The Times of Botchan
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Jiro Taniguchi
This is the fictionalized version of the life and times of Japanese author Natsume Soseki during an era of great change in Japan from the traditional Edo period into the modern Meiji period (1867-1912). Soseki is considered the Charles Dickens or Mark Twain of Japan. His image even appeared on the 1000 yen note for two decades.
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Nevsky : a hero of the people
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Ben McCool
Alexander Nevsky is a medieval Russian hero-prince and saint, and passionate warrior; he is proud and honored to fight for his home nation of Russia. When the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire attack his beloved homeland, he assembles the Novgorod people (Russian people) for battle, and faces the invading forces to save his people from tyranny and oppression. Against the odds-- and against the nobility of Russia, who wanted to appease the invaders-- Alexander Nevsky and his people's army fight the evil Teutonic Knights in a famous epic battle on the ice.
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The Harlem Hellfighters
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Max Brooks
This fictionalized account of the first African-American regiment, called the Harlem Hellfighters by their enemies, to fight in World War I relates the heroic journey these soldiers undertook for a chance to fight for America.
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Not the Israel my parents promised me
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Harvey Pekar
A final graphic-novel memoir by the late author of American Splendor traces the loss of his Zionist faith against a backdrop of Jewish history, recounting how his growing disaffection with the modern state of Israel was shaped by the mythologies and realities of the Jewish homeland. 40,000 first printing.
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Cuba : my revolution
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Inverna Lockpez
Believing in the promises of the Cuban Revolution, Sonya joins Castro's militia and becomes a medic, only to find herself imprisoned and tortured by her own comrades and later realizing that none of her efforts fall in line with Castro's regime.
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Trinity : a graphic history of the first atomic bomb
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Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
An evocative account of the race to construct and decision to drop the first atomic bomb traces its early research, it rapid acceleration and the heated debates it inspired, sharing vivid explanations of the process of a nuclear chain reaction and profiles of forefront Manhattan Project contributors.
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Incognegro
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Mat Johnson
"The early 20th Century: an era when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South. To most of the press, this epidemic of racial murder wan't even news. But a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were light-skinned African-American men who could 'pass' for white. They called this dangerous assignment 'going incognegro.' Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, barely escapes with his life after his latest 'incognegro' story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, he's sent on a new story-- the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi" -- from dust jacket
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A People's History of American Empire : a Graphic Adaptation
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Howard Zinn
Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq, in a volume created in the format of a graphic novel.
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Palestine
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Joe Sacco
Uses a comic book format to shed light on the complex and emotionally-charged situation of Palestian Arabs, exploring the lives of Israeli soldiers, Palestian refugees, and children in the Occupied Territories
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The photographer
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Emmanuel Guibert
In graphic novel format looks at the work of Doctors without Borders as seen through the eyes of a photojournalist who accompanied the group through war-torn Afghanistan
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Journey into Mohawk County
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Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert
Despite frigid temperatures, and lack of guides, maps, and food, Harmen Meyndertsz journeys deep within the Mohawk territory to get some questions answered in his quest to revive the struggling fur trade. Original.
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Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea
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Guy Delisle
One of the few Westerners granted access to North Korea documents his observations of the secretive society in this graphic travelogue that depicts the cultural alienation, boredom, and desires of ordinary North Koreans
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Forget sorrow : an ancestral tale
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Belle Yang
This memoir describes how the artist and writer escaped an abusive, stalking boyfriend and sought solace with her Old World Chinese parents, drawing her father’s stories about Manchuria during World War II.
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Jerusalem : a family portrait
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Boaz Yakin
"Jerusalem is the story of a single family--three generations of very different people--as they are swept up in the chaos of nation-making from 1940 to 1948. Love, death, faith, family, and politics form the perilous mix that fuels this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel about the events surrounding the creation of the modern Israeli state."--Dust jacket
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The Klondike
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Zach Worton
The history of how a handful of colorful characters sparked the largest mobilization of gold seekers in history is brought vividly to life in this debut graphic novel by the cartoonist Zach Worton.
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The boxer : the true story of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft
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Reinhard Kleist
Offers a graphic novel account of the life of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft, who was forced into life-and-death boxing matches by his SS captors, and later moved to the United States, where he became a prizefighter and fought Rocky Marciano
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Kiki de Montparnasse
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Catel
In bohemian Montparnasse of the 1920s, Kiki escaped poverty to become one of the most charismatic figures of the avant-garde years between the wars. Partner to Man Ray, and one of the first emancipated women of the 20th century, Kiki made her mark with her freedom of style, word, and thought that could be learned from only one school: the school of life.
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Bohemians : a graphic history
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Paul Buhle
A graphically illustrated history of the 19th-century counterculture movement examines its utopian ideas while tracing the influences of key figures including Walt Whitman, Josephine Baker and Gertrude Stein, displaying artwork by such contributors as Peter Kuper and Spain Rodriguez. Original.
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The Good Inn : an illustrated screen story of historical fiction : a novel
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Frank Black
Loosely based on historical events, this illustrated, highly stylized graphic novel follows the lone survivor of the Iena explosion in 1907, as he, making his way through the French countryside, falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter and becomes the subject and star of the world's first stag film. 50,000 first printing.
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Petrograd
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Philip Gelatt
Cleary, a reluctant British spy, finds himself assigned to the most difficult assignment of his career: orchestrate the death of Grigoi Rasputin, the mad monk who is extremely influential over the Russian royal family. To accomplish this he will have to negotiate dangerous ties with the secret police, navigate the halls of power, and tangle with dangerous radicals on the eve of the Russian Revolution
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Grass
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War—a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history.
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