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1) Homebody
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In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school, from harrowing haircuts and finally the right haircut to the intersection of gender identity and...
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First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine. Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries,...
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Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family's expectations" --
4) How to baby
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The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"How do you know if you're ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it's called mom brain and not dad brain and spending half your life on hold with your insurance company and the tyranny of the milestones you're not meeting...
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Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Pan Cooke is ten years old when anxious thoughts begin to take over his brain like pieces of an impossible puzzle. What if he blurts out a swear word while in church? What if he accidentally writes something mean in his classmate's get-well card? What if his friend's racy photo of a supermodel ends up in his own homework and is discovered by his teacher? More and more, he becomes hijacked by fears that can only be calmed through exhausting, time-consuming...
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Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Life is not a race. There are no winners and losers. Immeasurable people are doing better than you...immeasurably worse. You are statistically average. For over ten years, fictional Luke Healy has invested all of his self-esteem into his career. But two years post publication of his latest book, and suffering the blow of his twin-brother not finding him fit to act as best man, both Luke's career and self-esteem seem to have disintegrated. Set against...
10) The lucky poor
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Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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A graphic memoir about the author's experiences as a young person when her family was awarded a new house built for them by Habitat for Humanity, including their struggles with poverty and work to build and maintain the home.--Publisher.
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Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Newly single fortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy each signed up on the dating site OkCupid, under the respective usernames "Hogbook" and "Lazer Eyes." They went on a date, and then another, and soon, despite a history of Bipolar II disorder and unhealthy relationships for each of them, they fell in love and were married in 2015. We view all of this through the prism of their pug housemates, including Blueberry and Bert (who has an unnatural...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher's humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is. "I'm proud of the person I've become because I fought to become her." At the age of 30, Siobhán Gallagher looks back on her teenage years struggling with anxiety and diet culture, desperate to become a beautiful, savvy, and slim adult. As an actual adult, she realizes she hasn't...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"This poignant graphic memoir describes the most difficult conversation between a mother and her son - the one about the two rapes she experienced as a young woman. It's something she always new she would share with her son, but the process of doing so is harder - and more freeing - than she could have imagined" --
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Fairsquare Comics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"After years of asking herself, "Why, o why?", Lou discovers that she has cyclothymia: a mood disorder from the bipolar family. So, what do you do when you discover a little wild fox in your brain? Can it be tamed, subdued? And how to be happy when you have to coexist with such an unpredictable creature? Welcome to Lou's world: her doubts, her joys, her challenges, her sense of humor and... a lovingly annoying fox!"--
17) Filthyratbag
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Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Celeste Mountjoy makes art that explores anxiety, feminism, addiction, body image, relationships, and power. With uncanny precision, it articulates the dark stuff we feel but dare not show. Mountjoy has become a voice for a generation of women who are ambivalent about the absurd, sometimes harrowing, path to adulthood. In her debut book, she tells razor-sharp stories and shares never-before-seen illustrations that walk us through the twistiest parts...
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Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice about you. Still, there are other ways of being different--and...
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Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"At age 21, Alison hitchhiked to the Yukon and spent the summer living in a tent.10 years later, in the deep of winter and seven months pregnant, she returns. Degrees of Separation is about what happened in between.Over the course of a decade, artist Alison McCreesh lived, worked, and travelled north of the 60th parallel. Through a combination of autobiographical stories, drawings and sketches, Degrees of Separation offers an intimate and understated...
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Chosen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The incredible true story of Corrie ten Boom, and her faith in the face of evil, is now a visually stunning graphic novel for ages 8-12. Through more than 900 engaging, full-color panels, this real-life heroine comes to life-showing a new generation how even in the most desperate, loneliest, and darkest times, faith, hope, and love will ultimately triumph"--
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