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Kyla Vanderklugt, artist of SPERA and Archaias 2014 Free Comic Book Day LABYRINTH story, tells the beautiful Japanese tale of The Snow Witch in a gorgeous horizontal format stand-alone issue. When an old woodcutter and his young apprentice are caught in a blizzard, a mysterious woman dressed in white appears and freezes the woodcutter to death before eating his soul. She spares the apprentice if he vows never to tell of what he has seen, but keeping...
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Kory Merritt brings together characters from classic childrens books to create Vix Reynard and the League of Extraordinary Vermin. Here, familiar faces from the works of E. B. White, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, and additional folk and fairy tales take on the role of unlikely heroes fighting to save their world. The year is 1951, and theres a dark tension in the air. Heroes of legend, some thought only to exist in fairytales, must battle against...
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A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance...
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When youre the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, its not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice about you. Still, there are other ways of being different--and...
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Creators: Original stories and poems by Charles Eastman, Zitkala-Sa, Alex Posey, E. Pauline Johnson, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, William Jones, Buffalo Bird Woman, Gilbert L. Wilson, Elias Johnson, Simon Pokagon, James Harris Guy, Handsome Lake, Arthur C. Parker, Bertrand N.O. Walker, Israel Folsom, Royal Roger Eubanks, Carlos Montezuma, John E. Smelcer, Joseph Bruchac. Adaptations by Benjamin Truman, Andrea Grant, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,...
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"Abigail Adams was a strong woman far ahead of her time. She urged her husband, President John Adams, to 'remember the ladies' and despite having no formal education herself, she later advocated for equal education in public schools for both boys and girls. She was also the first First Lady to live in the White House! This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period"--