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The Best American Comics 2014

Scott McCloud · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

“It’s the perfect book to pick up to restore your faith in comics or help show infinite diversity in infinite combinations on display on paper using the world’s greatest artform.” — Comics Bulletin The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established...
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Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars

Ethan Hawke · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. The people, like Goyahkla, lose his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, the young Goyahkla approaches the Apache leader Cochise, and the entire Apache nation, to lead an attack against...
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Darth Vader and Friends

Jeffrey Brown · Chronicle Books
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

In this funny and sweet new book in the bestselling Darth Vaderâ„¢ series, Eisner Award-winning author Jeffrey Brown offers an intimate look at the friendships between best pals in the Star Wars universe, from Darth Vader and the Emperor to Leia and her Ewok pals, Han and Chewie, C-3PO...
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How the World Was: A California Childhood

Emmanuel Guibert; Kathryn Pulver · First Second
Format:  Print book : Biography : English : First American edition

In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography. Alan's War was the surprising and moving result: the story of Cope's experiences as an American GI in France during World War II.How...
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Ex-Purgatory: A Novel

Peter Clines · Broadway Books
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback

The fourth novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series.When he's awake, George Bailey is just an ordinary man. Five days a week he coaxes his old Hyundai to life, curses the Los Angeles traffic, and clocks in at his job as a handyman at the local college. But when he sleeps, George...
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Omega Men: The Complete Series

Jeff F King · DC Comics
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Broadcast across the universe, the Omega Men reveal a beaten and restrained Kyle Rayner. They make their intentions clear as they kill the former White Lantern. Now the universe is on watch and the hunt for the Omega Men begins. The line between good and evil is blurred in this part of the galaxy,...
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The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds

Neil Gaiman · William Morrow; Ill edition
Format: Hardcover

The text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was first published in the collection anthology Stories All New Tales edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. This gorgeous full-color illustrated book version was born of a unique collaboration between writer Neil Gaiman and artist...
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Black Dahlia

Rick Geary · Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

On January 15, 1947, a woman was walking with her daughter in a Los Angeles neighborhood. She passed what looked to be a discarded manikin. It turned out to be the body of Elizabeth Short: posed, drained of blood, meticulously scrubbed, and cut in two. From this point, Geary reconstitutes...
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C.O.W.L. Volume 1: Principles of Power

Kyle Higgins · Image Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

"A flawless execution and a damned good read." - Booklist (Starred) "The characters are rich and well-drawn, the story engaging and deeply layered." -- Kirkus Welcome to the "Chicago Organized Workers League"- the world's first Super-Hero Labor Union!...
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Ant-Man Vol. 1: Second-Chance Man

Nick Spencer · Marvel Comics
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

Scott Lang has never exactly been the world's best super hero. Heck, most people don't even think he's been the best Ant-Man! And the last guy invented Ultron and joined the Masters of Evil, so that's saying something. But when the Superior Iron Man calls with a once-in-a-lifetime...
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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel

David Rakoff · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth centuryThrough his books and his radio essays for NPRs This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time....
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Cemetery Girl: Book Two: Inheritance

Charlaine Harris · Inklit
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels and the Harper Connelly Mysteries, and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden present an original graphic novel illustrated by acclaimed comic book artist Don Kramer - second in the Cemetery...
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Jerusalem

Alan Moore · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 1266
Format: Print book

Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets...
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Wires and Nerve

Marissa Meyer · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

The first graphic novel from #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller Marissa Meyer! In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.When...
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Mae Volume 1

Gene Ha · Dark Horse Comics
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to fantasy world and for the last couple of years has been having great adventures there: defeating horrible monsters, power-mad scientists, and evil nobles. But by the time she turned twenty-one it all came apart and she decided to return...
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