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Told as a series of short vignettes interspersed with LeMoine’s own hand-drawn cartoons, Knocked Up, Knocked Down begins in 2006, just after LeMoine’s first pregnancy ends in a late miscarriage. This unexpected loss, followed by a stillbirth just one year later, launches LeMoine and her Peace Corps sweetheart into a strange land of almost-parenthood, where they are forced to make sense of their own disorienting grief for real and imagined lives lost. LeMoine wrote Knocked Up, Knocked Down as a way to connect wider mainstream audiences with the common – but not often discussed – experience of losing an unborn baby through natural causes and medical termination. ARTICHOKE TALES is the long-awaited graphic novel from Megan Kelso, a six-years-in-the-making family saga spanning three generations and an entire. Influenced in equal parts by Little House on the Prairie, The Thorn Birds, Dharma Bums, and Cold Mountain, Kelso weaves a moving story about family amidst war. Kelso’s visual storytelling, uniquely combining delicate linework with rhythmic, musical page compositions, creates a dramatic tension between intimate, ruminative character studies and the unflinching depiction of the consequences of war and carnage, lending cohesion and resonance to a generational epic.
"Jessica Maxwell is the Empress Tizzie Izzie of adventure writing. She’s ornate, lavish, unpredictable, commanding, witty, daring, and illuminated by a certain afterglow of spiritual awareness.” —Tom Robbins
Jeff Yeager, America’s “Ultimate Cheapskate,” is at it again, traveling the country interviewing his fellow penny-pinchers to learn their strategies for living below your means, spending less than you earn, avoiding debt whenever possible, and being happy, truly happy, with a lifestyle of less that feels like more. The Cheapskate Next Door features original “Cheap Shots” throughout quick tips that could save you more than $25,000 in a single year, including:
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