Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir

  • Decodependence: A Romantic Tragicomic

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    Author and New Yorker cartoonist Lila Ashs vulnerable and funny graphic memoir about her attempts to decode her life’s relationships through the lens of her recovering codependency.

    Through her skil

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    • Author: Ash, Lila
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1797223321
    • Language: English
  • And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

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    Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2021 List in Comics.

    2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick

    In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasa

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    • Author: Kimball, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 20 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063007444
    • Language: English
  • Those Who Helped Us: Assisting Japanese Americans During the War

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    In this blend of fiction and nonfiction, two young Japanese American sisters try to make sense of a world where their government imprisons them in World War II concentration camps while some of their … [more below]

    • Author: Hughes, Kiku
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1634050215
    • Language: English
  • The Five Lives of Hilma AF Klint

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    A moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novel features key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). Long underrecognized[more below]

    • Author: Deines, Philipp
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: August 30 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644230690
    • Language: English
  • Skip to the Fun Parts: Cartoons and Complaints about the Creative Process

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    The perfect companion for anyone struggling to keep their sense of humor while staring at a blank page, Skip to the Fun Parts offers next-to-zero creative advice, and is instead filled with cartoons, [more below]

    • Author: Maier, Dana Jeri
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 1524871613
    • Language: English
  • Underground: Cursed Rockers and High Priestesses of Sound

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    They don’t do it for the fame, they do it for the music — these rock legends and priestesses of sound are the outsiders, the trailblazers, artists who changed the face of music forever simply for the[more below]

    • Author: Le Gouëfflec, Arnaud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: January 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1787740250
    • Language: English
  • A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

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    During Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together, which Will documents

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    • Author: Betke-Brunswick, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953534457
    • Language: English
  • Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

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    The Washington Post “10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year”
    New York magazine “The Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books”
    Newsday “Best Fall Books”
    The Verge “10 Best Comics of the Year”
    Oklahoman “Best Gr

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    • Author: Chast, Roz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1632869772
    • Language: English
  • Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey

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    A searingly honest graphic memoir dispatch from a community college professor who cares deeply for his students and family while also combating personal health issues from the frontlines of public edu

    • Author: Bessie, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 16, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644212706
    • Language: English
  • Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas

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    At 40, cartoonist Paco Roca has finally achieved his childhood dream — to spend all day at home in his pajamas! However, his blissful, loungewear-clad reverie is beset with a host of mundane problems… [more below]

    • Author: Roca, Paco
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: August 29 2023
    • ISBN10: 1683967577
    • Language: English
  • Musashi

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    A stunning graphic novel biography of the famous samurai warrior who wrote the classic text on Japanese martial arts, The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary samurai, is known througho

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    • Author: Wilson, Sean Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 02 2014
    • ISBN10: 1611801354
    • Language: English
  • Welcome to the New World

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    Now in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America

    After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibr

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    • Author: Halpern, Jake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250305594
    • Language: English
  • Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy Spanish Edition)

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    The award-winning New York Times Bestseller, now in Spanish

    En estas impactantes memorias en formato de novela gr fica, el actor/autor/activista George Takei rememora sucesos imborrables de su infanc

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    • Author: Takei, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 23 2020
    • ISBN10: 1603094830
    • Language: Spanish
  • Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution

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    Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter.

    This is th

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    • Series: Comix Journalism
    • Author: Alekseyeva, Julia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 10 2017
    • ISBN10: 1621069699
    • Language: English
  • Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

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    In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Pekar

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    • Author: Pekar, Harvey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 0809074044
    • Language: English
  • Quentin by Tarantino

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    Take a dive into the brain of master auteur, Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of multiple award-winning films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

    In this sensational graphic novel, Part of the C

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    • Author: Améziane, Amazing
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1787740641
    • Language: English
  • Steady Rollin’

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    Starting as a hardscrabble misfit and minister’s son in the Bible Belt, followed by a stint as a suburban So-Cal Black punk, and onward to bicycle-obsessed, graphic novelist and dad in Oakland, Steady… [more below]

    • Author: Noland, Fred
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957795913
    • Language: English
  • Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey

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    What does it mean to be a “refugee”? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to ide… [more below]

    • Author: Toulmé, Fabien
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: November 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1637790007
    • Language: English
  • Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers

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    The last installment in a series of graphic novels that began with We Hereby Refuse (Washington State Book Award Finalist) and Those Who Helped Us:

    This book tells the stories of six courageous Japane

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    • Author: Matsuda, Lawrence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 163405055X
    • Language: English
  • Starman: Bowie’s Stardust Years

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    Award-winning writer/illustrator Reinhard Kleist’s Starman is a full-color graphic novel biography of David Bowie’s transformation into Ziggy Stardust, the genesis and near apocalypse of a rock ‘n’ ro

    • Author: Kleist, Reinhard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 02, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1914224086
    • Language: English
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