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(0)Jaime Hernandez
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Fall 2024 | Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month (Kids)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 (All Ages)
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Latine and Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 (All Ages)
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"A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Life drawing
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English
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"Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Life Drawing skillfully weaves two generations of Jaime Hernandez's beloved characters - the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie - into a satisfying story of love. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighborhood. When Tonta finds that the woman is Maggie - Ray's girlfriend - things get complicated....
4) Tonta
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In this graphic novel, teenager Tonta is staying for the weekend with her half-sister, the self-absorbed Vivian. At home, Tonta's stepfather is shot during a botched burglary, which leads to the discovery of family secrets that require Tonta to confront some unpleasant truths that she previously managed to suppress or remain ignorant of. Through it all, Tonta showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving a host of characters and milieus...
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Español
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Jaime Hernandez, el afamado creador de Amor y Cohetes, se hace estas y otras muchas preguntas al convertir famosos mitos en cómics frescos, sorprendentes y plenamente contemporáneos. Guiado por las obra clásicas de F. Isabel Campoy y Alma Flor Ada, el primer libro para jóvenes lectores de Hernandez acerca las historias y estampas de Latinoamérica a una nueva generación de aficionados a la novela gráfica de todo el mundo.
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"For the past 40 years, acclaimed graphic novelist and Love and Rockets co-creator Jaime Hernandez has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen--until now. Set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling and lucha libre, Queen of the Ring presents selected pieces from this secret archive, lovingly worked over using materials and processes outside of the scope of his beloved comics work. Threaded with commentary by...
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English
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Originally serialized in Love and Rockets: New Stories 1 & 2, "Ti-Girls Adventures" managed to be both a rollickingly creative super-hero joyride (featuring three separate super-teams and over two dozen characters) that ranged from the other side of the universe to Maggie's shabby apartment, and a genuinely dramatic fable about madness, grief, and motherhood as Penny Century's decades-long quest to become a genuine super-heroine are finally, and tragically,...
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Love and rockets book volume 8
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English
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A fourth volume of Maggie stories includes "Whoa, Nellie!," in which Maggie is introduced to the world of pro-wrestling, and "Bay of Threes," in which the full back story of Maggie's bombshell friend Beatriz "Penny Century" Garcia is revealed.
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This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
On a beach in Santo Domingo, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball...
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A Love and rockets book volume 1
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English
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A collection of Love and Rockets tales finds Penny Century acquiring super-powers at a terrible personal cost and rampaging through the galaxy pursued by a motley group of superheroes led by Maggie's girlfriend Angel.
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A Love and rockets book volume 7
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English
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Los Bros. as you've never seen them! Most Love and Rockets readers are intimately familiar with Jaime Hernandez's "Locas" yarns and Gilbert Hernandez's tales of Palomar. But many don't realize that Love and Rockets has also brimmed with Los Bros.' wildly inventive one-shot stories and short-run series. Within these pages, discover "BEM," the sci-fi epic (co-starring Luba) that put Gilbert on the map... his dystopian tales of Errata Stigmata, as well...
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A Love and rockets book volume 2
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English
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A collection of graphic stories, including parts three and four of Ti-Girls Adventures, the story of superheroes gone wild, "Sad Girl," in which a teenaged girl named Killer sets out to get revenge against her ex-boyfriend, and "Hypnotwist," a wordless tale of a woman's surreal journey through the night.