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• Wendy. Book 01, Wendy

  Scott, Walter 1985-

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  Wendy is an aspiring artist just trying to get her ducks in a row. Follow her on her hilarious adventures in fictional Canadian cities as she seeks creative inspiration, fends off backstabbing frenemies and finds new friends along the way.

• Carpe Fin :

  a Haida Manga

  Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll

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  Graphic novelist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas skillfully combines Haida art and Japanese manga to tell the story of Carpe, who saves his village from starvation after undergoing a mystical journey under the sea.

• Louis Riel

  a Comic-strip Biography

  Brown, Chester

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  This historical biography won the Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Novel for its riveting retelling of the life of charismatic 19th-century Metis leader, Louis Riel.

• Essex County

  Lemire, Jeff

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  Inspired by his hometown, Essex County in Ontario, Jeff Lemire follows an imaginary farming community over the years as they grapple with destructive secrets and embark on a journey towards healing.

• The Outside Circle

  LaBoucane-Benson, Patti

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  In this powerful story, two Indigenous men embroiled in gang violence and drug addiction find ways to overcome their historic trauma through traditional Indigenous healing circles and ceremonies.

• Shadow Life

  Goto, Hiromi, 1966-

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  In this compassionate and quirky account of growing old, Kumiko, who has run away from her long-term care home, must find ways to thwart Death's shadow with the help of a second-hand vacuum cleaner.

• Woman World

  Dhaliwal, Aminder

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  The hilarious Instagram comic is now in book form! In a world where men have been wiped out, the remaining women have to rebuild their society in new and irreverent ways.

• Saga. Volume One

  Vaughan, Brian K.

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  Saga is an epic space opera/fantasy mash-up by that follows an extraterrestrial couple trying to bring up their child in the middle of an inter-galactic war. This series is by Brian K. Vaughan, a graphic novelist from Calgary who has also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ducks :

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

  Beaton, Kate, 1983-

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  Kate Beaton chronicles her experiences working in the Albertan oil sands at the age of twenty-one and details how she toiled under the shadows of capitalism, exploitation (both of humans and the environment) and misogyny, all in the hopes…Read moreRead more of this annotation