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1) Ghost World
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GRAPHIC NOVEL CLOWES
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GRAPHIC NOVEL CLOWES
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The story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood and the future of their complicated relationship.
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable...
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Contract with God trilogy volume 1
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"The revolutionary work of graphic storytelling that inspired a new art form. Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created a new medium altogether: the graphic novel. It was unlike anything seen before, heralding an era when serious cartoonists were liberated from the limiting...
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GRAPHIC NOVEL GLOECKNER
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GRAPHIC NOVEL GLOECKNER
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The turbulent life of a teenage girl portrayed through diary entries and comic strips.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL MOORE
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GRAPHIC NOVEL MOORE
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A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly totalitarian world, this book stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore, and David Llyod. Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human...
5) Seconds
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"Katie lo tiene bastante bien. Ella es una joven chef talentoso, ella corre un restaurante de éxito, y ella tiene grandes planes para abrir una aún mejor. Entonces, todos a la vez, los avances en las nuevas pantanos ubicación abajo, su encantadora ex novio aparece, su aventura con otro chef sale mal, y su mejor camarera se malherido. Y al igual que, la vida de Katie va desde bastante bueno para no tanto. Lo que necesita es una segunda oportunidad....
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GRAPHIC NOVEL THOMPSON
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GRAPHIC NOVEL THOMPSON
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Loosely based on the author's life, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood, exploring the people, experiences, and beliefs that he encountered along the way.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY BECHDEL
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY BECHDEL
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 817.54 BROSH
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 817.54 BROSH
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Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY KNISLEY
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY KNISLEY
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"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"...
10) March: Book one
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March volume 1
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 323.1196 LEWIS
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 323.1196 LEWIS
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL LEWIS 1
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TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL LEWIS 1
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
11) Persepolis
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY SATRAPI
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY SATRAPI
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An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY SMALL
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY SMALL
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Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had...