Bessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESHagi
Summary: "A messenger's duty is to care for and protect the god they've been assigned to. In order to complete these tasks, such messengers require wings. Shin, however, can't fly. His tiny, useless wings make him the target of ridicule and scorn among the other messengers and have kept him from being able to serve a god... until now. Determined to prove himself as a capable messenger despite his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Summary: "No one holds a grudge like Zeus, king of the gods. So when Prometheus steals fire to give to humans, Zeus is determined to get revenge. He sends Pandora-the first mortal woman-to Earth with a box labeled DO NOT OPEN . Can Pandora keep her curiosity under control? Learn the story behind this classic Greek myth in a modern, graphic retelling"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GUNMeyer, Cassie
Summary: "Experience chemistry like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey in science. Do you get a bad reaction to chemistry? Never fear! Accelerate your learning with the...Building Blocks of Chemistry."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2023
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Summary: "Experience chemistry like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey in science. Do you get a bad reaction to chemistry? Never fear! Accelerate your learning with the...Building Blocks of Chemistry."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2023
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Summary: "Hades, king of the Underworld, has his eyes on a potential bride-Persephone. When he forces her to live with him, Persephone's mother, the goddess of nature, is not happy. Soon, Earth falls into ruin. In order to set things right, the Greek gods and goddesses must make a compromise. Learn Persephone's story in this modern, graphic retelling of a classic Greek myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GUNMeyer, Cassie
Summary: "Experience chemistry like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey in science. Do you get a bad reaction to chemistry? Never fear! Accelerate your learning with the...Building Blocks of Chemistry."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 541.34 MEYMeyer, Cassie
Summary: "Experience chemistry like never before! The characters in this series will whisk you away on a colorful journey in science. Do you get a bad reaction to chemistry? Never fear! Accelerate your learning with the...Building Blocks of Chemistry."--Cover back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2023
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Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHABlas, Terry
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Jackie Chavez loves her local amusement park, Kingdom Adventure, maybe more than anything else in the world. The park is all she and her friends Nikki, Daniel, and Berke--although they aren't always the greatest friends--talk about. Kingdom Adventure is where all Jackie's best memories are, and it's where she feels safe and happy. This carries even more weight now that Jackie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Surely Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLACopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: "Discover how Mexican painter Frida Kahlo becomes one of the greatest artistic voices in the world as she travels from Mexico to New York City for her first-ever solo exhibition, setting the art world aflame"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KAHLO BLAGallagher, Siobhán
Summary: "Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher's humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is. "I'm proud of the person I've become because I fought to become her." At the age of 30, Siobhán Gallagher looks back on her teenage years struggling with anxiety and diet culture, desperate to become a beautiful, savvy, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 GALLAGHER, SIOBHAN GALRuliffson, Jess
Summary: "Candid, compassionate graphic interviews with returning war vets from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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Summary: In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries. In France, groups of anti-Nazi citizens, known as the French Resistance, fought to stop Germany's reign of terror. A brave woman named Nancy Wake became one of the movement's greatest assets as a spy. In her role, Wake often transported Jews to safe locations and rode her bicycle through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAKHale, Nathan
Summary: ""Remember the Alamo!" That rallying cry has been a part of Texas lore for generations. But who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the famous slogan, and how did they end up barricaded in a fort against a Mexican army? Who survived, who died, and how? This sixth book in the bestselling Hazardous Tales series tracks the Lone Star State's bloody fight for independence from the Mexican...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this graphic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends--and why it's worth the journey. When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Hale 2017Hale, Nathan
Summary: Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free. Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes!) are all assembled here to amaze and delight you in a wildly unique anthology celebrating love between men, from an astounding array of comics creators who know exactly how it feels. Featuring stories and art from SINA GRACE, NED BARNETT, ANTHONY OLIVEIRA, CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE, NICK ROBLES,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World, Inc. 2022