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Oct 28, 2017
The millions of fans of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy have something to be very happy about this season: the start of a new trilogy, companion to the first, called “The Book of Dust.”

Pullman’s invented universe is a wonder to behold, but so is the meticulously drawn world of New York City in Julia Wertz’s graphic homage, “Tenements, Towers & Trash.”

Some treasures to behold this week:

Books about Russian history and current events round out our list this week, from biographies of Lenin and Stalin to Masha Gessen’s study of post-Soviet life, “The Future Is History.”


Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...


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For Two Thousand Years

For Two Thousand Years

Mihail Sebastian and Philip O Ceallaigh

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'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For...

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Cherise Wolas

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‘A stunning debut – because there is nothing debut about it’ A.M. Homes Aged 13, Joan Ashby...


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The Meaning of Belief: Religion From an Atheist’s Point of View

The Meaning of Belief: Religion From an Atheist’s Point of View

Tim Crane

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Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many...


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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Martin Wenner | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.1 (76 Ratings)
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It took me a while to get into this book. I stopped and started the book around five times, but as soon as it picked up, I devoured it. I liked Lisbeth and Mikael as characters. It was graphic, but her revenge was perfect against the creeper. I did like the resolution of everything, though, I did figure it out before the end. But, I still enjoyed it.
  
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War Mother
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Collecting 4 parts of a series together in one publication, this narrative is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where the new species have evolved and survived. The story follows Ana as the hunter-gatherer for her community and using AI guns follows an action-adventure format. A well illustrated and engaging graphic novel it is not always easy to follow, but then life isn't always straight forwards either.
  
Spider-Man Blue
Spider-Man Blue
Jeff loeb | 2003 | Comics & Graphic Novels
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9.0 (2 Ratings)
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Tim sale
Without a doubt one of my favorite graphic novel of the last 20 years as spider -man recounts his love for Gwen stacy the woman he tradgically lost but first he must survive encounters by his enemies before he can fall in love plus meet Mary Jane Watson brillant story telling from jeff loeb and brillant art work from tim sale always worth a read
  
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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9.2 (5 Ratings)
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Edited on 07/01/19: The graphic novel sticks pretty close to the source material, too!!

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One of the best books I've (re)read in a long time, "Storm Front" introduces us to the world of Harry Dresden, paranormal investigator for hire.

Superb entry in a new series by (to me) a new author: I think I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for future entries!
  
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
2015 | Action, Horror, Western
Interesting movie. I wouldn't have called it amazing, but the whole movie kept me at my toes all the way through.

Some scenes can be pretty graphic - so warning for the faint hearted.
I loved the western side of it, and the adventure they endeavour, following by a hero who tries to save his girl.

Definitely worth watching - as it's quite unique in its own way, and one-of-a-kind.
  
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Kim Newman recommended Sisters (1973) in Movies (curated)

 
Sisters (1973)
Sisters (1973)
1973 | Crime, Horror, Thriller

"Brian DePalma’s breakthrough thriller pays homage to several Hitchcock classics—Rear Window and Psycho, mostly—in a genuinely innovative manner, with jittery, counter-culture-ish New York wiseass humor rather than Hitch’s British wryness, an interesting set of mirror image antagonists in peculiar twins played by Margot Kidder (with a seductively odd French-Canadian accent), and nosy reporter Jennifer Salt. It has graphic shocks but also stretches of hallucinatory strangeness."

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