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"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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John Wesley Powell always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869, he embarked with the Colorado River Exploring Expedition-- ten men in four boats-- to float through the Grand Canyon. Ten explorers went in, but only six came out....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
246 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells, in graphic novel format, Homer's epic tale of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, focusing on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.
4) Petrograd
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1916, and the First World War is tearing the European continent to shreds. It is an apocalyptic war, with the fate of millions of people in the balance. But in the Russian city of Petrograd, all that seems a world away. Especially to British intelligence officer Cleary. He drinks and parties with the rich and powerful; he flirts and cavorts with workers and countrymen--his life is all late, drunken nights, bleary-eyed mornings, and the...
5) Papaya salad
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The debut graphic novel from Thai-Italian illustrator Elisa Macellari, Papaya Salad tells the story of her great-uncle Sompong who found himself in Europe on military scholarship on the eve of World War II. A gentle and resolute man in love with books and languages, in search of his place in the world, Sompong chronicles his life during the war and falling for his wife, finding humor and joy even as the world changes irrevocably around him."--
Author
Series
I survived volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." --
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
319 pages : chiefly illustations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1807, the Explorer, a ship from Her Majesty's Navy recovers a young shipwreck off the coast of Siam, Abel, who can only remember his name. He soon becomes friends with the first officer, acting as a captain because the commander of the ship has apparently absconded with the ship's treasure. Abel returns to England with the Explorer and finds accommodation at the inn run by the three fugitive captain's daughters. Well before he can...
8) Berlin
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
549 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), map (on lining papers) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city...
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in seventeenth-century Istanbul, The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Vol I is a beautifully drawn meditation on love, home, faith and loss. It tells the story of Zeynel, an ordinary man surrounded by the extraordinary - his life, his death, and the aftermath of his unwilling transformation into a vampire. Born into an esteemed family of scholars, the young Zeynel meets Ayse, an Anatolian girl from a tiny village, who harbours big dreams. Where...
Author
Series
Boy from Clearwater volume 2
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
355 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But when manhua publishing becomes victim to censorship, and many of his friends lose their jobs, Kun-lin takes matters into his own hands. He starts a children's magazine, Prince, for...
Author
Series
Vinland saga volume 13
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thorfinn's travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, but also found strength in his friends, in his new wife, and in the dream that he's never let go, of a new land free of brutality and slavery. At last, the moment has come to set foot on Vinland--not the misty ideal he has carried there, but...
Author
Publisher
Top Cow Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
La Voz De M.A.Y.O: Tata Rambo is based on the oral history of Ramon Jaurigue, an orphan and WWII veteran who co-founded the Mexican, American, Yaqui, and Others (M.A.Y.O.) organization, which successfully lobbied the Tucson City Council to improve living and working conditions for members of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. Thanks to this period of activism, the Yaquis were federally recognized as one of the remaining Native American tribes. Meanwhile Ramon's...
14) Your throne: 1
Author
Publisher
Webtoon Unscrolled
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tensions are brewing under the seemingly calm surface of the Vasilios Empire. Lady Medea Solon has lost her place next to Crown Prince Eros but resolves to do whatever it takes to win back what's rightfully hers. However, she'll have to rewrite her entire revenge plan when she wakes up in the body of her sworn rival"--
15) Freedom Hospital
Author
Publisher
Interlink Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is controlled by Assad's brutal regime, but is relatively stable. However, as the months pass, the situation becomes increasingly complex and violent. Told in stark, beautiful black-and-white imagery, Freedom Hospital illuminates a complicated situation with gut-wrenching...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 30
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"When searching for Ran-Mao, Mey-Rin's succesfully uncovered the covert operation in Baron Heathfield's manor--but an unforeseen hurdle stands in the way of a job well done. A tantalizing offer of employment has Mey-Rin reflecting on her own blood-soaked history that binds her to the former Earl Phantohive...Will she remain the master's devoted servant or will she abandon her post for good...?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Vinland saga volume 12
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sigurd returns home to Iceland to face the horrible Halfdan, but a father and a king can only be as good as his word--a blessing he refuses to bestow to Sigurd without a fight. All the while, Gudrid joins Thorfinn and the crew on their journey to Thorfinn's childhood home, where Halfdan's presence looms mightily...However, with some help from fresh faces and promising volunteers, the day the ships set off for Vinland is imminent"--
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
248 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"All rise: resistance and rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered during a tumultuous period in South African history....
19) No rules tonight
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
202 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in dictatorial South Korea in 1984, a group of teens experience a taste of freedom on a winter retreat with no parental supervision.
20) Ruined
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that blooms from a marriage of convenience. The whole town is whispering about how Catherine Benson lost her virtue, though they can never agree on the details. Was it in the public garden? Or a moving carriage? Only a truly desperate man would want her now -- and that's exactly what Andrew Davener is. His family's estate is in disrepair, but Catherine's...
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