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Lorina Mapa
(400)
Summary: A graphic memoir about growing up in the Philippines in the 1980s with Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and the EDSA Revolution. When she learns of her beloved father's fatal car accident,...
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Call #: 959.9 MAP YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Julie Dachez
(1,705)
Summary: An autobiographical comic based on the author's experience with Asperger's. Marguerite feels awkward, struggling every day to stay productive at work and keep up appearances with friends. She's...
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Call #: 616.8588 DAC YA
Location: New YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Shing Yin Khor
(545)
Summary: An illustrated comic travelogue about an American immigrant driving alone through all that's left of "The Mother Road," Route 66.
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Call #: 325.1 KHO YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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A. J. Dungo , artist
(1,983)
Summary: In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner, her battle with cancer, and their shared love of surfing that brought them strength throughout...
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Call #: 797.32 DUN YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Ronald Wimberly compiler, artist
(490)
Summary: This book "started in January 2015 when Matt Bors asked me to find eight quotes and illustrate them for "The Nib" for February, Black History Month. I chose quotes ranging from the casual to the...
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Call #: 973.0496 WIM YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Hyun Sook Kim
(1,322)
Summary: The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to...
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Call #: 951.95 KIM YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Erin Nations , artist
(311)
Summary: "Gumballs" dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin's gender transition, anecdotal tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept lovestruck...
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Call #: 306.768 NAT YA
copies in: 1 of 1
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Robin Ha , illustrator
(5,062)
Summary: A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up...
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Call #: 325.1 HA YA
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tyler Feder , illustrator
(2,952)
Summary: Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir.
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Call #: 616.994 FED YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Joel Christian Gill , artist
(294)
Summary: A visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods.
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Call #: 305.896 GIL YA
Location: New YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Maggie Thrash , artist
(8,706)
Summary: Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never...
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Call #: 306.766 THR YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lauren Hogg
(89)
Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass...
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Call #: 371.782 HOG YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dounya Awada
(102)
Summary: Dounya Awada is a 24-year-old, devout Muslim, happy, healthy, and very much alive. But just a few years before, she nearly starved to death. Her struggle began when she was six years old. Little...
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Call #: 306.461 AWA YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John Lewis
Series:
March
(15,887)
Summary: Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Christine Mari Inzer
(1,130)
Summary: Born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and an American father in 1997, Christine Mari Inzer spent her early years in Japan and relocated to the United States in 2003. The summer before she turned...
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Call #: 952 INZ YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tillie Walden
(12,374)
Summary: Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up,...
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Call #: 306.766 WAL YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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