Frank Cvetkovic
Author
Publisher
Idea and Design Works
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy Hendrix before he was "Jimi," and the idea of a band made up of all Native Americans soon followed. Determined to control their creative vision and maintain their cultural identity, they eventually signed a deal with Epic Records in 1969. But as the American Indian Movement gained momentum...
3) Lost boy
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a deadly car accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes as the sole survivor. Stranded, freezing and without anyone around to help him, he struggles to stay alive as he attempts to find his way back to civilization."--
4) Medea
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Who was Medea, really? The legendary sorceress from Greek myth has been cast as many things--A caring mother and a passionate lover who was thwarted by her desires; an independent woman vilified for refusing the tyranny of men; a barbarian who sowed confusion in the regimented world of the Greeks; a formidable witch, mistress of occult forces. Simply put, she was precisely what some would call a monster. And yet, there is so much more to Medea.......
5) Blink
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Wren Booker is haunted by a childhood she can't fully remember. When she comes across a cryptic website streaming video feeds from the ruined building of her nightmares, she tracks it down and re-enters the failed social experiment she narrowly escaped as a child."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Cyberpunk 2077 volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nadia is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout. She discovers that her new extraction subject is the man who's responsible for her former team members' deaths"--
7) Hotel REM
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rembrandt Somner enthusiastically runs his hotel by balancing his unwieldy co-workers and wild guests, but a demanding celebrity guest threatens to be the rude awakening that ruins everything.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For Kacee, a queer Black girl in middle school, everything feels like a struggle, but when she fails a class as a result of her stress and ends up in summer school, she begins to discover her own power to improve the things in her life she can control.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lock your doors and gather close . . . if you dare! Once a rising TV journalist, Jerri Bartman has returned to her small Midwest hometown station. Demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature, Jerri's professional humiliation is eclipsed by the discovery that her new job comes with a secret, supernatural duty. Her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, was one of the last "Appointed" hunters of monsters. Yes. Monsters. They're real and they're hell...
10) Burmese moons
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Ideas and Design Works
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The human rights abuses of the Myanmar republic are brought to horrifying life in this tale of hardship and perseverance in the face of impossible conditions. The peaceful jungles of Burma are ripped apart as the People Power Uprising of 1988 incites the brutal military rulers of Myanmar to crush a burgeoning revolution. Among millions of displaced natives are Thazama, Moonpi and Kim, members of the Zomi tribe, forced to flee slavery and torture,...
Author
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Born in the South during the height of segregation, James Brown went on to become a global sensation, using his immeasurable talent to grasp what he believed was the American Dream. Join the charismatic, hard working, and sometimes tyrannical bandleader on a journey down the roads of America with a group of talented musicians spreading the sound of funk and soul throughout the country. Told against the backdrop of a changing America during the Civil...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn't so easy...especially for women. Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary) was a bona fide frontierswoman, a professional scout, a drunk, and sometime whore, doing whatever it took to stay alive in the hardscrabble days of American expansion."--back cover.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder's help, but suddenly she wasn't dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker's past are dirtier than her living, and searching for a killer in a city...
14) The house
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
October 2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes a place can be so imbued with a feeling, its power persists throughout time.... Seeking shelter from a snowstorm, a group of American soldiers in WWII stumble upon a strange house...and the horrors within it. Pursued by the remnants of a dead brother--ghost, memory, or something else?--and a host of other horrors, pursued at every step, they desperately seek the truth of the house on their way to safety, and perhaps, redemption. This psychological...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 2011 one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As the world moved on, find out what happened to those left behind in this memoir of tragedy and death, people and land, and what comes after disaster. April 26, 1986. The reactor core of the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl began to melt, setting into motion the greatest nuclear disaster of the twentieth century. While Europe slept, a cloud laden with radiation traveled thousands of miles in every direction, contaminating five million people who...
Series
Marvel super stories volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This first volume in a middle-grade anthology series with Marvel Comics, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator John Jennings, features all of your favorite Marvel super heroes in original six-page stories written and illustrated by some of the biggest names in comics for young readers. These mighty team-ups include: Black Panther: Jerry Craft (New Kid), Wiccan: Mike Curato (Flamer), Miles Morales Spider-Man: C. G. Esperanza (Soul Food...
19) Opening moves
Author
Series
The once and future queen volume Volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
November 2017.
Language
English
Description
"Rani Arturus is a chess prodigy with no plans to be a leader of any sort, let alone QUEEN. After she pulls the legendary sword Excalibur from the stone . . . well, no backsies. Now she must form a new round table made of friends and family to protect the Earth from an invasion of Fae, who'd like a new planet to call their own"--
Author
Series
Batgirls volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Two Batgirls are better than one! Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown have been masked vigilantes in the scary, gritty city of Gotham for a while now, so what happens when you move them to a whole new sunny neighborhood and make them roomies with Barbara Gordon? A whole lot of love, friendship, parenting...and homicide detective work?"--