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Aftershock Comics
$16.99
Years in the making, this is the true story of writer Peter Calloway's grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930s. Unable to get work at any Chicago hospital (because he was Black) and unable to secure a loan from a bank to start his own prac...
NBM
Love Me Please Story Of Jan...
$24.99
How did a very young woman, struggling with addiction and filled with doubt, become in a few years a planetary icon of rock music? Janis Joplin went from the shadows to the blinding light of fame in only four records (the last one issued a month and a half after her tragic death). Thanks to a wor...
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Comics and the Origins of M...
$29.95
Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga is deeply intertwine...
Pavilion Childrens
Protest!: How People Have C...
$22.50
A timely book on the history of peaceful protest, from the Egyptian pyramid workers’ strike of 1170 BCE all the way up to the present dayProtest has changed our planet—from Roman times to today, ordinary people have stood up for what they believe in and made the world a better place. The global h...
KIDS CAN PRESS
$17.99
Sandy Saito is a happy boy who reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball, especially the Asahi team, the pride of his Japanese Canadian community. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every other North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. His family is...
Bloomsbury Publishing
When I Grow Up: The Lost Au...
$28.00
A Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read"An Alma most anticipated book of NovemberFrom the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII.When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein’s ne...
KOKILA
The 1619 Project: Born on t...
$18.99
The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson. A young student receives ...
Magnetic Press
Ballad Of Yaya Graphic Nove...
$9.99
As Japanese planes bomb Shanghai, Yaya and Tuduo flee the city by jumping into the truck of a small traveling circus. Tuduo tries to persuade Yaya to stay with the benevolent circusfolk, but Yaya insists on finding her family and sets off on her own, despite the dangers in the cold wilderness...
Magnetic Press
Ballad Of Yaya Graphic Nove...
$9.99
1937. In the chaos of the invasion of Shanghai by Japanese troops, a well bred little girl is separated from her parents and is left alone but for the help of a boy from the streets. Together, these unlikely and opposite children set off to find her parents and survive adventures across war torn ...
Fantagraphics Books
Hip Hop Family Tree Graphic...
$27.99
Ed Piskor's acclaimed graphic novel series continues! Book 3 highlights Run DMC's rise to fame and introduces unassailable acts like Whodini, The Fat Boys, Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh. The Beastie Boys become a rap group. Rick Rubin meets Russell Simmons to form Def Jam. The famous TV pilot to th...
Fantagraphics Books
Hip Hop Family Tree Graphic...
$27.99
Book 4 of the best-selling series showcases the rise of Def Jam records, the birth of Dr. Dre's career and introduces up-starts such as Will Smith, Salt N Pepa, Rakim, and Biz Markie. Hollywood also begins to take notice, releasing films like Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Beat Street, ...
Penn State University Press
Taking Turns: Stories from ...
$24.95
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward. A shining example of excell...
Drawn & Quarterly
$24.95
The story begins with a mother's confession...sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean WarKeum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It’s not an uncommon story―the peninsula was split ...
Boom! Studios
Better Angels Kate Warne Ad...
$19.99
Everyone knows the tragic assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but what about the foiled attempt in his first year of presidency? In 1861, America's greatest detective saved the life of her country's greatest president... this is her true story. At a time when the American experiment was at a cros...
Graphic Mundi - PSU Press
Hakims Odyssey Graphic Nove...
$29.95
What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others' experiences when you haven't been in their shoes.In Hakim's Odyssey, we see fi...