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Essential Graphic Novels
Enjoy this selection of some of the best graphic novels available with your Westmont Library card!
Posted by Alex C. on September 16, 2021
A Century of Reading: The 2000s
Veronica Mars by Rob Thomas After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county Sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in...
Posted by Adult Services on July 26, 2021
Redline
In the anime movie Redline, a giant whale monster that is biologically fused with a space army general fights an enormous glowing uncontrollable biological weapon named Funky Boy. That’s not...
Posted by Adult Services on July 13, 2021
Invincible Vol 1: Family Matters
Invincible follows teenage hero Mark Grayson as he develops his powers at the age of seventeen. Son of the Viltrumite (but human-passing) superhero Omni-man and unpowered human woman, Deborah, Mark...
A Century of Reading: The 1950s
Experience the classic science fiction and notable films of the 1950s, all with your library card!
Posted by Adult Services on June 21, 2021
Arm of the Law
One day in a corrupt, backwater town on Mars, a large crate shows up at the local police station. Inside? An experimental police robot. Initially the cops there use the...
Posted by Adult Services on May 29, 2020
Starsight
Spensa’s people are under threat of annihilation. Imprisoned on a remote planet, they’ve been guarded by a race they call the Krell. In the past, the Krell would only raid...
Posted by Adult Services on May 15, 2020
Roadside Picnic
There was an extraterrestrial event known as the Visitation. In it’s aftermath, six “zones” have come into being on Earth – dangerous areas where unexplained phenomena occur and there are...
Posted by Adult Services on April 30, 2020
Kiln People
Imagine if you could make temporary copies of yourself. These copies could then be assigned to run errands or do research or just have novel experiences. And at the end...
Posted by Adult Services on April 9, 2020
We Set the Dark on Fire
Daniela Vargas is a top student at the Medio School for Girls, where young women are trained to be prestigious wives to young rich men of high social status. Dani,...
Posted by Book Rex on January 16, 2020
Snapshot
In the near future, the police of New Clipperton have new tool for fighting crime: they can recreate a facsimile of the entire city for a given 24 hour block...
Posted by Adult Services on January 7, 2020
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles)
If you like fairytale retellings, this book is the one for you! This Cinderella story set in a futuristic Earth with cyborgs and Lunar beings is the perfect start to...
Posted by Book Rex on January 2, 2020
The Institute
Readers familiar with Stephen King’s work will not be disappointed by the delightfully plodding, character driven narrative given to us in his newest book.
Posted by Book Rex on October 22, 2019
Skyward
Humanity lives underground on an alien world, under threat of annihilation by a race called the Krell, who they know nothing about. Spensa is a seventeen year old girl with...
Posted by Adult Services on August 20, 2019