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I Am Alfonso Jones

TONY MEDINA · Tu Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Alfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 2

Ta-Nehisi Coates · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Dark times for the Black Panther, as Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles the fi nal days of the kingdom of Wakanda! As Zenzi and the People poison Wakanda's populace against their king, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. With few allies of his own to call on, T'Challa must rely on his elite...
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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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Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine

Jody Houser · Valiant Entertainment
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

VALIANT'S MOST DEMANDED HERO STEPS OUT OF HARBINGER ... AND INTO AN ALL-NEW ADVENTURE! Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert - a psionically gifted "psiot" discovered by the Harbinger Foundation - has always aspired to greatness. But now this once ordinary teenager is taking...
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Motor Crush Volume 1

BRENDEN FLETCHER · IMAGE COMICS
Pages: 136
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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Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story

Hamid Sulaiman · Interlink Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Joe Sacco meets Persepolis in this graphic novel from a new international talent, Hamid Sulaiman--winner of the English PEN Award--It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north...
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Run For It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom

Marcelo D'Salete · Fantagraphics
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover

This graphic novel tells unforgettable stories about Afro-Brazilian slaves who rebelled against oppression.Run For It -- a stunning graphic novel by internationally acclaimed illustrator Marcelo d'Salete -- is one of the first literary and artistic efforts to face up to Brazil's hidden...
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March: Book Three

Nate Powell · Top Shelf Productions
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature2017 Printz Award Winner2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner2017 Sibert Medal Winner2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner2017 Walter Award Winner"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Publishers WeeklyWelcome...
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Lumberjanes Vol. 4

Shannon Watters · BOOM! Box
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The mystery of history!Jen just wants to have a normal lesson with her cabin, teaching Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley the basic survival skills needed without any supernatural intervention when a blizzard hits camp! Separated from her girls, Jen finds herself in more trouble than ever...until...
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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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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa · Archie Comics
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe from her family's past has arrived in Greendale, Madame Satan, and she has her own deadly agenda....
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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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Demon, Volume 1

Jason Shiga · First Second
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback

No matter how hard he tries, Jimmy Yee cannot die.A noose around his neck, a razor across his wrist, and even a bullet to his head all yield the same results: he awakes from each suicide attempt, miraculously unharmed, in his shabby room at the Sunbeam Motel.Has he gone mad? Or has he truly...
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Ta-Nehisi Coates · Marvel
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When...
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Garbage Night

Jen Lee · Nobrow Press
Pages: 72
Format: Hardcover

In a barren and ransacked backyard, a dog named Simon lives with his two best friends: a raccoon and a deer. The unlikely gang spends their days looting the desolate supermarket and waiting for the return of the hallowed 'garbage night' - but week after week, the bins remain empty....
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