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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
618.76 W8461
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618.76 W8461
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"In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and anxieties and grasps at potential remedies, coping mechanisms,...
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"If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience...
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Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. 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...
4) Woman world
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN Dhaliwal
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GN Dhaliwal
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When a birth defect wipes out the planet's entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society's ashes. Dhaliwal's infectiously funny instagram comic follows the rebuilding process, tracking a group of women who have rallied together under the flag of "Beyonce's Thighs." Only Grandma remembers the distant past, a civilization of segway-riding mall cops, Blockbuster movie rental shops, and "That's What She Said" jokes. For the most part, Woman...
5) Persepolis
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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.
6) Ghost world
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN Clowes
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GN Clowes
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The story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood and the future of their complicated relationship.
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable...
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"For Narnia fans who enjoy heavy snark, this is a must-read." —Kirkus Reviews
"A compelling fantasy world with humor and heart." —Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints
"With the rich characterization of John Green and the magical escapism of Narnia, this book is a must read for all fantasy fans!" —Lorie Langdon, author of Olivia Twist and the Doon series
A girl with a deadly...
"A compelling fantasy world with humor and heart." —Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints
"With the rich characterization of John Green and the magical escapism of Narnia, this book is a must read for all fantasy fans!" —Lorie Langdon, author of Olivia Twist and the Doon series
A girl with a deadly...
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN Greenberg
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GN Greenberg
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A fictionalized account of the lives and adventures of the people who lived on early Earth before human history began is illustrated in a series of interconnected tales and fables.
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
817 B793
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817 B793
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Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.
10) The sculptor
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN McCloud
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GN McCloud
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David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance...
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4 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Loosely based on the author's life, chronicles Craig's journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN Locke & Key
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GN Locke & Key
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The story of the Keyhouse, a New England mansion, with doors that transform all who walk through them ... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it opens the most terrible door of all.
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - Display (Staff Picks)
GN Collins
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GN Collins
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The life of clean-shaven Dave--bald but for one hair--is upended one day when he begins to grow an unstoppable, impressive beard.
On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven--and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard....
14) Mooncop
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN Gauld
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GN Gauld
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The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new highway. Our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds. His beat grows ever smaller. The population dwindles. A young girl runs away, an old lady loses her dog, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy, capturing the essential truths about humanity.
15) Feynman
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
530.092 F438
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530.092 F438
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Richard Feynman: physicist ... Nobel winner ... bestselling author ... safe-cracker. In this graphic novel biography, First Second presents the exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster....
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Adult & Teen Closed Stack - South Wing Basement (Ask at Reference Desk)
CS GN Saga
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CS GN Saga
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New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets.
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - South Wing Main Floor
GN Lore Olympus
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GN Lore Olympus
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Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love -- witness what the gods do after dark, in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories. Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to train as a sacred virgin, she's allowed to live in the fast-moving, glamorous world of the gods. When her roommate, Artemis, takes...
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
782.42166 B679
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782.42166 B679
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As one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, David Bowie seduced generations of fans with his music and counterculture persona. While Bowie's legacy as a musician is remarkable and genre-defying, as a visual performer he obliterate stage theatrics with his psychedelic aesthetics, larger-than-life image, and way of hovering on the border of the surreal. Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams chronicles the rise of David Bowie's career...
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Adult Graphic Novel & Comic - Display (Staff Picks)
GN Novgorodoff
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GN Novgorodoff
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Deshi accidentally kills his older brother, Wei, by shoving him in front of a moving jeep, and his furious mother, calling on the ancient tradition of ghost marriage, demands that he find the unmarried Wei a corpse bride, a recently deceased single woman who will accompany him in the afterlife. Guilt-ridden Deshi seeks the help of a matchmaker, a grave robber, and a hospital attendant before he runs into stubborn, spirited Lily, who would make a perfect...
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This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert's world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or dipped into at one's leisure, the book spans three years of Debbie's life, from the end of college to the present day. In these early years of adulthood, Debbie slowly but finally discovers there is a name for her lifelong need to be alone: she's an introvert.The...