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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic-novel telling of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, creating a narrative out of the historical context and what we can imagine of those accused"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Maomao joins a hunt...but is Jinshi the quarry?! Strong-armed into getting out more, Maomao attends a spooky soiree where court ladies share spine-tingling tales of terror as a diversion from their daily toil. While there are plenty of chills to go around, the thrills are perhaps few for the skeptical Maomao...until the evening takes an eerie turn! And she doesn't have long to wait for more excitement! Jinshi requests Maomao's presence on a hunting...
3) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
132 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl from Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls ill, Amy travels to visit family in Hiroshima. But when the Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor, it becomes impossible for Amy to return to Hawaii. Conscripted into translating English radio transmissions for the Japanese army, Amy struggles with questions of loyalty and fears about her family amidst rumors of internment camps in America. Torn between two...
Author
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
116 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans of the northern West Coast. Yahgulanaas uses a blend of traditional and modern art, eschewing the traditional boxes of comic books for the flowing shapes of North Pacific iconography. The panels are filled with colourful and expressive watercolour...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
147 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes--and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong--and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a huge cloud of ash and rocks that fall from the sky like rain, will they have time...
6) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's indigenous peoples' history of the United States: a graphic interpretation
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In stunning full color and accessible text, a graphic adaptation of the American Book Award winning history of the United States as told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Follow the terrifying events of the 1692 Salem witch trials from the perspective of Tituba, an enslaved woman who was accused of bewitching two girls, Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams, during this harrowing, historic period. A story of speculation, mass hysteria, and survival, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into this haunting moment in American history - brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
126 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Becca, Zack, Cam, and Thomas are best friends who may seem like an unlikely group on the surface but who have something very important in common: a love of history! Together, they make up their school's history club that has an all-important secret mission: stop the villainous History Twister's plot to destroy the past, forever altering the future. Knowledge of history is their superpower as they chase the Twister through time. After all, who knows...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
355 pages : color illustrations ; 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...
10) 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.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
254 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
32 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1996, when a fire destroyed an abandoned building in New York City, one young cat showed incredible bravery. Scarlett was a young mother and had recently given birth to her litter of kittens. When fire threatened her babies, she did what any mother would do--she risked her own life to save them. Discover Scarlett's story as she braves the flames to rescue her little ones and how they were helped by the kindness of others who found them" -- Back...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Onion, Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creators of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth, and Powers comes this ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye to capturing the strange essence of those encounters. In this debut volume, Tynion presents what he calls his "True Weird" stories. Tales of ordinary people encountering...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
136 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How did a bunch of young people from the inner city create a genre of music that became a global phenomenon? From its humble origins at house parties in the Bronx, where DJs mixed old records to create new sounds, charismatic MCs let their clever lyrics flow, and B-boys and B-girls pioneered inventive dance moves, hip-hop quickly became a musical and cultural revolution." --
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of short comics relating some of history's most notable failures, mistakes, botched inventions, and unfulfilled dreams.--Publisher.
"History is often written by the winners... but now, the award-winning independent publisher Iron Circus is jumping through the cracks in history to spotlight those who didn't let failure stop their dreams. FAILURE TO LAUNCH: A TOUR OF ILL-FATED FUTURES is a light-hearted, educational tour of (so far!) unrealized...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
261 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is an act of self-discovery and the resuscitation of historical memory. At its heart is the intersection of a genocidal political moment in 20th century history and the author's own family history. Told from the perspectives of four generations of the author's family, spanning pre-war Germany to post-Trump America, it is both a celebration of Jewish cultural resilience and a warning of democracy's fragility in the...
Author
Series
Understanding China through comics volume 5
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"China entered the 20th century as an agrarian society, weakened under internal and external pressures. Revolutionaries came together to bring down the last imperial dynasty but quickly split over the the direction of reconstruction. Civil wars ensued, followed by WWI. The fate of the country appeared to be in the hands of industrial powers like Britain, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. All seemed lost when Japan seized all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 203 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in early nineteenth-century Britain, Bloodlust & Bonnets follows Lucy, an unworldly debutante who desires a life of passion and intrigue--qualities which earn her the attention of Lady Violet Travesty, the leader of a local vampire cult. But before Lucy can embark on her new life of vampiric debauchery, she finds herself unexpectedly thrown together with the flamboyant poet Lord Byron ("from books!") and a mysterious bounty-hunter named Sham....
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Fantagraphics Books edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt as a teen six years earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood seems like a path of least resistance, until he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor....
20) Brownstone
Author
Publisher
Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1995, almost-fifteen-year-old Almudena is sent to live with her estranged Spanish-speaking father, and together they renovate a brownstone and build a relationship while Almudena navigates the Latin American side of her heritage for the first time.
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