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• 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…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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• George Sand

  True Genius, True Woman

  Vidal, Séverine, 1969-

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  A graphic biography of female novelist George Sand, whose life and work championed women's rights, gender expression, and sexual liberation. George Sand: True Genius, True Woman is a scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hostage

  Delisle, Guy,

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  In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Die. Volume 1, Fantasy Heartbreaker

  Gillen, Kieron,

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  THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spire

  Spurrier, Simon,

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  The Spire is a mountain of metal and stone, a vast city that rises out of the middle of the radioactive desert. Filled with twisting tunnels, grinding elevators, and ancient machinery, it is home to over a million human and non-human…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…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…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…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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persephone. Hades' Torment

  Shaw, Allison,

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  According to the ancient legend, the Lord of the Dead kidnapped the innocent daughter of Demeter--or did he? The truth is, Persephone is no damsel in distress, but a spirited young lady with an overbearing mother. A failed scheme by Apollo…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Country

  Searching for Home in (very) Rural America

  Mahdavian, Navied, 1985-

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  Before Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog in November of 2016 from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived in a snowy place. But there, he could own land,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Guest in the House

  Carroll, Emily,

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  After many lonely years, Abby's just gotten married. She met her new husband--a recently widowed dentist--when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it's strange living in the shadow of her predecessor,…Read moreRead more of this annotation