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The New York Public Library’s Best New Comics of 2025 for Adults An urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts to kidnap him In Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being…
“[A] vibrant, poignant book.” –NPR Book Reviews 1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi regime and reunite with…
An NPR Best Book of the Year This moving graphic memoir is a coming-of-age story set in Poland as the country transitions from communism to capitalism. Perfect for fans of Persepolis!In the late 1980s, Poland faces debilitating food shortages, worker discontent, and astronomical inflation. Seemingly overnight, the country transitions from communism to capitalism. During this…
WINNER OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE – Available for the first time in English: a moving and masterful graphic memoir exploring one woman’s search for identity as she slowly uncovers the truth of how her Jewish relatives “disappeared” during World War II. Told through a genre-defying blend of illustrations, photography, and found objects, Remember…
An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. Combining the solemnity of so-called serious literature and…
Beautifully illustrated graphic novel for fans of history and biography Athens, 399 BC. In what may be remembered as the first trial for crimes of opinion, Socrates is sentenced to death. Accused of corrupting youth with atheistic doctrines, the philosopher’s line of defense is uncompromising and defiant. He is thus sentenced to drink hemlock by…
Accused of treason four times by three governments, William Rotch led a harrowing life. A Quaker merchant in the Age of Revolution, he refused to fight for either independence or empire. To governments and neighbors, his pacifism looked like treachery. As he fled from Nantucket to France to Britain and back again, Rotch suffered looting,…
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is an act of self-discovery and the resuscitation of historical memory. At its heart is the intersection of a genocidal political moment in 20th century history and the author’s own family history. Told from the perspectives of four generations of the author’s family, spanning pre-war Germany to post-Trump America,…
On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world’s first Black heavyweight champion–and most infamous athlete in the world because of his race–was paired against Jim Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion then heralded as the “great…
Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors,…
In 1985, DC Comics launched the most ambitious crossover event in comics history: Crisis on Infinite Earths. Four decades later, filmmaker and lifelong comic book fan Kevin Miller unpacks the tangled web of continuity, creators, and corporate pressures that gave rise to this multiverse-shattering epic. The Crisis Companion is both a personal love letter to…
Eisner Award Nomination: Best Adaptation from Another Medium Ignatz Award Nomination: Outstanding Artist “A sweeping, majestic saga.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “An engaging, robust, and exciting adaptation of a true story.” — BOOKLIST“Stunning and dynamic illustrations .” — FOREWORD REVIEWS A graphic novel adaption of the history masterpiece ranked #1 on National Geographic’s list of the…
Loki: mischief-maker, shapeshifter, and father to monsters. Explore the enigmatic god of Norse mythology in this richly illustrated guide. This authentic introduction to the Norse god Loki Laufeyjarson delves into his history, enduring legacy, and impact on the Norse pantheon. Revered in Norse paganism as the god of chaos, Loki is audacious, conniving, and wildly…
[Rating: PG-13] From the author of the award-winning novels, The Indian Fighter and The Cow Hunters (Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award), this is the First novel in the “Tropical Frontier” series. NOTE: This volume INCLUDES “The Wreckers,” the separate and stand-alone novel formatted especially for young readers.The Southern Frontier: A road-less, watery wilderness,…
At the time of his 1939 suicide, the German antifascist dramatist Ernst Toller was a global celebrity. After leading Bavaria’s failed revolution in 1919, the plays and poems that he wrote in prison were translated into more than a dozen languages. Toller’s fame reached new levels after Hitler seized power in 1933, and his opposition…
Forged in the crucible of the Korean War, and produced by veterans of the Second World War, this volume’s eight issues present the brutality and grimness of armed combat by some of Atlas’ most notable war artists and future comics stars including Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Dave Berg, Jay Scott Pike, Mike Sekowsky,…
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