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...
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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 KERBuchanan, 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 BUCShone, 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...
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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 SHOHulls, 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 HULBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENAi, Weiwei
Summary: "As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 AI, WEIWEI AIDuraffourg, 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
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. DURLemelman, 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 WATCherkas, 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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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHEXavier, Clément
Summary: "In the early 20th century, English suffragist group the Women's Social and Political Union formed an all-women security unit. Trained by Edith Garrud, these 'jujitsuffragettes' fought against abuse and arrest while pursuing long overdue rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 324.6 XAVRobbins, Trina
Summary: The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed their curls, and become flappers. Women got the vote in 1920, and suddenly they were equal to the boys-- at least in the voting booth. They smoked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBMeralli, 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 MERYou, Peiyun
Summary: "After his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But when manhua publishing becomes victim to censorship, and many of his friends lose their jobs, Kun-lin takes matters into his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC YOUKrug, Nora
Summary: Immediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects--"K.," a Ukrainian journalist, and "D.," a Russian artist--and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Graphic 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 KRURowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHEbensperger, Gabriel
Summary: "A child who feels like an outsider in a world that's set against him. A boy who sings on the playground instead of playing soccer, who likes Barbies, and whose secretly favorite car is the one called Tutti Frutti. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his struggles with his own inadequacy, his feelings of guilt, and above all, his fear that his "difference" will be discovered. The vibrant bright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBENSPERGER, GABRIEL EBELangston-George, Rebecca
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about Virginia Hall, known as one of the most courageous spies of World War II. In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and other groups. Enter: Virginia Hall. Born on a small Maryland farm, this brilliant woman's worldly ambitions led her to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HALRuliffson, 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: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DUREllis, Grace
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 ELLRubio, Salva
Summary: "Before the legend, before the man, there was Django Reinhardt the child. In order to grow from a banjo prodigy living in the Romani 'Zone' outside Paris into the master of Gypsy Jazz guitar who would go on to play with Duke Ellington, Django would first have to endure the agonizing event that would change his life: the fire that burned his hand and almost destroyed his future. Django, Hand on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 921 REINHARDT, DJANGO RUBSaade, Ernesto
Summary: "When Carlos was nineteen years old, his mother decided to leave her life in El Salvador for a new start in the United States. Reluctant to follow, but unwilling to let his mother go without him, Carlos joined her on the journey north. During their trip through Mexico and into the US, they experienced the risks and fears countless people from Central American countries have faced while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Lewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013