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To kill a mockingbird : a graphic novel
Harper Lee ; adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham
2018
ISBN: 9780062798183
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 : the authorized adaptation
Tim Hamilton ; introduction by Ray Bradbury
2009
ISBN: 9780809051007
"As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature"--Publisher description.
Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower
a graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nalo Hopkinson
2020
ISBN: 9781419731334
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
Ebook available from the Alaska Digital Library and ebook always available on hoopla.
The odyssey
Homer ; adapted by Seymour Chwast
2012
ISBN: 9781608194865
Presents a visual interpretation of Homer's classic that utilizes a black, white, and blue interior design infused with the artist's sly humor.
The great Gatsby : the graphic novel
illustrated by Aya Morton ; text adapted by Fred Fordham
2020
ISBN: 9781982144524
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule.
Robert Jordan's The wheel of time. The eye of the world. Volume One
[written by Robert Jordan ; adapted by Chuck Dixon ; artwork by Chase Conley]
2023
ISBN: 9781250900012
The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume One begins Robert Jordan's epic tale by introducing Rand al'Thor and his friends Matrim and Perrin at home in Emond's Field, shortly before the spring festival. Moiraine Damodred and Lan Mandragoran appear and almost before Rand knows it, he's fleeing his home village with Moiraine, Lan, his friends, and Egwene al'Vere, the innkeeper's daughter, who wishes to become an Aes Sedai. The conclusion of this volume leaves the travelers on the road to Baerlon, barely ahead of the pursuing Trollocs and Draghkar. But even as they run for their lives, Moiraine and Lan begin to teach the young people what they will need to know to survive in this dangerous world"-- Amazon.com
Bubble
created by Jordan Morris ; written by Jordan Morris and Sarah Morgan ; adapted by Tony Cliff, Jordan Morris, and Sarah Morgan ; color by Natalie Riess
2021
ISBN: 9781250245564
Based on the podcast of the same name and set in the fictional city of Fairhaven, follow the human Morgan as she grows her occasional recreational killing of Imps into a full-time job within her employer's new gig economy called Huntr, taking on monsters, Brush-turned citizens and all manner of mutants from the surrounding alien wilderness known as the Brush.
The kite runner graphic novel
Khaled Hosseini ; [script: Tomasso Valsecchi (based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini)] ; illustrated by Fabio Celoni and Mirka Andolfo
2011
ISBN: 9781594485473
"The spellbinding story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history-- from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban"--Book flap.
Ebook available from the Alaska Digital Library.
Slaughterhouse-five : or the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death, a graphic novel adaptation
story by Kurt Vonnegut ; written by Ryan North ; illustrated by Albert Monteys
2021
ISBN: 9781684156252
"The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!). Listen: Billy Pilgrim has...read Kilgore Trout... opened a successful optometry business... built a loving family... witnessed the firebombing of Dresden... traveled to the planet Tralfamadore... met Kurt Vonnegut... come unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim's journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human."--Provided by publisher.