Looking for a new way to read? Give Graphic Novels a try!
Graphic Novels are books where the story is told through the pictures as well as the text. You won't find Manga titles (Japanese graphic novels) on this list but you will find mystery, history, horror, adventure, even some adaptations of classic literature!
Description: Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online comic, entitled A Fire Story, that went viral ... Less than a year after the fire, Brian Fies expanded his webcomic into a full-length graphic novel, including environmental insight and the stories of others affected by the disaster.--From dust jacket.
Call Number: 363.379 Fie
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Set in early nineteenth-century Britain, Bloodlust & Bonnets follows Lucy, an unworldly debutante who desires a life of passion and intrigue--qualities which earn her the attention of Lady Violet Travesty, the leader of a local vampire cult. But before Lucy can embark on her new life of vampiric debauchery, she finds herself unexpectedly thrown together with the flamboyant poet Lord Byron ("from books!") and a mysterious bounty-hunter named Sham. The unlikely trio lie, flirt, fight, and manipulate each other as they make their way across Britain, disrupting society balls, slaying vampires, and making every effort not to betray their feelings to each other as their personal and romantic lives become increasingly entangled"--Amazon.
Call Number: FIC McG
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "As one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, David Bowie seduced generations of fans with his music and counterculture persona. While Bowie's legacy as a musician is remarkable and genre-defying, as a visual performer he obliterate stage theatrics with his psychedelic aesthetics, larger-than-life image, and way of hovering on the border of the surreal. Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams chronicles the rise of David Bowie's career from obscurity to fame, as well as the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie's historic alter ego. Ziggy accompanies Bowie on his rocky ride to the top, but when the Spiders from Mars finally implode and Bowie leaves London for a nomadic life abroad, he must lay the Ziggy persona to rest for good. The end of Ziggy eventually changes not only Bowie but the world itself."--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: B Bow
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "This graphic novel explores the experiences and difficulties faced by women on the spectrum, such as late or incorrect diagnosis and having to master the art of pretending to be 'normal'. A fascinating insight into an under-represented condition."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 616.85882 Bar
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: Child Star is a fictional documentary-style graphic novel about how growing up in the spotlight robs young actors of a true childhood.--Amazon.com
Call Number: FIC Bro
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Cicada tell story. Story good. Story simple. Story even human can understand. Tok Tok Tok!" -- Jacket flap.
Call Number: FIC Tan
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Peter Bagge returns with a biography of another fascinating twentieth-century trailblazer-the writer, feminist, war correspondent, and libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Following the popularity and critical acclaim of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story and Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story, Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story is a fast-paced, charming, informative look at the brilliant Lane. Among other achievements, she was a founder of the American libertarian movement and a champion of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in bringing the classic Little House on the Prairie series to the American public. Much like Sanger and Hurston, Lane was an advocate for women's rights who led by example, challenging norms in her personal and professional life. Anti-government and anti-marriage, Lane didn't think that gender should hold anyone back from experiencing all the world had to offer. Though less well-known today, in her lifetime she was one of the highest-paid female writers in America and a political and literary luminary, friends with Herbert Hoover, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis, and Ayn Rand, to name a few. Bagge's portrait of Lane is heartfelt and affectionate, probing into the personal roots of her rugged individualism. Credo is a deeply researched dive into a historical figure whose contributions to American society are all around us, from the books we read to the politics we debate."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: B Lan
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "From insects looking for a meal made of ghosts to a man named Yuzi who's passion for cooking is the only hope of maintaining a family legacy, these wonderfully illustrated stories explore the rich and humorously lives of the characters within" -- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Zao
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and anxieties and grasps at potential remedies, coping mechanisms, and her mother's Chinese elixirs, we come to understand one woman's battle against the cruel dynamics of postpartum depression. Dear Scarlet is a poignant and deeply personal journey through the complexities of new motherhood, offering hope to those affected by PPD, as well as reassurance that they are not alone"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 362.1987 Won
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: v. 1: "Lynn Okamoto's beloved series is now available in English for the very first time, presented here in a special omnibus collecting three volumes in one! Captured and isolated against their will, the Diclonius species are a threat waiting to break free. When a young Diclonius girl, Nyu, escapes from the research facility she was being held in, she manages finds solace in two allies, until danger finds her again, putting everyone at risk. However, her enemies soon realize they're in over their heads as an attempt to subdue Nyu results in unspeakable tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.v. 2: "The ruthless soldier Bando pursues Nyu's alter-ego Lucy with vengeance after he receives bionic prosthetic replacements as a result of their gruesome battle. Meanwhile, Lucy recalls her buried, tragic memories as a Diclonius child. To worsen the situation, Chief Kakuzawa orders a Diclonius named Mariko to kill Nana and return Lucy to the research facility!"-- Provided by publisher.v. 3: "Mariko is running out of time-her internalized bombs are set to explode at any minute. Hoping to tie up loose ends, she decides to confront her alienated father, Kurama. Meanwhile, when Nyu and Kouta arrive near the Diclonii island facility, Nyu iscaptured as Chief Kakuzawa attempts to fulfill his master plan of eliminating humans in favor of the Diclonii species."-- Provided by publisher.
