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Kagurabachi. [manga] / by Hokazono, Takeru,author,artist.; Nieh, Camellia,translator.(CARDINAL)474682; Christie, Phil(Letterer),letterer.(CARDINAL)430881; Weekly Shonen Jump (Firm);
"The battle against the ruthless Sojo begins! Sojo speaks of Kunishige's enchanted blades and how they only exist to take the lives of others. While the two fighters respect the same man, they walk conflicting paths. As he witnesses Sojo's cruelty, Chihiro's bloodlust begins to build."--Page 4 of cover.Rated T+, older teen and is recommended for ages 16 and up. This volume contains fantasy violence.
Subjects: Fantasy comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Manga.; Graphic novels.; Swordsmiths; Swords; Fathers; Magic; Revenge; Wizards; Comic books, strips, etc.; Graphic novels;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 18
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Stone collector. [manga] / by Han, Kevin(Comic book writer),author.(CARDINAL)860656; Zom-J(Comic book artist),artist.(CARDINAL)860655;
Pieces of curse fall from the sky as if to mock the cruelty and evil of humanity. These stones create wretched beasts and the blood of these beasts turn human flesh into the undead. There is only one thing that can destroy these hellish fiends -- Jade Stone. This is the story of a Stone Collector. One who wields Jade forged blades. A man whose family was murdered by these evil abominations and he now has vowed to rid the world of the foul presence.
Subjects: Underground comics.; Fantasy comics.; Periodicals.; Graphic novels.; Fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); Demonology; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On ugliness / by Eco, Umberto,author.(CARDINAL)139063;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-446) and indexes.I. Ugliness in the classical world -- 1. A world dominated by beauty? -- 2. The Greek world and horror -- II. Passion, death, martyrdom -- 1. The "pancalistic" view of the universe -- 2. The suffering of Christ -- 3. Martyrs, hermits, penitents -- 4. The triumph of death -- III. The apocalypse, hell, and the devil -- 1. A universe of horrors -- 2. Hell -- 3. The metamorphoses of the devil -- IV. Monsters and portents -- 1. Prodigies and monsters -- 2. An aesthetic of the immeasurable -- 3. The moralization of monsters -- 4. The Mirabilia -- 5. The fate of monsters -- V. The ugly, the comic, and the obscene -- 1. Priapus -- 2. Satires on the peasantry and carnival festivities -- 3. Renaissance and liberation -- 4. Caricature -- VI. The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period -- 1. The anti-female tradition -- 2. Mannerism and the baroque -- VII. The devil in the modern world -- 1. From rebellious Satan to poor Mephistopheles -- 2. The demonstration of the enemy -- VIII. Witchcraft, satanism, sadism -- 1. Witches -- 2. Satanism, sadism, and the taste for cruelty -- IX. Physica curiosa -- 1. Lunar births and disembowelled corpses -- 2. Physiognomy -- X. Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness -- 1. The philosophies of ugliness -- 2. The ugly and the damned -- 3. The ugly and the unhappy -- 4. The unhappy and the ill -- XI. The uncanny -- XII. Iron towers and ivory towers -- 1. Industrial ugliness -- 2. Decadentism and the licentiousness and the ugly -- XIII. The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness -- XIV. The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp -- 1. The ugliness of others -- 2. Kitsch -- 3. Camp -- XV. Ugliness today.In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellent in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art; Ugliness in art.; Ugliness;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Stone collector. [manga] / by Han, Kevin(Comic book writer),author.(CARDINAL)860656; Zom-J(Comic book artist),artist.(CARDINAL)860655;
Pieces of curse fall from the sky as if to mock the cruelty and evil of humanity. These stones create wretched beasts and the blood of these beasts turn human flesh into the undead. There is only one thing that can destroy these hellish fiends -- Jade Stone. This is the story of a Stone Collector. One who wields Jade forged blades. A man whose family was murdered by these evil abominations and he now has vowed to rid the world of the foul presence.
Subjects: Underground comics.; Fantasy comics.; Periodicals.; Graphic novels.; Fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); Demonology; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dead eye and the deep blue sea : a graphic memoir of modern slavery / by Prum, Vannak Anan,1979-author,artist.(CARDINAL)409487; Pederick, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)557687; Pederick, Jocelyn,author.(CARDINAL)409488; Sophorn, Lim,translator.;
"Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him home after a few months at sea, but instead Vannak was hostage on the vessel for four years of hard labor. Amid violence and cruelty, including frequent beheadings, Vannak survived in large part by honing his ability to tattoo his shipmates--a skill he possessed despite never having been trained in art or having had access to art supplies while growing up. As a means of escape, Vannak and a friend jumped into the water and, hugging empty fish-sauce containers because they could not swim, reached Malaysia in the dark of night. At the harbor, they were taken into a police station . . . then sold by their rescuers to work on a plantation. Vannak was kept as a laborer for over a year before an NGO could secure his return to Cambodia. After five years away, Vannak was finally reunited with his family. Vannak documented his ordeal in raw, colorful, detailed illustrations, first created because he believed that without them no one would believe his story. Indeed, very little is known about what happens to the men and boys who end up working on fishing boats in Asia, and these images are some of the first records. In regional Cambodia, many families still wait for men who have disappeared across the Thai border, and out to sea. The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea is a testament to the lives of these many fishermen who are trapped on boats in the Indian Ocean"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Autobiographies.; Prum, Vannak Anan, 1979-; Fishers; Fisheries; Tattoo artists; Plantation workers; Enslaved persons; Slave labor; Slave labor; Human trafficking; Human trafficking;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] / by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,author.(CARDINAL)814793; Miyoshi, Hikaru,artist.(CARDINAL)851545; Doyle, Arthur Conan,1859-1930.(CARDINAL)144251;
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans canspin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty's upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family's hands cements Albert's hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older ofthe two boys--who has a genius mind and a killer instinct--to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert's own family!"--Publisher description.Rated T+, older teen.
