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"This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the...
2) Wizzywig
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"They say What You See Is What You Get-- but Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle could always see more than most people. In the world of phone phreaks, hackers, and scammers, he's a legend. His exploits are hotly debated: could he really get free long-distance calls by whistling into a pay phone? Did his video-game piracy scheme accidentally trigger the first computer virus? And did he really dodge the FBI by using their own wiretapping software against them?...
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96 copies available. 4 copies on order.
Brookline - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC American Born
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC American Born
1 available
Brookline - Tween
TWEEN GRAPHIC American Born
1 available
TWEEN GRAPHIC American Born
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Tween
TWEEN GRAPHIC American Born Chinese
1 available
TWEEN GRAPHIC American Born Chinese
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.
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After a mental breakdown that lost her her last job, Cel Walden becomes archivist at, and resident of, the Logan Museum of medical photographs and objects, and home of a ghost seeking justice.
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Heavy vinyl volume 1
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Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town wants: working at Vinyl Destination. It's as rad as she imagined; her boss is BOSS, her co-workers spend their time arguing over music, pushing against the patriarchy, and endlessly trying to form a band. When Rosie Riot, the staff's favorite singer, mysteriously vanishes the night before her band's show, Chris discovers her co-workers are doing more than just sorting vinyl...
7) Watchmen
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On Shelf
69 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
SUPER Watchmen
1 available
SUPER Watchmen
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
SUPER Watchmen
1 available
SUPER Watchmen
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
SUPER Watchmen
1 available
SUPER Watchmen
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes."--Publisher.
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Brookline - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC Tomboy
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC Tomboy
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC Tomboy
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC Tomboy
1 available
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Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age in this anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
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Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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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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Brookline - Adult
GRAPHIC Wake
1 available
GRAPHIC Wake
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
GRAPHIC Wake
1 available
GRAPHIC Wake
1 available
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"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
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Brookline - Adult
GRAPHIC They Called
1 available
GRAPHIC They Called
1 available
Brookline - Tween
TWEEN GRAPHIC They Called
2 available
TWEEN GRAPHIC They Called
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Tween
TWEEN GRAPHIC They Called
2 available
TWEEN GRAPHIC They Called
2 available
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"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love." --
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Brookline - Adult
GRAPHIC Maus I
1 available
GRAPHIC Maus I
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
GRAPHIC Maus I
1 available
GRAPHIC Maus I
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC Maus v1
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC Maus v1
1 available
13) Persepolis
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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.
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62 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Tween
TWEEN GRAPHIC Almost American
2 available
TWEEN GRAPHIC Almost American
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC Almost American
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC Almost American
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Tween
TWEEN GRAPHIC Almost American
1 available
TWEEN GRAPHIC Almost American
1 available
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"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
15) El deafo
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On Shelf
Brookline - Children's - New
SR 4-5 J GRAPHIC Deafo
1 available
SR 4-5 J GRAPHIC Deafo
1 available
Brookline - Children's
J GRAPHIC Deafo
2 available
J GRAPHIC Deafo
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Children's
J GRAPHIC Deafo
3 available
J GRAPHIC Deafo
3 available
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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
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In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
MANGA Life-Changing Manga
1 available
MANGA Life-Changing Manga
1 available
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"From the #1 New York Times best-selling author and lifestyle/cleaning guru Marie Kondo, this graphic novelization brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using Kondo's advice and inspiration. Marie Kondo presents the fictional story of Chiaki, a young woman in Tokyo who struggles with a cluttered apartment, messy love life, and lack of direction. After...
18) Palestine
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2 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, this is a major work of political and historical nonfiction.
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995—Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism—the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel...Author
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Hip-hop family tree volume 4
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Brookline - Adult
GRAPHIC Hip Hop v1
1 available
GRAPHIC Hip Hop v1
1 available
Brookline - Adult
GRAPHIC Hip Hop v2
1 available
GRAPHIC Hip Hop v2
1 available
Brookline - Adult
GRAPHIC Hip Hop v3
1 available
GRAPHIC Hip Hop v3
1 available
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Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, The Hip Hop Family Tree is an encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop capturing the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars