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Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODSatrapi, Marjane
Summary: An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2004
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Peirce, Lincoln
Summary: Two heads are better than one, except when they're crashing into each other! But that won't prevent Big Nate and his pals from hatching great ideas for fun. Nate Wright is a wisecracking 11-year-old who knows he's destined for greatness. Nate is the star of Big Nate, the comic strip that made its debut in 1991. Nate is a sixth-grade chess prodigy, a self-described genius, and the all-time...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J 741.5 Series Peirce 2014Gainsbourg, Serge.
Contents: Requiem pour un con -- Bonnie and Clyde -- Initials B.B. -- Comic strip -- Chatterton -- 6 bloody Jack -- Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde -- Torrey Canyon -- Shu ba du ba loo ba -- Ford Mustang -- Black and white -- Qui est in qui est out -- Hold up -- Marilu -- Un poison violent, c'est ca l'amour -- Sous le soleil exactement -- Soixante neuf année erotique -- Les sucettes -- L'anamour -- Je...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GAISummary: British television series from 1982, 1983-4, 1988 plus The Supergrass across eight discs. The ninth disc includes a retrospective documentary, live Comic Strip performances from 1981 and cast and crew interviews.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMNicholson, Hope.
Summary: Think comic books can't feature strong female protagonists? Think again! In The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen you ll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling, entertaining, and heroic female characters who ve populated comic books from the very beginning. This spectacular sisterhood includes costumed crimebusters like Miss Fury, super-spies like Tiffany Sinn,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.59 NICPeirce, Lincoln.
Summary: Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate , the daily and Sunday comic strip distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association since 1991. Nate is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Equipped with only a #2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC 2011
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Hennessey, Jonathan
Summary: A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.8 HENPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "For Nate Wright, conflict is a way of life. He tangles with Gina, the editor of the school newspaper, after she rejects his comic strip. He can?t get on the same page with his snooty study partners as they cram for the final exam. And once he hears that Mr. Rosa?s job is on the line, Nate even takes on the all-powerful school board. But when a challenger threatens Nate?s status as the owner of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC PEIAmara, Philip.
Summary: Presents a step-by-step guide to creating, publishing and marketing comic books, including developing compelling characters, approaching publishers, and adapting storylines for video games and movies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 743.4 AMASpiegelman, Art
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SPI
Goulart, Ron
Summary: "During the Golden age of comic books, from the middle 1930s to the late 1940s, readers could choose from hundreds of titles colorfully displayed on America's newsstands - from Action Comics to Zip Comics." "Selecting from thousands of cover illustrations of the period, comics authority Ron Goulart has assembled more than 400 of the most entertaining and provocative for this book." "You'll see...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOUSmith, Elliott
Summary: "Juneteenth is the celebration of the day enslaved people in Texas were were told they were freed. This book explores Juneteenth's little-told history, from the first Jubilee to the making of a national holiday"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.263 SMILewis, Cicely
Summary: "The White House tells the history of the United States, including slavery. Enslaved people were involved with every stage of building the structure. Learn more about the president's home and how to honor this history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 LEWNnachi, Ngeri
Summary: "There is more to the history of the transcontinental than connecting the United States. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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Summary: Looks at different divisions of law enforcement on both the national and at the community level, discussing how they protect citizens, reduce crime, and serve their communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 363.2 HARLobdell, Scott.
Summary: "H'El has come to Earth! A figure from Krypton's past has come to Earth, hoping to revive the dead planet--in place of this one. Superman, Superboy, Supergirl and the Justice League stand ready to fight, but whose side is everyone on? As hero fights against hero, will the Kryptonians be able to defeat H'El, who is their equal in every way?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPAugustin, Marion
Summary: "In this informative graphic novel sequel, two kids and their grandpa continue their adventurous guided exploration of art and civilization beginning with the Renaissance and moving forward into modern art"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.04 AUGLee, Stan
Summary: American comics writer and editor Stan Lee discusses how to draw characters from various adventure comics, with tips and information on other genres, including horror, romance, and manga.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publication 2010
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Summary: Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIEContents: A cartoon odyssey / J. Arthur Wood, Jr. -- A brief history of American cartooning / Harry Katz -- Cartoon connoisseurship: what makes a great cartoon great? / Alan Fern -- Honore Daumier and censorship / Judith Wechsler -- An explosion of color: the age of the chromolithographic weekly / Richard West -- Posada, printmaker to the Mexican people / Ron Tyler -- The yellow kid / Jerry Robinson --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARRusu, Meredith
Summary: "George Beard and Harold Hutchins are back with original new comic adventures starring the world-famous Waistband Warrior, Captain Underpants! This collection features George and Harold's hilarious comix from the first two seasons of the TV show."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2019
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Summary: During the 1960s, America became embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war fighting communism in Vietnam. Antiwar sentiment led to mass youth protests, which occasionally turned deadly. With the Soviet Union breaking up in the late 1980s, the United States was the sole superpower. But it quickly became the target of Islamist terrorism, as 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the War on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.92 CONDunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014