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• This Place

  150 Years Retold

  Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri, 1965-

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  "Explore the last 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through magic realism, serial killings, psychic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

  Revolution in 1960s Quebec

  Oliveros, Chris,

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  Canadian. "In Are You Willing To Die For The Cause? Quebec-born cartoonist Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early years of a movement that, while now defunct, still holds a tight grip on the hearts and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Food School

  Armstrong, Jade,

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  Canadian - "Olive, a twenty-something college dropout, enrols in a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery where they learn, talk, and cry about eating disorders as part of a survivor support group. "

• Fishflies

  Lemire, Jeff,

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  Canadian - "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Nault, Renée

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  Canadian - "Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Darren McCarty

  Life Is a Grind, Enjoy My Truth

  Riggio, Dominic,

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  Canadian - "This book covers all the major moments of four-time Stanley Cup winner Darren's life, including the fight with Claude Lemieux, all the Stanley Cup wins, and many behind-the-scenes stories from his personal life and even adventures with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saga

  Vaughan, Brian K.

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  Canadian illustrator Fiona Staples

• The Once and Future Riot

  Sacco, Joe,

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  "A graphic novel about the 2013 Muzaffargnar Riot in Uttar Pradesh, India, that expands to investigate the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, and uses of riots writ large"--

• But I Live

  Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

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  "Three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust."

• The Summer Hikaru Died

  Mokumokuren

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  "Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together...until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed-Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blame!. 1

  Nihei, Tsutomu, 1971-

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  "In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what "land" is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene a genetic mutation that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Subgenre

  Kindt, Matt

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  Subgenre shares some similarities with the game Split Fiction as an exploration of Sci-Fi and fantasy. "A man is living two lives. He is a private detective in a dystopian cyberpunk future trying to solve a triple murder. But when he falls…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cyberpunk 2077

  Marchewka, Tomasz,

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  This series takes place in the same universe as the videogame of the same name. "Mint is the only survivor of her former crew. Word on the street is that she sold them out to the NCPD to save herself. Now, badges are after her father's old crewmate,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dante's Inferno

  a Graphic Novel Adaptation

  Brizzi, Paul,

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  "Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise."

• The Raven

  Reed, Lou

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  A graphic adaptation of Lou Reed's riff on Edgar Allen Poe's poem.

• A Game of Thrones

  Abraham, Daniel

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  "Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing."

• Back to School: Beyond Assigned Reading for Teens

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