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Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2021
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Summary: "The entrancing story of the Brontë sisters' childhood imaginary world. Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GREMeralli, Swann
Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MERCherkas, Michael
Summary: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. Red Harvest is based on the tragic events that took place in Soviet Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1933. Stalin and the ruling Communist Party began their program of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine 2023
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Summary: A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt. Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Surely 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ELLRoca, Paco
Summary: "The celebrated Spanish cartoonist's most ambitious work yet is a touching homage to his mother and a bittersweet depiction of life in post-war Spain. It all starts with a photograph: an ordinary scene of a young woman and her family picnicking at a Valencian beach in 1947. Now in her twilight years, Antonia cherishes this photo dearly; it holds the memories of her upbringing, her family --the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2024
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Summary: "The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023
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Summary: "Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COLAugel, William
Summary: "Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces.Based...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BIG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC AUGHalpern, Jake
Summary: "After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in America. Among the few refugees to receive visas, they finally landed in JFK airport on November 8, 2016, Election Day. The family had reached a safe harbor, but woke up to the world of Donald Trump and a Muslim ban that would sever them from the grandmother, brothers, sisters, and cousins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALDHale, Nathan
Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of the Haitian Revolution and its role in Napoleon's decision to sell Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe the whole Louisiana Territory, when they sought to buy only New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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Summary: As France buckles under the Nazi regime, budding photographer Rachel Cohen must change her name, go into hiding, and bear witness to the atrocities of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BILToulmé, Fabien
Summary: "In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and selling what he can in the streets, it's hard to survive--and impossible for the family to stay together. Reluctantly separated from the woman he loves and alone with his child, Hakim will have to overcome incredible odds and seemingly impossible obstacles to reunite his family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOUGipi
Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIPSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KULPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONKaito
Summary: "An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their best friends have already fallen for them... Toma's older brother, Seiya, asks Taichi to find out why Toma doesn't want to go to college. On the day of Toma's release from the hospital, Taichi still hasn't found a way to broach the subject with Toma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLUAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first ...?! Turns out confessing your feelings is the easy part of a romantic relationship ... Now Kaguya and Miyuki have to figure out how to behave in a relationship. Kaguya retreats behind the ice shield she built to protect herself years ago. Miyuki believes only an ideal version of himself is worthy of love....
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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Summary: "Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded-up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father! Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam--the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki, his daughter and biggest fan, spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AKACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Watters, Shannon
Summary: "X MARKS THE SPOT...FOR TROUBLE! Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! What they end up finding is scattered pieces of an ancient Greek statue of a woman, who, when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMKaito
Summary: "Love is already hard enough, but it becomes an unnavigable maze for unassuming high school student Taichi Ichinose and his shy classmate Futaba Kuze when they begin to fall for each other after their same-sex best friends have already fallen for them... The school sports festival is coming up, and Toma accepts the position of class 3-A's cheer-squad captain on the condition that Futaba and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLUKaito
Summary: An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their best friends have already fallen for them. Love is already hard enough, but it becomes an unnavigable maze for unassuming high school student Taichi Ichinose and his shy classmate Futaba Kuze when they begin to fall for each other after their same-sex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021