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After two years of unemployment, Maggy Garrisson lands a secretarial job. Too bad her new boss is the shady, chaotic Anthony Wight: private detective and alcoholic. But a job is a job, and Maggy could use the cash. Five days into her new role, Wight is beaten to a pulp and Maggy is tasked with returning his wallet. With this seemingly innocuous request, Maggy enters a sinister underworld of corrupt cops, crooked businessmen, and career criminals. There’s a lot to investigate, from the disappearance of a family album to the theft of gold teeth from bodies at the crematorium. But for someone with the energy, ingenuity, and enterprising spirit of Maggy Garrison, puzzles are there to be solved—especially if there’s money to be made in the process.

Roland has the perfect vacation planned for Fabienne – everything isorganized, booked, and paid for in advance, with the entire itinerary recordedin a notebook. It’s going to be a wonderful week where they can discusstheir future together. But before they can even get their luggageto their rental, Roland is decapitated in a freak accident. And Fabienne,stunned and alone, has no idea how to process it. So in her daze of denial, shedecides to stay and follow the itinerary as planned, as if the tragedy neverhappened. Ghost-like, she wanders the tourist-filled streets, apassive spectator to the joys of others’ lives. Along the way, she meetsPaco, a local vendor with some eccentric views on life and death. Being ratherprivate normally, it isn’t hard for her to lie about the companion thatnever seems to be there at that very moment, but Paco soon puts the piecestogether. His minor fascination with bizarre deaths has him all too familiarwith the tale of the recently decapitated tourist. And he realizes this womanneeds a friend right now more than anything else. So they spend a platonic weekoff and on, neither of them talking about what happened. And thatseems to be precisely what she needs to process everything. Amoving and mesmerizing look at life, death, and the many different ways we copewith each, written by celebrated author Lewis Trondheim and illustrated byHubert Chevillard.

Terra Amata has exploded into so many little floating islands and Herbert has become a very dark and very powerful lord - far from the goofy, shoot-from-the-belt character readers know. In both stories in this volume, the key is to find the map to the new world with great forces blocking the way. Whether it's the Dark Lord or even a very uncompromising and very determined Marvin the Red, the new map must be found!

Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein s state control, and her family s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how one can become separated from one s homeland and still feel intimately connected yet ultimately estranged. Signs of an oppressive regime permeate a seemingly normal life: magazines arrive edited by customs; the color red is banned after the execution of General Kassim; Baathist militiamen are publicly hanged and school kids are bussed past them to bear witness. As conditions in Mosul worsen over her childhood, Brigitte s father is always hopeful that life in Iraq will return to being secular and prosperous. The family eventually feels compelled to move to Paris, however, where Brigitte finds herself not quite belonging to either culture.Trondheim brings to life Findakly s memories to create a poignant family portrait that covers loss, tragedy, love, and the loneliness of exile.