danger closes in tightly around the three girls. How Nancy unearths the exciting mystery of the 99 steps with hold the reader spellbound with suspense.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-secret-of-the-old-clock-1-252-1125.html Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-10-password-to-larkspur-lane-252-1128.html NANCY DREW 10 PASSWORD TO LARKSPUR LANE

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-14-the-whispering-statue-252-1130.html Nancy and her friends establish headquarters in a seaside yacht club to investigate strange happenings in a book store and the disappearance of a marble statue.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-19-the-quest-of-the-missing-map-252-1131.html "No! No" I won't go there!" seven-year-old Trixie Chatham cries out. "The Ship Cottage is haunted!" Prompted by her concern for the frightened child, Nancy investigates the small studio on the Chatham estate. What the astute young detective discovers leads her to believe that there is a connection between the mysterious occurrences at Ship Cottage and her search for a treasure island. With only a few slim clues to guide her-a half map and Tomlin Smith's vague memories-Nancy sets out to find Mr. Smith's long-lost twin brother, who possesses the rest of the map that will pinpoint the location of buried treasure willed to them by their father. Constantly beset by danger and intrigue, Nancy courageously outwits her enemies and solves one of the most challenging cases in her career as a teen-age investigator.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-20-the-clue-in-the-jewel-box-252-1132.html Nancy and her friends help a woman search for her missing grandson.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-secret-of-mirror-bay-49-252-1136.html When Nancy Drew and her friends go to a lake in New York to investigate reports of a woman gliding over water, they discover a treasure underwater.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-38-the-mystery-of-the-fire-dragon-252-1138.html FOR CLIFF-HANGING SUSPENSE AND THRILLING ACTION READ THE NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES -THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR MYSTERY SERIES FOR YOUNG READERS! MILLIONS OF FANS HAVE MATCHED WITS WITH NANCY DREW, HELPING HER SOLVE MORE THAN FIFTY BAFFLING CASES-FROM THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK TO THE HAUNTING MYSTERY OF THE THIRTEEN PEARL. JOIN THE FUN! START YOUR COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL HARDCOVER NANCY DREW MYSTERIES TODAY! # 1 THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK # 2 THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE # 3 THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY # 4 THE MYSTERY OF LILAC INN # 5 THE SECRET OF SHADOW RANCH # 6 THE SECRET OF RED GATE FARM

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-nancys-mysterious-letter-8-252-1139.html Nancy receives a letter informing her that she is heir to a fortune. This story tells of her search for another Nancy Drew.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-40-the-moonstone-castle-mystery-252-1142.html When Nancy Drew receives a valuable moonstone as a gift from an unknown person, she is amazed and puzzled. But it is only the first of several startling events in this complex mystery that challenge the ingenuity of the pretty sleuth. Why are the Bowens--a missionary couple who recently returned to the United States--having so much trouble finding their missing seventeen-year-old granddaughter?

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-9-the-sign-of-the-twisted-candles-252-1143.html When Nancy learns that a wealthy old man is being held prisoner in his own mansion she uncovers a family feud and hidden treasure

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-clue-of-the-broken-locket-11-252-1146.html Nancy Drew's sympathy for adopted twin babies leads her into a surprising mystery. Here is a reproduction of the original book, just as it was originally published in 1934. Illustrations.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-36-the-secret-of-the-golden-pavilion-252-1148.html Nancy Drew, her lovely blue eyes sparkling with excitement, stared in fascination from the cabin of a private helicopter. The craft was headed for the River Heights airport, a few miles beyond. Below, the rooftops of the town stood out clearly in the moonlight. - Chapter 1, The Secret of The Golden Pavilion.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-25-the-ghost-of-blackwood-hall-252-1149.html Nancy Drew and friends travel to the colorful French Quarter in New Orleans to solve the mystery of The Ghost of Blackwood Hall.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-17-mystery-of-the-brass-bound-trunk-252-1151.html From the moment Nancy Drew boards an ocean liner leaving for New York, she becomes involved in a new and dangerous mystery. A man on the pier gestures to someone on board in the sign language of the deaf. Beware of Nancy Drew and NE, he signals. Who is NE? Can it be Nelda Detweiler, A young South African who shares a cabin with Nancy, Bess, and George? When Nancy learns that Neida has been accused of stealing a diamond bracelet in South Africa, she wonders whether the girl is a thief or the innocent victim of a vicious plot.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-the-mystery-at-lilac-inn-4-252-1152.html Nancy finds herself in danger when she tries to solve the mystery of the old inn, believed to be jinxed.

