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• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

  Beaton, Kate, 1983-

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  With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush—part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

  An Illustrated Memoir

  Kimball, Margaret (Illustrator),

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  In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day - and this becomes one of many things Kimball's family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Run. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020,

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  Tells the true story of John Lewis and his colleagues in the movement following the historic success of the Selma campaign and the Voting Rights Act.

• Putin's Russia

  the Rise of a Dictator

  Cunningham, Darryl,

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  Traces the development of infamous autocrat, Vladimir Putin, from schoolyard thug in Soviet-era Leningrad, to KGB officer, to corrupt commodities dealer, all the way to his presidency and beyond. Putin’s journey is characterized by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The High Desert

  Spooner, James,

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  A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iranian Love Stories

  Deuxard, Jane,

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  A series of vignettes, in graphic novel format, that explore the lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds.

• The Five Lives of Hilma Af Klint

  Deines, Phillipp,

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  Deines traces the story of previously underrecognized Swedish artist Hilma af Klint's unique life and groundbreaking body of work. Highlighting how she came to her distinctive paintings, her spiritual quest, and the friends who helped her,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fine

  a Comic About Gender

  Ewing, Rhea,

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  What is gender? This ambitious debut offers a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread across the country. Questions such as "How do you identify?" invite deep and honest accounts of adolescence, taking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Stories Carried Us Here

  a Graphic Novel Anthology

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  Eleven storytellers chronicle their journeys from places all over the world—including Guatemala, Chad, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan—to the United States. Each story compellingly details a variety of experiences the individual immigrant or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Body in Pieces

  Hébert, Marie-Noëlle,

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  This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards.

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

  Murphy, Mannie,

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  What begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author’s 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Palimpsest

  Documents From a Korean Adoption

  Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim,

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  One among thousands of Korean children adopted in the 1970’s and 1980’s, Sjöblom's unaddressed feelings towards her own circumstances come to a head while pregnant with her first child. When she discovers a document containing the names of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Make a Monster

  Frankenstein, Casanova Nobody, 1967-

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  An unflinching memoir of growing up as a black 13-year-old in 1980’s Chicago, Frankenstein explores how his early experiences shaped his hard-bitten, survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullies,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alice Guy

  First Lady of Film

  Catel,

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  In 1895 the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Léon Gaumont, and would go on to direct…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  An intimate graphic memoir about American identity as it has shaped the author's interracial family in the aftermath of the 2016 elections.

• Let's Make Dumplings!

  a Comic Book Cookbook

  Amano, Hugh,

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  Including dumpling history and lore, this comic book cookbook invites readers to explore the big little world of Asian dumplings and proves that intricate folding styles and flavorful fillings are achievable in the home kitchen.

• Angola Janga

  Kingdom of Runaway Slaves

  Salete, Marcelo D',

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  An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D'Salete brings history to life: the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persepolis

  the Story of a Childhood

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contraditions between public and private life.

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art,

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  A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller.

• They Called Us Enemy

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  The iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.