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1) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Just roll with it volume 2
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
310 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
School is out for the summer, the pool is open, and new adventures with friends await, but twelve-year-old Max must deal with his anxiety issues.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Viz signature edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
254 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"HBO's four-season TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has enjoyed success with critics and viewers in the U.S.; the novel has been adapted for the stage and radio plays. Here, for the first time, it is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel by one of Italy's most beloved illustrators. For Ferrante fans, for those new to Ferrante, for readers of graphic novels, Chiara Lagani's and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: the graphic novel is a thrilling...
4) Nejishiki
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
180, lxi pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nejishiki represents the pinnacle of avant-garde manga. Originally published in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in 1968, the title story marks cult cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge's radical turn to dreams, surrealism, and existential horror. Tsuge's literary landscapes were once lush and inviting; now they are shadowy and haunted. His cheery travelers have lost their innocence; they have been replaced by alienated wanderers pursued by menancing...
5) Gamerville
Author
Publisher
HarperAlley an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Johnnie Christmas's newest offering, a video gamer's championship aspirations are dashed when his parents send him to Camp Refresh, a summer camp where electronics are forbidden and you're forced to socialize, eat healthy, and spend time outside. Gamerville is a timely and vulnerable exploration of the importance of human connection and what it means to run in a pack.
6) Safer places
Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From road trips to doctors' offices to the mysterious spaces under the house, Kit Anderson's short stories explore the secrets and magic typically unseen in everyday life. A walk through the forest, a family move, a day in a normal life - Anderson's depictions of these ordinary moments transform them with a double-take, revealing the strangeness, surreality, and transformation within. With powerful and personal emotional writing and art, thoughtfully...
Author
Publisher
SuBLime Manga
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
SuBLime Manga edition.
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to each other--always brings them back together again... as the band focuses on preparing for music festival tryouts and creating new songs, Haruki grows...
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Vertical Comics edition; First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother's love that has gone too far ..."--
9) Lion dancers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A boy feels his passion for lion dancing re-igniting after the death of his father, and so he decides to join the local junior team, where his ex-best friend becomes his new rival."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Vertical Comics edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment--the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their...
Author
Publisher
Denpa, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rei Kiriyama is a seventeen-year-old professional shogi player who lives alone in Tokyo's uptown. Unfortunately, the young man lost his family at a young age, sending his life into a deep world of solitude. This is a heartfelt tale of how he recovers his life upon coming into contact with the Kawamoto sisters--Akari, Hinata, and Momo." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
A Vertical Comics edition; First edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother, a love that has gone too far. This series of thriller comics centres on the theme of a toxic parent and it is a tale of a seemingly normal family suddenly swallowed up by the creeping horror of everyday life.
13) Given: Volume 5
Author
Publisher
SuBLime
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
SuBlime Manga edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to each other--always brings them back together again. As the band focuses on preparing for music-festival tryouts and...
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Vertical Comics edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother's love that has gone too far ... Unable to process the horrifying events of the past few months, Seiichi's anger, fear and frustration boil over. But even as he is haunted by the memory of his mother's hands around his throat, he finds his voice again thanks to his...
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seiichi's family begins to fall apart in the wake of his cousin's accident, but nothing compares to the mental and emotional torture he undergoes as he tries to maintain some sense of self in the face of his mother's manipulations. Torn by his love for her, Seiichi is pushed to the breaking point and finds himself unable to speak, both literally and figuratively."--
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition ; Vertical Comics edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beset by mental images of his mother, Seiichi flees from Fukiishi's embrace and returns home. Safety and reconciliation aren't the only things that await him there, however. The Osabes have become one big happy family again ... but at what cost? Shuzo Oshimi's masterfully nuanced tale of familial horror continues to tighten its grip on the minds of its characters and readers alike."--Page 4 of cover
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
A Vertical Comics Edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shigeru's midnight visit leads Seiichi back up the hill where his mother dropped him as a child...and as events begin to fold in on themselves like the layers of his psyche, Seiichi starts to see the past through Mommy's eyes...with one symbolic act, Seiichi can finally free himself of his mother's malign influence--but is this a nightmare, or is it all too real?!"--
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition ; Vertical Comics edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Encouraged by Fukiishi to stand up for himself, Seiichi exploded in a moment of rage, telling his mother Seiko, "I don't need you"--The first rebellious act of his young life. Now Fukiishi has offered him sanctuary in her room, hidden from her father and away from the watchful eyes of his own parents. But as Seiichi fumbles toward sexual awakening, his mother's specter is never far from his mind ... Shuzo Oshimi's masterwork of psychological terror...
Author
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition ; Vertical Comics edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shigeru has finally awakened from the coma he's been in since Seiko pushed him off the cliff--but he remembers nothing of the incident, nor does he even recognize his assailant. Rather than setting Seiko's mind at ease, however, this only serves to disturb her further. Meanwhile, Seiichi is determined to keep his promise to his mother--with devastating consequences for everyone around him."--
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