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Author
Publisher
Virtigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
One-time journalist Spider Jerusalem, secluded in his house in the mountains, is called back to his natural, and hated habitat: the City. Filled with noise, filth, energy, and stories, the City throbs and convulses with life. For anyone who can maintain his sanity, it's a writer's paradise. For Spider, it's also the inferno.
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Thea Sisters are five fun, lively students at Mouseford Academy on Whale Island, who want to be real, live journalists, just like their hero, Thea Stilton. Between classes, friendships, crushes, and some bizarre mysteries to solve, they find life to be a never-ending adventure!
3) The leak
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her dentist, her parents, and her teachers. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even if it means taking on the rich local country club owner, who she believes is responsible for the pollution. Between the teasing of former...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the Tōzai News have commissioned the creation of the 'Ultimate Menu, ' a model meal embodying the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine. This all-important task has been entrusted to journalist Yamaoka Shirō, an inveterate cynic who possesses zero initiative--but also an incredibly refined palate and an encyclopedic knowledge of food ..."--Cover flap.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"...For centuries different types of sake have played the same roles in Japan as wine and beer have in the West, from inexpensive everyday drink to refined single-batch rarities. Above all, sake has been enjoyed as an accompaniment to a meal, and after a revelatory moment one night, Yamaoka decides that drink pairings must be an integral part of the Ultimate Menu. So which foods go best with which drinks? Sit down, pour yourself a glass, and read...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcon's story City of Clowns. Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent...
8) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Zoe Meadows is on a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival-goers for a weekend of music and camping. When some of the revelers fall ill, many point to food poisoning. But after the festival ends and attendees scatter across England,...
10) Lonely City
Author
Series
Transmetropolitan volume 5
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Thea Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While salvaging a Viking ship submerged off the coast of Mouse Island with their Mouseford Academy classmates, the Thea Sisters learn that someone wants to steal the vessel's historic treasure.
Author
Series
Thea Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The "Thea Sisters" are five students at Mouseford Academy who want to become journalists just like their idol and mentor, Thea Stilton. Follow the Thea Sisters' adventures in these graphic novels.
13) Lust for life
Author
Series
Transmetropolitan volume 2
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
15) The new scum
Author
Series
Transmetropolitan volume 4
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discovering that the turtles on Turtle Island have gone missing, the Thea Sisters spot environment-threatening drums of a strange oil and struggle to gather help before spotting a pair of turtles entering a mysterious underground cave.
Author
Publisher
Top Cow Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Is genetically modified food an end to world hunger - or a first class ticket to the apocalypse? Dan Miller is a plant biologist working with a small team perfecting an accelerated plant growth process. When things go wrong, Los Angeles pays the price in a disaster story unlike any before!