Product Description: An intrepid boy teams up with Alfred Hitchcock himself in this rollicking mystery rife with action, adventure, intrigue, and all the flavor of film noir.After the mysterious death of his mother, eleven-year-old Jack Fair is whisked away to San Francisco’s swanky Fairmont Hotel by his wicked Aunt Edith...read more

An upbeat, empathetic, and essential guide for young people with diabetesIn Diabetes and Me: An Essential Guide for Kids and Parents, Kim Chaloner, who has been teaching award-winning science classes for fifteen years, gives kids the tools they need to take charge of their health and understand what it means to be diagnosed with diabetes. In this graphic guide, she walks four young people through the basics of diabetes, both Type 1 and Type 2, revealing . . . • The early signs of diabetes and how doctors can help• What it means to have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes• What the pancreas is and how it works• How to manage the ups and downs of blood sugar levels• Strategies for diet and exercise• How to explain diabetes to friends and family members• And much more!Illustrated by the award-winning artist Nick Bertozzi, Diabetes and Me is an informative, empowering handbook for parents, teachers, and kids looking to learn more about how to handle one of today's most common conditions.

Product Description: When Tim and his wife inherit his father's museum of curiosities and find therein a taxidermied African warrior ("The Savage" -- or so the museum's placard labels him), Tim's quiet suburban life starts spiraling out of control.  In this dark comedy about family, race, and politics, Glenn Eichler and Nick Bertozzi explore what's buried under the surface of middle-class America...read more

Product Description: Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so eighty years after his death. This is a "snapshot" of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason Lutes and artist Nick Bertozzi reveal Houdini's life and influence: from the anti-Semitism Houdini fought all his life, to the adulation of the American public; from his hounding by the press, to his loving relationship with his wife Bess; from his egoism to his insecurity; from his public persona -- to the secret behind his most amazing trick! And it's all in graphic form, so it's fresh, original, and unlike anything previously published about this most fascinating of American showmen...read more

Product Description: Harry Houdini fascino a toda una generacion mientras estaba vivo y sigue haciendolo 80 anos despues de su muerte. El rey de las esposas es una novela grafica sobre un dia en la vida de Houdini y muestra como su epoca y sus principios contribuyeron a forjar su arte y personalidad...read more

A graphic novel set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris offers a unique glimpse inside the world of the modernists as it follows the adventures of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Paul Gauguin, and Guillaume Apollinaire as they join forces to find a killer preying on avant-garde artists around the city. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Masochists is a dramatic look at obsession, an examination of isolation, and a eulogy for three people slowly crushing everything good out of their lives. An unflinching look at human behavior, these three stories will sit well with those intrigued by the early humanist dramas of Fellini or Kurosawa...read more