Manga or Graphic Novel
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Manga or Graphic Novel. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Batter Royale
When 17-year-old Rose unexpectedly impresses a famous restaurant critic with her dessert skills, she receives an invitation to a baking show in Britain; the winner will receive $500,000 and a book deal. (School Library Journal)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Crema
Readers follow Esme, a woman whose lifelong caffeine habit enables her to see ghosts, as she meets Yara, heir to the Brazilian farm providing coffee beans to the shop where Esme works. What would be a simple girl-meets-girl-and-falls-in-love story is complicated by corporate intrigue, arson, and the desires of century-old spirits. (Booklist)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Carmilla
Living through the winter of 1996, lifelong New York City resident and queer Chinese American Athena Lo is a social worker trying to find answers to a string of disappearances; all of the people are young women, many are down on their luck, and all are Athena’s clients. Her investigation leads her to Carmilla ’s, an underground club in a seedy part of Chinatown, where she meets Violet. Violet is homeless, and Athena offers her a place to spend the night, despite her partner’s disapproval; Violet, however, is much more than she appears to be, and soon Athena becomes too involved in Violet’s plight to back out.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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The Keeper
A young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family’s dark history in this horror graphic novel.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Chainsaw Man
Denji’s a poor young man who’ll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil-dog Pochita. He’s a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his sad life gets turned upside down one day when he’s betrayed by someone he trusts. Now with the power of a devil inside him, Denji’s become a whole new man—Chainsaw Man!
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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It Won't Always Be Like This
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Wake
Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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I Want You
This collection of Hanawalt's (Coyote Doggirl) Ignatz award-winning minicomic series highlights the development of her singular worldview and absurd sense of humor that eventually led to her becoming widely acclaimed as the creator of the animated TV series Tuca and Bertie and the production designer for Bojack Horseman. –(Library Journal)
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Is Love the Answer?
A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identity as aromantic asexual. When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She's never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just 'hasn't met the one yet,' but Chika has doubts...
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Tombs
This trick-or-treat bag of terror tales from horror master Ito (Uzumaki) is spiked with dark humor and dream-logic absurdity.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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