Author: CAROLYN KEENE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-26-the-clue-of-the-leaning-chimney-252-1155.html As a result of an encounter with a sinister stranger on a lonely country road, Nancy Drew and her friend Bess Marvin discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton, a cousin of Bess.Join Nancy and her friends in their exciting adventures as they unravel all the twisted strands of this intriguing mystery.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-27-the-secret-of-the-wooden-lady-252-1156.html ADVENTURE abounds on the Bonny Scot in Boston Harbor as Nancy Drew helps Captain Easterly uncover the mystery of his ghostly visitors. From the moment the clever young detective and her friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, take up residence on the old clipper ship they are confronted with fire, theft, and other dangerous situations. Nancy faces an additional challenge: to find a clue to the clipper's missing figurehead. If she is successful, it will help her lawyer father to trace the history of the bonny Scot and establish a clear title to the ship for Captain Easterly. But strangely there are no records the Bonny Scot's past. Why? And why has the prime suspect in the recent robbery at Bess Marvin's home followed the three girls to Boston? Join Nancy and her friends in their thrilling adventures and discover for yourself the romantic secret of the old sailing ship.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nancy-drew-55-mystery-of-crocodile-island-252-1157.html A young detective's attempts to uncover a group of poachers on Crocodile Island in Florida involve her with kidnapping, reptiles, enemy boats, and a sinister racket.

Author: NONE  Publisher: GROSSET & DUNLAP]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/more-peanuts-collection-252-81993.html MORE PEANUTS COLLECTION

Author: NONE  Publisher: BALLANTINE BOOKS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/peanuts-collection-252-81994.html PEANUTS COLLECTION

Author: NONE  Publisher: BALLANTINE BOOKS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/edge-252-81995.html Every month, "Forge and "Edge feature the top fantasy, science fiction, mystery, martial arts and horror comics from the CrossGen line. With their low list price and "manga-style" trim-size, these monthly books will bring new readers to the many worlds of CrossGen.

Author: NONE  Publisher: CROSSGENERATION COMICS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/enid-blyton-the-brer-rabbit-book-252-81996.html ENID BLYTON THE BRER RABBIT BOOK

Author: NONE  Publisher: DEAN]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-the-junior-novel-252-81997.html Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan are headed for the Big Apple. Best of all, the kids have the opportunity to audition for a real Broadway musical, but will their dreams of stardom come true?

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-schl-musi-stories-from-east1-battle-of-bands-252-81998.html East High is putting on its first-ever Battle of the Bands Troy and his basketball buddies are looking forward to living out their rock-star fantasies, and Sharpay has formed her very own girl group. But while Troy and Sharpay prepare to step into the spotlight, Gabriella and Ryan are left in the shadows. Gabriella keeps herself busy by tutoring Ryan, who needs help with algebra. Still, she can't help wondering why Troy wouldn't want to join forces with her for the Battle of the Bands. Didn't the two of them make a great team at the musical? Maybe it's time for Gabriella to take the stage on her own...

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-stories-from-east2-wildcat-spirit-252-81999.html Inspired by the Emmy( Award-winning Disney Channel original movie, this series featuring the students of East High continues the adventures of Troy, Gabriella, and the other kids from the phenomenally popular film. It's Spirit Week at East High, and everyone is excited. There will be costume days, a pep rally for the basketball game, and finally, the crowning of the Spirit King and Queen. But the most exciting part of the week is the Sadie Hawkins dance: The girls get to ask the boys Gabriella is planning to ask Troy, but Sharpay advises her not to look "too "eager. After all, Gabriella wouldn't want Troy to think she's desperate, would she? Meanwhile, Troy is fending off invitations left and right, and wondering why Gabriella hasn't asked him yet. But when Gabriella overhears something her mom says on the phone, she is too devastated to even think about the dance. Could it be that they're moving "again? "Gabriella is so happy at East High. Would her mother really take her away from all her friends?

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-stories-from-east3-poetry-in-motion-252-82000.html Everyone at East High is freaking out. In one week, every student in Ms. Barrington's English class must recite an original poem in front of a special school assembly. Chad, Jason, and Zeke are afraid they'll be laughingstocks, but Troy is determined to help his friends succeed. Enlisting Gabriella's help, Troy helps his basketball buddies understand that there's more than one way to bust a rhyme 

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-stories-from-east4-crunch-time-252-82001.html Students are preparing for the dreaded SATs. Luckily, the upcoming Halloween Festival will take everyones mind off the SAT crunch. This year, the students are to wear costumes that represent what they would like to be someday. Will Gabriella and Troys visions match up? The students of East High are preparing for the SATs, and Gabriella has the unfortunate honor of tutoring Sharpay, who shines much more brightly on stage than she does on her practice tests. Luckily, everyone has the school's upcoming Halloween party to take their minds off the SAT crunch. This year's theme is "Future Fantasy" and the students will wear costumes that represent what they would like to be someday. Gabriella and Troy wonder what kind of future the other foresees, but they'll have to wait until the party to find out. Will their visions match up? Or do the two of them have different ideas about where they're headed?

