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Author
Series
Publisher
Zenith Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Told in graphic novel format, the story of Manfred von Richthofen--better known as the Red Baron--from his beginnings as a cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to his death at the age of twenty-five and his enduring legacy"--
8465) Seen: Edmonia Lewis
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundbreakers who changed our world for the better. "Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am." Meet Edmonia Lewis, the woman who changed America during the Civil War by becoming the first sculptor of African-American and Native American...
8466) Nineteen
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ancco looks back at her own tumultuous adolescence, from the not-so-distanced lens of a twenty-something. A mother's struggles mirror her teen's. Memories of care between the cartoonist and her grandmother--before faculties had started to fade. Quick judgments look ugly through the eyes of a teen, who's leaning into her own sense of self"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Award winning cartoonist Carol Tyler (Soldier's Heart) takes the reader back to the exhilaration and madness of Beatlemania. Adapted from a diary she created in 1965, Fab4 Mania chronicles a formative year when four British lads awakened young Carol's senses and opened her up to the world beyond small-town Fox Lake, Illinois. Brimming with rich period details, gorgeous full color illustrations, generational confusion, cheeky humor, and teen-age camaraderie,...
Author
Series
Dark Agents ; 1
Publisher
Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Violet -- a young witch whose parents were murdered by a necromancer when she was a child. Running from country to country, as well as from herself, Violet never gets a chance to fully process her traumatic experience. Then, at age 19, her life takes a dramatic turn. Violet begins training at the Underworld Intelligence Agency in hopes of becoming a Dark Agent -- someone tasked with keeping the balance between the world of the living and the...
8471) Mend: a story of divorce
Author
Publisher
Zuiker Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sophia's tale of her parents' divorce is a heart-wrenching story. Sophia was eleven years old when her parents unexpectedly announced their divorce. Feeling lost and alone, Sophia initially blames herself. Over time, Sophia's self-loathing manifests into empowerment. Sophia goes on a mission to get her parents back by demanding they both remain in her life. Her heroism is driven by the prophetic words written on an old report card, an innocuous paper...
8472) Gay giant
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"A child who feels like an outsider in a world that's set against him. A boy who sings on the playground instead of playing soccer, who likes Barbies, and whose secretly favorite car is the one called Tutti Frutti. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his struggles with his own inadequacy, his feelings of guilt, and above all, his fear that his "difference" will be discovered. The vibrant bright pink pages of Gay Giant paint a picture of what it was...
Author
Publisher
New Jewish Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust. David Schaffer and his family survived in Romania due to their refusal to obey Nazi collaborators. In the Netherlands, brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp were separated from their parents and hidden by the Dutch resistance in thirteen different places....
8474) Chartwell Manor
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Veteran alternative cartoonist Glenn Head's harrowing graphic memoir is about years of sexual and emotional abuse suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence, and the resultant trauma that took him almost 50 years to process before being able to tell his story publicly"--
8475) Middlewest: Vol. 3
Author
Series
Middlewest ; 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The skies grow dark in Middlewest as Maggie and her crew gather forces to march on Raider Farms where Abel and others are imprisoned, forced to work the Ethol fields. Looming over the coming battle, the monster within Abel must face the untamed generational rage his father carries, and when the two front collide, all of Middlewest watches in terror"--Back cover.
8476) Flocks
Author
Publisher
Secret Acres
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Qingshui, recounts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Qingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai's memories shift to military parades, air raids, and watching others face conscription into the army. It seems no one can escape. After the war, the book-loving teenager tries hard to learn Mandarin and...
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