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1) Pashmina
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indian-American teen, Priyanka "Pri" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. Presented in comic book format.
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
v, 266 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explore the Gold Rush from the perspective of William Miller and Henry Garrison, two miners in the Sierra Nevada region, and uncover the often unrelenting conditions of the California gold mines. A story of community, determination, and the search for the American Dream, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into what life was really like during this pivotal period in American history--brought to life by a gripping narrative and...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
5) Road rage
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
104 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW is proud to present comic-book tellings of both stories in Road Rage, adapted by Chris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and Rafa Garres.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Bear claw.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Many criminals have been imprisoned at Alcatraz. But what else is locked up there? Do the ghosts and spirits of many former prisoners haunted the cells and hallways? Read this spooky book to find out"--
7) Odessa
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eight years ago an earthquake--the Big One--hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city to...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's early 2003, and America's march to war seems unstoppable. Yet you'd never know it in the quiet northern California town of Greendale, where eighteen-year-old Sun Green-- great-grandaughter of the man who helped carve this community out of the sweeping western coast-- lives, loves and dreams. Sun is different from most other kids. Always has been. The women in her family have all had a strange relationships with nature. But in almost every instance,...
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
151 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After guards find a book in his cell containing the penciled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is "validated" for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU. Meanwhile a bold, state-wide hunger strike in California prisons gathers force. Gang enmities are set aside. Improbable alliances are forged. Activists and prisoner families organize on the outside....
13) Marble season
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
April 2013.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Middle child Huey stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother's comic book collection almost as much as his approval. "Marble Season" subtly and deftly details how the innocent, joyfully creative play that children engage in (shooting marbles, backyard performances, and organizing treasure hunts) changes as they grow older and encounter name-calling naysayers, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of other kids. An all-ages story,...
15) Teenage haunts
Author
Series
Home Sick Pilots volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead-singer of a high school punk band, who's been missing for weeks. How did she get there? What do these ghosts want? And does this mean the band have to break up?
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When homeless orphan Marcus Lopez was asked to join a shadowy school specializing in training the next generation of the world's deadliest assassins, he figured he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong. Now, Marcus and his one-time lover Maria are thrown to the wolves when a Mexican Cartel, the family of a classmate they were forced to kill, comes gunning for revenge. The true costs of the life he's chosen to live are only just dawning on Marcus....
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