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Robot Dreams

Sara Varon · First Second; 1st edition
Format: Book

This moving charming graphic novel about a dog and a robot shows us in poignant detail how powerful and fragile relationships are After a Labor Day jaunt to the beach leaves the robot rusted immobilized in the sand the dog must return alone to the life they shared But the memory of their...
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Spinning

TILLIE WALDEN · First Second
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still...
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Kill or Be Killed Volume 1

Sean Phillips · Image Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The bestselling team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS (THE FADE OUT, CRIMINAL, FATALE) return with KILL OR BE KILLED, the twisted story of a young man forced to kill bad people, and how he struggles to keep his secret from destroying his life. Both a thriller and a deconstruction of vigilantism,...
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Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 1: The Road to Epoli

James Parks · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Nimona meets Adventure Time as a singing skeleton searches for his origins in this full-color graphic novel series kickoff! Meet Rickety Stitch . . . a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea...
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Mighty Jack

Ben Hatke · First Second
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever....
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Groot

Jeff Loveness · Marvel
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

For the first time ever, the most famous talking-tree-thing in the Marvel Universe is starring in his own book! You might recognize him from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, the biggest movie of 2014. When Rocket and Groot are on an intergalactic roadtrip and calamity strikes, the two get separated...
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer

LEIGH BARDUGO · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated, entirely new coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO. She will become one of the world's greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight...
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An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar

Reinhard Kleist · Selfmadehero
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

The image of Samia Yusuf Omar running for last place at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will forever be imprinted in the minds of all who saw it: The lean Somalian, wearing knee-length leggings and a baggy T-shirt, came in seconds behind her competitors. What the cheering crowd couldn't know...
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Batwoman Vol. 1: The Many Arms of Death

MARGUERITE BENNETT · DC Comics
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

Fresh from her adventures in DETECTIVE COMICS, Katherine Kane returns with her own DC Rebirth title - and an intriguing new mystery to solve - in BATWOMAN VOL. 1: THE MANY ARMS OF DEATH. Someone is selling cutting-edge weaponry on the black market, and their aim is to kill as many people...
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

Glen Weldon · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman's rises and falls throughout the ages - and what his story tells us about ourselves.Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art...
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Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Volume 1 - A Matter of Life and Death

George Mann · Titan Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Collects the complete Eighth Doctor Mini-Series.Eerie Victorian magic shows, living paintings, mysterious lost books, crystalline life-forms, space-barges crammed with the undead... Embrace all the Gothic Romance and interstellar terror of the Eighth Doctor in this new series starring the most-requested...
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What is Obscenity?: The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy

Rokudenashiko · Koyama Press
Pages: 178
Format: Print book

A graphic memoir of a good-for-nothing Japanese artist who has been jailed twice for so-called acts of obscenity and the distribution of pornographic materials yet continues to champion the art of pussy. In a society where one can be censored, pixelated, and punished, Rokudenashiko asks...
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Alone

Christophe Chaboute · Gallery 13
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Available in English for the first time - the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France's prestigious Angoulême Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabouté (Park Bench, Moby-Dick) .On a tiny lighthouse island far from...
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The Sculptor

Scott McCloud · First Second Books
Format: Hardcover

David Smith is giving his life for his art -- literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering...
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Moebius Library: The World of Edena

Moebius · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

Working closely with Moebius Productions in France, Dark Horse is putting the work of a master storyteller back in print--with some material in English for the first time! Stel and Atan are interstellar investigators trying to find a lost space station and its crew. When they discover the mythical...
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