Comics & Graphic Novels

Depressed over the slow progress of his training, Koushi spends the day with Sanae to take a break from the world of martial arts, if only for an afternoon. Momoko is worried when she sees her fianc in the company of another woman, but...

Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don't get noticed by the mean kids.Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them.On her first day at her new school, Penelope--Peppi--Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips...

Boisterous, impulsive Haruhi Suzumiya commands the spotlight wherever she goes! But the SOS Brigade chief wouldn't be any kind of chief at all without a supporting cast of club members to command as well. And there's no one she loves ordering around as much...

Before commanding Class Zero of the elite magic academy Akademeia, before a bloody tragedy unfolded before his eyes, Kurasame was simply an Agito cadet of Class Three. Thus begins the tale of a legend, of a boy who would become one of the Four...

Arakita vs Machimiya-who will emerge victorious?!Challenged to an impromptu race where twenty meters decide the difference between winners and losers, Onoda and his hodgepodge team struggle to fend off Kureminami's wild beast, Machimiya. The revenge-crazed sprinter is ready to claim victory-until a sudden attack...

ACCA vice-chairman Jean Otus would much rather be talking about bread, but everyone around him seems intent on talking about the coup. When his audit in Suitsu goes sideways and Jean lands smack in the middle of open rebellion, will the swirling rumors about...

A young woman's desperate flight from her would-be captors leads her directly into the path of Madam Rose--or, more accurately, Madam Rose's car. While the accident has delivered the girl from her pursers, the impact has left her with no memory of who she...

A dark, menacingly brilliant tale, tinged with the erotic . . . a kind of film noir between covers directed by Fellini. ― LA Times Brilliant, funny, hallucinatory. ― Joyce Carol Oates More engaging than 96 percent of the fiction published in France or...

A biography examining the life of Benjamin Franklin and his leadership as a statesman, scientist, inventor, and printer. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Barbara Schulz, Kay Melchisedech OlsonPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.90w x 0.10dISBN: 9780736861892Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level:...

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote his own original stories...

From their hiding places in the darkness of the Louisiana bayou, to the scorched earth of the Badlands where they assume free rein, the myths and monsters of American folklore are a part of our culture we cannot escape. In this continuation of the...

England, 1873. John Caldigate, a young gentleman, gets into debt gambling and decides to try his luck in the gold fields of New South Wales. On the outward journey, he promises to marry Mrs. Smith, a divorced actress who is traveling in the same...

Can love survive? It's winter, and a bitter chill of desperation has settled over Miki and Hiro. Far from home, the young couple treks through the frozen north, with Akuzu's powerful agents hot on their trail. Miki knows they are determined to tear her...

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world,...

USS Stevens is both an excellent graphic narrative and an important record of an American warship's service in the Pacific campaign of World War Two. It also serves as a fine tribute to the young sailors of the US Navy, who faced the forces...

Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic...

The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation is a full-color illustrated look at Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech, the bloody battle of the Civil War that prompted it, and how they led to a defining point in the history of America. Most of us can...

The Graphic Novelization of a Classic Tale A handsome and sweet-tempered horse, Black Beauty is strong and spirited. His mother warns him that there are bad, cruel men in the world, but Black Beauty sees none of it in his fine, happy home. Until...

Shazam(TM), the World's Mightiest Mortal, swoops in to save the day in this DC Super Friends Step into Reading book with shiny stickers Shazam(TM), Wonder Woman(TM), Superman(TM), and the rest of the DC Super Friends(TM) star in this all-new Step 2 Step into Reading...

Now in paperback, The New York Times best-selling graphic nonfiction masterpiece depicting the lives of seven New Orleanians before, during, and just after Hurricane Katrina. Best American Comics, 2010Mother Jones Top Books of 2009Daily Beast RecommendsNew York Best Comics of 2009, Runner UpMTV.com Best...