A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world. What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others' experiences when you haven't been in their shoes. In Hakim's Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian who had his whole life ahead of him, tells his story: how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. After the Syrian uprising in 2011, Hakim was arrested and tortured, his town was bombed, his business was seized by the army, and members of his family were arrested or disappeared. This first leg of his odyssey follows Hakim as he travels from Syria to Lebanon, Lebanon to Jordan, and Jordan to Turkey, where he struggles to earn a living and dreams of one day returning to his home. This graphic novel is necessary reading for our time. Alternately hopeful and heartbreaking, Hakim's Odyssey is a story about what it means to be human in a world that sometimes fails to be humane.

Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey (HAKIMS ODYSSEY GN)

Toulmé, Fabien

History

Graphic Mundi - PSU Press

When Catherine is diagnosed with acute leukemia, a deadly form of cancer that attacks the immune system, her life is turned upside down. Young and previously healthy, she now finds herself catapulted into the world of the seriously ill―constantly testing and waiting for results, undergoing endless medical treatments, learning to accept a changing body, communicating with a medical team, and relying on the support of her partner, family, and friends.\nA professional illustrator, Catherine decides to tell the story of her disease in this graphic novel, and she does so with great sincerity, humor, and rare lucidity. We accompany her though the waiting, the doubts, the fears, and the tears―but also the laughter, the love, and the strong will to live.\nRich in emotion, lighthearted, and profound, Down to the Bone is a powerful book.

Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

Pioli, Catherine

Parenting & Relationships

I Don't Want to Be a Mom

Comics & Graphic Novels

Boileau, Kendra

Olmo, Ireme

Graphic Novels

Good Girls Go to Hell

Biographies & Memoirs

Sherman-Friedman, Tohar

Community & Culture

Vanni: Based on Firsthand Accounts of the Sri Lankan Conf

Dix, Benjamin

Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Kugler, Olivier

Essential reading for understanding current events through authoritative Middle East voices from the front lines. &nbsp; "An exciting, informative collection of graphic journalism" - Foreword &nbsp; Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements' success. &nbsp; This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s in such places as Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and Bahrain. A collaboration between writer and journalist Yazan Al-Saadi and a lineup of stellar cartoonists from the region--including Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirène Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma, and Enas Satir--this graphic reportage serves as a witness to an era of counterrevolutionary resurgence in which entrenched powers clashed with the people's struggle for self-determination.

Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches

Al-Saadi, Yazan

Bald

Čechová, Tereza

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