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Star Wars: Princess Leia

Mark Waid · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

When Princess Leia Organa was captured by the Empire, she never betrayed her convictions - even after the complete destruction of her home world, Alderaan. When her rescue came, Leia grabbed a blaster and joined the fight, escaping back to the Rebel Alliance and helping strike the biggest...
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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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Marvel The Avengers: The Ultimate Guide, New Edition

DK. · DK
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

This revised edition features 18 pages of new content. It contains updates on the Avengers' career timeline and existing character histories, including Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, and Spider-Man, plus profiles of new stars, such as the new Wasp (Nadia Pym) , Thor...
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui · Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated...
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The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: The World of Slavery at Sea-A Graphic Memoir

Vannak Anan Prum · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover

Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him home after a few months at sea, but instead Vannak was hostaged on the vessel for four years...
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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel

Bob Batchelor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

The Amazing Spider-Man. The Incredible Hulk. The Invincible Iron Man. These are just a few of the iconic superheroes to emerge from the mind of Stan Lee. From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable...
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Home After Dark: A Novel

DAVID SMALL · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

David Small's long-awaited graphic novel is a savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry like no other work of recent fiction or film. Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called...
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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom

David F. Walker · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American.Recently returned to the cultural...
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The Rise of Herk

Doug Tennapel · Scholastic Press, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

In this exciting sequel to Escape from the Lizzarks, Herk, the loveable Nnewt, is happy to have a new family and a new place to call home. But when the evil Lizzarks make an all-out assault on Amphibopolis using a giant monster, Herk must seek the help of the Megasloth to save the city...
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Nora Krug · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.Nora Krug was born...
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Mega Robo Bros

NEILL CAMERON · David Fickling Books
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

London! The future!Alex and Freddy are just like any other brothers. They squabble. They drive their parents crazy. There's only one difference...They're the most powerful robots on Earth!But Alex and Freddy will soon discover that they're not the only super-powered robots around....
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Munch: Art Masters Series

Steffen Kverneland · Selfmadehero
Pages: 280
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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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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Tokyo Ghost Deluxe Edition

Rick Remender · Image Comics
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The Isles of Los Angles 2089 - Humanity is addicted to technology. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay are about to be given a job that...
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Soupy Leaves Home

Cecil Castellucci · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback

Set in 1932, this is the story of two misfits with no place to call home, who build a relationship during a train hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California.Pearl "Soupy" Plankette ran away from her abusive father, but has nowhere...
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