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The fire never goes out : a memoir in pictures
by Noelle Stevenson
The National Book Award finalist and creator of Nimona presents a collection of personal essays and mini-comics spanning eight years of the author’s young-adult life to reveal the experiences and embarrassments that shaped her career. 150,000 first printing. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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Calling Dr. Laura : a graphic memoir
by Nicole J. Georges
After discovering that who she thought was her father was indeed not, Portland-based "zinester" Nicole Georges embarks upon a journey of identity
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March. Book one
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
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Maus : a survivor's tale
by Art Spiegelman
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel
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Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
by Tyler Feder
A debut graphic novel traces the author’s experiences with the loss of her mother, tracing the poignant journey of her mother’s diagnosis and treatment and her own experiences with sitting Shiva and making sense of life after her mother’s death. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Tomboy : A Graphic Memoir
by Liz Prince
Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir. By the award-winning author of Will You Love Me If I Wet the Bed? Original. 15,000 first printing.
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Brave face : a memoir
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Describes the author's struggles as a teen and young adult growing up gay in an intolerant atmosphere in the 1990s, the factors that led him to attempt suicide, and how he ultimately found internal and external acceptance
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Can't stop won't stop : a hip-hop history
by Jeff Chang
Revised for young-adult readers, a top-reviewed history of hip-hop draws on interviews with rappers, DJs, activists and gang members to provide biographical information about prominent artists and insights into the genre’s world-changing influence. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Notes from a young Black chef : Adapted for Young Adults
by Kwame Onwuachi
Adapted for younger readers, an uplifting memoir by the James Beard Award-winning executive chef at Kith/Kin in Washington, D.C. includes coverage of his Bronx childhood, his training in acclaimed restaurants and the racial barriers that challenged his career. Simultaneous eBook.
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Gone to the woods : surviving a lost childhood
by Gary Paulsen
The three-time Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet shares the story of his turbulent childhood, his escape into military service and the life-changing impact of an encouraging librarian who handed him his first book. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
by Eric Gansworth
"The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking." -- Inside front jacket flap
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They called us enemy
by George Takei
Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future
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Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class. 15,000 first printing. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
by George M. Johnson
A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy. Simultaneous eBook.
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Shout : a poetry memoir
by Laurie Halse Anderson
A poetic memoir and urgent call-to-action by the award-winning author of Speak blends free-verse reflections with deeply personal stories from her life to rally today's young people to stand up and fight the abuses, censorship and hatred of today's world. Simultaneous eBook
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