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Batman Vol. 10: Epilogue

Scott Snyder · Dc Comics
Format: Print book

The conclusion to Snyder and Greg Capullo's monumental #1 NEW YORK TIMES best-selling run is here in BATMAN VOL. 10: LOVE NEVER DIES!The dust has settled. After a bloody and brutal battle with Mr. Bloom, Bruce Wayne has reclaimed his mantle as the Dark Knight. But with the city broken...
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Tarot Café #1

Sang-Sun Park · TOKYOPOP, Inc.
Format: Book

Meet Pamela, a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. She'll help anyone, whether they're a love-stricken cat, a vampire spending eternal life running from his one true love, an unattractive waitress looking for the man of her dreams, or even...
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Tim Ginger

Julian Hanshaw · Top Shelf Productions
Pages: 150
Format: Print book

Prize-winning British cartoonist Julian Hanshaw makes his American debut with the rich and meditative story of Tim Ginger. Once a government test pilot, now a widow, Tim enjoys a quiet retirement in New Mexico... until a conspiracy theorist starts asking uncomfortable questions, and the haunting...
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My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's

Peter Dunlap-Shohl · The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease at the age of forty-three? My Degeneration, by former Anchorage Daily News staff cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl, answers the question with humor and passion, recounting the author's attempt to come to grips with the "malicious...
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Idol Dreams, Vol. 1

Arina Tanemura · Viz Media, 2015.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chances at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could turn back time to when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance...
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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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Superman Vol. 1: Before Truth

Gene Luen Yang · DC Comics
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A new era for the Man of Steel begins here - crafted by National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and legendary artists John Romita Jr. (Kick-Ass, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Klaus Janson (BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS) .
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Grave Sight: A Harper Connelly Graphic Novel

Charlaine Harris · InkLit; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver are experts at getting in, getting paid, and then getting out of town fast—because the people who hire Harper have a funny habit of not really wanting to know what she has to tell them. At first, the little Ozarks...
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Irmina

Barbara Yelin · Selfmadehero
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained...
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Kill Machine

Jeff Lemire · DC Comics
Format: eBook

Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino begin their ground-breaking saga! A mysterious villian called Komodo knows Oliver's secrets and uses them to rob Oliver of all his wealth and his company. Now on the run from this seemingly unstoppable force, Oliver finds himself in a mystery involving...
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Superman: Earth One Vol. 3

J. Michael Straczynski · DC Comics
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

The follow-up to the NEW YORK TIMES #1 bestselling graphic novels SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE VOL. 1 and 2 is here! Written by J. Michael Straczynski with art by Ardian Syaf (BATGIRL) , SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE VOL. 3 follows a young Clark Kent as he continues his journey toward becoming the World's...
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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

Sarah Glidden · Drawn & Quarterly
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends -- reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit -- as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former...
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