By Sid Jacobsen

Based on the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.

By Josh Neufeld

A.D. follows six ordinary people from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath.

By Sid Jacobson

Drawing on the archives and expertise of the Anne Frank House, the best-selling authors of 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation cover the short-but-inspiring life of the famed Jewish teen memoirist, from the lives of her parents to Anne's years keeping her private diary while hidden from the Nazis to her untimely death in a concentration camp.

By Keiji Nakazawa

In this graphic depiction of nuclear devastation, three survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima - Gen, his mother, and his baby sister - face rejection, hunger, and humiliation in their search for a place to live.

By Harvey Pekar

A tour of America's underground literary movement, presented in a graphic tale format, includes coverage of the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Jack Kerouac, Chicago's beatnik bistro, and San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.

By Jason Lutes

Covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a growing shadow.

By Lewis Trondheim

On Bourbon Island off the coast of Madagascar, a French ornithologist and his assistant are caught up in an adventure involving slavery, colonialism, and the last days of the great pirates.

By Gene Luen Yang

In 1898 China, Little Bao has had enough of foreign missionaries and soldiers robbing peasants, and he recruits an army of Boxers to fight to free China from its oppressors.

By Lamia Ziadé

The author describes her traumatic life as a child in Beirut during the late 1970s, witnessing the country's descent into civil war, as lootings, kidnappings, and bombings become an everyday occurrence.

By Susan Kim

In 1942 New York City, when budding cartoonist Evelyn and her new friend Tony find a genuine Nazi spy after some false alarms, it soon looks like Evelyn might end up in the kind of adventure she writes about in her comics.

By Matt Dembicki (editor)

In graphic novel format, collects lesser-known stories about the nation's capital, including those of the haunted Decatur House, the infamous "Red Spy Queen" Elizabeth Bentley, and the reconstruction of the White House in 1948.

By Eric Heuvel

While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her father was a Nazi sympathizer and Esther, her Jewish best friend, disappeared.

By Zeina Abirached

Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.

By Jonathan Hennessey

A graphic adaptation of the Gettysburg Address explains the events of the War, drawing on first-hand accounts from soldiers, slaves, and key figures and providing an understanding of the speech that marked America's new path.

By C.M. Butzer

Depicts in graphic novel format the Battle of Gettysburg, the national movement to create a memorial there, and the quiet day in 1863 when President Lincoln delivered his galvanizing speech.

By Arthur Flowers

Describes the apartheid South in Martin Luther King's time, which in many ways was not very different from the early days of slavery, with descriptions of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the formation of civil rights groups, and mass movements against segregation.

By Giardino

A graphic novel of life under Communism in 1950s Prague. The main character is a Jewish boy whose father has been arrested in the middle of the night. He and his mother write letters to obtain the father's release, but that only brings more trouble.

By Nick Abadzis

Blending fact and fiction, the amazing story of an abandoned puppy from Moscow who grew to be a Russian space program pioneer as Earth's first space traveler is presented in comic-style illustrations.

By Nick Bertozzi

Presents, in graphic novel format, the adventures of explorers Lewis and Clark during their journey from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.

By Boaz Yakin

In graphic novel form, tells the story of Eucles, the Athenian messenger who, in 490 B.C., ran twenty-seven miles from Sparta to Athens, preventing the fall of Greece to the Persian Empire.

By Art Speigelman
Series Maus
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying past, and history itself.

By Art Spiegelman

In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art.

By Marjane Satrapi
Series Persepolis
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, November 18, 2013. 7 PM.

Satrapi's autobiography is a timely and timeless story of a young girl's life under the Islamic Revolution.

Became the movie: Persepolis.

By Brian K. Vaughan

Examines the life on the streets of war-torn Iraq, raising questions about the true meaning of liberation through the experiences of four Lions, who escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid in the spring of 2003.

By Carla Jablonski

When their friend Henri's parents disappear and Henri goes into hiding because of his Jewish ancestry, siblings Paul and Marie must convince the French Resistance that even children can help in their fight against the Germans.

By Gene Luen Yang

Vibiana, an unwanted fourth child, finds her name and identity in Christianity, but with the Boxer Rebellion in full swing and Chinese Christians facing death, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her religion or her country.

By Alexander Lagos

Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.

By Rick Bowers

This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan.

By David Hajdu

A vivid study of the lost world of comic books examines the influence of this pulpy, lavishly illustrated medium on the evolution of American popular culture in the wake of World War II and before the emergence of television as a mass medium, focusing on the battle against comic books by church groups, community elite, academics, and a right-wing Congress.

By onathan Fetter-Vorm

An evocative account of the race to construct and decision to drop the first atomic bomb traces its early research, its rapid acceleration and the heated debates it inspired, sharing vivid explanations of the process of a nuclear chain reaction and profiles of forefront Manhattan Project contributors. In graphic novel format.

By Elizabeth Raum

In graphic novel format, tells the stories of six men and women who fought for their beliefs during the Revolutionary War.

By Nel Yomtov

In graphic novel format, tells the stories of six men who fought for their countries during World War I.

By Terry Collins

In graphic novel format, tells the stories of five men and women who fought for their countries during World War II.

By GB Tran

A graphic memoir in which Gia-Bao "GB" Tran, a Vietnamese American artist who was born and raised in South Carolina, shares his family's history, and describes his relationship with his Vietnamese parents and his visit to Vietnam, where he gains a better understanding of his parents.

By Sharon E. McKay
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, November 17, 2014. 7 PM.

Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after, in the shadow of the night, the boys are abducted. Marched into the jungle, they are brought to an encampment of the feared rebel soldiers. They are told they must kill or be killed, and their world turns into a terrifying struggle to endure and survive.

By Aline Sax

Misha and his family do their best to survive in the appalling conditions of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and ultimately make a final, desperate stand against the Nazis.

By G. Neri

A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members.