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Kerbel, Deborah

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 616.4 KER

Elliott, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2023

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Shone, Rob

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing, Group, Inc. 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 920 SHO

Watts, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 972.94 WAT

Cass, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 324.6 CAS

Chad, 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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.7 CHA

Hulls, Tessa

Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HUL

Buchanan, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUC

Duraffourg, 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" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ablaze Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. DUR

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