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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...
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Bash!
In basketball star Rudy Gobert’s action-filled graphic novel "Bash!", a teenager is hunted by aliens. Fifteen-year-old Rudy lives with his mother in a poor section of Arcadia, a district in a future version of Earth. His father, Atlas,...
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Big Nate
A sixth grader navigates life’s hard knocks with wit, some wisdom, and experience in Big Nate: Nailed It!, the latest collection of the long-running syndicated comic strip. Nate, seeking to better his fortune, decides he needs a good...
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Love Everlasting
A young woman is trapped in a recurring loop of loves gained and lost in different places and eras in the surreal graphic novel "Love Everlasting". Joan, a pretty young woman living sometime in the 1950s, works as the secretary to her...