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Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KERElliott, Victoria Grace
Summary: "How did cheese happen? Who pickled the first pickle? Explore the history of innovative food in this non-fiction graphic novel filled with facts, legends, and recipes. Have you ever wondered how some of our favorite foods came to be? How was cheese created and who realized it belonged on everything? Was soda always meant to be a drink? A team of whimsical food sprites are excited to show you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2023
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Summary: "Readers may already know their names, and now they will know their stories! The lives and trailblazing accomplishments of Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King Jr. are vibrantly explored in this book, through dazzling illustrations and captivating narratives of their triumphs and hardships. Readers of all ages will enjoy the graphic designs, while more advanced readers can further...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing, Group, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 920 SHOZhang, Lun
Summary: Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident--otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre--from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Idea & Design Works 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHALemelman, Martin
Summary: "The thrilling true story of an ancient plant, wonderfully reborn in the modern era through the hard work of two female scientists. Thousands of years ago, in a time of rebellion, the Jewish people fought against their Roman rulers. The brutal Emperor Titus ordered the destruction of everything precious to the Jews: towns, villages, even their beloved Judean date palm trees. Centuries passed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634 LEMWatts, Nic
Summary: "When C.L.R. James's play "Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History" opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 972.94 WATCass, Caitlin
Summary: "She put in her work, but there's so much left to do." Begun in the Antebellum era, the song of suffrage was a rallying cry across the nation that would persist over a century. Capturing the spirit of this refrain, New Yorker contributing cartoonist Caitlin Cass pens a sweeping history of women's suffrage in the U.S. -- a kaleidoscopic story akin to a triumphant and mournful protest song that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 324.6 CASHoshino, Yukinobu
Summary: "The true story of Japan's surrender in World War II and how it nearly didn't happen! In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated. A tense drama unfolds in Tokyo as Japan teeters on the edge of Armageddon. Japan's Longest Day tells the true story of the day immediately before the surrender, as a group of fanatical army...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 940.53 HOSChad, Jon
Summary: "Jon Chad illustrates the little-known story of pinball--how it works and why it all matters in an age of special effects and on-screen gaming."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.7 CHAHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULBuchanan, Raeghan
Summary: Delve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUCWilliams, Jarrett
Summary: "How did a bunch of young people from the inner city create a genre of music that became a global phenomenon? From its humble origins at house parties in the Bronx, where DJs mixed old records to create new sounds, charismatic MCs let their clever lyrics flow, and B-boys and B-girls pioneered inventive dance moves, hip-hop quickly became a musical and cultural revolution." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 782.42 WILDuraffourg, Willy
Summary: "This graphic novel explores the youth of the author of The Lord of the Rings, and his traumatic experience of the battlefields of the First World War, which will forge the imagination of his literary work" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2023