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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEW

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEW

Gill, Joel Christian

Summary: "Do you know the story of the slave who sailed himself to freedom? Joel Christian Gill brings Robert Smalls back to life, telling the true story of the enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the CSS Planter, escapes to freedome, and goes on to become a first-generation Black...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 GIL

Lewis, John

Summary: Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk Lewis

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEW

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEW

Palacio, R. J.

Summary: Tells the story of Julian's Grandmaere's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Palacio 2019

Rahal, Eliot

Summary: "Spanning nearly a century in time, The Vain chronicles the criminal lives of four sinful and stylish blood bank-robbing vampires. Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is taken--only blood. It's the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it's part of a wider plot to weaken...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WIL

Skelly, Katie

Summary: "Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Wang, Jen

Summary: Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride--or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia--the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Sebastian's secret weapon (and best friend) is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WAN

Gotoge, Koyoharu

Summary: "In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life... After...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC GOT

Greenberg, Isabel

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Smith, Frank

Summary: "In the summer of 1971, New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America -- abused prisoners, rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated against the powerless. But when the guards at Attica overreact to a minor incident, the prisoners decide they've had enough and revolt -- taking their jailers hostage and making demands for humane...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.974 SMI

Lutes, Jason

Summary: "The third and final act of Jason Lutes's historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of Germans to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Edginton, Ian

Summary: "Jane Austen se refirió a Orgullo y prejuicio, la primera de sus novelas publicadas, como su "querido niño". Generaciones de lectores lo han llevado a su corazón desde entonces. Y es que la irresistible atracción que relata entre la brillante e independiente Elizabeth Bennet y el solemnemente austero Sr. Darcy, se ha convertido en una de las historias de amor más románticas y más divertidas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bruguera Contemporánea 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH AUS

Zhang, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Idea & Design Works 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHA

Toboso, Yana

Summary: "The queen's watchdog has become a fugitive, and the 'true' Earl of Phantomhive has taken up residence in the manor. The Undertaker has yet to perfect his craft, though, and Ciel knows precisely what his brother is plotting. Even on the run, the master still has his retainers--scattered to society's darkest shadows, they search for the barest shred of information to turn the tide for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLA

Gotoge, Koyoharu

Summary: While under the care of the Demon Slayer Corps leaders, Shinobu, Tanjiro, Zenitusu, Inosuke and Zesuko have recovered. They have even learned a new and powerful technique--Total Concentration! They'll need this new power and all their skill on their next demon-hunting mission aborad the mysterious Infinity Train as it takes them into the dreams of demons!"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DEM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC GOT

Pepperco, Dr.

Summary: Early in the twentieth century, Hanako journeys to England to follow her dream of becoming a novelist. When things don't work out quite as she planned, she finds employment as a personal maid to noblewoman Alice Douglas, who makes a most unusual request: she begs Hanako to kill her! As Hanako tries to figure out why her mistress would make such a shocking plea, their relationship grows into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 GOO

Bab Bonde, Jessica

Summary: "The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Gotoge, Koyoharu

Summary: "In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC GOT

Strömquist, Liv

Summary: "Activist Liv Strömquist riffs on outrageous obsessions with menstruation and genitalia."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.042 STR

Shulman, Mark

Summary: By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand--and measure--space and time. At first his ideas were ridiculed, but soon they were idolized. Prior to World War II, Einstein was a celebrated figure in Germany, but when the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s, he fled for his life and eventually settled in the United States. [This book] recounts the life of the world's most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portable Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EIN

Harari, Yuval N.

Summary: "In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind's creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be 'human'. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 HAR

Mori, Kaoru

Summary: "Mr. Smith and his companions begin their journey back, returning the way they came, but with a treasured new addition - or two. Camera in hand, each stop provides new subjects to photograph and cherish, but they must be careful to avoid the moving Russian troops and whispered talk of war..."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BRI

Beaton, Kate

Summary: "Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature -- with dignity for few and cookies for all -- with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down style. This collection features favorite stories from the webcomic of the same name, as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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