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Ducks : Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.
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The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.
by James Spooner
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022
A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk.
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Monstress : Awakening Volume 1
by Marjorie M Liu
A survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and the Arcanics, teenager Maika Halfwolf is both the hunter and hunted as she seeks answers about her mysterious past.
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The Good Asian : an Edison Hark Mystery
by Pornsak Pichetshote
Following Edison Harkèi, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, asthey're besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes.
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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
by Ram V
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?
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Talk to My Back
by Murasaki Yamada
Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant.
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Remina
by Junji Itō
An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body "Remina" after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction... Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale.
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Radiant Black
by Kyle Higgins
Nathan Burnett has just turned thirty and things aren't great -- he's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up and his only move... is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes...unless the Cosmic Beings who created them succeed in taking them back by any means necessary. Oh, and did we mention there's a RED RADIANT who wants Nathan dead?
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Solanin
by Inio Asano
Frustrated with her dead-end job and her unemployed bofriend, Meiko Inoue abruptly quits her job and struggles with the feeling that she's not cut out to be a part of the real world.
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