Kim, Hyun Sook
Summary: "The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 KIMShin, JiSang.
Summary: Kum-Ji may have started following Yo-I to get close to her favorite boy band, DDL, but it's E-Wan of Yo-I that she can't get out of her head! With E-soh's confession still heavy on her heart, a confused Kum-Ji joins her fellow fan girls in strategizing for the next tour. But Barbie, the fanclub president, has other ideas. When a surprise attack leaves Kum-Ji bruised and beaten, it's E-Soh who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CHOShin, JiSang.
Summary: When E-Soh issues an ultimatum to Kum-Ji, she has to choose him on the spot or watch him walk away for good. Happy couplehood seems imminent for the two friends until former Yo-I fan club president Barbie makes her debut on the idol scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CHOShin, JiSang.
Summary: With her confession rejected by E-Wan of Yo-I, Kum-Ji is driven to despair. But with DDL's tour starting up again, she at least has something to get her mind off of her hurting heart. But when E-Wan is suddenly hospitalized, she must draw up the courage to visit him. And who's there to back her up but E-Soh? Just when it seems that E-Wan can never be as nice as E-Soh, he has a change of heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CHOMyer, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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Summary: "Ever since La Ion transferred to a new school, the school's robot soccer club has been begging him to join. As the school's battle robot team also asks La Ion to be a member, he'll learn how a rivalry between the clubs started. And before long, he'll take his first shots in a robot soccer competition. When an opponent tries to win by smashing his competition, will La Ion's soccer experience...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FRIGownley, Jimmy
Summary: Rapunzel is totally fangirling--she's about to meet her favorite author! After starting a book club to catch up on anything and everything she missed over the last 18 years, Rapunzel becomes obsessed with the books by J. K. Yewgise. The king invites the author to Corona, and she offers to write Rapunzel's authorized biography. Rapunzel is thrilled! But after a series of mishaps, Eugene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2018
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Summary: "Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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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 Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuHa, Robin
Summary: "A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Summary: "Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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: "La Ion just wants to play soccer, but he accidentally joins a robot soccer club. Along with the story of La Ion's mix-up, this graphic novel explores the history of robots and key ideas in robotics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FRILee, 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 New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 LEECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEEGerber, Daryl Wood
Summary: Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the library's Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But she's most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they will go from house to house to share different culinary treats and discuss the whodunit they're all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cengage Gale 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "Warning : Big Nate is back, and the whole school's on high alert. Can drama queen Dee Dee compete with Nate's down-and-dirty gossip gathering? Will Mrs. Godfrey lighten up when she learns that she and Nate share a common obsession? And what happens after Coach John wanders into the flight path of a Nate-powered projectile? In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, the self-styled King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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Summary: "April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they are late to book club, they use their individual talents to get back on track"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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Summary: Liv Holme is not exactly thrilled to be moving to a new town with her mother. After all, high school can be brutal, even more so when you're a fifteen-year-old, bisexual goth. But Liv is determined to be who she is, bullies or not. Still, being the new kid and the only out student brings her a lot of unwelcome attention, and Liv flounders in her search for community. The only person who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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Summary: "Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANCKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBMallery, Susan
Summary: In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2024
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Summary: When her friends from the Baby-sitters Club come for a visit in NYC, Stacey realizes they feel out of place in the big city and must find a way to keep the weekend from becoming a complete disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024