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Flight
Flight tends toward the wordless and the surreal: small animals pilot mechanical birds or an undead rabbit looks for love. Particular standouts in this volume are Rodolphe Guenoden's "Dead at Noon," for the expressiveness and incredibly strong visual storytelling, and Graham Annable's "Magnus the Misfit," for its loony sweetness and sheer vitality.
207 p. 2007
Adult Graphic Novel
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Baek, HyeKyung
Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
Abducted upon her arrival in London, Tessa Gray is introduced to London's Downworld, the sordid supernatural underbelly of the city, and informed that her future will be recast to service a man known as 'the Magister.' Only the intervention of the London Institute's Shadowhunters delivers the girl from this fate, but sinister forces are still gathering around Tessa.
222 p. 2012
Teen Graphic Novel
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Black, Holly
The Good Neighbors. Book One: Kin
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.
117 p. 2008
Teen Graphic Novel
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Carey, Mike
Ender's Shadow. Battle School
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
1 v. 2009
Adult Graphic Novel
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Delisle, Guy
Jerusalem : Chronicles from the Holy City
Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many and eloquently examines the impact of the conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays.
336 p. 2012
Adult Graphic Novel
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Foglio, Kaja
Girl Genius. Agatha Heterodyne
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become all-out war, and Mad Science rules the world with mixed success, Agatha Clay, a student at Transylvania Polygnostic University is unable to build anything that actually works. Agatha is revealed to be the last of the famous Heterodyne family--and a girl genius beyond anyone's imaginings.
127 p. 2007
Teen Graphic Novel
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Gulledge, Laura Lee
Page By Paige
When Paige Turner and her family move to New York City from rural Virginia, she tries to make sense of her new life through her sketchbook, and it helps bring her true personality into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding.
1 v. 2011
Teen Graphic Novel
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Gulledge, Laura Lee
Will & Whit
Wilhelmina "Will" Huxstep crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark, and longs for unplugged adventures with her fellow creative friends, Autumn, Noel, and Reese. Little does she know that she will get her wish in the form of an arts carnival and a blackout, courtesy of a hurricane named Whitney, which forces Will to face her fear of darkness.
2013
Teen Graphic Novel
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Hicks, Faith Erin
Friends with Boys
After an idyllic homeschooled childhood, it's time for Maggie to face the outside world, starting with high school. This would be a tricky transition for anyone, but Maggie is also haunted.
1 v. 2012
Teen Graphic Novel
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Horowitz, Anthony
Stormbreaker : the Graphic Novel
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
1 v. 2006
Teen Graphic Novel
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Igarashi, Daisuke
Children of the Sea
Ruka feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea that she does. Ruka's dad is only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the ocean's fish.
316 p. 2009
Adult Graphic Novel
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Inzana, Ryan
Ichiro
Raised by a Japanese mother in New York City, his American father killed in a war, Ichiro finds it difficult to figure out where he fits in. A trip to Japan leaves him with his grandfather, in a country he does not know, facing unfamiliar gods and monsters and the shadow of the war that took his father.
1 v. 2012
Teen Graphic Novel
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Ishikawa, Masayuki
Moyasimon : Tales of Agriculture
Tadayasu is a new, fresh-faced university student hiding a bizarre secret: he can see germs with the naked eye. Between the machinations of an eccentric professor determined to unlock the power of the microbial world and the doomed agricultural experiments of his fellow students, will Tadayasu ever find the cool college atmosphere he so desires?
1 v. 2009
Adult Graphic Novel
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Jablonski, Carla
Resistance. Book 1
World War II is raging across Europe, but life goes on in the small French village where Paul Tessier lives. But Paul's best friend, Henri Levy, is Jewish. When Henri's parents vanish, Paul and his sister Marie hide Henri from the Germans. But soon their secret leaks out ... to the Resistance! Now Paul, Marie, and Henri are about to become the Resistance's youngest recruits.
121 p. 2010
Teen Graphic Novel
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Jensen, Van
Pinocchio Vampire Slayer
After seeing Geppetto die at the hands of vampires, Pinocchio swears revenge in this darkly funny graphic novel. As the vampires plot the enslavement of mankind, only a one-puppet army stands in their way. But will a wooden boy and his endless supply of stakes be enough to save the day?
1 v. 2009
Adult Graphic Novel
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Kelly, Joe
I Kill Giants
Barbara Thorson, a girl battling monsters both real and imagined, kicks butt, takes names, and faces her greatest fear in a bittersweet, coming-of-age story.
1 v. 2009
Teen Graphic Novel
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Kim, Susan
City of Spies
Evelyn, who usually entertains herself with a pencil and a piece of paper, makes a new friend named Tony and leaves her artwork behind to look for real spies; when the pair discovers an actual mystery, Evelyn wonders if she will end up in an adventure similar to the comics she writes.
172 p. 2010
Teen Graphic Novel
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Kim, Tong-hwa
The Color of Earth
Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers--both neighbors and strangers--look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she grows older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.
319 p. 2009
Teen Graphic Novel
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Kim, Young
Twilight the Graphic Novel. Volume 1
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret.
1 v. 2010
Teen Graphic Novel
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Kovac, Tommy
Wonderland
Mary Ann is a compulsive cleaner and follower of rules, who cares not a whit for the legendary "Alice monster," as everyone terms the rebellious blonde. She tromps through lusciously colored landscapes, encountering all the expected characters (Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, Jabberwock) and getting into trouble with most of them.
159 p. 2008
Children's Graphic Novel
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