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Summary: "What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of Mannie Murphy's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix--specifically his role in Gus Van Sant's classic film, My Own Private Idaho--slowly transforms into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's long and shameful history of white nationalism. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MURThrash, Maggie
Summary: "A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She's trapped in a dark depression and flunking eleventh grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie cares about is her cat, Tommi--who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 THRHébert, 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