Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
10 best books like Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Jonathan Fetter-Vorm): Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer, American Gods, Volume 2: My Ainsel, The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media, Feynman, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, Suspended In Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, And The Century He Shaped, T-Minus: The Race to the Moon, The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window, The Silence of Our Friends, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
Author | Trina Robbins |
ISBN | 0761360107 |
In 1938, Lily Renée Wilhelm, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, is living in Vienna when the Nazis march into Austria. After a ship voyage fraught with danger from Nazi torpedoes, teenage Lily reunites with her parents in New York and helps her family earn a living by painting designs on wooden boxes. One day...
American Gods, Volume 2: My Ainsel
Author | Neil Gaiman |
ISBN | 1506707300 |
The bizarre road trip across America continues as our heroes gather reinforcements for the imminent god war!
Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war.
The Hugo, Bram...
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
Author | Brooke Gladstone |
ISBN | 0393077799 |
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...
Author | Jim Ottaviani |
ISBN | 1596432594 |
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest...
Author | Jim Ottaviani |
ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
Author | Jim Ottaviani |
ISBN | 0966010655 |
Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name (and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerous man. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was more than the father...
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon
Author | Jim Ottaviani |
ISBN | 1416949607 |
Question:What happens when you take two global superpowers, dozens of daring pilots, thousands of engineers and scientists, and then point them at the night sky and say "Go!"
Answer:A SPACE RACE!
The whole world Followed the countdown to sending the first men to the moon. T-Minus:...
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window
Author | Jeff Gottesfeld |
ISBN | 0385753977 |
Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—this book introduces her story to a young audience.
The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots...
Author | Mark Long |
ISBN | 1596436182 |
In 1960s Texas, a white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
The...
Author | Ari Kelman |
ISBN | 0809094746 |
The first graphic history to capture the full scope of the Civil War, gorgeously drawn and expertly told
The graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and the award-winning historian Ari Kelman team up to create a unique portrait of a brutal and defining event in American history: the Civil...
Author | Nick Bertozzi |
ISBN | 1596434511 |
Ernest Shackleton was one of the last great Antarctic explorers, and he led one of the most ambitious Antarctic expeditions ever undertaken. This is his story, and the story of the dozens of men who threw in their lot with him - many of whom nearly died in the unimaginably harsh conditions of the journey....
Taking Turns: Stories from Hiv/AIDS Care Unit 371
Author | M.K. Czerwiec |
ISBN | 0271078189 |
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward.
A shining example of excellence...