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Darkly She Goes
A princess and a disgraced former knight find love despite dark magic, family secrets, and tragedy in the graphic novel "Darkly She Goes". Islen is a beautiful princess trapped in a foreboding castle full of monsters. When Arzhur is...
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The Kwaidan Collection
This exquisite book collects horrifying and supernatural Japanese folk tales, enhancing them with haunting artwork. Lafcadio Hearn was an American transplant in Japan. He married there and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo; he published...
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Night Fever
A man confronts the dark, hidden sides of his personality in the thrilling graphic novel "Night Fever". Jonathan can’t sleep. An American who’s in Europe for business, he is distracted from his work responsibilities and disturbed by...
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Queen in Comics
The tale of the legendary rock band Queen is given pictorial treatment in the handsome graphic novel "Queen in Comics". Queen maintained a perennial presence on the pop charts in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, but their path to...
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Nuking Alaska
In his graphic novel "Nuking Alaska", Peter Dunlap-Shohl reveals the disturbing history of nuclear weapons in his home state. Recounting near-misses and actual nuclear disasters in Alaska and elsewhere, this book weaves personal accounts...
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Occulted
Amy Rose shares her experiences with growing up in a cult in her graphic memoir "Occulted". In 1997, at the age of nine, Amy Rose saw the Hale-Bopp comet in the sky. It corresponded with a tragedy: the members of the nearby Heaven’s...
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Global
Climate change impacts the lives of two young people in the remarkable graphic novel "Global". Twelve-year-old Sami lives with his grandfather, Solomon, in a village near the Bay of Bengal. Each day they are forced to travel farther to...
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The Gullfather: Birdsy Seagull
An underground organization of seagulls confronts environmental degradation in The Gullfather, a funny avian graphic novel adventure. Mafiosi seagulls attempt to take back their shoreline in Emmy-winning Jeffrey Sikaitis and Jake...