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4) The keeper
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family's dark history in this horror graphic novel"--
5) Tonta
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Though a self-styled loner, Tonta is forced to confront her dysfunctional family history when a weekend of punk rock, lucha libre, and hanging out by the pool with her self-absorbed half-sister, Vivian, is disrupted by a botched burglary which leads to the discovery of long-suppressed family secrets.
6) Portugal
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Language
English
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Description
"Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comics convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. Even though he is a foreigner there, so many elements of the country are familiar to him. Meeting its lively citizens and recounting early...
7) Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
A journey through the inbetween places of the British landscape to the bleak coast, 'Kingdom' follows a family on their holiday to a small caravan park, where teenager Andrew explores the dunes, and half-remembered stories from the past are shared. Once again, Jon McNaught creates a beautiful graphic novel that makes the ordinary, extraordinary.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been."--
9) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
10) Artichoke tales
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Prior to cartoonist Megan Kelso's long-awaited 2022 release, Who Will Make the Pancakes, Kelso spent six years creating her first long-form graphic novel, 2010's Artichoke Tales. The book, a fantastic family saga spanning three generations and an entire continent, was a critical smash named to many "Best of 2010" lists. Fantagraphics is proud to bring this perennial classic back in print with a new paperback edition. Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta fábula ilustrada nace cuando un buen día el mundo se pone en pausa. De repente, sobra tiempo, mucho tiempo, y los adultos descubren que es posible vivir a otro ritmo, observar la vida desde otro punto de vista. A través de los ojos de los niños. De la mano de su hijo pequeño, el adulto de esta historia se reconciliará con su niño interior y aprenderá a ver con una mirada renovada la vida y las maravillas que se esconden tras las cosas...
12) Sisters
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Language
English
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Description
Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all. Raina...
13) Hooky
Author
Series
Hooky volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Dani and Dorian missed the bus to magic school, they never thought they'd wind up declared traitors to their own kind! Now, thanks to a series of mishaps, they are being chased by powerful magic families seeking the prophesied King of Witches and royals searching for missing princes. But they aren't alone. With a local troublemaker, a princess, and a teacher who can see the future on their side, they might just be able to clear their names...but...
14) Saga: Compendium
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 9
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019-
Language
English
Description
"Collecting the first nine volumes of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series into one massive paperback, this compendium tells the entire story (so far!) of a girl named Hazel and her star-crossed parents. Features over 1,300 pages of gorgeously graphic full-color artwork, including a new cover from Eisner Award-winning SAGA co-creator Fiona Staples." -- Amazon
15) Chicken rising
Author
Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"D. Boyd takes an unflinching look back at a 1970s childhood plagued by insecurity, bullying, and family dysfunction. A shy only child, Dawn struggles to fit in. After starting a small town fried chicken franchise her war-vet father becomes even more emotionally inaccessible at home, and nothing Dawn does is ever good enough for her mother. School isn't much better: filled with misinterpretation, false accusations, and constant social challenges....
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love, family, and finding the true light in a world seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city...
18) Old souls
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Chris Olsen has a good life. He has a regular job, a wife and daughter who love him, and a promising future. By any measure this is a good life, but it isn't his first. When a troubling encounter with a homeless man triggers something inside Chris, memories of his past lives bubble to the surface. A lost Chinese boy, a wailing grandmother, and a love so powerful it never left his soulall compete for his attention. Chris sinks deep into the seedy...
20) Snapdragon
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online--after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. They make a deal: Jacks will teach Snap how to take care of the baby opossums that Snap rescued, and Snap will help Jacks with her work. But as Snap starts to get...
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