Biography & Autobiography

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  • They Called Us Enemy

    They Called Us Enemy

    $19.99

    New York Times Bestseller! Discover this award-winning masterpiece before the release of George Takei’s deeply personal follow-up, It Rhymes With Takei (June 2025). A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei’s childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon — and America itself — in…

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  • Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling

    Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling

    $35.00

    From the all-time bestselling mind behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City, Push the Wall is part memoir, part master class for budding artists and writers by one of the greatest living creators whose work has influenced pop culture for decades. Frank Miller is our greatest living comic book writer and…

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  • Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News Into Art

    Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News Into Art

    $35.00

    “A compelling biography of one of our nation’s greatest journalists. Outstanding.” –Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University “Well-reported and -researched.”–Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk A definitive account of the life and work of Garry Trudeau, creator of the massively popular and influential cartoon…

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  • Gender Queer: A Memoir

    Gender Queer: A Memoir

    $24.99

    2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book 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….

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  • The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2

    The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2

    $28.00

    Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. “A stunning graphic memoir…a wholly original achievement in…

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  • The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

    The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

    $38.00

    The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) – PULITZER PRIZE WINNER – One of Variety‘s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read” A brutally moving work of art–widely…

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  • Everything in Color: A Love Story

    Everything in Color: A Love Story

    $29.99

    “In her luminous debut, Stalvey meditates on her separation from fundamentalist Christianity and how she found love despite questioning her faith. ” –Publishers Weekly, starred reviewInterrogating her own upbringing in an evangelical community, Stephanie Stalvey weaves a story of faith, alienation, romance and acceptance, in this beautifully painted graphic memoir. Stephanie grew up in an…

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  • Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

    Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

    $27.00

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2025 ANISFIELD WOLF PRIZEWINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVELWINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD KIRKUS NONFICTION PRIZE FINALIST, LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL, SHORTLISTED FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF…

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  • The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

    The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

    $19.99

    WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD – A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the impact and…

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  • Who Circled the Globe in Seventy-Two Days? Nellie Bly: A Who HQ Graphic Novel

    Who Circled the Globe in Seventy-Two Days? Nellie Bly: A Who HQ Graphic Novel

    $13.99

    Follow trailblazing journalist Nellie Bly on a record-breaking trip around the world in this exciting graphic novel about one of America’s first female investigative reporters. Presenting Who HQ Graphic Novels: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was? series! Discover how Nellie Bly made headlines in 1889 with one of her…

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    Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

    $16.99

    “Combs and Eakett do a fantastic job of providing readers an incredibly comprehensive and strongly researched–yet somehow compact–look into the history of trans identity.” —School Library Journal (starred review)An essential introduction to trans history, from ancient times to the present day, in full-color graphic nonfiction format. Deeply researched, highly readable, and featuring a broad range…

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  • Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph: (History’s Greatest Games #1)

    Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph: (History’s Greatest Games #1)

    $12.99

    This thrilling new nonfiction graphic novel series offers a front row seat to the greatest moments in sports history, starting with Lionel Messi and his triumph in the 2022 FIFA World Cup against French superstar Kylian Mbappé A Junior Library Guild Selection ***STARRED REVIEW*** “Packed with world history and soccer lore, this is a promising…

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  • Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11): A Korean War Tale

    Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11): A Korean War Tale

    $15.99

    Discover the Korean War through the eyes of a journalist who covered it in author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s Cold War Correspondent, a Hazardous Tale in the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series. In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were…

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  • Major Taylor: The World’s Fastest Man

    Major Taylor: The World’s Fastest Man

    $30.00

    Celebrating the history-making Black American who smashed world records and became a global cycling sensation! Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor was one of the greatest American athletes of the early 20th century, setting records in regional bike races as a teen and winning his first world championship by the age of twenty. But Taylor was born…

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  • Weirdo

    Weirdo

    $14.99

    “A touching story of belonging.” — Publisher’s Weekly, starred review“Honest, hopeful..” —Kirkus, starred reviewA Kirkus Best Book of the YearA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Eleven-year-old Tony Weaver, Jr. loves comic books, anime, and video games, and idolizes the heroic, larger-than-life characters he finds there….

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  • The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (a Graphic Novel)

    The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (a Graphic Novel)

    $24.99

    From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic novel biography of two literary lions–C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien–following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks “Masterful. . . Effortlessly blending fantasy and reality.” (BCCB, starred review) Through narrative and…

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