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• BOOK CLUB KIT : Fun Home : a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Gender Queer : a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia

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  Maia Kobabe's (e/em/eir) intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Good Talk : a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us as explored through the author's life in the aftermath of the 2016 elections.

• BOOK CLUB KIT : March : Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  A vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : March : Book Two

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : March : Book Three

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Maus I : a Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History

  Spiegelman, Art

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  A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Persepolis

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  Satrapi's autobiography is a timely and timeless story of a young girl's life under the Islamic Revolution. Descended from the last Emperor of Iran, Satrapi is nine when fundamentalist rebels overthrow the Shah. While Satrapi's radical parents and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Watchmen

  Moore, Alan, 1953-

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  This stunning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all too human failings. The concept of the super hero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin.