Bell, Cece
Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BELSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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Summary: "Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 PHAGill, Joel Christian
Summary: "Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GILHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "Akiko has finally achieved her dream of becoming a manga artist! She's almost ready to fully immerse herself in the wonderful world of shoujo when Hidaka-sensei approaches her. Just what does he want?"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLAMontague, Elizabeth
Summary: "A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir by one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, at the age of 22"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B MONYoshino, Satsuki
Summary: "After ten years of false starts, Naruhiko Yoshino's new manga series is garnering sales little by little. Now, the guy who's never left his secluded island home and never even had a drawing assistant is getting his own autograph event. What's going to happen when he travels to Tokyo to meet his fans?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 YOSKhan, Sabba
Summary: "As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KHAN, SABBA KHAAncco
Summary: "Ancco looks back at her own tumultuous adolescence, from the not-so-distanced lens of a twenty-something. A mother's struggles mirror her teen's. Memories of care between the cartoonist and her grandmother--before her faculties had started to fade. Quick judgments look ugly through the eyes of a teen, who's leaning into her own sense of self. Whether it's friends, family, animals, or even a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANCWarner, Andy
Summary: "In 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut, one of the world's most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.92 WARSummary: Thirteen prominent cartoonists discuss their creative processes and the experiences and influences that led to their success in one of today's most vibrant art forms. Each interview is followed by an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 COMAsano, Inio
Summary: "Selling copies is the only thing that matters. So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you... Find the secret combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be okay. Right?"--Page...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ASAThompson, Craig
Summary: A follow-up to the award-winning Blankets depicts in strikingly detailed black-and-white graphic artwork and first-person reflections the acclaimed cartoonist's travels through Europe and Morocco, where he had remarkable cultural, intellectual and spiritual encounters while making new friends and researching his next novel, Habibi. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 THOHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She's in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn't care about manga one bit. But maybe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLASummary: "The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation that detail their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a successful kickstarter campaign, this expanded edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, Coco Ouwerkerk, and many others....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 306.76 OUTTomine, Adrian
Summary: What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile: despite the accolades and opportunities of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOMYoshino, Satsuki
Summary: "Thirty-two-year-old Tohno Naruhiko has been scraping by as a manga creator for ten years, and when his latest series gets canceled, he finds himself at a crossroads. Tohno's always had his sights set on fantasy, but this time around, his editor's got another idea-a slice-of-life story set in a remote village not unlike the one where he was born and raised. Could a return to his roots be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 YOSKnisley, Lucy
Summary: "If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 KniFinck, 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 FINGharib, Malaka
Summary: "An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GHARIB, MALAKA GHAHilnama
Summary: "At 38 years old, Hilnama, an erotic manga artist, is diagnosed with colon cancer. Never one to lose hope or give up, she begins treatment despite the terminal diagnosis. But when going through such a grueling process, it can be difficult to keep a positive outlook. When faced with the struggles and trials of life, Hilnama turns to what she knows: writing and creating manga! This poignant and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILNAMA HILBrunton, Tessa
Summary: "In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis. Notes from a Sickbed recalls the next eight years of her life-largely housebound-with honesty, a pointed wit, and a lively visual imagination"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2022
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Summary: "How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FINYu, Mei
Summary: "A little girl moves with her family from China to Canada and must find a way to learn English in order to make friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024