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"This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the...
2) Wizzywig
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"They say What You See Is What You Get-- but Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle could always see more than most people. In the world of phone phreaks, hackers, and scammers, he's a legend. His exploits are hotly debated: could he really get free long-distance calls by whistling into a pay phone? Did his video-game piracy scheme accidentally trigger the first computer virus? And did he really dodge the FBI by using their own wiretapping software against them?...
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"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.
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After a mental breakdown that lost her her last job, Cel Walden becomes archivist at, and resident of, the Logan Museum of medical photographs and objects, and home of a ghost seeking justice.
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Heavy vinyl volume 1
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Lexington - Young Adult
[GRAPHIC] YA HEAVY VINYL v1
1 available
[GRAPHIC] YA HEAVY VINYL v1
1 available
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Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town wants: working at Vinyl Destination. It's as rad as she imagined; her boss is BOSS, her co-workers spend their time arguing over music, pushing against the patriarchy, and endlessly trying to form a band. When Rosie Riot, the staff's favorite singer, mysteriously vanishes the night before her band's show, Chris discovers her co-workers are doing more than just sorting vinyl...
7) Watchmen
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68 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Lexington - Adult
GRAPHIC WATCHMEN
1 available
GRAPHIC WATCHMEN
1 available
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"Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes."--Publisher.
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Lexington - Young Adult
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY PRINCE
1 available
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY PRINCE
1 available
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Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age in this anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
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70 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Lexington - Young Adult
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY BECHDEL
1 available
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY BECHDEL
1 available
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
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"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
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116 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
Lexington - YA - Mezzanine
[READING LIST] [GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY TAKEI
1 available
[READING LIST] [GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY TAKEI
1 available
Lexington - Young Adult
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY TAKEI
1 available
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY TAKEI
1 available
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"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love." --
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13) Persepolis
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An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.
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Lexington - Young Adult
[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY HA
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[GRAPHIC] YA BIOGRAPHY HA
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"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
15) El deafo
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Lexington - Children's
[GRAPHIC] jBIOGRAPHY BELL C
3 available
[GRAPHIC] jBIOGRAPHY BELL C
3 available
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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
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In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
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"From the #1 New York Times best-selling author and lifestyle/cleaning guru Marie Kondo, this graphic novelization brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using Kondo's advice and inspiration. Marie Kondo presents the fictional story of Chiaki, a young woman in Tokyo who struggles with a cluttered apartment, messy love life, and lack of direction. After...
18) Palestine
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23 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Lexington - Adult
GRAPHIC 956.94 S
1 available
GRAPHIC 956.94 S
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Available Online
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"The landmark work of comics journalism by Joe Sacco, in a new hardcover edition with a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and an introduction by Palestinian American author and critic Edward Said. Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding...
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Hip-hop family tree volume 4
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Lexington - Adult
GRAPHIC 782.421 P v1
1 available
GRAPHIC 782.421 P v1
1 available
Lexington - Adult
GRAPHIC 782.421 P v2
1 available
GRAPHIC 782.421 P v2
1 available
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"Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in 2013, spawning multiple printings, fourteen comic books, and the author's wildly popular YouTube comics channel, Cartoonist Kayfabe (with fellow cartoonist Jim Rugg). Yet the series has never been collected under one cover. Until now. This omnibus collection includes the original 360-page series with over 140 pages...