NONFICTION
Released: June 8, 2006
"Though this will likely be stocked with graphic novels, it shares as much in spirit with the work of Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff and other contemporary memoirists of considerable literary accomplishment."
Bechdel's memoir offers a graphic narrative of uncommon richness, depth, literary resonance and psychological complexity.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2006
"Effortlessly entertaining yet still heartfelt: the romance of life as an escape artist."
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2005
"There's more of a sense of spending extra time with a favorite friend. (Fiction. 10-14)"
One quarter of the "Gang of Five" from The Misfits (2001) tells his own story of coming out and overcoming bullies and prejudice through alphabetical entries in his "alphabiography."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2005
Debuting a new series, Krull presents a compelling argument that the great painter of the Renaissance was one of the West's first real modern scientists.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2004
"Phoebe's lesbian feelings are not resolved by the end, leaving her simply as a growing girl with more confidence, better able to make friends and join the world. (Fiction. YA)"
A story with feminist and lesbian overtones follows 13-year-old Phoebe, raised on an isolated Maine farm, in her developing friendship with Melita, the 14-year-old daughter of an unstable actress from New York City.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2004
"The first of its kind—well done and essential for every library serving young adults. (Fiction. YA)"
