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Beauty, Personal Comic books, strips, etc Cartoons and comics Comic books, strips, etc France Translations into English Graphic novels Guggenheim, Peggy 1898-1979 Comic books, strips, etc Jemison, Mae 1956- Comic books, strips, etc Lee, Frances Glessner 1878-1962 Comic books, strips, etc Women Women Biography Cartoons and comics Women Biography Comic books, strips, etcHébert, Marie-Noëlle
Summary: "A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 HEBLambCat
Summary: Introduces the Princels, princes who have shunned society because of their own insecurities about their physical appearance and their inabilities to find romantic partners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Webtoon Unscrolled 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CURTelgemeier, Raina.
Summary: From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2010
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT SeriesTelgemeierGunderson, Jessica
Summary: "Revisit the tale of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty's father gets lost in the woods and stumbles onto a castle. He reaches for a rose to bring to his daughter--but there's a price. Will Beauty win her freedom, or be trapped in the Beast's castle forever?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GUNFlowers, Ebony
Summary: "Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story 'Hot Comb' is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming 'too white' in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In 'Virgin Hair', taunts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FLOBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018