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "When an eight-year-old girl literally begins to transform into a tree, her single Mom, troubled brother and possibly insane Grandfather embark on a bizarre, and heart-wrenching odyssey across the back roads of America desperately searching for a way to cure her horrifying transformation before it's too late. But the further they get from home, and the closer the girl gets to completely losing her humanity, the more external forces threaten to tear the family apart as fanatical cults, mercenaries and tabloid Paparazzi close in. determined to destroy the girl or use her for themselves."--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Lem
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "The four Brontë children--Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne--have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and all four children are confronted with the growing fear that their imaginations might not be able to save them from reality forever" --Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Gre
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Sydney appears to be a normal, rudderless, suburban 15-year-old freshman. But she harbors a secret which threatens to overwhelm her."-- Publisher's description.
Call Number: FIC For
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: This is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. Malaka Gharib's memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Her story is a tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream.--From statement at Amazon.
Call Number: 973.0599 Gha
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Joe Hill is the creative force behind this collection of graphic novels that showcase the world-building and bone-chilling talents of the famed Locke & Key co-creator. This collection includes: The Cape (2010) and The Cape 1969 (2011), Thumbprint (2013), Kodiak (2010), and Wraith (2014)."--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Hil
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: From a child's-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals and insects rather than the unpredictable adults around him. Dandro details the effects of poverty and addiction on a family while maintaining a child's innocence for as long as he can. The book spans from Travis's early childhood through his teen years, focusing not only on the obviously abusive actions, but also on the daily slights and snubs that further strain relations between him and his parents. Alongside Dandro's birth father committing crimes and shooting up, King of King Court lingers on scenes of him criticizing Travis and his siblings. Dandro gives equal heft to these anecdotes, emphasizing how damaging even relatively slight traumas can be to a child's worldview.-- From statement provided by publisher.
Call Number: 362.2913 Dan
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: A comic book cookbook with accessible ramen recipes for the home cook, including simple weeknight bowls, weekend project stocks, homemade noodles, and an array of accompaniments, with insights and tips from notable ramen luminaries. This hybrid cookbook/graphic novel introduces the history of ramen and provides more than 40 recipes for everything you need to make the perfect bowl at home including tares, broths, noodles, and toppings. Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan fully illustrate the necessary steps and ingredients for delicious homemade ramen. They share preparation shortcuts that make weeknight ramen a reality; provide meaty tidbits on Japanese culinary traditions; and feature words of wisdom, personal anecdotes, and cultural insights from eminent ramen figures. Recipes include broths like Shio, Shoyu, Miso, and Tonkotsu, components such as Onsen Eggs, Chashu, and Menma, and offshoots like Mazemen, Tsukemen, and Yakisoba. -- From statement at Amazon.com
Call Number: 641.822 Ama
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "From one of Japan's most notable manga artists: a heartbreaking and redemptive tale of mourning and acceptance that compares and contrasts the contemporary nature of gay tolerance in the East and the West. Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo, married to wife Natsuki, father to young daughter Kana. Their lives are suddenly upended with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented, revelatory look at and journey into the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation has the chance to change the preconceptions of and prejudices against it"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Tag
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: In a distant future where nature has reclaimed much of the Earth, spirits of light are the key to life, but have seemingly abandoned the world. Young Nils and his father set out to discover why the ground has recently grown infertile, only to discover a conspiracy between a high-tech neighboring kingdom and the supernatural beings who can offer them eternal life. --Adapted from publisher's website.
Call Number: FIC Ham
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Death's wayward child drives him to become a patient of a recently-bereaved psychoanalyst. Featuring hand-chiseled images which have been carved into inked clay, this labor of love was composed using an astounding number of lines over the course of several years!"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Gur
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
Call Number: FIC Duf
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "A prison warden's daughter has fallen in with a separatist militia, and the warden's only chance to rescue her is his most dangerous inmate: Markham, a notorious contract killer. Markham claims that after a near death experience gave him a glimpse of Hell, he wants to atone for his past sins and start saving lives instead of taking them. So the warden's giving him one last shot at redemption. But is Markham ready to die for that shot?" --Back cover.
Call Number: FIC Fae
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "In hundreds of mesmerizing illustrations, PARASITE: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards is a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of one of the best films in years and a brand-new way to experience a global phenomenon. Drawn by Bong Joon Ho himself before the filming of the Palme d'Or Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated film, these illustrations, accompanied by every line of dialog in the movie, capture the story in its entirety. Director Bong has also provided a foreword which takes the reader even deeper into the creative process which gave rise to the stunning cinematic achievement of PARASITE. Director Bong's illustrations share the illuminating power of his writing and directing. The result is a gorgeous, riveting read and a fresh look at the vertiginous delights and surprises of Bong Joon Ho's deeply affecting, genre-defying story" --Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Pon
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Guy is no master mariner, with a clipped red (or black) beard. He's just an ordinary member of the crew - able enough, but also a lazy, cowardly liar, a drunkard, and a thief. His story is told in two allegorical parts: 'The Blowout' and 'The Hangover.' Three contemporary comics titans, Belgian Olivier Schrauwen (Parallel Lives) and the French duo Ruppert and Mulot (The Perineum Technique) collaborate to bring you the best pictorial and narrative elements of the great tales of the sea - bright colors, grand battles, gallows humor - in this tour de force of black comedy."--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Sch
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Gai
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: Huda Fahmy is on a mission to find her leading lad and tells the story of how she met and marrided her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and societal expectations for Muslim women, she revewals to readers what in can be like to find a husband as an observant Muslim woman in the twenty-first century.
