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"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
2) Men I trust
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"Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers toward something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are willing to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly not conducive to it." --Provided by Publisher.
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"Charlene is a single mom and full-time nurse who also cares for her elderly father. She was already struggling to hold everything together when tragedy strikes and her nonconformist brother returns home unexpectly, piling chaos on top of grief. A tightwire act of functioning disfunction teeters on the brink in this funny and bittersweet work of graphic fiction from The New Yorker cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson (Night Fisher), gorgeously set in and around...
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 11
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"While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, SAGA follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war."--
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"When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing she expects to learn is that he is part wolf. Instead of rejecting her lover upon learning his secret, she accepts him with open arms. Soon, the couple is expecting their first child, and a cozy picture of family life unfolds. But after what seems like a mere moment of bliss to Hana, the father of her children is tragically taken from her. Life as...
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New Kick-Ass series volume 1
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Kick-Ass is back. Ready to wipe out New Mexico's worst criminals, Kick-Ass is hitting the streets. But there's a new face beneath the old mask, a new figure under that famous green and yellow wetsuit. A soldier who returns from the horrors of war, only to find a new battle raging on her city's streets. A hero who buses tables by day and fights crime by night. A new Kick-Ass, with a family to feed and a hometown neighborhood that needs cleaned up....
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Days of love at Seagull Villa volume 1
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"When Mayumi's fiancé leaves her for another women, she decides to start a new life out in the countryside. But country living isn't as peaceful as she thought it would be--her landlord, Rin, is loud, bossy, and always up in Mayumi's business. But Mayumi soon sees that there's a lot going on under Rin's brash exterior: Rin is raising a young child on her own after experiencing a major tragedy. As the two women come to rely on each other, their relationship...
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Days of love at Seagull Villa volume 3
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"TROUBLE IN PARADISE After her life fell apart, Mayumi decided to ditch the city and live in the countryside. While things haven't always gone smoothly between her and her boisterous landlady, Mayumi and Rin have grown close and even shared a kiss or two. But now a figure from Mayumi's past has arrived at Seagull Villa: the same friend that ruined Mayumi's life in the first place. Will Mayumi lose Rin the same way she's lost everything else?"--Provided...
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Days of love at Seagull Villa volume 2
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After her life fell apart, Mayumi decided to ditch the city and live in the countryside. While things haven't always gone smoothly between her and her boisterous landlady, Mayumi and Rin have grown close and even shared a kiss or two. But now a figure from Mayumi's past has arrived at Seagull Villa: the same "friend" that ruined Mayumi's life in the first place. Will Mayumi lose Rin the same way she's lost everything else?
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Copperhead volume 1
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"Welcome to Copperhead, a grimy mining town on the edge of a backwater planet. Single mom Clara Bronson is the new sheriff, and on her first day she'll have to contend with a resentful deputy, a shady mining tycoon, and a family of alien hillbillies. And did we mention the massacre?" -- Publisher's description.
11) Single mothering
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After her partner suddenly leaves her, Li finds herself alone, with the baby. She's a single mother, and it seems like nobody will ever see her as anything else, and her eyebags are now permanent features of her face. As her daughter gets older, she finds herself passing through the different stages of single motherhood: wondering if she'll ever meet anyone on a dating app who isn't also a sad, single parent just wanting to be friends; wondering if...
12) Miles to go
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Murder runs in the family. Amara Bishop is a newly single mother with a long-buried past. Raised by an alcoholic father in a rundown trailer, Amara was a child when she learned to kill. And she hasn't killed anyone since she was thirteen. When her aging mentor is murdered, and her daughter is threatened, that will soon change...
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Copperhead volume 2
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"What starts out as just another Friday night in Copperhead quickly escalates into a rip-roaring adventure featuring a botched date, a band of outlaws, and a desperate chase across an alien desert"--Page 4 cover.
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Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the way back home from North Africa. She must then complete the adoption of her young daughter June alone. A decade later, she gives birth to a bastard daughter, Marguerite. Now Hetty must go before a tribunal to prove that she will be a fit mother. What follows is the story of little Marguerite's childhood in the recovering...
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