Graphic Novels

An intelligent and touching autobiographical memoir in which cartoonist Alison Bechdel painstakingly recounts her years growing up in the family home, which doubled up as a funeral parlor. The book's two-tone artwork adds a visual depth and focus that matches the clarity and precision of the narrative. -plot summary from "500 essential graphic novels" The 2015 Tony Award-winning musical of the same name is based on this novel.

A warts-and-all biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. that follows the legendary civil rights campaigner from 1952 up until his death in 1968. --plot summary from "500 essential graphic novels"

Houston, Texas, 1968
Two families -one black, one white-find common ground in the very conflict that threatens to pull them apart. --from the back cover. Art by Nate Powell

John Robert Lewis is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987.
This book received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor in 2014.

Nate Powell is the illustrator for the series. Andrew Aydin is the co-author of the series.

The last book in the trilogy.

Athens at war in 490 B.C.

The New York cartoonist traces the creative process that went into drawing his Pulitzer Prizewinning classic, revealing the sources of his inspiration and describing his parents' emotional struggles as Holocaust survivors after the end of World War II. -- summary from "Graphic Novel Core Collection"

With contributions by: Haig Bosmajian, Bradley Alan Katz, Michael G. Levine, David Mikics, Nancy K. Miller, Alan C. Rosen, Michael Rothberg and Arlene Fish Wilner.

This is the 25th anniversary edition of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize winning, multilayered family saga set during the Holocaust.