Books like Flower & Fade by Jesse Lonergan

From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. Blankets is a tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.

Will Kaguya and Miyuki find a way to see each other sooner rather than later over summer vacation? And is tweeting really an effective way to communicate with your crush?

This final remastered volume restores the lost stories, presenting the full early storylines of student Keiicgi Morisato's life with Belldandy, an honest to goodness full-on goddess. Illustrations.

"Satoru Fujinuma's power of Revival has sent him eighteen years into his past to relive his middle school days and prevent the death of his classmate Kayo Hinazuki. But even with the advantage of foreknowledge, Satoru finds himself unable to prevent Kayo from becoming a victim yet again. Back in the present, twenty-nine-year-old Satoru is still on the run from the police and no closer to identifying the killer who stabbed his mother. With friends past and present in mortal danger, Satoru rallies for another leap to 1988, resolved to go to any extreme to save Kayo and bring her and his mother's murderer to justice."- Publisher's note on front flap of dust jacket.

Covering almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan, The Dark Flower opens in 1880 with 18-year-old undergraduate Mark studying art at Oxford, and ends 30 years later with Mark ostensibly happily married, yet torn between his wife and a beautiful teenage girl--the last and most disturbing manifestation of the "dark flower" of passion. Within a dozen pages, Galsworthy establishes his mastery of compelling narrative and sketches an irresistible plot. Much of his achievement lies in the mixture of pathos and humor that he derives from characters little able to express their feelings. There is much else to admire, from Galsworthy's impressionistic descriptions and eye for detail to the subtle symmetry he creates between his characters, emphasizing the cyclical nature of the story. Published in 1913, the story also holds the fascination of a world about to be transformed by war--one in which a love letter could still be delivered by the hand of a discreet manservant, and the residents of Piccadilly kept their horses stabled close by so that they could gallop down to Richmond for fresh air.

Fifteen-year-old friends Ami and Noa have always competed over the same guys. That seems to have changed when they fall in love with two different guys, until Ami discovers that the boys have ulterior motives. She vows to make her guy fall in love with her and to protect Noa at the same time.

It was love at first sight. The moment Hee-So's eyes met Won-Jun's she knew it was meant to be. Their relationship took off when Hee-So confessed her feelings on national TV, but less than a month later, Won-jun is ready to call it quits without any explanation at all. Hee-So's had a lot of boyfriends--Won-Jun is number twelve--but being dumped is never easy. She's not ready to move on to the thirteenth boy just yet. Determined to reunite with Won-Jun, Hee-So's on a mission to win over her destined love once more

A new edition of the groundbreaking New York Times Bestseller! "Lost Girls is to erotic literature what Moore's now classic 1987 Watchmen (with Dave Gibbons) was to the superhero scene. Each busts the frames of its respective genre with formal precision; each reflects upon its own ways and means through books within the book; and, most importantly, each kicks great writing into hyperdrive with dense and resonant imagery. — The Village Voice "I think Lost Girls is not only one of the best things Alan Moore has ever written, I also think it’s a fairly important work of art judged by any standard. It's genuinely dangerous. … One of the most human and heartfelt pieces of work of his career." — Ain't It Cool News "Intelligent writing, intricate plotlines and gorgeous Victorian-style art." — USA Today "As thoughtful as it is provocative." — Wired "As an exercise in the formal bounds of pure comics, Lost Girls is remarkable, as good as anything Moore has done in his career. ... Whatever you call it, there has never been anything quite like this in the world before, and I find myself extraordinarily pleased that someone of Moore's ability actually has written that sort of comics for adults." — Neil Gaiman The groundbreaking and controversial masterpiece of erotic comics, decades in the making, is now available in a sumptuous hardcover collecting all three volumes plus 32 pages of new artwork and commentary. For more than a century, Alice, Wendy and Dorothy have been our guides through the Wonderland, Neverland and Land of Oz of our childhoods. Now like us, these three lost girls have grown up and are ready to guide us again, this time through the realms of our sexual awakening and fulfillment. Through their familiar fairytales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms, revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel. Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, Lost Girls is the rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Lost Girls is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the very notion of art fettered by convention. This is erotic fiction at its finest.

Last Flower ~ Con Sellers IN THE BLOOD-RED SUNSET OF A MIGHTY INDIAN NATION, A GREAT WOMAN, A GREAT LOVE ENDURED... Torn from her wedding couch by lusting Apaches, Tosanna, Last Flower of the Comanches, was sold to an English mercenary and paraded at the Queen's court as an exotic savage from the New World. Her stormy midnight beauty had enslaved noblemen and braves, she had known passion and pleasure, but never the total surrender she knew with Walker Fairborn, the blond American, the man they called Sun hair. Wary scout, swift fearless killer - but gentle as no man she had ever known - he fled the war-ravaged South only to face a greater test of courage in England. There, a raven-eyed Indian beauty ignited a passion that war could not tame, time could not still. Separately they returned to their ravaged homeland, a white hunter and a Comanche princess, to worlds they no longer knew. But even as Tosanna risked her life to save her people from the brutal plunder of the white Cavalry, even as she stood proud and strong in the twilight of the doomed Comanche nation, still she longed for the pale blond beauty of Sun Hair. For Tosanna was a woman who took as fiercely as she gave, whom the gods - and history - would remember as the... Last Flower

Teenage demon-hunters Yoshimori and Tokine must find a way to resolve their differences if they are to stand a chance against demon-charmer Yomi and her pet demon, Yoki, and save their school.

Presents selections of Archie comics from the first comic ever published to more recent adventures of Archie Andrews and his friends in Riverdale.

"Have you ever wondered what goes on in your life when you're looking the other way? Perhaps you're so drawn into what's going on with you that you fail to notice the events taking place in your periphery, or even right under your nose? In Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson explores the dying days of a failing relationship through the infinitesimal unseen moments that surround it, and us"--P. [4] of cover.