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-- Rochette.2020., SelfMadeHero Call No: GN ALT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- Edith Garrud, women's suffrage, and jujitsu2023., Adolescent, Graphic Universe Call No: NONFICTION GN BOD Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A nonfiction graphic novel which examines the life of British martial artist and suffragist Edith Garrud.
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-- To die, to leave, to return2012., Graphic Universe Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Zeina Abirached, a woman born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981 during the civil war in Lebanon, reflects on her childhood, the disappearance of her parents, and the help and protection she received from neighbors.
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2014., Graphic Universe Call No: WAR Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents, in graphic novel format, Zeina Abirached's war time memories of growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, in the 1980's, when Christians and Muslims were fighting in her neighborhood.
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2020., Oni Press Call No: GN 616.85 DAC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Marguerite feels awkward, struggling every day to stay productive at work and keep up appearances with friends. She's sensitive, irritable at times. She makes her environment a fluffy, comforting cocoon, alienating her boyfriend. The everyday noise and stimuli assaults her senses, the constant chatter of her coworkers working her last nerve. Then, when one big fight with her boyfriend finds her frustrated and dejected, Marguerite finally investigates the root of her discomfort: after a journey of tough conversations with her loved ones, doctors, and the internet, she discovers that she has Asperger's. Her life is profoundly changed--for the better"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Omaha Beach on D Day2015., Adolescent, First Second Call No: HI-INT 940.54 MOR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On June 6, 1944, the photographer Robert Capa captured an iconic image of an American GI submerged in the Normandy surf. The remarkable shot was taken at harrowing personal risk. Capa's photograph came to represent the final stages of World War II to the world. Already a notable war photographer, Capa was one of the few photojournalists who disembarked on the beach that day. His famous shot, along with a few others from that roll of film, are the only images that survive from Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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c2009., Tokyopop Call No: GN Orange Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Orange is a high-school girl who is feeling suicidal when she meets a young man named Dashu who changes her world.
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[2021]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN Parenthesis Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a graphic novel based on the life of cartoonist Elodie Durand. Follows a young woman named Judith as she is diagnosed with a brain tumor that brings seizures and memory loss. Discusses how Judith came to terms with her condition and found joy in living.
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[2018]., Archaia Call No: GN LOC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Persephone is an ordinary girl, which is exactly what is bothering her. She may be the adopted daughter of the famous magician Demeter, but Persephone struggles to find her place alongside such a force of nature. Driven by recurring nightmares as well as a budding curiosity, Persephone decides to explore the secrets of her birth, which everyone seems rather intent on keeping from her. With or without help, Persephone will embark on an epic adventure deep into the Underworld where she'll discover far more than she bargained for"--Back cover.
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-- From Socrates to Galileo2022., Adolescent, Self Made Hero Call No: GN ZAB Edition: English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: One day, young Sophie finds a letter addressed to her that contains only one question: "Who are you?" Then there's another one asking, "Where does the world come from?" The sender of these letters remains a mystery, but the questions intrigue Sophie. This is the beginning of a strange correspondence that will lead the young girl on a coming-of-age quest to meet major figures of philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Sartre, etc.). In the first volume, Sophie begins by questioning the philosophers of Antiquity and goes all the way to those of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. This is the first of two volumes. In the second volume, she discovers metaphysical doubt while continuing on her way to modern times. This comic book adaptation of Jostein Gaarder's original book breathes new life into a cult classic.
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2023., Self Made Hero Call No: GN FANTASY ZAB Edition: English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sophie's come a long way since the day she received that cryptic letter with its intriguing question: "Who are you?" The mysterious correspondence sweeps our curious young heroine off on a tour of Western philosophy from its ancient foundations through the Renaissance. But it also prompts more personal reflection: What is my place in the world, my purpose in life? And just who is that girl, a stranger and yet so familiar, I glimpse in the mirror? In this second volume, Sophie's quest for answers will see her explore major schools of modern thought from Descartes and Locke to Freud and Marx. She and her quizzical philosophy teacher Alberto, now unmasked, struggles with the possibility that they are characters in a book. As ever, our intrepid heroine remains as forthright and open-hearted. In this witty comics adaptation, Zabus and Nicoby reinvent Jostein Gaarder's novel of ideas--a beloved bestseller that has already won the hearts of over 50 million readers around the world--to bring Sophie's charming quest for meaning to a whole new medium and a new generation.
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-- Pranks and attacks!2014., Juvenile, Graphic Universe Call No: ER FIC RIC Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this collection of graphic novel stories, Tao, a student at Master Snow's martial arts school, plays pranks on his friends Ray, Lee, and Kat.
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-- Ninjas and knock outs!2014., Juvenile, Graphic Universe Call No: ER FIC RIC Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tao, a student at Master Snow's martial arts school, gets in trouble when he begins having romantic thoughts about his friend Kat and pulls pranks to get her attention.