5 Best bande dessinée books like Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary by Christian Perrissin

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Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary

By: Christian Perrissin

3.79

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn't so easy... especially f…

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1. Chicken with Plums

By: Marjane Satrapi

3.95

Format: 161 pages,

In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction

2. A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return

By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a norma… read more

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3. The One Hundred Nights of Hero

By: Isabel Greenberg

4.23

Format: 528 pages, ebook

In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths … read more

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4. It Was the War of the Trenches

By: Jacques Tardi , Kim Thompson

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacqu… read more

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5. L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011

By: Riad Sattouf

4.61

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

L'Arabe du futur, une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient est une série de bande dessinée en six tomes, écrite… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin

By: Kevin Eastman

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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7. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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8. Watership Down: The Graphic Novel

By: James Sturm

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of ra… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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9. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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11. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
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12. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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14. Pulp

By: Ed Brubaker

4.31

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

NOW AVAILABLE AS A SOFT COVER TRADE PAPERBACK: A gorgeous original graphic novel from the bestselli… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • westerns
  • comics
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15. Descendant of the Crane

By: Joan He

3.63

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

In New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He's debut novel, Descendant of the Crane , a d… read more

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  • historical
"To learn, her mind had needed to unlearn."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

"No night was perfect for treason, but this one came close."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

"Knowledge is truth, Little Bird. Those who refuse to learn live in a world of falsity."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

"In the times ahead, you may not know whom to trust. So trust in yourself, and trust in your beliefs."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

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16. Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)

By: Claire Legrand

3.98

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers F… read more

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"If you live, then I live. If you die, then I am no longer."

-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)

"Someone who hates me as he does deserves no piece of my heart."

-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)

"There is too much hate in the world already. Why direct more of it at yourself?"

-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)

"Past the grief, there is light still, even if only in memory. Tell me about that light."

-Claire Legrand, Lightbringer (Empirium, #3)

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17. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

By: Derf Backderf

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. Widowland

By: C.J. Carey

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. LOND… read more

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  • historical
"Rolf Friedel had a face that looked as though God had given up, and his conversation dwelt heavily on radio frequencies and signals technology, but he left Helena largely to her own devices, requirin…"

-C.J. Carey, Widowland

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19. Cinq branches de coton noir (French Edition)

By: Yves Sente

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Philadelphie, 1776. Mrs Betsy est dépêchée par les indépendantistes américains pour concevoir le to… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
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20. Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)

By: Claire Legrand

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller Furyborn, two queens, separated by a thousa… read more

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"I am myself. My mind is my own. And I am not afraid."

-Claire Legrand, Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)

"He was the steady voice in her mind that spoke to her when she didn't feel steady at all."

-Claire Legrand, Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)

"With every slam of his boots against the floor, his mind chanted one furious word—a curse, a plea, a prayer. Eliana. Eliana. Eliana. "

-Claire Legrand, Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)

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21. Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary

By: Christian Perrissin

3.79

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn't so easy... especially f… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • westerns
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction

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4.42

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4.09

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Ed Brubaker

4.31

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4.65

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4.00

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4.42

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