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Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small
The Caldecott-winning author of Imogene's Antlers 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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Starhenge 1: The Dragon and the Boar
by Liam Sharp
Revered creator Liam Sharp cuts loose on his visually stunning masterpiece, Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar.
A future Merlin travels to 5th century Britain to prevent monstrous time-travelling killer robots robbing the universe of magic! Amber Weaver's lively present-day narrative reveals how she becomes drawn into a war across time...
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After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila
by Eliza Victoria
Immerse yourself in a fantasy world of Filipino myth, magic, and supernatural suspense! Lambana-the realm of supernatural fairies known as Diwata-has fallen, and the Magic Prohibition Act has been enacted. To add to his troubles, there's something wrongwith Conrad's heart and only magic can prolong his life. He teams up with Ignacio, a well-connected friend who promises to hook him up with the Diwata and their magical treatments-a quest that's not only risky but highly illegal! On the shadowy, noir-tinged streets of Manila, multiple realities co-exist and intertwine as the two friends seek a cure for the magical malady. Slinky sirens and roaming wraith-like spirits populate a parallel world ruled by corruption and greed, which Conrad must enter to findthe cure he seeks. He has little idea of the creatures he will encounter and the truths to be revealed along the way. Will Lambana spill its secrets and provide the healing balm Conrad needs? Or will he perish in the process?
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The Nice House on the Lake. Volume Two
by James Tynion
One of the most critically acclaimed and bestselling horror books of 2021 returns for its shocking second act--and now is the perfect time to enter the house! The ten hardy survivors gathered in the house by their mutual friend Walter thought they'd finally cracked the code on his plans...and now everything they thought they knew has literally changed. Can they free themselves from their patterns? Or are they all just determined to build a prison of their very own?
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Wash Day Diaries
by Jamila Rowser
A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships.
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Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron
by Julia Quinn
Born into a happy family that is tragically ravaged by smallpox, Miss Priscilla Butterworth uses her wits to survive a series of outlandish trials. Cruelly separated from her beloved mother and grandmother, the young girl is sent to live with a callous aunt who forces her to work for her keep. Eventually, the clever and tenderhearted Miss Butterworth makes her escape . . . a daring journey into the unknown that unexpectedly leads her to the "mad" baron and a lifetime of love.
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Team Photograph
by Lauren Haldeman
| In her extraordinary graphic novel―which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir―Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts of war― “wounded wraiths and faceless shapes” float in her hallway at night, and bullet shells, buttons, and human bones surface around the soccer fields in daylight. The narrator turns to poetry and history to make sense of the town and its bloodshed, of its forever attachment to injustice and its inability to restore erased identities. Team Photograph is a journey from research to illumination, and the result is a tender yet powerful reckoning of time and place, proof that the past and the present are inexorably fused together. |
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After the Rain
by John Jennings
The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her,and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive.
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Iron Man: The Ultron Agenda
by Dan Slott
The Ultron Agenda is here! Watch out, Iron Man, the robot uprising of the Marvel Universe has begun! But it's not Ultron leading the charge...it's Machine Man?! The A.I.s are on the attack - and they might be in the right, as robotic and A.I. rights are being threatened in America. Battle lines are drawn, and it's time for Tony Stark, Jocasta, Andy Bhang and the rest of the crew to pick sides! Plus, as Tony Stark questions his humanity, Jocasta makes the choice to leave her robotic body behind and upgrade to biological parts. A turning point is coming to the Marvel Universe. Reality is in the eye of the beholder! Guest-starring the Vision - and featuring the return of one of the Avengers' greatest threats!
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Breakwater
by Katriona Chapman
When Dan, a new co-worker, becomes a part of her life, Chris, a loner and introvert, must decide if the life she's built is the one she wants.
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The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three
by Peter David
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain-and the world of the Dark Tower...presented in this stunning fourth graphic novel of The Drawing of the Three story arc that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of thedark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
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Mark Z. Danielewski's The Little Blue Kite
by Mark Z Danielewski
A metaphorical tale by the author of The Familiar series depicts a young boy whose brave decision to overcome a fear of kite-flying leads him on a great adventure where not even the sky is the limit.
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A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection
by Steve Martin
The Academy, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian and the syndicated New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist blend their creative talents in an uproarious treasury of original cartoons and comic strips that celebrates the cartooning world’s evocative power.
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall
Part graphic novel, part memoir, this book, using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, tells the story of women-led slave revolts, uncovering the truth about these women warriors, who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.
