Biography & Memoir

  • Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life

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    Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas … [more below]

    • Author: Forney, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: May 15 2018
    • ISBN10: 1683961013
    • Language: English
  • Big Apple Diaries

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    In Big Apple Diaries, a heartfelt diary-style graphic memoir by Alyssa Bermudez, a young New Yorker doodles her way through middle school–until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack leaves her won

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    • Author: Bermudez, Alyssa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: August 17 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250774284
    • Language: English
  • A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

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    During Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together, which Will documents

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    • Author: Betke-Brunswick, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953534457
    • Language: English
  • Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir

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    Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.

    Shortly befo

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    • Author: Forney, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 06 2012
    • ISBN10: 1592407323
    • Language: English
  • Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

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    The Washington Post “10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year”
    New York magazine “The Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books”
    Newsday “Best Fall Books”
    The Verge “10 Best Comics of the Year”
    Oklahoman “Best Gr

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    • Author: Chast, Roz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1632869772
    • Language: English
  • Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey

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    A searingly honest graphic memoir dispatch from a community college professor who cares deeply for his students and family while also combating personal health issues from the frontlines of public edu

    • Author: Bessie, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 16, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644212706
    • Language: English
  • Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas

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    At 40, cartoonist Paco Roca has finally achieved his childhood dream — to spend all day at home in his pajamas! However, his blissful, loungewear-clad reverie is beset with a host of mundane problems… [more below]

    • Author: Roca, Paco
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: August 29 2023
    • ISBN10: 1683967577
    • Language: English
  • Musashi

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    A stunning graphic novel biography of the famous samurai warrior who wrote the classic text on Japanese martial arts, The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary samurai, is known througho

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    • Author: Wilson, Sean Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 02 2014
    • ISBN10: 1611801354
    • Language: English
  • Welcome to the New World

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    Now in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America

    After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibr

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    • Author: Halpern, Jake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250305594
    • Language: English
  • Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy Spanish Edition)

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    The award-winning New York Times Bestseller, now in Spanish

    En estas impactantes memorias en formato de novela gr fica, el actor/autor/activista George Takei rememora sucesos imborrables de su infanc

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    • Author: Takei, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 23 2020
    • ISBN10: 1603094830
    • Language: Spanish
  • Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution

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    Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter.

    This is th

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    • Series: Comix Journalism
    • Author: Alekseyeva, Julia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 10 2017
    • ISBN10: 1621069699
    • Language: English
  • So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship

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    A 2023 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Graphic Memoir
    A 2023 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection

    Part memoir, part self-help book, So Much For Love offers hilarious and empathetic advice on ho

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    • Author: Lambda, Sophie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250785995
    • Language: English
  • Turning Japanese: Expanded Edition

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    “A vulnerable, searching, raw record.” — Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

    The year is 1995. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, twenty-two-year old MariNaomi finds herself in San Jose, Ca

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    • Author: Marinaomi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 236
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1637150946
    • Language: English
  • Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

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    In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Pekar

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    • Author: Pekar, Harvey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 0809074044
    • Language: English
  • Quentin by Tarantino

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    Take a dive into the brain of master auteur, Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of multiple award-winning films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

    In this sensational graphic novel, Part of the C

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    • Author: Améziane, Amazing
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1787740641
    • Language: English
  • Steady Rollin’

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    Starting as a hardscrabble misfit and minister’s son in the Bible Belt, followed by a stint as a suburban So-Cal Black punk, and onward to bicycle-obsessed, graphic novelist and dad in Oakland, Steady… [more below]

    • Author: Noland, Fred
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957795913
    • Language: English
  • Bad Sister

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    This middle grade graphic memoir by Charise Mericle Harper, featuring illustrations by Rory Lucey, follows a young girl who undergoes a crisis of conscience, realizing that she is a “bad sister.”

    Mee

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    • Author: Harper, Charise Mericle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250219051
    • Language: English
  • Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey

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    What does it mean to be a “refugee”? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to ide… [more below]

    • Author: Toulmé, Fabien
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: November 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1637790007
    • Language: English
  • Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers

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    The last installment in a series of graphic novels that began with We Hereby Refuse (Washington State Book Award Finalist) and Those Who Helped Us:

    This book tells the stories of six courageous Japane

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    • Author: Matsuda, Lawrence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 163405055X
    • Language: English
  • Cartoonshow

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    A L.A. Times Book Prize Graphic Novel Finalist

    A New York Public Library Top 5 Comic Strip Collection

    For Better or For Worse meets the satirical humor of contemporary American life in Cartoonshow, w

    • Author: Ballard, Derek M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: August 01, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1637152183
    • Language: English
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