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Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution

Youssef Daoudi - First Second
Format: Hardcover

"Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then -- quickly, before the spell breaks! -- play one of Monk's records." -- Saul Williams She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical...
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Love In Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938, The Graphic Novel

J M Dupont - Faber & Faber
Format: Print book

From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock 'n'...
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Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday

Paolo Parisi - One Peace Books
Format: Paperback

Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was where her pioneering vocal style was born...
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Munch: Art Masters Series

Steffen Kverneland - Selfmadehero
Format: Print book

In Munch, writer and artist Steffen Kverneland brings the story of one of the world's most influential painters to vivid life. This extraordinary, inventive graphic novel uses text drawn exclusively from the quotes of Edvard Munch and his contemporaries. Filled with authenticity and life,...
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Gauguin: The Other World

Fabrizio Dori - SelfMadeHero
Format: Paperback

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create. In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife enjoys no such freedom. She would...
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Monet : Itinerant of Light

Salva Rubio - NBM Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The life of the great French painter, one of the founders of Impressionism, is narrated in lush comic art reminiscent of his style. From the Salon des Refuses ("Salon of the Rejected") and many struggling years without recognition, money, and yet a family to raise, all the way to great...
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1-3

Hiromu Arakawa - Viz Media
Format: Paperback

Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audience T. Containing volumes 1,2 and 3 of Fullmetal Alchemist!In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor....
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Attack on Titan 1

Hajime Isayama - Kodansha Comics
Format: Paperback

In this post-apocalytpic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the world for years, killing everyone...
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Death Note, Vol. 1

Tsugumi Ōba - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

When Light Yagami finds a notebook giving him power over death, will he use it for good - or evil?Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and hes bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human...
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The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1

KAIU SHIRAI - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage have their happy lives upended when they find out they're being raised to be fed to demons. Can they escape their fate before it's too late?Life at Grace Field House has been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams...
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Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 1 (1)

Yuto Tsukuda - VIZ Media LLC
Format: Paperback

An action-packed, saucy food comedy featuring one boys determination to be top chef!. Soma Yukihiras old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his fathers culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue,...
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Silver Spoon Vol. 1

Hiromu Arakawa - Yen Press
Format: Paperback

Defying the expectations of family and teachers, Yuugo Hachiken chooses to leave the city and enroll at Ooezo Agricultural High School. Having always been at the top of his class, Yuugo assumes a rural school will be a breeze, but mucking out stables, gathering eggs, and chasing errant...
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

Derf Backderf - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootings - timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots,...
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