Algeria Is Beautiful Like America
10 best books like Algeria Is Beautiful Like America (Olivia Burton): Sabrina, Turning Japanese, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me, A Fire Story, Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule, Un océan d'amour, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, Upgrade Soul, Berlin
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
| Author | MariNaomi |
| ISBN | 1937541169 |
MariNaomi’s newest graphic novel tours the mid-90’s US and Japanese illegal hostess bar scene and her own personal cultural awakening.
In 1995, twenty-two-year-old Mari had just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose, California. Soon enough, she falls...
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
| Author | Sarah Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1551111179 |
"In this powerful memoir ... Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare black-and-white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions: shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration...
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 1419735853 |
Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal...
| Author | Sarah Glidden |
| ISBN | 1770462554 |
"An intricate investigation of how the reality of conflict gets filtered through personal, political, and journalistic narrative...This work—quiet but challenging, plain yet beautiful—exemplifies [Glidden's] skillful, sensitive reportage."—Library Journal Starred Review
Cartoonist...
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
| Author | Igort |
| ISBN | 1451678878 |
Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule.
After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia,...
| Author | Wilfrid Lupano |
| ISBN | 2756062103 |
Cada mañana temprano, Monsieur sale a pescar por la costa bretona. El día en que comienza esta historia, Monsieur sufre un terrible percance: un gigantesco barco cisterna le engulle. Mientras, su mujer le espera en casa pacientemente, como ha hecho toda su vida. Monsieur no aparece, así que la intrépida...
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
| Author | Ben Passmore |
| ISBN | 1945509201 |
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about...
| Author | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
| ISBN | 1549302922 |
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original...
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 1770463267 |
"If there was ever any doubt of a graphic novel’s ability to achieve a high level of storytelling, this book blows it away."—Newsday
"Astonishing in its scope, breadth and execution."—The Independent
Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through...
After insomniac law clerk Frances Scarland is recruited by her firm's most notorious senior partner, she seems poised for serious advancement — whether she wants it or not. But when her impulsive best friend Vickie decides to move to the opposite coast for an acting role, Frances' confusing existence...
L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
| Author | Zidrou |
| ISBN | 2505067562 |
Lui, il s'appelle Ulysse. Il est veuf depuis plusieurs années et lorsqu'il perd son travail de déménageur, à 59 ans, une grande solitude s'empare de lui. Impossible même de s'entourer de ses enfants : sa fille est morte dans un accident à l'âge de 16 ans et son fils est très pris par son travail.
Elle,...
Kaboul Disco T.1: Comment je ne me suis pas fait kidnapper en Afghanistan
| Author | Nicolas Wild |
| ISBN | 8172239173 |
En 2005, Nicolas Wild, dessinateur de bande dessinée sans domicile fixe, trouve à la fois un plan squat et un boulot. Seulement c’est un peu loin : à Kaboul, dans un Afghanistan encore instable après la guerre.
Voilà donc ce jeune insouciant transporté dans une capitale en crise, chargé...
