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Asterix and the soothsayer

2004
One stormy night, a sinister little man arrives in the little Gaulish village, and Prolix says he's a soothsayer and the villagers believe everything he says, but Asterix suspects otherwise.

Anne Frank

2008
A graphic novel describing the short life of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others hid from the Nazis until a Dutch informer revealed the whereabouts of their secret annex.

The story of Jamestown

2006
Presents a short history of the founding of the Jamestown settlement in 1607 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the settlers' encounters with Native Americans and their struggles to maintain a permanent settlement in the New World.

Thomas Paine writes Common Sense

2012
A graphic novel that depicts Thomas Paine and his experience drafting "Common Sense." Includes a glossary.

Pyongyang

a journey in North Korea
2005
Documents the two months French animator, Guy Delisle spent overseeing cartoon production in North Korea, where he records everything from the statues and portraits of dictators Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il to the ordinary citizens of the country.

A bag of marbles

In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.

Clockwork prince

2013
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.

Clockwork angel

2012
Sixteen-year-old American Tessa Gray gets caught up in the supernatural world of Victorian London after she is rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.

Lily Ren?e, escape artist

from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer
2011
A graphic novel biography of Lily Ren?e Wilheim, who, at fourteen years old, was forced to travel alone from Austria to England to escape the Nazis and faced servitude, hardship, and danger before becoming a pioneer of the comic book genre.

The Beast of Chicago

an account of the life and crimes of Herman W. Mudgett
2003
A graphic novel account of the life and grisly career of serial killer H.H. Holmes, particularly focusing on his life in Chicago, where he was responsible for an unknown number of deaths in the late nineteenth century.

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