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  All the Art That's Fit to Print...

  Jerelle Kraus

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  From the New York Times’s former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world’s first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere.    Jerelle Kraus, whose thirteen-year tenure as Op-Ed art director far exceeds that of any other art director or editor, unveils a riveting account of working at the Times. Her insider anecdotes include the reasons why artist Saul Steinberg hated the Times, why editor Howell Raines stopped the presses to kill a feature by Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau, and why reporter Syd Schanburg—whose story was told in the movie The Killing Fields—stated that he would travel anywhere to see Kissinger hanged, as well as Kraus’s tale of surviving two and a half hours alone with the dethroned outlaw, Richard Nixon.  All the Art features a satiric portrayal of John McCain, a classic cartoon of Barack Obama by Jules Feiffer, and a drawing of Hillary Clinton and Obama by Barry Blitt. But when Frank Rich wrote a column discussing Hillary Clinton exclusively, the Times refused to allow Blitt to portray her. Nearly any notion is palatable in prose, yet editors perceive pictures as a far greater threat. Confucius underestimated the number of words an image is worth; the thousand-fold power of a picture is also its curse . . .  Features 142 artists from thirty nations and five continents, and 324 pictures—gleaned from a total of 30,000—that stir our cultural-political pot.  “To discover what really goes on inside the belly of the media beast, read this book.” —Bill Maher  “In this overflowing treasure chest of ideas, politics and cultural critiques, Kraus proves that “art is dangerous” and sometimes necessarily so.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Jughead the Hunger: Volume 2...

  Pat & Tim Kennedy, Joe Eisma,...

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  "Archie's Madhouse brings the second collection of the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters. 
   
  Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite... but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family's dark legacy comes to light. 
   
  After months of being on the run as a fugitive, something brings our favorite hamburger eating wolfman back to Riverdale-and that something is an out-for-blood Reggie! Will good ol' Jug survive this battle of the werewolves? Join writer Frank Tieri (Wolverine) and artists Pat & Tim Kennedy (Death of Archie) and Joe Eisma (Archie) for this horrifying audiobook series. Adapted from the issues and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music! 
   
  Performed by Eric Messner, Alejandro Ruiz, Robb Moreira, Joel David Santner, Triya Leong, Laura C. Harris, Matthew Schleigh, Tanja Milojevic, Rob McFadyen, Bradley Foster Smith, Taylor Coan, and Terence Aselford, Andrew Mimms, Chris Davenport, Dawn Ursula, Kelly Baskin, Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Torian Brackett, Yasmin Tuazon, Catherine Aselford, Chris Stinson, Eric Messner, Drew Kopas, James J Johnson, Joey Sourlis, John Kielty, Karen Novack, Katie Boothe, Ken Jackson, Lise Bruneau, Niusha Nawab, Lydia Kraniotis, Nanette Savard, Nazia Chaudhry, Scott McCormick, Steven Carpenter, Rayner Gabriel, and Donald Guzzi."

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  The crazy World of the Border...

  Heinz Grundel

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  Life isn't always easy for Border Collies and the sheep entrusted to them. But they take it with a good sense of humour - just as does cartoonist Heinz Grundel, who portrays these lively dogs to the point. Every Border Collie owner will recognize many of the sketched out characteristics. Also sheep lovers will get their money's worth, since of course it's them who are the real top dogs...

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  Spokes on the Water

  Donald Lemke

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  Michael Cycle and his talking BMX bike, C.A.T.T., smell something fishy at TV Academy. They're out to prove that middle school Mafioso, Tony Tenor, is up to no good. Is this two-wheeled team in over their head? Or will they reel in their biggest catch of the day?

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  Die You Damned Robot - Science...

  Zunair Ahmad

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  Please Remember. This is not an ordinary sci-fi novel, nor a graphic novel. 
  Ten Years ago, a certain law was passed by the high council that made the very existence of the Megatrons, the most advanced family of robots, illegal. Thus, commencing an era where humans began hunting down their own creations without mercy. 
  Jun Cason, the protagonist of this world far into the future is sentenced to death for committing one of the worst crimes of recent times. While drowning in depression and awaiting his death, one day a strange man visits him and makes him an offer: spend the last two weeks of your life in this tiny jail cell or live for one week as a free man; only catch is, you’d have to go to that mysterious place in the galaxy where living things die of unknown reasons for our research project. Finding a tiny ray of hope in the darkness, Jun accepts the offer. 
  On his last day as a free man, Jun witnesses a very cruel public execution of the megatrons while being out on the streets. Megatrons resembles human beings. So, when he sees a teenage megatron girl getting violently killed right in front of him, his sense of justice arises and he ends up saving the girl’s lover, a megatron teenager named Nixon. Out of gratitude, Nixon attempts to save Jun from the peril that awaits him in the outer space, but ends in failure. 
  How could Jun ever hope to survive the Obion planet clusters where the deadly aliens lurk? After learning the conspiracy and the corruption of the high council who rules the world, would he be willing to assist the revolutionaries and help them by committing the same crime that got him a death sentence once again? 
  Follow along as Jun faces one perilous trail after another and rises against the most powerful super computer humanity has ever built, the terrible tyrant Keygen Computer!

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  Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert...

  Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie

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  A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple. 
  In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond. 
  Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories. 
  This accessible, entertaining and illustrated guide to the world of Miss Marple pieces together the evidence in order to tell you everything you need to know about the world’s favourite female detective. 
  This book is a journey into the world of mystery and crime, offering a graphic biography of Miss Marple, a top literary figure. It's a reading experience that combines elements of novels, non-fiction, and performing arts criticism. 
  HarperCollins 2024

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