LibraryAware October 2025

New Additions & Coming Soon

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
by Tommi Parrish

A rich collection/scrapbook of over two dozen short stories, plus diary entries, photos, and other images fueled by a propensity to understand the way we relate to each other, and told with a visual and lyrical beauty -- and raw emotion -- that collectively reaffirms the power of art.

Ginseng roots : a memoir
by Craig Thompson

Ginseng Roots follows Craig Thompson and his siblings-who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour-and interweaves this lost youth with the three-hundred-year history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. Stretching from Marathon, Wisconsin, to northeast China, Ginseng Roots charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world.

Moan : Junji Ito Story Collection
by Junji Ito

A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe, groaning out moans that echo through the house of a germophobe mother and her daughters. In another tale, flowers blooming in the shape of eyeballs are only the beginning of the strange phenomena surrounding a mysterious transfer student. Could he have supernatural abilities? Also, a man in a village deep in the mountains shares memories of his wife. What happened to her after she said she would give freely of her blood?

Patchwork : A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
by Kate Evans

In her later years, Jane Austen made a patchwork quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs these slivers of cloth to illustrate Jane Austen's life story. The author's love for Austen shines throughout. Her incredible eye for historical detail - panes of glass, bits of lace, hedgelaying styles, the cut of a coat or the architecture of a Hampshire cottage - creates a captivating vision of Jane Austen's world.

Nocturnos
by Laura Pérez

In Nocturnos, Spanish comics artist Laura Pérez follows up her celebrated graphic novels, Totem and Ocultos, with an immersive tour through the ethereal world of nighttime.

Black arms to hold you up : a history of Black resistance
by Ben Passmore

From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the George Floyd uprising of 2020, readers will follow more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic.

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