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Maggor, Noam

Summary: Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money families on the American scene - successfully reinvented themselves. Better known as social reformers, philanthropists, and men of letters,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 MAG

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

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 HOL

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOL

Debaye, Manon

Summary: A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence. Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their sleepy town. They make a blood pact to jump together in five days time, before their thirteenth birthdays. Not that navigating the unspoken pecking order of the school quad makes it easy. Can the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023

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Gibbs, Stuart

Summary: Bruce Wayne, the only kid in school without super powers, gets called to the principal because his career choice of vigilantism is deemed too ambitious, and he becomes even more determined to prove he belongs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2023

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

Akasaka, Aka

Summary: "Will Kaguya and Miyuki find a way to see each other sooner rather than later over summer vacation? And is tweeting really an effective way to communicate with your crush? Then, Kaguya's overprotective staff try to prevent her from going to the fireworks festival with the rest of the student council. Miyuki and Kaguya both try to find a way to enroll in the same elective class. And someone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018

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Kendzior, Sarah

Summary: "Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just stumbled upon the playbook that will guide you step by step towards making your big lie a reality. Join Gaslit Nation co-hosts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 KEN

Oda, Tomohito

Summary: Komi and her friends are going on a ski trip! Who cares if only some of them actually know how to conquer the slopes? The point is to have fun and show off their winter fashions! But things take a turn for the awkward when Manbagi and Tadano get left behind and have to spend the night in snow country. The only inn around is expensive, but worse than that, there's only one room! --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KOM

McGraw, Phillip C.

Summary: From a #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved television host comes a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult McGraw

Steinkellner, Emma

Summary: Seventh-grader Nell lives an ordinary life in the magical town of Gumbling, but yearns to land her dream apprenticeship and become an artist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2023

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 STE

Van Camp, Richard

Summary: "Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he'll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VAN

Oberländer, Mia

Summary: "In the sleepy German countryside live the Annas, cursed to be too tall for their small town. Laughably long-limbed and gangly, their bodies refuse to conform with societal norms of delicate femininity, and the trauma of being different ripples across generations. And yet, there may be a blessing to their burden; like the mighty mountains surrounding their town, they find that there is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2024

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

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Urana, Kei

Summary: Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich, who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2024

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

Zhang, Lun

Summary: Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident--otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre--from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Idea & Design Works 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHA

Kugler, Olivier

Summary: While on assignment between 2013 and 2017, often for Doctors Without Borders, Olivier Kugler interviewed and photographed Syrian refugees and their caregivers in camps, on the road, and in provisional housing in Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, France, Switzerland, and England. Escaping Wars and Waves is the astonishing result of that record keeping―a graphic novel that brings to life the improvised...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of the Pennsylvania State University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 956.91 KUG

Thomas, Angie

Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD FRENCH THO

Snider, Brandon T.

Summary: When she seizes a piece of an ancient wand from the Servants of Evil, Wonder Woman discovers that it is infused with dark magic, and during her quest for the remaining pieces she realizes that the wand belongs to the evil Circe, who must be the Servants mysterious master--but when she brings the pieces to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., she discovers that some of the people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SNI

Thoreau, Henry David

Summary: An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THO

Thoreau, Henry David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil Thoreau

Summary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYC

MacQuarrie, Kim.

Summary: "Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in the Andes Mountains"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MAC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MAC

Mohamed, Deena

Summary: "A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishes are real. Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the socio-political realities of contemporary Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik-a fairytale rhyme meaning "Your Wish is My Command" in Arabic-is the story of three...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022

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

Woods, Stuart

Summary: "Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers don't know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODS, STUART WOO

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