When Tippy wakes up, there's a peacock in her bedroom, a bird in her hair, and mice dancing on the headboard. Yet all Tippy remembers is falling asleep In her first book for children, award-winning cartoonist Lilli Carre takes Tippy on a nocturnal adventure up a mountain, down a hole, and back home[...]
A young woman finds the most powerful love of her life when she gives birth at an institution for unwed mothers in 1883 Philadelphia. She is told she must give up her daughter to avoid lifelong poverty and shame. But she chooses to keep her.
Pregnant, left behind by her lover, and banished from[...]
Nick is one of LA's most famous chefs, known for his culinary talent as well as his reputation as a bad boy. But when he's fired for his 'attitude problem,' the only job Nick can find is running a small cafe in a tiny town in northern California. He takes the job with the intention of staying one ye[...]
An irresistible new-baby story set in the fairy world ... and with a delightful twist.Lilli-Pilli's mother is having a baby. Lilli-Pilli is sure the baby is going to be a sister. She can feel it in her wings. But when she asks around among the birds and butterflies in the forest, some of them are eq[...]
Following their mother's death, Astri and Greta's father sets off from their small village in Norway for America in the hopes of making enough money to eventually send for his daughters. The girls are left in the care of their uncle and cruel aunt who soon take the opportunity to make some extra mon[...]
Mimus is as luminous and entertaining as Cornelia Funke's "Thief Lord" or "Inkheart," yet Lilli Thal has created a dramatic and spellbinding universe all her own. The dark Middle Ages jump to life in blazing color in this world of adventure and imagination. Two mighty kingdoms are engaged in endles[...]
The creator of 2008 s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon named to many annual critics lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today s Pop Candy is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today. Carr s e[...]
From one of the bright new faces in the indie comix scene comes a collection of vignettes and stories about a solitary albeit gregarious woodsman with a loose grasp on his own personal history and that of the outside world. He forms relationships with his inanimate surroundings and muses to a dead a[...]
Thomas Feichtner (b. 1970) is an Austrian designer who, after considerable successes in the field of industrial design (ski bindings, ball-point pens, fire extinguishers), has recently begun to turn heads again with his unusual approach to design. His new work in the area of furniture and object des[...]
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Evelyn kocht für ihr Leben gern. Aber das triste Hausfrauendasein hat sie satt: Die Kinder sind ausgezogen, ihr Mann wohnt quasi im Büro, und dann stirbt auch noch der Hund. Doch ihre flippige Freundin Ulla wirbt mit Evelyns Kochkünsten bei einem Verleger. Der attraktive Mann plant ein Kochbuch m[...]