Graphic Mundi (Firm)
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
117 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A real-life mystery of books and basketball. Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn's James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time, and he was recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina. But Frankie dropped out before playing a single game. A real-life mystery of books and basketball....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Description
261 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world. What does it mean to be a “refugee”? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others’ experiences when you haven’t been in their shoes. In Hakim’s Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian...
5) The mare
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A juvenile fiction coming-of-age story in graphic novel format, exploring issues of self-doubt and restlessness in the late teenage years"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
184 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel examining the fat body in contemporary Western culture through the experiential journey of the book's hero, who chooses to lose weight in a world that has dictated the medical and social dangers of being too fat"--
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
vi, 135 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Social stigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes to menopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat it alone. Featuring works by comics luminaries such as Lynda Barry, Joyce Farmer, Ellen Forney, and Carol Tyler, Menopause is the perfect antidote to the simplistic, cheap-joke approach that treats menopause as a cultural taboo. This anthology challenges stereotypes with perspectives...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
253 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and selling what he can in the streets, it's hard to survive--and impossible for the family to stay together. Reluctantly separated from the woman he loves and alone with his child, Hakim will have to overcome incredible odds and seemingly impossible obstacles to reunite his family, which leads him to make the most difficult decision of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Description
245 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach European soil, full of hope. But before they can get to France, they face a new series of challenges: overcrowded detention centers, run-ins with border police, and a persistent xenophobia that seems to follow them almost everywhere they go. Will Hakim's determination and the kindness of strangers be enough to carry him to the end of his journey and reunite his family? By turns heart-warming...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
129 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, depicting the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions-and sometimes violent conflict. From political protests to personal struggles with school, body image, and relationships with family and friends, Tohar Sherman-Friedman's life is an inspiring story of conflicting convictions, rebellion, and personal growth. Tohar recounts her experience as the youngest of seven children...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
x, 150 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination. Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements' success. This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s in such places...
12) Bipolar bear and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad health insurance: a fable for grownups
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
197 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel about navigating the US medical insurance system and receiving fair and adequate coverage for mental illness. Based on the author's own experience in being treated for bipolar disorder"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
105 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A recollection, in graphic novel format, of the author's ambivalent feelings regarding motherhood while growing up, and an exploration of the imposition of motherhood on women as both an expectation and a path toward fulfillment"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
146 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Catherine is diagnosed with acute leukemia, a deadly form of cancer that attacks the immune system, her life is turned upside down. Young and previously healthy, she now finds herself catapulted into the world of the seriously ill―constantly testing and waiting for results, undergoing endless medical treatments, learning to accept a changing body, communicating with a medical team, and relying on the support of her partner, family, and friends....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows the stories, in graphic novel format, of two twenty-something roommates, one Christian and one atheist, as they seek to find their place in the world. Explores the themes of faith deconstruction, identity, young love, and loss to create an engrossing world in which waking and sleeping dreams collide"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
268 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Maus, Palestine, and Persepolis, Vanni is a graphic novel documenting the human side of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the zTamil Tigers.y Told from the perspective of a single family, it takes readers through the horrors and life-changing decisions individuals are forced to make when caught up in someone else's war. Set in the northern region of Sri Lanka, which was devastated by the civil war, this graphic...