Duffy, Damian
Summary: "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2018
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Summary: In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUFJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: "A brilliant steampunk reimagining of Frankenstein set in colonial Mexico. In the Republic of Santander, non-Christian magic is frowned upon, if not outright prohibited. But when Cristina Franco, an apprentice shaman, is killed by witch owls, her brother Enrique cannot let her go. With forbidden alchemy and engineering, Enrique brings her back to life: part human, part machine. Though her very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CLOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022