Summary: Presents the life of the South African leader in graphic novel format, from his early efforts working as an activist against apartheid, to his twenty-seven year imprisonment, to his election to the presidency of the country in 1994.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANLewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWHogg, Lauren
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOGAlikhan, Salima
Summary: During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes--and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHLawrence, Mike
Summary: During a troop meeting, a robot messenger delivers Avani some exciting news: she has been invited to join a secret society of elite scouts known as the League of Lasers. She is eager to join their ranks, but first she has to survive her initiation challenge. Stranded on an uncharted planet, Avani must contend with the methane atmosphere, hostile frog-like inhabitants, and her dwindling supplies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second Books 2018
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Summary: "A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.326 ROSTiteux de la Croix, Sybille
Summary: "In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, ANGELA TITBell, Darrin
Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELKim, 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 KIMSmith, Frank
Summary: "In the summer of 1971, New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America -- abused prisoners, rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated against the powerless. But when the guards at Attica overreact to a minor incident, the prisoners decide they've had enough and revolt -- taking their jailers hostage and making demands for humane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.974 SMIAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTSmith, Juliana "Jewels"
Summary: "This unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force tackles the most pressing issues of the day--including racism, patriarchy, gentrification, police violence, and the housing crisis--with humor and biting satire. When gentrification strikes the neighborhood surrounding Ronald Reagan University, Naima Pepper recruits a group of disgruntled undergrads of color to launch the first and only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SMIGill, 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 GILSmith, Greg (Gregory K.)
Summary: In a zombie wasteland of unknown origin, Troop 65 marshals onwards in the hopes of finding their families in Seattle, the nearest logical evacuation location. After a difficult journey by land and river, they make a stop in a suburban town that serves as ground zero of a battle between a corporate office that may have caused the apocalypse and the survivors staying in a nearby casino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SMILeth, Kate
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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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LETKobabe, 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: 741.5 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBSummary: "On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people. The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Featuring biographies of Mary Jones, We'wha, Magnus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 CRIRodriguez, Edel
Summary: "A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, EDEL RODPeirce, 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: "Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAPKamatani, Yuhki
Summary: "Tasuku is starting to feel at home at the drop-in center--just in time for him to help a younger student who also hangs out there. Misora Shuji likes to wear girls' clothing but is unsure about their gender identity. Will Tasuku's guidance offer Shuji some clarity or just make things harder?"--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 OURSmith, Greg (Gregory K.)
Summary: The Junior Braves of Tribe 65 return from a camping trip to find swarms of bloodthirsty mutants have overrun their town, bringing death and destruction everywhere they go! With their families missing and their homes destroyed, these plucky kids must use all their scouting talents, combined smarts, and teamwork to survive the end of the world! Junior Braves: A Brave is Brave is the beginning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018