Subjects: Detective and mystery comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Young adult fiction.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Nobility; Criminals;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Alice in Borderland. [manga] / by Aso, Haro,1980-author,artist.(CARDINAL)825298; Werry, John(Translator),translator,adapter.(CARDINAL)565260; Estep, Joanna,letterer,illustrator.(CARDINAL)482735;
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a vicious game. And the only way to survive is to play. Arisu and his companions have managed to defeat the Dealers, but the battle isn't over yet. Now they must take on the Face Cards--12 players who have the dubious honor of being Borderland "royalty." Arisu hopes they are close to going home, but the games the Face Cards play might be worse than any of the cruelties the Dealers came up with."--18+, Rated M for mature, contains depictions of violence and death.
Subjects: Fantasy comics.; Dystopian comics.; Thriller comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Novels.; Arisu, Ryohei (Fictitious character); Contests; Survival; Best friends; Friendship; Friendships.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Comemadre / by Larraquy, Roque,1975-author.(CARDINAL)598267; Cleary, Heather,translator.(CARDINAL)347402;
"1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares with his colleagues--bymoney, and by the promise of transcendence, he carries out a cruel and misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. The premise is that a human head stays alive and conscious for nine seconds after being severed from the body. 2009: A celebrated artist and ex-child prodigy decides to "bring the monster alive," converting his own body, and the bodies of those he loves, into art objects. The halves of the book are held together by a shared interest in the human pursuit of transcendence through bodily intervention, first as it relates to the scientific or pseudo-medical and the positivism that marked the beginning of the twentieth century, then by way of a radical and absurd artistic vision." --
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Historical fiction.; Physicians; Cruelty;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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Mutiny on the Bounty [videorecording] / by Crisp, Donald,1880-1974.; Digges, Dudley,1879-1947.; Furthman, Jules.(CARDINAL)842146; Gable, Clark,1901-1960.(CARDINAL)124332; Jennings, Talbot.; Laughton, Charles,1899-1962.(CARDINAL)133220; Lister, Francis,1899-1951.; Lloyd, Frank,1887-1960.; Mundin, Herbert,1898-1939.; Nordhoff, Charles,1887-1947.Mutiny on the Bounty.(CARDINAL)549933; Quillan, Eddie,1907-1990.; Stephenson, Henry,1871-1956.; Thalberg, Irving G.,1899-1936.(CARDINAL)169453; Tone, Franchot.; Wilson, Carey,1889-1962.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.(CARDINAL)150193; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Cinematographer, Arthur Edeson ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons, A. Arnold Gillespie ; editor, Magaret Booth ; music, Herbert Stothart ; producer, Irving Thalberg.Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson, Francis Lister, Spring Byington.In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.DVD, Region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bligh, William, 1754-1817; Christian, Fletcher, 1764-1793; Bounty (Ship); Bounty Mutiny, 1789; Historic ships; Mutiny; Ship captains;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 13
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Moriarty the patriot. [manga] / by Takeuchi, Ryosuke,author.(CARDINAL)814793; Miyoshi, Hikaru,illustrator.(CARDINAL)851545; Beck, Adrienne,translator.(CARDINAL)340183; Christman, Annaliese,illustrator,letterer.(CARDINAL)607358;
"The untold story of Sherlock Holmes' greatest rival, Moriarty! Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans canspin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? In the late 19th century, Great Britain rules over a quarter of the world. Nobles sit in their fancy homes in comfort and luxury, while the working class slaves away at their jobs. When young Albert James Moriarty's upper-class family adopts two lower-class orphans, the cruelty the boys experience at his family's hands cements Albert's hatred of the nobility he was born into. He asks the older ofthe two boys--who has a genius mind and a killer instinct--to help him rid the world of evil, starting with Albert's own family!"--Publisher description.Rated T+, for older teen.
Subjects: Cartoons and comics.; Detective and mystery comics.; Historical comics.; Shōnen manga.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Manga.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Nobility; Criminals; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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