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Graphic Novels October 2018
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Alpha : Abidjan to Paris
by Bessora
Determined to reunite with his family, Alpha sets off from his home in Cote d'Ivoire, bound for Paris, where his sister-in-law has a hair salon near the Gare du Nord train station. Alpha's wife and son left for France months ago, traveling without visas, and he has heard nothing from them since. With a visa, Alpha's journey would take a matter of hours. Without one, he is adrift for over a year, encountering human traffickers in the desert, refugee camps in Mali and Algeria, overcrowded boats carrying migrants between the Canary Islands and Europe's southern coast, and a cast of companions lost and found along the way. Throughout, Alpha stays the course, carrying his loved ones' photograph close to his heart as he makes his perilous trek across the continent.
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Calexit
by Matteo Pizzolo
In Calexit, the citizens of California struggle to seize power back from an autocratic government. Jamil, a 25-year old courier (aka smuggler), and Zora, a 27-year old leader in the Mulholland Resistance, attempt to escape from Occupied Los Angeles, where martial law has been in place for the past year -- ever since America's demagogue President signed an executive order to deport all immigrants, and California responded by proclaiming itself a Sanctuary State.
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Cloud Hotel
by Julian Hanshaw
Remco knows he is special. He was chosen. God took a shine to him, after a bright light in a clear northern sky brought Remco to the incredible Cloud Hotel, a wondrous place that he never wants to leave. But Remco has outstayed his welcome... and it's time to check out.
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Come Again
by Nate Powell
A lover's dream becomes a parent's nightmare in the astonishing new graphic novel from Nate Powell. As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers in one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks. But what's missing? Under impossibly close scrutiny, two families wrestle with long-repressed secrets... while deep within those Arkansas hills, something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers. In his triumphant return to solo cartooning, #1 New York Times bestseller Nate Powell presents a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.
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Dumb : Living Without a Voice
by Georgia Webber
Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing with friends becomes complicated and exhausting. And she is forced to give up a hobby she loves -- singing! Navigating a world that appears to be closing in on her seems more and more impossible. Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how the book's author copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness.
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Factory
by Yacine Elghorri
A band of mutants slog through the harsh deserts of a dystopian planet in search of the Factory -- the last semblance of civilization left among the wasteland. A dystopian nightmare where essentials are synthesized and controlled by Tyrannical ruler, Lord Gucco. Gucco, fearful for his life, relies on the precognitive abilities of enhanced foetuses to protect himself from those that would do him harm. But with the precog out of the picture, Gucco is in grave danger...
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Flocks
by L. Nichols
This book charts the author's experiences of growing up in a Christian household and community, realizing she's gay and her subsequent struggle to reconcile her faith with her sexuality.
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Graphic Reproduction : A Comics Anthology
by Jenell M. Johnson
A comics anthology that illustrates the complicated and multiple experiences of human reproduction and explores comics within the growing field of graphic medicine.
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Green Almonds : Letters from Palestine
by Anale Hermans
The graphic novel collaboration and true story of two sisters. Anaële, a writer, leaves for Palestine volunteering in an aid program, swinging between her Palestinian friends and her Israeli friends. Delphine is an artist, left behind in Liège, Belgium. From their different sides of the world, they exchange letters. Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine is a personal look into a complex reality, through the prism of the experience of a young woman writing letters to her sister about her feelings and adventures in the occupied territories.
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Hasib & the Queen of Serpents : A Thousand and One Nights Tale
by David B.
Heir to the wise Daniel, Hâsib is a young woodcutter promised to a great future. When his greedy companions abandon him in the middle of the forest, he meets the Queen of Serpents. She then tells her story, a fabulous adventure filled with gods and demons, princes and prophets. From Kabul to Cairo, journeys intertwine with intrigues and spiritual quests while the fabulous nights follow one another. An enchanting and intricately designed interpretation of the story of Hâsib Karîm ad-Dîm, through which David B. opens for us the gates of the Thousand and One Nights. For mature readers.
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I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB
by Jenna Allen
I, René Tardi, had fought...to destroy the enemy. I obeyed. Yes, I had fought, and on Wednesday, May 22, 1940, 12 days after the offensive, in the early morning at the edge of the woods, I had been captured." Thus begins the dark turn in Stalag IIB, Jacques Tardi's gripping and humane biographical portrait of his father's life as a soldier during WWII. Captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp where he spends the rest of the war, René Tardi lives a harrowing day-to-day existence. He recalls in vivid detail roll calls in sub-zero temperatures, senseless executions--and especially the gnawing hunger. And yet, in the face of daily brutality, he perseveres, thinking of his wife Henriette, awaiting his return home to France.
