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This & That May 2018 Graphic Novels: More Than Just Superheroes
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Jerusalem by Guy DelisleA poignant travelogue about life in the Holy City that serves as a cultural roadmap of the city's complexities and relevance while offering insight into the human impact of conflicts on both sides of the wall.
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Watchmen by Alan MooreChronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.
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Patience
by Daniel Clowes
A psychedelic science-fiction love story from the author of "Ghost World" veers from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness.
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Stitches by David SmallThe author presents a graphic account of his troubled childhood under a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated X rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the age of 16 in the hopes of becoming an artist.
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Blacksad by Juan Díaz CanalesPresents three stories in which John Blacksad, private investigator, attempts to find the murderer of an old lover, investigate child abductors, and discover nuclear secrets in the 1950s Red Scare.
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Through the woods: Stories by Emily CarrollJourney through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features stories. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House”—though coming back might be a problem. Or find yourself a young bride in a house that holds a terrible secret in “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold.” You might try to figure out what is haunting “My Friend Janna,” or discover that your brother’s fiancée may not be what she seems in “The Nesting Place.” And of course you must revisit the horror of “His Face All Red.”
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Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiThe great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.
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Maus: Asurvivor's tale by Art SpiegelmanA son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America.
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Skim by Mariko TamakiPresents the whole gamut of tortured teen life--friends, love, depression, suicide, and cliques--through the eyes of Skim, a.k.a. Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a would-be Wiccan goth at a girls' academy in Toronto during the 1990s.
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March. Book one by John LewisA 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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The story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church camp, revealing to one another their struggles with faith and their dreams of escape. Over time though, their personal demons resurface and their relationship falls apart.
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From Hell ts by Alan MooreA gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed.
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris WareFollows the fortunes of Jimmy Corrigan, a meek thirty-something who meets his father for the first time in a town near Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend. Chronicles four generations of the Corrigan men, from 1893 to 1983,
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Presents the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.
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The Sandman by Neil GaimanAn occultist attempting to summon and imprison Death instead traps her younger brother Morpheus, the Sandman, who, after eventually escaping imprisonment, must regain his lost objects of power while on an arduous journey.
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Hark! a vagrant by Kate BeatonPresents humorous takes on history, literature, and popular culture, with commentaries on such historical figures as Nikola Tesla, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Napoleon.
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Preacher by Garth EnnisDisillusioned with the beliefs he has dedicated his life to, Preacher Jesse Custer, possessed with the power of "the word," sets out on a violent and riotous journey across the country with his girlfriend Tulip and Irish vampire Cassidy.
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Goliath by Tom GauldThe David and Goliath story seen from Goliath's side of the Valley of Elah.
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Not funny ha-ha by Leah HayesThe story of two women who have decided to have abortions, from their initial decision, choosing a clinic and method (surgical and medical), reaching out to loved ones, and the procedure itself.
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Black Hole by Charles BurnsSet in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
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