Call Number: 741.569 Fah
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: Mariela is the last alchemist alive after waking from a deep sleep that lasted two hundred years. As the sole alchemist in town, she could make a killing by brewing and selling potions, but after two hundred years of suspended animation, allshe wants to do is relax, take things easy, and live at her own pace!
Call Number: FIC Non
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Call Number: 909.08 Gon
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or "working"--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants--kale, tomatoes--to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn't seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Dav
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Benny, a half black, half Mexican teenager, is awaiting a letter from the court to find out if he’ll be sent to an affluent neighborhood to live with his father. But before the letter arrives, he’s extorted by his mother’s boyfriend. Now he has to sell drugs to keep his addicted mother out of prostitution. The only thing is, he doesn’t know how. Only his street-smart Chicano friend Indie can help out. To finish the job, the two attend a backyard punk show in South Central LA. But when things go wrong, Benny comes face to face with the LAPD in an uncompromising situation." -- Back cover
Call Number: FIC Riv
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: The Epic Collections feature the best characters and stories from Marvel's vast history.
Call Number: FIC Cla
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend--known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches. With casualties mounting and the conflict devouring more and more of her comrades, Lieutenant Anna Kharkova quickly grows from a naive teenager to a hardened combat veteran. The Nazi foe is bad enough, but the terrifying power of her country's secret police makes death in battle almost preferable. Badly wounded and exiled from her own people, Anna begins an odyssey that will take her from the killing fields of World War II to the horrific Soviet punishment camps--and at the top of the world, high above the freezing Arctic Ocean, the Night Witch finds she has one last card to play."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Enn
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Your country isn't perfect--but with a little planning and a personalized flag, your true utopia may be as close as your own backyard! Here are the stories of thirty self-made places around the world built with a dream of utopia: from the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands to the Indian rock garden of Nek Chand to the micronation of Sealand and much more. Whether they were building an ideal community, a safe haven, an inspiring structure, or a better-run country, these creators struck out against the laws of their homelands, the approval of their peers, or even nature itself to shape the world around them."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 321.07 War
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: "Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of imaginative exuberance, rollicking high adventure, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 170 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Full-color illustrations throughout."--Amazon.com.
Call Number: 741.5973 Bar
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
Description: Based on interviews with six Holocaust survivors, these first-person point of view stories relate living through the de-humanization and starvation in concentration camps and the industrial-scale mass murder in extermination camps.
Call Number: FIC Bab
Format: Book
Date Added: Jul 21, 2020
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A Fire Story
363.379 Fie |
Nils : The Tree Of Life
FIC Ham |
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Bloodlust & Bonnets
FIC McG |
Notes On A Case Of Melancholia : Or, A Little Death
FIC Gur |
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Bowie : Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams
B Bow |
Octavia E. Butler's Parable Of The Sower
FIC Duf |
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Camouflage : The Hidden Lives Of Autistic Women
616.85882 Bar |
Over My Dead Body : A Near Death Thriller
FIC Fae |
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Child Star
FIC Bro |
Parasite : A Graphic Novel In Storyboards
FIC Pon |
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Cicada
FIC Tan |
Portrait Of A Drunk
FIC Sch |
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Credo : The Rose Wilder Lane Story
B Lan |
Snow, Glass, Apples
FIC Gai |
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Cuisine Chinoise : Five Tales Of Food And Life
FIC Zao |
That Can Be Arranged : A Muslim Love Story
741.569 Fah |
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Dear Scarlet : The Story Of My Postpartum Depression
362.1987 Won |
The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams Of Quiet City Life. 01
FIC Non |
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Elfen Lied Omnibus
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The Cartoon History Of The Modern World
909.08 Gon |
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Family Tree. Vol. 1, Sapling
FIC Lem |
The Cartoon Introduction To Calculus
515 Kle |
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Glass Town
FIC Gre |
The Hard Tomorrow
FIC Dav |
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I Am Not Okay With This
FIC For |
The Hat Boyz
FIC Riv |
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I Was Their American Dream : A Graphic Memoir
973.0599 Gha |
The New Mutants, Renewal, Volume 1, 1980-1984
FIC Cla |
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Joe Hill : The Graphic Novel Collection
FIC Hil |
The Night Witches
FIC Enn |
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King Of King Court
362.2913 Dan |
This Land Is My Land : A Graphic History Of Big Dreams, Micronations, And Other Self-made States
321.07 War |
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Let's Make Ramen! : A Comic Book Cookbook
641.822 Ama |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck. "Christmas In Duckburg"
741.5973 Bar |
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My Brother's Husband. 01
FIC Tag |
We'll Soon Be Home Again
FIC Bab |