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Ralph Meyer, Xavier Dorison

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Undertaker

Undertaker Jonas Crow is charged with transporting the coffin of an ex-miner become millionaire back to the mining vein that made his fortune. The funeral should have been a calm affair, but there's an unexpected turn of events: on the eve of his death, Joe Cusco swallowed all his gold, so as to carry it with him for all eternity. Unfortunately, the secret was leaked, provoking the fury of all the miners of Anoki City. They can't just leave such a fortune to be buried while they're sweatin...

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Xavier Dorison

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The Undertaker

A gold-toothed corpse, a town hungry for vengeance, and a hearse full of secrets—a gripping opening to a groundbreaking graphic novel series by expert duo Xavier Dorison and Ralph Meyer.Jonas Crow is not your average mortician. Tall, lean, and accompanied by a carrion-eating vulture, he travels the Old West in a black hearse, providing final rites for those who can afford them.But Jonas is a man with a past as dark as the clothes he wears—and his newest cli...

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Xavier Dorison

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The Undertaker

In the wild frontier, the dead stay buried. It’s the living you have to worry about.In volume two of this exciting graphic novel series, Jonas Crow—the West’s most cynical undertaker—just wants to enjoy the quiet life of a traveling mortician. His hearse is fixed, his vulture is content, and the chaos of his last job is behind him. But peace is a luxury a man with Jonas’s past can’t afford.The silence is shattered when an old colonel delivers a chilling rev...

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Ralph Meyer, Philippe Tome

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Lethal Lullaby

Telenko, a New York taxi driver, spends his days ferrying around the dregs of society in one of the city's roughest neighborhoods. He has an obsessive fear of dying like a guy he saw in a film, who'd hear his heart stop every 15 beats. Because Telenko himself has a tired heart. He has a minor case of tachycardia and the odd extra systole, not helped by his stressful job and the constant abuse from his wheelchair-bound wife, Martha: "You don't divorce a wife in a wheelchair, Telenko!" She'l...

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Ralph O. Meyer, Russell A. Flinchum

Histories of design pay scant attention to the corded telephone, which played an immeasurable role in early communication. Although the Bell System, with many Nobel Prizes, is justly acknowledged for its technical prowess, it should also be recognized for its early and considerable impact on the developing discipline of industrial design. In 1930, young Henry Dreyfuss, who would later become known as a pioneer of industrial design, was retained by the Bell System as a design consultant and...

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Ralph Meyer, Philippe Tome

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Lethal Lullaby

Martha could have chosen another man. In that dump where she grew up, they were all falling at her feet. Because of her legs, actually - dancer's legs. But she loved Joe Telenko, a guy who drank too much and drove too fast. And ever since the accident, it's over. Just like life. These days, Martha chews over her hatred in a wheelchair. While Joe slogs around New York's shadiest neighborhoods in his taxi, she creeps around the house, rummaging through his things and reading his journal, jus...

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Ralph Meyer, Philippe Tome

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Lethal Lullaby

We've seen Joe Telenko, we've seen Martha, and now we're plunged into the day to day existence of Dillon, a Native American and father of the boy that Telenko killed in a tragic car accident. Dillon is now in a living hell. He's lost everything. He's miles from his homeland, pushed to the margins of an inhospitable society. And he'll do anything to eliminate Joe Telenko, the source of all his woes.

by

Ralph Meyer, Xavier Dorison

Book 3 -

Undertaker

When an old colonel informs Jonas Crow that the so-called "Ogre of Sutter Camp" is still alive and well, he's not exactly pleased, to say the least. His troubled past from his fighting days in the American Civil War comes back to the surface, forcing Jonas into a man-hunt, and to face his own regrets...

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Russell A. Flinchum, Ralph O. Meyer

Celebrates the design work of Henry Dreyfuss and his associates that revolutionized 20th century industrial design from telephones to trains to thermostats.Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People reveals the work of Dreyfuss's talented, hand-picked staff and explores how together they influenced nearly a century of industrial design. With his wife as business partner, he orchestrated a firm that created some of the 20th century's most iconic designs, includin...

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Xavier Dorison

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The Undertaker

**A new chapter in the enthralling graphic novel series—**The Undertaker takes readers on an unforgettable journey of love, loss, and redemptionThe Undertaker thought he was chasing love—only to be paid to bury it.When Jonas Crow receives a letter out of the blue, signed “R. Prairie,” it’s enough to shake him from his whiskey-soaked stupor: Rose, the woman he loves, wants to see him again. But when he shows up in Eaden, a small Tex...

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Xavier Dorison

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The Undertaker

In the frozen heart of Apache territory, the cold doesn’t kill as fast as a friend’s betrayal.In volume 3 of this acclaimed graphic novel series, Jonas Crow is a man alone again. With Rose gone, the Undertaker has returned to his solitary trade, carving out a living by burying the dead as a brutal winter descends upon the Arizona desert.He’s content to be left alone—until Sid Beauchamp, a face from a past Jonas would rather forget, arrives with a propositio...

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Ralph Adams Cram

Narrated by

Eric Meyers

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Ralph Adams Cram.