Bagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuClowes, Daniel
Summary: Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story--actually, stories--of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Satrapi, Marjane
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SATBaronciani, Alessandro
Summary: "Chiara lives her life afraid of many things, but most of all the fear of an undiagnosed illness. As she delves further and further down a rabbit hole of denial and disassociation, she will be forced to make a decision that will alter her life forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARPixin, Weng
Summary: "Let's Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin's family, each at age 15. Her lineage is full of breakages -- her great grandmother Kuān is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother Bīng is heartbroken by her father's estrangement. Pixin's own story centers on her feelings of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PIXVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: Finally reunited, Yorick and Ampersand are on a boat to China headed for a reunion with Yorick's lost fiancée in Paris. Meanwhile, Dr. Mann and Rose are close to discovering what caused the plague, but what they find in a lab in Hong Kong is something none of them expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2007
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAUSummary: "Wonder Woman has been an inspiration for decades, and while not everyone would choose her star-spangled outfit for themselves, her compassion and fairness are worthy of emulation. We'll be presenting tales of the real-world heroes who take up Diana's mantle and work in the fields of science, sports, activism, diplomacy, and more!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920.72 WONSummary: "Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power : Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival is a collection of original, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck, and Ebony Flowers the anthology's contributors comprise a diverse group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.883 DRARobbins, 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 ROBSummary: "A unique collection of intersectional feminist poetry-in-comics, a collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 EMBDhaliwal, Aminder
Summary: When a birth defect wipes out the planet's entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society's ashes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DHALi, Jessica
Summary: High school students Stella, Ed, Ingrid and Harry navigate life, exploring issues of sexuality, drug and alcohol use, identity, and consent. Flunk is a critically acclaimed LGBT teen drama following shy sixteen year old Ingrid, as she starts to explore her sexuality. Falling for her best friend Stella, Ingrid struggles to navigate her first relationship, the pressures of a country high school...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV FLUSan, Joy
Summary: A devoted yet amoral creature ensures a girl's blood sugar stays up. A gory ritual creates a charming woman's perfect smile. A neglected and overworked wife is slowly subsumed by violent fantasies. In this collection of short horror comics, cartoonist Joy San masterfully explores the ways in which we contort and control ourselves, balancing the bloody and brutal with unexpected levity. --from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SANHart, Emilia
Summary: I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OATTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYTrigiani, Adriana
Summary: Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TRIAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009