You might not know it, but the Brookfield Public Library has quite a large selection of graphic novels. And if you're not into superheroes, don't worry. There's plenty of titles about mysteries, immortals, wizards, zombies, and even Endo-period Japan.
So if you're looking for something to read this spring, why not check out some of our adult graphic novels?
Days Missing by Phil Hester
Area 10 by Christos Gage
NEW 741.5973 GAG
A killer known as Henry the Eighth leaves a trail of decapitated corpses. For NYPD detective Adam Kamen, reeling from a personal tragedy and bitter divorce, cracking the "Henry" case offers a chance to get his life back on track--until a freak accident leaves him with a bizarre brain injury.
Awakening by Nick Tapalansky
NEW 741.5973 TAP
When an epidemic of grisly murders afflicts the normally sedate city of Park Falls, retired police detective Derrick Peters is sent by an unnamed source to investigate. Despite tooth marks around the victims’ wounds, a pronouncement by one of the city’s eccentrics that zombies are responsible only arouses Peters’ skepticism. After a little digging, Peters’ main suspects instead become the former employees of a recently closed pharmaceutical operation, where a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s was being tested. Yet as the body count rises, and Peters starts shooting ravenous killers on sight, the true cause of the outbreak becomes more and more elusive...
The Talisman Volume 1: Road of Trials by Stephen King & Peter Straub
FIC KING
The Talisman is the story of Jack Sawyer , a teen boy who can save his dying mother, Lily Sawyer, only if he retrieves a magical talisman. To find it, Jack must cross back and forth between his world and a frightening and dangerous, parallel Earth called "The Territories."
Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga
741.5952 YOS
Mercy Th
ompson: Homecoming by Patricia Briggs
FANTASY BRIGGS
The Dresden Fi
les: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
FANTASY BUTCHER
Dark Wolverine: The Prince and My Hero by Daniel Way
741.5973 WAY
Wolverine's son, Daken, has finally emerged from the shadows, stepping out onto the main stage of the Marvel Universe. As one of Norman Osborne's Avengers, he has power, access, and an identity that he hates - his father's.
Volume 1-2 are available here at the library.
The Stand: Captain Trips and American Nightmares by Stephen King
SF KING
On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong and a virus had been unleashed that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity’s last stand.
Note: Most of these titles are rated M for Mature content.
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