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Under the Moon
by Lauren Myracle
Rendered homeless by fate, 15-year-old Selina Kyle struggles to survive on the streets of Gotham and reconcile her own identity while navigating an increasingly fine line between human cruelty and the brute force that is required to win.
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Solutions and Other Problems
by Allie Brosh
The creator of the award-winning Hyperbole and a Half presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness and powerlessness in modern life.
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Cruel Summer
by Ed Brubaker
In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives.
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Barely Functional Adult
by Meichi Ng
From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 130k followers on Instagram, comes a never-before-seen collection of incriminating short stories about exes, murder, friendship, therapy, anxiety, Hufflepuff, sucking at things, freaking out about things, calming down momentarily, melodrama, wrinkles, pettiness, and other wonderful delights.
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Snow, Glass, Apples
by Neil Gaiman
A graphic-novel rendering of Gaiman’s dark reimagining of the Snow White story depicts a not-so-evil queen who resolves to save her realm from a monstrous stepdaughter.
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Sabrina
by Nick Drnaso
When a woman disappears, those connected to her find the intimacy of their relationships stripped away in a world devoid of personal interactions and responsibility.
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Strange Planet
by Nathan W. Pyle
Based on the popular Instagram of the same name, this adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green and purple covers a full life cycle of the planet’s inhabitants.
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Sapiens: A Graphic History. Volume one, The Birth of Humankind
by Yuval N. Harari
A full-color illustrated adaptation of the Oxford historian’s groundbreaking best-seller traces the dominance of homo sapiens above other species while explaining how evolution has shaped our understanding of what it means to be human.
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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
by Eric Powell
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein. A Little Mad Sometimes is an in-depth exploration of the Gein family and what led to the creation of the necrophile who haunted the dreams of 1950s America and inspired such films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. Painstakingly researched and illustrated, Schechter and Powell's true-crime graphic novel takes the Gein story out of the realms of exploitation and gives the reader a fact-based dramatization of these tragic, psychotic, and heartbreaking events. Because, in this case, the truth needs no embellishment to be horrifying.
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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
by Kristen Radtke
When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into a piercing exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another. She looks at the very real current crisis of loneliness through the lenses of gender, violence, technology, and art. Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to Instagram to Harry Harlow's experiments in which infant monkeys were given inanimate surrogate mothers, Radtke uncovers all she can about how we engage with friends, family, and strangers alike, and what happens--to us and to them--when we disengage. With her distinctive, emotionally charged drawings and unflinchingly sharp prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully reframes some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments.
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Invisible Differences: A Story of Aspergers, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color
by Julie Dachez
Marguerite feels awkward, struggling every day to stay productive at work and keep up appearances with friends. She's sensitive, irritable at times. She makes her environment a fluffy, comforting cocoon, alienating her boyfriend. The everyday noise and stimuli assaults her senses, the constant chatter of her coworkers working her last nerve. Then, when one big fight with her boyfriend finds her frustrated and dejected, Marguerite finally investigates the root of her discomfort after a journey of tough conversations with her loved ones, doctors, and the internet, she discovers that she has Aspergers. Her life is profoundly changed--for the better.
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Paper Girls 1
by Brian K Vaughan
Supernatural mysteries and suburban drama collide in the early hours after the Halloween of 1988 for four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls.
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.
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Displacement
by Kiku Hughes
On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.
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They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei
Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
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Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill
Presents the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them--and home to a hate-filled creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.
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Monstress: Volume 1
by Marjorie M Liu
A survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and the Arcanics, teenager Maika Halfwolf seeks answers about her mysterious past and becomes linked to a powerful eldritch monster, as they try to evade dangerous humans and otherworldly forces.
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Saga: Volume 1
by Brian K Vaughan
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world.
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Bloom
by Kevin Panetta
After graduation, Ari is desperate to move to the big city with his band, but he has to find someone who can replace him at his parent's struggling bakery, so when he meets Hector he thinks his prayers have been answered.
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Snow, Glass, Apples
by Neil Gaiman
A graphic-novel rendering of Gaiman’s dark reimagining of the Snow White story depicts a not-so-evil queen who resolves to save her realm from a monstrous stepdaughter.
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Bitch Planet
by Kelly Sue DeConnick
In a future where women are sent to a penal planet in the galaxy if their fail to comply with their patriarchal overlords, the newest batch of arrivals work together to stay alive amidst hidden agendas and crooked guards.
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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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Hey, Kiddo
by Jarrett Krosoczka
Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
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