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-stories-from-east5-broadway-dreams-252-82002.html Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan are headed for the Big Apple. Best of all, the kids have the opportunity to audition for a real Broadway musical, but will their dreams of stardom come true? High School Musical: Stories from East High #5: Broadway Dreams Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan are headed to New York City on a class trip Everyone is eager to bask in the lights of Times Square and to explore the bustling streets of Manhattan. But then some unexpected opportunities arise: Sharpay and Ryan put on their dancing shoes and try out for a real Broadway musical, and Gabriella and Taylor vie for scholarship money on a game show. But are any of them ready for the level of competition they'll face? And will their friendships survive the challenges ahead? High School Musical: Stories from East High #6: Heart to HeartFor five years in a row, the East High Wildcats have lost out to their rivals at West High in raising money for the United Heart Association's annual Valentine's Day fundraiser, Heart to Heart. But this year, Sharpay is determined for East High to reign supreme Each club gets to work to figure out what they can do to bring in the most cash. The Drama Club will sell flowers, and Taylor and Gabriella organize a cupcake sale with the Scholastic Decathlon team. With Gabriella baking nonstop, and Troy practicing for States, can they find a moment to celebrate Valentine's Day? And will Sharpay's dreams of victory be fulfilled?

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-stories-from-east6-heart-to-heart-252-82003.html Its Valentines Day, which means its time for East High Schools annual fundraiser. Taylor and Gabriella organize a cupcake sale with the decathlon team. However, they soon have more orders than they can handle. Also, can Gabriella and Troy find a moment to celebrate Valentines Day? High School Musical: Stories from East High #5: Broadway Dreams Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan are headed to New York City on a class trip Everyone is eager to bask in the lights of Times Square and to explore the bustling streets of Manhattan. But then some unexpected opportunities arise: Sharpay and Ryan put on their dancing shoes and try out for a real Broadway musical, and Gabriella and Taylor vie for scholarship money on a game show. But are any of them ready for the level of competition they'll face? And will their friendships survive the challenges ahead? High School Musical: Stories from East High #6: Heart to HeartFor five years in a row, the East High Wildcats have lost out to their rivals at West High in raising money for the United Heart Association's annual Valentine's Day fundraiser, Heart to Heart. But this year, Sharpay is determined for East High to reign supreme Each club gets to work to figure out what they can do to bring in the most cash. The Drama Club will sell flowers, and Taylor and Gabriella organize a cupcake sale with the Scholastic Decathlon team. With Gabriella baking nonstop, and Troy practicing for States, can they find a moment to celebrate Valentine's Day? And will Sharpay's dreams of victory be fulfilled?

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/high-sch-musi-2-the-junior-novel-252-82004.html Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Sharpay, and Ryan are headed for the Big Apple. Best of all, the kids have the opportunity to audition for a real Broadway musical, but will their dreams of stardom come true? Goodbye, classroom Hello, summer But for Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, this vacation is no day at the beach; they're all working at a country club founded by none other than Ryan and Sharpay's grandfather And with the club's annual Midsummer Night's Musical right around the corner, Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. If she can manage to win the Star Dazzle Award just one more time, the country club will name it after Sharpay, and it will be hers forever. But this year, Sharpay faces some tough competition-Gabriella To have any hope of coming out on top, Sharpay knows that she'll need a secret weapon. She dumps Ryan and starts wooing Troy to be her new partner. Gabriella is less than thrilled that Troy has fallen under Sharpay's spell. How could he do that to her? Things are heating up on the lawns of high society. Will Troy and Gabriella realize that they're meant to be? Or is it already too late for them to sing one last song together?

Author: NONE  Publisher: DISNEY PRESS]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/enid-blyton-brer-rabbit`s-a-rascal-252-82005.html ENID BLYTON BRER RABBIT`S A RASCAL

Author: ENID BLYTON  Publisher: EGMONT]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/enid-blyton-a-book-of-fairies-252-82006.html that young readers are sure to love. Follow the adventures of Betty, the girl who doesn't believe in fairies—but soon changes her mind, Binkity, the lazy, mischievous little Brownie, Karin the shy gnome, and many more. Timeless stories from one of the world's most popular children's authors, Enid Blyton.

Author: ENID BLYTON  Publisher: EGMONT]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/enid-blyton-the-adventures-of-pip-252-82007.html When Pip the pixie accidentally breaks his Aunt Twinkle's sugar-basin he sets off in search of some glue—and discovers a wonderful secret. Follow the exciting adventures of Pip, as he meets the animals of the forest. Pip learns all about nature through his encounters with the sleepy toad, the spiky hedgehog, the busy bee and many, many more. A collection of enchanting short stories from Enid Blyton.

Author: ENID BLYTON  Publisher: EGMONT]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100