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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
156 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated graphic memoir, she returns from New York to her childhood town in rural Northern California after her mother’s home is destroyed by a fire. Acknowledging her issues with anxiety, financial hardships, memories of a semi-feral childhood, and a tenuous relationship with her mother, Bell helps her mother put together a new home on top of the ashes. A powerful, sometimes uncomfortable, examination of a mother-daughter...
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Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie feel the same way?
3) Earthling
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"The German cartoonist Aisha Franz's debut graphic novel details a day in the life of two sisters and their single mother. Set in a soulless suburb populated by block after block of identical row houses bordered by empty fields and an industrial no-man's-land, Earthling explores the loneliness of everyday life as these women struggle to come to terms with what the world expects of them. Earthling unveils a narrative rich with surrealist twists and...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"Welcome to Comfort Notch. Following the death of her estranged mother, Kat Somerville and her daughter Sybil flee a difficult life in Chicago for the quaint--and possibly deadly--town of Comfort Notch, New Hampshire."--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
139 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
Ghouls just wanna have fun! Shadowsville is a spooky supernatural town between this world and the next, making it the perfect home to mother-daughter vampire duo, Noss and Zakuro! Except, they really aren't that spooky. The beautiful Noss and her adopted daughter Zakuro spend their time drinking blood from juice boxes, shopping for anti-sun accessories, and hanging out with their monster buddies. A fang-tastic parent-child dark comedy tale!
6) Odessa
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 23 cm
Description
"Eight years ago an earthquake--the Big One--hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes...
7) French milk
Author
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
A lighthearted travelogue--rendered in the form of a graphic novel--about a mother and daughter's life-changing six-week trip to Paris is comprised of the graphic artist daughter's illustrations of the sights and scenes they visited while each was facing a milestone birthday.
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Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone whose last work on feminism, self-love and lots of other...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
Restless 14-year-old Mardi Miranda struggles with her identity and interests in the face of her mother's strict rules. However, after a chance encounter with a strange dog, Mardi's world gets turned on its head with the revelation that magic is, in fact, real. Now put on the spot, Mardi and her new found pup must fend off a group of strange infernal monsters. After seeking some help, Mardi is forced to confront her mom with these new found revelations....
10) Haphaven
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit's feet...you name it. That is, until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother's back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty leprechaun, on a journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth's superstitions draw their power. All she needs is a rabbit's foot to...
11) Wildful
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm
Description
"Nothing's been the same since Gran passed away. Mum's grief has kept her on the couch, so Poppy has started taking her dog Pepper for walks around the nieghborhood. When Poppy finds a forgotten forest through a hole in the fence, she meets a new friend who shows her that you can find magic in the wilderness--if you know where to look, what to listen for and how to wait...but will Poppy be able to help her Mum see it, too?"--
12) Skip-beat!: 40
Author
Series
Skip beat! volume 40
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
180 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to support him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz! Kyoko desperately wants to be cast in a new samurai drama so that she can work opposite her best friend in the entire world, Kanae "Moko" Kotonami. But there are plenty of hurdles between her and her dream role,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
156 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
The Giants live in the Lost Territories of the North, atop the mountains. The Ones who find their way there will, by killing one of these beasts, collect his breath and pass it on to a lifeless body. Against the Gods' will, the deceased will then come back to life. Sisters Iris and Sophia are determined to find one of these Giants. They lost their mother too soon and put all their hopes in this quest. But the journey ahead of them will bring way more...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm
Description
"Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child and a stern, disinterested grandmother who waxed nostalgic about Nazi Germany. Growing up queer and isolated, Maureen often felt unmoored and unloved. Years later, Maureen reflects upon her complicated past. Queen of Snails follows Maureen through time and memory in her quest to...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"While in a city of psychics, Nicola is told that not only is her mother still alive, she might be somewhere in the Demons' World! Nicola and Simon immediately start looking for her, but if they are going to make any headway, they'll need the help of friends both old and new!"--Provided by publisher.
16) Age 16
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
311 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race, beauty, size, and worth, for fans of Mariko Tamaki. Sixteen-year-old Roz is preoccupied with normal teenage stuff: navigating high school friendships, worrying about college, and figuring out what to wear to prom. When her estranged Por Por abruptly arrives for a seemingly indefinite visit, the already...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
136 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance is in a rock band with her two best friends and has a good relationship with her mom, but when a mysterious figure threatens her friends and family, she learns more about herself and her mother's secret past."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
167 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America -- a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone...
19) Oksi
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
391 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Poorling is a little bear. She's a bit different from her brothers. Mother keeps their family safe. For the Forest is full of dangers. It is there that Mana lives, with her Shadow children. And above them all, Emuu, the great Grandma in the Sky. From the heart of Finnish folklore comes a breathtaking tale of mothers, daughters, stars and legends, and the old gods and the new."-- book jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
166 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Mandy, who dyes her hair black and hates almost everyone, is not like her mother, the tall, sparkly alien superhero Starfire, so when someone from Starfire's past arrives, Mandy must make a choice about who she is and if she should risk everything to save her mom."--Publisher's website.
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