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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir

10 best books like The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir (Ann Marie Fleming): The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft, Marzi, Re-Gifters, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Thoreau at Walden, The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media, The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir, Good Eggs, Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey, Cancer Vixen

The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft
AuthorReinhard Kleist
ISBN1906838771
Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage, and a determination to survive. As the Soviet Army advances in April 1945, he makes a daring escape from...
Marzi
AuthorMarzena Sowa
“I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years before the end of communism in Poland. My father works at a factory, my mother at a dairy. Social problems are at their height. Empty stores are our daily bread.I’m scared of spiders and the world of adults doesn’t seem like a walk in the park.”Told from a young...
Re-Gifters
AuthorMike Carey
Jen Dik Seong, known as Dixie to her friends, well really friend (singular), is a first generation Korean American girl, who has a black belt in Hapkido - an ancient marital art. She has her first major crush, and this has left her not only distracted, but she has lost her Ki. Will she find it again?

This...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
AuthorJason Lutes
ISBN0786839023

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...
Thoreau at Walden
AuthorJohn Porcellino
ISBN1423100387
"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." So said Henry David Thoreau in 1845 when he began his famous experiment in living on Walden Pond. In this graphic masterpiece, John Porcellino uses...
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
AuthorBrooke Gladstone
ISBN0393077799
Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media. This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld. The cartoon...
The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir
AuthorLaurie Sandell
ISBN0316033057
Laurie Sandell grew up in awe (and sometimes in terror) of her larger-than-life father, who told jaw-dropping tales of a privileged childhood in Buenos Aires, academic triumphs, heroism during Vietnam, friendships with Kissinger and the Pope. As a young woman, Laurie unconsciously mirrors her...
Good Eggs
AuthorPhoebe Potts
ISBN0061711462
In the tradition of the acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home and Persepolis comes a funny, insightful, and deeply moving book about learning to appreciate what we have when we can't seem to get what we want.

For Phoebe Potts, the path to maternal fulfillment has not been easy. All her friends seem...
Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
AuthorG.B. Tran
ISBN0345508726
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
 
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
Cancer Vixen
AuthorMarisa Acocella Marchetto
ISBN0307263576
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?

That/s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant...
Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope
AuthorEmmanuel Guibert
ISBN1596430966
"When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he'd like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did."

When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea what he was getting into. This graphic memoir is the story of his life during wartime, a story...
J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography
AuthorRick Geary
ISBN0809095033
A True History of Violence (and Crimefighting, Politics, and Power)

In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents--from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon--and everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage....
Two Generals
AuthorScott Chantler
ISBN0771019580
A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective.
 
In March of 1943, Scott Chantler's grandfather, Law Chantler, shipped out across the Atlantic for active service with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, along...
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0060504048
"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."

Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children...
It's Complicated: The American Teenager
AuthorRobin Bowman
ISBN1884167691
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion, pride,...
Jazmin's Notebook
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN0141307021
Jazmin Shelby was "born with clenched fists"-which is okay, since she's got a lot of fighting ahead of her. Her dad died a couple of years back, and now that her mom's in the hospital, it's just her and her big sister, CeCe. But that's fine by Jazmin. She's got her friends, her school, lots of big plans for...
Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb
AuthorJim Ottaviani
ISBN0966010639
So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included),...
Bread and Wine
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN1890451029
I read the 500-plus page "The Mad Man" in grad school & wholly LOATHED it. It was extremely antiart, it was too exotic/disgusting for my taste. It was repetitive, in a way only a sadist wannabe (A.K.A. Marquis de Sade imitator) could be. It was the same act repeated ad nauseum--I cannot believe I survived...
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
AuthorAndrew Helfer
ISBN0809095041
Assassinated at age forty in 1965. Malcolm X battled the horrifying legacy of African American slavery throughout his short life. Malcolm's passage from troubled boy to influential, outspoken man and finally to tragic hero is captured in the drawings of the award-winning graphic artist Randy DuBurke,...
Journey Into Mohawk Country
AuthorGeorge O'Connor
ISBN1596431067
Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert was only twenty three when he ventured into Mohawk territory in search of the answers to some pressing questions: where were all the beaver skins that the Indians should have been shipping down the river? Was the money that should have been going into the pockets of the...
Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
AuthorMark Alan Stamaty
ISBN0375832173
The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.

It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war...
Three Fingers
AuthorRich Koslowski
ISBN1891830317
Through a series of never-before-seen interviews and rare photos, documentary-maker Rich Koslowski reveals the horrifying true story behind the Cartoon industry and our most celebrated cartoon actors - the story that Hollywood doesn't want you to see.. Told in the style of a Ken Burns documentary,...
The End
AuthorAnders Nilsen
ISBN1606996355
Assembled from work done in Anders Nilsen's sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiancee in 2005, The End is a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting, and transformation. It is a concept album in different styles, a meditation on paying attention, an...
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