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Spooky and the Strange Tales - Monster Inn (2017)

by Élian Black'Mor, Carine-M. Once upon a time, in the heart of the kingdom of Fairy Tales, a king and a queen had the strangest of children: Spooky! The traditional-fairy tale tropes turn topsy-turvy in this lavishly illustrated storybook as Spooky explores her dark, enchanted world. And when her uncles the Three Little Pigs offer a trip to their London hotel, Spooky trades one improbable setting for another! Monster Inn shines a charming, childish light on contemporary goth culture for a rich and unique story that’s like nothing you've seen before.

Parenthesis (Top Shelf 2021)

Story and art by Elodie Durand. A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilepsy-losing herself, and finding herself again. Julie is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never close.

A Sister (2021)

A coming of age story in the tradition of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Tillie Walden's Spinning, and Mariko Tamaki's This One Summer. Antoine, a teenager, is on holiday at the seaside with his parents and his younger brother, Titi. Both spend most of their time drawing, at restaurants and on the beach. But one day Helene and her mother come to spend a few days with the family and her presence will change Antoine's life. In A Sister, Bastien Vive's, a master storyteller, conveys the stumbling awakenings of adolescent feelings.

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The Nurse (2019)

Author: Zalozabal. Theresa is a nurse hired to accompany young, wheelchair-bound Toby to a controversial clinic in Transnistria. It’s the only medical institution in the world that can offer Toby hope that he will one day walk again. They use radical experimental treatments. Sometimes their results are miraculous; other times, tragic. Once at the clinic, Theresa quickly becomes aware of just how “radical” their treatments are. She then meets a Frenchman, who says: “You’ve got to help me. I broke my arm just so they would admit me to the clinic. I came to save my son from that evil... nurse!” Theresa wants to help, but soon realizes she is a prisoner here. Now she must get Toby out of this terrible place! “The Nurse” is an ultra-bizarre, intense story that will take you places you’ve never been and will never forget!

In Search of Lost Dragons (2015)

by Elian Black'Mor  (Author, Artist), Carine-M (Author, Artist), Jézéquel (Author). On the trail of dragons forgotten, an intrepid illustrator and reporter journeys from Europe through the Middle East and finally to Saigon in search of the dark caverns and mountaintop perches where the elusive winged serpents dwell. With the gift of seeing the invisible, our explorer friend records each encounter in a journal of gorgeous, fully painted artwork, capturing every majestic and fearsome visual detail of the scaly behemoths, and accompanies his findings with snippets of local lore as evidence that these hidden beasts continue to shape the world in ways we may never expect!

Irena Book 01 - Wartime Ghetto (2019)

The true tale of Irena Sendlerowa, a social worker in the Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940s, during the early days of German occupation. She is credited for saving the lives of 2500 Jewish children by gradually and quietly smuggling them to safety in small groups. While she is eventually arrested by Gestapo, imprisoned, and tortured for her actions, she refuses to reveal her network and is condemned to death. She is ultimately saved from death by other members of her organization. After the war, she retrieved the names of all children she saved (kept in a glass jar buried under a tree behind her house) and attempted to locate each of their parents for reunion. And while most of the parents had been gassed in the Holocaust, she made it her mission to help those orphans find new homes. Another true SCHINDLER'S LIST scenario, illustrated for a younger audience, but equally moving for adults.