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Summary: "Siena Cherson Siegel dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet.. Siena has worked hard her whole life to be a professional ballet dancer, then makes the difficult decision to quit dancing and tries to figure out what comes next. But what do you do when you have spent your entire life working toward a goal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SIEHancox, Lewis
Summary: "Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this. But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this ... but she can't quite hear him yet. In [this book],...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: "Rock steady: brilliant advice from my bipolar life is the eagerly awaited sequel/companion book to Forney's 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock Steady turns the focus outward, offering a self-help guide of tips, tricks and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2018
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Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024
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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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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 355 RULMoss, Marissa
Summary: After returning home from a year abroad, Marissa's husband, Harvey was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for their children. This is a story about the redemptive power of terminal illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.83 MOSForney, Ellen.
Summary: An artist describes her bipolar disorder diagnosis and her struggles with mental stability while discussing other creative people throughout history who were also labeled as "crazy," including van Gogh, O'Keeffe, and Plath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FORBalius, Fernando
Summary: "A portrayal in graphic novel format of the author's battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to understand and cope with his illness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BALIUS, FERNANDO BALBessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESWong, Teresa
Summary: "In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 WONKoscik, Terian
Summary: " ... Terian Koscik shares her experiences of living with anxiety, and how going to a therapist taught her one of the most important things she could ever learn: there really is no "right" way to feel"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Singing Dragon, an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 KOSGold, Hayley
Summary: Gold's memoir about disordered eating, chronic illness, and a profound relationship with hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLD, HAYLEY GOLHosler, Jay
Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC HOS (Graphic Novel)Rose, Amy
Summary: Survivor Amy Rose recounts her upbringing in an abusive cult which forbade independent learning, and how she discovered books in a secret library that opened up her world and inspired her to escape.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 ROSFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDMarchetto, Marisa Acocella.
Summary: Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her 11-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer--from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. This graphic memoir is a portrait of one woman's supercharged life in Manhattan and a wonderful love story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MARTakalo, Tiitu
Summary: "In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, the days and nights spent in an intensive care unit, and the long, painful recovery that led the artist to reflect on her life both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 TAKALO, TIITU TAKLee, Deb J. J.
Summary: Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEENichols, L.
Summary: I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand continues Flocks, L. Nichols's graphic memoir of growing up trans in the rural South. These comics document L.'s further transition, from living as a man to walking the middle path, facing depression, disease, divorce and death. Healing leaves scars, things fall apart, and pronouns change until there is no I, there is only us. --from Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Secret Acres 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICHOLS, L. NICAwada, Dounya
Summary: "Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little Dounya wanted nothing less than to be perfect, like her mother. She pushed herself hard every day, excelling in schoolwork and at home. She had to be the cutest, prettiest, smartest girl in the room....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AWAAlexander, Damian
Summary: Starting a new school, seventh-grader Damian takes a vow of silence to avoid being bullied, making him wonder, if boys can be so cruel, why he has a crush on one?
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2021