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1) Guts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A witty and one-of-a-kind debut graphic memoir detailing and drawing the life of a girl with borderline personality disorder finding her way-and herself-one day at a time. What does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I'm Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
"Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves"--Publisher...
4) Parenthesis
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Judith is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never close. Based on the real experiences of cartoonist Élodie Durand, Parenthesis is a gripping testament of struggle, fragility, acceptance, and transformation which was deservedly awarded the Revelation...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
230 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edward O. Wilson, one of the world's preeminent biologists, launches his career not in a classroom but roaming outside, exploring beaches, woods, and swamps with an insatiable drive to understand the natural world. Wilson's critically acclaimed memoir Naturalist is an inspiring account of his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the fields he helped define. This new [graphic adaptation] brings Wilson's childhood and celebrated career to life...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2010, Lucy and her long-term boyfriend John broke up. Three long, lonely years later, John returned to New York, walked into Lucy's apartment, and proposed. This is not that story. It is the story of what came after: the wedding.
7) Monograph
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 13 x 18 inches.
Language
English
Description
"A flabbergasting experiment in publishing hubris, [this book] charts the art and literary world's increasing tolerance for the language of the empathetic doodle directly through the work of one of its most esthetically constipated practitioners. For thirty years, writer and artist (i.e. cartoonist) Chris Ware (b. 1967) has been testing the patience of readers and fine art fans with his complicated and difficult-to-comprehend picture stories in the...
Author
Series
Skull-face bookseller Honda-san volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
133 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When you work in a Japanese bookstore like Honda-san, there are a million and one things to keep track of. Managing new releases, accounting for the revival of titles from the grave, understanding the unique(ly maddening) quirks of each manga publisher-- it's enough to leave anyone bone-tired!
"Gain a glimpse with Honda and the staff into the whirlwind that comes with second edition printings!! And if you're wondering why you can't find the book...
Author
Series
Skull-face bookseller Honda-san volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Whether it's foreigners asking for 'Japanese erotic manga', navigating the tricky government definition of 'morally harmful material', or helping a customer who's awfully 'criminally organized', there's rarely a dull moment for Honda-san. The true stories of a Japanese bookstore employee can be stranger than fiction!"--Provided by publisher.
10) When I came out
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
140 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forty-something Louise is married to Peter, with whom she has four children. They live in a big house, and on paper everything looks fantastic. But Louise has a secret that she barely dares to admit to herself: a burning desire for women. When I Came Out is the story of a woman who has met society's expectations throughout her life but finally realizes that she has not been true to herself. From first-time creator Anne Mette Kaerulf Lorentzen, this...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.
"This book includes personal discussion and depiction of suicide and self harm. While I hope this book may serve as a comfort to some, its content...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
14) Smile
Author
Series
Smile volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A RUDE AWAKENING. Thanks to Hidaka-sensei's intensive training, Akiko manages to get through her art school exams. She's one step closer to seeing her dreams come true...or so she thinks!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The meticulous artwork of transgender artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see the world through another lens. The exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this book gives us the opportunity to enter into the author's...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the Pacific, she took a job with Radio Tokyo-where she was forced to host "Zero Hour," a propaganda show aimed at demoralizing American troops-in the role of Tokyo Rose, the "Siren of the Pacific.""--Publisher's...
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
199 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many LGBTQ adults look back on their youth and wonder: what might have been? Growing up 'in the closet' tends to produce a sort of double identity, between the inner self and the self seen by the outside world. Now, cartoonist Axelle Lenoir, in her unpredictable and imaginative way, makes this metaphor real. Secret Passages, narrated by the adult author, begins with the death of her (male) 'cosmic twin.' From there it launches into a rollicking ride...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 319 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer, Fine is an essential graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
518 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.
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