graphic novels

Ariel Grace Jones has just finished high school and she's ready to make it big with her punk band, the Baby Hares. But the band's dreams of stardom soon clash with the realities of life and frustrations mount among band members. As Ariel is deciding to call it quits, a local punk icon takes an interest in their band and gives them the break they've been looking for.

"Something is wrong with Claire, but she doesn't know what. Nobody does, not even her doctors. All she wants is to return to her happy and athletic teenage self. But her accumulating symptoms--chronic fatigue, pounding headaches, weight gain--hint that there's something not right inside Claire's body. Claire's high school experience becomes filled with MRIs, visits to the Mayo Clinic, and multiple surgeries to remove a brain tumor. But even in her most difficult moments battling chronic illness, Claire manages to find solace in her family, her closest friends, and her art. A deeply personal and visually arresting memoir that draws on the author's high school diaries and drawings, One in a Million is also a sophisticated portrayal of pain, depression, and fear that any teen or adult can relate to. With a sensitive preface and an author's note connecting past to present, this true story of resilience strikes a moving balance between raw honesty in the face of medical and mental trauma and the everyday musings of a teenager."--.

"Marie and Nathalie are the queens of make-believe. They've run through every scenario that is possible, somewhat plausible, or frankly unbelievable: secret-agent ninjas launching a surprise-attack on an ice-cream stand, super-heroes hell-bent on making country music disappear, even lost astronauts condemned to spend millions of light-years in another dimension. The name of the game? "What If We Were..." But all of this was a mere prelude to "What If We Were... For Real!" This new version is just like the classic game, minus the mental gymnastics of thinking up fantasy scenarios. Because now Marie and Nathalie's wildest fantasies are coming true... for real!" -- page 4 of cover.

"Bear, Staffan Gnosspelius's debut book, is a gorgeous visual meditation on depression. In this deeply affecting, wordless picture book for adults, a bear is maddeningly afflicted with a cone that covers his head and that he is unable to take off. He furiously stomps and yells and tears at the cone, he implores the skies and fate for relief, he is drawn to dark and wild and scary places. The depths of his sadness feel like a defeat. It's a battle he wages until he's mentally and physically exhausted. Then, one day, Bear hears notes of music, the humming of a friendly hare. The hare hovers nearby, concerned, sometimes driven away by Bear's frustration and anger, more often staying close and gently offering support. The author began drawing a bear with a cone on his head as a way to make sense of how a person close to him was suffering from mental illness. The resulting book is both an emotional gut punch and a warm embrace, recognizable immediately to anyone who has ever suffered or loved someone who has suffered in similar dark places. In other words, all of us"--.

Fifteen-year-old Ash has never felt like they fit in, and the only person who ever really understood them was their Grandpa Edwin, but ever since his death, things have only gotten worse. Their parents haven't fully accepted their name change and newly shorn hair, and Ash is deeply concerned about the climate crisis that no one else seems to care about. So when Ash learns their family is planning on selling Grandpa Edwin's old ranch, they come up with a plan to find Grandpa's secret cabin in the woods and stay there forever. With their dog, Chase, Ash sets out into the California wilderness to find the cabin and learns to live off the land, but when a wildfire threatens their safety, Ash must make an impossible decision.

Despite being a huge unathletic nerd, Jonah decides to join the baseball team in ninth grade because it means he'll get to spend more time with his crush, Elliot. Jonah must navigate the highs and lows of high school as he deals with bullies, coming out, schoolwork, friendships, and being honest with who he really is.

The students who have remained at Strange Academy prepare to take their final examinations, but then they get a lead on Gaslamp and their missing friend Calvin, and the group sets out to rescue him. Emily joins forces with Dormammu and sets a plan into motion to destroy Strange Academy once and for all, so Doyle and his friends must go up against a super-powered Emily and the most powerful villain they've ever faced.

Raven Roth and Garfield Logan cross paths when they both head to Nashville to meet Slade Wilson, a mysterious man who says he has the answers to all their questions. As they wait for Slade, the two spend more time together and slowly become friends and possibly something more. But when they are kidnapped by Slade, Raven's foster sister Max and Damien Wayne team up to help break them out of a mysterious facility.

Long before Starlight, Jedha was a beacon of hope, faith, and spirituality across the galaxy, but when Jedi Vildar Mac arrives in the Holy City, he discovers times are changing and tensions are rising. A holy relic is stolen and a Jedi is found dead in an ancient shrine, and Vildar realizes that someone is sewing discord and pitting the various Force-senstive factions on Jehda against each other.

Jedi Knights Porter Engle and his sister Barash Silvain are summoned to a far-off planet for help in finding a kidnapped princess and find themselves battling an army of mercenaries and a dangerous Jedi killer.