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Six days in Cincinnati

a graphic account of the riots that shook the nation a decade before Black Lives Matter
2017
A graphic novel account of the six days of riots that followed the 2001 shooting of Timothy Thomas, a black youth, by a white police officer in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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A certain magical index

Touma Kamijou just can't catch a break. He might live in Academy City, a place full of more super powered students than you can shake a stick at, but his only superpower is his supernatural lack of luck. He wants nothing more than to keep a low profile, but when a girl named Index comes into his life, it gets more complicated and dangerous than ever!.
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The lives of Sacco and Vanzetti

the crime, the evidence, a global cause
2015
A graphic novel account of the lives and deaths of Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were accused of murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, tried, convicted, and executed, in a case that caused an uproar around the world due to the questionable circumstances surrounding the case.
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The prince and the dressmaker

"Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride--or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia--the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Sebastian's secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances--one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone's secret weapon means being a secret. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend?"--Back cover.
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Eagle strike

the graphic novel
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray, whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
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Escape from Syria

"A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers--all to find safety in the West."--.
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Henry Hudson

In graphic novel format describes the adventures of the seventeenth-century English explorer, from his search for a short route from Europe to the Orient to his mysterious disappearance after members of his crew mutinied.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!

millennium world
Yugi, finally in possession of all the Egyptian God Cards which hold the keys to unlocking his memories of his past life as an Egyptian pharaoh, uses the Millennium Eye to travel with his friends to ancient Egypt to explore his past and to fight an enemy who has been waiting for them for three thousand years.

Francisco V?squez de Coronado

Presents in graphic novel a brief biography of Spanish explorer and conquistador, Francisco V?squez de Coronado.
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Great expectations

A manga adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.
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