Roca, Paco
Summary: "The celebrated Spanish cartoonist's most ambitious work yet is a touching homage to his mother and a bittersweet depiction of life in post-war Spain. It all starts with a photograph: an ordinary scene of a young woman and her family picnicking at a Valencian beach in 1947. Now in her twilight years, Antonia cherishes this photo dearly; it holds the memories of her upbringing, her family --the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 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: "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 ROCVilas, Manuel
Summary: "A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicleof his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILWyatt, Chris
Summary: Introduces young readers to the new members of the Avengers, including the Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Falcon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Spotlight 2018