Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir

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  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

    Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

    $39.95

    A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023!“An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival.”–Carmen Maria Machado Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a…

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  • My Alcoholic Escape from Reality

    My Alcoholic Escape from Reality

    $14.99

    An emotional new diary comic from the award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary. Kabi’s downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can’t stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. A new chapter unfolds as she struggles to find her way back from a breakdown.

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    Stitches

    $18.99

    The #1 “New York Times” bestseller and National Book Award finalist “breaks new ground for graphic novels.”–Francois Mouly, art editor, “The New Yorker.”

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    The Secret to Superhuman Strength

    $24.00

    The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 A New York Times Notable Book An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the Year NPR, 12 Books NPR Staffers…

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    The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography

    $28.00

    A brilliant collaboration between internationally acclaimed Jane Austen expert, Janine Barchas, and New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, Isabel Greenberg. The Novel Life of Jane Austen is a one-of-a-kind, impeccably researched, ecstatically drawn graphic biography of one of the world’s most beloved literary icons. Combining deep scholarship and serious whimsy, The Novel Life of Jane…

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  • My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 2

    My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 2

    $14.99

    The sequel series to the award-winning My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness! Living on her own is harder than Nagata Kabi expected. Building relationships is difficult too, but with a new friendship to cultivate and a new perspective on her family, she’s doing her best to open up and become a warm, compassionate person! “[…]readers who…

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  • Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir

    Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir

    $22.00

    Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle…

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  • Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus

    Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus

    $25.00

    NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER – Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals – Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics,…

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  • My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better

    My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better

    $14.99

    The latest diary manga from the Harvey Award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness and My Wandering Warrior Existence. In this new autobiographical manga following My Wandering Warrior Existence, Nagata Kabi has quit drinking in an attempt to get healthier-or she’s trying to, anyway. Her former struggles with alcohol led to pancreatitis and a…

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  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

    Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

    $22.00

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “beautiful and eye-opening” (Jacqueline Woodson), “hilarious and heart-rending” (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly…

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    The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists

    $19.95

    This non-fiction comics anthology presents stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont, and drawn by New England cartoonists as part of the El Viaje Más Caro Project-a health care outreach effort of the Open Door Clinic and UVM Extension Bridges to Health aimed at addressing the overlooked mental health…

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  • How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings

    How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings

    $28.00

    A wryly personal and deeply relatable graphic memoir skewering the “traditional” parenting book to chronicle the absurdities, frustrations, and soaring joys of new parenthood–from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and authorA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR How do you know if you’re ready to have a baby? How do you know if you…

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  • My Wandering Warrior Existence

    My Wandering Warrior Existence

    $14.99

    The newest diary manga from the Harvey Award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. After attending a friend’s wedding, Nagata Kabi decides she wants one of her own. That’s not the only thing she wants–she longs to love and be loved. But she has three major problems: she has no partner, no dating experience,…

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  • Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It

    Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It

    $24.95

    Riotous bodies abound in these deeply honest comics that will get you through it (or at least help)“When you order CBD gummies for your anxiety but forget to consider your eating disorder.” Known for her buzzing colors, delightful patterns, sharp humor, and unflinching vulnerability, Tara Booth does not miss any mark in this exquisitely woven…

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  • You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir

    You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir

    $32.00

    A poignant and witty graphic memoir from New Yorker cover artist, internationally syndicated cartoonist, and New York Times bestselling author Harry Bliss capturing his reflections on life and his relationship with Penny, his beloved dog New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss loved his sweet dog Penny, a joyful part of his life for seventeen years. Every…

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  • All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey

    All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey

    $21.95

    From the author of Dear Scarlet comes a graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parents Beginning with her mother’s stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her…

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