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• Land of Mirrors

  Medem, María, 1994-

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  ntonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her recollections feel more vivid than her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life Drawing

  Hernandez, Jamie,

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  Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez's newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love--both young and middle-aged. Life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Freak

  Lesniewski, Matt,

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  Who hasn’t, at some point in their life, felt misunderstood, outcast . . . alone? This is the constant conflict and plight of our eponymously named protagonist. Everywhere he travels, he is met with violence and disgust. But will his trip to the big…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fishflies

  Lemire, Jeff,

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  A small town crime sets off a chain of events that will permanently alter the lives of several residents of bucolic Belle River, Ontario. As the manhunt heats up, a lonely girl named Franny Fox forms an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• El Fuego

  Rubín, David, 1977-

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  A mass-extinction event is imminent as a giant meteorite is hurtling toward the Earth. Renowned architect Alexander Yorba, entrusted to design a citadel on the Moon which would ensure the survival of humanity, is diagnosed with a terminal illness.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cabbie. Vols. 1 & 2

  Definitive Edition

  Martí, 1955-

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  Coupling the grand guignol morality of Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver with the squashed black-and-white perspectives and grotesque human physiognomy (and humanity) that defines Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Martí's The Cabbie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before 13th

  a Graphic Novel

  Ralph, Michael,

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  Told from the perspectives of statesman and orator Frederick Douglass, and journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, Before 13th is a story that illuminates the contradictions of freedom. Friends and rivals, Douglass and Wells clashed over how to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seoul Before Sunrise

  Dahmani, Samir,

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  Longtime friends Seong-ji and Ji-won are excited to begin university in Seoul, swearing to stay close in the big city, but from the moment they arrive, they begin to drift apart. Her focus split between her rigorous accounting program and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Palestine

  Sacco, Joe,

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  Based on several years of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews, Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alley

  Junji Ito Story Collection

  Ito, Junji, 1963-

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  Every night, a young man hears children playing outside his boarding house-but the alley below his window is fenced off from the world. Then, when a young woman's family starts acting strangely at the same time she begins having bizarre dreams, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When I Arrived at the Castle

  Carroll, Emily,

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  Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering flags. Emily Carroll has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tokyo These Days. 1

  Matsumoto, Taiyō, 1967-

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  After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ocultos

  Pérez Granell, Laura, 1983-

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  Within our visible world, there are hidden worlds full of unknown forces whose nature we cannot fathom. Ocultos swirls together a series of stories that form a bridge between our world to the next, where thoughts and dreams can bend and shape…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under the Oak Tree

  the Comic. 1

  Kim, Suji,

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  When stuttering Lady Maximilian is forced to marry Sir Riftan, a lowborn knight caught in one of her father's schemes, her stumbling communication and his gruff manner sour their relationship before it can begin. Riftan leaves for war the morning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mushroom Knight. Vol. 1

  Bly, Oliver,

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  An adolescent girl searches the deep dark woods for her missing dog, entangling her destiny with a chivalrous mushroom faerie on a mystical quest to protect the biome from catastrophic ruin. The Mushroom Knight follows the adventures of Gowlitrot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So Long Sad Love

  Malle, Mirion, 1992-

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  Every guy's been a creep at one point or another. That's just the way it is. Or at least, that's what Cleo tells herself once she finds out her boyfriend might not be the man she thought he was. Is it possible to keep loving someone you're not sure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Covenant. Volume One

  Vuong, LySandra,

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  In a world where priests are decked out in holy tattoos and brandish machine guns in the face of demons, a powerful exorcist and a mysterious boy cross paths...in a college classroom. Exorcist Ezra's faith is waning when God intervenes and sends him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brittle Joints

  Sweeney, Maria,

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  An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disability. When Maria Sweeney was young, she kept count of her broken bones. As she grew older, she living with Bruck syndrome, a rare progressive condition…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Extraordinary Part

  Orsay's Hands 1, Orsay's Hands

  Ruppert, Florent, 1979-

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  This first book in a two-volume graphic novel series is set in a near-dystopian present, where mysterious creatures called 'whols' coexist with humans since their sudden appearance a few years earlier. At first, they aroused curiosity and wonder,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mimi's Tales of Terror

  Ito, Junji, 1963-

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  University student Mimi and her boyfriend Naoto encounter one chilling mystery after another. There's the enigmatic neighbor woman dressed in black from head to toe-but if she's so odd, why does it seems like there are many others like her? Then,…Read moreRead more of this annotation