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December 18, 2019

Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

Joe Hill - IDW Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all! Acclaimed suspense novelist...
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Batman and Harley Quinn

Ty Templeton - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

Head back to the universe of Batman: The Animated Series in Batman and Harley Quinn, now in paperback!Harley Quinn's name has always been synonymous with The Joker. The wacky duo has wreaked havoc upon the streets of Gotham as the Clown Prince and Princess of Crime, and caused mayhem...
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Motor Crush Volume 1

BRENDEN FLETCHER - IMAGE COMICS
Format: Print book

The team behind the critically-acclaimed revamp of Batgirl returns with an exciting sci-fi action-adventure series! By day, Domino Swift competes for fame & fortune in a worldwide motorcycle racing league. By night, she cracks heads of rival gangs in brutal bike wars to gain possession...
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition

Karen Blumenthal - Flash Point; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off--when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale...
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Marvel Powers of a Girl

Lorraine Cink - Marvel Press
Format: Hardcover

Dive into the world and stories behind all of your favorite women in the Marvel Universe, including Captain Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Shuri, Ms. Marvel, Wasp, America Chavez, and many more! This gift book showcases the amazing stories, personal victories, and powers of dozens of extraordinary...
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Cast No Shadow

Nick Tapalansky - First Second
Format: Paperback

Greg has lived in Lancaster his whole life. The town's always had its quirks, and being born without a shadow means he's counted among them. When Greg discovers an old mansion in the woods just outside of town, he didn't expect to meet a smart, beautiful, funny, and...very dead teenaged...
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol. 1: BFF

Amy Reeder - Marvel
Format: Paperback

LUNELLA LAFAYETTE is a preteen super genius who wants to change the world-but learned the hard way that it takes MORE than just big brains. Fearful of the monstrous INHUMAN genes inside her, life is turned upside down when a savage, red-scaled tyrant is teleported from prehistoric past...
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Shuri: The Search for Black Panther

Nnedi Okorafor - Marvel
Format: Paperback

The world fell in love with her in the movie. Now, the Black Panther's techno-genius sister launches her own adventures - written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! The Black Panther has disappeared, lost on a mission...
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FTL, Y'all!

Amanda Lafrenais - Iron Circus Comics
Format: Paperback

A comics anthology about an Earth where anyone and everyone has access to the stars!Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will describe, in perfect detail, how to build a faster-than-light engine for $200 in easily-available parts. Space travel will...
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A Song for a New Day

- Berkley
Format: Paperback

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large...
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Bingo Love OGN

Tee/ St Onge Jenn (CON)/ San Joy (CON)/ T Genevieve F (CON) Franklin - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall....
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December 4, 2019

The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms

Nagabe - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback

Whimsical tales of anthropomorphic beasts in love from Nagabe, the bestselling creator of The Girl from the Other Side: Siuil A Run!Hidden away deep within the woods, far from the prying eyes of the world, lies the Wizdom's School of Wizarding. There beasts of all kinds gather to live,...
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Spill Zone

Scott Westerfeld - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken...
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Grimoire Noir

Vera Greentea - First Second
Format: Paperback

Beautiful, spooky, and utterly enchanting, Vera Greentea and Yana Bogatch's Grimoire Noir is a charming graphic novel about coming to terms with your own flaws and working past them to protect those dear to you.Bucky Orson is a bit gloomy, but who isn't at fifteen? His best friend...
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Moonstruck Volume 1

Grace Ellis - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

2019, Texas Library Association's Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Werewolf barista Julie and her new girlfriend go on a date to a close-up magic show, but all heck breaks loose when the magician casts a horrible spell on their friend Chet. Now it's up to the team of mythical pals to stop...
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E Butler - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues...
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Slice of Cherry

Dia Reeves - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Portero, Texas, teens Kit and Fancy Cordelle share their infamous father's fascination with killing, and despite their tendency to shun others they bring two boys with similar tendencies to a world of endless possibilities they have discovered behind a mysterious door.
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A Room Away From the Wolves

Nova Ren Suma - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Bina has never forgotten the time she and her mother ran away from home. Her mother promised they would hitchhike to the city to escape Bina's cruel father and start over. But before they could even leave town, Bina had a new stepfather and two new stepsisters, and a humming sense of betrayal...
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As I Descended

Robin Talley - HarperTeen
Format: Book

Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple--but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley...
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The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall

Katie Alender - Point
Format: Print book

In this asylum, your mind plays tricks on you all the time ... Delia's new house isn't just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females -- an insane asylum nicknamed "Hysteria Hall." However, many of the inmates were not insane,...
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Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe - Lion Forge
Format: Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic...
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