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Big Nate: From the Top

Lincoln Peirce · Paw Prints
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

Nate Wright is an eleven year old sixth grader who has the distinction of setting the record for school detentions.
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X-Men: Grand Design

MARVEL COMICS. · Marvel
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

Over six tumultuous decades, the X-Men have carved a singular place in comic book lore and popular culture. From their riotous birth in the '60s, to their legendary reboot in the '70s, to their attitude adjustment in the '90s, to their battle against extinction in the '00s, the X-Men have...
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Fairy Tail 41

Hiro Mashima · Kodansha Comics
Format: Book

FAIRY TOTSFairy Tail visits a town of giants frozen in magical ice that Gray cant dispel and Natsu cant melt! At its heart is supposedly an Eternal Flame but how can a flame be frozen? And theyre not the only ones after the towns secrets. Three treasure hunters block their path, while an old nemesis...
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Jedi Academy

Jeffery Brown · Scholastic
Format: Paperback

Missle school in the jedi academy - humourous
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 3: Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now

Ryan North · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

New series, New Avenger! With her unique combination of wit, empathy and squirrel powers, computer science student Doreen Green - aka the unbeatable Squirrel Girl - is all that stands between the Earth and total destruction. Well, Doreen plus her friends Tippy-Toe (a squirrel) and Nancy...
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A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York

Liana Finck · Ecco
Format: Paperback

In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A Bintel Brief is Liana Finck’s evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed...
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Kid Beowulf: The Blood-Bound Oath

Alexis E Fajardo · Andrews Mcmeel
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

If you liked Percy Jackson, you'll love Kid Beowulf! Inspired by the epic poem "Beowulf," this fun new series follows the adventures of 12-year-old twin brothers Beowulf and Grendel as they travel to distant lands and meet fellow epic heroes!In book one of the series, our heroes'...
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Gauguin: The Other World

Fabrizio Dori · SelfMadeHero
Pages: 144
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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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture

A D Jameson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over. Star...
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Big Nate: Game On!

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Big Nate is big news! Big Nate books have sold more than 4.5 million copies and been on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year.To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning...
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Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike

Lincoln Peirce · Andrews McMeel Publishing; Pap/Pstr edition

Two heads are better than one, except when theyre crashing into each other! But that wont prevent Big Nate and his pals from hatching great ideas for fun. ?Nate Wright is a wisecracking 11-year-old who knows hes destined for greatness. The star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip...
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James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner—A Graphic Biography

Alfonso Zapico · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 231
Format: Print book

A dazzling, prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers.Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes...
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Joey and Johnny, the Ninjas: Epic Fail

SerWacki. · Balzer Bray, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

That's so ninja! Epic Fail is the second book in the insanely funny and action-packed Joey and Johnny, the Ninjas series about two best friends and ninjas-in-training - perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Origami Yoda.Things are getting back to normal at Kickfoot Academy after...
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Camp Midnight

Steven T. Seagle · Diamond Comic Distributors
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

Ben 10 and Big Hero 6 creator Steven T. Seagle returns to comics with New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein for a new graphic novel! Reluctant Skye is accidentally sent to the wrong summer camp. Not wanting to please her "step monster," Skye is dead-set on not fitting...
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