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Satrapi, Marjane

Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SATRAPI, MARJANE SAT

Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009

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Chochois, Héloïse

Summary: "A graphic novel exploring amputation, revealing details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Graphic Mundi 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.5 CHO

Ferris, Emil

Summary: "Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MY

Kerbel, Deborah

Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021

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Ancco

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANC

Pickle, Lara

Summary: Joana es una joven bruja que consiguió el trabajo de sus sueños en un aquelarre en Londres, su ciudad favorita, donde podrá dedicarse a crear pociones, ¡su actividad favorita! Sin embargo, pronto descubrirá que la realidad de la vida en la ciudad no es tan idílica. Encontrar piso es una dura prueba, el "trabajo de sus sueños" es estresante y está totalmente sola. Poco a poco se va haciendo un...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2024

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Sharp, Sid

Summary: "Bellwether Riggwelter is out of blackberries. While he loves gathering treats and roaming the forest, he dreads running into the very dangerous wolves. To protect himself, he builds the ultimate disguise: a wolf suit. And it works...sort of."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHA

Vaughan, Brian K.

Summary: In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome-with the apparent exception of one young man and his male pet. This "gendercide" instantaneously exterminated 48% of the global population, or approximately 2.9 billion men. Now, aided by the mysterious Agent 355, the last human male Yorick Brown must contend with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAU

Davis, Eleanor

Summary: "Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or 'working'--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAV

Castro, Catherine

Summary: "Assigned female at birth, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers. As puberty hits and begins to change his body, it all just feels wrong, and something needs to change for it to feel right. He finds himself at a crucial crossroads. Becoming oneself is the work of a lifetime, no matter our gender, sexuality, or refusal to be limited by such categorizations. For...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SelfMadeHero 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CAS

Lubchansky, Mattie

Summary: "Newly-out trans artist's assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend's bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters -- think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Though they have not identified as a man for over a year, Sammie's old friends haven't quite gotten the message -- as evidenced by their former best friend Adam...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUB

Redford, Ruth

Summary: "Periods. Every person who menstruates has a different relationship with their "Aunt Flow": some good, and some...not-so-good. This 4-color graphic novel guide embraces all the icky, all the sticky, and all the confusing of our monthly cycle, acknowledging that there's no cookie cutter way to manage the physical and emotion mayhem. Filled with consumable, bite-sized tips, tricks, and "inside"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mayo Clinic Press Kids, an imprint of Mayo Clinic Press 2023

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Wong, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.198 WON

Illuitok, Levi

Summary: "After his parents are brutally murdered, Ahiahia is raised by his grandmother in a camp surrounded by enemies. His grandmother knows that eventually the camp will turn on Ahiahia, just as it did his parents, so she chants a protection chant over the clothing that she lovingly sews for him, over the amulet and necklace she gives him, even over the dog that is his companion. When he is attacked,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ILL

Vaughan, Brian K.

Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2006

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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAU

Williams, Eric Kostiuk

Summary: City residents are faced with accelerated renovations, increasing rent, and dwindling affordable housing. Facing eviction, our heroes set out to find the source of the gentrification wave and save their neighbors from a dystopic, capitalistic endgame that would leave the world full of uninhabited upscale homes that very few have the means to afford.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Koyama Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WIL

Meralli, Swann

Summary: Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors, this is the story of the greatest gangster of all time: Al Capone. Family man, community leader, industrious smuggler, or vicious killer? You decide. Born into a poor Italian family in Brooklyn in 1899, little Alphonse didn't have a lot of options, so he'd have to get creative in order to make a name for himself. A bit of cards, some enforcing, maybe a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Panel Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAPONE, AL MER

Maas, Lisa

Summary: "A moving and intimate LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. Still smarting years after a horrible breakup, Rayanne diligently buries herself in her work. Aside from work, she has her cat. And other than her cat, she has her crushes: crushes that she prides herself on being able to resist. Unexpectedly, however, one of her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MAA

Toriyama, Akira

Summary: As the cosmic battle between Goku and Vegeta continues, Goku is forced to use the dangerous Kaio-ken technique. But Vegeta reappears, changing himself into a 50-foot ape with superpowers, including energy strong enough to explode mountains. As Goku lies with his ribs shattered, his and earth's only hope is the genki-dama, the "spirit bomb" powered by the chi of all living things on the planet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Comics 2001

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1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC TOR

Vaughan, Brian K.

Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2005

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAU

Doucet, Julie

Summary: In My New York Diary - one of the first contemporary graphic novels - Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUCET, JULIE DOU

Vaughan, Brian K.

Summary: It's 2002, and a plague of unknown origin has killed all of the male mammals on Earth-all except an amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his surly helper monkey, Ampersand. As the last remaining & -chromosome carriers on the planet, Yorick and his pet hold the fate of humanity in their hands. To ensure the survival of the species, they've teamed up with a gun-toting government agent and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VAU

Ware, Chris

Summary: Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 741.5 WAR

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