Each month we select a notable graphic novel for the book club. It is 25% Off to everyone all month. At the end of the month we meet to discuss.
Shubeik Lubeik
by Deena Mohamed
Meeting to discuss: Saturday May 11. Noon.
Three wishes that are sold at an unassuming kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, changing their perspectives as well as their lives. Aziza learned early that life can be hard, but when she loses her husband and manages to procure a wish, she finds herself fighting bureaucracy and inequality for the right to have—and make—that wish. Nour is a privileged college student who secretly struggles with depression and must decide whether or not to use their wish to try to “fix” this depression, and then figure out how to do it. And, finally, Shokry must grapple with his religious convictions as he decides how to help a friend who doesn’t want to use their wish. Deena Mohamed brings to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are heartbreaking, inspiring, and deeply resonant.
Although their stories are fantastical—featuring talking donkeys, dragons, and cars that can magically avoid traffic—each of these people grapples with the very real challenge of trying to make their most deeply held desires come true.
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7/9/11 Irredeemable
8/6/11 Chew
9/10/11 Batwoman: Elegy
10/8/11 Fables 1 Legends in Exile
11/5/11 Marvel Zombies 1
12/3/11 Green Hornet: Sins of our Fathers 1
2/11/12 Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
3/3/12 The New Teen Titans: Games
4/12/12 Return of the Dapper Men
6/2/12 Asterios Polyp
8/22/12 Watchmen
10/12/12 Locke & Key 1
12/12/12 Christmas Carole
2/13/13 Invincible
4/13/13 Building Stories
6/18/13 Prophet
8/3/13 Young Inhumans
9/16/13 Midnight Nation
10/13/13 Hawkeye: 1 My life as a weapon
12/28/13 Blacksad
2/12/14 Porcelain
3/29/14 Saga 1
5/17/14 Fatale 1
6/25/14 The Property
8/2/14 Good Dog
9/3/14 Trillium
10/1/14 Rat Queens
11/8/14 WinterWorld
12/5/14 Black Widow 1
1/10/15 Astro City: Life in the Big City
2/28/15 Beautiful Darkness
3/28/15 Seconds
4/25/15 The Wake
5/24/15 Here
6/27/15 This One Summer
7/25/15 Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
9/5/15 The Wicked and the Divine
10/3/15 Black Science: 1
11/7/15 Wytches
12/5/15 Nimona
1/30/16 Jessica Jones: AKA Alias
3/5/16 Supermutant Magic Academy
4/19/16 Private Eye
5/14/16 Southern Bastard
6/11/16 Lady Killer
7/16/16 Long Walk to Valhalla
8/13/16 Monstress
9/10/16 Paper Girls
10/15/16 Panther
11/12/16 Afterlife with Archie
12/10/16 Ruins
1/7/17 Klaus
2/17/17 Mooncop
4/1/17 Sheriff of Babylon
5/13/17 Vision: 1
6/27/17 Eartha
7/29/17 Lennon
8/26/17 Wonder Woman: A True Amazon
9/30/17 Patience
10/28/17 Halloween Tales
11/25/17 My Favorite Things is Monsters
1/6/18 Daytripper
2/10/18 Snotgirl: Green Hair Don’t Care
3/17/18 Black Panther
4/7/18 Niourk
5/12/18 Killing & Dying
6/9/18 Infinity Gauntlet
7/14/18 Black Hammer
8/11/18 Boundless
9/8/18 I Kill Giants
10/20/18 Rome West
12/1/18 Dark Nights Metal
12/29/18 Skyward
2/2/19 Roughneck
3/2/19 Upgrade Soul
4/6/19 WaterSnakes
5/11/19 The Lie and How We Told It
6/8/19 Mister Miracle
7/13/19 Immortal Hulk
8/10/19 Come Again
9/14/19 My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
10/5/19 Batman White Knight
11/2/19 Bone Parish 1 & 2
12/14/19 Exit Stage Left
1/4/20 Heroes in Crisis
2/1/20 Sabrina
3/7/20 Green Lantern: Intergalactic Lawman
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6/13/20 DIE
7/11/20 Something is Killing the Children
8/8/20 Once & Future
9/12/20 Freedom Fighters
10/10/20 Are you Listening?
11/14/20 Uzamaki
12/12/20 Cats of the Louvre
1/4/21 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
2/13/21 The House
3/13/21 Dracula MotherF**cker
4/10/21 Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen
5/8/21 Dead Day
6/18/21 Rogue Planet
7/10/21 We Only Find Them When They Are Dead
8/7/21 Eight-Lane Runaways
9/11/21 Resistance
10/9/21 Pulp
11/13/21 Basketful of Heads
12/11/21 Department of Truth
1/8/22 Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
2/19/22 Stray Dogs
3/12/22 Graveneye
4/9/22 Oksi
5/14/22 Carthago
6/11/22 I want to eat your pancreas
7/9/22 Bubble
8/13/22 Ballad of Sophie
9/10/22 In.
10/8/22 Destroy All Monsters
11/12/22 You Died an Anthology of the Afterlife
12/10/22 Monsters
1/14/23 Goblin Girl
2/11/23 Fantastic Four Full Circle
3/11/23 Ducks
4/8/23 Radiant Black
5/13/23 Nice House on the Lake
6/10/23 TMNT – Last Ronin
7/8/23 Catwoman Lonely City
8/12/23 Rain
9/9/23 Chivalry
10/14 /23 Always Never
11/11/23 Swamp Thing Green Hell
12/16/23 Monica
1/13/24 Eight Billion Genies
2/10/24 Aquaman: Andromeda
3/9/24 Do A Power Bomb
4/13/24 Wonder Woman Historia
5/11/24 Shubeik Lubeik