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My Life in Transition
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Family
Love
Political
My Life in Transition is a story that’s not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia's life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance of chosen family, moments of dysphoria...
Invisible Differences
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Family
Love
Science
Marguerite's a shy twentysomething working hard to keep up appearances in her "normal" adult life. But something's been off for a while: everyday noise assaults her senses, constant coworker chatter works her nerves, and her clueless boyfriend makes her feel like she's imagining it all. After a failed road trip ends in disaster, Marguerite finally searches for answers: Why is she so sensitive to...
Mom's Cancer
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Family
Humor
Medical
Science
A cartoonist chronicles how he and his grown siblings dealt with their mother’s cancer diagnosis and treatment in this Eisner Award–winning graphic novel.Mom’s Cancer is a graphic novel about one family’s struggle with metastatic lung cancer. Honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous, it is a look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on...
Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine
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Family
Political
A graphic novel of two sisters and their correspondence from Palestine to Belgium. Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine is a personal look into a complex reality, through the prism of the experience of a young woman writing letters to her sister about her feelings and adventures in the occupied territories.
Beirut 1990: Snapshots of a Civil War
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Fighting
The travel diary of two brothers to a land at war. 1990, off to join an aunt working for a relief organization, young Frenchmen Sylvain and Bruno Ricard come to discover the ins and outs of everyday life in Lebanon’s war-torn capital. More than a decade later, the brothers recount their experiences with the help of artist Christophe Gaultier, as inspired b…
No Ivy League
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School
Space
Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, 17-year-old Hazel takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in Portland, Oregon, the only plan is to earn some extra cash to put toward concert tickets. Hazel soon finds that working side by side with at-risk teens leaves no room for comforting illusions of equality and understanding that was her reality up till now. This uncomfortable and compelling...
Space Alien
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Magic
Psychological
Space is on the verge of telepathic communication with the aliens.
To Afghanistan and Back
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Political
Introduction by Bill Maher. When U.S. bombs started raining on the Taliban, Rall jumped on a plane straight to the war zone to get the real story for himself. Featuring his Village Voice articles and a graphic novel.\n\nTwice winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ted Rall is a syndicated editorial cartoonist and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate....
Back to Mysterious Island
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Magic
Monsters
Science
Inspired by the classic tale by Jules Verne, this story goes back to the land that he created. Mysterious Island has risen again, this time in present day, and the infamous Captain Nemo is back to command a new set of monsters.
