All branches of the Ocean County Library will be closed Friday, March 29, for Good Friday, and Sunday, March 31, for Easter Sunday.
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

    By Kate Beaton (338.2728 Beat)

    Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-a part of long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.

     

  • The High Desert

    By James Spooner (B Spoo)

    A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk.

  • The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

    By Box Brown (338.47688 Brow)

    Powered by the advent of television & super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda?

  • Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comic Anthology

    By Bex Ollerton (616.85882 Sens)

    From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn't always understand or accept them.

  • Queen in Comics

    By Sophie Blitman (Fic Blit)

    Queen in Comics, by Sophie Blitman, tells the story and highlights the hits of the rock band Queen and its leader, Freddie Mercury.

  • Talk to my Back

    By Murasai Yamada (Fic Yama)

    Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant.

  • It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Novel

    By Malaka Gharib (B Ghar)

    An intimate memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family, forging unexpected bonds and navigating adolescence in an unfamiliar country.

  • Lore Olympus: Volume 3

    By Rachel Smythe (Fic Smyt)

    In this third volume, from the popular web comic, all of Olympus--and the Underworld--are talking about the God of the Dead and the sprightly daughter of Demeter. But despite the rumors of their romance, Hades and Persephone have plenty to navigate on their own. With all the mounting pressure and expectations--of their family, friends, and enemies--both Hades and Persephone tell themselves to deny their deepest desires.

  • Invisible Wounds

    By Jess Ruliffson (956.70443 Ruli)

    Shares the stories of men, women and non-binary people who struggle to reconcile their wartime experiences with their postwar lives.