Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction Books

"Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." -Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial ChinaThe fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series covers the stunningly...

"A great way to learn about China's vast history!"-Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck ClubSchool Library JournalBooklist"The combination of silhouettes-often threatening, martial ones-with open-faced, expressively individualized figures of many social...

The second volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's transition from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty.Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding...

Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more. For all ages, Foundations of Chinese...

The Bad Driver's Handbook: Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to Frustrate, Annoy, and Endanger Those Around You debunks the myths of the "good" and "bad" driver by describing in detail the liberating truths about driving that have long been suppressed. Novice...

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer,mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turnedupside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, shebecame immersed in a new and complicated...

In this intimate and movinggraphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her strugglewith postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet.Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, DearScarlet perfectly captures the...

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the...

A life-affirming graphic novel about two women - one a widow, the other recovering from a horrible breakup - neither of whom knows a way to move forward.Still smarting years after ahorrible breakup, Rayanne diligently buries herself in her work. Aside...

L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist (Graphic Novel/Comics) 2014Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist 2014Can a children's cartoon cause riots?One of Mana Neyestani's cartoons sparked riots, shuttered the newspaper he worked for, and landed the cartoonist and his...

Will the freedom struggle end in a bloodbath? Only two men can avert it.Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popular movement to fight structural racism. But that...

The dramatic true story of a handful of students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their lives, now in a stunning graphic novelWith an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist? The...

The life, times, and work of Herbert Marcuse, one of the 20th century's most remarkable cultural figures.Herbert Marcuse  was a little-known German scholar when he became one of the 20th century's most unlikely pop stars: a celebrity...

Turkish Kaleidoscope tells the stories of four unfor-gettable protagonists as they navigate a society torn apart by violent political factions. It is 1975 and Turkey is on the verge of civil war. Faruk and Orhan are from conservative shopkeeping families...

An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who...

An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematicsIntegers and permutations-two of the most basic mathematical objects-are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences...

Amusing, well researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and humor, Tariq Ali and Phil...

Imagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital. Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though first published in 1867, Capital remains keenly relevant...

The definitive graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of...

The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker Maus tells the story of Vladek...