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Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A witty and one-of-a-kind debut graphic memoir detailing and drawing the life of a girl with borderline personality disorder finding her way-and herself-one day at a time. What does it feel like to fall in love too hard and too fast, to hate yourself in equal and opposite measure? To live in such fear of rejection that you drive friends and lovers away? Welcome to my world. I'm Courtney, and I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), along with...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The funny, exuberant, inspiring antidote to body shame-a full-color graphic memoir celebrating the imperfections of the author's female body in all its glory. Too tall. Too short. Too fat. Too thin. The message is everywhere-we need to pluck, wax, shrink, and hide ourselves, to not take up space, emotionally or literally; women are never "just right." Well, Ariella Elovic, feminist and illustrator extraordinaire, has had enough. In her full-color...
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Living life and finding love as an X-gender person in Japan At thirty-three years old, Asuka Miyazaki realizes that they like women! Asuka, however, is neither a woman nor a man - instead, they're X-gender (a non-binary identity). Follow Asuka through the pages of this autobiographical manga as they record the ins and outs of their journey to finding love with a woman."-- cover page 4.
6) Night shift
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This book is the result of my having spent most of my adult life living through periods of depressive illness"--End pages.
"Through stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori provides a fascinating and absorbing portrait of depression and hope in Night Shift, a moving picture book about a young girl haunted by dragons. The young girl battles the dragons using 'night skills': skills that...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mieri is an awkward, nerdy college student with no dating experience, and her previous crushes on fellow butch women have all ended in disaster. That all changes when she meets Ash and has her feelings returned for the first time. But when first love turns to first heartbreak, Mieri will do everything possible to win Ash back."--
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance company and the tyranny of the milestones you're not meeting...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and tía. At first, Christine struggles to connect with family they don't yet share a language with. Seeing the places their mom grew up--the school she went to, the café where she had her first date with their father--Christine becomes more and more aware of the generational differences in their family. Soon Christine settles into life...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy-an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career, with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One Is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films-Father of the Bride, Roxanne, The Jerk, Three Amigos, and many more-bringing readers directly into...
13) As a cartoonist
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Noah Van Sciver empties all the arrows in his quiver in this collection of comics fiction, biography, memoir, meta-memoir, satire, and more. He juxtaposes a series of fictional stories in which he imagines being a "19th Century Cartoonist" with autobiographical strips about the day-to-day of a contemporary writer-artist, in addition to meditative pieces about his father and childhood that informed his chosen path. As a Cartoonist is a funny and...
14) Passport
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sophia's parents are not who they say they are. Sophia has lived all over the world because of her parents' work. Now going to high school in Central America, she reads a letter she was never meant to see learns the stunning truth: Her parents are leading double lives. As Sophia struggles to untangle the web of lies that ensnares her, she begins to question everything she knows about her life, her family, and herself. Here is the astonishing true...
15) One in a million
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Something is wrong with Claire, but she doesn't know what. Nobody does, not even her doctors. All she wants is to return to her happy and athletic teenage self. But her accumulating symptoms--chronic fatigue, pounding headaches, weight gain--hint that there's something not right inside Claire's body. Claire's high school experience becomes filled with MRIs, visits to the Mayo Clinic, and multiple surgeries to remove a brain tumor. But even in her...
16) Factory summers
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve-hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager,...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A recollection, in graphic novel format, of the author's ambivalent feelings regarding motherhood while growing up, and an exploration of the imposition of motherhood on women as both an expectation and a path toward fulfillment"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"--
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A pioneer of 21st-century graphic memoir, Jeffrey Brown captures timeless insights into love, intimacy, and vulnerability in three unforgettable relationship portraits. Twenty years ago, young painter Jeffrey Brown grew frustrated with the expectations of the art world and wanted desperately to make something real. In a single sketchbook, working directly in ink, he began recording his memories of a recent long-distance relationship, matching the...
20) Tiny dancer
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Siena has dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet, with hopes of becoming a member of George Balanchine s world-famous New York City Ballet company. Siena has worked hard for many years to be a professional ballet dancer, but injury and doubt are starting to take their toll. Maybe it s time to look beyond the world of dance but Siena s whole identity...
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