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Beef volume 1
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May 2023
The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
Chuck Carter is a mild-mannered slaughterer of cows at The Beef meat processing plant. But when the object of his affections is pursued across a strawberry patch by a mad cow, Chuck takes on the mantle of THE BEEF.
2) Maids
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April 2023
Description
"Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin's increasingly unhinged...
3) Monsters
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March 2023
The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
"In this pen-and-ink graphic novel, in 1964, Bobby Bailey is recruited for a U.S. military experimental genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany 20 years prior. His only ally, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes to try to protect him, which sets off a chain of events that spin out of everyone's control. As the titular monsters multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning....
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February 2023
The library does not own any copies of this title.
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One of the greatest horror franchises of all time returns, now under the control of its original creator! Clive Barker has touched Hellraiser only twice: once to write The Hellbound Heart, and once more to write and direct the original Hellraiser film. Now witness Barker's long-awaited return to tell a new chapter in the series' official continuity - a trajectory that will forever change the Cenobites and Pinhead! Volume 1 collects issues #1-4.
5) Keeping two
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"20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie,...
6) Disciples
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"Marin County, 1978. In this graphic novel, teens Clara and Wendy get high one night alone at home. Before the night ends, they've disappeared -- until five months later, when Clara is found, disheveled, but alive, in Death Valley National Park. From Clara's mysterious reappearance in Death Valley, Disciples cuts to the present day, where stories of "The California Cult" and its enigmatic--and never-caught--leader, Billy Joe, are as much a part of...
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Good Asian volume 1
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August 2022
The library does not own any copies of this title.
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Writer Pornsak Pichetshote's long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed INFIDEL with stunning art by Alexandre Tefenkgi (Outpost Zero)! Following Edison Hark, 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.
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November 2022
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 Gha
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741.5 Gha
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Hillwood High - Teen Biography
B Gha Gha
1 available
B Gha Gha
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Marshall Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 G
1 available
741.5 G
1 available
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First edition.
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 Gha
1 available
741.5 Gha
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Hillwood High - Teen Biography
B Gha Gha
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B Gha Gha
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Marshall Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 G
1 available
741.5 G
1 available
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Available Online
Published
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Available Online
Description
"I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and...
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Bitter root volume 1
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October 2022
The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...
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"In the summer of 1971, New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America -- abused prisoners, rampant racism and a blind eye turned towards the injustices perpetrated against the powerless. But when the guards at Attica overreact to a minor incident, the prisoners decide they've had enough and revolt -- taking their jailers hostage and making demands for humane conditions." --Provided by publisher.
11) Gender queer
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
741.59 Kob Kob
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741.59 Kob Kob
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Maplewood High - Teen Comic/Graphic
GRA 306.76 KOB
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GRA 306.76 KOB
1 available
Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Biography
B KOB KOB
1 available
B KOB KOB
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
741.59 Kob Kob
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741.59 Kob Kob
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Maplewood High - Teen Comic/Graphic
GRA 306.76 KOB
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GRA 306.76 KOB
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Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Biography
B KOB KOB
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B KOB KOB
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Available Online
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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Little Bird volume 1
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"Little Bird was born into war, and it's the only life she's known. When her village is destroyed and her mother is kidnapped by the oppressive American Empire, she fights to reignite the resistance that once was, and defeat the enemy - to save her people, to discover her own identity in a world on fire." --Provided by publisher.
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La Voz De M.A.Y.O: Tata Rambo is based on the oral history of Ramon Jaurigue, an orphan and WWII veteran who co-founded the Mexican, American, Yaqui, and Others (M.A.Y.O.) organization, which successfully lobbied the Tucson City Council to improve living and working conditions for members of the Pascua Yaqui tribe. Thanks to this period of activism, the Yaquis were federally recognized as one of the remaining Native American tribes. Meanwhile Ramon's...
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Little Bird volume 1
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"Little Bird was born into war, and it's the only life she's known. When her village is destroyed and her mother is kidnapped by the oppressive American Empire, she fights to reignite the resistance that once was, and defeat the enemy - to save her people, to discover her own identity in a world on fire." --Provided by publisher.
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an oppressed and ultimately scapegoated woman with courage, strength, and inspiring...
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Antioch High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 HAL
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741.5 HAL
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 HAL
1 available
741.5 HAL
1 available
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 HAL
1 available
741.5 HAL
1 available
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Antioch High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 HAL
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741.5 HAL
1 available
Cane Ridge High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 HAL
1 available
741.5 HAL
1 available
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 HAL
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741.5 HAL
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Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...
17) Pulp
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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"Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word--tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?"--Provided by publisher.
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography
B Bui Bui
1 available
B Bui Bui
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Biography
B 741.5 BUI
1 available
B 741.5 BUI
1 available
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Biography
B Bui Bui
1 available
B Bui Bui
1 available
Published
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Biography
B 741.5 BUI
1 available
B 741.5 BUI
1 available
Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Biography
B Bui Bui
1 available
B Bui Bui
1 available
Published
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On Shelf
Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography
B Bui Bui
1 available
B Bui Bui
1 available
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Biography
B Bui Bui
1 available
B Bui Bui
1 available
Description
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format.
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Non-Fiction
940.53 SPI
1 available
940.53 SPI
1 available
East Nashville Magnet Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 SPI
1 available
741.5 SPI
1 available
Glencliff High - Teen Comic/Graphic
940.53 SPI
1 available
940.53 SPI
1 available
Published
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Non-Fiction
940.53 SPI
1 available
940.53 SPI
1 available
East Nashville Magnet Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 SPI
1 available
741.5 SPI
1 available
Glencliff High - Teen Comic/Graphic
940.53 SPI
1 available
940.53 SPI
1 available
20) Black River
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
Josh Simmons returns with his first full-length graphic novel since 2007's acclaimed House. A group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to a comedy club, take a drug called Gumdrop, and encounter gangs of men who are fools, lunatics, or murderous sadists. In other words, all manner of terrors....