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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.

The 14th Dalai Lama

a manga biography
2010
A graphic novel biography of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Neon genesis evangelion

angelic days
2006
Shinji Ikari's typical Tokyo teenager life changes after he runs smack into the new transfer student--who accuses him of looking up her skirt--and begins having haunting dreams about a robotic "other.".

Journey into Mohawk Country

2006
An illustrated children's version of the journal of a young Dutch trader, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois Indians, a Mohawk tribe that controlled the trade routes in the area, in 1634, seeking to bolster the Dutch trade in what is now New York State.

Mendel's daughter

2006
A graphic novel in which Martin Lemelman recounts his mother's childhood in 1930s Poland and her escape from Nazi persecution.

A trip to the bottom of the world with Mouse

a Toon book
2012
A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.

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