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You and a Bike and a Road
by Eleanor Davis
In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation.
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Steel of the Celestial Shadows Vol. 1
by Daruma Matsuura
In early 19th-century Japan, a down-and-out samurai named Ryudo Konosuke struggles through his hardscrabble life. His dear departed mother’s last hope was for him to live his life as a splendid warrior, but a cruel curse repels and distorts any metal that gets near him. Will he ever be able to wield a sword, much less live the life of an honorable samurai?
It is said that a samurai’s spirit rests in their sword—and Ryudo can’t even pick one up! Destitute and hopeless, he decides to end it all. But when a beautiful and mysterious woman saves his life and his soul, it is the beginning of Ryudo’s journey into a strange world of magic that exists a step away from his own.
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The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History
by John Vasquez Mejias
Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island that resulted in 38 deaths and a failed assassination attempt against President Harry S. Truman. Told as a fable, in which the leaders of the movement are visited by the ghosts of Michael Collins and Gandhi, this book showcases an important and often overlooked moment in American history and a historical touchstone for the Puerto Rican independence movement.
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Second Hand Love
by Yamada Murasaki
In the end, we're all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against another human's beating heart
Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in―a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone else’s spoiled husband is just what she ordered―until it's time to move on.
Then there’s Yuko, with even less time for married men's shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in their―both father’s and daughter's―mirrored indiscretions.
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An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
by Deborah Noyes
This spellbinding narrative nonfiction graphic novel takes readers back to 1692 when fear reigned in Salem, Massachusetts, as widespread panic, mistrust and false accusations led to one of the longest witchcraft trials in America, which cost more than 20 innocent lives.
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