Biography & Memoir

Derek is a solo parent raising three kids in the American South while trying to make art. Told in a series of free-flowing and often hilarious comic essays, Cartoonshow gets to the heart of the struggle to be a creative person in a society that doesn't...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647290573Author Emmanuelle MaisonneuFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

A memoir about trauma and writing yourself to a place of healing. At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl living in the Maritimes. She lives with her eccentric dad as he prepares to build a log cabin. She rides her beloved horse and spends all...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856906Author Tom ScioliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

"Alice was always beautiful-Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes," writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer's, and while she can remember all the songs from The Music Man, she can no longer attend...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141008Author Chuck DFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

From his early days at Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. At twenty-one he was diagnosed with ALS, a disease that limited his ability to move and speak, though it did nothing to limit his mind. He went on...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962404914Author Eric M EsquivelFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681123462Author Michele BottonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

"A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members." -Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner...

The ageing Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the lung cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism. In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar smoker, discovers that he has mouth cancer, a truth...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772620931Author Alison McCreeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Conundrum PressPublisher Conundrum Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683963240Author Paco RocaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841374Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683969501Author PowerpaolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community, realizes he's gay and struggles to reconcile his faith with who he is.Lonnie's Orthodox Jewish community has always been clear: it's not okay to be...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603095273Author Emilia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965800Author Ana PenyasFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

The remarkable true story of a mild-mannered French husband and wife who become the world's most revered pair of Nazi hunters.For more than five decades, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to seeking justice for the victims and survivors...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574524Author Ariella ElovicFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

"Incredibly fascinating." - BOOKLIST Starred ReviewNot all dreams come true! While history is written by the winners, the full story of humanity is built on the moments when things went completely sideways; the spectacular screw-ups, monumental mistakes,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122762Author Nicolas FinetFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648502845Author Weirial Puok BaluangFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Fat girl problems.Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an EMT-that is, until her body got in the way.Shrink is a work of graphic medicine that depicts the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959998457Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Forty-something Louise is married to Peter, with whom she has four children. They live in a big house, and on paper everything looks fantastic. But Louise has a secret that she barely dares to admit to herself: a burning desire for women. When I Came...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988247960Author Anthony Del ColFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lev Gleason PublicationsPublisher Lev Gleason Publications

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

For readers of Hyperbole and a Half and Am I There Yet ?, Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers permission to radically love themselves, feel their feelings, and live...

In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of his father, and from a city that is unable to accommodate his genius. But there is no grand entrance for...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681120768Author Fabrice Le HenanffFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

The second installment in the series of graphic novels that began with Washington State Book Award Finalist We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime IncarcerationBasketball-loving Sumiko Tanaka, then 11, narrates this graphic novel about...

A first-hand account of the most unlikely friendship between a visiting nurse and her Alzheimer's patient, Josephine. When Valerie first met Josephine, she knew she would be embarking on a unique journey. Though vastly different in age, their connection...

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of his incredible escape from Alcatraz prison, this thrilling graphic novel imagines what Frank Lee did next... Bank Robber. Escape Artist. Genius. But on June 11th 1962, Frank Lee Morris performed the most...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372969Author Edmond BaudoinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

With his Award winning work, Vietnamese Memories, Clement Baloup chronicles - through vivid painted art and poetic storytelling - the fate of a handful of people who, like many of their peers, were condemned to leave a country successively occupied by...

Frida Kahlo, remembered as one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century, was a woman of two intertwined parts: she was both a charismatic and empowered artist exploring themes of resistance, authenticity, cruelty, and suffering, and a more...

Diego Rivera was a revolutionary painter in more ways than one. Attending art school at eleven, by his twenties he counted among the most influential figures of the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, including Picasso, Modigliani, Braque and...

The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life.-I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey.-Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip!-You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago.After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781005552671Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 244mm...