Biography & Memoir

Over the years, the companies have deployed an arsenal of schemes in an attempt to outmaneuver the competition, whether it be stealing ideas, poaching employees, planting spies, ripping off characters or launching price wars. Sometimes the feud has been...

An investigation and celebration of the origins of the world-renowned Latino musical samba-jazz movement Bossa Nova, They Shot The Piano Player captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning-point in Latin American history in the...

More than 60 female comics creators share their personal experiences with sexual violence and harassment through new and original comics Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526898Author Marcelino TruongFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969624Author Ari RichterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Do you really know Pink Floyd? This comics documentary retraces the history of the group, from their meeting to the solo adventures of the artists. A great opportunity to revisit famous episodes in the life of the mythical group and explore what made...

A trip to Tokyo's Asian market district, Ameyokocho, leads the protrag on a trip to hunt down the mysterious guyabano fruit! Little does the protrag and their crew know that their curiosity will take them on a wild and mouth-watering trip to the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047226Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the...

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141008Author Chuck DFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Original graphic novel which charts the creation, evolution and break-up of the fab four, first published in 1981. The Beatles Story is an exceptionally drawn account of the band from one of the UK's leading artists of his generation, Arthur Ranson...

The book that brought pre-eminent Manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki to the English-speaking world. Kokopo, 1943. A platoon of soldiers is ordered into battle. The objective is death. The alternative is certain execution as a consequence of survival. Inspired by...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Coretta Scott King Author Award 2017 and Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for nonfiction 2017 and Michael L. Printz Award Winner 2017 and National Book Award for Young...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993563362Author Ian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad EditionsSeries The Bad Doctor

From his boyhood days spent drawing compulsively through his tragic death, the trajectory of Keith Haring's life is a story of incredible achievement, luck, opportunity, and extraordinary commitment. This graphic novel looks at every stage of that...

A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARDRao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the...

Sophie had always been cynical about love-until she meets Marcus. His affection and doting praise melt away her defenses. The beginning of their relationship was a whirlwind romance, but over time she finds herself on uneven footing. Marcus lies. He's...

The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban fighter Benny Paret. Ten days after the fight, Paret, who had directed a homophobic slur at Griffith during the weigh-in, died from his injuries. In...

Fascinating, bizarre, and educational true-life medical stories retold in cartoon form by the creator of the bestselling Heart and Brain book series.Mysterious illnesses. Freakish injuries. X-rays revealing something weird that got stuck in your foot...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683963660Author Jacques TardiFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

A graphic biography of female novelist George Sand, whose life and work championed women's rights, gender expression, and sexual liberation A scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography of one of the great pioneering figures of 19th-century...

National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant...

A memoir about trauma and writing yourself to a place of healing. At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl living in the Maritimes. She lives with her eccentric dad as he prepares to build a log cabin. She rides her beloved horse and spends all...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969921Author TardiFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsSeries I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag Iib

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997918Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1546g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998799636Author Frances M FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Frances FullerPublisher Frances FullerWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603095242Author Eddie CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream.Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their...

A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world.What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can...

What choices would you make to reunite your family?"You know, Haidi, we're going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama."In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and...

We recognise him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the 'Angry Young Man' of Hollywood. Before he became the revered master of science fiction, Rod Serling was a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861661695Author Hunt EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911238522Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdSeries Classics Illustrated

"I really enjoyed this book. In fact, I could go for a second helping!"-Amy Sedaris "Entrepreneurs will learn a thing or two about translating a dream into thoughtful business growth, and everyone will laugh, cry, and nod along with a woman who has...

The true story of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose "Golden Voice" helped define Cambodia's Golden Age of music until her mysterious disappearance in the killing fields of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Developed in partnership with Sothea's...

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. During her lifetime, which spanned almost a...

A graphic novel style memoir about the weirdness and wonder of pregnancy and early motherhood, told with humor and frankness. The perfect gift for new parents, parents-to-be, or anyone interested in the experience of bringing a new human into today's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198751Author Jon B. CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with...