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• This Place

  150 Years Retold

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  This is the graphic novel compendium that everyone should be reading. It starts with a story of a Métis woman in the time of Louis Riel and ends with a story set far in the future. Written and illustrated by some of today’s hottest Indigenous young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We'll Prescribe You a Cat

  Syou, Ishida, 1975-

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  "Tucked away in an old building in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feeding Ghosts

  a Graphic Memoir

  Hulls, Tessa, 1984-

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  Hulls' investigation of the locales of her grandmother’s famous memoir about life in, and escape from, Communist China unwinds in pages full of claustrophobic crosshatching. "...a revelatory work as layered as the history it explores." — Publishers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Committed

  Dispatches From a Psychiatrist in Training

  Stern, Adam (Psychiatrist)

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  This autobiography speaks to Dr. Adam Stern's experiences starting when he was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train in one of the most prestigious programs in the country. He found himself surrounded by students from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Letter to a Young Female Physician

  Notes From a Medical Life

  Koven, Suzanne

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  Adapted from Dr. Suzanne Koven's 2017 essay which was accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world this book of the same name goes into greater detail about the ups and downs of Dr. Koven's life and especially her life in the medical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ephemerata

  Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief

  Tyler, Carol

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  "In this intricate, wildly inventive graphic memoir from Eisner nominee Tyler (Soldier's Heart), grief is a physical place populated by odd but helpful guides. Carol is hit by an "anvil of sorrow" when her mother, sister, and multiple friends die in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book

  Hill, Gord

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  Gord Hill's illustrated history of Indigenous struggles has been expanded since it's first release in 2010 to include the struggles faced over the last decade such as the Idle No More protests, the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance & The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saga. [Volume One]

  Vaughan, Brian K.

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  Two soldiers from opposing sides of a long-running war fall in love and attempt to create a new kind of society in this first part of a sprawling series that is narrated by their young daughter, Hazel. The series is beautifully illustrated by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Delivery

  Dahm, Evan

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  With only a single delivery left to make it seems the day is nearly finished however what our small protagonist finds is not simple task. The delivery boy soon finds himself wandering through a sprawling, chaotic mansion filled with odd and…Read moreRead more of this annotation