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"The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that employs collaborative storytelling as a tool to mitigate loneliness, isolation, and despair among Latin American migrant farm workers on Vermont dairy farms."--Open Door Clinic website: https://opendoormidd.org/most-costly-journey/...
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Barrington - Graphic Novels (Main Floor)
GRAPHIC HAR
1 available
GRAPHIC HAR
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B HART TOM
1 available
GN B HART TOM
1 available
Cross Mills - Biographies & Memoirs (Main Level)
92 Hart GN
1 available
92 Hart GN
1 available
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"ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness,...
3) i don t know how to give birth
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Barrington - Teen Room (Main Floor)
YA GRAPHIC NONFICTION
1 available
YA GRAPHIC NONFICTION
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B DINI PAUL
1 available
GN B DINI PAUL
1 available
Warwick Public - Teenspace
TEEN GRAPHIC BATMAN
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC BATMAN
1 available
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"In the 1990s, legendary writer Paul Dini had a flourishing career writing the hugely popular Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures. Walking home one evening, he was jumped and viciously beaten within an inch of his life. His recovery process was arduous, hampered by the imagined antics of the villains he was writing for television including the Joker, Harley Quinn and the Penguin. But despite how bleak his circumstances were, or perhaps...
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 616 .0472 HAI
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GN 616 .0472 HAI
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"Answering questions such as 'how can I change my pain experience?', 'what is pain?', and 'how do nerves work?', this short research-based graphic book reveals just how strange pain is and explains how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects. Studies show that understanding how pain is created and maintained by the nervous system can significantly lessen the pain you experience. The narrator in this original, gently humorous book...
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Bristol (Rogers Free) - Adult Graphic Novels
Manga 92 NAG
1 available
Manga 92 NAG
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B NAGATA KABI
1 available
GN B NAGATA KABI
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William Hall - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B NAGATA KABI
1 available
GN B NAGATA KABI
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"An emotional new diary manga about critical illness from award-winning creator Nagata Kabi. Nagata Kabi's downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can't stop drinking to soothe the ache of reality. After suffering from unbearable stomach pains, she goes to a clinic, where she is diagnosed with pancreatitis - and is immediately hospitalised. A new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi's life as she struggles to find her way back to reality and...
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B PORCELLINO JOHN
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GN B PORCELLINO JOHN
1 available
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Barrington - Graphic Novels (Main Floor)
GRAPHIC LOU
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GRAPHIC LOU
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B LOUIS RICK
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GN B LOUIS RICK
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Narragansett (Maury Loontjens) - Adult Graphic Novels
BIO LOUIS GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 available
BIO LOUIS GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 available
Description
"A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original graphic memoir, with illustrator Lara Antal translating the...
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Barrington - Graphic Novels (Main Floor)
GRAPHIC COV
1 available
GRAPHIC COV
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN COV
1 available
GN COV
1 available
Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks Reading Area
GN 614.5 C
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GN 614.5 C
1 available
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"A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic"--
10) Parenthesis
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Barrington - Teen Room (Main Floor)
YA GRAPHIC NON FICTION
1 available
YA GRAPHIC NON FICTION
1 available
Bristol (Rogers Free) - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 741.5 DUR
1 available
GN 741.5 DUR
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN DUR
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GN DUR
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"Judith is barely out of her teens when a tumor begins pressing on her brain, ushering in a new world of seizures, memory gaps, and loss of self. Suddenly, the sentence of her normal life has been interrupted by the opening of a parenthesis that may never close. Based on the real experiences of cartoonist Élodie Durand, Parenthesis is a gripping testament of struggle, fragility, acceptance, and transformation."--
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 306 .8743 SUM
1 available
GN 306 .8743 SUM
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Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks Reading Area
GN SUMMERS
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GN SUMMERS
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West Warwick - Adult Graphic Novels
GRA SUM
1 available
GRA SUM
1 available
Description
"The author explores, in graphic novel memoir format, her adventures of being a butch/dyke and becoming pregnant, while dealing with the stereotypes and judgment of those around her." --
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Bristol (Rogers Free) - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 306.768 KAY
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GN 306.768 KAY
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Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks Reading Area
GN 306.768 K
1 available
GN 306.768 K
1 available
William Hall - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 306 .768 KAY
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GN 306 .768 KAY
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"The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition."--Page 4 of cover.
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 306 .7 BAR
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GN 306 .7 BAR
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Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks Reading Area
GN 306.709 B
1 available
GN 306.709 B
1 available
Description
"Sex is everywhere. It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear. It defines who we are and our place in society... at least we're told it ought to. Sex and sexuality can seem like a house of horrors, full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'. Sex advice manuals, debates over sex work and stories of sexual 'dysfunction'...
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 616 .89 CHI
1 available
GN 616 .89 CHI
1 available
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"Adventures in Dealing with Everyday Struggles, Getting Help, and Doing Just OK Sometimes. Just Peachy is a comic series that explores what the day-to-day is like with depression and/or anxiety. The all-too-real cartoon protagonist gives readers a character to empathize with, and helps explain some of the not often talked about consequences and symptoms of having depression. The comics also explore the themes of heartbreak, finding love, dealing with...
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B KIKUCHI MARIKO
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GN B KIKUCHI MARIKO
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Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks Reading Area
GN KIKUCHI
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GN KIKUCHI
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"Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father's alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father's illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be forgiven for anything they do, no matter how much harm they cause." --back cover
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Barrington - Graphic Novels (Main Floor)
GRAPHIC KNI
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GRAPHIC KNI
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B KNI
1 available
GN B KNI
1 available
East Providence (Weaver) - Adult
618.24 Kni Graphic novel
1 available
618.24 Kni Graphic novel
1 available
Description
"If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience...
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Barrington - Teen Room (Main Floor)
YA GRAPHIC NONFICTION
1 available
YA GRAPHIC NONFICTION
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Coventry - Adult Fiction
F SMA GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 available
F SMA GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 available
Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B SMA
1 available
GN B SMA
1 available
18) Coma
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN B SLATTERY ZARA
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GN B SLATTERY ZARA
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Description
"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...
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 618 .175 MEN
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GN 618 .175 MEN
1 available
East Smithfield - Adult Non-Fiction
618.175 MEN OVERSIZE
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618.175 MEN OVERSIZE
1 available
Oak Lawn - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 618 .175 MEN
1 available
GN 618 .175 MEN
1 available
Description
"A collection of comics presenting diverse views of menopause. Contributors address a range of life experiences, ages, gender identities, ethnicities, and health conditions"--
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Cranston Central - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 617 .58 CHO
1 available
GN 617 .58 CHO
1 available
Foster - Childrens & Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA 617.5 CHO GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 available
YA 617.5 CHO GRAPHIC NOVEL
1 available
Lincoln - Adult Graphic Novels
GN 617.5 Cho
1 available
GN 617.5 Cho
1 available
Description
"A graphic novel exploring amputation, revealing details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies"--