![]() ![]() One of Saudek's earliest and most beautiful collections. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Printed on glossy stock paper in Prague, the Czech Republic to the highest standards. The book is an outstanding example of Czech publishing at its best. A brilliant production by Jan Saudek: Oversize-volume format. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. ![]() Collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book. As Saudek states, "I don't have the capacity to portray other people's lives. ![]() These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as much about the artist as about the characters he creates. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes, Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model, shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture new meaning. ![]() From the publisher: "Drawing on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are given free range. Unpaginated, with 131 four-color plates, and 24 additional four-color and black and white reference illustrations, beautifully printed on fine matteart paper by EBS, Verona, Italy. Essay ("Paradise and the Innocent Eye") by John Wood and James Crump. Fine light blue linen cloth, with title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. ![]()
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This new novel from the acclaimed author of The Only Good Indians explores the changing landscape of the West through his particular voice of sharp humor and prophetic violence. This summer, as yachts compete with canoes on Indian Lake, Jade is convinced a killer will rise. As a conglomerate known as the Founders begins breaking ground for their rustic mansions in what they’re unironically calling Terra Nova, Jade watches as the small town she knows and hates moves toward catastrophe. ![]() Jade feels as if she’s trapped in the opening scenes of a slasher film when tourists go missing and tensions rise between her community and the celebrity newcomers to the Indian Lake shore. 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Critically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. ![]() ![]() Anya is a typical teenage girl: lonely, insecure, hormonal, and so much stronger than she gives herself credit for. While at first glance, Brosgols novel seems to merely focus. Brosgol's two-toned purple-and-black images have a bold, cartoony flair, underscoring her knack for comic timing and pacing, and making nearly every stance and facial expression her characters adopt at least a little bit funny. If what young readers desire is to see themselves reflected in the greater world, they need look no further than Vera Brosgols beautiful debut graphic novel, Anyas Ghost. its story and deals with the concept of being an. ![]() Brosgol's debut graphic novel taut, witty, and breezily paced seems to be heading in a very familiar direction, and then, abruptly, veers off toward a completely different and much more clever third act. ![]() ![]() Anya's the only one who can see Emily, of course, but Emily's excited enough to be out in the world again (via a tiny bone Anya carries around with her) that she offers to help her new pal out in all sorts of poltergeisty ways Anya, in return, resolves to try to solve the mystery of Emily's murder. Then she falls down a well and makes a friend: the very lonely ghost of a girl named Emily, who died there a hundred years before and can't leave her bones. ![]() She's embarrassed by her Russian- migr mom her little brother drives her bats she doesn't fit in at school she can't get the boy she likes to notice her and her only weapons are her sharp tongue and perpetual sneer. Anya Borzakovskaya is one frustrated, grouchy teenager. ![]() ![]() Luckily for both of us, this copycat doesn’t know who he’s dealing with. I’m finally starting to learn that we’re stronger together, and I’m not going to jeopardize that. It might look like my writing and my note, but I wouldn’t do that to Jackson -especially after I promised him that I wouldn’t take a hit ever again. When we find a note on the victim’s body, we realize that this could ruin our lives forever. We’ve been called in to investigate a suspicious murder committed by someone claiming to be the Sandman. If only I could keep the house from being overrun by Leland’s gun shrine – or stop him from making our cases “more exciting” by terrorizing people into confessing. I didn’t know he would be just as reckless as a PI, but it’s not my fault if I happen to enjoy helping him hunt down the occasional criminal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that Leland’s decided to give up his life as a hitman and take a walk on the mild side, we’ve been enjoying a simple life of taking down bad guys the legal way. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the Six of Crows takes place after the events of Shadow and Bone, the duology is just as popular as a stand-alone series. The Shadow and Bone trilogy: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising ![]() If you can't wait to dive in and learn more about this fantasy world, here's the order of the books and what to expect from each. The show also weaves in details and references from multiple Grishaverse books, including allusions to upcoming storylines. Bardugo and showrunner Eric Heisserer wrote a new plot for the Six of Crows cast that wove them into the events of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which took place two years before the Six of Crows duology's timeline. ![]() While the primary storyline of Netflix's Shadow and Bone follows the trilogy of the same name, the show also has a subplot with the characters from the Six of Crows duology. The Grishaverse is comprised of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Crows duology, and three supplemental books. ![]() |