Are You My Mother?

A Comic Drama

Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.NPR Bestseller

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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

A final graphic-novel memoir by the late author of American Splendor traces the loss of his Zionist faith against a backdrop of Jewish history, recounting how his growing disaffection with the modern state of Israel was shaped by the mythologies and realities of the Jewish homeland.

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Habibi

A graphic tale by the author of Blankets follows the relationship between two refugee child slaves who are thrown together by circumstance and who struggle to make a place for themselves in a world fueled by fear and vice, in a visual parable that touches on themes of cultural divisions and the shared heritage of Christianity and Islam. Read an excerpt from Habibi.NPR Bestseller

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Mysterious 'Habibi' Cuts To The Core Of Humanity
• Excerpt: 'Habibi'

Pinocchio

Presents a dark rendition of a classic tale, a greedy Geppetto builds Pinocchio as a metallic weapon of war, while Jiminy Cockroach is a homeless squatter living the good life in Pinocchio's skull.

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Excerpt: 'Pinocchio'

Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

From one of Japan's most famous cartoonists comes the semiautobiographical account of the final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WorldWar II. Mizuki was a soldier himself and draws from personal experiences of a demoralizing war.

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Excerpt: 'Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths'

Troop 142

A group of campers and counselors at a week-long scout retreat in the woods of New Jersey discover the truths between boys and men and growing out of adolescence.

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Excerpt: 'Troop 142'

The Death-Ray

Teen outcast Andy, upon smoking his first cigarette, gets an impressive set of superpowers and discovers a ray gun that delivers a fatal blast, in a full-color graphic novel by the acclaimed creator of Ghost World.

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• Teen Tormentors Get Their Due In 'Death-Ray'
• Excerpt: 'The Death-Ray'

Farm 54

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In

Hark! A Vagrant

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
• 'Hark!': From DNA To JFK, A Comic Take On History
• Excerpt: 'Hark! A Vagrant'

One Soul

Eighteen individuals throughout history whose entire lives unfold simultaneously. Comprised entirely of doublepage spreads split into eighteen panels with each panel featuring one character"s life, cartoonist Ray Fawkes has artfully crafted eighteen linear stories into one non-linear masterpiece.

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• Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In

A Treasury of XXth Century Murder

The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans

The popular creator of The Lindbergh Child presents a graphic account of a serial killing case in post-World War I New Orleans, augmenting dramatic details with black-and-white illustrations and line shading to establish a historical setting. Jr Lib Guild.

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• Graphic Content: 3 Comics Based On Real Crimes

Green River Killer

A True Detective Story

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• Graphic Content: 3 Comics Based On Real Crimes

Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010

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• Satirist, Spy, Soldier, Sex Machine: 'Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010'

The Armed Garden and Other Stories

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• Legends Spring To Life In The 'Armed Garden'
• Excerpt: 'The Armed Garden'

Watchmen

As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters start turning up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed. A graphic novel.

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Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Five years after the fall of the Empire, a dying part of the Empire all the more dangerous near death has just discovered something that could bring it back, the last of the Emperor's warlords, Admiral Thrawn.

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The Bloom County Library 4

1986-1987

The fourth volume in a series of Bloom County comic strips follows the adventures of the lovable, maladjusted penguin and his companions, and includes commentary from the cartoonist.

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Congress of the Animals

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