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Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Boy's Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-age story, but with a twist: the young protagonist is growing up gay during one of the most oppressive periods in American history. Set in the time and place of author Edmund White's adolescence, the Midwest of the 1950s, the novel became an immediate bestseller, and for many readers was not merely about gay identity but the pain of being a child in a fractured family while looking for love in an anything-but-stable...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
©2012, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
"The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: 'To Juli, one last time. This is my love. This is the sound of my heart. Surely you must understand'" -- from publisher's web site.
4) Art schooled
Author
Publisher
Nobrow Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Daniel Stope is a small-town guy who dreams of becoming an artist. His enrollment at art school and consequent move to the city opens up a world of exciting possibilities. Unsurpisingly, Daniel struggles with his newfound independence - the difficulties of dating and making new friends in the big smoke. From the pastures of the country to the pavements of the big city, Art Schooled is an unforgettable journey into adulthood.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Enn is a fifteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear!"--
6) Our colors
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synaesthetic hues of blues and reds, and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. His best friend and childhood confidante Nao, a young woman whom everyone thinks is (or should...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ace high school table tennis players push their passion to the limit in this story of self-discovery, told by Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto. Makoto Smile Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong. As one of the best players in school, all hopes are on him to win the regional high school tournament, but winning is not what Smile really wants to do. Will the fierce competition to be number one bring out...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 7
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Gen finds a printer willing to print the eyewitness account "Papa" has written. When it has been printed and distributed, the U.S. Army censors become angry and teach them a difficult lesson. When Koji, Gen's brother finally returns home, he finds their mother on her deathbed.
Author
Series
Scott Pilgrim volume 6
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but one thing is for certain: all of this has been building to Scott Pilgrim's finest hour"--Amazon.com.
12) Night fisher
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama apart. This graphic novel debut is at once an unsentimental portrait of that most awkward period between...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ace high school table tennis players push their passion to the limit in this story of self-discovery, told by Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto. Makoto Smile Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong. As one of the best players in school, all hopes are on him to win the regional high school tournament, but winning is not what Smile really wants to do. Will the fierce competition to be number one bring out...
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