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Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132

Grove Laurence, Syrotinski Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....

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Bergeners

Espedal Tomas

ISBN: HB: 9780857424426, Seagull Books, August 2017
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Bergeners" is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, No...

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Fiction

Blameless

Magris Claudio, Appel Anne Milano

ISBN: HB: 9780300218480, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them. Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human...

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Bond of the Furthest Apart Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka

Cameron Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780226414065, ISBN: HB: 9780226413907, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon...

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Children's Books

Blue Fairy Book Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics

Lang Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781435162174, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, April 2017
332 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

A favorite collection of the best-known fairy tales, drawn from the folklore of many nations. It is the first and one of the best volumes in the series of colored fairy books produced by Andrew Lang at the turn of the twentieth century. Like the othe...

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Biography & Memoires

Fiction

Biographic: Austen Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781452929, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Fiction

Biographic: Shakespeare Great Lives in Graphic Form

Croot Viv

ISBN: HB: 9781781452912, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each...

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Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales

Hasek Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632872, ISBN: HB: 9788024620138, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2016
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 38 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel "The Good Soldier Schweik", a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI s...

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Fiction

The German List

Blumenberg

Lewitscharoff Sibylle

ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...

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Bleak Liberalism

Anderson Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226923529, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallo...

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