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Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics

Various Authors · First Second
Format: Hardcover

As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble...
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Mariko Tamaki · First Second
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...

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Fractured Fables HC

Various · Image Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Some of the comic book industries best and brightest use their talents to welcome the next generation of comic book readers with the kid-friendly anthology, Fractured Fables! Featuring an introduction by Bill Willingham (FABLES), this all-new, humorous take on our most beloved fairy tales...
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

Jim Ottaviani · Harry N Abrams, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Award winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) is credited with many...

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise

Gene Luen Yang · Dark Horse Books; Library ed edition
Format: Hardcover

The Avatar’s adventures continue right where the TV series left off, in this beautiful oversized hardcover of The Promise, from Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and Eisner and Harvey Award winner Gene Luen Yang! Aang and friends must...
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The Harlem Hellfighters

Max Brooks · Broadway Books
Pages: 257
Format: Paperback

From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment - the Harlem Hellfighters

In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other...

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Jim Henson's Labyrinth Tales

Jim Henson · Archaia
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

What a flabbergastingly delightful series of events Where ever to begin? Experience the endlessly imaginative world of Jim Henson s "Labyrinth" through the eyes of its most fantastical and beloved characters Witness a day in the life of Sir Didymus, the recklessly heroic fox-terrier;...
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Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel

MARIAH MARSDEN · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 231
Format: Paperback

Schoolyard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves. Explore the violet vales and glorious green of Avonlea in this spirited adaptation.

The spirit of Anne is alive and well in Mariah Marsden's crisp adaptation, and it's a thrill to watch as the beloved orphan rushes...
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Americus

MK Reed · First Second
Format: Paperback

Neal Barton just wants to read in peace. Unluckily for him, some local Christian activists are trying to get his favorite fantasy series banned from the Americus public library on grounds of immoral content and heresy. Something has to be done, and it looks like quiet, shy Neal is going...
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Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 5

Julietta Suzuki · VIZ Media
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback

A divine comedy!

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) .

After returning from a seaside vacation, Nanami is shocked to discover that the townsfolk consider her shrine abandoned. She decides to hold a summer festival for the local humans and yokai to revitalize the shrine's reputation....
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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (Children's Literature Association)

Philip Nel · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple...
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Avatar: The Last Airbender--Smoke and Shadow Library Edition

Gene Luen Yang · Dark Horse Comics
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The Fire Nation is threatened by a prophecy told by the Kemurikage--mysterious figures thought only to exist in legend: "remove Zuko from the throne or the country will perish!" Unrest is brewing as the New Ozai Society prepares to make its move against the crown, and children...
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Volume 2

Haden Blackman · Dark Horse; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The end of the story in the hugely popular game The Force Unleashed left the Star Wars galaxy poised at the brink of civil war. But before that can happen, the Emperor and his apprentice, Darth Vader, have another plan already in play. The author of the original game, Haden Blackman, returns...
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris · Fantagraphics
Pages: 386
Format: Paperback

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie...
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Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 1

Akira Toriyama · Viz Media
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Goku's adventure from the best-selling classic manga Dragon Ball continues in this new series written by Akira Toriyama himself!Ever since Goku became Earth's greatest hero and gathered the seven Dragon Balls to defeat the evil Boo, his life on Earth has grown a little dull. But new threats...
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