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Idle Days
by Thomas Desaulniers-Brousseau
Depressed and unmoored by his father's violent death, and drafted into the Canadian military to serve in World War II, Jerome has fled, taking refuge in a cabin his grandfather owns in a remote part of the countryside. But Jerome's troubles are only beginning. A strange dread fills the woods, and rumors of murders and ghosts cast his refuge in a sinister light. As Jerome struggles to come to terms with his father's death, he obsessively seeks to uncover the mystery of what, exactly, happened in his grandfather's house.
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No. 1 With a Bullet
by Jacob Semahn
Her social media, strong. Her variety show segments, a hit. Nash Huang is at the top of her game. But when the iRis Shutter contact lens hits the market, Nash's personal life is invaded. The latest leap forward in "technological progress," these contacts not only play video or augment reality...they record footage. Fighting to keep her life together after a sex tape goes viral, a clingy super-fan is the last thing on Nash's mind. But then the bodies start to pile up...and the terror begins
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Normandy Gold
by Megan E. Abbott
Sex, violence and corruption collide in this gritty vigilante thriller set in 1970s Washington, D.C. When her younger sister is found at the center of a brutal murder investigation, tough-as-nails Sheriff Normandy Gold is forced to dive head-first into the seedy world of 1970s prostitution and soon discovers a twisted conspiracy leading right to the White House. Original.
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Orphans 1 : The Beginning
by Roberto Recchioni
A devastating energy beam strikes the Earth, instantly killing a sixth ofthe world population. Deemed to be a premeditated attack by aliens from a distant planet, a Serbian scientist named Jsana Juric and a Japanese army colonel named Takeshi Nakamura gather a group of orphaned children who survived the disaster to become lethal soldiers trained to invade the hostile planet in hopes of preventing a repeat attack. Divided into teams, the children get to know each other, and begin to understand that surviving the training will itself be a brutal test. Lives are sacrificed and difficult lessons are learned, all in the interest of turning children into hardened killing machines. One such impressionable child is Jonas... Meanwhile, in a parallel storyline set in the future, a ground invasion force reaches the alien planet from which the energy beam supposedly originated. Before setting foot on the planet, every soldier receives a vaccine to combat the deadly radiation on the planet, a course that must be repeated every day. The battles are tough, and the human forces suffer massive casualties, until a team of five soldiers appear and make short work of the aliens. These five heroes are Jonas and his companions... the "Orphans"
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Rx
by Rachel Lindsay
In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she suddenly finds herself on the other side of the curtain, developing ads for an antidepressant drug. Day after day, she sees her own suffering in the ads she helps to create, trapped in an endless cycle of treatment, insurance and medication. Overwhelmed by the stress of her professional life and the self-scrutiny it inspires, she begins to destabilize and finds herself hospitalized against her will. In the ward, stripped of the little control over her life she felt she had, she struggles in the midst of doctors, nurses, patients and endless rules to find a path out of the hospital and this cycle of treatment. This is the author's story of being treated for a mental illness as a commodity and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.
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The Clandestinauts
by Tim Sievert
Hired to acquire the fabled Goblet of the Crimson Wizard, expert dungeoneering team, the Clandestinauts, enter the legendary Master Wizard's formidable fortress with visions of unimaginable treasure. That is until, like most journeys through the dreary depths of blood-soaked sepulchers, things don't go according to plan. Threats external and existential stand ready to test the frayed sinews that bind this team of bitter rivals.
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The Curse of Charley Butters
by Zach Worton
While filming a death metal music video sensitive soul Travis and his gang of misfits stumble upon an old cabin in the woods containing the archives of a disappeared artist named Charley Butters. The discovery sets in motion a chain of events which leads to a documentary, a girlfriend, then the loss of everything he has known.
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The Song of Aglaia
by Anne Simon
Betrayed by her fleeting first love and her father's cold rejection, Aglaia the Oceanide conceives at a very young age a fierce hatred of men. She is by turns a reluctant wife, a passionate lover, an absent mother, a heroic fighter, and a revolutionary queen--and through it all, her destiny is inexorably linked to the complexity of her character in this deeply human, contemporary, and iconoclastic comedy. Cartoonist Anne Simon showcases a deft touch in this astute dissection of human relationships, which weaves 19th century France, biting feminism, and the pop imagination of the Beatles into one deliciously philosophical farce, full of subversive twists and comical turns.
