Book Review
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...
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By Water
Drawing on historical records and imaginative recreations, "By Water" is the graphic biography of a leading figure of the Radical Reformation. In the early sixteenth century, Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist, protested against the baptism...
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Sacred Lamb
A secret location housing the survivors of serial killer attacks is anything but safe in the gripping, mysterious thriller "Sacred Lamb". Kellyn is famous for unboxing gifts on social media, but she’s also the survivor of a savage...
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The Sea in You
A teenage girl and a sea creature find love in "The Sea in You", an inspired, modern LGBTQ+ twist on The Little Mermaid. In Ocean City, Maryland, Corinth encounters a creature that resembles a mermaid, except with fangs and bad...
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Marry Me a Little
A heartfelt memoir that also serves to document LGBTQ+ marriage in the US, Rob Kirby’s "Marry Me a Little" combines the personal and the political into a single, affecting graphic novel. Kirby’s story centers on October 3, 2013, the...
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Crash & Troy
A mutant and a transient human consciousness embark on a dangerous mission to prevent mass destruction in Crash & Troy. Crash is a mutant with superhuman strength; he and Troy 3.0, a singular human consciousness that can move into a...