Adult Graphic Novels | Roseville Public Library

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"After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their flame alive"--

22) Run: Book one

Author

Lewis, John

Series

Run (John Lewis) volume 1

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...

23) Thirsty mermaids

Author

Leyh, Kat

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Masquerading as humans to find more wonderful shipwreck wine, three tipsy mermaids party at a seaside tourist trap before discovering the next morning that they do not know how to return to their natural forms.

24) The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night

Author

Liu, Marjorie/ Takeda, Sana (ILT)

Series

The Night Eaters volume Bk. 1

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"Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they’re struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and are ready to lend a hand—but they're starting to wonder,...

25) The adventure zone: here there be gerblins

Author

McElroy, Clint

Series

Adventure zone volume 1

26) Count

Author

Moustafa, Ibrahim

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Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous rival and a corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud escapes his hovering prison colony hell-bent on retribution. Given a map from his dying jail companion to the location of a stolen cache of Union Credits large enough to make him wealthy beyond imagination, Samud concocts a plan to exact revenge on those who conspired to let him rot in a cell.

27) Classmates: Volume one :dou kyu sei

Author

Nakamura, Asumiko

Series

Classmates volume 1

28) Not simple

Author

Ono, Natsume

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A story within a story, a book within a book, a tale about the search for family, for an emotional home.

29) Why don't you love me?

Author

Rainey, Paul

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"A couple struggles through their unhappy marriage in this dark science-fiction comedy"--

30) BRZRKR: Volume one

Author

Reeves, Keanu

Series

Brzrkr volume 1

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"The man known only as B. is half-mortal and half-god, cursed and compelled to violence...even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the world for centuries, the Berzerker may have finally found a refuge, working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B. will be granted the one thing he desires, the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence, and how to end it"--

31) Our work is everywhere: an illustrated oral history of queer & trans resistance

Author

Rose, Syan

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Adult Graphic Novel, eBook

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"Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real and imagined queer and trans communities"--

32) Billionaire Island: Vol. 1

Author

Russell, Mark

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"Welcome to Billionaire Island, where anything goes...if you can afford it. But the island's ultra-rich inhabitants are about to learn that their ill-gotten gains come at a VERY high price."--Back cover.

33) Die Wergelder: Vol. 1

Author

Samura, Hiroaki

Series

Die Wergelder volume 1

34) Where black stars rise

Author

Shammas, Nadia

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"Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger's Where Black Stars Rise is an eldritch horror graphic novel that explores mental illness and diaspora, set in modern-day Brooklyn. Dr. Amal Robardin, a Lebanese immigrant and a therapist in training, finds herself out of her depth when her first client, Yasmin, a schizophrenic, is visited by a nightly malevolent presence that seems all too real. Yasmin becomes obsessed with Robert Chambers' classic horror story collection...

35) A stoy of seven lives: Gin Shirakawa

Author

Shirakawa, Gin

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Nanao used to be a house cat, but after tragedy struck, he was abandoned on the rough streets of Tokyo. Now, alongside his best friend and fellow stray Machi, Nanao has to fight every day just to get by. Aside from foraging for food and finding a safe place to sleep, Nanao and Machi must remain vigilant about all sorts of dangers, including humans who want the stray cats gone. When a woman name Yoshino starts feeding the neighborhood cats, Nanao reluctantly...

36) Coma

Author

Slattery, Zara

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"In May 2013 Zara Slattery's persistent sore throat turned into a deadly bacterial infection, after the paracetamol and ice pack prescribed by her GP failed to work. The world of Zara's 15-day drug-induced coma, which she describes as 'being trapped in a nightmare state that you can't wake up from' is rendered as a full-colour fantasy, with mythological creatures appearing out of nowhere as she battles to protect her three children against the forces...

37) I will judge you by your bookshelf

Author

Snider, Grant

38) Monsters

Author

Windsor-Smith, Barry

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"The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the...