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  • Uncanny: The Origins of Fear

    by Junji Ito ...
    Series series Junji Ito
    Why are we drawn to fear?Horror manga legend Junji Ito has fascinated the world with his beautiful and strange tales, starting with his debut story “Tomie,” and followed by Uzumaki, Gyo, and many other famous works.In this memoir/horror manga analysis, he tells all and digs into dark recesses—reflections on influences from his childhood, thoughts on manga, next-level idea generation techniques, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Guardian of Fukushima

    Series series Junior Library Guild
    It was March 11, 2011 when a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami, which, in turn, destroyed the core three reactors of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. This tragedy cost almost 20,000 lives and devastated countless more, including Naoto Matsumura, a farmer evacuated from the deadly radiation zone.Unwilling to abandon his beloved animals, Naoto chooses to return home to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kiss & Tell

    A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22

    by MariNaomi ...
    From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground—from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions—MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. Kiss & Tell is her funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks

    Life and Death Under Soviet Rule

    by Igort ...
    Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule.After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Best We Could Do

    An Illustrated Memoir

    by Thi Bui ...
    The national bestseller and American Book Award Winner, The Best We Could Do, is an intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui.2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) FinalistABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 SelectionALA 2018 Notable Books SelectionThis beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vietnamerica

    A Family's Journey

    by GB Tran ...
    A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: VietnamericaGB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing

    Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, Impress a Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion

    Be amazingWho says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniusesWhat good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't muddy their shoulder pads and use their accomplishments as a step stool? mental_floss has combed through every success story in history to deliver this ultimate how-to guide for climbing your way to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unflattening

    by Nick Sousanis ...
    The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Form of a Question

    Series series Form of a Question
    Andrew Rostan is excellent at remembering facts and recalling the memories he associates with those facts—memories of deaths in the family and extraordinary people. At the age of twenty-two and suddenly a contestant on the very game show he associates with the happiest moments in his life, Rostan’s about to realize that existence is like JEOPARDY! and that all the answers are staring you in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Was Their American Dream

    A Graphic Memoir

    by Malaka Gharib ...
    **“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun“[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPRWINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Us

    by Sara Soler ...
    Translated by Silvia Perea Labayen ...
    What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180º turn? Everything, and yet…nothing.Us is Sara and Diana’s love story, as well as the story of Diana’s gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don’t really ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling

    A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport

    Series series Comic Book Story of
    From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved sport and form of entertainment.As a pop culture phenomenon, professional wrestling--with its heroic babyfaces and villainous heels performing suplexes and powerbombs in pursuit of championship gold--has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Times I Knew I Was Gay

    A charming, highly relatable graphic memoir about one woman’s coming out and coming of age that “brims with hope, and the joy that arises when one is finally ready to step out into the world” (OprahMag.com).Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsessed over Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and found dating boys much more confusing than many ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sex Is Fun!

    Creative Ideas for Exciting Sex

    by Kidder Kaper ...
    A fully illustrated, interactive, and completely original sex manual, combining the innovative look of a graphic novel with nonfiction advice and activities for fearless fun in bedHost of the wildly popular "Sex Is Fun" podcast, Kidder Kapers brings unique approaches to the topic of lovemaking. In his first book, Kaper reinvents the sex manual, using whimsical cartoon characters and stylishly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • My Alcoholic Escape from Reality

    by Nagata Kabi ...
    Nagata Kabi's downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can't stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. After suffering from unbearable stomach pains, she goes to a clinic, where she is diagnosed with pancreatitis--and is immediately hospitalized. A new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi's life as she struggles to find her way back to reality and manga creation in the wake of her breakdown ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Le Bleu est une couleur chaude

    Nouvelle Edition

    by Jul Maroh ...
    À l'occasion de la sortie en salles du film d' Abdellatif Kechiche La vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2, Palme d'Or à Cannes et librement adapté du Bleu est une couleur chaude, l'album paraîtra dans une nouvelle édition.« Mon ange de bleu, Bleu du ciel, Bleu des rivières, Source de vie… »La vie de Clémentine bascule le jour où elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui lui fait ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Passing for Human

    A Graphic Memoir

    by Liana Finck ...
    A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Guardian • New York • Refinery29 • Kirkus ReviewsIn this achingly beautiful graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost—her shadow, she c. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The 14th Dalai Lama

    A Manga Biography

    by Tetsu Saiwai ...
    A new way of getting to know one of the world's most beloved spiritual leaders.Featuring a charmingly illustrated format that will appeal to readers of all ages, this unique biography is an ideal introduction to the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Born in 1935 to a peasant family in a small village, Tenzin Gyatso was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • An Appetite for Wonder

    The Making of a Scientist

    New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today“A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Mom's Cancer

    by Brian Fies ...
    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 patients and their families. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life

    Neil Gaiman!! Jodi Picoult!! Brad Meltzer!! . . . and an All-Star Roster on the Caped Crusaders That Changed Their Lives

    An anthology of essays exploring the origins of the authors' relationships to their favorite superheroes; including stories from Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, Joe Lansdale and more!As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP, Editorial Director at Simon Pulse ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume II: Macroeconomics

    Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read.Whereas Volume One: Microeconomics dealt with the optimizing individual, Volume Two: Macroeconomics explains the factors that affect the economy of an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Guyabano Holiday

    by panpanya ...
    • Author is multiple award nominee in Japan. • Exhibited in the British Museum in London, England (Summer 2019) selected as one of the top 50 most influential manga artists of all time. • One of the hottest comic artists in Japan today, is beloved internationally for his unique illustration style and surreal, dreamlike story-telling. • Featured in the Comics Journal ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • March: Book Three

    By Fall 1963, the Civil Rights Movement is an undeniable keystone of the national conversation, and as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is right in the thick of it. With the stakes continuing to rise, white supremacists intensify their opposition through government obstruction and civilian terrorist attacks, a supportive president is assassinated, and African ... Read more

    $12.99 USD