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Banned Books Week
What sorts of books have people found objectionable? Celebrate reading and the freedom to read by learning about challenged books.
Blankets by Craig Thompson (Artist, Cover Design by)Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.
Call Number: 741.5 T46b
ISBN: 9781891830433
Publication Date: 2003-08-18
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiOriginally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Call Number: 741.5 S28 2003
ISBN: 9780375422300
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
Fun Home by Alison BechdelAlison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Call Number: 741.5 B43
ISBN: 9780618871711
Publication Date: 2007-06-05
Maus: a survivor's tale by Art SpiegelmanThe author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons" 'Mothman's in an asylum up in Maine. The Silhouette retired in disgrace, murdered six weeks later by a minor adversary seeking revenge. Dollar Bill got shot. Hooded Justice went missing in '55. The Comedian is dead.' " (Ch. 1, p. 19)