Biography & Memoir

Saudi Arabia offers few prospects for the bright young Mohammed El-Gharani. With roots in Chad, Mohammed is treated like a second-class citizen. His access to healthcare and education are restricted; nor can he make the most of his entrepreneurial...

The first graphic novel that explores postpartum depression. A story of reconstruction and resilience. Marietta and Clovis, madly in love, are expecting a baby. But childbirth marks the end of the fairy tale. Zoe's birth didn't go as Marietta imagined,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603095273Author Emilia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122519Author Claire FauvelFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047226Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869777Author Roz ChastFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 402g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506734187Author Sara SolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856906Author Tom ScioliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator...

A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARDRao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the...

What would life feel like without fear and oppression? Is it possible to find solace in the power of chosen family, underground art collectives, and ultimately revolution?Set in Beirut, Lebanon, a city once known to be a vibrant cultural center of the...

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969525Author Guy ColwellFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964254Author Glenn HeadFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

In 1895, the Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Leon Gaumont, going on to direct over 300 films before...

With 'alternative facts' and newspeak the order of the political day, a growing audience for George Orwell's work has emerged. Orwell is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century literary figures, and his dystopian novel, 1984, continues to be widely...

Gila, 26, was at a party when the police showed up. The men were able to get away with bribes, but the women were taken to the station, and anyone who'd been drinking was forced to submit to a virginity test. She never went to another party after that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911238522Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860293Author Malaka GharibFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047080Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

Marriage doesn't define a relationship. Unless you want it to.In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984863003Author Ai WeiweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Imagine Wanting Only This is a haunting graphic memoir about leaving, and those left behind.After the sudden death of a beloved uncle, Kristen becomes obsessed with abandoned places - derelict Midwestern mining towns, an Icelandic village preserved in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506703206Author Jean GiraudFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

'Funny and sad and relatable and wise - Rachael Smith's Quarantine Comix are like the hug from a friend you didn't know you needed.' Chris Addison 'In a period where every day seemed the same, Rachael found a way to make every day different. A tiny,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969310Author Paco RocaFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681123097Author Flavio MassaruttoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

A moving, often very funny graphic memoir about what it is like to grow up with an illness that no one can diagnose. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122762Author Nicolas FinetFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581441Author David F. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press

Author and illustrator Siobhan Gallagher's humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir about her journey from being the anxious and unhappy "funny fat friend" to learning to love herself along with all her imperfections.I'm proud of the person I've become...

A new graphic memoir, from the award-winning author of Quarantine Comix.Hoping to better understand her own brain, award-winning comic-creator Rachael Smith set about documenting her experiences and struggles with anxiety and depression through comic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861661695Author Hunt EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122625Author Havard S. JohansenFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

The Drunken Sailor traces the life of Arthur Rimbaud: poet, surrealist, libertine and gun runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows Rimbaud from his youth in Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris, from the absinthe-glazed passion of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962404877Author Eric M EsquivelFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantanamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841046Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

An Indie Band's Record-Breaking Music Tour: A Graphic Novel"As a touring musician, I absolutely adored this heartfelt, honest, and beautifully illustrated account of the unique pitfalls and victories of DIY touring." Tommy Siegel, cartoonist and...