Marathon
10 best books like Marathon (Boaz Yakin): Stargazing, Gender Queer, NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Boxers, Saints, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Scarlet, Book 1, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir, A Fire Story
Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.
When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...
Author | Maia Kobabe |
ISBN | 1549304003 |
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
Author | Michael Buckley |
ISBN | 0810943247 |
A group of unpopular students are part of a spy network inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, their nerdy qualities are enhanced and transformed into incredible abilities. They battle the Hyena, a former junior beauty pageant contestant turned assassin, and an array of James...
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
Author | Guy Delisle |
ISBN | 0224079913 |
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French...
Author | Gene Luen Yang |
ISBN | 1596433590 |
China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.
Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu--who fight to free China from "foreign...
Author | Gene Luen Yang |
ISBN | 1596436891 |
China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finds friendship--and a name, Vibiana--in the most unlikely of places: Christianity.
But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
Author | Jason Lutes |
ISBN | 0786839023 |
Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
Author | Brian Michael Bendis |
ISBN | 0785152512 |
THE AWARD WINNING, BEST SELLING POWERHOUSE CREATIVE TEAM BEHIND DAREDEVIL, HALO, AND THE AVENGERS UNLEASH THEIR BOLDEST PROJECT YET! SCARLET!
This is the comic experience of the year! The first creator-owned series by one of the most successful teams in all of modern comics.
Scarlet...
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
Author | Riad Sattouf |
ISBN | 1627793445 |
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the...
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 | Stephen Manes |
ISBN | 0440227909 |
I made sure this was fiction before checking it out from my library when I was a kid. Even then I was wary of self-help books making specious claims. :)
This is about a kid named Milo who is intrigued by the title of a book called Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days. He's got a lot of problems at home...
Author | Matthew Loux |
ISBN | 1596438495 |
The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these prestigious summer jobs. And as for the applicant pool . . . well, these kids come from all over history.
When Delia finds herself working at the Time Museum, the last thing...
Author | Sharon Shinn |
ISBN | 1626720894 |
It's been eight years since Colleen Cavenaugh's home world was conquered by the Derichets. These aliens are bent on harvesting the planet's resources to fuel their warships, no matter the cost to its human natives. Any defiance of the Derichets' rule--the smallest step out of line--can get you beaten,...
Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 1
Author | Yukito Kishiro |
ISBN | 1632365987 |
After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!
In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space...
Author | Nilah Magruder |
ISBN | 1683830040 |
A fantastic adventure following the story of Abbie, a deaf girl with a mysterious power, who is traveling across a vast desert to scatter her mother's ashes.
In a world of sleeping gods, a broken government, and a fragile peace held in the hands of the corrupt, one youth must find the strength...
Author | Ivy Noelle Weir |
ISBN | 1620104709 |
Everything you need to know is in the archives.
The Logan Museum is a mysterious old building practically covered in skulls, and also the new workplace of Celeste "Cel" Walden, a librarian who was let go from her previous job after a mental breakdown. But Cel is desperate to feel useful, and Abayomi...