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Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A lively comic strip exploring the work that goes on behind the scenes in a zoo. Tai is mad about animals and dreams of becoming a zookeeper when he grows up. Today is his chance to access all areas and explore what goes on behind the scenes at a zoo for the day. In this story you'll discover what it's like to handle a giant snake, how the zoo prepares for the arrival of a new animal and what happens when an animal goes missing. See some cutting-edge...
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Take a dive into the brain of master auteur, Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of multiple award-winning films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. In this sensational graphic novel, the author imagines an interview with Tarantino himself, revealing the history of his ostentatious career and illuminating insights into the icon's life. In a first-person account, Amazing Améziane leads us through the life story of this iconic auteur, from his humble...
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Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"You'll never forget elephants! With their massive size, floppy ears, twisting trunks, and long tusks, elephants have so much to love! And the more you get to know them--about their clever minds and caring hearts--the more you realize humans and elephants have a lot in common!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
New Friday, a Lev Gleason imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This graphic novella recounts the true story of Zumrat Dawut, as originally published in the independent online news organization, Insider, through interviews conducted by Anthony Del Col and testimony given to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There she endured brutal living conditions,...
5) Homebody
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Language
English
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Description
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school, from harrowing haircuts and finally the right haircut to the intersection of gender identity and...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Join author-illustrator Cara Bean as she takes readers on an illustrated journey to the center of the brain. Each chapter explores a different aspect of mental health, from the brain and the mind, to feelings and emotions. By portraying complex neuroscience concepts with a cast of illustrated brain part characters, the book explains what is really going on in the reader's head in an accessible, approachable way that ultimately serves to empower the...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl's fight for survival in Nazi occupied Poland, The Girl Who Sang illustrates the power of a brother's love, the kindness of strangers, and finding hope when facing the unimaginable." -- Publisher annotation.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine. Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries,...
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Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An accessible and easy-to-follow comic book cookbook for the home baker, with key breadmaking steps and tips, guidelines for starting and maintaining a sourdough starter, recipes for classic loaves, and more--from the author of Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"An evidence-based graphic guide for people interested in chest-binding as a form of gender-affirming care"--
"Breathe arose from the need for a resource for folks considering chest binding as gender-affirming care. Dr. Peitzmeier interviewed twenty-five people of different ages and backgrounds about their journeys with binding, and then she and Kobabe combined excerpts from those interviews with evidence-based resources on binding into this extremely...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family's expectations" --
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island that resulted in 38 deaths and a failed assassination attempt against President Harry S. Truman. Told as a fable, in which the leaders of the movement are visited by the ghosts of Michael Collins and Gandhi, this book showcases an important and often overlooked...
14) How to baby
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance company and the tyranny of the milestones you're not meeting...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
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." --
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Discover how Mexican painter Frida Kahlo becomes one of the greatest artistic voices in the world as she travels from Mexico to New York City for her first-ever solo exhibition, setting the art world aflame"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir--both heartbreaking and darkly funny--that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
What do you do when your mother can't remember who you are? You catch the first flight from your adopted home of London to your original hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she's hospitalized, injured,...
Author
Publisher
Getty Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This graphic biography chronicles the genesis of Ruth Asawa as an artist--from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building her life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking wire sculptures"--
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this real-time work of graphic journalism (posted serially on Facebook), the cartoonist Igort uses the medium of comics to depict the telephone testimonies of Ukrainians as Russia invaded in 2022. In vignettes that grow ever more horrifying -- infiltrating spies, bombed cities, recorded accounts of children whose parents were murdered in front of their eyes, and more -- Igort also relays the events that led up to the invasion, such as the torture...
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