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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Meet Victorian London's most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage's plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing...
62) Akira. Book one
Author
Series
Akira series volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Neo-Tokyo, built on the former site of Tokyo after World War III, two teenagers are targeted by agencies after they develop paranormal abilities.
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Straight from the pages of Squadron Supreme comes one of the most brutal super heroes of the Marvel Universe. Nighthawk is Chicago's dark protector, dispensing swift, decisive justice to those that truly deserve it. When the city's shadiest power brokers turn up murdered in gristly ways, the apparent work of an inventive serial killer, Nighthawk must ask himself, Does this predator deserve to be caught? Who is the killer? What is he after? What does...
64) March: Book One
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2013-2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jesse, Violet, and Benny Alden are brothers and sisters—and they're orphans. The only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. They decide to make it their home. This is just the beginning of their graphic novel adventures as the Boxcar Children!
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An anthology of four wordless novels by artists Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde, and a look at how these artists used their work as a form of social commentary. The influence of this art form on modern filmmaking and the graphic novel is also examined
Series
Publisher
Viz Medio
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Usagi and Hanzo finally return to Iga, where a wedding banquet for them awaits. Usagi couldn't be more thrilled that her dreams are coming true! Unfortunately, the arrival of Oda Nobunaga's troops puts an end to the festivities. Can the Iga ninja protect their home against such a large army?
Author
Series
March volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and...
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 1
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans. This highly imaginative political thriller tells the modern-day story of fairy tale characters as they struggle for their freedom.
72) Brave New World
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Available for the first time as a graphic novel, “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (Wall Street JournalBrave New World: A Graphic NovelThe Guardian
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly Publications
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The world-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry. However, behind his rapid rise to success there lies a dark and terrible secret, as the biographer Leonard Batts discovers when he visits Burger's hometown of Hicksville in remote New Zealand. Hicksville is where the locals treasure comics and the library stocks Action Comics #1
Author
Series
Scott Pilgrim volume 5
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
This penultimate outing in the graphic novel series, finds Scott in the thick of a happy relationship with the hard-won Ramona V. Flowers, but troubles arise when past indiscretions come to light, leading to some uncomfortable doubts. At the same time, Scott must face down the latest of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends, the robot-controlling twins Kyle K. and Ken K.
Author
Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, and unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them...and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces the most terrible door of them all...
76) Big Nate: aloha!
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aloha can mean hello or goodbye--which makes it the perfect word for sixth grader Nate Wright. Why? Because Nate doesn't know whether he's coming or going. Will his romance with Daisy sizzle or fizzle? Will his hair survive Teddy's cut-rate barber skills? And when Nate spots a crime in progress at Klassic Komix, can he find his inner superhero?"--
Author
Series
Scott Pilgrim volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott Pilgrim's life is fantastic. He's 23 years old, in a rock band, between jobs, and dating a cute high school girl. Everything's awesome until a seriously mind-blowing delivery girl named Ramona Flowers enters his life.
Author
Series
The once and future queen volume Volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
November 2017.
Language
English
Description
"Rani Arturus is a chess prodigy with no plans to be a leader of any sort, let alone QUEEN. After she pulls the legendary sword Excalibur from the stone . . . well, no backsies. Now she must form a new round table made of friends and family to protect the Earth from an invasion of Fae, who'd like a new planet to call their own"--
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled-- no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living" -- p. [4] of cover.