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1) A.D: New Orleans after the deluge

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2) Above the dreamless dead: World War I in poetry and comics

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As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble enterprise, and its plainspoken condemnation of the senseless bloodshed of war, Trench Poetry soon became one of the most significant literary moments of its...

3) Alpha: Abidjan to Paris

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"Determined to reunite with his family, Alpha sets off from his home in Cote d'Ivoire, bound for Paris, where his sister-in-law has a hair salon near the Gare du Nord train station. Alpha's wife and son left for France months ago, traveling without visas, and he has heard nothing from them since. With a visa, Alpha's journey would take a matter of hours. Without one, he is adrift for over a year, encountering human traffickers in the desert, refugee...

4) Barefoot Gen: Vol. 1 :a cartoon story of Hiroshima

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Nakazawa, Keiji

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Barefoot Gen volume 1

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Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath, seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy growing up in Japan. The honest portrayal of emotions and experiences speaks to children and adults everywhere. Barefoot Gen serves as a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people, and as a unique documentaion of an especially horrible source of suffering, the atomic bomb. This...

5) Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

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eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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#1 New York Times Bestseller
2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone...

6) The comic book story of beer: the world's favorite beverage from 7000 BC to today's craft brewing revolution

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Hennessey, Jonathan

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Presents the key figures and events that have shaped the development and history of beer, from its beginnings around 7000 BC through today's fascination with craft brewing.

7) Cool Tokyo guide: adventures in the city of kawaii fashion, train sushi and godzilla

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"Discover the city of temples, video games, manga, and cosplay with this graphic Tokyo travel guide!"--Amazon.com.

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9) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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Bechdel, Alison

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eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award

Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling

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10) The Great War: July 1, 1916 : the first day of the Battle of the Somme : an illustrated panorama

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"A 24-foot-long black-and-white drawing printed on heavyweight accordian-fold paper and packaged in a deluxe hardcover slipcase. The set also includes a 16-page booklet featuring an essay about the first day of the Battle of the Somme by Adam Hochschild and original annotations to the drawing by Sacco himself."

11) The Harlem Hellfighters

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"This is a graphic novel about the first African-American regiment to fight in World War One"-- Provided by publisher.

12) Hip Hop Family Tree: [1970s-1981]

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Hip-hop family tree volume 1

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This encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip-hop captures the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, plus the charismatic players behind the scenes like Russell Simmons, Debbie Harry, Keith Haring and other luminaries make cameos.

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In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts...

14) Imagine wanting only this

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Radtke, Kristen

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"A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief. When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and, not long after his funeral, the sight of an abandoned mining town marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing...

15) The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

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eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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A New York Times Bestseller
Selected as a 2017 ALA/YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens: Nonfiction
Award winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912–1954) is credited with many of the foundational principles

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16) The Joe Shuster story: the artist behind Superman

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The secret story of Superman's creation, told from the perspective of illustrator Joe Shuster, reveals how after creating the famed character, he and his partner Jerry Siegel made a deal they ultimately regretted.

17) The magical life of Long Tack Sam

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Fleming, Ann Marie

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A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician. Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West ambassador. A mentor to Orson Welles. He was considered the greatest act in the history of vaudeville. In this...

18) Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo, & me : a graphic memoir

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Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Ellen Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic but terrified that medications would cause her to lose her creativity and livelihood, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability without losing herself or her passion. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the "crazy artist," Ellen found inspiration from the lives and work of other artist and writers who suffered from...

19) Maus: A survivor's tale.Vol. 1, my father bleeds history

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Spiegelman, Art

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Maus volume 1

20) Minding the store: a big story about a small business

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"An illustrated history of the iconic New York City dish store Fishs Eddy"-- Provided by publisher.