Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir

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  • Grass

    Grass

    $29.95

    Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year! Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the…

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    The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.

    $27.99

    Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of The Washington Post‘s 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year * One of NYPL’s Best Books of the Year * A Publishers Weekly “Best Book of the Year” A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator…

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  • The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

    The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

    $28.99

    A national bestseller and American Book Award winner, The Best We Could Do is an intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam from debut author Thi Bui. In what Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a book to break your heart and heal it,” The Best We Could Do…

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  • Mom’s Cancer: Anniversary Edition

    Mom’s Cancer: Anniversary Edition

    $21.99

    Timed for the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning webcomic-turned-graphic novel, Mom’s Cancer is a revised and expanded edition featuring 32 pages of all-new material. With 22 additional comics pages and new essays from Brian Fies; nurse MK Czerwiec, cofounder of graphicmedicine.org; and editor Charles Kochman, this edition is a must-have. Winner of…

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    Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing

    $17.99

    In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird,” beloved author Rosenblatt issues a moving call-to-arms on the value and necessity of writing that’s full of practical insights and advice on the craft.

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  • Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz - The Creator of Snoopy and Peanuts

    Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz – The Creator of Snoopy and Peanuts

    $13.99

    The Manga Biographies series explores the fascinating lives of legendary figures who accomplished extraordinary feats, all told through the fantastic lens of Japanese manga storytelling. Charles M. Schulz is the creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, and many more wonderful characters who inhabit the world of Peanuts. Now, learn how a shy, young Schulz first…

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  • Persépolis / Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

    Persépolis / Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

    $23.95

    Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI según el New York Times TIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos EL GRAN CLÁSICO DE LA NOVELA GRÁFICA, en su edición definitiva Persépolis nos cuenta la revolución islámica iraní vista desde los ojos de una niña que asiste atónita al cambio profundo…

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  • Elon Musk: American Oligarch

    Elon Musk: American Oligarch

    $24.95

    An unvarnished, critical graphic biography of the tech innovator and former presidential confidant by the author/illustrator of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator and Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful. Darryl Cunningham’s new graphic biography of Elon Musk is a riveting deep-dive into the audacious mind and tumultuous journey of the world’s…

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  • The Art of George Wilson

    The Art of George Wilson

    $75.00

    What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Wilson also turned in hundreds of painted covers for paperback books that range from The Phantom and Flash Gordon to romance, adventure and war titles, all illustrated in the extensive survey of his…

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  • The Man Without Talent

    The Man Without Talent

    $24.95

    A Japanese manga legend’s autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language. Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics’ most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book…

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  • Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love

    Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love

    $24.95

    A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt’s partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after…

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  • Everything Is Ok

    Everything Is Ok

    $16.99

    From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant collection of comics about anxiety and depression. Everything Is OK is the story of Debbie Tung’s struggle with anxiety and her experience with depression. She shares what it’s like navigating life, overthinking every possible worst-case scenario, and constantly…

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  • Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

    Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

    $24.99

    From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form. Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Times, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and NPR, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio…

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  • A Drifting Life

    A Drifting Life

    $39.95

    The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a prize at the Festival de la BD d’Angoulême, and was adapted into a feature film that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, legendary manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi uses…

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    Brittle Joints

    $20.99

    2025 Eisner Award Nominee! New York Public Library Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2024 American Library Associate Top 10 Best Graphic Novels for Adults of 2024 Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. “It’s a revealing visualization of a rare, ‘depersonalizing’ condition and how Sweeney finds ‘drops of disabled joy whenever I can.’ Sweeney’s subtle and elegant…

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  • Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

    Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

    $19.99

    Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Redbone. You’ve heard the hit song “Come and Get Your Love” in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but the story of the band behind…

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