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Una grew up in Yorkshire in the 1970s while a serial rapist and murderer, the Yorkshire Ripper, ran rampant. The police couldn’t catch him, despite interviewing him a handful of times. Meanwhile, Una becomes a victim of sexual violence and begins to ponder what it means to be a woman in the world, when men can ravage women’s bodies without consequence. Told with newspaper clippings, personal stories, and beautifully minimalist art, Becoming Unbecoming is a stunningly moving graphic memoir about gender and crime.

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Young Mohammed El-Gharani is in the wrong place at the wrong time when he’s detained and sold to the American government. The 14-year-old was in Pakistan trying to go to school, which he didn’t have access to as a Chadian in Saudi Arabia. He then spends seven years captive in Guantánamo Bay, interrogated and tortured by American agents who refuse to accept his innocence and insist he’s a member of Al-Qaida, which he’s never even heard of. Guantánamo Kid tells the story of one of the youngest detainees, what he endured, and how he riled up others to cause change at the camp.

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It’s the 1930s and two sisters are maids working at the wealthy Lancelin family’s home. When Madame Lancelin’s abuse becomes too much to bear, the sisters go from petty theft to an eyeball-removing murder in a single evening.

Katie Skelly’s art is stunning and makes for a quick, thrilling true crime comic.

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Marianne Boucher was just a regular teenager when she was lured into a cult. She went alone to Los Angeles in 1980 to pursue her figure skating dreams, but when she ran into a kind group of people on the beach, speaking a language of authenticity and compassion, she couldn’t resist. She joined them and their mission to save the world, leaving everything she knew and loved behind. Talking to Strangers is Marianne’s haunting story of brainwashing and eventual escape with the help of her family.

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I’m always a sucker for a book about naughty linguistics.

I can’t resist a strange, raw book about an unlikeable character learning about life and death through mortuary work and BDSM.