Book Review
Smash the Patriarchy
"Smash the Patriarchy" is a graphic history about societies dominated by men—and about the women who fought (and continue to fight) against them. Beginning in ancient Greece with Aristotle’s idea that women were inferior to men, the...
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Parasocial
A disturbed fan kidnaps her favorite television star in the graphic thriller "Parasocial". Luke Indiana is an actor appearing at a convention dedicated to Rogue Nebula, the television show he costarred in for several years. Due to fears...
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42
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams collects a lifetime’s worth of the celebrated author’s notes, correspondence, and photographs, along with tributes from famous friends. Beginning with report cards and school pictures,...
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Hex Americana
A young man joins a ghost in a high-stakes car race in the graphic novel "Hex Americana". Ken lives in a world inhabited by gnomes, ghosts, a cyclops, and a two-headed race announcer. He identifies as Yokai American, derived from the...
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Love and Gravity
A young woman debates taking her dream job, though it would mean separating from her girlfriend, in the graphic novel "Love and Gravity". Sunati and Austen are students in a future, spacefaring, Earth-based society. They’re also...
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Kariba
An eleven-year-old girl with a magical link to a water spirit confronts her destiny in the graphic novel "Kariba". Siku, discovered as a baby in a secret area of the Zambezi River, has the power to manipulate water. Her abilities...
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Arca
Age, class, and lies affect a space-borne society in the science fiction graphic novel "Arca". Effie will turn eighteen soon, at which point she’ll stop serving the “citizens”—the rich aristocracy of a large spaceship called...
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The Adventures of Grandmasaurus
"The Adventures of Grandmasaurus" is an entertaining picture book that shares a smattering of information about dinosaurs. A girl’s grandmother morphs into different dinosaurs in the picture book The Adventures of Grandmasaurus: At the...