Books and Reading

Graphic Novels

This cool genre combines words and pictures into stories of superheroes, make-believe, and real life.



link to catalog Araña: The heart of the spider by Fiona Avery
Fiesty teenager Anya Corazón is saved from death by a mysterious mage named Miguel. Now, Anya is pledged to fight alongside Miguel and the Spider Society.
link to catalog The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
“Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one!" The famous Lizzie Borden double murder is explored.
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Catwoman: The visual guide to the feline fatale by Scott Beatty
Reveals every possible aspect of this fascinating, enigmatic she-rogue as she has appeared in DC comic books over more than six thrill-packed decades.

link to catalog Depths by Paul Chadwick
Part man, part... rock? Over seven feet tall and weighing over a thousand pounds, he is known as Concrete but is in reality the mind of one Ronald Lithgow, trapped inside a shell of stone.
link to catalog Emily the Strange by Reger, Brooks, and Gruner
Meet Emily, the peculiar soul with long black hair, a wit of fire, and a posse of slightly sinister black cats.
link to catalog Greatest Stars of the NBA: Jason Kidd by John Finkel
Traces the basketball career of this NBA star from 1992 through 2004. Illustrated with photos of actual games. Includes statistics, breakdowns of his best-known moves, and a timeline of major events.
link to catalog Halo and Sprocket by Kerry Callen
Share in the quirky fun as big-hearted Katie copes with the unlikely challenges of living with an all-powerful angel and a socially naive robot.
link to catalog The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
Take a group of extraordinary literary figures like Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll, the Invisible Man and Mina Harker and put them together to save England from its enemies.
link to catalog Lenore: Noogies by Roman Dirge
A romp into the dark, surreal world of a little dead girl. Featuring stories about limbless cannibals, clock monsters, cursed vampire dolls, taxidermied friends, an obssesed would-be lover and more fuzzy animal mutilations than should be legal.
link to catalog New X-Men: Volume I by Grant Morrison
A new foe, voted favorite villain by the Wizard Fan Awards, uncovers a city populated by a deadly technology and unleashes mass destruction on all the world's mutants. Only the X-Men stand in her way.
link to catalog Spyboy by Peter David
High school student Alex Fleming`s life is the standard teenage mix of homework, dating anxiety, and getting his face shoved in the toilet by school bullies until one day when his dormant abilities begin to surface as he is drawn into a hidden world of mystery, intrigue, and bizarre villainy.
book jacket Teen Titans by Geoff Johns
Cyborg, a former teen hero, realizes that the adolescent sidekicks of the world's most powerful heroes need to be guided and trained, so he recruits young superheroes.

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Zits by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
This hilarious comic strip portrays the angst of being a 15-year-old male bursting with the questions, concerns, and insecurities of being in a teenager.
link to catalog Blankets by Craig Thompson
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers.

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Last modified on Friday, October 09, 2009