Marinaomi

Life on Earth

1 - Losing the Girl (Jan-2018)
2 - Gravity's Pull (Jan-2019)

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  Dragon's Breath: and Other True Stories
  

  • Sep-2014
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  2015 Eisner Awards Nomination for Best Reality-Based WorkIn this collection of raw, emotionally honest stories, MariNaomi explores a wide range of topics including youthful rebellion, mortality, disillusionment, and compassion. Many of these s...

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  I Thought YOU Hated ME
  

  • Sep-2017
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  When MariNaomi first meets Mirabai in grade school, Mirabai seems to be more of a bully than a friend. But over the course of time, their relationship shifts from tense to friendly, to drifting apart, to reconnecting and finding something much deeper...

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  Losing the Girl
  

  • Jan-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  Life on Earth - 1
  

  Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest. It couldn't be an alien abduction, right? None of Claudia's classmates at Blithedale High know why she vanished―and they're dealing with their own i...

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  Gravity's Pull: Book 2
  

  • Jan-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Gravity's Pull
  

  • Jan-2019
  • / Science Fiction
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  Life on Earth - 2
  

  When Claudia Jones returns to her high school after a mysterious disappearance, she exerts a strange effect on the classmates around her. Meanwhile, her fellow students also struggle with the challenges of regular young-adult life. How should they na...

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  Distant Stars Book 3
  

  • Jan-2020
  • / Science Fiction
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  In the final volume of the Life on Earth trilogy, celebrated cartoonist MariNaomi concludes her tale of growing up, falling in and out of love, and possible alien interventions. Shy, self-deprecating Paula Navarro is coming into her own—and it'...

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  Distant Stars
  

  • Mar-2020
  • / Science Fiction
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  In the final volume of the Life on Earth trilogy, celebrated cartoonist MariNaomi concludes her tale of growing up, falling in and out of love, and possible alien interventions. Shy, self-deprecating Paula Navarro is coming into her own -- and it's m...

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  Dirty Produce
  

  • Dec-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  Ever wonder what’s going down in the produce aisle after dark? Eating your fruits and veggies sounds so wholesome. But is it? Discover a world of lusty lemons, erotic eggplants, cauliflowers that can’t keep their florets to themselves, an...

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  I Thought You Loved Me
  

  • Nov-2022
  • / Graphic Novel
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  This graphic Gen X memoir, which is told in prose, collage, and sequential art, explores queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and the flawed nature of memory as Mari works to uncover a long-lost best friend that she can no longer remember ...

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  Turning Japanese
  

  • Jun-2023
  • / Graphic Novel
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  "A vulnerable, searching, raw record." — Smithsonian Asian Pacific American CenterThe year is 1995. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, twenty-two-year old MariNaomi finds herself in San Jose, California. Mari, a mixed-race Japanes...

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