Tian
Summary: "Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIAFinck, Liana
Summary: "Passing for Human is what Finck calls 'a neurological coming-of-age story,' one in which, through her childhood, human connection proved elusive and her most enduring relationships were with plants and rocks and imaginary friends; in which her mother was an artist whose creative life had been stifled by an unhappy first marriage and a deeply sexist society that seemed expressly designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINUriarte, Maximilian
Summary: "Lapis Lazuli is a rich blue semiprecious gemstone found deep in the Sar-i-sang mountains of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. For thousands of years it has sustained the nearby mining villages, whose inhabitants lived peacefully in the mountainous landscape--until the Taliban, known in the region as the Horsemen, came to seek the riches stored deep beneath the earth. Taliban rule has turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 URILoewinsohn, Briana
Summary: "Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023
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Summary: A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer issues. If your relationships or your gender are unconventional, you’ll find useful advice and plenty of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular webcomic Kimchi Cuddles. Quirky, endearing and charmingly (and sometimes painfully) realistic characters, many based on real people, explore polyamory, queer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorntree Press, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WOLFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tale of Moana, "a spirited teenager who loves the ocean, yet ... is forbidden to travel beyond the reef that surrounds her island home of Motunui"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Summary: "In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport... and that's not the only thing she's hiding. She and Letme become part of a community of human and alien immigrants; but as their crusade for equality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OKOSummary: As the Black Panther and an Avenger, T'Challa has had to save the world time and again - but those duties pale in comparison to his responsibilities as king of Wakanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BLAJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: "The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2023
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Summary: "Come along with Nate, Whisper, Jibanyan, and all your favorite Yo-Kai Watch characters, human and Yo-kai alike, on an all-new adventure. Some not-so-friendly Yo-kai, like the sinister Snartle, are up to no good, and it's up to our heroes to save the day and restore peace to Springdale!" -- From back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW/Idea & Design Works 2017
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Summary: Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers something that will give her a chance to revist her past, she thinks she has a chance to put her life back on track. But will she be able to find a way back to her present and treat herself with love and kindness at any size?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BOOToboso, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020