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June is LGBT Pride Month- Check Out These Reads!
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Are you my mother? : a comic drama
by Alison Bechdel
A graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter. Reprint. (This book was featured in a previous issue of Forecast.)
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Fun home : a family tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. Reprint.
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The Sculptor
by Scott McCloud
"David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous, street-level portrait of the world's greatest city. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life...and the great surging forces that lie just under the surface. Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work"
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
A graphic novel debut based on the author's critically acclaimed Web comic follows a nefarious plot by an impulsive young shapeshifter and a vengeful villain who want to defame their kingdom's Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.
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Skim
by Mariko Tamaki
The whole gamut of tortured teen life--love, depression, suicide, being gay or not, cliques, and manipulative peers--is explored through the eyes of Skim, aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a would-be Wiccan goth at a girls' academy in Toronto during the 1990s.
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Honor girl : A Graphic Memoir
by Maggie Thrash
A 15-year-old girl endures wrenching public and private challenges when she unexpectedly falls in love with a female counselor at her Appalachian summer camp.
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Runaways : Live Fast Live fast
by Brian K. Vaughan
After the death of his girlfriend, Gert Yorkes, Chase, with the help of a telepathic dinosaur, tries to sacrifice himself to bring Gert back to life, as the other members of the Runaways try to convince him that he is making a mistake
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