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt : A Tyranny of Truth
by Ken Krimstein
A New Yorker cartoonist and creator of Kvetch as Kvetch Can presents a graphic biography of the 20th-century philosopher that discusses her endurance of Nazi persecution, relationship with fellow luminaries and writing of The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Unsound
by Cullen Bunn
Ever since she was little, all Ashli wanted was to help people. It's why she went to nursing school, and it's why she signed up for the vacant position at Saint Cascia, despite the psychiatric hospital's less-than-sterling reputation. But when strange occurrences begin in the midst of her very first day on the job--razor blades scattered through the halls, a patient named Xerxes always hidden behind a makeshift mask, and a brutal riot initiated by the inmates--Ashli is forced to escape through the labyrinthine bowels of the asylum to not only help her fellow nurses...but to save herself
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Void Trip
by Ryan O'Sullivan
The story of Ana and Gabe, the last two humans left alive in the galaxy. They're low on fuel, they're low on food, and they're low on psychedelic space froot, but they're still determined to make it to the promised land: hippy-paradise super-planet Euphoria. This is the story of their journey, the friends and enemies they made along the way, and how the universe responded to those who dared to live freely within it.
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Where we live : a benefit for the survivors in Las Vegas
by Warren Wucinich
An anthology of fictional and eyewitness accounts offers a variety of perspectives on the themes of gun violence, gun control, mental health stigmatization, and a compassionate society, in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas
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Young Adult Graphic Novels
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Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
by James Tynion
The Dark Knight and the heroes in a half shell reunite! The team behind the smash-hit crossover series brings Batman and Robin to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' New York to fight the menace Bane! But will Donatello's attempt to fix things create an even deadlier threat? When Donatello opens a portal to Gotham City in search of the Turtles' recent ally, Batman, he accidentally gets sent to Gotham City and someone else comes through--Bane! The villain who broke Batman finds a new world to conquer, developing a new strain of Venom to inflict on the Big Apple's unsuspecting population. Donnie manages to bring Batman and Robin (Damian Wayne) to his world to join the fight, but when they, Master Splinter, and the rest of the Turtles--Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael--disagree with his plans, the dejected Donatello takes matters into his own hands...with disastrous results!
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Check, Please! 1 : #Hockey
by Ngozi Ukazu
"Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is Jack-- his very attractive but moody captain.
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Deadendia : The Watcher's Test
by Hamish Steele
When Barney gets a job at Dead End, a theme park haunted house, he discovers it is also a portal to hell, and must battle demonic party poopers with help from his best friend Norma and his talking dog Pugsley
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Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules
by Tony Cliff
Stumbling across a clue to the legendary third pillar of Hercules, Delilah Dirk and Selim embark on an Indiana Jones-style caper that pits them against a ruthless enemy and forces her to team up with rival Jason Merrick.
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Kaguya-sama : Love is War. 1
by Aka Akasaka
Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first...?! As leaders of their prestigious academy's student councilm Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it's lonely at the top... Luckily for them, they've fallen in love! There's just one problem--they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first... Love is a war you win by losing.
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Rise of the Black Panther
by Evan Narcisse
Wakanda has always kept itself isolated from Western society, but that's about to change. Young T'Challa knows he's destined to become king, but when his father is murdered by outsiders, he finds himself taking up a mantle he may not be ready for. Experience the troubled reign of King T'Chaka! Discover the mother T'Challa never knew! And see how the world first learns of the wondrous nation of Wakanda - including Namor, King of Atlantis ; the Winter Soldier ; and the ruler of Latveria, Doctor Doom! Plus: as Erik Killmonger makes a devastating move, a missing chapter of T'Challa and Storm's lifelong romance comes to light - and the Black Panther must decide his unique role in a world full of super heroes!
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Red Like Roses
by Monty Oum
Defeating monsters and stopping evil is a tough job, but TEAM RWBY is up for challenge! Well, except for homework. Ruby may be team leader, but she's got insecurities just like the rest of us, in fact, her worries run deep. These stories show how Ruby overcomes her shortcomings to be a true hero -- and what drives her to do it!
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Star Wars : Journey to Star Wars : The Last Jedi. Captain Phasma
by Kelly Thompson
Captain Phasma made her triumphant return in Star Wars: The Last Jedi -- now journey back to the final moments of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the destruction of Starkiller Base, and learn how she escaped her fate! Captured by the Resistance and thrown into a garbage masher, Phasma must escape a doomed world - and plot her revenge!
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Rogue One : A Star Wars Story
by Jody Houser
The Rebellion is here! The Rogue One crew makes the leap from the big screen to the comic-book page in this action-packed adaptation! All looks lost for the galaxy when the Empire's new super-weapon is discovered: any insurgency will quickly be thwarted by the devastating new Death Star! But maybe there is hope for the Rebel cause when Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor lead a crew of new heroes on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the planet-destroying threat! A crucial tale in the Star Wars saga is told at last!
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